Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness

Latest Episodes:

Think Like an Artist, Create Like a Mathematician with Esther Loopstra and Allison Henrich Sep 25, 2026

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We tend to think of logic and intuition as opposites. One belongs to the head, the other to the heart. Artist Esther Loopstra and mathematician Allison Henrich, Phd, explore the power of what happens when we bring the two together, especially when we're navigating change, creating something new, or stepping into a version of ourselves we can't fully see yet.

In their new book, Think Like an Artist, Create Like a Mathematician: Harness Logic and Intuition to Find Your Flow and Step Into Who You're Becoming, Esther and Allison explore how to move through change by bringing together logic and intuition, and why neither strategy alone will get you where you want to go. Drawing on personal stories, scientific research, and spiritual wisdom, they show us how to clarify where we want to go while staying open to what unfolds.

We also discuss the dance between trust and control, manifestation and co-creation, and how the initial spark of an idea can grow into something we're willing to devote ourselves to.

In this episode:

Why creativity requires both logic and intuition
The Space of Becoming and navigating the unknown
Learning to listen to your intuition while still taking action
The role of trust, manifestation, and co-creation
The shift from play into discipline and devotion
How our own growth and creative work contribute to something larger than ourselves

Connect with Esther and Allison

📖 Pre-order Think Like an Artist, Create Like a Mathematician

• Esther: Website | Art | @flowintoauthenticity

• Allison: Website | @logicmeetsintuition

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The Great Rebalancing: The Old Ways Aren't Working Anymore Sep 18, 2026

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The old ways aren't working anymore.

So many of us are finding that pushing harder, doing more, and trying to control the outcome no longer works the way it once did.

In this episode, I zoom out to look at the larger pattern behind how we're changing. From the Great Recession in 2008 and the rise of hustle culture to burnout, the 2020 pandemic, and our growing desire for more meaningful and sustainable ways of living, I explore what I believe is a massive rebalancing of masculine and feminine energy happening both individually and collectively.

We've become incredibly good at the Yang side of creation: taking action, setting goals, working hard, pushing forward, and trying to control the outcome. But many of us are now being asked to develop the other half: Yin creation - listening, trusting, surrendering, working with the natural rhythms of life, and allowing ourselves to be supported.

And when you've spent your entire life believing that action equals control, learning to loosen your grip can feel like one giant trust fall. If who you've been no longer quite fits, the ways you used to move through life aren't working, and you still can't fully see who you're becoming, you may be right in the middle of learning the other half of creation.

In this episode:

Why I see 2008 and 2020 as two different turns of the same spiral
How hustle culture became an answer to uncertainty
Why humanity is moving through a larger evolution and expansion of consciousness
The mass rebalancing of divine masculine and divine feminine energy happening right now
How becoming more balanced and integrated individually can change what we create collectively
Why the old ways crumbling is part of humanity moving into its next level of being

Links & Resources:

🎙️ The Invisible Part of Creation

🎙️ When You Don't Know What's Next

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🌙 Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

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Your Past Lives Are Still Talking to You with Avani Patel Sep 11, 2026

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The patterns shaping your life began long before this lifetime.

Raised in a household where reincarnation and karma weren't beliefs but simply the fabric of the soul's journey, intuitive regression hypnotherapist and spiritual mentor Avani Patel has spent years helping people uncover the deeper origins of the patterns shaping their relationships, careers, and lives. Through her work, she guides people back to the experiences their soul still carries, and the lessons they came here to heal.

In this conversation, we explore hypnosis, past life regression, reincarnation, karma, the witch wound, soul contracts, what happens between lifetimes, and spirit guides. Whether you're brand new to these ideas or have been exploring them for years, this episode offers a fascinating perspective on why your past lives may still be shaping the life you're living today.

And if this conversation sparked your curiosity and you'd like to explore this work more deeply, Avani has created a free resource called the Soul Avatar Guide. It helps you identify the past life imprint that's most influencing your life today and offers a starting point for understanding the lessons your soul may be working through.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What hypnosis really is, and the biggest misconceptions about it

• How past life regression can reveal the roots of recurring patterns

• The witch wound and fear of being seen

• Reincarnation, karma, and the soul's journey

• Whether we choose our families and major life experiences before we're born

• What happens between lifetimes

• Spirit guides and how to begin building a relationship with them

Connect with Avani

• Website: Eternal Alchemists

• Instagram: Eternal Alchemists

• Tiktok: Eternal Alchemists

• Soul Avatar Guide

Links & Resources

📚 Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

📚 Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss

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The Invisible Part of Creation Sep 04, 2026

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How do you create something when you don't know what you're creating yet?

For most of my life, I've known how to create when I have a clear goal in sight. But over the last few years, I've been learning a different way of creating, one that is more receptive, intuitive, responsive, and rooted in trust. I call this yin creation.

In this episode, I explore the mechanics of this invisible part of creation: how our consciousness and energetic state participate in what eventually takes physical form, why there can be a lag between energy and what we see reflected in our 3D reality, and what may actually be happening during those quiet periods when it looks like nothing is happening (when everything is happening!)

I share how I've watched this process unfold in my own life over the last six months, how seemingly unrelated opportunities became data points in a much larger pattern, and what I'm learning about becoming perceptive enough to recognize what is trying to emerge.

Links and Resources:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)

• 🪐 Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• 🌙 Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

• 🔮 Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

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Manifesting Your Creativity Through the Akashic Records with Helen Vonderheide Aug 28, 2026

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What are the Akashic Records and how can you use them as a tool to reconnect to who you are and manifest your unique creative expression?

This week on Awakening with Grace, I'm talking to my teacher Helen Vonderheide, Elite Certified Akashic Records Teacher and Practitioner. Helen gave me my Beginning Practitioner Certification, and I'm thrilled she's here to teach us all about what the Akashic Records are, and how we can use them to illuminate our path, manifest our creative greatness, and receive the outcomes we desire.

Helen also gives an Akashic Record reading for all of us, so stay tuned until the end to hear the beautiful message she shares. If you want to learn all about the Akashic Records, keep an open heart and mind as you listen because this episode was made especially for you!

Connect with Helen Vonderheide:

• Website: https://www.helenvonderheide.com/

• Instagram: @helenvonderheide

Links and Resources:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)

• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

• Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

If this resonated with you, please share it with someone on their own path, and leave a review to help others find the show.

Korean Shamanism and Everyday Magic with Mudang Mi Aug 21, 2026

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Some spiritual callings arrive quietly. Mudang Mi's arrived through a dream, when a group of her ancestors walked into her home carrying a bundle of ceremonial tools and refused to let her say no.

Mudang Mi is a Korean shaman-priest in the indigenous Korean spiritual tradition known as Mugyo, a tradition I knew almost nothing about before this rich conversation.

We talk about ancestors, nature spirits, house deities, spiritual protection, the representation of mudangs in modern culture, and what it actually looks like to be in relationship with the spiritual world in everyday life. Mi explains why you might not want to whistle or clip your nails at night, what happens when a mudang channels a deity during ceremony, and why she believes sensitivity can change what we're able to perceive.

She also shares what she calls the "Way of Mu," simple ways of bringing spiritual practice and a sense of magic into everyday life. This conversation is such a fascinating glimpse into a spiritual tradition that flies largely under the radar outside of Korea, and offers a beautiful perspective on our relationship with the unseen world around us.

In this episode:

What Mugyo is and what it means to be a mudang
Neurodivergence, sensitivity, and spiritual perception
The role of ancestors and deified ancestors in Mugyo
House deities, nature spirits, and living in relationship with the spiritual world
The "Way of Mu" and bringing spiritual practice into everyday life
Intuition and developing our own spiritual abilities
Why so many people may be spiritually seeking right now

Connect with Mudang Mi:

• Website: Firelight Lotus

• Instagram: @themudangmi

• TikTok: @themudangmi

• YouTube: @themudangmi

Links and Resources:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (our free monthly gathering)

• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

• Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

If this resonated with you, please share it with someone on their own path, and leave a review to help others find the show.

When You Don't Know What's Next Aug 14, 2026

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What do you do when you feel called to something new, but you have no idea what it is?

For three years, I wandered in a desert of confusion, asking the Universe over and over, "What am I meant to do? Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it."

It was a lonely, frustrating season, full of uncertainty, with no clear map forward. If you've ever found yourself in that same place of not knowing, this episode is for you.

I explore yin creation vs. yang creation, what it means to explore without needing to know the destination, and the surprising realization at the heart of it all: sometimes the answer isn't waiting for you to find it. It's waiting for you to choose.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why wandering isn't wasted time
How to navigate the space between chapters
Why trying things—even the "wrong" things—is part of the path
The difference between yin creation and yang creation
Creating without a blueprint
Following the next breadcrumb before you can see the whole path

Connect with Grace:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)

• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading

• Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

If this resonated with you, please share it with someone on their own path, and leave a review to help others find the show.

Looks Weird, Feels Good: Trusting Your Evolution with Aimée Hoover Aug 07, 2026

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Sometimes the biggest transformation isn't finding a new path, but realizing you've become a different person than the one who started walking it.

After more than 25 years as a professional wildlife painter, Aimée Hoover finds herself questioning old identities, learning to trust her intuition in deeper ways, and navigating the beautiful uncertainty that comes with becoming someone new. Together, we explore what happens when healing changes not only who you are, but what you're called to create.

In this conversation, we talk about trusting yourself when your inner knowing asks you to change, why healing often changes what we're willing to tolerate, and how personal growth naturally reshapes our creativity, our work, and our relationships. We also explore living with uncertainty, learning to stop overriding yourself, and why sometimes the path that feels most aligned is the one that looks the strangest from the outside.

Whether you're an artist or navigating a season of change, this conversation is an invitation to trust your evolution.

In this episode:

Learning to trust your intuition, even when it looks strange from the outside
Why healing changes what we're willing to tolerate
The identity shifts that often accompany personal growth
How our work naturally evolves as we do
Exploring therapeutic psilocybin as a tool for healing, self-discovery, and facing fear
Practical ways to begin building trust in your intuition

Connect with Aimée Hoover

• Website: Aimée Hoover

• Instagram: @aimeehooverartist

• Substack: Aimée Rolin Hoover Substack

Links and Resources

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)

• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

• Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

If this resonated with you, please share it with someone on their own path, and leave a review to help others find the show.

You're Not Doing This Alone Jul 31, 2026

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Modern life has left so many of us feeling disconnected—from ourselves, from one another, from nature, and from something greater than ourselves. We spend so much of our lives focused on what we can see that we forget some of the most important relationships exist beyond our physical perception.

Throughout my decades-long journey as an artist and creative, one relationship has quietly shaped everything: my relationship with the Universe. It's influenced how I navigate uncertainty, how I make decisions, how I recognize guidance, and how I continue moving forward even when the path feels lonely.

In this episode, I'm sharing a framework I call The Four Connections—a way of understanding the relationships that I believe are at the heart of the human experience. I'm exploring our relationship with the Universe, why I believe it's every bit as real as our relationships with other people, and how cultivating it has transformed the way I've navigated my career and personal life.

Whether you call this benevolent life force God, Source, Spirit, the Divine, or simply the Universe, my hope is that this episode reminds you that you are far more connected, supported, and guided than you may realize.

In this episode, we explore:

The Four Connections and the framework that's shaped my spiritual journey
Why I believe the human experience is fundamentally about relationship
Why our relationship with the Universe is just as real as our relationships with other people
Intuition, signs, synchronicities, and learning to trust
Simple ways to begin cultivating your own relationship with the universe

Links and Resources:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)

• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content

• Book an Awakening With the Animals: Animal Soul Reading with Grace

• Visit Awakening With Grace for more info

When Your Darkest Season Becomes an Awakening with Sierra Enticknap Jul 24, 2026

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Sometimes the biggest changes in our lives don't begin with certainty - they begin with a quiet whisper.

In this conversation, I'm joined by sound facilitator, breathwork coach, and cacao ceremony guide Sierra Enticknap to explore what it really looks like to reconnect with yourself. Sierra shares how postpartum anxiety, OCD, and her own healing journey unexpectedly led her from a successful corporate career into work that feels deeply aligned with who she truly is.

Together, we explore the difference between anxious thoughts and intuitive knowing, why surrender can feel so difficult (especially for perfectionists), what "one step at a time" actually looks like in practice, and how sound, breath, and ritual can help regulate the nervous system and create space to hear yourself more clearly. We also demystify sound baths, explaining both the science behind them and why they can be such a powerful entry point for reconnecting with yourself.

In this episode:

• 5:17 — Why leaving a successful career can feel so terrifying

• 15:19 — Postpartum anxiety, OCD, and the awakening that changed everything

• 21:20 — Fear, perfectionism, and learning to trust one step at a time

• 31:21 — The difference between intuition and anxious thinking

• 35:37 — What a sound bath actually is and the science behind how it works

• 43:36 — Why healing in community is so powerful

• 50:40 — How to begin reconnecting with yourself and learning to trust the whisper

Connect with Sierra:

• Website: Sound With Sierra

• Instagram: @soundwithsierra

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