Stories of Astonishing Light with KJ Nasrul
Join Kimberly Jane ("KJ") Nasrul - artist, speaker, and licensed trauma specialist nursing a lifelong obsession with storytelling and melting cheese - in conversation about mental wellness, resilience, and creativity as the catalyst for true healing. Serving as a guide for the recovery of your Creativity & Compassion, KJ's mission is to support you in remembering and expressing your healing voice, your story of astonishing light.
Episodes
84 episodes
Tiny Astonishments: Remembering Our Original Stories and Poems | KJ Nasrul
"Look down at your bodywhisperthere is no home like you" - thank you Rupi Kaurthe sun and her flowers π΄W...
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Season 4
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Episode 83
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12:46
Reclaiming Our Potent Becoming Pt 2: Donor Conceived Awareness and Weaving Wholeness | Meg Thomas
Welcome back to the second part of an extremely vulnerable conversation in which Meghan "Meg" Thomas - podcast hostess, and breathwork teacher - talks to KJ about the discovery that she is donor-conceived. She opens up about her journey of recl...
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Season 4
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Episode 82
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53:44
Reclaiming Our Potent Becoming Pt1: Fertility, Donor Conceived Awareness + Identity | Meg Thomas
In this extremely open conversation, Meghan "Meg" Thomas - coach, podcast hostess, and breathwork facilitator - joins KJ on SOAL to share her deeply personal story publicly for the first time. Meg and KJ touch on themes of identit...
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Season 4
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Episode 81
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45:09
Transformation & Creativity Through Conscious Breathwork | Elle Luna & Andrea Tomasi
Today's new SOAL gallery features artist, writer, and best-selling author (and Dream Guest for KJ) Elle Luna and luminous Sound Healer and Shamanic Ritual Guide
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Season 4
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Episode 80
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52:43
Our Intuitive, Embodied Gifts | Brenda Winkle
Today's episode features a joy-infused, nervous system-soothing conversation between kindred spirits Brenda Winkle and KJ. The ladies contemplate ways to recover and enhance our intrinsic power: our intuition. As a trauma-informed ...
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Season 4
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Episode 79
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43:36
Coming home: Wanderers, nomads and transplants | Lilian Wee
This week's episode is less of an interview and more of an intimate chat between KJ and her friend Lilian Wee. Moving away from home and relocating to a new place of residence thousands of miles away can be extremely challenging an...
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Season 4
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Episode 78
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32:32
F*cked-Up Hair Because You Care | Jo Dodd
In the official Season Four Kickoff, Jo Dodd and KJ share stories of their own experiences about how difficult and overwhelming it can be as a woman, let alone a mother, thriving in a working environment thatβs rigid, fast-paced, and insensitiv...
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Tiny Astonishments: Fall In Love With Listening | KJ Nasrul
In the Season Four Premiere, KJ checks in with you all on the day she leaves to host her second Bali Creativity Recovery Retreat. After a varied, expansive 2022, this new season greets 2023 already brimming with rich conversations between artis...
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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Safely Seen: A New Visibility | Mai-Kee Tsang
In the Season Three Finale, Mai-kee Tsang and KJ contemplate their efforts in unsubscribing to the culture of urgency. Here is a compassionate conversation between friends who've experienced Othered pressures and seek trauma-informed care...
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Season 3
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Episode 75
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Receiving Pretty Foods for healthier stress responses | Lauren Bryson
After an unexpected and adventurous 6 month hiatus, KJ and her beloved listening gallery The Stories of Astonishing Light Podcast returns today! We're in Ultra Celebration Mode because KJ brings her friend and colleague Lauren Brys...
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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33:01
We Are All Held | Erica Skone-Rees
"We are being held in all moments.β ~ Erica Skone-Rees KJ welcomes her friend and creative collaborator Erica Skone-Rees to the Astonishing Story Gallery today. Erica is a mindfulness & meditation teach...
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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Tiny Astonishments: Showing Up For Self Care | KJ Nasrul
Showing up messy, showing up [40 minutes!] late, showing up Real. This is what Self Care looks like for KJ- sitting with streaky mascara in her car outside her massage therapist's studio, holding a Live Instagram #mondayswiththemuse session.
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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Orientating Towards Our True Selves | Karen Sprinkel Ancelet
Author and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) Karen Sprinkel Ancelet joins KJ today in a conversation about bridging our highest identities so that we can truly thrive even while there is suffering. Dear friends for ov...
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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Nutritional Integrative Medicine: Biodiversity of soil and soul | Lauren Bryson
Question: How sexy are the topics of healthy dirt and regenerative agriculture? Answer: SO VERY. Especially as we realize how π’π§πππ«ππ¨π§π§πππππ we are: healthy, diverse soil > πππππΎππ½ππΉ planet > enriched humans > o...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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Tiny Astonishments: May Our Healers Heal | KJ Nasrul
"The Wounded Healer is not someone who was wounded and is now healed. It is someone who continues to courageously break open the self and ego as a means for deep integration." ~Kim Krans, Archetype Deck, HEALER CardDearest...
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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The Power of Visualisation Pt 2: Envision Your Passionate and Purposeful Life | Beth Hewitt
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.β - Hafiz Concluding part two of the conversation about attracting, visualising and accepting gifts, Beth Hewit...
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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The Power of Visualisation Pt 1: Envision Your Passionate and Purposeful Life | Beth Hewitt
In a return after a hiatus, KJ FINALLY connects with her dear friend, Beth Hewitt with this intimate two-part conversation. Beth is a Spiritual Performance Coach, Speaker, Author, and Hostess of the Visualise You Podcast, where she sha...
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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26:37
Curiosity and Co-Creating: Nurturing beginnings while in good company | Dingding Hu
KJ and her friend, illustrator and author Dingding Hu welcome community over competition by meeting a couple times a month to churn on seedlings of ideas and current experiences. Hailing from China, Dingding is currently based in New York...
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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32:23
Inviting In Imposter Syndrome | Margaret Soraya
"Who am I to do this?" This isn't an interview, but rather a super casual jam session between friends, fellow artists, and podcasters about the fascinating and ever-hovering topic of Imposter Syndrome (IS). KJ and her friend, the gi...
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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30:41
New Year's Nourishment and Nutrition | Lauren Bryson
KJ invites friend and SOAL fan-favorite Lauren Bryson, a certified holistic nutritionist, back to the show to usher in 2022 with a tantalizing topic: nutrition and gut health to support overall physical and emotional health. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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Tiny Astonishments: Embracing Endings and Beginnings | KJ Nasrul
"To truly choose to love is heroic" - bell hooks It's the final episode of 2021. Today, KJ holds space to honor themes and threads of this unparalleled year: the practice of self-compassion by setting boundaries, participation in creati...
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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Sound Your Voice, Summon Abundance | Amanda Sellers
Join KJ and enchanting Voice Actor Amanda Sellers in an uplifting conversation about vocalizing our requests for The Good. Amanda is the mother of 2 amazing boys, a musician, a Voiceover mentor, and a meditation teacher. She has also co-...
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Season 3
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Episode 62
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43:43
The Beauty in Belonging and Finding Your Tribe | The Magical Cartographers
When and how did you know you belonged? When and how did you know you had found your tribe? Today, KJ jams with her Karaoke crew--The Magical Cartographers--about the nuances and complexities of belonging and how our desire to connect wit...
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Season 3
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Episode 61
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43:30
Tiny Astonishments: Restoring Balance After Burnout | KJ Nasrul
In this season of gratitude, KJ names appreciation for burning out, coastal train rides, and actress/director Kristen Stewart. This Tiny Astonishment almost wasn't published; the podcast was nearly placed on an indefinite hiatus. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 60
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29:46
Sun Still Rising: Poetry For Overcoming Shame | Noor Pinna
It's another SOAL Special featuring an Astonishing #WOCHealer! Ms. Noor Pinna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and transformative mindset coach. She helps women break free from the barriers of shame, emboldening them to advocate for themse...
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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