A Rainbow In The Storm

A 7-Year Old’s Perspective On Tragedy

Katharine and Seth sit down to interview their very own son, Bradshaw and ask him what it was like to lose his home and many of his belongings during Hurricane Helene. They ask him questions that they had never asked him in the six months following the storm and learn how children see things so differently than we adults.  We hope you find it uplifting and hopeful and it makes you feel good about our future generation of humans.
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A few more useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

Why Feeling Sorry for Someone Doesn’t Empower Them

Katharine sits down solo and shares some thoughts that have been on her heart and mind over the last few weeks. She talks about the emotional journey of walking through grief and how memories can unexpectedly take you back and how challenging emotions can feel fresh again. Sparked by a great conversation with a friend, Katharine contemplates what happens when she feels sorry for someone and how it feels to be on the receiving end of it. She also talks about the unexpected gifts of walking through a tragedy with children. Katharine shares a book that’s been resonating with her and may be helpful to others. She closes out this episode with a poem and as always gratitude for our listeners.
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Writings referenced in today’s episode:
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Katharine’s poem, “There’s Nothing to Do”
A few more useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

6-Months Post-Storm

Seth sits down for his first solo-cast this week! It's six months to the day since Hurricane Helene swept through Western North Carolina and Seth shares where they’re at with their home reconstruction, the emotional journey, and how he feels about the storm today. It’s a brief episode but we didn’t want to let this milestone go by without checking in. As always, thank you all for listening and we hope you enjoy this episode!
If you liked this episode or any others, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, subscribe, or share this podcast with a friend. Thanks so much!
A few useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

From Lupus to Liberated: Kay’s Story

Katharine and Seth are thrilled to share the powerful interview they had with Kay Sullivan, Katharine’s mom. Kay went through her own dark night of the soul beginning in 2006 when she was diagnosed with Lupus, a chronic “incurable” autoimmune disease. Kay’s mindset upon her diagnosis and what she chose to do with this information may surprise you. It certainly inspired us! Kay’s unrelenting belief that the body can heal itself from anything as long as it’s given the proper conditions may change the way you view your own body and health. We hope you find inspiration, joy, and gratitude for your body in this week’s episode.
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More about Kay Sullivan:Kay is a native Floridian. She’s been married to her husband, John, for nearly 45 years. They have 3 children (Katharine, Sarah, and Sergey) and one grandson, Bradshaw. In her early years Kay worked as a medical social worker in St. Petersburg. She spent some years as a stay at home mom and later, in an effort to combat suburban sprawl in their area, she and John began building a pedestrian friendly new town.  When she fell chronically ill and faced a dark night of the soul, she had to rearrange and reconsider her life and life choices in order to regain her health. Kay believes that whatever the circumstances, healing is always possible.
Check out the town John & Kay are building: Winthrop
A few other useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

A Baby’s Fatal Diagnosis: Cindy’s Story

Today you are in for a real treat as Katharine and Seth sit down with the luminous, brilliant, and hilariously funny Cindy Gough James. She calls herself a Planetary Force and by the end of this episode, you will see why. Cindy shares a story of heartbreak, a mother’s powerful intuition, and ultimately one of miracles. The dark portal of transformation that Cindy went through is one that would break many, but she faced it head on. And on the other side, she discovered healing powers she never knew she had. In addition to sharing one of her stories, Cindy, Katharine, and Seth start out discussing larger spiritual themes and questions. Cindy relays her vast knowledge of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine within all of us. They ponder this beautiful, infinite, and wild human experience together. We hope you enjoy this thought provoking conversation.
And thank you as always for listening, and if you enjoyed this episode or any past episodes, please share it with a friend and leave us a positive review on Apple Podcast. We appreciate the support so much!
How to Get in Touch with Cindy:
www.cindyunleashed.com
cindy@cindyunleashed.com /484 431-2723
Books Cindy Mentioned in the Podcast:
Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self by Eva Pierrakos
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field by Barbara Ann Brennan
A few other useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

5 Things We’d Tell Our Younger Selves

Today we have Katharine and Seth sitting back down as a duo to share the top five things they would tell their younger selves. This exercise was based loosely on former hospice worker, Bronnie Ware’s Regrets of the Dying. Katharine and Seth had so much fun doing this writing excerise and sharing it with each other. We encourage you all to give this a try and see how your day changes! Katharine ends the episode by reading a new poem - we hope you enjoy.
And thank you as always for listening, and if you enjoyed this episode or any past episodes, please share it with a friend and leave us a positive review on Apple Podcast. We appreciate the support so much!
Katharine’s 5 Things She’d Share with her Younger Self:
Love your body NOW - TODAY! Do not wait!
Do something really fun everyday. 
Do NOT spend time or energy on people or things that do not light you up. 
Forgive easily, let go, and move on. 
Enjoy this chapter, every bit of it - you’ll miss it when it’s done.
Seth’s 5 Things He’d Share with His Younger Self:
Learn more about who you are now and how you work. Look into Human Design specifically . 
Seek out and ask for help regularly.
Know that you are worthy. 
Start working on self-improvement and bettering yourself now. 
Have the courage to speak up and be honest - even knowing that what you say might make some people uncomfortable. It’s worth it in the long run.
BONUS ONE: Don’t sell that Bitcoin you bought in 2014!
Links Mentioned in the Podcast:
Joseph Aldo’s Cutting Cords Meditation
Katharine’s Poem: The Evolution of a Prayer
A few other useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

How We Physically Process Trauma: With Dr. Kye Peven

This week we welcome Dr. Kye Peven to our podcast! Dr. Kye holds double doctorates in Oriental Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine and is a master at explaining complex physical systems in simple terms. Dr. Kye walks Katharine and Seth through the physical and physiological processes of shock and the instinctual responses of fight, flight, and freeze. Dr. Kye breaks down in layman’s terms what people in crisis go through immediately following a traumatic event and the long-term effects of not processing that shock. He also helps our audience know what to do when one is faced with shock and when to seek professional help. Dr. Kye is an absolute wealth of knowledge and brings so much wisdom, kindness, and understanding to the human experience. We hope you enjoy the episode, and if you did, please subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review. Thank you!
About Dr. Kye Peven: Dr. Kye Peven is a Vitalist who holds dual doctorates in Oriental Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine from National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. He’s licensed as a Naturopathic Doctor as well as an Acupuncturist in the State of Washington, and licensed as an Acupuncture Physician in Florida. Holding dual doctorates in both Western and Eastern medicine, Dr. Kye is fluent in perspectives from both worlds. Dr. Kye often diagnoses and treats from a Chinese medicine point of view, but translates that information using the language of western biomedicine, which makes his counsel highly accessible to patients. He manages and practices at his clinics in Seattle, Washington, and at Winthrop in Riverview, Florida. Dr. Kye lives with his fiancé in Winthrop outside of Tampa, Florida, unless he’s in Seattle seeing patients.
More about Dr. Kye: Full Bio here
Dr. Kye’s Seattle Practice: Whole Systems Healthcare - Seattle
Dr. Kye’s Winthrop practice in Riverview, FL: Coming soon!
Whole System Healthcare - Seattle’s Instagram
A few other useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

Breakthrough After Breakup: Tahra’s Story

You are in for a treat this week, as Katharine and Seth sit down with friend, medium, healer, and all around beautiful human, Tahra Collins of A Guided Soul. Tahra shares her story of heartbreak and losing what she thought might end her. She gets raw and real and reveals the immense gratitude and freedom that lie on the other side of surrendering to the darkness. Tahra also shares the importance of getting into the body during times of intense emotional upsets and reveals her (soon to be Trademarked) Trigger, Stop, Drop, and Roll technique. Tahra shares her wisdom of the never-ending spiral of life and the lessons that will come up again and again until we face the unconscious stories we tell ourselves. And ultimately she shows us that tragedy is a portal to self-actualization, self-love, and healing. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.
About Tahra Collins: Tahra is the owner and founder of A Guided Soul. She is a creative, transformative healer, spiritual coach and medium, blending ancient wisdom with modern practices to empower self-healing and intuitive growth.Thanks to a life-altering spiritual awakening in early 2015 she was immediately attracted to healing and intuitive work to foster her new perspective.  In December 2018, she ended a seventeen year career as a senior executive talent agent in the fashion industry, in New York City and began full-time in her new role as a guided soul. She is certified and practiced in ThetaHealing,  Reiki, is well-versed in Qi Gong, and animal communication, and has spent thousands of hours in training, mastering, and refining her mediumship skills and crafting her unique healing modalities which also include sound healing and guided meditations.  She offers individual readings, healings, group courses and classes, meditations, and has an upcoming online manifesting course beginning next week and in-person retreat this spring in Ojai, California.
Tahra’s website: A Guided Soul
Tahra’s one of a kind course on manifesting, Fruition
Tahra’s upcoming retreat in Ojai - get in the know!
Tahra's Instagram
Also a HUGE shoutout to Kelly Brogan who connected Tahra to us and who introduced Tahra to Jon in the first place!
A few useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

Transformation After The Flood: Christina’s Story

In this week’s episode, Katharine and Seth sit down with Christina’s Cunningham, a local massage therapist and somatic healer to hear her story of losing her home to Hurricane Helene. Christina walks us through the nights leading up to the storm and the experience of watching her home flood before her eyes. She shares the deep pain, grief, and shock that followed. Christina also describes the deep and humbling gifts that were presented and are continuing to unfold that would not have been possible pre-storm. Christina reveals how her identity of helper and healer was challenged, when she was given the opportunity to be on the receiving end after such a devastating loss.
She shares with our audience the profound power of “befriending what is there” on the inside when we are in the midst of crisis and gives us an easy excercise to bring us back into our bodies. She also shares with us the profound blessings that are on the other side of tragedy, if we choose to see it from that viewpoint.
Please check out Christina’s offerings on her website or book a service through Black Mountain Massage & Wellness.
More about Christina Cunningham: A trauma-sensitive bodyworker and embodiment coach with 24 years of experience, Christina assists humans in seeing their trials and tribulations as portals to transformation. She believes that where there is suffering there is great opportunity to uncover unshakable strength, resilience and inspiration. Within her bodywork sessions, coaching programs and facilitated healing journeys she serves as a guide and invites her clients into a grand adventure towards the embodiment of deepest spiritual gifts.
A few useful links:
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings

The Road To Healing Is Not Linear: 4 Months Post-Storm

In this week’s episode, Katharine sits down for her first solo podcast to share where she’s at four months post Hurricane Helene. She talks about the logistical updates of navigating the process of figuring out next steps, all while managing big emotions felt by herself and her family. She delves deeper into the art of surrender and also the tightrope walk of surrender v. doing what needs to be done.
Katharine also explores the big feelings and big questions coming from her 7 year old and ponders the question, “what makes a home a home?”
She continues by addressing what has come up for her to consider and question that she wasn’t paying attention to all that much before the storm - and the positives that come from having so many aspects of your life shaken like a snow globe, like:
What do we really want for our lives? Do we want to stay here, move? What about jobs, schools, being closer to family?
What decisions would we make if we knew we didn’t have all of the time in the world with the people and things that we love?
How can we find peace and happiness in the present and not just constantly be dealing with the pain of past events and the hopes and dreams of our future? 
How do we not just numb ourselves and mentally check out — but really feel through everything? And when is checking out the right thing to do?
In quietness alone, the answers come
Liked this episode? Please email us at hello@arainbowinthestorm.com and let us know!
A few useful links:
Katharine’s new poem shared in this episode
Jenna Kutcher’s The Podcast Lab Course
Katharine’s Writings