029, Heather Mizeur: Radical Love

How the world would be different if politics were rooted in radical love? This is the question being asked by Heather Mizeur, CEO + Founder of Soul Force Politics, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the cultivation, empowerment, and alignment of inner wisdom and external engagement as a catalyst for individual and community transformation. Mizeur teaches heart-centered mindfulness and resilient leadership to strengthen democracy and soften political divides.  

After a successful career as a health care policy analyst in Congress, a Maryland State Manager of a U.S. Presidential campaign, and a stint on her local City Council, Mizeur was elected to serve two four-year terms as a Democratic member of the House of Delegates in the Maryland General Assembly (2007-2015).  She was also a Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland in 2014 and became one of the state’s most recognized voices promoting progressive change. She lives with her wife, Deborah Mizeur, on a 34-acre organic herbal medicine farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

How would the environment be different if we radically loved our planet? How would we be different if we knew that the planet radically loves us?

In this episode…

• Heather’s path as a social justice advocate in politics, and how all the external engagement led to a desire to dive into internal work
• There’s so much power in the Pause that allows heart-based inner wisdom to emerge
• The choice to love each other even when it’s hard or when our opinions differ…the choice to embrace the Unity Consciousness that we are all One
• Becoming comfortable with stillness in a world rife with distraction and numbing vices, in bringing forth healing and heart-wisdom
• Going against the flow of Western culture where emptiness, need, lack, and scarcity fuel our economy, and instead, opting to find the wholeness inside us
• How caring enough to unveil our own best self first, leads to a vibrational connection to others doing similar work…leading to opportunities to collaborate and impact our world and remake it through the lens of love
• Sitting with WHAT IS, observing what circumstances come our way, instead of getting swept up in the emotions those circumstances generate
• How our connection with Mother Earth reflects our relationship to ourselves  

Resources https://www.soulforcepolitics.org