Welcome to Transformation Talk. Every Thursday for a year, starting in September 2012, I’ll post an interview with someone who is a force for good in the world. These men and women have either deepened their passion or found their calling after experiencing a loss, trauma or diagnosis.

I want to broaden the conversation around grief and its transformative power. My hope is that in their words you’ll find echoes of your story. In their inspired actions, you’ll see yourself and your immense possibility.

*Special Request: The technology of Skype is amazing and imperfect. Please listen with your heart and forgive the occasional blips on the screen.

Today’s interview is with award-winning author, speaker and spiritual teacher Ayn Cates Sullivan. I’m going to say up front that I love this interview and I recognize that it might be challenging for some. Ayn talks about how she and her father healed their cancer and how that led her to follow her heart on a deeply spiritual path, which includes an experience in the divine light. Even if some of her story seems impossible to you, I encourage you to listen through to the end where you’ll find gentle wisdom that can apply to all of us. (Also, Ayn talks about the impact our ancestral line has on us from a spiritual point of view. There is new research in the scientific field of epigenetics that’s saying a similar thing – it’s mind-blowing.)

Bio and link to download the audio version are below. Running time is 46 minutes. If you’re receiving this via email, click through the title to view the video.

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Ayn Cates Sullivan is an inspirational author and teacher with a soul centered
psychology practice. Her many books include Unquenchable Spiritual Fire, The
Windhorse: Poems of Illumination and most recently a children’s book, Sparkle &
The Gift. Ayn’s deepest love is to help end the patterns that cause pain and
suffering, and assist in liberating others so that they can live essential and joyous
lives. She lives in Ojai with her husband and two children.

Find her at AynCatesSullivan.com