Tending the Flame

Feb 01 2022 1
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Tending the Flame Podcast is here to provide you with the divine, feminine, spiritual, sweary, grounded content you've been craving! The aim is to make the world of spirituality accessible, relatable and funny. Join friends while they explore the world of "Woo Woo" through a contemporary Celtic lens. Help us keep the podcast advert free by leaving us a tip: https://ko-fi.com/tendingtheflamepodcast

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13. Interview with Treacy O'Connor on the St Brigid's Day Campaign, her spiritual journey, falling apart and Tending Brighíd's Flame

Feb 01 2022 57 mins  
This week Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (They/She) are joined in conversation with Treacy O'Connor (She/Her). Treacy is an Interfaith Minister, Spiritual Counselor, meditator and lover of Brighíd. In this episode we talk of Treacy's spiritual journey, transitions in life and in work and our mutual love for Brighíd and excitement for her feast day to be made a national holiday in

12. Interview with Angela Dunlop on spiritual gifts, inner critic, life goals and her new book "The Miracle of Mediumship".

Jan 22 2022 46 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (They/She) spend an hour with Belfast based Medium, writer and healer Angela Dunlop. Angela has been a practicing medium for 15 years and in 2009 opened her first holistic centre called "House of Healing". Though closed now, Angela continues to hold private readings and demonstrates her abilities in public. We chat to Angela about the struggles of trus

11. Winter Solstice, Mormon friends and Jesus is a Pisces

Dec 21 2021 68 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (They/She) reflect on self acceptance, deep rest and goal setting as another Gregorian year ends. Brónach retells the story of Jonah and the Whale and her soulful friendship with two Mormon Sisters and Denise decides to return to horse riding. With reflections on the significance of the Winter Solstice and some suggestions on how you can engage in you

10. Interview with Patricia Lübeck on keening, death, grief, colonisation and the land.

Dec 11 2021 58 mins  
This week Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (They/She) interview Patricia Lübeck (She/Her). Patricia Lubeck is a nurturer, healer, and protector who holds people as they cross the big thresholds of life: Birth, death, trauma integration, and healing around sexuality and intimacy. Patricia has trained in more modalities than one could count and loves being able to understand and explai

09. Dreams, the Collective Unconscious and the Folding of Time.

Nov 20 2021 71 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (They/She) delve into their experiences with reoccurring and prophetic dreams and their understanding of the role that the subconscious and collective unconscious plays. There is a brief Segway into the importance of open conversation around menstruation, while Brónach shares about healing experience at a set of stone circles in Donegal and Denise has

08. Short, special episode for a call to sign the petition to make Brighíd’s day a national holiday on the island of Ireland.

Oct 20 2021 14 mins  
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/make-brigid-s-day-a-national-holiday petition link. Trigger warning: spiking women mentioned 12 mins in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tendingtheflame/message

07. Mediums, Libra season life reassessing and Midnight Mass.

Oct 16 2021 81 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (She/They) compare their experiences of this year’s Libra season before moving onto Samhain and the progression of the Celtic year. They digress into discussing different stages of their spirituality, the new Netflix show Midnight Mass (spoilers), life after death and answer some questions sent in by you listeners! https://ko-fi.com/tendingtheflamep

06. Death, reincarnation and...dinosaurs?

Sep 11 2021 95 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (She/They) tackle the concept and reality of death in this week’s episode. From goddess archetypes and death representatives to reincarnation, after life and Catholicism they each talk about their own understandings of death and relationships with ancestors who have passed on. Trigger Warning (TW) for a brief mention of suicide. Linktree: https://lin

05. Male gaze, how Rose from the Titanic deserved better and body positivity.

Aug 28 2021 81 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) and Denise (She/They) discuss the concept of the male gaze beyond cinema and its relation to everyday life from internalised misogyny to the negativity that men also suffer as a result of patriarchy. The conversation digresses into talks of body positivity and sensuality with a small mention of (tw) eating disorders, how we view ourselves and other women and ends

04. Lughnasadh, Neurodiversity and Taylor Swift thirst.

Aug 07 2021 54 mins  
Brónach (She/Her) & Denise (She/They) have a general discussion about the Celtic festival of Lughnasadh and what each of them are hoping to reap in line with the harvest festival. As we are so open about mental health on our podcast we delve into conversations about our experiences in therapy and Denise gets very candid on the subject of neurodiversity within their own life an