Rerelease of Episode 66. Cultivating Powerful Love and Loving Power (& other important reminders for living through the long dark), in conversation with Francis Weller

This episode was originally recorded in February of 2025.

Join us as we sit down once more with psychotherapist, writer and grief activist Francis Weller. In this episode we talk about accessible, actionable steps we can take to feel less powerless, the importance of learning the language of grief, slowing down to the speed of the soul and so much more. As always we delve into these seemingly heavier topics with nothing but love and little humor along the way. We’re here to embrace it all.

You can find out more about Francis and his work here https://www.francisweller.net/about.html

PLACES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA:

https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

https://mnfreedomfund.org/

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

Join us for our January Community Care Circle 💕

These gatherings are an offering of space for folks to come together for community connection, for creative encouragement and for having sacred space to reconnect to self. (which I know I always need but especially need more during times like these)

Savanna will guide us in a short somatic centering session, and Sue Ellen aka the peoples grandma will guide an accessible to all creative practice to connect with Brigid and the approach of Imbolc.

Sunday January 25th, 10:00-11:00am(ish) PST over Zoom, we can’t wait to gather with you!

Join us on Zoom through this link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4686864087?omn=87091839347

You can also find the link for this circle and all future monthly get togethers at our substack https://littlegifts.substack.com

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

We’re serving up some medicines for the heart and soul this week. In honor of Renee Good and all the other lives that have come to an end too soon. We love you and we hope you’re taking good care.

Poems shared in order of how they were read:

Great Ass by Sue Ellen Parkinson

The Hopeful One by Savanna Wonderwheel

After I Fell In The Canyon If Grief by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Holding Space by Ríonach Aiken

What If We All Met On That Bridge by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

What The Living Do by Marie Howe

My Dead Friends by Marie Howe

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

You don’t want to miss this one! We are joined by the renowned author and theologian Meggan Watterson for a soulful conversation circling around the women who were written out of one of the most influential texts in the world, the truth that we can all trust our innate knowing and what it means to be a human awake to love within you.

You can find more about Meggan, her books Magdalene Revealed and The Girl Who Baptized Herself as well as her online community on her website https://www.megganwatterson.com/

Our next monthly community care circle will be Sunday January 25th at 10am. This is a space to come together to be in community, get centered, prime the creative pumps and have some room to just be as you are. Mark your calendar!

The zoom link will be accessible through our substack https://littlegifts.substack.com

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

It’s the end of the year and we’re so happy to be here.

Join us as we reflect on all of the amazing interviews we were lucky to do this year, our last community care circle and we shared some poetry and appreciation for all that is Little Gifts.

Sue Ellen read On Listening by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Savanna read an excerpt of Poetry Is Not a Luxury by Audre Lorde

Our next monthly community care circle will be Sunday January 25th at 10am. This is a space to come together to be in community, get centered, prime the creative pumps and have some room to just be as you are. Mark your calendar!

The zoom link will be accessible through our substack https://littlegifts.substack.com

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

We’re resting over here and we hope you are too, we’ll be back next week <3

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.

Winter Solstice is fast approaching and we’re trying our best to slow our pace to match the season. Please enjoy this re-release of our 6th episode where we get into all things winter solstice and the magic of the mundane….

Episode 6. In honor of the upcoming winter solstice (our favorite holiday over here!) we’re talking rituals. Small day to day rituals and big over the top once a year rituals, along with finding the magic in both the mundane and the magnificent.

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Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and leave us some stars over on Spotify. You can email us at littlegiftspodcast@gmail.com or find us on isntagram @littlegiftspodcast.

Find Sue Ellens artwork at www.sueellenparkinson.com or connect with her on instagram @sue.ellen.parkinson. And the same goes for Savanna! Find more about her practice at www.savannawonderwheel.com or connect on instagram @savannabeing.