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Springtime. The meaning of the cosmic egg in Christian and pre-Christian cultures. The fertile world. Waiting for our "eggs" to hatch. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

Lessons from a childhood lunch, Prince Philip and "getting on with it".  Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

A story about sleepwalking and how to fill your life's jar.  Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

On this Women’s Day, take some time and think of how you can help women in your community, to resist and overcome the growing negative climate for women at work, at home and in the community, then leave me a comment and share your thoughts and ideas. Please leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!  

A butterfly is the quintessential depiction of Change. A butterfly in Ancient Greek is Psyche, the Soul. Touching upon the myth of Eros and Psyche, Love and Soul, we approach the sense of the eternally Love, Change and Soul. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

Do you know that you have a multitude of divine gifts? What happens when you don't trust them and let others silence your voice? Listen to the story of Cassandra and see what it brings you.   Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

In this episode, we acquaint ourselves with feminine power in the public sphere. The women who ruled the ancient world sited on a three-legged stool. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

The Female in the Greek tradition is anything but passive. The Female can dominate peace as well as war. If attacked The Female has the power to claim her power by transforming herself, into a deer, for example, the sacred animal of the goddess Artemis, and her attacker, as Circe does when she turns Odysseus’ crew into pigs. Transformation is feminine. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!

Ancient Greek Female Archetypes are a manual of our shared feminine existence, as we share a certain degree of biological identity as well. That part of ourselves that mediates between what you know that you know, and where knowledge actually is, is where archetypes are seated. Ancient Greek female archetypes are not about religion and morality. They are more of a survival map. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more! 

Happy New Year! Every beginning must take place under the best possible omens. This is the time of the year that the element of water is used to cleanse and bless the whole of nature and ourselves. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more! 

Antisthenes, a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates, coined the famous phrase “The beginning of all wisdom is the knowledge of words”. In the second episode of The Happy Turtle, Happiness, One Step at a Time” podcast, we get familiar with the concept, by examining my name, Irene, according to the great Greek storyteller, Hesiod. Listen and let me guide you in making sense of what your name says about you, your power and your purpose, by delving deeply into the roots of your most prominent ID feature, your name, using Ancient Greek language and beliefs. Please leave a rating and review and connect with me on IG and Facebook to tell me your biggest take-away from today's episode!  Talk soon.

On the first episode of the Happy Turtle-Happiness one step at a time, podcast, we discuss the symbolism of the Wintertime festivities of Christmas and the Winter Solstice, and the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks regarding this time of the year. We relate to the stories regarding Zeus and Cronus, known to the astronomers as Jupiter and Saturn, the two major planets, meeting in Aquarius on the 21st of December, and we reveal the role of women in the new era that they herald. Leave a rating and review below and let me know what your thoughts are about this episode! Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, I would love to get to know you more!