Rituals of Purpose, Healing, and Hope with Lorna Brunelle

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Lorna Brunell, a lifelong mentor, performer, author, and community builder who has spent 30 years helping others find their voice. This conversation is different. Lorna opens up about her year of surviving colorectal cancer, navigating an unexpected pulmonary embolism, and rebuilding her identity through rituals of gratitude, purpose, and community.

She shares how she kept her mindset intact through chemo, surgery, and isolation, how she continued to lift others even while fighting for her own life, and why purpose is the most stabilizing force we have when everything becomes chaotic. We explore her daily rituals, her spiritual grounding, how she pulled energy from creativity when she couldn’t pull it from food or movement, and why meaning-making isn’t optional – it’s necessary.

This is an episode about resilience, identity, and the real work of staying alive, connected, and intentional. Lorna’s story is a testament to what purpose can do.