The Earth Sea Love Podcast

62-The Earth Sea Love Podcast Coming To YouTube

Episode 62, ending season 5.
This is a recent episode recorded by your host, Dr Sheree Mack while walking the North-East coast and taking you along with her.
While filling her creative pot, Sheree shares the road ahead for the podcast with season 6 in 2024.
As the Earth Sea Love Podcast diversifies its guests, while  partnering with identity on tyne with their Black Nature in Residence Programme 2:0, they also thought it might be a good idea to broaden the audience through a Youtube channel. 
Here at Earth Sea Love CIC , they are just trying to tie everything in with the podcast, the zine, the website and the YouTube channel. Let's see how it goes but they're excited.
In this episode, Sheree walks and talks about eating out there and giving herself the gift of time and space. Not working to any agenda and changing up perspectives so she can work within a system which is beneficial for her wholeness. 

061 - Black Nature Walking The Way - Dr. Sheree Mack

Hello and Welcome back to a special episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack, is recoding this episode out on location while walking The West Highland Way. A 96 mile hike from the lowlands to the highlands of Scotland, running through some of the most breathtaking, iconic and remote parts of Scotland, this is a life-changing long distance hike, which is Sheree's third attempt at completing. 
During this episode, you'll hear Sheree talking through the wind and rain about:
* the walk and the stages she's walking
* what is happening with the podcast for the rest of the year
* what is happening with the podcast in 2024
* what her dreams are concerning walking
* what it's like to walk the way and what it means to Sheree
* looking for diversity on the trails
* collaborating with identity on tyne with their new project
* the Black Nature in Residence programme
 
The call out details for the Black Nature in Residence programme which will see 5 creatives of the global majority in 5 Northern National Parks can be found here. The closing date for applications is 31st October 2023. 
For images of the Way, please check out the Earth Sea Love website for this episode. 

060 - Introduction to Permaculture Design - A Mini Series

Hello and Welcome Back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Dr Sheree Mack, your host here. 
I'll not lie. The promise I made at the beginning of 2023 of dropping at least one episode each month of the podcast was in the balance this month. July. A time I love to tie up loose end, retreat and rest. Call it the teacher in me, as I'm someone from time who loves to take the summer holidays off the clock. This year is no exception, except that I've just moved house and needed a rest more than ever.
So this episode has been on the back burner. Knowing it's something I wanted to do, and promised to do, didn't help the process of getting it done.
But finally it is here. I needed to get out of my head and just get into my body to produce it. I needed to get out of my way and just talk from the heart about my current learning. Permaculture Design.
So I started a Permaculture Design Certificate course with Liz Postlethwaite this spring. It will take me a year to complete and along the way, I'm learning a lot of new things about regenerative systems and how to apply this to my practice and creative projects.
I am just about getting into it now, after a slow, tentative, reluctant start as I discuss within this episode. I've been experiencing a fair about of conflict and tension about Permaculture and Permaculture Design basically because of its roots and their acknowledgment. 
So within this beginning episode of a mini series around Permaculture Design, I discuss:
* the difference between Permaculture and Permaculture Design
* the purpose of Permaculture Design
* the ethics and principles of Permaculture Design
* the creation of the terms and concepts of Permaculture Design
* the indigenous roots of Permaculture Design
* the roots of my conflict and tensions with Permaculture Design
* what to expect in the forthcoming episodes of the mini-series. 
 
Keep an eye out on The Earth Sea Love Zine over on substack for more thinking and discussions around the issues raised and practices learnt throughout this mini series as well as the Permaculture Design Certificate course as a whole. 
 

059-We All Already Belong With Mindy Tsonas

Happy June
Soon the Summer Solstice will be amongst us, here in the Northern Hemisphere, so let us take this moment from The Earth Sea Love Podcast to wish you LIGHT!
And thank you for coming back for a listen to our next episode. 
We are so proud that we are continuing to bring you, our listeners, beautiful and thought-provoking episodes which we hope inspire and support your healing and creative journeys. 
This episode your host, Dr Sheree Mack is talking with Mindy Tsonas, a maker and creator of spaces where healing and radical change are welcome. 
In this episode the conversation explores:
* place in nature
* {BEING} is a changing thing
* the magic of seeds
* how we must put ourselves in the way of belonging
* how we all already belong
* dismantling the stories that we don't belong
* taking inspiration and wisdom from nature
* our interconnectedness
* self care is community care
* radicale and radical - the root of it all
* generative practices and systems
* creativity and nature
* co-creation and community
* giving indigenous practices and wisdom their proper respect and recognition. 
 
Bio: Mindy Tsonas is a maker, manyeo and cultural organizer who facilitates circles of creativity, collective belonging and care. She believes in using art and alchemy as mediums for generative connection, somatic healing and radical change. As a transracial, transnational adopted person from the South Korean diaspora, this deeply informs her embodied perspective on land and lineage throughout all of her work and organizing.Links:
Mindy's Website: witchcraftivism.com
Instagram: @mindytsonaschoi
Patreon: Community, Art and practices https://www.patreon.com/mindytsonaschoi
Substack: Writing & Stories https://mindytsonaschoi.substack.com/ (should be up by the time this airs)
Collective Belonging: @collectivebelonging  collectivebelonging.com
 

058 - Developing An Ancestral Healing Practice With Catherine Lucktaylor

Hey there!Hope you are well and welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We’re so happy that you’ve decided to spend some time with us again.We’re so happy to welcome back to the podcast, Catherine Lucktaylor.
Catherine was a guest back in December 2020 in episode 20, when she talked about her ceramics practice, Raku ceramics and being inspired by the wild Cornish coast.
In this episode Catherine is talking with your host, Dr Sheree Mack about:
* Being inspired by the sea within our art practice* Appreciating nature and the wild Cornish landscape* The project that came out of the Developing Your Creative Practice grant* A new body of work - Mothers of the Moon* A local exhibition with grief ritual ceremony, Newlands Art Gallery* Ancestral Healing of the Self
* Claiming Space within the Landscape
* Adinkra symbols wisdom and energies* Becoming an Ancestral Practitioner* Listening to the ancestors and what that can mean and look like* Working within the community with the youth* Future Offerings from Catherine
 
Bio:
Catherine Lucktaylor is an artist and healer based in west Cornwall, UK. She has over 30 years’ experience in art and spiritual practices. She specialises in Raku fired ceramics and creates sacred spaces for ritual and healing. Catherine incorporates her Ghanaian/West African and British/Celtic heritage within her work, combined with her love of nature and connection with nature spirits.
Catherine is currently training as an Ancestral Healing Practitioner with Daniel Foor and Ancestral Medicine and will be offering Ancestral Healing sessions soon. You can sign up to the waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/71177b699ffd/sankofaprintable
and receive a beautiful Adinkra Symbol colouring page as a welcome gift. 
Find out more about Catherine’s Raku ceramics on her website www.lucktaylorceramics.co.uk
 
Here's a link to Ancestral Medicine website:
https://ancestralmedicine.org
Here’s a link to Kesoberi CIC: https://www.kesobericic.org
www.lucktaylorceramics.co.uk
Facebook: @lucktaylorceramics
Instagram: @lucktaylorceramics

057 - Feel good, safe and loved with Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson

May is here and full of the joys of Spring.
Here at The Earth Sea Love Podcast, we're full of joy to bring you this conversation with the wonderful Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson. 
Lateisha is a Black queer feminist interdisciplinary artist and social-justice practitioner/community-healing organiser of Jamaican heritage based in London. 
Within this episode with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Lateisha talks about:
* focusing on how we feel instead of what we want
* water connections and healings
* community land trusts 
* listening and asking questions
* who do you be instead of what do you do?
* creating healing spaces for community
* having the purpose of staying alive
* trauma living in the body 
* being in right relationship with ourselves and nature
* revolution and liberation = community
* rest and safety
* grieving and nature
* our ancestors' relationships to water and the land and recognising 
* making spaces for joy and play in nature
* how we repair and heal what colonialism has done and been doing
* bringing our words into the word takes time and creative fugitivity
* doing the work to unshame self
* burn out can teach us many things
* "we're gonna be alright!" x
 
Bio:
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a Black queer feminist interdisciplinary artist and social-justice practitioner/community-healing organiser of Jamaican heritage based in London. Their writing, art-making, facilitation, consultancy and nature-work practices are tools to creatively embody knowledges that interrupt ongoing systems of colonial-imperial oppression(s), in order to activate spaces for deep healing. In their practice they meditate + dream upon what it means to be well?
To connect, belong and love freely. 
Their transformative lived experiences of gender, race, class, survivorship, neurodivergence and illness inform their offerings and approaches - being drawn to the revolutionary possibilities of sci-fi / eco-futurism, magic + ritual + ceremony and communal gathering-archiving as ancestral pathways and political strategies to reimagine resistance and remember revolutionary possibilities for the new world in creation. 
Lateisha is currently working on their debut poetry pamphlet, ~the heart is a holding~  supported by Rotterdam residences: International Collaborative Urban art projects  / Foundation B.a.d and published by Burning Eye Books Autumn 2023. They are also developing their interdisciplinary performance - installation work s/he breathe/s,  supported by Raze Collective, Stanley Arts and Arts Council England showing in Summer 2023. You can also visit their current work Meeting At The Altar Of Us, a collaborative text and sound work offering as part of Bloom Collective's contributions to Meera Shakti Osborne's department of Unruly histories archive and exhibition at Cubitt in spring 2023. 
Previous work includes An Offering // an installation of a world-building, to come- back to home…  weaving poetry-film, sound, documentary, text, and plant medicine portals. Commissioned residency and exhibition by Bethlem Gallery: An Ecology Of Mind (2022). Lateisha has written extensively through residencies and commissions, including  Camden Art Centre: The Botanical Mind, Wretched Of The Earth (BIPOC climate justice collective), [Performance space]: PSX 10, Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin: Apocalypse Reading Room curated by Ama Josephine Budge, Chelsea Physic Garden: Queer Botany, Apples & Snakes, She Grrrowls, Dada Fest / Yewande 103 and is a Roundhouse and Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam Finalist. 
Lateisha facilitates community-healing workshops and activity-based immersive installations across art, education and community spaces. Including, Queer Youth Art Collective, Healing Justice Ldn and Colours LGBTIQIA+ youth arts as well as institutions incl. Migration museum, Barbican and Autograph. They founded TO THE RITUAL KNOWLEDGE OF REMEMBERING - that took shape as an immersive 3 day coastal retreat supported by LADA, and online public-programme as part of 12o collective’s curator residency (2020-2021).
You can connect with Lateisha here @lateisha_davine or pop down to Hackney City Farm where they are training as a Beekeeper 🐝---
 
 

056 - Creative Alchemy with Anatalia Vallez

Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We're very happy to share with you our first conversation episode of 2023.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack is talking to Anatalia Vallez. Anatalia is  a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from California, United States with roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Addressing everything from migration, machismo and our relationship to nature, she seeks to find intimate truths and plant seeds through art.  
In this episode they talk about:
* Gratitude
* When Sheree and Anatalia first met
* Where Anatalia is calling in from
* What is Anatalia's relationship with nature
* What does Anatalia do? Who do she be?
* The art making process
* The Most Spectacular Mistake, Anatalia's writing
* What it was like to release a collection of poetry during a pandemic
*The benefits of listening
* Remembering our ancestors
* Belonging to nature
* Homies who submit - writing and publishing
 
Bio: Anatalia Vallez is a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from California, United States with roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Addressing everything from migration, machismo and our relationship to nature, she seeks to find intimate truths and plant seeds through art.  She is the author of the poetry collection: The Most Spectacular Mistake (FlowerSong Press, 2020) which has been featured in the LA Times, LibroMobile and KPFK Radio’s Nuestra Voz. Currently completing her MFA in Television, Film and Theatre at Cal State Los Angeles this Spring, she's also working on a second collection of poetry and curating a virtual BIPOC-centered community called Homies Who Submit.Subscribe to Anatalia's newsletter:  Substack newsletterPurchase a signed copy of The Most Spectacular Mistake Follow Homies Who Submit on Instagram and Twitter Support Anatalia on Patreon or Ko-Fi 

055 - Divided Energies/ Going Canny

March and another solo episode from your host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack.
Sheree continues to share her healing journey with you as she reflects on the time past already in 2023, and what to expect in the coming months with guest conversations on the podcast.
In this solo episode, Sheree talks about:
* Holding herself accountable and showing up
* One foot in Winter/ one foot in Spring
* Procrastination - and healing or not!
* Taking the time for consolidation of new learning
* Listening
* Recent outside gigs and commitments
* Unburying the MIxmoir
* Accepting was is her task and what is not her task
* The episodes to come for Spring
 
 

054 - Why We Heal after Alex Elle

You have just joined another solo episode with the host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack as she takes the time and energy to share with you her healing journey of 2023, so far!
 
This episode starts with another quote from Alex Elle, which states,  
"We heal to make space, to redefine ourselves and our narratives. To expand and become better. To forgive, create new possibilities, and move forward. To build community and create bonds. We heal to release shame, manifest self-love, create autonomy, and begin again. We heal to redefine ourselves, face our fears, and develop self-trust. We heal to mend relationships and deepen connections with those around is. We heal to get free. "
Alex Elle, How We Heal: Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free ( 2022, p.12)
 
Following this quote, Sheree shares about her issue around considering herself 'enough' and then continues to share her 10 reasons for wanting to heal, taken from Elle's book.
Here are the sentence starters as mentioned in this episode which also appear in Alex Elle's book and can be used by you to think about what you need to heal also.
Ten Reasons Why I Heal ( p.18 of How We Heal)
 
I am healing because I want ...
I am healing because I need ...
I am healing because I deserve ...
I am healing because I feel ...
I am healing because I see ...
I am healing because I love ...
I am healing because I my ...
I am healing because I am ...
I am healing because I can ...
I am healing because I choose ...

Being An Inner Healer

You have just joined another solo episode with the host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack as she takes the time and energy to share with you her healing journey of 2023, so far!
 
This episode starts with a quote from Alex Elle, which states,    
" give yourself permission to mend slowly, and sweetly, and in due time. there's no need to rush your healing, there's no need to "get over it" today - or even tomorrow. let your process lead you. make space for your grief to teach you something."
 
Sheree follows up this quote from Alex Ella with a discussion around:
* We all need to heal
* Getting her fur fix on through dog sitting
* Sharing another practice of her healing process - oracle cards
* The Earthcraft Oracle by Juliet Diaz and Lorriane Anderson and illustrated by Danielle Boodoo-Fortune
* Pulling number 13 - Inner Healer card
* Choosing to take trauma and transforming it into medicine
* Shining light and confronting pain