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Dec. 31, 2025

46. Deep Conversations on Soul Contracts, Free Will, Healing, Guilt,…

What happens when your soul knows the plan, but your mind wants certainty? In this episode, I sit down with Heather Posey-Ware to explore healing across lifetimes, guilt, abandonment wounds, and why we test love when we do no...

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Dec. 24, 2025

45. A Healed Perspective on the Painful Truths of Our Past

In this solo episode, I talk about how innocent questions can bring up painful parts of our past and how, from a healed place, those moments can become powerful reminders of how far we have come. I share personal reflections ...

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Dec. 3, 2025

44. Keeping Your Peace When Everyone Wants a Piece of You This Holida…

Are you walking around singing Britney's song "Piece of Me" feeling pissed off for everyone and everything that wants your attention this holiday season? UGH! GIRL, ME TOO!!! But get this, we actually have permission to say N...

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Nov. 26, 2025

43. The Courage to Heal: Shadow Work, Sobriety & Spiritual Growth

On this episode of the Heart AF Podcast, I sit down with high-end energy healer and trauma-integrative coach Katie Wessels to talk about what it really looks like to heal from the inside out. Katie shares her raw sobriety jou...

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Nov. 19, 2025

42. Grieving During the Holidays And What We Can Do

If the holidays feel heavy this year, this one’s for you. I’m talking about how grief can sneak up when the world feels merry and bright, why it’s okay to miss your person, and how to let yourself feel sadness and joy at the same time. I also share a special story about my dad sending me signs from…

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Nov. 12, 2025

41. When We Face Our Sh*t, We Free Our Soul

After a straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back moment, I share how a full-body release—crying, screaming, naming the truth—helped me move through suppressed emotions instead of numbing them. We unpack the weight of suppressed emotions, why partners often act as mirrors, and practical ways to process tri…

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Nov. 5, 2025

40. Faith Over Fear: How Surrender Saved Our Family

In this heartfelt episode, I share one of the most terrifying seasons of my parenting life when we were helping our daughter through a deep mental-health struggle and how it taught me to surrender control when fear was all I could feel. This episode delivers compassion, hope, and a reminder that yo…

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Oct. 29, 2025

39. What to Do When Big Emotions Take Over Both You... AND Your Child

Big emotions. Dysregulation. Meltdowns. I share a personal story about how I learned to regulate myself while supporting my child, and how to find calm in the chaos.

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Oct. 22, 2025

Welcome Back: Rising After the Hardest Seasons

In my first episode back, I share why I stepped away, what I’ve been walking through, and how I found the courage to start speaking again after one of the hardest seasons of my life. This episode is raw, real, and filled with hope. Because if there’s one thing I know — it’s that pain doesn’t get th…

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Sept. 25, 2025

Heart AF Trailer - Rise, Heal, and Live Heart AF

Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk—wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional....

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Sept. 24, 2025

Heart AF Trailer — Rise, Heal, and Live Heart AF

Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk —wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional...

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Sept. 23, 2025

Heart AF Trailer — Rise, Heal, and Live Heart AF

Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk —wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional...

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Oct. 4, 2023

37. Breaking Free: The Power of Embracing Your Authentic Self

In this week's episode, join me as we take a look at Disney Pixar's movie Elemental and uncover one of the profound life lessons it has to offer. Watching this enchanting animation, I was able unravel the damaging truths abou...

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Sept. 27, 2023

36. Transforming Grief into Compassion: A New Perspective on Relation…

In this emotionally poignant episode, we delve into a deeply personal journey of grief and self-discovery that ultimately leads to a profound shift in perspective. I had a heart-wrenching moment of grief about my dad that bec...

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Sept. 19, 2023

35. From Ashes to Enlightenment: Lessons from the Maui Fires Part 1

I get personal in this episode, sharing some of my own moments of self-discovery that have led me through the transformative power of letting our ego thoughts burn down. We tend to identify and value ourselves based on our re...

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Sept. 13, 2023

34. ”Let Them.” - Embrace Empathy: Letting Go of Judgment and Rising …

Welcome to another enlightening episode of The Heart AF Podcast Episode 34- Let Them. In this episode, I discuss the profound practice of letting go of judgment, and instead, choosing to rise above negativity when faced with ...

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Aug. 3, 2023

33. How To Rise Above Our Painful Experiences

Have you ever felt that you could be addicted to pain or drama in your life? Sometimes we get so used to dealing with painful moments in life we tend to get stuck in these negative loops of painful experiences. Our egos can b...

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July 7, 2023

32. Change Your Life by Changing The Lens You Look Through 🧐

32. In this episode I talk about how going through life looking through the lens of fear heightens our insecurities and negatively affects our lives by increasing our personal suffering. BUT, we do have the power and ability ...

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June 15, 2023

31. Riding the Storms of Life, Making a Comeback! 💪🏼

It happens to all of us, times in our life when a fierce storm comes out of nowhere and knocks us off our feet. We can get swept away, struggling to keep our head above water to breathe. It happened to me recently. And it was...

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March 31, 2023

30. #AprilActivation Fun Ways to Elevate our Energetic Frequencies

Attitude is literally everything. Our attitude creates our experience and our thoughts create our reality. In this week’s Heart AF episode I dive into the importance of our energetic frequencies and what it means to be high v...

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March 21, 2023

29. Spring Intentions- How to Bloom with a Spring Mindset

This week's Spring inspired episode is all about planting seeds of intention in order to watch yourself bloom into this new season. This season is a time for renewal, to feel re-energized for what's possible for you. The incr...

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March 14, 2023

28. Mind Power- Losing Weight with My thoughts.

I am still shocked at the unbelievable power our minds have in and over our lives. Our minds can seriously change our reality and how we experience our external world. I share with you some recent experiences in my own life w...

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Feb. 24, 2023

27. Erica Marie and Me -Why LOVE is all You Need-

Such a special heart filled episode with guest Erica Marie! ❤️ Erica Marie is an Uplifter, Speaker, and Success Coach. Her expertise in business & life success coaching, along with her passion for mental, physical, and spirit...

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Feb. 15, 2023

26. When You Are Feeling a Little Less Than..

We all experience moments of insecurity, feeling small, or not quite as good, maybe feeling we don't belong, or aren't good enough. This week's episode is about some recent experiences of mine where I have felt this way. And ...

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