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.

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

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

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:

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.

• 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

• 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