Many women carry a quiet emotional exhaustion that no one else fully sees. In this first episode of Returning to Yourself, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez gently explores the invisible emotional weight of constantly being strong, overwhelmed, and disconnected from yourself.

Through compassionate storytelling and reflection, this episode offers emotional reassurance, understanding, and a reminder that healing begins gently.

If this episode spoke to your heart, the Emotional Reset Guide was created to help you reconnect with calm, clarity, and emotional peace one step at a time.

Visit Book Serenity to explore the Emotional Reset Guide and additional healing resources.

Feeling emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself?

Returning to Yourself is a compassionate podcast series created for women seeking calm, emotional healing, reflection, and reconnection in a world that often feels overwhelming.

Hosted by Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, each episode gently guides listeners through storytelling, emotional insight, holistic wisdom, and reflective conversations designed to help you reconnect with the version of yourself you’ve been missing.

This series is a safe space for emotional understanding, inner quiet, healing, and personal growth — one gentle step at a time.

Visit Book Serenity for emotional healing resources, journals, wellness guides, and supportive tools created to help you return to yourself again.

“What stories continue to heal us long after they are spoken?”

In this powerful final episode of the Book Serenity Podcast series, Stories that Heal: Wisdom that Remains — Voices of the Haudenosaunee, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez reflects on the wisdom, resilience, healing, storytelling, and life experiences shared by Haudenosaunee authors Thomas Taronhata Stacey, Emily Kasennisaks Stacey, and Evita Teiohonwake Stacey.

Explore Indigenous storytelling, urban Haudenosaunee identity, emotional healing, poetry, reflection, and the importance of preserving Indigenous voices for future generations.

Learn more at Book Serenity.

Rediscovering the Wisdom within Yourself

Featuring Haudenosaunee Author Evita Teiohonwake Stacey

“What if the wisdom you have been searching for has been quietly waiting within you all along?”

In this heartfelt episode of the Book Serenity Podcast, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez explores healing, reflection, and self-awareness through the Indigenous wisdom and teachings of Haudenosaunee author Evita Teiohonwake Stacey.

Discover how reflection, journaling, and inner awareness can help you reconnect with yourself, find emotional clarity, and begin your personal healing journey.

Begin your journey today at Ongwehonwe Wisdom.

The Current of My Soul: Poems That Awaken Inner Wisdom

In this inspiring episode of the Book Serenity Podcast, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez explores The Current of My Soul, a heartfelt book of poems by Haudenosaunee author Emily Kasennisaks Stacey.

Discover how Indigenous poetry, reflection, and inner wisdom can inspire emotional healing, self-awareness, transformation, and spiritual growth.

This episode invites listeners to reconnect with themselves through compassionate storytelling and the powerful wisdom carried through Indigenous voices and poetry.

To purchase The Current of My Soul, visit Amazon.com.

Living Between Two Worlds: A Haudenosaunee Family Story

In this heartfelt episode of the Book Serenity Podcast, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez shares the experiences and memories of Thomas Taronhata Stacey and his family living as Haudenosaunee in Plattsburgh.

Through reflection and storytelling, this episode explores identity, resilience, exclusion, survival, family strength, and the quiet courage carried by many Indigenous families in Northern New York. It is a compassionate story about holding onto culture, preserving memory, and continuing to stand strong through generations despite hardship and invisibility.

This episode reminds listeners that Indigenous stories are not only history — they are living voices that deserve to be heard, remembered, and preserved for the next seven generations.

Before history was written in books, it lived in the voices of the people.

In this special episode of the Book Serenity Podcast, host Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez explores the importance of Indigenous storytelling within the Haudenosaunee communities of Northern New York.

Discover how oral traditions preserved identity, wisdom, resilience, spirituality, family history, and cultural teachings for generations long before written records existed. This episode honors the sacred role of storytelling as a living connection between ancestors and future generations.

Featuring the voices and contributions of Haudenosaunee authors Thomas Taronhata Stacey, Evita Teiohonwake Stacey, and Emily Kasennisaks Stacey, this episode reflects on why Indigenous voices continue to matter today and how storytelling helps preserve culture, healing, memory, and identity for the next seven generations.

To learn more, visit: Indigenous Wisdom Bookstore and Ongwehonwe Wisdom

Because when stories are preserved… the ancestors continue speaking.

Are you unknowingly losing bone strength as you age? Many women over 45 don’t realize the silent signs until it’s too late.

In this powerful episode, “Strong Bones, Strong Life: A Story of Prevention, Awareness, and Healing,” discover how bone loss begins, what your body is trying to tell you, and why conditions like Osteopenia and Osteoporosis don’t have to define your future.

Learn a simple, natural approach to strengthening your bones with the right nutrients, daily habits, and holistic practices that restore balance, energy, and long-term vitality.

Listen now and take the first step toward protecting your bones and reclaiming your strength.

Visit BookSerenity.com to explore guides, books, and resources to support your healing journey.