<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-26550 alignright" src="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-1024x683.jpeg" alt="Emma Swift Hoffman Process" width="399" height="266" srcset="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-01-350x233.jpeg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" />
&#8220;So much of what I was trying to address was so buried deep within me. It was like scratching an impossible itch, and then, finally, I got to Hoffman, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I can reach the spot. Wow.&#8221;
&#8211; Emma Swift
Singer-songwriter Emma Swift sits down with Sadie to talk about her time at the <a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/the-process/">Hoffman Process</a>, a time she says was &#8220;utterly magical.&#8221; 
Emma&#8217;s story incorporates many lands. Her homeland is Australia. Her new home is Nashville, Tennessee. The rolling hills of Northern California and White Sulphur Springs are where Emma did her <a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/the-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-attrib-id="link-5e589d19-9c4f-4e12-b94e-349ca36de3fd">Process</a>. And, then, the land within Emma &#8211; a deep interior she would need to excavate to heal.
Living among highly creative musicians, and as a singer-songwriter, Emma&#8217;s career counts on her creativity and ability to feel deeply. Before Hoffman, she felt repressed. She would go to write songs, sitting with her guitar, singing them, and feel very uncomfortable. She felt sad and longed to do what she saw other songwriters doing. Emma now realizes that what she saw in others provoked a deep longing in herself.
<img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-26549" src="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-300x300.jpeg" alt="Emma Swift Hoffman Process" width="234" height="234" srcset="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-250x250.jpeg 250w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-350x350.jpeg 350w, https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Emma-Swift-Hoffman-Podcast-featured-100x100.jpeg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px" />
Emma enrolled in <a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/the-process/">the Process</a> to break through her writer&#8217;s block. But once there, she realized she had come for a deeper issue &#8211; her relationship with her father. He had passed away, and Emma had been carrying a feeling inside that something was not right and couldn&#8217;t be set right. It was an &#8220;unresolved tension&#8221; that she feared was &#8220;never going to go away.&#8221; Through the power of the Process and Emma&#8217;s deep work, she was finally able to have a healing conversation with her father.
When we&#8217;re willing to travel to unexplored lands, beautiful and even unexpected, healing can occur. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Emma and Sadie.
<h3>More about Emma Swift:</h3>
Emma Swift is an Australian-born singer-songwriter. She lives in Nashville, TN. Emma describes her music as indie-folk, with her biggest influences being Marianne Faithfull and Sandy Denny. Her new album, “The Resurrection Game,” was released in September this year. It explores themes of love, loss, and transcendence. 

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<h3>As mentioned in this episode:</h3>
<a href="https://emmaswift.bandcamp.com/album/the-resurrection-game">The Resurrection Game: Album and Song</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calistoga,_California">Calistoga, California</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_folk">Indie Folk Genre</a>
•   <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>
•   <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez">Joan Baez</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney">Sydney, Australia</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus">Eucalyptus trees</a>

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