Your Radiant Spirit

Welcome back to Your Radiant Spirit! In today's episode, I'm wrapping up the year with a gentle check-in, a few updates, and a short meditation to help you stay centered during the busy holiday season. Here's what you'll find inside: Color Healing Academy recap: Last night's session was beautiful and heart-opening. If you missed it or want to revisit the experience, you can grab the replay using the link in the show notes. A little pause for the podcast: This will be the final episode of the year. I'm taking a short, intentional break to rest, refill my creative well, and come back refreshed. The podcast returns January 7. A free gift for your season of reflection: Download your Color Healing Kit to explore gentle practices, color prompts, and mini rituals to support your energy through December and into the new year. A simple way to stay connected: Join the free Color Healing Academy Facebook group where we'll continue exploring color, intuition, and creativity together. Mini meditation: I guide you through a short color meditation to help you ground, breathe, and find calm whenever the holiday season feels overwhelming. In This Episode You'll learn: How to use color as a moment of calm in stressful seasons Why intentional pauses support your creativity How December's energy invites reflection before the new year Ways to stay connected to your inner guidance through color Links Mentioned Color Healing Academy December Replay Download the Free Color Healing Kit Join the Color Healing Academy on Facebook Thank You for Being Here Wishing you a peaceful, restorative, and joy-filled holiday season. I can't wait to be back with you in January.

In this episode of Your Radiant Spirit, Heather dives into the deeper meaning behind the colors in Wicked: Part Two and how green, pink, and black reveal the emotional and spiritual journey of Elphaba and Glinda. You'll hear how: Green reflects self-love, acceptance, and the wounds Elphaba carries. Pink highlights Glinda's longing to be worthy, loved, and good. Black acts as emotional armor — and later, empowerment — for Elphaba. Color mirrors our inner world and ministers to the places we need healing most. The story of Wicked becomes a reminder of belonging, forgiveness, and choosing yourself. If you love exploring color symbolism, emotional healing, or the way art reflects our inner life, this one will speak to you. Join the Color Healing Academy workshop Tuesday, December 2 at 7 PM ET You'll learn simple ways to work with color to support your energy, release stress, and reconnect to yourself. It's free, and the link is in the show notes. ✨ Resources & Links Join the Color Healing Academy Workshop Join the free Color Healing Academy Facebook Group Sign up for Heather's newsletter Podcast link: https://pod.link/1769224190

In this special episode, I'm joined by transformational speaker and resilience mentor Alethea Felton — and this conversation is extra fun because we interviewed each other for our shows. Alethea and I talk about what it means to return to yourself after seasons of struggle, how to rebuild trust in your own voice, and why resilience isn't about pushing through — it's about alignment, healing, and truth. You'll hear us explore: how Alethea moved through chronic illness, grief, and a lifelong stutter the moment she realized she wasn't made to just "endure" — she was made to transform how to reconnect with your inner compass when life feels out of sync the role of intuition, creativity, and spiritual awareness in real healing what leadership looks like when it comes from wholeness, not burnout If you're a mid-life woman, a leader, or someone who looks successful on the outside but feels lost on the inside, this episode speaks right to you. Connect with Alethea Felton: Website: https://www.aletheafelton.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aletheafelton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aletheafelton YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AletheaFelton Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-power-transformation-podcast/id1660835113 Connect with Heather: Website: https://www.heathereck.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathereck Podcast: https://pod.link/1769224190 Color Healing Academy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/artbyheathereck

Anthropologist-turned-healer Bob Vetter shares how decades with Indigenous elders—and a life-changing story from a Comanche medicine man—shaped his path from academic study to hands-on healing. We talk about vision, story as medicine, curanderismo, energy work, and Bob's framework for helping people move from calling to an ethical, grounded healing practice. In this conversation, we explore how your soul's whispers can become a trustworthy path. Bob Vetter traces his journey from seventh-grade meditation and Eastern philosophy to ethnographic fieldwork in Oklahoma, where he was adopted into Native families and mentored by elders. A profound healing story he received—about a "visitor" of fire and the return to order—reframed everything he knew about illness, power, and service. We also get into how to ethically bridge traditions, what "healed vs. cured" really means, and Bob's Soul Medicine: The Journey from Calling to Healing Practice—a practical container for people who feel the pull to serve but don't know where to start. What we cover Following a spiritual calling and letting it unfold one step at a time Bob's formative years in anthropology, India, and "participant-observer" fieldwork Being adopted by Native families and learning through community and story The life-changing healing story from a Comanche medicine man and its meaning Healed vs. cured: moving from chaos to order (and why both outcomes matter) Curanderismo (Mesoamerican folk healing), sound healing, medical qigong & energy work Dream symbolism (white & red roses) as a metaphor for re-patterning a life Bridging Western & Indigenous frameworks with humility and integrity Story as medicine, technology as a tool, and the importance of community Listener takeaways Your hardships can become the source of your medicine for others You can be healed without being cured—and cured without being healed A workable session framework needs a beginning, middle, and end Start your path by discerning the shape of your calling and your own healing Connect Website & free resources: bobvetter.com Program: Soul Medicine — The Journey from Calling to Healing Practice (details on his website) Blog & podcast archive: on bobvetter.com Connect with Heather: www.heathereck.com or www.heathereckstudios.com

In this solo episode of Your Radiant Spirit, I share how what looks like "housekeeping" – for your studio, your calendar, your nervous system – is really spiritual housekeeping. We explore how carving out one intentional hour of creation every day shifts everything, how art is more than decoration (it's healing), and how my own business containers are evolving to meet the deeper work of transformation. What You'll Hear Why discipline becomes devotion when you show up consistently for your creative practice ("just me and my paints … whatever wants to come through"). The moment I was vacuuming this week and inspiration for a holiday novella popped in — and what that teaches about clearing space for creativity. How making art slows your nervous system, softens your body, and reconnects you with places that words can't touch. An update on my business: The Color Club has become the Color Healing Academy, and my Therapeutic Art Journeys are now 4 months long. I'll walk you through what that means for you. A special invitation: DM me COLOR on Instagram to receive a free Color Insight Session — and how you can join the journey. Key Insights & Highlights "When we show up consistently for our creative practices, we're really showing up for ourselves." "Art doesn't just decorate life; it restores it." The shift from color conversation → color transformation. Why extending the container from 3 to 4 months makes space for integration, embodiment and alignment, not just release. Resources & Takeaways Grab your free Color Insight Session by DM'ing me the word COLOR on Instagram @HeatherEckArtist. If you're not yet subscribed to my weekly newsletter (color forecasts + creative prompts + reflections) you can join here: https://heathereckstudios.myflodesk.com/newsletteroptin Ready to explore deeper transformation through art? Learn about the Therapeutic Art Journeys and how the 4-month container works here: https://heathereck.com/art-of-becoming Interested in the weekly container? Explore the Color Healing Academy: healing, energy, meditation & therapeutic art making: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17Cop8FwQu/ Why this episode matters This is for you if you've been meaning to make space — in your schedule, your studio, your body — for creative expression. If you've sensed that inspiration is hovering but not landing. If you're curious how creativity + discipline can become a spiritual practice. And if you're ready to align your inner world with your outer work. Tune in. Let's sweep the surface and let what's next rise. 🔔 Remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who might need to clear a little space too.