In this deeply raw and vulnerable episode of Selah: A Deep Pause, Laura and Tim share what they call their “third energetic divorce” - a six-day separation that forced old identities, old coping mechanisms, and buried truths to finally surface.

What began as a simple disagreement unexpectedly opened the door to something much deeper: months of unspoken tension, nervous system overwhelm, adaptive childhood patterns, emotional withdrawal, and the fear of being truly seen.

Together they explore:

• What rupture actually reveals inside long-term relationships
• The difference between separation and disillusionment
• How nervous systems hold unresolved patterns
• Why truth can feel threatening to connection
• Masculine emotional safety and the fear of vulnerability
• The danger of self-abandonment inside partnership
• How relationships evolve through repeated death-and-rebirth cycles

This conversation is not polished. It is not wrapped up neatly. It is two people sitting inside the ashes of what almost ended - and discovering what became possible when honesty finally arrived.

If you’ve ever questioned whether a relationship can survive change, distance, truth, or transformation… this episode is an invitation to reconsider what rupture may actually be asking of us.

Sometimes what feels like an ending is actually the crossing of a threshold your soul can no longer avoid.

This episode is an invitation to see beyond the surface.

When you look at a man who appears strong, grounded, and unshakable…
you’re not seeing the full story.

Our very special guest, Slade Thompson, shares his journey from chaos, addiction, and emotional suppression to a path of deep healing, presence, and service.

In this conversation, we explore:

• The hidden pain many men carry
• Why asking for help is the hardest… and most powerful… step
• The difference between performing strength and actually living it
• What healing really looks like… beyond the highlight reel
• How transformation happens both inside and outside of ceremony

This isn’t about perfection.
It’s about honesty.
It’s about courage.
It’s about coming back to the heart.

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🎙️ Host: Laura Deir
🎛️ Producer/Editor: Krissi Burdette
🎨 Artwork Credit: Mural featured in the video by E. Guenthner

🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
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Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

In this deeply personal episode, Laura shares a powerful realization that unfolded after a recent Wachuma journey… not during the ceremony, but in the quiet days that followed.

What began as a simple, repeated vision revealed something much deeper - a moment from childhood where a part of her learned to turn off her light in order to feel safe.

Together, we explore how the nervous system protects us, how childhood adaptations shape who we become… and what happens when those protective parts begin to come back online.

This conversation isn’t about fixing what’s broken.

It’s about recognizing that nothing was ever broken in the first place.

It was protected.

And when safety returns… so can we.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

• The moment Laura realized when and why she dimmed her light
• How the body stores memory beyond what we consciously remember
• What integration actually looks like (and why it’s not instant)
• The role of safety in reconnecting with yourself
• Moving from protection into agency… at your own pace
  

This episode closes with a gentle guided reflection to help you reconnect with a younger part of yourself… and begin building safety from within.

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🎨 Artwork Credit: Mural featured in the video by E. Guenthner

🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
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Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

In this episode of Selah: A Deep Pause, Laura and Krissi dive into the art of listening, not just with our ears, but with our whole presence. Beginning with an ancient teaching about why we shout when we’re angry, Laura shares how distance between hearts shows up in relationships, and how listening can become a powerful act of love.

Together they explore:

• Why anger and shouting often signal distance, not just emotion
• How true listening requires a willingness to be changed by what you hear
• The role of fear, protection, and old patterns in shutting down connection
• A deeply personal story from Laura and Tim about rebuilding their relationship on truth and authenticity
• Practical tools for couples (and friends) to create safe spaces for hard conversations

The episode closes with a gentle somatic practice you can use to soften distance and invite heart-centered listening into your own life.

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🎨 Artwork Credit: Mural featured in the video by E. Guenthner

🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
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Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

In the final episode of 2025 - and the closing chapter of Season One - Laura and Krissi welcome Danielle for a deeply honest conversation about grief as initiation, shedding old identities, and finding the courage to come home to ourselves.

Framed by 2025 as the year of shedding - the Year of the Snake, a time of dissolving illusions and accelerated transformation - this episode follows Danielle’s descent after losing her best friend, Jessi. Her grief cracked her open, stripping away the identities she had built, revealing long-ignored truths, and initiating her into a profound rebirth.

Together, the three explore:

✨ How grief becomes one of life’s greatest initiators
✨ What it feels like to walk through a “dark night of the soul”
✨ The micro-moments that rebuild self-trust after a lifetime of over giving
✨ Recognizing the whispers of intuition beneath the noise of survival
✨ What happens when saying “no” disrupts old patterns
✨ Choosing yourself even when others label it selfish
✨ Leaving marriages, careers, and identities that no longer fit
✨ Leaping into the unknown before you can see the destination
✨ The magic that unfolds when you finally listen to your inner knowing

Danielle shares how the two years following Jessi’s death led her to leave a 20-year aesthetics career, a long-term relationship, and an outdated version of herself - ultimately stepping into a life aligned with her truth, her healing, and her calling.

Laura closes the season with a blessing for anyone standing at the threshold of their own rebirth, honoring all we’ve shed, survived, remembered, and softened into during this transformative year.

Learn more about Danielle’s work at https://healwithdaniellemarie.com

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🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
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Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
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⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

In this episode of Selah: A Deep Pause, Laura and Krissi explore a tender but powerful theme: reorganizing relationships. Not because anyone is “wrong,” but because something new is asking to be supported.

Laura shares what it felt like to move through a season of shedding, where emotions got louder and her body stopped letting her ignore the truth. Together, they talk about sacred reciprocity, the difference between loyalty and self-abandonment, and how relationships can shift by season without needing to become dramatic endings.

You’ll hear real talk, relatable humor (yes, menopause makes a cameo), and grounded reflection on questions like: Do I feel ease here, or do I brace? Am I holding onto history, or honoring the present? Is this relationship nourishing me, or quietly draining me?

This episode is an invitation to pause before you act, listen before you explain, and let space reveal what’s real. Love can remain, and access can change. You are allowed to make space for what supports who you are becoming.

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🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
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Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

What happens when your body speaks - but no one, not even you, is listening?

In this powerful episode of Selah: A Deep Pause, Laura and Krissi explore the moment when your body quietly (or not-so-quietly) whispers “enough.” Through raw personal stories, they unpack how we learn to silence our truth to keep the peace, earn love, or fit in - and what it takes to finally reclaim our voice.

From the pressure of perfection to the slow burn of resentment, this is an honest look at how easy it is to lose yourself - and how deeply healing it can be to come back home.

"Reclaiming your voice isn’t about being loud. It’s about being true. It’s about remembering the sound of your soul—raw, honest, maybe trembling, but real."

🪞 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The moment Laura realized she married her mother (yep, really)
• How fear-based conditioning keeps women silent
• The body’s role in intuition, resistance, and eruptive truth
• How seeking mirrors and safe spaces leads to real transformation
• Why choosing yourself often comes with loss—and why it’s still worth it
• A guided reflection on listening for the whispers in your own life

Host: Laura Deir

Producer, Editor: Krissi Burdette

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🎨 Artwork Credit: Mural featured in the video by E. Guenthner

🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.

Selah: A Deep Pause – Episode 2

Host: Laura Deir
Producer & Editor: Krissi Burdette

Laura and Krissi return with a powerful conversation about the wisdom held within our bodies.

💫 Topics in this episode:

• How physical pain can be our body’s way of speaking truths we’re ignoring
• Laura’s raw and personal story of 12 years of chronic back pain—and the moment she refused to accept someone else’s version of her future
• The sacred unraveling: why falling apart might be the first step toward authentic healing
• The courage it takes to listen to the whispers beneath the noise of life
• How community and connection can help us navigate fear, shame, and the unknown

Laura shares a vulnerable invitation to listeners: place your hand on your heart, breathe, and ask your body what it’s trying to say.

Because sometimes, the unraveling isn’t the end—it’s the beginning of becoming who you’re truly meant to be.

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🎙️ Host: Laura Deir
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🎨 Artwork Credit: Mural featured in the video by E. Guenthner

🎵 Music Credit
“Dreamcatcher” by Onycs Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Artist: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNQ6vKZ5ogEZ0tM2TvxLhQA
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/gUgyfUIhGQc

⚖️ Disclaimer: The conversations in this episode reflect personal experiences and opinions. They are not intended as medical, psychological, or legal advice. Psychedelic substances are not legal in all areas and may carry risks. Always consult qualified professionals and honor your local laws and your own readiness before exploring any healing modality discussed.