What if Nature isn’t separate from us, but something we can be in dialogue with?

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Saskia von Diest — founder of Ecofluency, PhD holder, consultant and Nature communication educator — about relearning an ancient human capacity: communicating with the more-than-human world.

We explore Nature communication as a practice of deep listening rooted in intuition, presence and sensory awareness — and why communicating with plants, animals and landscapes may be far more natural than we’ve been taught.

We also talk about ecological healing, land intelligence, belonging, humility, embodiment and expanded ways of perceiving reality. Saskia shares how this work can support both personal transformation and our relationship with living systems.

Again and again, this conversation returns to one remembering: we are not separate from Nature.

This episode is less about adopting a belief — and more about what becomes possible when we begin listening differently.

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction to Nature communication
01:04 – Saskia’s journey into this work
07:20 – Founding Ecofluency
09:37 – What Nature communication actually is
14:15 – Reconnecting with belonging
16:42 – Practicing communication with Nature
20:26 – How plants communicate
23:25 – Imagination vs. intuition
26:25 – Understanding ecosystems through listening
33:58 – Co-creating with the land
38:04 – Ethics of Nature communication
45:36 – Animal communication & dimensions of consciousness
48:28 – Humor in spiritual practice
51:06 – Navigating ontological shifts
54:19 – Embodiment, movement & perception
58:03 – The body as a listening instrument
01:00:29 – Learning opportunities in Nature communication
01:03:23 – Messages from Nature for inner peace

Connect with Saskia von Diest

• Website: ecofluency.org
• Instagram: @ecofluency
• Facebook: Ecofluency

Resources

• Online Nature Communication Course (May) and Rhythms of Remembrance Retreat Canada (September) - ecofluency.org/teaching-events
• Other Voices - Resources Nature Communication - ecofluency.org/resources/othervoices

Connect with me

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

What if the parts of you you’ve been avoiding… are actually the doorway to your deepest power?

In this episode, I sit down with Joseph Sorensen to explore his journey from atheism to spirituality – and the profound shifts in perception, identity, and inner awareness that came with it.

This conversation goes far beyond the idea of “self-improvement.” We dive into shadow work, emotional depth, and the subtle patterns that shape how we experience reality. Joseph shares how learning to feel – instead of analyze or suppress – became a turning point in his growth, and why curiosity is one of the most powerful tools we have when it comes to understanding ourselves.

We also explore the nature of perception itself. What does it mean to sense beyond the visible? To recognize patterns, energy, and unseen dynamics? This episode opens up a perspective where reality is not fixed, but fluid – shaped by awareness, attention, and the willingness to question what we think we know.

Joseph speaks about shadows not only as the parts we reject, but also introduces the idea of the “golden shadow” – the hidden potential, gifts, and power we haven’t yet allowed ourselves to embody. We talk about identity as something layered, constantly evolving, and why breaking out of rigid labels can be both disorienting and deeply liberating.

This episode is an invitation to soften your grip on certainty.
To feel more.
To question more.
And to recognize that transformation doesn’t come from fixing yourself – but from meeting yourself, fully.

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to spiritual awakening
02:45 – From atheism to spirituality
05:46 – Frequencies, energy & perception
08:48 – Meditation & inner transformation
11:50 – Anxiety, mental health & awareness
14:46 – Identity, labels & self-concept
17:35 – Sensitivity & perceiving patterns
20:44 – ADHD, autism & self-understanding
23:33 – The shadow side of awakening
26:30 – Patterns in perception & reality
32:06 – Tuning out external noise
33:44 – Shadow work & integration
40:51 – The golden shadow
55:05 – Identity as layers
01:04:46 – Duality & polarity
01:08:04 – Life cycles & growth
01:11:01 – The limits of language
01:16:21 – Curiosity & self-discovery
01:19:27 – Change & uncertainty
01:27:40 – Emotions as a gateway

Connect with Joseph E. Sorensen

• Instagram/Threads: @j3sor3n
• Linkedin: Joseph Sorensen
• Substack: Leakythoughts

Connect with me

If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

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Your energy needs clarity. Not constant openness.

In this episode, I talk about energetic boundaries and protection in a very practical, grounded way — especially if you feel easily affected by other people, spaces, or emotions.

We go into what it actually means to protect your energy, without fear or isolation.
Because shielding isn’t about shutting yourself off — it’s about deciding what gets access to you and what doesn’t.

In the first part, I share how energetic protection really works:

• why your intention matters more than any technique
• how your awareness already shapes your energetic field
• and how you can consciously create boundaries instead of reacting to everything around you

In the second part, I guide you through a visualization to build your energetic shield.

This is a simple but powerful practice you can use anytime you want to:

• feel more contained
• create distance from external energy
• or come back into your own space

Protection is not something outside of you.
It’s something you create — and strengthen — from within.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Energetic Shielding

01:37 Understanding Energetic Sensitivity

03:52 Exploring Energetic Boundaries

07:59 Practical Exercises for Shielding

11:44 Guided Meditation for Shielding

21:43 Conclusion and Reflection

Connect with me

If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

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Many people feel lost right now.

Not just in small life decisions — but in a deeper way that touches identity, direction, and the question of purpose.

In this episode, I explore why this feeling is more common than ever and why being lost is often not a problem, but a sign that something within you is changing.

We talk about the pressure to “find your purpose,” how comparison to other people’s paths can create unnecessary stress, and why purpose often reveals itself in a very different way than we expect.

I also share reflections on the larger collective transition we are currently moving through — including the astrological shift from Pisces to Aquarius — and how this shift invites more individuality, authenticity, and trust in our own inner guidance.

This episode is not about forcing clarity.

It’s about allowing space for transformation, trusting life a little more, and learning to listen to the quiet signals that point you toward what is truly yours.

Because sometimes feeling lost is not the end of the path.

Sometimes it’s the beginning of discovering the one that actually belongs to you.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:50 Understanding the Feeling of Being Lost

03:39 The Role of Societal Expectations

07:24 Navigating Purpose and Identity

08:32 The Pressure of Finding Purpose

13:34 Trusting the Process of Life

21:27 Personal Journey to Discovering Purpose

27:54 The Interconnectedness of Existence

36:56 Embracing the Human Experience

Connect with me

If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

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What if your sensitivity isn’t something to fix… but the doorway to your power?

In this episode, I sit down with Maya Spindel – yoga teacher, tarot reader, former spiritual life coach, and now author – to explore what it really means to reconnect with the divine feminine beyond the clichés.

This conversation goes far beyond the surface idea of “softness” or “flow.” We dive into emotional depth, shadow work, and the kind of radical inner honesty that most people avoid – yet that opens the door to intuition, self-trust, and real transformation. Maya shares how creating safety within ourselves becomes the foundation for healing, allowing emotions to move instead of being suppressed, and why feeling deeply is not a weakness, but a form of strength and intelligence.

We also explore the deeper layers of feminine energy as a raw, powerful life force. From Shakti and Kundalini to the balance between feminine and masculine dynamics, this episode reframes what it means to be connected to your energy and your body. It’s not about escaping into spirituality, but about bridging the spiritual and the physical, learning to listen inwardly, and trusting what arises.

Maya opens up about her own journey – from guiding others in the spiritual space to returning to her own truth, and now channeling her experiences into a fantasy book that weaves together magic, storytelling, and the essence of the divine feminine. We talk about what it means to turn your inner world into something creative, and how intuition, surrender, and timing play a role in both healing and manifestation.

This episode is less about understanding – and more about remembering.
Remembering how to feel, how to trust, and how to reconnect with the intelligence that already lives within you.

Chapters

00:35 – Divine feminine & intuition
12:53 – Belief, perception & inner guidance
25:53 – Yoga, bodywork & emotional release
32:17 – Creating safety for healing
36:11 – Shakti, Kundalini & life force energy
47:01 – Bridging spiritual and physical reality
50:58 – Reclaiming the feminine
01:03:40 – Sensitivity, emotions & embodiment
01:10:55 – The warrior within the feminine
01:18:32 – Feminine vs. masculine dynamics
01:24:47 – Surrender, timing & manifestation
01:30:40 – Shadow work & inner truth
01:35:59 – Writing, storytelling & magic
01:40:16 – Tarot & intuitive guidance
01:48:03 – Trust as the foundation

Connect with Maya Spindel

• Instagram: @mayaspindel
• Link to Maya’s book will be posted here once it’s available

Connect with me

If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

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Modern life makes it easy to mistake the roles we play for who we truly are.

The strong one.
The helper.
The one who fixes everything.
The one who keeps the peace.

In this episode, I explore how many parts of our identity are actually learned roles — shaped by family systems, expectations, and relationship dynamics.

We talk about why these roles often develop as strategies for safety and belonging, and how they can quietly shape the way we show up with others.

I also introduce the Drama Triangle, a relational model that explains how people often move between the roles of rescuer, victim, and persecutor without even noticing it.

This episode is not about rejecting roles completely.

It’s about becoming aware of them — and recognizing the difference between the identities we learned to perform and the deeper essence underneath them.

Because the moment you start noticing the roles you play, something opens:
more freedom, more authenticity, and more choice in how you respond to life and relationships.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
02:25 Understanding Learned Roles
09:24 The Drama Triangle in Relationships
14:03 Exploring True Essence Beyond Roles
16:00 Reflection on Labels and Titles

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If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

• Instagram: @annehochwald
• Website: annehochwald.com

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For more than a century, science has largely assumed that consciousness is produced by the brain and confined to the body. But what if consciousness interacts with something larger — an energetic field that connects mind, body, and environment?

In this episode, psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Eric Leskowitz explores the science and mystery of what many traditions have long called life energy.

Dr. Leskowitz spent more than 25 years working in pain management at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School through research in integrative medicine. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 50 scientific papers while investigating how subtle energy and consciousness influence human experience.

In our conversation, we explore the concept of the human biofield — a subtle energetic field believed to surround and interpenetrate the body. One of the most intriguing examples comes from phantom limb sensations, where amputees feel pain or movement in limbs that are no longer physically present. In some cases, the perceived limb even appears to extend beyond the body’s physical boundaries.

We also discuss experiments on collective intention and group consciousness, including research conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab that investigated whether human awareness can influence physical systems.

From phantom limbs to sacred sites, crop circles, and global consciousness experiments, this episode explores a fascinating possibility: that consciousness may interact with a larger field of energy and information that connects us all.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to life energy and the biofield

02:42 Rick’s journey into energy medicine

13:13 Energy psychology and EFT

17:14 Phantom limb pain and the biofield

23:12 Is human consciousness shifting?

24:24 Understanding subtle energy fields

28:12 Consciousness vs matter

31:05 The power of group consciousness

35:53 Global consciousness experiments

41:13 Individual and collective energy

45:03 Sacred sites and earth energies

50:56 Crop circles and unexplained phenomena

57:49 Human intention and physical space

Learn more about Rick

You can learn more about Dr. Rick Leskowitz, contact him, and find his book The Mystery of Life Energy on his website:
https://www.themysteryoflifeenergy.com

In the Resources section there, you’ll also find the full one-hour PBS documentary The Joy of Sox – Weird Science and the Power of Intention.

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Modern life makes it easy to feel separate — from nature, from seasons, from our own internal rhythms.

In this episode, I explore our connection to nature not as a romantic idea, but as something biological, emotional, and deeply regulating for the nervous system.

I share reflections on how modern environments can disconnect us from natural cycles — and what begins to shift when we consciously return to them.

We speak about the five elements in traditional Chinese medicine and how they mirror organs, emotions, and seasonal movement. About the Schumann resonance and why our brain states are not isolated from the Earth’s electromagnetic field. And about something much simpler: walking barefoot, touching trees, noticing light, and allowing your body to recalibrate.

This episode is not about escaping modern life.

It’s about remembering that you are not separate from the Earth you stand on.

I also share practical and gentle ways to reconnect — especially if you live in a city — and why nervous system regulation is often less about doing more, and more about aligning with what is already natural.

Because nature is not something you visit.

It’s something you are.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Our Connection with Nature

07:36 The Five Elements and Emotional Cycles

13:23 Nature and the Nervous System

18:42 Brain Waves and Earth Rhythms

25:45 Simple Ways to Reconnect in Daily Life

30:48 Living in Alignment with Natural Cycles

Connect with me

If you want to share thoughts, questions, or wishes for future episodes — or if you feel called to connect or work with me — you can reach me here:

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• Website: annehochwald.com

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