She Will Rise Podcast
Conversations about the challenges we face, as women, on the path of recovery. The women in these interviews share their life experience, tips and tools, and resources to inspire and support women who are healing from trauma or painful experiences. We share our stories as medicine, to make the controversial uncontroversial addressing topics such as addiction, depression, anxiety, sexuality, relationships and much more. www.shewillrise.community
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Dr. Kendall Hassemer: How the body deals with chronic stress
11/15/2017
Dr. Kendall Hassemer: How the body deals with chronic stress
Dr. Kendall Hassemer, ND is a Nutrition + Wellbeing Expert, Lover of the Outdoors, Craniosacral Therapist, Earth Advocate and Yoga Instructor. Her struggle with stress in her life from a young child turned into chronic debilitating asthma. She thought she would never be able to do all the things she now enjoys in her life. Her own life story is her inspiration for how she helps and supports others. We met 7 years ago in a yoga class and have become great friends and colleagues. Dr. Kendall helps individuals connect to their wild (feminine) selves through Rewild Health Maps, Nutrition Consultations and Naturopathic Lab Reviews - regain your energy, boundaries and strength through foundational health. You can find her here: IG: FB: Up coming retreat Your code for a discount for being our listeners SHEWILLRISE. Mention that in your email or call to her. Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Anastasia Hirst: Healing Through Horses
09/13/2017
Anastasia Hirst: Healing Through Horses
Anastasia shares her story in healing through horses. She has worked with horses in a therapeutic way for years and is now traveling the world creating a documentary about the power of healing through horses. This conversation was so inspiring for me as I am diving into the world of equine assisted therapy and have been experiencing great healing over the last in relationship with these powerful beings Her documentary, Equus: Healing Through Horses, is all about enlightening the world how horses can facilitate a level of healing that we as humans don't easily have access to because they communicate in a whole different way. There are so many great programs out there that involve equines and I wholeheartedly encourage any woman who has experienced trauma check out how horses could support your healing. Her documentary is already creating great waves of awareness in this area of healing. If you love horses or have experienced healing with your own horse you know what we are talking about. If you are curious about how other people work with the horses in a healing capacity please check out her documentary. There are many ways you can support this project and I invite you too. Here is where you can follow this project and get involved! Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Arkady Brown: Body Image and The Vulva Art Project
09/06/2017
Arkady Brown: Body Image and The Vulva Art Project
Arkady talks with us about the body image and the beauty of our vulvas by sharing her project, The Vulva Art Project, with us. We met through a mutual friend and one day she called me and said she had this project. When she told me about it, I had a full YES! this needs to be done. Arkady realized through her work, as a Fine Art Boudoir Photographer, she kept witnessing the shame that women have around their bodies. She dug deeper and found that a lot of shame is held in your most sacred part of our body, the part of our body that makes us women, our vulvas. Arkady has had her own issues with body image shaming, struggled with eating disorders and feels like this is a part of her own healing process. I have been working with the project and the healing that is happening for the women involved in this project is profound and amazing! We please check out and donate to this amazing project!!! Here is more info about Arkady!
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Melody Walford: Anxiety, Depression and Yoga
08/16/2017
Melody Walford: Anxiety, Depression and Yoga
The lovely Melody talks with us about her journey with anxiety and depression and how Yoga Therapy helped her to feel safe in her body. Melody is a Yoga teacher, yoga therapist, massage practitioner, foodie, nature enthusiast, wild dancer, wave rider, integrative medicine student, vocal explorer, Ariel silk acrobat, and bold lover of life. Melody and I met in Tofino, BC playing in the water on our surfboards. We shared common interests and soon realized we were healing similar challenges. We have watched each other grow from our first yoga classes and trainings. Now Melody is in school to become a TCM and she is also a Yoga Therapist and Massage Practitioner. She infuses everything that she learns into her self-practice and the way she walks through life. Her classes and workshops are full of wisdom and playfulness. Here is where you can find her: Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Sophia Treyger: Go from Pleaser to Pleasure
08/09/2017
Sophia Treyger: Go from Pleaser to Pleasure
Sophia Treyger invites us women to go from a pleaser to pleasure. She has dedicated her life to helping women go from being a pleaser and giving your power away to experiencing pleasure in life. This is such a big topic I hear women talk about, how we take care and give to everyone else before ourselves. We talk about how we start to honor ourselves first, create powerful boundaries to take care of our body, heart, mind and soul and find pleasure by feeling our bodies, emotions and desires. We touched on so many hard to talk about places that women face day to day around our sexuality, our emotions and how to move through the world feeling a deep sense of pleasure. Sophia has lovingly gifted us a few things to support our movement into more of a pleasure orientated life. How to Play with Sexual Energy: Use it to your benefit! (a visualization): A Free Sexual Empowerment Session to listeners (only 10 spots available): to join the Facebook Group Sophia invites us to ask ourselves "What is it I truly desire?" every day in every decision we make. Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Natalie Marnica: Mental Health, Chronic Pain, Huntington's Disease
08/02/2017
Natalie Marnica: Mental Health, Chronic Pain, Huntington's Disease
Natalie is a Mental Health advocate, she is challenged with chronic pain and cares for a mother with Huntington's Disease. She has chosen to not only face her fears and challenges but to step into them in work as a leader. As a yoga therapist, she open's up a dialogue or space to talk about what ever challenges you are facing and provide tools and techniques that will help your body, mind, heart and soul heal. Her story is full of personal challenges that she approaches with humor, authenticity, vulnerability, and beauty. As we talk we unfold the way we similarly work with our own mental health and chronic pain challenges. It is also the same approach we have with our clients. Here is where to find more from Natalie: Natalie gifted our listeners a Rest and Renew breathing and meditation practice. Visit this link to receive it Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Jainee Dial: Grief and Death
07/26/2017
Jainee Dial: Grief and Death
Grief and death are such a taboo subject and Jainee speaks about it so beautifully. Wow, what a powerful chat this was. There were many moments where I had tears in my eyes and my heart was full of emotion. My heart feels full and warm after connecting with Jainee. Her experience of working with grief and the unique way she embraced it, is a powerful offering for all of us. She speaks of her most used practice of writing as a tool for healing, ceremony as what is sacred to you and a necessary way of honoring who and what has passed. The chapters, as Jainee says, of grief, are a way of measuring what how far you have come on a path and that path does not have a goal or a destination. We do not forget those we have lost and wake up one day saying I am done with this, but we do wake up as time goes, and find a deeper acceptance of what is. Here is the link for the . The foundation that was created in the loving memory of her partner Brad. Here are the links for WYLDER, Jainee's amazing business that is supporting women to get outside and be conscious of our impact we have on the wild we love to explore. She has offered our listeners 10% off until December 31st, 2017 with the code: shewillrise Here is where you can follow Jainee. ~Entrepreneur, Yoga Teacher, Digital Media Producer, Outdoorswoman Everything you want is on the other side of fear~ Jack Canfield Community informs courage. Also, the level of praise we give is directly proportional to the amount of love we have for those we have lost. ~Jainee Dial Watch the live interview Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Alice Bracegirdle: How to cultivate positive body image
07/19/2017
Alice Bracegirdle: How to cultivate positive body image
Alice Bracegirdle shares so much more than just about body image in the fitness industry. Becoming a single mother after leaving a violent relationship, showed her just how hard life can get. From there BellyFit was born and she has been on a path of helping women heal their idea of what their body should or should not look like. She is an advocate for positive body image in honoring the female body. Alice was able, through her advocacy, get an advertisement changed on the back of a bus in Victoria BC, that was body shaming. Alice is not afraid to shine and be the brightest light she can be. Her intuition was a guide in creating BellyFit and we talk about just how important intuition is for a woman. Alice would like to offer a free episode of BellyfitTV™ to all listeners. Promo code: shewillrise more about Alice here: Here is my girl Alisa: And here is Taryn: Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Emily McBurnie: Near-death experience and spirituality
07/12/2017
Emily McBurnie: Near-death experience and spirituality
Emily shares how her near-death experience as a child ignited her intuition which has guided her on her own unique path of spirituality. She follows her intuition with herself and her students. She has experienced lifetimes of trauma in her life and shares very openly about her journey with it. Emily has so much to share and is full of life. Her big energy is inspiring and I felt like I was experiencing her life as she told it. She is a living example of how you can connect to your purpose, no matter how hard life can get, and in that life will take care of you. Sometimes those desperate times are when we are raw enough get the clarity we need to move forward. Uncovering past trauma that we bury so deeply because we can't deal with that in the moment, can be healed once we have the tools and support to deal with them. She shares how it creates more compassion in her life. She lives what she teaches and writes very successfully for . Follow her here: "It is in Simplicity that we find Stillness"~Emily McBurnie Favorite books - Medical Medium by Andrew William, When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron, The Course Of Love by Alain de Botton Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Hollis Baley: Nutrition for recovery and addiction
07/05/2017
Hollis Baley: Nutrition for recovery and addiction
Nutrition is a foundational part of the recovery process, especially with addiction. Hollis shares her own story of how it took her starting to lose her vision after her struggle with addiction, to really dig into her own path of healing. We talk about addiction and how we can be set up for addictive tendencies from when we are a baby, even if addiction does not run in your family, based on the health of your gut. Nutrition was her first access point to living a healthy life that supports healing. Her work is geared towards recovery around addiction, auto-immune disease and gut healing. She is not only a joy to work with but she lives what she teaches. She is a constant inspiration to me with her recipes, our vulnerable talks about our addictions we have worked through, and the giggles we have as we play in the surf. She treats her clients as her friends and her programs are always packed full of great information. Hollis also uses the wisdom of the body, with her muscle testing, to help guide her clients to find what will be best for their own unique physical makeup. Along with other protocols that address your whole life as an opportunity to nourish and love yourself, she makes healing fun. Watch the live link Find Hollis here: Hollis is offering our listeners %25 off her coaching programs to our listeners. Just mention you are a She Will Rise listener and the rest is all for you! Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Kelsey Lawford: Trailblazing through trauma
06/08/2017
Kelsey Lawford: Trailblazing through trauma
I had a great time being interviewed about my personal experience with trauma and addiction by Sophia Treyger the Radical Pleasurist. You get to hear a little about my own story and the work I do with women. She wanted to interview me because I am trailblazing the way to breaking the silence around these so-called controversial topics and making them uncontroversial to talk about. I do this because I believe our stories are powerful medicine and I know that more people will get the help that they need the more we can talk about it all. Here is Sophia's youtube channel where you can see other amazing women trailblazing to their hopes and dreams!
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Christy Greenwood: The power of consent and the dance with the inner critic.
05/29/2017
Christy Greenwood: The power of consent and the dance with the inner critic.
Christy and I danced through our conversation about consent in the context of dance, life and with yourself. We talk about the inner critic and how that can affect the boundaries you create with yourself and others. She speaks about how being a mother was her greatest challenge and how dance supported her to have time to come back to herself and give herself the support she needed. We talk openly about how through dance we have had some of our biggest truths come in and how beautiful it can be to be witnessed as we feel that pain that can come with realizing those profound truths. We are both huge advocates of dance and we have both practiced supporting our path as we continue to grow and heal. Christy is one of my best friends and she has been a guide, ally, healer, teacher and space holder. We have had the privilege to witness each other over the years grow and heal. I love dancing with her and the tribe of women we gather with annually in Canada to dance into our sacred feminine. Here is the link to take part in her The $15 off Coupon Code is: SHEWILLRISE To learn more about Christy and her offerings visit and follow: Facebook: Website: Soundcloud: Instagram: River Owl Retreat: Watch the live interview Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Katherine Weed : Finding Healing in Tragedy
04/25/2017
Katherine Weed : Finding Healing in Tragedy
Katherine Weed is an amazingly strong woman. She openly shares her process around her mother's addiction and death and how that was a part of her own healing journey. Kat is currently studying to become a therapist, so we had a lot to chat about in the realms of traditional and nontraditional therapy. Here are the resources that Katherine offered: Book: Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship. Authors are Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre. Their therapeutic model is called the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Kat's Favorite Quotes: 1) When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail -Mark Young. 2) Your ego only knows how to respond in the way that it did when you hired it -Duane O'Kane Watch the live interview Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Margot Strauhull: Childbearing and all that goes with it.
04/25/2017
Margot Strauhull: Childbearing and all that goes with it.
Margot is an amazing lady who has a passion for working with women in the amazing journey of childbearing and all the challenges that go with it. There are so many things that are hard to talk about around this topic especially the traumas and painful experiences that go along with it. Her programs offer a safe place to explore all that you may be going through. Here are the links Margot offered in her interview. Watch the podcast live video . Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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LeahRose Farber ~ Healing the Sisterhood Wound.
04/25/2017
LeahRose Farber ~ Healing the Sisterhood Wound.
This was a great conversation about sisterhood and all the things that wound sisterhood such as jealousy, comparison and competition. We dove into the lineage of those controversial topics that we feel need to be addressed in the rising of the feminine in order to rise together in grace and ease. Leah Rose is also the founder of the Worldwide Women's Circle, a movement that believes our stories are medicine in healing the sisterhood. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did. To find out more about the Worldwide Women's Circle and Leah Rose check out these links. Worldwide Women's Circle: Leah Rose Farber: Watch the live interview . Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Natalie Rousseau ~ The hard and courageous decisions a mother has to make.
04/18/2017
Natalie Rousseau ~ The hard and courageous decisions a mother has to make.
This conversation was so empowering. Natalie shares about the hard decisions she had to make as a young mother so she could do the work she needed to do to be the amazing mother she knew she wanted to be. Her own path of recovery was filled with the wisdom of listening to the earth and her cycles. She now is a huge advocate of living a creative life with a daily practice that supports your own unique body, mind, heart and soul. Natalie has been a teacher, mentor and dear friend for many years and I love learning from her. She shares her tools and tips that she used to help her over the years which she still uses today. You can follow Natalie and find here at these locations. I highly recommend signing up for her Newsletter as it is always full of good information around personal practice and magic. Instagram: Facebook: Website: Watch the live interview Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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Welcome to the Podcast ~ The song Woman by Amber Lily
04/14/2017
Welcome to the Podcast ~ The song Woman by Amber Lily
I am so excited to launch this podcast with this song Woman by Amber Lily. This song is such a gift to all women and it is such an honor to have it as our theme song. I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do. If you do, head on over to Amber Lily's and purchase the album. A huge heartfelt thank you to Amber Lily and all the beautiful medicine she is offering with her music. Love Kelsey Visit for more information on Kelsey and how to be supported by the She Will Rise community. We send out special gifts, promotions, and updates to our community so please join us by entering your email address while you are there. If you love our podcast please subscribe to it on your favorite podcast app and share it with your sisters and loved ones.
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