Monday & Tuesday
2am&2pmET

Living on Purpose with Carolyn Romano

Living on Purpose is about creating balance, abundance, and joy. It’s about living in the center of our lives so that no matter what is happening around us, we can be at peace. Living on Purpose is about being “deliberately aligned” with the ways we are meant to serve and grow while staying open to experiencing life fully. Living on Purpose is a time for us to come together to remember our Divine selves, while we learn and wonder about, weigh and consider, and unpack and repack the mysteries, meaning, and sometimes madness of life.

Broadcasts Weekly Monday & Tuesday 2am/2pmET

Carolyn’s Featured Topics This Week

Monday 2am/2pmET

North Shield: Embracing Wisdom and Gratitude

In this episode, Carolyn reflects on the North Shield, a teaching from the Native American Path Cards by Jamie Sams, which invites us into the deeper wisdom that emerges through listening, truth, forgiveness, and gratitude.

Drawing on the symbolism of White Buffalo, Carolyn explores three paths that lead to wisdom:

• Listening deeply to Mother Earth and to the quiet voice within
• Defending truth with humility, knowing when to forgive and when to stand firm
• Cultivating gratitude as a spiritual practice that transforms lived experience

Woven through these teachings is Carolyn’s own story of the past several years — life at Charlie’s Place Healing Sanctuary, navigating profound loss and caregiving, recovering from a life-altering injury, and allowing unexpected change to open new doors. From tending animals through harsh New England winters to reimagining vocation, community, and service, this episode is an invitation to reflect on how life’s most challenging moments may also become unexpected teachers.

The North Shield reminds us that wisdom is not abstract. It is lived. It is earned. And it often arrives through patience, presence, and gratitude for what has shaped us.

Reflection prompt:
What experiences in your life — especially the ones you never would have chosen — may be offering you wisdom now?

Ways to Connect & Work Together

If this episode resonated with you and you’d like to stay connected or explore working together, you’re warmly invited to visit:  stan.store/carolynromano

There you’ll find:

• Opportunities to connect with Carolyn through coaching, shamanic work, and Path Card readings
• Ways to support and follow Charlie’s Place Healing Sanctuary, a multispecies animal sanctuary devoted to care, dignity, and presence
• Information about Tending the Sacred, a re-imagined spiritual nonprofit and learning community devoted to consciousness, connection, and living wisely in a changing world

Whether you’re seeking personal support, spiritual practice, or community rooted in compassion and lived wisdom, there are many doorways — you’re welcome to step through the one that feels right.

Tuesday 2am/2pmET

Smoke Signals: The Unity of One Heart and One Mind

In this episode of Living on Purpose, Carolyn explores how our lives function as signals in a shared world, and what it means to live with one heart and one mind, individually and collectively.

Building on the previous episode, North Shield: Embracing Wisdom and Gratitude, and teachings from the Native American Path Cards by Jamie Sams, Carolyn reflects on presence as the first form of communication. Drawing from lived experience, caregiving, loss, recovery, and life at Charlie’s Place Healing Sanctuary, she explores how our inner life inevitably shapes the field around us, and how responsibility can be understood as relationship rather than pressure.

The episode then turns to the teaching of one heart and one mind, inspired by a prayer of White Buffalo Calf Woman. Carolyn speaks to the exhaustion many feel today, not from effort alone, but from inner division, and offers a compassionate reframing of unity as integrity, coherence, and honest presence, even amid fear, hope, and change.

In the final segment, Carolyn gathers the teachings into practice, reminding listeners that coherence is something we return to again and again through small, honest choices. She shares ways to continue this work through one-on-one offerings available at stan.store/carolynromano, by following Charlie’s Place Healing Sanctuary on Facebook, and through learning and practice with Tending the Sacred at tendingthesacred.org. She also previews Threshold Medicine: Ritual, Writing and Renewal, a Spring Equinox women’s retreat co-facilitated with Judy Tsafrir.

The episode closes with a reminder that when heart and mind move together, our lives become a form of communication, and the signal we send is one of belonging.

Find Carolyn here: https://stan.store/carolynromano

Shamanic Journeying- Online Gathering

with Shamanic Practitioner and Medicine Woman Carolyn Romano

The central “tool” for shamanic practitioners, shamanic journeying is the art of traveling within to the “invisible worlds” beyond ordinary reality. It is similar in some ways to a guided meditation and uses drumming at a certain rhythm to support a deeper meditative state through shifting brain waves. The purpose of a journey is to retrieve information for change in every area of our lives—from spirituality and health to work and relationships. I use Jamie Sams’ Native American Sacred Path Cards to tailor the individual’s or group’s experience and provide additional insight to support the journey.

In my own life, I have used journeying to help me heal, make decisions, and solve problems that sometimes seemed unsolvable. I even use journeying when I have writer’s block or have been stuck at a particular point in a grant-writing process, for instance.

Carolyn Romano founded Charlie’s Place Healing Sanctuary, an animal rescue that operates on a 25-acre farm in Massachusetts. Charlie’s Place currently cares for nearly thirty animals — from dogs to chickens to a very wise turtle — and the number is quickly growing. As it does, it continues to fulfill its mission of being a sanctuary for animals (be they furry or feathered or walking on two feet) who need a safe place in which to heal from illness, trauma, or both.

Nizhoni the sheep (and her friend, Zorro) are making the cross-country trek to Charlie’s Place in the back of a Kia Soul. On the face of it, the idea of driving several thousand miles to rescue two sheep might seem crazy. But at its heart, it’s an example of someone being the change they want to see in the world. And I think we can all agree that the world needs bold acts of kindness and love more than ever, as well as a real willingness to serve wherever we feel we’re called to.

If you’d like to support the work of Charlie’s Place — a project of The Frank J. Romano Foundation
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BIO: Carolyn Romano, holds a B.A. from Drew University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Trained as an attorney with expertise in both special education, elder law, and estate planning, Carolyn has spent much of the last 25 years as an educational consultant, grant writer, and director of both national and state education projects. She is currently Vice President of Product at Torchlight.care, a technology startup in Burlington, Massachusetts that addresses the caregiving needs of the millions of people in the workforce who are also caring for a child with a disability or aging loved one.

Carolyn is also a shamanic practitioner and medicine woman with particular expertise in native American healing ritual and ceremony, energy medicine, mind-body skill building, the emotional roots of disease, stored trauma/cellular memory, and other alternative healing practices focused on self-care and empowerment. She is a canumpa (sacred pipe) carrier trained in the Lakota tradition.

Carolyn founded Bliss Healing Arts to pursue her passion of helping individuals and groups achieve lives of balance, abundance, and joy. She expands her work now to include emerging women leaders who need support to remember, cultivate, and share their personal medicine with the world.

From 2002 to 2005, Carolyn was Program Director of the Theosophical Society in Boston, an organization dedicated to exploring Ageless Wisdom. In October 2005, she became the TS President. Along with her three sisters, Carolyn created The Frank J. Romano Foundation in 2008 to honor the memory of her father who passed away in 2007 from pancreatic cancer and to continue his life-long legacy of service.

In 2016, Carolyn moved to a small farm in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, to create Charlie’s Place, a Healing Sanctuary for Animals and Their People. While still in its infancy, Charlie’s Place is home to Carolyn and her partner Curt along with four rescue dogs, 14 chickens, and a turtle named Arthur.
email: carolynromano@comcast.net
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