There’s a line I love that says, “We inform the mysteries as much as they inform us.” It captures something profound about how we navigate grief, joy, trauma, and transformation—how the universe shapes us, and how, in turn, we shape the universe.

Today, I’m joined by the wise and visionary Cayelin K Castell, co-founder of Venus Alchemy, My Star Alchemy, and the former Shamanic Astrology Mystery School. Cayelin’s life is dedicated to decoding celestial mysteries, helping people understand that we are, each of us, the living embodiment of cosmic wonder.

We’ll explore astrology, shamanic insights, grief, and how we can use cosmic guidance to deepen our understanding of our own lives.

Let’s begin.

Some conversations ask to be felt more than figured out. This is one of them.

I’m joined by Beki Crowell, a soul artist and vibrational healer who has touched the sacred through surrender. Through her healing work with the Akashic Records, Reiki, Light Language, and her soul-led paintings, Beki guides others to reconnect with the Divine Self.

This conversation is about what happens when we encounter something so vast, so loving, so Divine…that it rearranges our cells. It's about unconditional love—the Divine kind. The kind that holds no requirements. The kind you remember, not learn.

And it’s about grief, not just as something we survive, but something that opens a portal.

So, wherever you are, join us.

Music Inspiration - Cosmic Girl by Jamiroquai

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers.

On today’s show, we’re diving deep into the realities of caregiving, emotional abuse, and the complex grief that comes from losing loved ones in more ways than one. My guest today is the dynamic and compassionate Sherri Pullum, award-winning storyteller, artist, producer, and wellness coach, who courageously uses her art and advocacy to foster healing, self-awareness, and resilience.

Sherri knows intimately the profound challenges of caring for an ailing parent—her beloved mother experienced a debilitating stroke—and simultaneously navigating the painful breakdown of a nearly 30-year marriage marked by emotional abuse and alcoholism.

Music Inspiration by Chaka Khan

Welcome to Come To The Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers—and this is where we gather to talk about the kinds of grief that don’t fit neatly into a funeral or a diagnosis.

Today, I’m sitting down with someone I deeply respect. Monica Martinez is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with nearly two decades of experience holding space for survivors of trauma, interpersonal violence, and generational harm. She’s worked in shelters, research programs, and private practice—and through it all, she’s been a caregiver, a truth-teller, and a bridge between cultures, systems, and silence.

We’re talking about how grief shows up in Latinx communities. What it means to care for your aging parent while also tending to the wounds of a community. What trauma looks like—and what healing might look like, too.

This is a conversation about thresholds. And the people who hold them.

Music Inspiration- Where is My Mind?-The Pixies

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/ Zoe Flowers. This is the space where we talk about the moments that shake us, the losses that reshape us, and the wisdom we gather along the way.

There is no quick fix to trauma.

Music Inspo-Losing My Religion By REM

Welcome back to Come to the Brink. I’m your host, Zoë Flowers. Thank you for being here, for following, for sharing, for walking this path with me. This podcast is a love note for those of us navigating the in-between—the space between breakdown and breakthrough, between grief and grace. And today's conversation is exactly that: a doorway into what happens when the body starts to speak and we’re finally ready to listen.

Today’s episode is one of those conversations that takes us beneath the surface—into the unseen, the unspoken, and the deeply spiritual.

On today's show, I’m joined by the incredible Shanda Domango—a trained dancer, choreographer, medium, and creator of Healing Movement, a somatic, ancestral, and spiritual healing modality born from her journey through loss, pregnancy, and awakening.

Shanda thought she knew her body. After all, she’d trained it, taught it, and used it to build a career in movement and fitness. But when she became pregnant, something shifted..Guided by a family friend and medium, Minister Esprit, Shanda began studying chakra-based and ancestral healing.

Music Inspo-Break On Through by The Doors

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/ Zoë Flowers!!

This is a space for those of us navigating profound life changes—loss, trauma, caregiving, and transformation It’s about the moment or moments when everything we thought was solid crumbles, and we are forced to rebuild.

What happens when you find out your mother is facilitating your abuse?

In this episode, I talk with the Author of The Invention of Elle Jae about healing from the ultimate betrayal.

Join me every Tuesday as I talk with caretakers, therapists, artists, authors, community leaders, and healers because none of us should be standing on the brink alone!!

Music Inspiration Survivor by Destiny's Child

Welcome to Come to the Brink w/ Zoe Flowers, the space where we talk about navigating life’s hardest transitions—loss, transformation, and the beauty that can emerge from the wreckage.

Today, I'm inviting you to step into the world of art, music, and ancestral power with me and Baba Marcus Ṣàngódoyin Akinlana—artist, musician, spiritual warrior, and a keeper of culture in Bulbancha (aka Nouvelle Orleans).

Today, we’re talking about holding a community’s grief without losing ourselves, how music, arts, and culture have been medicine and why working with our ancestors is not just important—but necessary.

Music Inspo..."Family Affair" Sly & The Family Stone

Baba Marcus Ṣàngódoyin Akinlana materialized in this world in the 1960s during the sublimely Divine year of the ferocious Black Panther. Upon arrival, he surveyed this beautiful green and blue planet and said " Ahaaa, let me feel the Funk BEBÉ!!!" From then on he began to sink his claws into the funk to lavish the world with his Afreecentric Art, Music, Self-Defense Modalities, and Jujupower Òrìṣà Vudu Inspired Living and to be lavished in return.....

Today, Baba Akinlana draws superpowers of creativity from his beloved community and his sacred EGUN {Ancestors} from the Bayous of Bulbancha {aka Nouvelle Orleans} and beyond so he can help bring the unmitigated funktafied creative spice of life to the beautiful masses.

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