Monday Dec 30, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E9 w/Laura Riojas-Noriega
Friday Dec 20, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E8 w/ Amalia Ortiz
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E7 w John Lambert – Settling In to Love
John Lambert – Settling In to Love
In this episode John Lambert, widowed father of two, shared the story of Ivania, his beloved wife, who passed away from cancer. They were married when he was very young, and her loving existence shaped how he shows up in the world today.
John is a writer, actor, and curator of San Antonio’s Sacred Underground Film Festival (fourth installment takes place November 2025).
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E6 w/ Carmen Calatayud – Grief Work, The Journey
Carmen Calatayud – Grief Work, The Journey
In this episode Carmen Calatayud, poet and author of In the Company of Spirits and This Tangled Body shared about her grief work as a mental health counselor who specializes in trauma and grief. She shared parts of her journey that led her to grief work and where her current questions lie.
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E5 w/ Joaquin Muerte – Xicanx Masculinity and Grief
Joaquin Muerte – Xicanx Masculinity and Grief
In this episode Joaquin Muerte shared about his Xicanx vs Aliens podcast, which was created to normalize conversations around the supernatural and destigmatize these experiences. He shares some of his activist upbringing, and his own journey of healing through food with his dad. He finishes with how healing for the Xicanx masculine can start with the nervous system- Xicano Soul being an avenue to help a vato relax into vulnerability. He also spoke about a project around grief that he’d love to start through his music.
Joaquin is the band leader for Joaquin & The Glowliners, drummer for Combo Cósmico, member of Los Nahuatlatos and the creator of the Xicanx versus aliens podcast.
His other titles are Social Justice activist, Danzante Conchero tradicional with Grupo Xinachtli and Community Builder with Methodist Healthcare Ministries on San Antonio’s East side.
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E4 w/ Valerie McKenzie & Terry Calderon – Alchemizing
Valerie McKenzie & Terry Calderon – Alchemizing Trauma & Grief
Content warning: loss through suicide. In this episode Ancient Roots Alchemy co-founders Valerie McKenzie & Terry Cameron share the story of the loss of their son Gavin by suicide.
They speak about the medicine, the rituals, and the community that helped them stay connected with their son and immediately begin the healing process from the trauma of this event.
(If you’re struggling, help is available. Please call the Suicide Hotline: 988)
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E3 w/ Mandy Lynn- Disenfranchised Grief
Mandy Lynn- Disenfranchised Grief
In this episode poet, singer, actor, and community advocate Mandy Lynn shared her experience of loss and “disenfranchised grief.” She spoke about two loved ones who passed recently – her brother Adam and her friend Carlos – and what it feels like to carry grief that others don’t know about. Her biggest encouragement for others is to slow down and sit in the feelings/pain.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E2 w/ Raíz Infinita – Reframing the Gifts of our Ancestors
In this episode we hear from Raíz Infinitida, poet, artist, educator and community advocate. We spoke about the experience of loss and how we learn to grieve from our culture and ancestors. The lineage of survival, being tough, and using strength support our families up in challenging environments has led us to be unfamiliar with vulnerability and tenderness. She tells her own family’s story of loss of her grandfather, and how his wife and daughters had no option but to be strong. She shares how she uses her art & writing to move into new ways of being for her and her family, which include the experiences of awe, adventure, and beauty.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
The Resilience Within S2E1 w/ Aminah Decé – Showing up to Grief
This episode begins Season 2 of The Resilience Within, where we are focusing on the theme of grief, and showing up to the conversation not as experts, but humans who are learning how to deal with loss. Aminah Dece, artist, rapper, poet, and educator tenderly held space in the studio and shared what helped her in her own journey of grief, including “The Grief Recovery Handbook.” We sit together in a slow, contemplative way, sharing a space of tenderness and contemplation. This episode is dedicated to JB Averitt, 1974 – 2024.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 12 w/ Andrea Vocab Sanderson – Living Your Purpose
In this episode we have a conversation with San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson around being a poet. artist, and advocate in San Antonio and the ways she chooses to show up in her world. She gives us a glimpse into her journey to become a full-time artist and the creative decisions that come along with that. She shares some of the ways she centers and connects to her Higher Power so that she can best use her voice to advocate for human rights and freedoms.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 11 w/ Denise Damijo – Nothing is Wasted
In this episode we hear from Denise Damijo, founder of the Shamanic Group and co-founder of the Sacred Health Council. She shares some of her story around her journey into shamanic work, and how a life-threatening condition caused her to create the council as a way to bring medical and wellness practitioners together to share wisdom and learn from each other. For Denise, her discovery of her purpose has been a lifetime journey that she believes incorporates her life and experiences.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 10 w/ Gabi Delarosa Garza – Relating to our Bodies
In this episode we speak with Gabi Delarosa Garza about her powerful experience with death and loss, her coaching practice, and the breakdown of her physical system with autoimmune disease, and her learning how to respond to her body with love and grace.
Monday Sep 30, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 9 w/ Antonia Murguia – Life After Loss
Content Advisory: This episode touches on the subject of suicide.
In this episode we hear from Antonia Murguia, a poet, playwright, and public speaker who has been on a journey of grief and healing after losing her son to suicide over 13 years ago. She shares some of the ways she’s processed the grief, including sharing on public platforms in order to help bring comfort to others going through loss through suicide. Antonia also shares some of her current struggles around finding a balance between helping others and focusing on her own needs, and some of the ways that fill her cup, help her feel loved, and keep her connected.
Monday Sep 30, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 8 w/ Rohn Bayes – Observe the Natural World
In this episode we hear from Rohn Bayes is the author of The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets, creator of the weekly substack “The Rohn Report” and is the caretaker and curator of an urban nature preserve he cultivated in his backyard. Rohn has carved his own way through life by staying connected to the natural world, hs body, and the creative forces within. Rohn shares his philosophy about being a natural, organic being living in a natural & unnatural world. He shares how slowing down and observing (meditation) is a deep medicine for us all.
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 7 w/ Shell Martinez – Recovery from Burnout
In this episode we speak with Shell Martinez, who was an uber-successful real estate agent who fell into debilitating burnout. Now a caregiver to her parents and an aspiring voiceover narrator, Shell shares her navigation through her own healing process and recovery from codependency, people pleasing, and unnecessary striving. She’s learning how to let go even as she shows up, and how to connect to a place where she is working with the Universe so that she moves with ease instead of stress..
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep.6 w/Lotus Rios – Art & Grieving
In this episode we hear from Lotus Rios, an artist, poet, and co-founder of the Harlandale Sunshine Pantry, a mutual aid pantry for those in need in her community. Lotus shared some of her story around releasing long-held grief through the cathartic process of making and releasing artwork that she’s been holding for years. She used her story to illustrate how important it can be to “stretch into the pain” versus avoiding it.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 5 w/ Jacque Salame – Palestine and Politics
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 4 w/ Excy Guardado (Ceiba Ili) – Caretaking
In this episode we speak with Excy Guardado, also known as Ceiba Ili, a cultural educator and musician from Honduras who skillfully incorporates indigenous instruments and languages into her music. Her work bridges the worlds of migrant communities, and indigenous rights, and promotes environmental justice. She shared about her current wrestlings with caregiving and making sure that she is able to find a place of balance in the midst of the needs of her loved ones. As someone who had grown up in a culture of mutual aid due to extreme need, she honors the value of showing up for our communities but also recognizes how it can swallow our lives up unless we learn how to set healthy boundaries.
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
The Resilience Within Ep. 3 w/ Celinda De La Fuente – Redefining Rest and…
In this episode we get a glimpse into healing practitioner Celinda De La Fuente’s journey from debilitating sickness to health and wellness. She touches on some of the modalities that have helped her and she uses to help others on their journey, including curanderismo, Reiki, and QiGong. Her current question is: “How can I be of service today?” Spoiler: Sometimes the answer is to rest. We spoke about redefining words like ”rest,” from seeing rest as something that is a waste of time to seeing rest as something that is productive and necessary.
Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Ep. 2 w/ Patricia Castillo – A Story of P.E.A.C.E.
In this episode we speak with Patricia Castillo of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative about her journey into being an advocate to end domestic violence. We learn more about the influence of a beloved friend and mentor who has left a lasting impression in her life. We also look at a toxic iteration of “familismo” and how it can stop people from telling their stories. Patricia speaks on the power of telling one’s story, and the generational chains that can be broken when we normalize conversations around this difficult topic of violence and abuse within families.
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Andi Garcia -Linn -Sharing our Medicine
Our premiere episode is a conversation with Andi Garcia-Linn around the question of: “How do we hold space and care for people we love without getting swallowed into their situations?” Andi shared her spiritual journey into curanderismo and told a personal story to illustrate how she can only share these practices with those who are ready and open to it. We also considered about ways to release and regulate on the daily, including screaming while driving. (How many of us do that?)
