Come to The Brink w/ Zoë Flowers

Today’s conversation is a journey through grief and trauma into creativity, spiritual awakening, and deep healing. My guest is the inspiring Amy Miranda—entrepreneur, activist, shamanic practitioner, and award-winning executive producer. Known for her powerful connective gifts, Amy is the founder of Lunch, an author, and a healer committed to guiding others through both spiritual and creative pathways.

Together, we'll explore her ea...

Amy Torok and Risa Dickens, are the magickal creators behind the Missing Witches podcast, books, and coven. The duo has built a vibrant, honest community around the sacred and the unseen,

And like me, they've spent time in the underworld and have stories to share. Amy spent nearly a decade caring for her father, navigating the slow loss that comes with dementia, and Risa is traveling through the intense passage of cancer.

In this epi...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers.

Today’s conversation explores the space between belonging and outsiderhood, wellness and chronic illness, grief and healing. My guest, Skyeris (Skye), describes themselves as a sinistral, spitfire creatrix whose voice was always a bit too loud, hair too unruly, and spirit too wild to ever fit neatly into a box. As a neurodiverse synesthete, Skye has spent their life exploring liminal sp...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. w/ Zoë Flowers.

Today’s episode explores how the past shapes us, how trauma can transform us, and how powerful purpose can emerge from even our most painful experiences. Today's guest left a 17-year relationship mired in domestic violence to become the CEO and Program Director of Rescue Her 33, a powerful organization providing essential support and community to domestic violence survivors in San Bernar...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers.

Today, we’re holding a sacred conversation about healing from trauma through nature, plant medicine, and the courage of rebuilding a life after unimaginable tragedy. I’m joined by the compassionate and courageous Kristen Renaud, a survivor of a mass shooting in 2021, whose profound journey led her away from her life as a lawyer into a deep relationship with plants, gardening, and the ea...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers, the place for honest conversations about grief, courage, and transformation.

Jeff Gurkin's early life was colored by being raised in the rural south in a religious family where he experienced childhood sexual abuse from a cousin starting at age 5.

Today, he's sharing his healing journey. and mission to help other LGBTQ+ people embrace their spirituality..

Music Inspiration - I Am What ...

Can astrology tell us where and when grief will show up in our lives? Cayelin Castelle and I chat about it on this week's episode.

Today, I’m joined by the wise and visionary Cayelin K Castell, co-founder of Venus Alchemy, My Star Alchemy, and the former Shamanic Astrology Mystery School. Cayelin’s life is dedicated to decoding celestial mysteries and helping people understand that we are, each of us, the living embodiment of cosmic...

Some conversations ask to be felt more than figured out. This is one of them.

I’m joined by Beki Crowell, a soul artist and vibrational healer who has touched the sacred through surrender. Through her healing work with the Akashic Records, Reiki, Light Language, and her soul-led paintings, Beki guides others to reconnect with the Divine Self.

This conversation is about what happens when we encounter something so vast, so loving, so D...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers.

On today’s show, we’re diving deep into the realities of caregiving, emotional abuse, and the complex grief that comes from losing loved ones in more ways than one. My guest today is the dynamic and compassionate Sherri Pullum, award-winning storyteller, artist, producer, and wellness coach, who courageously uses her art and advocacy to foster healing, self-awareness, and resilience.

She...

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers—and this is where we gather to talk about the kinds of grief that don’t fit neatly into a funeral or a diagnosis.

Today, I’m sitting down with someone I deeply respect. Monica Martinez is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with nearly two decades of experience holding space for survivors of trauma, interpersonal violence, and generational harm. She’s worked in shelters, research pr...

In this bonus ep. Astrologer Cayelin Castelle and I are doing a deep dive into the energies leading up to next month's Summer Solstice. The current astrological landscape and planetary lineup gives us the support we need to course correct personally and publicly. This month's reading is a map to get there.s

Correction from Cayelin: Jupiter has been in the Sacred Hoop since it entered Gemini in 2024 and is there until it goes beyond ...

I broke my episodes into guest eps and storytimes. Storytimes are my reflections and an attempt to make sense of the nonsensical. In this episode, I am pulling apart my nonsensical GenX youth and how it impacted me.

The GenX experience...when we say nobody was really checking in on us for most of our young lives, we mean it. and it left us with a certain amount of scrappiness and freedom to become...what we would have become.... T...

Welcome back to Come to the Brink. I’m your host, Zoë Flowers. Thank you for being here, for following, for sharing, for walking this path with me. This podcast is a love note for those of us navigating the in-between—the space between breakdown and breakthrough, between grief and grace. And today's conversation is exactly that: a doorway into what happens when the body starts to speak and we’re finally ready to listen.

Today’s epis...

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/ Zoë Flowers!!

This is a space for those of us navigating profound life changes—loss, trauma, caregiving, and transformation It’s about the moment or moments when everything we thought was solid crumbles, and we are forced to rebuild.

What happens when you find out your mother is facilitating your abuse?

In this episode, I talk with the Author of The Invention of Elle Jae about healing from the ultimate ...

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/ Zoe Flowers, the space where we talk about navigating life’s hardest transitions—loss, transformation, and the beauty that can emerge from the wreckage.

Today, I'm inviting you to step into the world of art, music, and ancestral power with me and Baba Marcus Ṣàngódoyin Akinlana—artist, musician, spiritual warrior, and a keeper of culture in Bulbancha (aka Nouvelle Orleans).

Today, we’re talking about ...

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/Zoe Flowers. This is the space where we talk about navigating profound life transitions—the moments that shake us, the endings we never expected, and the ways we find our way forward.

Today, I’m sitting down with someone who knows a thing or two about reinvention. Jarvis Antonio Green is a stage director, producer, and cultural worker based in montréal. He is the founder and former producing artistic d...