Not a Widow...But a Goddess!
An intimate talk with Esha with your favorite cup of tea as we talk about topics like death, dying, grief, starting over, and the second chapter of your life. Learning how to live, celebrate, and love through all of life journeys.
Episodes
32 episodes
Feast on your life
In this episode, Esha shares the radical changes she's making in her life and the importance of building an intimate living relationship with oneself to experience a full and embodied life. In carving out time to listen to your heart, dreams, a...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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27:51
Falling in: Journey into the body
In this episode, Esha shares the need for the body to be part of the whole human story. The body is the keeper of all human stories, past, present, and future. Leaning into the body's wisdom during grief is an opportunity to connect body, feeli...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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27:43
The Sacred Heart: Path to healing
In this episode, Esha shares the power of bringing grief into the sacred heart and the magnetizing effects feeling and allowing has once we bring it all to the heart. She shares her wisdom of how we are growing deeper into a more mature humanit...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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49:22
Broken Open, Not Broken
In this episode, Esha shares wisdom of being broken open rather than broken. The rebirthing process begins when the old self you use to know is in pieces from loss. Being broken open is a reorganization of the way of life, where divine love can...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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40:01
Moving with versus Moving On
In this episode Esha share shifting the language of moving on from grief to moving with grief. This is the integration period of walking with grief differently, embodying its wisdom and stepping into living with more presence, kindness, and int...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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35:08
From a "We" to a "Me"
In this episode, Esha interviews Vicki Leventhal, a dear friend who lost her husband David to cancer. Vicki shares her love story with David, his battle with diabetes, getting Covid, and then receiving the heartbreaking news of being diagnosed ...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:07:41
Resurrected Into Love
In this special Easter Sunday episode, Esha shares her wisdom of what resurrected love looks like after loss. She shares that life is here and now waiting for all and we are called to say "yes," to the fullness of it.
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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25:09
Vulnerable Grief
In this episode, Esha explores vulnerability in grief and how leaning into that vulnerability can guide one deeper into the human experience and into the healing process.
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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35:37
Finding My True Essence Through Grief
In this episode, Esha interviews Karen Myers from Australia as she shares her vulnerable and poignant story of losing her husband to pancreatic cancer fourteen years ago. Karen guides us on her personal journey of losing someone to cancer on th...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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1:06:30
Radical Honesty and the Tao
In this episode, Esha brings to light the need for radical honesty in our grieving process. She shares the wisdom of the Tao te Ching written by Lao Tzu and how we can be in the flow with what is to bring about the greatest sense of effortless ...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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38:38
Realizing your own Strength
In this episode, Esha interviews Pat Phelps who recently lost her husband to cancer eleven months ago. Pat talks about the challenges she confronted in the grieving process and the inner strength she is witnessing within herself to do new thing...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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50:15
Reframing the grief story
In episode 17, Esha interviews Lara Fass, a Goddess whose husband transitioned three years ago. Lara talks about how reframing our grief stories can help us make room for deep inner growth by opening our hearts to feel and by being truly transp...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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49:39
The Power of Allowing
In this episode, Esha shares why allowing is so important in our spiritual journey and in the healing process. By allowing, we bring ourselves closer to living out the fullness of our humanity. It becomes a sacred practice of not resisting life...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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32:02
A New Beginning!
In this podcast Esha welcomes the new year and shares the new direction and change of "Talk and Tea with Esha" to "Not a Widow...But a Goddess. Esha shares her views on widowhood and how society caps women who have lost husbands into a stigma l...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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17:25
Holy Suffering with Holy Love in Holy Matrimony
In this episode Esha talks about how we can embrace suffering with a different perspective. To see all our experiences as a holy encounter to be met with holy love and to consummate that experience in holy matrimony within our very own hearts.&...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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37:38
Reimagining
In this episode, Esha talks about the importance of reimagining being human in today's world and the cost of staying in the old way. How can we reimagine how we see, think? How can we reimagine relationships, suffering, grief, and our connectio...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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29:42
Uncovering Joy
In this episode, Esha talks about what uncovering joy looks like for her as someone who has experienced deep grief and has undergone loss and change not just as a widow but as a mother. What does true joy look like for us and how can joy be rei...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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37:18
Awakening During Suffering
In this episode, Esha explores the concept of awakening during suffering. She invites the listener to reflect on their own experiences to see challenging experiences that invites them to a deep place of transformation. She calls this shift an a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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34:31
Being Human Now
In this episode, Esha talks about the importance now more than ever on being fully human, giving ourselves permission to feel, acknowledging what is, and having the courage to be here now in the middle of discomfort.In a time when thing...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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44:54
Holy Grief
In this episode Esha talks about the need for seeing our griefs not as a burden but as a holy experience that can transform and shift us into a deepening experience of our humanity.
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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32:48
Linda Serepca: The Power and Gift of Spiritual Direction
Linda Serepca, is the director of the Charlotte Spirituality Center where she trains prospective students to become spiritual directors. She talks about what spiritual direction is and the gift it can serve in one's life as the navigate all the...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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40:41
In love with Life
In this episode, Esha talks about being in love with life and how the grief experience has allowed her to see life with different lenses which has open and expanded a new awareness not just of who she is but of life itself. She shares her wisdo...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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24:07
The Innocence of Grief
In this first podcast of 2021, Esha talks about the innocence of our collective grief and how its ancestral roots can help us grow closer together in community to heal and connect. To open ourselves not just to our own suffering but the sufferi...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:37
Recap of 2020
In this episode, Amanda recaps what 2020 has meant to her. She shares her three big lessons she's learned during this year and shares a poem and a blessing for all. Thank you all for sharing your time with me, it's been such an honor to hold sp...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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25:37
Faith and Trust in the midst of Fear
In this episode, Amanda interviews Pamela Hempstead, a recent breast cancer survivor on her journey of a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy in the midst of a pandemic, and the role faith and trust in God has had for her in the process. Pam op...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:02:27