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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
NEW video available on our Youtube Channel! Elaineandrach
What does it mean to be present? What does it mean to show up?
An excerpt from the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast: Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson pick up the topic of “What does it mean to be present?” and explore the significance of truly living in the moment.
Listen in as we discuss:
What does it mean to be present?
What does it mean to show up?
An example of how we choose to disappear.
Presence is paying/giving attention to right now versus distracting yourself away from it.
What is awareness?
Escaping now as its own addiction.
Are there repercussions distracting ourselves from right now?
To learn more about Elaine Bracken visit http://www.elainebracken.com
To learn more about Rachel Dickson visit http://www.racheldickson.com
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Music found on this video:
Emotional Thoughtful Piano
Music by Ashot
Danielyan from Pixabay
#elaineandrach #whatdoesitmeantobepresent #howtobepresent #conversationsatthecounciltreepodcast #howtoshowup #whatispresence #whatisawareness
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast NOW on YOUTUBE!
Now you can listen to Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast episodes while driving, walking, creating, etc on your phone, tablet or smart tv all on YOUTUBE!
Check it out...and thank you for leaning in with us on our journey!
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
NEW episode: Does “Passing” as Straight Automatically Equal “Safety?” -- Uncovering Internalized “Obias” and “Isms” in Our Attempts to Live Authentically.
In this Episode Rachel Dickson and Elaine Bracken discuss a series of thought-provoking and revealing questions about what it means to “pass” as straight while being gay. Listen in as a most fascinating dialogue unfolds in which they both uncover some deeper truths behind navigating authenticity as a threat, feelings of guilt associated with expressing who you are, not status quo doubling as potentially unsafe, loss of privilege and what that may imply, and the discovery of some hidden internalized “obias” and “isms” along the way.
To Listen to this "Do You Pass" episode Click here
Let’s jump in!
• Guilt by association.
• Why is there guilt associated with expressing who you are?
• Being different (not status quo)...does it also mean being unsafe?
• Is it so different for boys/men to wear fingernail polish? Does this trigger internalized homophobia amongst men?
• Internalized homophobia, Internalized racism.
• Safety and gender biased.
• Navigating gendered public restrooms.
• Who has to do the navigating around safety and privilege?
• Choosing safety or authenticity if challenged publicly.
• Why is authenticity a threat to anybody?
• Privilege...how it affects daily living
• What happens when you’re faced with the question, “what are you?”
• Guilt by association...why is there guilt? Is this an undeserved attack on yourself?
• Our internalized “obias”
• Corporate branding and our alleged need for identity—Bud Light Boycott
To Listen to this "Do You Pass" episode Click here
Thank you for sharing time and space with us at the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast!
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Music found on this podcast:
Planet Earth
by Jeremusic70 from Pixabay
Bathroom Chill Background
by chillmore from Pixabay
We will pass this way
Music by SPmusic from Pixabay
Feeling Freedom
Music by BoDleasons from Pixabay
The power of collaboration
Music by DayNigthMorning from Pixabay
Our cover image photo is by John Mcsporran from PxHere.com
More information about Elaine Bracken http://www.elainebracken.com
More information about Rachel Dickson http://www.racheldickson.com
#doyoupass #heteronormative #lgbtq
#lesbianlife #loveisallthereis #loveislove #fem #masc #lesbian #gay #trans #elaineandrach
#livingauthentically
#heteroprivilege
Friday, July 28, 2023
Power of Choice 2 of 2 with Elaine and Rach
Power of Choice 2 of 2--Embrace and Embody the Power of your Soul’s Choice to Incarnate
In this 2nd episode of Power of Choice...we remember...there was light before the struggle!
This discussion will refresh you from the inside out because we delve into why it’s so important to look inward and shift who you are listening to. In listening to your own self-talk you’ll uncover exactly why your life is unfolding the way it is in every moment. Get ready to hear about the radically simple tool number 1 in how to connect to your inner self.
Listen in as Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson discuss where to start. What is the first step in going inward and discovering our true selves? When life feels like nothing but smoke screens and is blindingly paralyzing...there IS a way to fly through this smoke screen of impossibility. There IS hope and the truth of this lies within our own inner selves. Why is it so easy to believe that we are “Original Sin” and so hard to believe that we are “Original Light”?
Discussion around remembering our original incarnation choice.
You’re so powerful because YOU are the impetus for even being here. You chose to be here.
We do remember...when we take our first breath.
Understanding the extent of our forgetting. We’ve forgotten that we are powerful creators.
Acknowledging and accepting what is.
When you go inward you will remember your power.
Why are we not original light? Why are we original sin?
To listen to Power of Choice 2 simply click here
Thank you for leaning in with us today at the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast!
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Music found on
this podcast episode:
Planet Earth
Music by Jeremusic70
from Pixabay
Planet Earth
Acoustic
Folk Music Guitar
Music by ArtMusic
from Pixabay
Goldn
Music by prazkhanal
from Pixabay
Night Jazz Beats
Music by
flybirdaudio
from Pixabay
To listen to Power of Choice 2 simply click here
Our cover image photo is by John Mcsporran from PxHere.com
More information about Elaine Bracken http://www.elainebracken.com
More information about Rachel Dickson http://www.racheldickson.com
More information
about this podcast http://www.conversationsatthecounciltree.com
(You're already here...take a look around)
#powerofchoice #innercritic #meetyourself #breathe #breaththebodysinnertool #lookinward #originalsin #originallight #lgbtq #loveisallthereis #loveislove #elaineandrach
conversationsatthecounciltree.com
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Brain, Heart, Emotion Image by Tumisu from Pixabay
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Power of Choice 1 of 2 with Elaine and Rach
Power of Choice 1 of 2--When Spirit joins you for coffee, you listen – REMEMBER – EMBODY – RE-EMBODY your POWER TO CREATE!
Elaine Bracken is a channel and medium and this episode was born from a channeling she received while having coffee on her porch one morning. This loving message from her guides encourages us to Remember Our Power by Remembering Our Soul’s Choice To Come to Earth. This message also encourages us to Choose Boldly from the Universal Menu of Life!
To listen to Power of Choice 1 simply click here
Listen in as Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson discuss the message from Elaine’s early morning visitor:
It is in the remembering that we choose bigger.
The feelings of retracting and shriveling versus big powerful expansion.
Release the limitations we put on ourselves.
We made this choice...and we are so powerful.
When you REMEMBER YOUR POWER TO CHOOSE, because you utilized that power to incarnate, YOU WILL REMEMBER – EMBODY – RE-EMBODY your POWER TO CREATE within this incarnation.
We’re forgetting that we have a choice to get out of the valley.
Gaze at the beauty, ignore the bullshit.
The Universal Diner and the Special of the Day: Why do we keep settling on ordering meatloaf when what we really want is lobster?
Why do we choose suffering over joy? Is it because we’re more comfortable in suffering?
Choice and Power right next to each other...together.
Feeding energetically from someone else.
We are exactly where we need to be.
All choices must bring you joy or they will bring you out of alignment with your path.
We’re not accidentally at a concert we didn’t mean to be at.
What would happen if we eliminated thinking and operated with feeling instead? Letting your heart do the thinking.
Manifestation and feeling as a tool to manifest. Perception is what creates reality.
Go back in your memory, use your time-line if you need to, and re-embody the POWERFUL CREATOR THAT YOU ARE.
Thank you for leaning in with us today at the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast!
To listen to Power of Choice 1 simply click here
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Music found on today’s podcast:
Planet Earth
Music by Jeremusic70
from Pixabay
Planet Earth
Beautiful Trip
Music by
SoulProdMusic
from Pixabay
Acoustic Folk Music
Guitar
Music by ArtMusic
from Pixabay
Lifelike
Music by AlexiAction
from Pixabay
Our cover image photo is by John Mcsporran from PxHere.com
More information about Elaine Bracken http://www.elainebracken.com
More information about Rachel Dickson http://www.racheldickson.com
More information about this podcast http://www.conversationsatthecounciltree.com
#powerofchoice #internalguidancesystem #choosedifferently #lightgrowslight #innerknower #ignorethebullshit #feelingintothefeeling #thefeelingofchoice #lgbtq #loveisallthereis #loveislove #elaine&rach #elaineandrach
conversationsatthecounciltree.com
blog post image
Signpost
Image by Micha
from Pixabay
Power of Choice channeling as featured on Conversations at the Council Tree: episode 316 : Power of Choice 1 & 2
The Power of Choice ~ as received 3-8-23 by Elaine Bracken
You have to be the reason you live.
You have to be enough of a reason to live.
Your daily life, whatever it is, has to be enough of a reason to live.
Your time here, Little One, matters. You Matter. You are Enough.
Taking on this experience is your own choosing.
By remembering this choice. You will remember how POWERFUL you are.
Love the Little Version of you who could not remember or express their wisdom and their power.
Love them. Gather them to you, into your arms, into your heart.
Absorb them and then release them from the ache, fear and loss that they hold within their bodies.
Wrap them in your Remembrance of your Choice to be in this Chosen body and these Chosen Experiences.
When you REMEMBER YOUR POWER TO CHOOSE, because you utilized that power to incarnate, YOU WILL REMEMBER – EMBODY – RE-EMBODY your POWER TO CREATE within this incarnation.
Go back in your memory, use your time-line if you need to, and re-embody the POWERFUL CREATOR THAT YOU ARE.
And Now release that time line once and for all.
Realize your Power in each Presence (not present moment) to make each Presence come alive with whatever you desire.
EN LIVE EN
RE-EMBODY
REAL-IZE
MAKE REAL
Sit and play with your “magic” kit, in front of you on the floor. Be as lighthearted as a child and yet with the WISDOM AND POWER that you hold within your Ancient Soul Being.
You must Re-Member the Power of Choice and the Power, Certainty, Purpose and even JOY with which you made this CHOICE.
Make now ALL OF YOUR CHOICES WITH THAT SAME POWER AND WITH THAT SAME JOY.
ALL CHOICES MUST BRING YOU JOY OR THEY WILL BE OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR PATH.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
New podcast episode! Latebloomers 2 of 2!
In Latebloomer 2 Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson pick up the topic of “Coming out Late” and explore the impact of truly living authentically.
Listen in as we discuss:
Life after coming out
Loving and accepting past versions of yourself
The feeling of unboxing yourself and embodying your truth.
Sexuality has nothing to do with sex but about who and how you love
How authenticity brings confidence
Feeling more feminine as gay than as hetero
Passing as hetero vs. living the butch life
Surprise! Being a tomboy will get you kicked out of charm class
The invisible decision to either resist or go along with hetero-normative societal imprinting
The effect of hetero-normative language and the need for gender neutral terms
Is it our comfort or others that pushes us into the closet
Hope in the power, beauty, and acceptance of the new generations of souls being born.
To listen to Latebloomers 2 simply click here
Thank you for sharing time and space with us at the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast!
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Music found on this podcast:
Planet Earth
by Jeremusic70
from Pixabay
Lo-fi Chill
by FASSounds
from Pixabay
Whip
by prazkhanal
from Pixabay
Compass/Lofi
Chillhop Background Music
by SoulProdMusic
from Pixabay
Our cover image photo is by John Mcsporran from PxHere.com
More information about Elaine Bracken http://www.elainebracken.com
More information about Rachel Dickson http://www.racheldickson.com
More information about this podcast http://www.conversationsatthecounciltree.com
To listen to Latebloomers 2 simply click here
#latebloomer #unboxingyourself #pridemonth #christiangay #churchtrauma #heteronormative #lgbtq
#lesbianlife #loveisallthereis #loveislove #tomboy #fem #masc #lesbian #gay #trans #elaineandrach
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Season 1, Episode 314-- Latebloomers 1 of 2!
It's HERE! We've just published our first episode titled "Latebloomers".
To listen now simply click here
In recognition of June being Pride month Elaine and Rachel wanted to release Latebloomers 1 (Latebloomers 2 is coming next week!) as a way to express their own truths and authenticity.
What is Latebloomers about you might ask? Here's a brief synopsis:
You typically don’t wake up one day and declare, “I’m GAY.” But rather...there is a feeling that’s existed for a very long time in your deepest cells that’s been whispering to you and sometimes even screaming at you. Whether you’ve lived a hetero married life ignoring that innate inner knowing that this isn’t you or whether you’ve lived a life alone, muddling along ignoring the idea of having any relationships at all because to do otherwise would upset the world that you’ve assimilated into for so long. There’s hundreds of ways the details of truly knowing who you are and embracing that fully for yourself can be told.
This episode begins with Elaine Bracken reading her poem titled, “The Truth in Her Cells.” What follows is a fireside chat between Elaine and Rachel where they tell their stories. Elaine describes her experiences leading up to coming out later in life at 60 as a latebloomer and Rachel describes her experiences growing up immersed in an evangelical christian family upbringing and how that affected her own coming out story.
Whether you’ve been drawn to this episode as a straight person simply wanting to understand this topic more fully because of a friend you may know or a family member with similar experiences or simply because you yourself are trying to piece together your own knowing...welcome!
What is Latebloomers about you might ask? Here's a brief synopsis:
You typically don’t wake up one day and declare, “I’m GAY.” But rather...there is a feeling that’s existed for a very long time in your deepest cells that’s been whispering to you and sometimes even screaming at you. Whether you’ve lived a hetero married life ignoring that innate inner knowing that this isn’t you or whether you’ve lived a life alone, muddling along ignoring the idea of having any relationships at all because to do otherwise would upset the world that you’ve assimilated into for so long. There’s hundreds of ways the details of truly knowing who you are and embracing that fully for yourself can be told.
This episode begins with Elaine Bracken reading her poem titled, “The Truth in Her Cells.” What follows is a fireside chat between Elaine and Rachel where they tell their stories. Elaine describes her experiences leading up to coming out later in life at 60 as a latebloomer and Rachel describes her experiences growing up immersed in an evangelical christian family upbringing and how that affected her own coming out story.
Whether you’ve been drawn to this episode as a straight person simply wanting to understand this topic more fully because of a friend you may know or a family member with similar experiences or simply because you yourself are trying to piece together your own knowing...welcome!
To listen now simply click here
If you are someone who has come out later in life and are seeking others like you...welcome! We want you to know...you are NOT alone! There are gays, lesbians and transgenders everywhere with stories just like these.
You may wish to take a walk or a drive with this podcast episode...and please feel free to share with your friends or family as it’s full of thought-provoking, real life stories that are shareable.
Join us as we celebrate embracing our authenticity so that you too can embrace yours!
If you would like to see on screen what it was like for women in the 1940s and 50s to live in the world as gay and how they navigated the world be sure to watch Amazon Prime’s “A League of Their Own.”
Thank you Mae Blair and “A League of their own” TV series for showing us the beautiful stories behind the All American Girls Professional Baseball League that existed from 1943-1954!
Also be sure to listen to upcoming part 2 of the Latebloomers episode.
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“The Truth in Her Cells” written and recited by Elaine Bracken.
To read this poem in its entirety click here
“The Truth in Her Cells” written and recited by Elaine Bracken.
To read this poem in its entirety click here
Music found on this podcast:
Peaceful Garden -
Healing Light Piano for meditation, zen, landscapes
by HarumachiMusic
from Pixabay
Chillhop beat song
by Music_Unlimited
from Pixabay
cinematic mood
by SoulProdMusic
from Pixabay
forest lullaby
by Lesfm
from Pixabay
Forest Lullaby
the beat of nature
by Olexy
from Pixabay
The Beat of Nature
More information about Elaine Bracken http://www.elainebracken.com
More information about Rachel Dickson http://www.racheldickson.com
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
What is the Conversations at the Council Tree Podcast and who are hosts Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson?
The title “Conversations at the Council Tree” was born from years of conversation between Rachel and Elaine about all things Universal, Life, Love, Human Experience and Existence, Galactic Assistance, the Cosmos, and all the places in between. Over the years we began referring to these as Conversations at the Council Tree due to Rachel’s profound love of trees and nature and a particular tree in the Oconaluftee Visitor’s Center in Cherokee, NC. The energy of the Podcast is the feeling of an invitation to gather under a giant wise old tree, maybe around a campfire, sharing thoughts, ideas, and experiences, and listening to the wisdom of the Tree, the Universe, and the Cosmos.
This podcast is a collection of collaborative conversations where Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson create an inviting come-sit-by-the-campfire-chat that you can cozy up to and roast some spiritual marshmallows along side. We discuss personal transformation, leveling-up, dimensional galactic expansion, spiritual awakening, and navigating life here on Earth.
You can listen to new episodes on your favorite podcast streaming service.
What happens the moment before the mics are lit up to record in the studio? Elaine and Rachel tune into... let’s be curious, inquire, ask questions, demand answers, explore, listen, feel, breathe, surrender boldly, be willing to sit silently with what is, be brave, speak truth, trust the process, and...may we each embrace...fully...loudly living our own authenticity.
Elaine is a second-generation Psychic Channel and Medium and has practiced integrative holistic healing for more than 20 years. She was recently contacted by and began channeling a cosmic vibrational messenger named Saeva who frequently participates and offers insight into our discussions.
Rachel is a creative at heart, avid nature lover, spiritual truth seeker, code-breaker, healer.
For years she has been working with a collective, whom she refers to as “The Others.” And they collaboratively provide universal insights and guidance which connects dimensional level knowledge into life experiences on Earth.
Elaine and Rachel are both members of the LGBTQ community, Rachel a lifelong "card-carrying" lesbian and Elaine a latebloomer. This leads to some pretty lively dialogue.
It’s such an honor to create a shared space with the intention for the wisdom that will download and be discussed here on this podcast. Thank you for joining us!
To learn more about Elaine Bracken please visit http://www.elainebracken.com
To learn more about Rachel Dickson please visit http://www.racheldickson.com
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
NEW Podcast Episodes Coming SOON!
Elaine Bracken and Rachel Dickson are thrilled to announced the upcoming release of their new podcast called Conversations at the Council Tree.
You'll be able to listen to it at your favorite podcast streaming location.
Stay tuned as we publish very soon!
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