Valerie is the first Alive & Kicking guest to return to the podcast. When I interviewed her back in 2021, the topic of conversation was late-life love. Just a year later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and embarked on a no-holds-barred journey of healing and discovery utilizing the best of holistic and allopathic medicine, inner deep dives, trauma resolution and joy-finding. She returns to talk about that journey.

Valerie is an artist, sound alchemist and breathwork practitioner in Sedona, Arizona. She has been offering private “Soundwave Journeys” using her Soundwave Bed™, womb healing sessions and breathwork for individuals and groups. She is the owner of Aumbase Sedona specializing in sound healing and conscious relationship guidance. Now she also accompanies other cancer patients through their journeys toward divine healing through sacred practices. She continues to create art and live joyfully.

Find Valerie at:

www.valerieirons.com

www.sanjalihealingarts.com

www.aumbasesedona.com

www.cancersupporthub.com

Check out her cancer guides on Amazon HERE.

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Jade Orth is a family advocate who is currently working in the foster care and adoption realm, driven by a mission to bring together resources, community connection, and unwavering support for families. Her work is fueled by an enduring belief in the inevitability of human unity—the idea that humanity will one day operate as one cohesive family.

Beyond advocacy, she is a wife, a mother to three sons, and an intuitive creator who loves exploring the world through embodiment, music and poetry. Currently, she is channeling her journey and insights into a book about consciousness, emotional intelligence, and the practical path to self-assurance and creative self-expression.

Jade and I talk a lot about the upside and downside of adaptability. As a child, she was deeply entuned to the people and situations around her which often required her to adjust herself accordingly. It has been a profound part of her journey to understand who she truly is, outside of those adjustments. Throughout our conversation, I found her eloquence with the human/divine conundrum so reassuring.

Connect with Jade here on Instagram and YouTube: @quicksilver_alchemy

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Joan Advent’s journey has taken her from addiction, sexual trauma, spiritual abuse, and poverty consciousness to the safety and freedom of true self-understanding and expression. Her thirty-year career helping clients to do the same draws upon multiple maps, lineages, schools of thought and traditions.

She has worked as a licensed clinical social worker and now, as a spiritual and transformational guide. Her training has included child and family counseling, personal empowerment, addiction and the family, co-dependency and self-betrayal resolution, spiritual and psychic development, ancestral and inter-generational healing, somatic and embodiment modalities, leadership development and prosperity healing.

What I loved most about our conversation and about Joan is her clarity. She’s able to thread all this deep understanding through the fabric of her own life’s story and to share it so vulnerably and generously so that we can understand better the folds of our own stories. I learned so much about myself in this conversation!

When mentioning her new focus on exploring her own desire, Joan mentioned these beautiful opening lines of Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese:

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

You can find Joan and her work here:

joanadvent.com

​YouTube: @joanadvent7171

Instagram: @joanadvent

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