The Spoken Remedy

This immersive meditation uses the metaphor of a tree to guide us through the illusion of separation and the quiet journey back to our true nature. Through poetic reflection and direct felt experience, we explore how thought becomes identity, how suffering arises through forgetting, and how, like the tree, we can return to the peace that never left us. A powerful invitation to simplify 'enlightenment', to see clearly the dualistic nature of thought, and to remember yourself home. Please forgive my use of “it” when referring to the tree in this meditation. For the sake of clarity in the visualization, our more-than-human kin was momentarily framed as an “it”—but this is a limitation of language, not of truth. I hope it doesn't distract from the deeper message of interconnectedness and remembrance. Thank you for being present in this space and for holding these words for a moment - may they be of use to anyone suffering, lost, or unsure right now. Much Love, SezSupport the show✨ If you'd like to explore more of my work, whilst deepening your connection to the truth of who you are, you can find weekly, unpublished poems & audio essays on my Substack, and find supportive courses on my website and Insight Timer. I'd love to walk beside you. ✨

This track is a daily invitation to return—to yourself, to presence, to the unshakable truth that you are already whole. It is a reminder that nothing in life needs to be fixed or figured out for you to belong to it completely. Through surrender and by offering a radical presence to all experiences, you are guided to embrace uncertainty, failure, longing, and love without resistance. Let these words be a refuge, a steadying force in the midst of change, and a call to live with more ease, depth, and trust in the unfolding of life. May this also serve as a supportive companion to all those on the W(hole)ness course, as a quick reminder that simple presence is the pinnacle of all spiritual ambitions. Thank you for all the unexpected ways we converge paths through these words. Love SezSupport the show✨ If you'd like to explore more of my work, whilst deepening your connection to the truth of who you are, you can find weekly, unpublished poems & audio essays on my Substack, and find supportive courses on my website and Insight Timer. I'd love to walk beside you. ✨

In this soundscape laced with gentle words, you'll be guided into a reflective and sensory-rich journey through the natural world and your place within it. Blending poetic language with grounded presence, this poem explores what it means to belong to life, not as something separate, but as life itself becoming aware. You'll be invited to soften the boundaries between self and world, and to rest in the quiet knowing that you are nature, making sense of itself. I have hand-gathered the nature soundscapes from New South Wales in Australia, where we hear the unique 'whip-crack' sounds from the Whipbird, the bubbling Noisy Minors, croaks from Golden Bell Frogs, and Black Field Crickets. I hope this recording helps you remember your place in the greater Whole, and perhaps even helps you see that your deepest questions are what makes us who we are. Much love, from Sez.Support the show✨ If you'd like to explore more of my work, you can find guided meditations on Insight Timer, weekly unpublished poems on my Substack, and offerings for deeper support on my website. I'd love to walk beside you. ✨

In this poetic, guided meditation, we explore the illusion of a separate, exalted "higher self" and instead uncover the wholeness that has always been here—woven into our being, inseparable from life itself. Through guided reflection and deep presence, you'll be invited to see the self not as something to transcend but as a vast, interconnected relationship—like a forest sustained by unseen forces.By releasing the spiritualized striving for a "better" self, we return to the intelligence of nature, where growth is not a personal achievement but a harmonious unfolding. This meditation is an invitation to rest—not in seeking, but in remembering. To listen. To trust. To meet life with the same wisdom that moves rivers and unfurls leaves in spring.If you long for a more grounded, expansive way of being, this is for you.Much Love & gratitude for listening, sharing, or simply being present with this work, SezSupport the show✨ If you'd like to explore more of my work, you can find guided meditations on Insight Timer, weekly unpublished poems on my Substack, and offerings for deeper support on my website. I'd love to walk beside you. ✨

A new 7-part guided mediation course is now available on both:Insight TimerandMy Website (there's 15% off for Substack members) This course has been created through deeply personal experience to help you dive into the essence of self-realization through the void or the lack we feel inside. By using a personal blend of modalities, including Internal Family Systems, Direct Experience, Self-Inquiry, Visualization meditation, somatic experiencing, poetry, and non-duality, I provide an integrated, embodied, grounded experience of what it means to be truly whole, no matter what shows up in life. I hope to dive into the heart of who you really are through this course and am available to answer all questions you may have in the comments on both Insight Timer and Substack. Support the show

Delve into this poetic meditation and let its resonance awaken the depths of your being. Each word is crafted to echo in the quiet spaces of your soul, uncovering truths that gently whisper to your knowingness - that you are ok, you are enough, you are what you seek.  This experience invites you to explore the living landscapes within, reconnecting you with the essence of who you are. Cultivated from the more feminine-rooted teachings of nonduality, this affirmation touches on elements of ecopsychology and nature-based healing, helping you remember your innate, inherent, and ever-present wholeness. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for allowing me to walk with you today. Love SezPurchase the Script to this meditation to use in your own practice or with your clients - SCRIPTSJoin our Substack CommunityNot on social media :)Support the Show.

This audio has been created to deepen my free experiential meditation, The Unbound Self. As you wake up, come into your body through your sense perception and discover how much the mind creates your day ahead of time with ideas of effort and struggle. In this talk/meditation/reflection, we are asked to stay in bed while we make contact with what is already here through our direct experience, which already offers itself to our longings of comfort, ease, and abundance. It will take a willing softness to shift away from what we've learned about achieving certain states through effort and seeking - but with practice and remembrance, we will eventually create so much space within us that we will come to know ourselves as the very medicine we seek. I hope these words reveal to you how thoughts, stories, and internal narratives fracture what is inherently complete - and how vital our direct experience through the felt senses is in helping us find our deepest sense of wholeness. With love, SezTHE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER & COMMUNITYSupport the show

Attempting to fail as gracefully as I can at articulating the experience of our selfless, true nature. This meditation is full of intentional questions that will help you unbind your egoic sense of self from its narrative, freeing the story of emotional pain and lack from its root cause; our forgetfulness of who we truly are. This visualization blends thoughtful music, nature scapes, and the non-dual realization of ‘no-self' with direct experience, aiming to ground you, rather than dissociate you further from your innate sense of wholeness. Let me know how your experience was if you feel called to - and thank you so much for the privilege of journeying home with you. Contains: a 10-minute intro talk / a 30-minute, deep-dive sensory meditation / and a 7-minute end notes talk.Get the script as well as additional support for this meditation on my weekly newsletterSupport the show

This episode is taken from my last free newsletter of 2023! The original voiceover can be found on my SUBSTACK, along with the transcript and a poll I've put forward to all listeners. You don't need to be free of your ache in order to be free. This is what this year has helped me see and I hope it can be of use to you as you navigate this path back home to peace, love and freedom.Thank you for sharing, or for simply being present. As I continue to exist without any social media, I am grateful for all the ways you help this work move in a heart-based manner. Please always feel free to ask questions or let me know your experience by emailing: hello@sezkristiansen.comSupport the show

Blending psychology, wilderness, and non-duality to take you on a meditative journey into the heart of your self-less being. The colonized mind pollutes our ability to recognize our essential nature by creating a protective small self that relies on the external world. However, we also have a Wild Mind, a metaphor for how natural, spontaneous, and organic our minds can be when we leave them to regenerate, compost & expand themselves. From our rewilded and transparent mind, we are better able to recognize our undivided Self. This 20-minute talk and 15-minute meditation have to complement soundscapes and wildcrafted sound effects to help make this theme a visceral experience, not just a concept. Thank you for sharing, commenting, or simply being present with this work. FOR THE WORKBOOK THAT GOES WITH THIS MEDITATION, VISIT SUBSTACKSupport the show

Read, watch & listen to this monthly newsletter here on SUBSTACK.________This experience has been wildcrafted from time in the Wild. It offers us a somatic experience of presence, which can help us heal by bringing us down to earth. Nature has a natural ability to ground us which is one of the most important healing practices of our time because we all spend much of our day on screens, in buildings, in shoes, and separated in many ways from the natural world. We are nature. We don't come to earth but from her, so the more we reconnect to our Wild the more we embody our Whole Self. I hope you enjoy this experience and I would love to meet you on Substack for weekly meditation sessions. Further Links:Free MeditationsWebsiteI'm no longer on Social Media, so no link here :)Support the show

Hello dear listeners. Simplifying life is a way of returning to the roots of your being, and in this pursuit to live more intentionally, I have left social media to concentrate on offering new poetry, meditations and courses on Substack. My time is spent here now, so I hope you will join me (think less 'attention deficit blackhole' and more 'intentional infinite space'!) Nourishing content is sent to your private email space on a weekly basis. For now, here are some clips I've put together from the new private podcast, called Sit With Sez which I send out every Monday. I love being a part of your journey and look forward to connecting with you and any questions you have in the comments!/////SEZ' NEW POETRY BOOK Support the show

From the new, free mini-series, Surrender with Sez, comes an episode for all to enjoy. To listen to more of this series, join us on SUBSTACK.A short talk and poem to help you ease into the foundations of your being.Don't waste a pain, a crisis, a depression, an illness, don't use them as motivation or escapes, don't get used to them, don't transcend them but walk through them by releasing them and by always returning to the truth of who you are. This series is based on the new HEALING HER (vol.2) poetry book, which is available now. Read the introduction or get the book HERE>Support the show

We can change old, stubborn neurological pathways through the power of visualization.  Journey with me into this somatic meditation where we are able to heal our inner child,  change limiting beliefs, and transform the way we experience life. For all those imaginative souls who would like to use the power of their creative minds to heal trauma, ease anxiety and walk the wilder path towards the abundant Heart. ///Feel called to support Sez' work?Join the weekly newsletter hereTake a free e-mail course rooted in emotional healing hereor just share this episode with a loved one in need.Thank you for listening and for your continued presence. Support the show

A poem to help you discover yourself without the external noise that bombards us every moment. We often seek answers through this stream of information, but it tends to not make us feel like we are healed or whole, and often causes a rift between where we are in our lives right now and where we wish ourselves to be. What if we listened more attentively to the well of wisdom we already hold within us? What would bubble up from that space if left undammed?Join my new newsletter on SUBSTACK where I share weekly audios and bonus content to my Insight Timer meditations. Connect to more free courses and healing poetry via the website, Sez Kristiansen

Those of us who have been traumatized often find ourselves shut inside protective caves that sever us from our feeling body. Returning to who we are, therefore, means leaving what we know - those coping strategies (caves) - that no longer serve us. Finding our way back home to our soft mammal of a body means giving up the reptile within that keeps us perpetually in fight/flight/freeze mode. I hope this helps you with whatever you are going through right now, SezSupport this work by becoming a subscriber to the SUBSTACK NEWSLETTERSupport the show

A somatic theatre for the imagination. Come with me into the deep forest and offer your emotional pain to the Greater Cycle in nature that repurposes, renews, and rebirths all emotional ache. This is a 15-minute poetic talk, a 17-minute guided visualization meditation, and a short conclusion to help you see the purpose of your pain.I write, record, and edit all my own meditations, so thank you for all shapes of support. I am deeply grateful that this work can continue because of you :)  SezJoin the new NEWSLETTER here.To make a donation or support this work, join me on Insight Timer

The new place to connect with Sez and all her healing words is now SUBSTACK (it's free)_______A guided somatic, visualization meditation with bestselling author and poet, Sez Kristiansen. Dive into your essential Self and discover the ache as a doorway into your healing Self. 

Whatever you are going through right now that makes it feel unsafe to be you, know that you are being asked to unfold even more and bare that pollen-drenched center of yours to the light. Join me on this soundscape that encourages us to reflect upon the value of the coping strategies we use to protect ourselves and remember that being still with our discomfort can lead us into a deeply expansive and meaningful life. Thank you for sharing, commenting, or just being here with me today.Sez_____Get the printable text of this piece by joining me on SUBSTACKThese poems are also on Insight Timer

Sez's new & unpublished poetry has moved to the Substack app. Listen, read & join the community for free HEREAre we friends yet? Let's connect!_____Nature has an alliance with the Great Mystery and is therefore guided, healed & grown in accordance with that trust. Why do we consider ourselves separate from that same companionship when we ARE nature? This is a 3-minute poem about how nature never gives up on itself & how that seed is planted within us too. I hope it offers relief to those currently in doubt of their spiritual progress. Thank you so much to all who listen, comment, donate & share. You are the reason this work exists.

Can the medicine, offered to ourselves in the midst of ache, be that which keeps us searching for a cure? Can the voices that encourage us to feel differently than we do, be better than we are in that moment - be what's keeping us oscillating between self-healing and perpetual self-wounding. 15 minute talk - 12 minute guided meditation - end notes. To receive the pack of mediation cards that go with this meditation, consider becoming a paid member (just 7 dollars per month) of Sez' newsletter - SIGN UP HERE

Read & Listen to Sez' weekly newsletter here:SEZ ON SUBSTACKAllow earth to yawn open and devour you whole or salt to carry your body across its foamy shoulders and rest in the knowing that you are being cared for. Your body will be balmed in honey and butter will be dripped over heart, tobacco and cornflour cast at your feet, the crown of your head wrapped in laurels and red powder blown across your face. And as you make sacred of nature, so does she make sacred of you. Reciprocity. Connect with Sez, ask questions & join the community - INSTAGRAM

Daring to be whole. Daring to be here. That is all.Enjoy a short poem written and recorded by Sez Kristiansen. Music by Nailah Hunter Bassin BleuMeditations, poetry & wild remedies for the soul can be found here:www.sezkristiansen.com

It's an old paradigm to try and cure suffering with suffering. This we all know. On both an individual level and a global one.So if you are feeling fear right now, that's so ok - but an exasperated sense of it might not be serving you, your community, or the collective consciousness we are trying to raise.We need feet on earth, strong backs, and open hearts willing to both hold - and spill out Love.Because all hearts have a purpose right now.Grounding Mini-Course starts 10 March 2022 - Sign up for free here: Weekly NewsletterWeekly Instagram poetry:InstagramMeditations:Insight Timer

'Unpack your bags and plant your trees' in every moment you find yourself seeking belonging from the outside world. You belong - but not to your family name, your country or your home - to yourself. Listen to this healing poem to help you settle your nomadic heart in the morning or whenever you feel ungrounded in this life. I hope it serves you in becoming just a little more present and centered. Thank you sincerely for sharing, commenting or simply just being here today. Sez_________Substack - the new newsletter space supported by you, the like-hearted soul! JOIN USFind these words on InstagramOr listen to a mediation HERE

We have all been touched by the words, acts. and art of those who have long passed. But something we might not have thought about is what we can do *right now* to benefit the life of someone we will never meet. Social media is immortalizing our lives, our words, and who we were - what do our feeds speak to? How do we extend our own hearts beyond the fragility of our form and how would we live differently if everything we did was a seed for a future lost soul? Thank you for listening, sharing, or simply being present with these words! Sez____Substack - the new newsletter space supported by you, the like-hearted soul! JOIN USFind these words on InstagramOr listen to a mediation HERE

The New Private Podcast can be found here - Sez on Substack___This is the exclusive first episode of Remembering Wild.  To listen to future episodes, support Sez' work via Substack. Subscribe HERE and ensure the continuation and preservation of this work.

Our greatest regret in life is most likely going to be that we never made our lives our own: that we lived according to what others expected of us and never walked off into the wild unknown to find what authenticity tasted like.We have wounds created by contorting our bodies, our lives, and our work into shapes that are not truly our own. And so we walk, often until our last breath, in lives not big enough, not nourishing enough, not free enough… And so we come to believe that it is US that is not enough, not the lives we've tried to shoehorn ourselves into. Acts of the untamed to reclaim our autonomy are brave and boldand should only be attemptedby those who are willingto swim against the currentand face possibly even more resistancebefore they break open into the free. But the more you reclaim those parts of you that were exchanged under domestication, the more this wound will become a salvation, a guidance, a way of living… Wounds are puzzle pieces longing for your wild to fit into them - and make whole what feels most ruptured.Because the wound needs what it needs.The heart needs what it needs.You need what you need.Never shed your fur for anyone. ____ QUESTIONS YOU MAY WISH TO ASK YOURSELF: Where have you told yourself, it's ok -I don't need what I need - I'll be ok with a substitute? Where have you had to give up a fundamental piece of yourself and called it love?  Where have you tried to be good - the good parent, the good partner, the good worker, the good seeker…  Where has ‘being good' become detrimental to your soul? what is the shape of your wound? And what does it require of you?_____Links:@sez.kristiansenwww.sezkristiansen.comBooks on Amazon

Sit beside the digital fireside with us and listen to Sez's weekly podcast, Remembering Wild HERE or continue listening to more meditations for free HERE ______All your limiting beliefs protect vulnerable pieces of you that have been hurt in the past.  Healing trauma and the stories we create to protect ourselves - is about feeling safe enough so we can be present with the wound. Presence unfurls the child, the truth and the origin of all protective beliefs. Disarming each tender ache begins by creating a safe space where we can see who are the guests of this body and who is left when all of them have gone. You are ultimately beyond your story, beyond your fears, and capable of using the wisdom of your wounds to set you free.  You don't need to live in perpetual protection, gathering more experiences, more stories to strengthen the validation you have against your wholeness because you were never broken to begin with…just vulnerable. And that vulnerability needs to be embodied again to fully dismantle the density of what protects you. It's a hero's journey to free yourself, to re-story your pain and return home again to your body, wiser for the journey. But we are all in it together, we are all learning to walk this path without the overbearing bodyguards that are our black bears.Thank you for being here with me. Your time is so valuable so thank you for spending some of it in this space today. Links:@sez.kristiansen

Short remedial poem to help you connect to you heart & soul with @sez.kristiansenThe new free 7-day course is up and you can start today via www.sezkristiansen.com/wholeinthebody:::::::::::::What if we saw all our unwanted situations, emotions, and circumstances this way? What if we could climb through the secret window of our own lives and deal with difficulties from a more calm, grounded, and peaceful room in our minds? Would we not then be able to invite each demanding emotion, each pending responsibility, each expectant relationship in our life to sit with us for a moment?Rather than feel overwhelmed by the noise coming from outside of us, we could prepare ourselves a little every day to meet with those demands - and one by one, listen and tend to them as an individual. I believe all pain, challenges, and losses wish to be met by the fireside of Love - it is your warmth they are after. And that doesn't mean you set up a spare room for them to stay as long as they like - remember it's your home, your body, your heart, your mind - but if they are welcomed, they will not break your doors down ;)You don't have to walk back into your lifethrough the front door.You can slip through the hedgeand climb up the ivythat has overgrown the smallwindow around the back. It's always ajar -cracked open to let the light inand to allow the damp darknessto find its way out. You can crawl between the paint-flecked panesand let yourself into your own homewhile the guests and visitors clamber against your door;their needs and painssplintering timber with their weight. And when you have found yourselfa place upon the floorboardsthat is quiet and still -you can take off your shoesand have your tea,and rest for a while. And only when you are ready -can you invite each guest,each responsibility,each seeker of your attention,to sit beside you. And one by one,they can drink their teaand spill their words in your company. And one by one,you can offer them timeto be seen and heard and felt. And one by one,they can leave againknowing that they are notthe owner of this homebut merely a seeker of its warmth.You do not need to let them all in,nor fight your way through -you can take your time,you can bare your feet,you can drink your teaand only when you feel ready -is each allowed a moment of your time._______That's this week's goal anyway :) 

Join thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up nowSez' Meditations are on INSIGHT TIMER@sez.kristiansen//// TODAY ////We have come to misunderstand the narrative of our emotions.  We believe they say something about our lack, whereas they speak honestly and with candor of our completeness.  We have confused emotional pain with unworthiness and it splinters us off from the value of our own guidance system.  Feeling loneliness doesn't mean you don't belong - loneliness asks you to deepen your relationship with everything you come into contact with.  Feeling anxiety doesn't mean you are not in control - anxiety asks you to return to your body and deeply ground yourself in it.  Feeling envy doesn't mean you are unworthy of what someone else has - envy tells you that you are resonating with the manifestation of what your heart is guiding you towards.  You are whole. Not in spite of your painful emotions – but very much BECAUSE of them.

Join thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up nowSez' Meditations are on INSIGHT TIMER@sez.kristiansen//// THIS WEEK ////The difficulty you're facing right now can either be accepted or it can be allowed. One will leave you overwhelmed and unable to move from the foothills - while the other will help you climb this mountain with grace. When you accept difficulties in your life, you tell yourself that there's an unwanted external presence forcing itself upon you without your consent. This belief then contorts the body into defensive postures, using all of its energy to protect you against perceived threats.  What is ‘unwanted' or 'undesirable' causes us emotional and psychological stress – which translates into toughened, inflexible, and protective bodies.  This means that our biography really does become our biology. But what if we choose to allow instead? We can allow this difficult moment or emotion to be as it is. It has a right to be here, to teach us what we need to know in order to grow fuller. It might still hurt – but we can allow it our breath and presence. We can allow it to show us its roots so that we can better understand its reason for being here. We can allow ourselves to feel this hurt without needing to fix it. We can allow ourselves to grow softer in its company.   Unwanted guests really are the best teachers. If we accepted an unwanted guest in our house, we would have little power to make them leave. We would just accept their presence and try to avoid them as best as possible. We might as well accept what we can't change, right? But if we allowed them to be here...if we invited them to cross the threshold with permission - we could then ask them for a lesson in return. We could create boundaries for them.  And because of this empowered mindset, we would then be able to ask them to leave when it was time.  We can accept the lack of control we currently have – or we can allow this lack of control to show us how to surrender to the greater vision Love has for our life. 

You need what you need. It's not a matter of worthiness but of giving your body, heart & soul what it needs to stay alive, to stay open, to stay whole.In fact, the less you excuse your needs, the more you will find yourself.And once you have created the right environment for who you are - wherever you are right now - you will begin to bloom in ways unfamiliar. A flower will sprout here, a wound will heal there, a friend will take root over there…all because your energy is not spent fighting or defending your body from your environment.Never feel shame for the dreams you have, no matter how bold nor how humble they may be. All your desires and needs make you who you are and how your spirit wanted to experience this life. What environment do you crave today that will help disarm your mind, nourish your soul and mend your heart? ////Let's Connect!@sez.kristiansenJoin thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up nowSez' Meditations are on INSIGHT TIMER

You might not be able to see the purpose of everything right now. And it makes being in this space very dark and unsettling. But if you can create a relationship with one small part of your life - one little object, one simple practice, one small piece of your garden - then, when you step back from your life you will be able to see everything is connected and deeply purposeful.Just as if you spent time studying the details of a small leaf with only your fingertips, so too would you be able to step back and look at the entire forest to see thousands of leaves with the same intimate qualities.An intimate and tender relationship with the small will allow you to see the great in everything.Sometimes just looking at your life with only your eyes can leave you feeling empty and separate from it. Whereas kneeling down and getting into the soil and studying the details of just one beautiful thing in it - can suddenly connect you to something far greater than you ever expected. Join thousands of others on the Be Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up nowSez' Meditations are on INSIGHT TIMER@sez.kristiansen

The word 'Distraction' has found itself in such a negative light - but it comes from the original meaning, “to draw away from the mind.” Being drawn away from the mind can be a fundamental healing process right now that guides us back to our hearts and returns us to our lives with a very different perspective.I hope you say ‘yes' to those healthy distractions that draw you away from the mind and into the heart. It's medicine for these times (not to mention for our creative businesses) where we are all feeling this new sense of exhaustion.Questions for today:What are my healthy distractions? (activities, hobbies, practices that draw me away from my mind)What am I curious to try but haven't because I feel it's irresponsible/too expensive/not practical etc.?Thanks for listening, sharing & commenting! Sezwords by @sez.kristiansenPOEM LYRICSIt Took Me AwayI took a break for a while.Not for any reason other than I heard the rustle of a wild bodiedanimal in the dark woodsand decidedto followed it.And it took me away...It took me away from whatI knew,and it took me awayfrom the place I had been standing stillfor so long in.It took me away from evenmy most meaningful work,It took me away...And when I left the woods, I came across a dragonfly,I wanted to see my own reflectionin its mosaic wingso I followed it too,and it took me away.It took me away from myselfand even from the things I most love,it took me away...And when I came across a heaving field of oats, I wantedto know why a tree stood in its center, and so I followed its furrowedlines into its core.And when the berry blackraven perchedhigh up on the oak's eaves invited me to follow it, I willingly said yes - and it took me away.It took me awayand weaved me so tightly around the landthat I began to loosenmy bearingsand before I knew itI didn't know my way backand all I knew was that I was away.And when I came to a smallcleft in a rockwhere the rainwater pooleddown into the earth,I followed its trailand it took me away,it took me away from the woods,the raven, and the dragonfly.It took me away and I kept following the stream down and down, away and awayuntil I stood at the mouth of agreat oceanand there was nowhere left to go.But now I was no longer away, I was here, in this body, in this heartand I no longer neededthe distance nor the distraction.And with one deep breath,I took the first wind current home, back to where I had once stoodin the woods,but everything was differenteverything was bathed in light.And all the things I thought wereso important were now meaninglessand all the things I found little importance in were full of urgency.And in that moment I realized that being taken awaywas the only way I could truly return home again.

There is a necessary packing away of dreams in one's life that - if done with love and acceptance, can make space for new ways of being in the world.Because it is our un-lived lives that hurt our loved ones the most - not the ones we are living in right now. When we are truly present with who we are, what we have, and where we are right now - we are in our greatest power. And that strength doesn't only benefit us on an emotional level, it reaches right down into our cells and changes how we fundamentally carry ourselves through this life.Most parents know what this feels like - to offer a dream back to the earth that was made long ago and for single-occupancy. But remember there is no loss in anything that is given away in reverence of Love. Questions you might like to ask yourself:What dream has wandered away from my Heart into my mind?What old dreams do I need to houseclean in order to make space for new and spontaneous ones to arise?If I got closer to my dream every time I became present to the moment, what would my day look like?These images are of a place I have dreamt about my whole pre-motherhood life. An isolated, self-sustaining permaculture home where I would spend the seasons tending to myself through the land. But right now, if I were handed that life - I wouldn't take it. Because right now, I need to switch hemispheres to be with my family. No amount of calendula. echinacea and thyme can compensate for time with loved ones. And in clearing out this dream for now, I will make space for a new kind of inhabitance; the one where I keeping tending to the home within myself and allow a for a new dream to be given life. May your dreams be given clarity through the inclusion of loved ones.///SUBSCRIBE / REVIEW THIS PODCAST

We hear the word consistency a lot - in our creative work, our lives, our practice. It's as if we will lose everything if we step off the consistency treadmill - but we tend to lose ourselves in that binary process. But what can be manifested from a body consistently comparing itself, stressing itself to meet others' demands and own expectations?If you feel the weight of that word, and all the success it promises, then remember that consistency originally means ‘to be standing firm' - and you don't have to lose yourself to that kind of stagnancy.Instead, remember the word accumulative, meaning ‘to contribute through movement' and keep adding those small moments of value to your life that move you forward. Thank you for sharing and commenting on @sez.kristiansen and Insight Timer!________Sez is a nature poet and Nordic dweller, who wildcrafts short poetic remedies for emotional healing. Join her on www.sezkristiansen.com for free courses, e-books, and lots of audio love. 

Meaningful Monthly Offering: (free) 4 - week email course, The Nordic Soulstice,  heal yourself through ancient Nordic winter practices. ------------NOTE on this week's episode! If you would like to enhance this practice please take your shoes and socks off while you listen. We all long to live life a little more barefooted, freer to express ourselves, untamed by the external environment, but like our planet, we have created urbanized precious areas that sever us from our naturally wild nature. This is a 10-minute talk, 11-minute guided meditation, 3-minute ending. Learn to rewild areas within your psyche that have longed to be left to heal naturally. Thank you for sharing, commenting, or reviewing if it resonates, and stay wild, dear child. Sez-------@sez.kristiansen

This episode is a little different from the meditations and poetry I usually offer. I sit down in the woodshed with the summer rain pouring down outside and open up a frank conversation with you about why choosing your heart will make your life so much harder....and why that's such a good thing.Some topics of interest:2:08 (my story so far...)5:51 (why returning to your ancestral land might not provide you the belonging you seek)14:56 (how to tell if you are making the right decision)15:33 (what 'the path of least resistance' really means)17:33 (why we should just follow our hearts anyway)Thanks for listening, for sharing, and for taking some time to yourself today. Sez@sez.kristiansen___Mentions: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 

I am currently writing a guided meditation about rewilding the body as there seem to be many misconceptions about the word.Rewilding isn't about trying to go back to living as hunter-gatherers. Rather, it's about examining our cultural paradigms, seeing how they affect our spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health.We don't have to demonize our culture in order to Rewild ourselves, because urbanization is an aspects of ourselves too. We can however, with awareness, learn what aspects of our modern culture rob us of our basic humanity, our intuition and our freedom.Using that awareness, we can live in our culture (and ourselves) more courageously, express ourselves more authentically, and live more attuned to the natural forces that help guide us through life. Some Rewilding questions you might like to ask yourself today!- What roles don't allow me to walk barefooted in my life? (wife/husband/parent/job role/carer/sister/brother etc.)- Why can't I express my wilder Self in these roles?- What one part of me can I allow to slowly grow wild again in this role? (e.g if you feel overly domesticated in your partnership, can you nurture your need for adventure? Or If your job restricts you in unhealthy ways, how can you speak up for your creative needs more? Is parenthood overwhelming? How can you find more play in this role? How do you feel about your own body? Can you give the ‘farming' of your body a rest and let it blossom in its own beautiful way?)Much more to come on this topic, so keep finding your wild :)Sez@sez.kristiansen

The new poetry book is out! Story Medicine is now available on Amazon - Read the reviews and grab yourself a copy of emotional healing HERE------The Heart and I is a remedial poem to help you connect with your wiser Heart. While you listen, place your hand over your own heart and imagine that the words are being spoken by you. Listen to this episode every night before you fall asleep and initiate a dream into your life that will help you heal and mend heartaches, grief, and losses. From my heart to yours, Sez-////-Watch this audio come to life on INSTAGRAMor send me an email with your comments and questions!

(SHORT VERSION - Affirmations Only)Trauma is a story unexpressed in your body. Instead of being processed, that pain became consumed and found itself among your flesh. Now this story protects you at all cost – the body has become a soldier against its most destructive response pattern; indirect but perpetual threat. The body is therefore almost always in a state of survival and when you are on the battlefield – there is no time, nor freedom for healing. But every story can be healed.  We just need to learn how to become the authors of our own bodies.Listen to these affirmations every morning for 7 days and feel the difference in your body.______@sez.kristiansen

"Words are seeds. We are their earth. Blossom in truth." Sez Kristiansen (Siska, 2 years old)____Trauma is an unprocessed story still held in the body.Can you heal these stories and rewrite the body to become the confident, empowered companion we seek to embody?Listen to these affirmations and discover how you can re-story your body so that you can live deeper and more connected to your Spirit, source, or higher consciousness. ___Thank you for listening. Please know how valued your time is and feel free to share this content with anyone who might need a supportive word. Let's connect!@sez.kristiansenwww.sezkristiansen.comPoetry books on amazon

ALL EPISODES ARE SPONSORED BY MY BOOKS - If you feel a resonance with my work, please consider buying a poetry book. Not only do you get something of value in return, but I get to connect with you in a more meaningful way through my words. Thank you!::::: SEZ' BOOKS ON AMAZON:::::______Dear one,It will take more than joy and ease to create your ‘Best Self'.Because the misalignment is part of the alignment, just as the fracture is an integral part of your greater wholeness.Your future ‘Best Self' is not made up of only goodness. The best part of her is when she faces the fight, the loss, and the struggle, and chooses to hold herself through it anyway.Manifestation is desire made into matter and the very nature of desire is to bring life into what has yet a heartbeat.Desire, and the creation of it, is messy and hard and black in its essence, like what existed before the universe, before the birth of the sun, before you entered the womb. You will therefore not embody your 'best self' in spite of your struggle - but because of it.____POEMI met her when she hadfallenso far, she couldno longer remember the shape of the sun.I met herwhen nothingwas left to hold onto,and freefallinghad becomefreedom.I met herwhen shehad reachedthe peaty floorand there wasonly darknessto hold her.And wasovercomewith joybecause I knew she hadfinally reacheda place where shewould be ableto plant theseeds of herfuture in:at the very bottom.____See more:@sez.kristiansen

Dear one, Old patterns fashion the body. Some habits weave these limbs so tight, they have closed you off from your Heart. And when that disconnect restricts you from seeing your true nature…look beyond yourself, your shape, and your body.For there is a truer mirror to be used.Take a moment right now, in the room that you're in, in the space you occupy - and look closer. The table, once part of a woodland, once a forgotten seed sleeping in the soil, now, here in this room.The material hugging your skin, once a crop soaked in warmth and nourished by the rains, a thousand strands of sunlight touching your skin. The food in your belly, grown by mother moon and her seasons, now having a conversation with your body.The daylight cutting through the window, its glass made of eroded rock and minerals, eroded over millions of years.Cultivate a closer relationship with everything around you and you will cultivate a more intimate relationship with yourself.TIPS ON FINDING NATURE'S CONNECTION WHEREVER YOU ARE- Use a different mirror. When you see something beautiful in nature, remember that that there is an element of yourself being reflected back.- Connect with your breath, often. Everything alive breathes. Take a deep breath and think about how many other living elements are breathing with you right now.- Find wholeness in imperfection. Everything in nature is imperfect. Not a single petal, root, wing are the same (often our definition of perfection). Find a marked tree, a leaf-eaten rose, a discolored patch of grass, and notice how the plant grows anyway, never believing in the story of its flaws.___POEMUndulating valleys can be found inthe body'sbending limbs,wilder pathsin the untamed thickets of forgotten skin -and reflected in the surface of deep blue water -the Heart'sunfettered youthever luring you backinto her depths.Join us on @sez.kristiansen  

Dear one,Love will heal, once you let go.Because it is in the holding on to these old stories that you are keeping yourself separate from the life being written by a greater hand.Abandon, with grace, everything that turns this wheel of perpetual conflict. The one between yourself and others, and the one between you and yourself.Even if there is anger left, you are holding on.Even if there is fear left, you are holding on.Even if there is doubt left, you are still holding on.Abandon this inner conflict as if you would an old house whose beams and rafters buckle inward, whose floorboards have thinned and splintered, whose warmth seeps out through the gaping cracks and whose body no longer offers a home for your inhabitancy.And when everything, including yourself, has been abandoned, so is but Love left behind.Because, Love requires nothing, not even a someone (especially not a someone), to exist within you.Love is the alkaline that balances life's acidity into neutrality, chaos into calm, fear into radical acceptance.And only from acceptance can you stand in the wreckage of your life and begin to rebuild it from Love, because only then are you standing within your true Self.So go ahead and lose yourself, only to realize that it's not you that's being let go - but everything else you're not.Journal Questions:- What am I still harboring within myself that has passed and needs to be abandoned now?- What are my fears surrounding letting non-serving things go?- How can I practice neutrality more in my daily life and do I have any associations with being detached from my emotional drama?________On the 31st May, I will let everyone know which Remedy is theirs. You can also sign up for my soul stories newsletter on my website and receive all the videos, audios and words created for the Remedy Series in an E-Book for free on the 31st. SIGN UP HERE___POEM:Love iswhat is leftbehindwhen all elsehas been abandoned. And to emptyyourself of it all will onlyremind you ofhow fullit feels toto be unoccupiedby pain.Loveis the silencelingeringbeneathall sound.Always availableto the onecourageous enoughto listen.

'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I'll let you know in a private message that it's yours.) Hope it offers a healing - Sez_______That desert you are facing right now is not validating how alone you are,nor how ‘wrong'the path you have chosen is...It is a vitallandscape that one meets upon the pathinto the unknown and its wilderness.And ratherthan feedingyourself on the sparse offerings of this place - allow your roots to nourishand holdyou for a while.For, as dry and shallowas this desertmay be,so toois the well within you deep and full.Dear one,Some plants have developed a surefire way to survive uncertainty by sending roots deep below the surface. These are taproots. It is the first root to appear from the seed and remains the largest, central root of the plant. Desert plants can send roots down more than 75 feet.This taproot absorbs water and minerals from the earth and serves as a food storage and a reserve. This ability to not rely on the surface makes these plants more self-sufficient and resilient during hard winters and severe drought.So too have you been gifted a taproot that reaches deep below this surfacery world. It was the first seed of self-sufficiency planted within you that empowers you to survive times that leave you feeling alone, uncertain and vulnerable.Follow what makes you feel most nourished, most embodied, most connected, and you will be following your taproot inward.And do not fear the surface life for it does not determine how well you bloom, only your roots have the power to do that.___________________Feel free to share these words if you believe they could be of guidance to another soul.______________________Links:@sez.kristiansenhello@sezkristiansen.comwww.sezkristiansen.com

'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I'll let you know in a private message that it's yours.) Hope it offers a healing - SezTo emergefrom what hasbeen concealing youis to recognisethat you are already in tact, fully whole, an entity unto yourself - and with enough courage, 'to rise' would mean to pull yourselfup & through the weight that has buried you -but which hasnever separated you from your wholeness.______Dear one, To believe you break under the weight of this world is not so. To believe that you splinter and fray at your edges, leaving lesser and lesser of you is nothing but an old wound passed down by those who believed more in their brokenness. Beause it's easier to see your surface-dwelling fault lines than it is to remember the depth and substance of your mantel.This journey into the ache will end at its core - and once you have met with its centre - so too will you emerge again, passing through to the other side - whole as you've always been, only wiser for the encounter._______________Feel free to share these words if you believe they could be of guidance to another soul.______________________Links:@sez.kristiansenhello@sezkristiansen.comwww.sezkristiansen.com

'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I'll let you know in a private message that it's yours.) Hope it offers a healing - Sez::::::::::::::::::Dear one, Mushrooms have found a fascinating way to create an abundant future to exist within…Fairy rings (or fungal mycelium) start as a single point and grow outward to form a circular shape. They continue to push outwards in an attempt to consume more nutrients from the surrounding area and when they exhaust the minerals found on the inside of the circle, they widen further and further to find richer food sources.As these mushrooms grow, the center of the circle becomes a nutrient-depleted zone (a dead zone) where nothing is left to sustain its growth. The outer ring of the circle is dark green and lush because the roots of the mushrooms are forging the way ahead of themselves and breaking down nutrients in the soil, ready for its future inhabitants.This incredible process results in an ever-growing circle that never chooses to go back inwards or cross over on itself because it knows that there's no new food source on the inside of the circle.So too is your future being created beneath the surface right now - by the desire within you that seeks ahead to find more nourishing spaces to nurture your growth. And as you grow, so too will you leave a greater space within you that contains your past.And as you grow, so too will you unfurl into the future that has been prepared for you.Trust in the desire that is pulling you forward and offering greater expansion.---What makes sure that your future is a lush and nourishing one?- Intention - Intentions + consistency = your future. There is no greater nor simpler equation in life. Keep going, keeping creating small, daily intentions.- Connection - How will you connect with yourself today? What will make you feel most grounded, spacious, and in commune with a greater Love? The more you connect with whatever is Divine to you, the more your future will contain that divinity and offer certainty that everything is working out for your highest evolution.- Adaptation - Adaptation is not the opposite of manifestation. In fact, it is a prerequisite. Adapt to your current environment as best you can, making sure you changing what you can and surrendering to what you can't. Remember: we are not here because we are the strongest but because we learned how to adapt.In gratitude,Sez(If you enjoy these remedies, please feel free to pass them on.)______________________Links:@sez.kristiansenhello@sezkristiansen.comwww.sezkristiansen.com

How do you really know when it's time to let go of your dream? To let go of a person? To let go of a belief? When it leaves your heart. This is a 3-minute poem to help you see that you are the gardener of your own life and it is your work to midwife what longs to come into this world and the reaper of what needs to go.Prompts you may wish to ask yourself after: - what are the reasons I keep justifying that this idea/dream/person should stay? - what else could enter my life if I let this/them go? - what could I spend my emotional energy on instead? Thanks for being here! Watch these videos come alive on Instagram @sez.kristiansen

Your spiritual practice is a container, a thing that encompasses you so that you can become MORE you.Like salt drawn in a circle around your body, you can become protected in this container – you can become healed in this container – you can spill yourself into this container – and what is contained within this space is you - the 'you' beyond the form - the 'you' that exists within the circle but are not made of it.What is your daily, sacred practice? And has your dedication created fold-lines within you that you can find easily again or do you find yourself needing motivation to keep at it?_______watch the video of this poem on Instagram - @sez.kristiansen