Mundane Miracles with Sonya Renee Taylor

For the last installment of this 3-part tale, Sonya recalls how she rode out the remainder of COVID lockdown in Aotearoa post-breakup, post-passing of her soul dog, her life simultaneously unraveled and illuminated by spiritual messages from the divine. She reflects while recording this episode on the 5th anniversary of the beginning of her spiritual awakening.Episode guide:* Sonya's meditation about being afraid of her own pow...

In Part 2 of this three-part installment, Sonya reveals how she began receiving audible spiritual messages in the midst of 2020 lockdown and life breakdown. She shares the painful and tender story of the last days of her soul dog Anastasia's life, being called to drive to the ocean every night at 4 AM, and her complete surrender to the universe on an island off an island at the bottom of the world. Stay tuned for Part 3 to see ...

Part 1 of a 3-part special in which Sonya tells the tale of her 2020 experience, which she calls her "great collapse" as well as, paradoxically, a time of great spiritual awakening. She outlines the unfolding of one life-shattering week in March 2020: her precious dog Anastasia being rushed to the emergency vet (Monday) and diagnosed with terminal liver cancer (Tuesday), her partner confessing falling in love with a cowor...

In response to a Patreon request to learn more about Sonya's meditation practice (shout-out to Dana!), this episode covers Sonya's spiritual journey and toolkit, from her youth Pentecostal church attendance to the development of what she terms her "pathless path" into all things spiritual. She covers the range of modalities she has drawn on, emphasizing that folks should explore whichever modalities call out to yo...

In this first episode of 2025, Sonya gives some brief astrological insight for the year before digging into the story of how she came to the decision to participate in a multi-day ayahuasca plant medicine ceremony in Costa Rica. She outlines her life experience as the daughter of a mother who struggled with addiction, her resulting caution around any type of substance use, and her limited experiences with psychedelics prior to arri...

Sonya shares the journey behind her 2017 move to Aotearoa / New Zealand stemming from a magical 40th birthday trip, her attainment of permanent residency, and what ultimately led her to sell all her possessions and leave the most beautiful place she's ever experienced in 2022. She reminds us that our new lives will cost us our old ones and asks us to envision, in the midst of loss, what may be waiting around the next bend.

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For those of us on a spiritual path, we might end up trying so hard to decode what the universe "wants" us to do and where we're "supposed" to go that we miss the ways the divine is with us no matter where we are. Sonya discusses her experiences traveling all over the world in search of divine alignment only to realize that it's okay to plant some roots too. Miraculous Musings: *Are there times you've made spiritual decisions dri...

Struggling with time is a very human thing. There often doesn't seem to be enough of it in the day. Or the time we allot to something ends up taking much longer than anticipated, the clock ticking down to some negative consequence.

But what happens when we work on folding in some radical acceptance of the situation? What sweet surprises might open up as a result? Sonya shares the lessons she's been learning as a world traveler cat...

Sonya shares her journey of becoming vegan and how she learned to lean into discomfort in the service of maintaining her self-integrity. Miraculous Musings: *Have you ever been directed to change your life in ways that initially seemed uncomfortable or unappealing? If so, what did you learn from it on the other side of that change? *How might you be able to discern when you're in alignment with your highest good? Where do you fee...

Grief. Loneliness. Displacement. Core wounds around home and belonging. Feelings under the Aries full moon. …Mysterious hives and kombucha? Sonya discusses all this and more as she shares how to listen to the smallest signs that we are indeed cared for by the universe. Miraculous Musings: *How does your body communicate with you about what’s in your highest good? How can you listen? *How has life been tending to you this week ...

In this inaugural episode, Sonya shares her recent breakup experience and what it taught her about letting go when we want to hold on, how we can trust life even when we don't understand its direction, and how we can surrender and let love be our north star.

Miraculous Musings to consider in this episode:

* What are you being asked to release while it's still beautiful? Before it has moved to rot?

* How can you turn your attentio...

Mundane Miracles is a weekly podcast where New York Times best-selling author and host Sonya Renee Taylor shares stories, reflections, anecdotes, and epiphanies from her daily existence in an effort to collect evidence that life is truly loving and kind, full of intention, and guiding us all toward greater love, grace, and compassion. Proving that if we learn to look and listen, we will hear and see that life is indeed unfolding fo...