The JOY Broadcast with Ali Mortimer — Episode Summary
Episode Title: The Joy of 'Being On Fire!' (Sacral Chakra)
Date: April 27, 2025
Host: Ali Mortimer – Life Consultant & Joy Coach
Brief Overview
In this episode of The JOY Broadcast, Ali Mortimer delves into the sacral chakra — the energetic center of joy, vitality, pleasure, and creativity. Sharing both personal experiences and practical wisdom, she explores how connecting with and healing this chakra can ignite a sense of aliveness, passion, and pleasure in life. The episode blends educational insight, personal story, practical guidance, and a guided visualization to help listeners reconnect with their “inner fire” and live in flow.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
1. Introducing the Sacral Chakra & Personal Connection
- Ali recounts her own healing journey, sharing how working with the sacral was pivotal during challenging periods involving betrayal and grief.
- The sacral is described as a powerful center for reclaiming joy and vitality, especially after emotional hurt.
“The sacral was one that I had to do a significant amount of work on ... it was incredibly powerful, to heal my sacral … through that healing was this empowered state of knowing that I could be able to heal and love and find joy again in my life through my sacral.” (03:37)
2. Understanding the Sacral Chakra
- Location & Energetic Significance: Located around the navel/womb area; associated with gut instinct, emotional flow, sexuality, creativity, and life force.
- Intuition First: Ali highlights how gut instinct (“sacral knowing”) is often suppressed in favor of logic, advocating for intuition-led living.
“This is a huge permission slip for you to really tap back into those gut instincts and use your gut instincts to lead your life and then back it up with your mind, with logic, rather than the other way around.” (04:40)
3. Vitality, Joy & Pleasure — Signs of a Healthy Sacral
- Joyful energy: A “lit-up” presence characterized by zest for life, creativity, flow, and pleasure.
- Independence in joy: Capacity to entertain oneself and find happiness internally.
“They are the epitome of joy. You are the epitome of joy. I am the epitome of joy. When my sacral is in this beautiful energy, the receiving of beautiful pleasures, whether that be big or small.” (10:52)
- Balanced giving and receiving: Letting generosity and receptivity flow naturally without expectation.
- Freedom: Authenticity, the joy of “being yourself,” and permission to feel pleasure without guilt.
4. When the Sacral is Blocked or Overactive
- Underactive signs: Lack of zest, boredom, stagnation, burnout, pessimism, and dependence on others for joy/validation.
- Overactive signs: Frantic energy, “bouncing off the walls,” toxic positivity, overindulgence/workaholism/over-control.
- Ali provides practical examples and analogies:
“If you overcook your chicken, it’s been too hot for too long. ... Overly positive to the point of being perhaps toxic. You’ve heard of toxic positivity. It’s just all a little bit too much.” (12:39)
5. Nurturing Sacral Energy — Colors, Foods, Elements
- Colors: Orange (for energy and creativity), soft peach tones (for calming frantic energy).
- Foods: Orange-colored and citrus foods (carrots, oranges, peppers, mangoes) support sacral energy.
- Elements: Although water is the traditional element, Ali suggests any element (fire, air, wood, water) can be invoked for healing and balance.
6. Burnout, Balance, and Embracing the Phoenix Energy
- Ali dispels traditional notions of “balance,” calling it unhelpful:
“Balance is bullshit. If you’re trying to create balance ... you can’t have equal measures of your work, your life, your friends, your partners, your kids, your health. It’s just not going to happen. You’re setting yourself up for failure.” (14:32)
- She reframes burnout as a catalyst for transformation:
“Burnout was the best thing to happen to me. ... Every time I've burnt things down and recreated something new from the embers ... something even more magical has arisen. ... You are a phoenix.” (15:26)
- Invokes imagery from Harry Potter — Dumbledore’s phoenix — as a metaphor for renewal.
7. Guided Visualization: Reigniting the Sacral Fire
[Starts at 17:23]
Ali leads a detailed guided meditation to help listeners connect with, balance, and “ignite” their sacral chakra:
- Setting: Imagine yourself in a peaceful forest, seated by a fire pit.
- For burnout/low energy: Approach the fire, gently stoke the embers with your breath, and witness sparks reignite (“All ashes have a spark left within them and we can light that spark and become the phoenix.” [18:53])
- For frantic/overactive energy: Step back from the fire and use breath to calm and stabilize.
- Building the fire: Add “happy memories” as dry sticks; gratitude for joy already present.
- Fueling dreams: Place larger logs on the fire, representing hopes, desires, and future possibilities.
- Transformation: Hang a pot of water above the fire, adding chosen “ingredients” (areas of life, relationships, health goals) as part of the intentional creation process.
- Core guidance:
“Your job is to keep the fire glowing, to tend to your fire. Continue with your gratitudes for everything that is and everything that was. ... Practice daily gratitude. Speak them out loud, write them in a journal, bring them to your mind’s eye and smile and bring joy to your sacral.” (28:47)
- Trust and Surrender: “Strengthen your faith in the process. Trust in yourself that you will keep those fires going. ... Surrender to the magic.” (30:31)
8. Mantras & Affirmations for the Sacral
Ali closes the visualization with affirmations to reinforce sacral healing and joy:
- “I am a powerful creator.”
- “I am my own alchemist.”
- “I am deserving of receiving love and I’m deserving of giving love and the joy that both bring.”
- “My work brings me joy. My body brings me joy. My health brings me joy.” (32:54)
Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments
- “Following my gut instincts, my life energy, my joy, my pleasure, and then using my incredible brain ... to create the logic and the strategy and the path, rather than the other way around.” (05:23)
- “Balance is bullshit. ... Burnout was the best thing to happen to me.” (14:32–15:26)
- “All ashes have a spark left within them and we can light that spark and become the phoenix.” (18:53)
- “Breathe to calm or breathe to ignite.” (18:59)
- “The joy of being yourself — that is true, beautiful sacral energy.” (11:53)
- “Trust in your sacral. It will know. It will know the time, it will know when, and it will know the how.” (30:08)
- “Surrender to the magic of not needing to know how the egg hardens and the potato softens. Surrender to the magic of how your life is going to change when you do this just with trust.” (31:08)
Timestamps of Important Segments
- 00:49: Episode overview and introduction
- 03:37: Ali’s personal sacral healing journey
- 04:40: The importance of intuition and gut instinct
- 10:52: Signs of a healthy, “lit up” sacral
- 12:39: Symptoms of underactive and overactive sacral
- 14:32: Debunking “balance” and reframing burnout
- 17:23: Start of guided sacral meditation/visualization
- 28:47: Gratitude practice to fuel joy
- 30:08: Feminine flow, trust, and surrender in sacral energy
- 32:54: Sacral affirmations/mantras
Closing Reflection
Ali concludes with her mission — spreading joy, peace, and abundance so no one feels alone in their darkness. She invites listeners to share the podcast and remember:
“The ripple of joy starts with you and within you.” (33:53)
This episode offers both heartfelt storytelling and actionable practices, making it valuable for anyone wanting to rekindle joy, creativity, and vitality from within. Whether you feel “burnt out” or detached from pleasure, Ali’s approach to the sacral chakra invites you to embrace your own “phoenix energy,” finding freedom in authenticity and trust in the process of joyful self-renewal.