Embracing Your Mortality Podcast
Since surviving a light aircraft crash, Author Sue Brayne, has been wearing her mortality with pride. Embracing Your Mortality is all about learning to live more consciously for a better world. Join author Sue Brayne, as she explores life, death, and consciousness with a host of fascinating guests, which she hopes will soothe and inspire you along your way.
Episodes
55 episodes
Food is Life, and Life is Food
My guest today is Kate Bidstrup who travels through the Australian outback with her husband Tim Gentle, on a brightly coloured coach called Rocky, using story-telling and the latest technology to educate children and adults about where th...
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27:18
Dealing with the Intensity of the World
Welcome to my conversation with Vidya Frazier, who is one of the world's leading speakers on how humanity is currently experiencing a chaotic process of transformation. She believes people across the globe are waking up to a profoun...
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40:58
Death Brings Meaning and Purpose into Focus
Welcome to Embracing Your Mortality Podcast. Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewell Coffins, where you can learn to weave your own coffin. She believes that facing death is a gift which brings meaning and purpose into focus. ...
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31:02
Slow Down When Someone Dies
Today my guests are Lin Carruthers and Kate Clark, authors of a wonderfully helpful and practical book called Slow Down When Someone Dies. Lin is a trustee of Pushing up the Daisies, a charity formed in 2016 by Kate C...
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28:18
Addressing the Deep Longing and Yearning to be Fully Human
Today, my guest is Micheál Connors, director of The Natural Academy, a not for profit Eco Social Enterprise, which offers accredited training courses for organisations wanting to work with nature and for people seeking a career in health, and w...
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34:33
Staying Calm Amidst the Chaos
My guest is Terry Le Page, author of Eye of the Storm: facing climate and social chaos with calm and Courage. Terry is an American transitional minister and hospice chaplain. She facilitates non-violent communications group...
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30:06
Consciousness and the Dying Process
Happy New Year to you all! What a year's it's been, and I think 2024 will continue to be just as intense. This is why I am delighted that Neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick is my first guest of the year, talking about consciousness ...
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31:24
The Healing Power of Bees
Today my guest is bee expert Paula Carnell who is an international speaker on bees, head beekeeper at the wonderful Newt in Somerset, and the author of ‘A’s to Bees', and 'Bees in Bhutan.' Such is her passion for bees that she...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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33:59
Talking about Kicking the Bucket
I am so delighted that my guest this month is Liz Rothschild, performer, celebrant and founder of the award winning Westmill Burial Ground, located on the Oxford/Wiltshire border. Liz is also the mastermind of the wonderful Kicking ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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33:16
The power of silence spaces in nature
Today, my guest is freelance garden writer, historian and photographer Liz Ware, whose passion is introducing Silent Spaces into public parks, gardens, and green spaces where anyone can go to reflect silently in nature. Liz started ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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31:34
How to Connect to Your Own Healing Resources
My September guest is Madison, better known as Maddie, King, an internationally recognised practitioner, teacher, writer and educator in the field of natural healthcare. Maddie built an immensely successful career in the advertising world, but ...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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35:39
Trauma and Loss are Part of the Human Experience
Today my guest is Robert Pardi, author, life coach, and mentor, whose passion and commitment is to help people understand that personal growth and transformation are part of the human experience. He writes, ‘The arc of all our journeys involve ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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30:44
Learning to Trust all is Well - even if it does get a bit dodgy
This month I am joined by Alex Hunter who I met at the Quirky Campers festival in May. Alex and her boyfriend, Doug, recently set off on an epic adventure in their micro camper car to explore the far reaches of Eastern Europe to raise money for...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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32:05
Welcoming the power of ageing
I am so delighted to be joined by my birthday sister Alexandra Pope (she's two days older than me). Alex and I both hit seventy this year, and we relished our gritty conversation about becoming older women who have been round the bl...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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38:22
Living Your Truth with Honesty, Integrity, Boldness, and Compassion
This month I am joined by Patrick Leo Holland, actor, TEDx speaker, and author of The Ultimate Power of You. Patrick believes there is a secret to life, and we all hold the answer to this secret within us. I love his mission statement ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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30:44
Comparing death to childbirth - just one more push!
Felicity Warner is the founder of the international Soul Midwifery Movement and the Soul Midwives School. Felicity's life changed in her early teens after she witnessed her beloved, eccentric grandmother dying in a sterile environment. Sh...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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34:07
Living Out of the Box with Chronic Neurological Pain
I am joined today by Gabby whose life drastically changed after a suitcase fell on her head when she was twenty-three. Since then she has had to come to terms with living with constant neurological pain and grapple with massive questions about ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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29:20
Healing experiences of Shared Crossings at the End of Life
This month I am joined by William Peters, Founder of the Shared Crossing Project and Author of At Heaven's Door. William talks about his extensive research into what happens during the dying process, and how many people rep...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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33:55
We can do things differently. So let's do it!
Happy New Year's Day! To usher in 2023, my first guest is Roz Savage, MBE, Environmentalist, Ocean Rower, and author of An Ocean in a Drop: from Crisis to Consciousness. Her highly acclaimed new book is a bold and th...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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36:29
Good Listening Skills and Wellbeing
How good are you at listening to others? In this final episode of Series Four, Sue Brayne speaks with Ruth McCarthy, who is on a mission to help us to develop good listening skil...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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29:30
Crop Circles and Human Consciousness
What can we learn from crop circles? Author Sue Brayne is joined by Karen Alexander, a renowned crop circle researcher, lecturer, and artist. Among her work, she produces paintings of crop circles t...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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29:30
UFOs and Consciousness
Could UFOs help explain whether there is life after death? This week Sue Brayne speaks with Frederik Uldall, who is fascinated by the possible existence of UFOs and what their advanced technology could te...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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29:30
Loss and Hope
Claire and Chris Sandys began The Silent Why podcast in response to the loss they experienced as a result of childlessness. They share their story with Sue, and explain how it became ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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29:30
