Episode 32: Sarah Blondin—Trusting your Heart, Fear of Death & Letting Go of Pain

 

On episode 32 I speak with Sarah Blondin, a well-known, magical meditation teacher and writer. We actually knew one another in passing years ago living in Vancouver, and years later we’ve gone down interesting paths and reconnected through her work after finding her meditations on Insight Timer. From a pastor’s daughter to an actress, to moving to the rural countryside and becoming a mother, Sarah shares her journey into solitude and unlocking a voice from deep within. She talks about the lessons of being a mother, connecting to nature and the power that free writing gave her. Creating without attachment can be so challenging, but for Sarah it ended up drawing a whole new career to her, including publishing her book, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love. Sarah shares how she listens to her body, trusting our hearts and getting out of our own way to be our highest self.

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Asking myself, what is my fear of death? And it’s my fear of not being safe in my death, as in maybe we’re not held by some divine benevolent force. And thats the fear underneath the fear...
— Sarah Blondin

SHOW NOTES

• 3:30 Figuring out how Sarah and I knew each other from years ago

• 6:15 Sarah’s journey inward and growing up a pastor’s daughter

• 11:00 Writing for survival in solitude, just to stay alive

• 17:00 The process of sharing her work with the world

• 20:00 Creating without attachment and navigating ‘success’

• 26:00 Feeling the consciousness of the world in our tissues no matter where we are

• 31:30 The process of confronting death and embracing dying each day

• 37:20 “The heart is the way to a greater consciousness”

• 41:25 We never get anywhere, we just come home…

• 49:00 Exploring the layer of subconscious fear underneath the idea of death

• 54:30 How social media can really distort our idea of reality and the film The Social Dilemma

• 62:00 Process of writing a book, it’s always about the journey and never the result

• 65:00 A beautiful process of body-guided expression and emotional release

• 68:30 Having a child is the gateway drug to spirituality

• 74:20 The potential work ahead of teaching children to connect with their hearts

• 79:45 What is God?

• 85:00 It always comes back to Love…