I’ll be honest right up front that I personally know Wendy Havlir-Cherry. I’ve known Wendy the last few years and have always been impressed by her empathy and compassion. When she mentioned to me about a year ago in passing that she wanted to start a podcast I thought that made sense having a general sense of who she was and what her gifts were about. Her writing has always been evocative to me. Through this podcast I now get to have the same evocative experience, but now I get to hear Wendy’s voice guiding me through the experience. I just recently started listening to the podcast. I’m in an enormous transition in life that feels many days like I will be crushed under the weight of all that I am taking on to redirect my life. Other days I’m sprinting towards a perceived finish line. The highs and lows have been a real wave to ride. Some nights I’ve laid awake in bed just breathing and scanning my body trying to stay in one piece. One of those nights I decided to listen to Wendy’s podcast. Just hearing the sound of her voice and the words she spoke, I felt myself return to myself. I wept. I felt myself slowly knit together with each spoken word encouraging me to love myself, to hold myself sacred. I think many of us are clinging to whatever emotional life rafts we can find these days when so much is uncertain. Wendy’s podcast is now a buoy when I feel myself drifting away from my physical self and my dreams. I highly recommend She Gathers Beauty/Living Your Wildly Naked Truth!. It is the balm for your soul that you did not even know you needed.
