Surreal Photoshoot

Sonia at Zuma BeachThis week I had a surreal photoshoot with Ken Sawyer a theater director and photographer. We had fun and we’re both into surrealism and unique photos and art. We shot for hours. I’ll post more as I go along. This picture is for a poem I wrote Ray of Light which will be in my upcoming book entitled Inspire Me: In Time of Need. 

In the meantime check out my other books here

Poetic Resurrection Podcast S2 Recap

PR Podcast S2 RecapThanking all our guests and listening audience for joining us for Season Two of the Poetic Resurrection Podcast.

  1. Jaclyn Steele—Soul of Connection we discuss the Soul Connection and how our soul’s calling intertwines our lives, beliefs, and our connection with others.
  2. Alex Greenwood—Soul of Mystery We laugh, joke, and discuss the soul of writing mysteries.
  3. Trini Rodriquez—Soul of Healing We discuss Native American and Mexican American sweat-lodges and how this brings you closer to your soul.
  4. Che’Rae Adams—Soul of Writing We discuss what it takes to write a good story and how the story germinates from the soul. That inner voice drawing us to write our story.
  5. Ian Brooks—Soul of Intention We had a lively discussion on the process of intention. How the pandemic, perceptions, and beliefs affect our lives and how we can change the characters we created in our story.
  6. Jonathan Troen—Soul of Self-Love We have a lively conversation about the Self-Love Revolution.
  7. Martin Espada—Soul of my Father A reading of Letter to My Father and how it affected him. We discussed historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview.
  8. Joachim Brackx—Soul of Self We discuss the self and how our perceptions play an important part in compassion, self-love, and acceptance.
  9. Rick White – Soul of Understanding We have a great discussion about grief, life, illness and acceptance of self, our value, and how life changes.
  10. Samuel Ashe II – Soul of Giving we discuss how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.
  11. Melissa Da Silva – Soul of a Relationship We discuss Her journey from a toxic relationship to self-acceptance, love, and grieving of love lost.
  12. Charlie Sheldon – Soul of Storytelling We discuss his journey from Yale to being a fisherman to writing his books.
  13. Andrew Seaton – Soul of You We discuss spiritual awakening and how it’s simple.
  14. Louise Alexandra Erskine—Soul of Imperfection We discuss toxic relationships, parenting, and being a single mother raising boys and how her poetry and photography clarified and taught her acceptance of being imperfect.

Podcast on this site.

Poetic Resurrection Podcast Hosting Site.

The Soul of Imperfection with Louise Alexandra Erskine

Louise Alexandra ErskineIn our final episode of season 2, we have an amazing discussion with the lovely Louise Alexandra Erskine. We discuss toxic relationships, parenting, and being a single mother raising boys and how her poetry and photography clarified and taught her acceptance of being imperfect.

Louise Alexandra Erskine is a poet, photographer, and content creator learning through a lifetime of passion and heartbreak Louise writes about her relationships and experiences in life, love, loss, surviving domestic abuse, and falling in love the right way – with herself! Louise experienced success early on writing poetry on Pinterest and has returned to writing as part of a long journey of self-discovery after losing herself to a controlling, abusive marriage. Louise is now a single parent raising three children in the English countryside and using Instagram to express emotion through imagery and tell the stories of her life both through her poetry via https://beautifullydefected.com and as a family connecting with other women struggling through toxic relationships on @this_beautifully_defected_life.

Poetic Resurrection Podbean

Poetic Resurrection podcast page

 

The Soul of You with Andrew Seaton

Our guest this week Monday, Sept 20th is Andrew Seaton author of Spiritual Awakening Made Simple. We discuss the Soul of You – spiritual awakening and how it’s simple, we address grief, and other emotions affecting our perceptions. Check out this informative interview.

Andrew Seaton is a spiritual author, teacher, counselor, and mentor for spiritual awakening. For more than four decades, he delved deeply into educational philosophy and psychology; old wisdom and new science; reports of higher consciousness; and a wide range of personal development, holistic wellness, and spiritual awareness practices.

As Andrew experienced all the personal ups and downs of his life, his working life was quite varied, but mostly in education. He had many different roles in that field, most of them relating to education of the whole person. His Ph.D. thesis was titled “Investing in Intelligence: An Inquiry into Educational Paradigm Change.” Andrew came to see that in our world we are generally making some deeply flawed assumptions about knowledge, human nature, and quality of life. In 2006, he resigned from a two-year stint as an education academic in order to focus on unlearning his education and other conditioning, and on awakening, the fuller functioning that he had come to see so clearly is possible and desirable.

Listen to it on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast and PoeticResurrection.com

Awakening Made Simple (on Amazon)

Andrew’s website is at AwakeningMadeSimple.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndrewSeaton101

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCau8nH_QV9fGPnZopgzkDrg

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewseaton101

 

The Soul of Storytelling Charlie Sheldon

The Soul of StorytellingCharlie Sheldon went to Yale University and UMass, where he received a Masters Degree in Wildlife Biology/Resource Management. Charlie Sheldon is a Washington-based author of the trilogy Strong Heart, Adrift & the third book in the series Totem. (See below for links).

He worked in the fishing industry for 15 years as a deckhand, mate, skipper, and consultant, then relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1990 to be near Olympic National Park.

He worked at seaports for nearly 30 years as a planner, project manager, and executive.

When he retired from seaports in 2012 he returned to sea as a merchant sailor for four years, working on various container and military vessels as Able Bodied Seaman and Bosun.

He retired in 2016 to work full time at his writing. Nowadays he hikes in the Olympic National Park whenever he can, cooks for his wife, pesters his grandchildren, and continues to scribble tales.

Listen to the  Poetic Resurrection Podcast and on this site 

Available on Amazon

Strong Heart: https://amzn.to/3hs1iSQ

Adrift: https://amzn.to/3C7gJrF

Totem: https://amzn.to/3hu346c

The Soul of a Relationship with Melissa Da Silva

The Soul of a Relationship with Melissa Da Silva. We discuss her book Lose Me. Her journey from a toxic relationship to self-acceptance and love. We discuss grieving of love lost.

Melissa Da Silva is a Canadian writer who grew up in Toronto, ON. She went to Humber College for Business.

Melissa’s been writing since she was 18. In 2020 she self-published her first book called Lose me. It’s about a toxic relationship and the importance of loving yourself. Lose me debuted as a top seller on Amazon. Inspired by her own life events, she hopes people can relate to her relationship struggles and life.

Listen to Podcast Here

https://www.mdswrites.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mds.writes/

Books available by author:

Lose Me:  on Amazon

Last Kiss: on Amazon

The Soul of Giving with Samuel Ashe II

In this week’s episode, the Soul of Giving,  we have Sammy Ashe II. He performs a reading of his song “Enemy” sung by Fanesha Fabre. We listen to her singing it and find out what prompted him to write the song, This is an entertaining conversation about everything from music, the Ashe Academy, and how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.

Samuel Jonathan Ashe II, better known as Sammy Ashe is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Ashe Academy, a nonprofit focused on addressing the access and opportunity gap for Students of Color pursuing the Arts & STEM fields through mentorship, annual scholarships, and parental engagement. He is also a Marketing Strategist with a passion for Filmmaking, Podcasting, and Songwriting.

In his music career, he has worked with artists like Fanesha Fabre, Stephen James, Cortex Accelera, Danielle Parente, and Mike Georgia to name a few on projects involving songwriting, composing, and producing.

Website: www.theasheacademy.org

Listen to Episode Here