Climate of Joy

Energy Healer Sandra Boatman returns to discuss her recent experience applying her energy healing knowledge to her own situation. Sandra focuses her healing practise on helping people make a difference, differently, through understanding themselves as energy. Lately, she has had to apply the principles she teaches others to her own situation when facing a daunting medical procedure. Christine and Sandra discuss how to make a differ...

Wildfires rage across Canada, closing schools and impacting millions of people beyond the country's borders as smoke blankets the US Eastern seaboard. This episode looks at how North Americans are increasingly feeling the impacts of a destabilized climate due to the Climate Emergency, Christine and her family included. Moving forward in this stressful time includes incorporating #TMIG moments, advocated by Thomas Homer Dixon in his...

Even in the midst of the existential crises of the Climate Emergency, other life challenges can arise. Christine has an honest talk with a fellow energy healer who recently found herself thrown into a tailspin by a medical diagnosis. Together they explore the link between personal and planetary healing, in a culture that fosters a deep fear of death. Death Doula Helen Grymaloski joins the conversation to share her perspective on pr...

Today's guest is Energy Healer Sandra Boatman, who helps people to make a difference, differently, through understanding themselves as powerful creators. Sandra discusses how understanding that we and the world around us are all made up of energy can help shift our feeling of helplessness around the issue of climate change. Four practical ways to shift one's energy are discussed, including EFT Tapping. As a bonus, Sandra and Christ...

Is it cruel optimism to hold the hope of joy and healing in a time of Climate Emergency and other planetary ecological, economic, and social crises? Cruel optimism is a term coined by Lauren Berlant, and used by Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus, to describe a focus on individual responsibility that trains people to adjust to a morally unjust social system. Some self-help advice out there is a perfect example of this. Is this als...