The Women's Sanctuary Podcast

05/20/2025

12/03/2023

In this season, Life has brought me a gift of change. New doors are opening and one is closing, as if by magic. It is magic. In the coming days I'll share what is birthing.
For now, I invite you to slow down and be present with all the beauty that is surely here. If you look for it, it will show itself.

06/27/2023

Please note:

Arlia Hoffman, founder of The Women's Sanctuary and The Women's Agency has been hacked on her personal profile page. Every effort is being made to communicate with FB support in recovering and/or recreating her FB account to continue serving clients and sharing information.

Arlia posts daily on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, so please feel free to connect and follow her there.



Thank you for your patience and understanding. More soon.

05/19/2023

In Part Two of our conversation on Complicated Grief, Julie shares the story of her father's passing and the wisdom she's gleaned then and since.
What an honor it was to be in conversation with Julie about grief, relationships, and grace.
https://postly.app/2hpU

05/10/2023

Julie Greenberg's inner knowingness and "big" truth led her even as she met resistance from her father. In Part One of our conversation, she talks about their dynamic and how it shaped her.
https://postly.app/2cj2

05/04/2023

Grief brings a kaleidoscope of emotions, but especially when there was a difficult relationship with a parent. Julie Greenberg joined me on "The Women's Sanctuary" to talk about fathers, relationships, and grief.
In Part One, she recounts her childhood, the crossroads with her father, her mother's death, and forging her path in life.
Listen here: https://postly.app/2cj2

04/24/2023

Roundtable on Grief and Healing is here! If you or a loved one is experiencing grief, may this episode offer you comfort and resources to help navigate this challenging time.
Amy Getz, Jinne Lee Schmid, Rachel Donnelly and Susan Palace joined Arlia Hoffman to share their own experiences of loss and grief, how they coped, and how the wisdom gained now informs their work in the world.
Enjoy this moving and powerful episode here: https://postly.app/2Z57

04/14/2023

Jinnie Lee Schmid, Amy Wibright Getz, Susan Fisher Palace and our friend Rachel Donnelly were my guests on The Women's Sanctuary Podcast for a moving and incredible roundtable on grief.
We talked about our own experiences, the ways it impacts our lives, and the resources available to those going through loss.
This episode will go live Monday, April 24th.
Stay tuned.
Thank you ladies for a beautiful conversation!

04/03/2023

How does grief impact your life? It touches everything you do, and is best not ignored. But how do we navigate our family life, or business decisions, our finances, our social roles in the midst of grieving?
Those are the questions we'll be exploring on an upcoming episode of "The Women's Sanctuary". Four experts from finance, wellness, business, and consulting will share their expertise and experiences.
I'd love to know what questions you have for them! Submit your questions here: http://bit.ly/42Vc0aR

04/01/2023

WE ARE HERE

We are here essentially, to risk ourselves in the world. We are a form of invitation to others and to otherness, we are meant to hazard ourselves for the right thing, for the right woman or the right man, for a son or a daughter, for the right work or for a gift given against all the odds. And in all this continual risking the most profound courage may be found in the greatest risk and the greatest vulnerability, and perhaps, the greatest prize of all, the simple willingness to allow ourselves to be happy along the way …

David Whyte

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From ‘LONGING’
In CONSOLATIONS:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning
of Everyday Words
Revised Edition © David Whyte
and Many Rivers Press 2022

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Coming Down From Stoney Cove Pike
Photo © David Whyte June
Cumbria. July 2nd 2017
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It is both fascinating and rewarding to approach happiness as a core practice and a choice: to rest deeply and calmly, even amidst the necessary losses of an individual human life, and find already lying within us, not a naive, forced generation of false positivity, but an attentive sense of continued extraordinary surprise at the preposterous, gifted, overwhelming and astonishing nature of every day existence. DW