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Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Donna Gaudette

46 episodes

2 weeks ago

What if your favorite holiday movies were really maps for healing, tucked inside snow and song? We open the season with an invitation to slow down and listen for the quiet lessons woven into stories we already love. Instead of film reviews, we explore the heartwork hidden in classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, The Polar Express, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Year Without a Santa Claus—drawing out the themes of self-worth, compassion...

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What if your favorite holiday movies were really maps for healing, tucked inside snow and song? We open the season with an invitation to slow down and listen for the quiet lessons woven into stories we already love. Instead of film reviews, we explore the heartwork hidden in classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, The Polar Express, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Year Without a Santa Claus—drawing out the themes of self-worth, compassion...

Show more...

Self-Improvement

Religion & Spirituality,

Society & Culture,

Episodes (20/46)

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Holiday Stories That Heal Us

What if your favorite holiday movies were really maps for healing, tucked inside snow and song? We open the season with an invitation to slow down and listen for the quiet lessons woven into stories we already love. Instead of film reviews, we explore the heartwork hidden in classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, The Polar Express, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Year Without a Santa Claus—drawing out the themes of self-worth, compassion...

2 weeks ago

4 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Angels Among Us: Signs, Synchronicities and Connections

Grief doesn’t ask for permission; it arrives, rearranges the room, and leaves us searching for proof that love still lives somewhere we can reach. We go deep into the quiet places where that proof often appears: a song at the exact moment you ask for help, a feather in an impossible spot, numbers repeating until you finally pay attention, and dreams that feel more like visits than sleep. Through intimate personal stories and moving listener experiences, we explore how signs, angels, and spiri...

4 weeks ago

53 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

A Note of Gratitude

It has been one year today, December 5 that I released the very first episode. I am so humbled and grateful for the support and encouragement. I have over the last year. I look forward to bringing you many more episodes that will hopefully help you feel inspired, enlightened, encouraged and supported. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Donna Gaudette We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other ki...

4 weeks ago

1 minute

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Under the Light of the Cold Moon and the Seven Sisters

The night is staging a luminous meeting: a December supermoon rising near perigee while the Pleiades whisper from just beside it. We lean into that rare pairing to explore how bright clarity and subtle mystery can coexist, and how that balance can help us close the year with softness instead of strain. Through simple sky timing, grounded astronomy, and a calm reflection you can try at a window or in your backyard, we turn stargazing into a steadying ritual for release and renewal. We start b...

1 month ago

10 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: Under the Light of the Cold Moon and the Seven Sisters

The quiet you’ve been craving is closer than you think. We invite you into a soft, winter-lit meditation where breath meets moonlight and the Seven Sisters shimmer overhead. Across just a few minutes, your body softens, your mind unknots, and your heart finds the rhythm it was missing. We start with care: a clear intention, consent, and safety reminders that protect your space for rest. Then the practice unfolds as a silvery body scan, beginning at the crown and flowing down through the eyes...

1 month ago

7 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

An Empath and Sensitive Soul’s Guide For Surviving Holiday Stress and Grief

When the world turns up the volume, sensitive souls hear every note. We open a candid, comforting space for empaths who feel everything—news cycles, room tension, the quiet ache in a stranger’s eyes—and need real tools to stay centered without shutting down. If your nervous system has been running hot, you’ll find language for what you’re carrying and simple practices that bring you home to yourself. We unpack the difference between everyday empathy and living as an empath, highlighting why ...

1 month ago

38 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

A Gentle Meditation For Holiday Grief

We guide a gentle, companion meditation for anyone carrying grief, especially during the holidays. Through breath, imagery, and affirmations, we create a safe space to honor love, release tension, and invite moments of peace without pressure. • safety notes and mindful listening guidance • breathwork to settle and soften • body scan to release stored tension • meeting grief in the heart space • garden and lantern imagery for remembrance • lighting a candle to honor a loved one • speaking uns...

1 month ago

11 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation For When The World Is Loud And Your Spirit Craves Calm

We guide a gentle meditation to help empaths ground, release what isn’t theirs, and build a soft protective boundary that lets love in while easing harshness. Breath, body scanning, rooting, and sanctuary imagery restore calm and honor sensitivity as a gift. • reframe sensitivity as a compass and strength • breath and body softening to settle the nervous system • grounding with roots to feel supported and safe • golden light shield as a healthy boundary • releasing emotions and stories that ...

1 month ago

9 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: A Calm Guide To Pause, Reflect, And Realign During Mercury Retrograde

Plans stall, messages cross, tech wobbles—and your breath becomes the steady thread through it all. We created a gentle guided meditation that turns Mercury retrograde from a source of dread into a chance to pause, listen, and realign with your truth. Across nine mindful minutes, we move from breath and body awareness into grounded imagery, so you can trade resistance for clarity and regain a sense of timing that feels humane. We start with simple, safe cues to settle your nervous system, th...

1 month ago

8 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

A Practical Guide To Pause, Reflect, And Realign During Mercury Retrograde

Tired of blaming the stars for every glitch, delay, or awkward text? We’re rethinking Mercury retrograde as a sacred pause—a 20‑day window to move slower, see clearer, and make choices that actually fit. Rather than catastrophizing, we explore how to turn misfires into gentle course corrections with simple habits, grounded reflection, and a calm, steady pace. We start by demystifying what Mercury retrograde symbolizes for communication, travel, contracts, and tech—and why tone gets lost, fli...

1 month ago

17 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

The Season of Grace: Making the Last Chapters Our Best

What if your best chapter hasn’t happened yet? We open the door to a season of grace—those hard-won wisdom years where less becomes more, and meaning outshines momentum. This conversation moves from letting go of regret to embracing simple joys, from choosing boundaries to building soul-level connections that nourish rather than drain. We get practical with the comfort journal, a private, judgment-free space to anchor gratitude, release worry, and notice the small details that make a day fee...

2 months ago

28 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: The Season of Grace--Making the Last Chapters the Best

What if you could step through a doorway of light, set down what you’ve been carrying, and come back holding your own wisdom? This guided meditation invites you to slow your breath, soften your body, and walk into a timeless landscape where peace feels tactile and real. We begin with a warm, golden body scan that loosens the feet, legs, shoulders, and jaw, helping your nervous system unwind without force. Then we cross into a horizon of sea and sky, a sacred place that meets you with safety, ...

2 months ago

11 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Season 2 Begins: A Soulful Roadmap for Healing and Connection

Season two opens with a grounded promise: come as you are, and we’ll meet you with honest storytelling, intuitive wisdom, and practical tools that make healing feel possible on ordinary days. Donna—spiritual intuitive, retired evidential medium, hypnotherapist, and coach—shares the heart behind the show and how her own thresholds of loss, transformation, and reinvention shape a space where you can feel seen without having to perform strength. We map out what’s new and what stays true. ...

2 months ago

6 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: Under the Hunter’s Moon: Recharge, Release, Renew

Whisper-quiet and steady as a tide, this guided meditation invites you to lay down what’s heavy and walk a moonlit path toward clarity. We begin with slow breath and a soothing body scan, easing tension from brow to feet as a silvery glow softens the jaw, melts the shoulders, and settles the heart. Then we step into a vivid autumn clearing under the full Hunter’s Moon—historically a time of preparation and gathering—and meet a small, steady fire waiting for what we’re ready to release. With ...

2 months ago

13 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

The Tree of Knowledge Meditation: A Journey to Your Higher Self

Step away from the noise of everyday life and embark on a transformative journey to your personal Tree of Knowledge. This guided meditation creates a sacred space where you can connect with your higher self and receive the wisdom you're seeking right now. The experience begins with gentle relaxation, guiding you to release tension from your body and mind. As you visualize yourself standing barefoot in a beautiful field, feeling the earth beneath your feet and the sun warming your face, you'l...

3 months ago

14 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: A Guided Journey to Inner Peace

Take a journey to a serene forest lake where the burdens of daily life dissolve into calm waters. This meditation creates a sacred space for you to release stress, anxiety, and the pressure to be "enough" through a powerful visualization technique. The practice begins with gentle breathing and a progressive relaxation that flows like a wave through your body. As tension melts away, you're guided along a path into a lush forest where sunlight filters through leaves, creating golden patterns o...

3 months ago

8 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Forest Lake Guided Meditation

Escape into a world of tranquility with this gentle guided forest meditation, designed to help you release the burdens of everyday life and reconnect with your inner strength. The journey begins with a full-body relaxation sequence, inviting tension to melt away as you prepare to step onto a forest path where "the stress, the noise, the peer pressure, the pressure to keep up" remain outside. As you venture deeper into this peaceful sanctuary, you'll discover a calm lake that offers a p...

3 months ago

8 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Guided Meditation: Finding Your Safe Haven

Take a breath and step into your sanctuary. We all need moments where the world's demands fade away, where expectations and pressures can wait outside the door. This guided meditation offers exactly that—a gentle journey into your own safe haven. The meditation begins by grounding you physically, inviting your body to release tension you might not even realize you're carrying. Feel your shoulders melt away from your ears as stress rolls off your back "like water sliding down glass." From the...

3 months ago

8 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

S1 EP 19: Sacred Spaces: Protecting Your Energy in a Chaotic World

Sensitive souls and empaths can protect their energy and create sacred spaces that support healing and spiritual connection. This episode explores space clearing techniques and tools to help energy-sensitive people create environments that nourish rather than drain them. • Protecting your energy in challenging environments through grounding, visualization, and carrying small crystals • Understanding how spaces and objects hold emotional imprints that can affect sensitive people • Creating a ...

4 months ago

56 minutes

Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Sacred Spaces: Creating Your Spiritual Sanctuary

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt heaviness in the air, or found yourself inexplicably anxious in certain spaces? For empaths and sensitive souls who naturally absorb the energy around them, creating a sanctuary that supports rather than drains your energy isn't just nice—it's necessary. Sacred space isn't defined by how it looks, but by how it feels. It's that place where your shoulders drop, where the noise of the world softens, and you can simply be. Whether it's a coz...

4 months ago

47 minutes