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This is a conversation about the ritual my husband and I devised – mentioned briefly in my new book, Spells for the Apocalypse – and which we've shared with many friends who've heard us refer to it, who've asked us how to do it, or for advice on what we've done when our marriage was on the rocks. We touch on topics like the real estate market, intergenerational trauma, neurodiversity, astrocartography, collapse-oriented choices we've made, attachment and the somatic cycle – all my favourite things!

This ritual was a "Hail Mary" move in our marriage. Granted, we've never dealt with infidelity or lies, and we've always had a foundational respect. We really, genuinely like each other which, sadly, not all couples can say.

However, patriarchy is still in play, what with us both steeped in this patriarchal culture. And trauma always lurks in the shadows. And attachment is a dynamic force that can sometimes be stretched too thin.

So here's the breakdown of the ritual we've done in desperate times, why we think it worked/works, and the impact it's had on our marriage. We call it The Ritual of the Marriage Moon.

We begin with a little context around why we needed the ritual in the first place, and how it's still serving us many years later.

Referenced in this episode:

Diane Poole Heller's somatic attachment therapy training

Portrait of a Marriage podcast miniseries

Portrait of a Marriage article

The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society by Bruce Alexander

The Numinous Network (where you can access my two attachment courses: Secure and Contact Nutrition 101)

*Not referenced in this article but definitely related and recommended for man-identified folks who want to learn more: Bear Hebert's course, Undoing Patriarchy

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Today we're doubling down on our protective plant magic to bolster our spiritual safeness while the veil remains thin. We also look at 'wassail' as a noun, verb, and greeting which is especially appropriate on the 9th night of Yule which is associated with the 9th month of the year – the apple-iest month there is – September.

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In this episode, we're cleansing home and body with medicinal herbs by making vermouth, potpourri and incense in order to finish the year well.

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In this episode we explore myths related to the beauty of binaries, balance, and cycles of death and resurrection. Some of the myths can help us queer the holidays, others can help us put strained sibling relationships into new perspective. Learn why why ham is such a symbolic meal during this holiday time, and consider some simple rituals to help you bring more balance into your life.

 

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✨My favourite part of Yuletide!✨ Hearth spirits, house brownies, and protective supernatural allies for homes, barns, and livestock are all propitiated at this time. For me, this seems like a great way to steer children away from the more commercial aspects of this time of year and spark imagination, intuition, and an animist sensibility. A fun ritual for today would be to research what house spirits were called in your family's heritage ♥️

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Ancient traditions around the return of the light imply a revival of hope and healing. Pagans created art and apothecary items to reflect the beautiful and harmonious qualities of the cosmos, adorning their homes and bodies to revive the spirit in wintertime.

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Today we honour the children in our lives and the child within us. Plus, more winter witches! woop woop!

Note: The final 4 minutes of this episode is a guided meditation during which you should not be driving, riding a bike, operating machinery or engaged in any activity that requires your full attention.

 

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Ancestral veneration is a key function of winter rituals, a way to put our lineages in good order, encourage harmonious relations with the spirits of the ancient dead, and appease the restless dead who roam at night. On this night, we tell scary ghost stories that might include child-devouring crones, beer-stealing werewolves, dictator dogs and violent Santas. It's also a good day to honour the animal familiars who help convey gifts and goodness including flying goats, female deer, and horse skeletons.

There are also lighter aspects to the day including the reverence of Freya, hanging wreaths, and sacred spinning, weaving and fibre work.

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This is one of my favourite episodes because cultivating intimacy with the land I live on and the Spirits of Place is one of my favourite things to do. It also addresses, briefly yet deeply, how we can attend to the impacts of imperialism, colonialism and patriarchy in our spiritual work, especially4 at wintertime.

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It all begins with the Mother. Tonight on the longest night of the year, we honour our matrilineages and the spiritual lineages of prophesy, blessing, abundance and nurturance passed down through the ages through myths concerning Crones.

Source materials for this miniseries:

A Brief History of Christmas Tradition

Apple Tree Lore, druidry.org

A Visit from La Befana, JSTOR Daily

Bärbeletreiben

Biedermeier period

Berserks In History and Legend, M.Speidel

Between the “Thracian Substratum” and “Oriental Accretions”: Bulgarian Mumming and the National Heritage Canon, Ivo Strahilov

CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND THE GIFT-BRINGER, LESLIE D. JOHNSTON

Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices, C.Lecouteux

Deutsches Weinachsmuseum, All About Christmas Glass

Doe A Deer A Female Deer, Danielle Prohom Olson

Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century, Jon Mackley

foodtimeline.org

Frau Holle in Legend

HiddenGlen.org, Michael Newton's courses are chock full of Gaelic lore and language. Highly recommended.

How Guy Lombardo Became Mr.New Year's Eve, Canadian Encyclopedia

Industrial Revolution, Chocolate Revolution

Lucy of Syracuse. Patron saint of eye disorders, Carlos Ortiz-Hidalgo

Marzipan Pigs Christmas Tradition

Notes on Italian Folk Customs, Stanley Gee

Otto Hofler, Wikipedia

Perchten and Krampusse: Living Mask Traditions in Austria and Bavaria, Molly Carter

Phantom Armies of the Night: The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead, Claude Lecouteux

Roast Beef, The New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834-63, N.Durbach

St. Lucia's Day: An Italian saint, a German child and a female demon all play a role in the story of 13 December, ScienceNorway.no

St.Lucy, Brittanica.com

Shedding Light on Saint Lucy, Aubrey Minshew

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Unknown author

Some Ancient and Modern Yuletide Customs (Dec.1939), L.Johnston

Sugar Past and Present

The Kissing Bough

The Ancient Jus Gentium of the Aryans (1899)

The Feast of Saint Barbara with Pagan Traditions

The Krampus in Austria: A Case of Booming Identity Politics, Gertraud Seiser and Matthäus Rest

The Lussekatter

The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year, L.Raedisch

The Pomander: A Brief History

The Problem of Mysteriousness of Baba Yaga Character in Religious Mythology, Evgenia V. Ivanova

The Rowan Tree and a Rowan Cross

The Scots Kitchen (1929), F.McNeill

The Silver Bough, Volume 3: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Hallowe’en to Yule (1961), F.McNeill

The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices, C.Lecouteux

The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, B.Walker

Unwrapping Yuletide: A Century of Icelandic Traditions, Gudrun Jonina Gunnlaugsdottir

We Don't Know The Origin Of The Candy Cane But They Almost Certainly Were Not Christian, Smithsonian Magazine

Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages, Claude Lecouteux

Yule: The Pagan Holiday of Light, The TROTH | Education and Service for Inclusive Heathenry

Yuletide Monsters: Christmas Hauntings in Medieval Literature and Modern Popular Culture, Medieval Studies Blog Hosted by the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute

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Antifascism for the holidays!

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Learn about Fumbulvinter, the 12 Days of Yuletide and their themes, and the stories of European Yuletide folklore in my annual program, now available for free! 

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Inspiration for your holiday kitchen witchery!

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A look at Victorian holiday postcards and the botanicals of winter.

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What's the deal with dead bird on Victorian holiday greeting cards? Plus, a rundown of some of the Yuletide bestiary.

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NOTE: This episode contains a 7 minute guided meditation – do not listen while driving or operating machinery! We begin the Yuletide season by grounding into our values and prioritizing just a few rituals, crafts or special foodstuffs. Then we can relax and release pressure to have or provide perfect holiday moments; instead we can deepen into rhythm of winter's work of ritual, ceremony, reflection and restorative pause.

 

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This episode is about the four intuitive tools I use to plan my year ahead, incorporating divination, dowsing, and more.

Before I dive in, I take a few minutes to stand on ceremony as I cross and important threshold with this podcast. It felt important to take some time to mark it well. I hope you find the Canadian Heritage Minutes interesting! limləmt to the Syilx Okanagan people for accepting us here on this land.

In this very full episode, I'm sharing about:

• electional astrology
• water witching
• pendulums
• Family Constellations
• wrestling with cultural appropriation
• trancework as a form of death work
• The Hellenistic concept of virtue ("arete")
• working with your daemon (your good spirit of destiny)
• guidelines for pulling an Oracular calendar reading
• a special announcement about a new format for The Spirit of Yuletide this year

PLUS!

• a preview of New Year happenings including a price increase for The Numinous Network
• live monthly rituals from my forthcoming book Spells for the Apocalypse
• a new Network event coming this spring: the Soft Sober Jam!

Referenced in this episode:

Chief Walking Grizzly Bear

Fur Brigade Trail

Syilx Language House

TNP226 Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory

The Divining Rod: A History of Water Witching, Dept. of the Interior US Geological Survey

About Family Constellations and generally all round awful person, Bert Hellinger

TNP229: What It Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington-Fedy

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Welcome to the final episode of my Witches New Year Podcast Retreat! As you likely know by now, I have a new book coming out in January 2025 called Spells for the Apocalypse: Practical Magic for Turbulent Times. In this episode, you'll get all the tea on how this book came to be, learn what advanced readers like Colette Baron-Reid and Asha Frost had to say about it, and hear excerpts from two chapters: a ritual on facing Fear, and an invocation for Wholeness.

Referenced in this episode:

The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, James Hillman

Colette Baron-Reid's Enchanted Map Oracle Deck

You Are The Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Asha Frost

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🎉 This episode is for all the collapse nerds! 🎉

🛑 Content warning 🛑: Frank discussion of near-term scientifically accepted and expected climate crises. For all the folks who feel fragile and might be tipped into a downward spiral, maybe skip this one, yeah?

I've invited collapse astrologer, Hummingbird Star, from @astrologyfortherevolution to join us for Witches New Year to do our year ahead overview. 👏🏻 

Given where we're at in the grand scheme of things, I asked Hummingbird to scan the medium-term horizon to help us understand what the Hermit year might be preparing us for on a collective scale. We're not only touching on topics we may want to contemplative in our collective Hermit year, but also the personal question of what role we wish to play in the revolution.

In this episode, we touch on the Neptunian shifts we should be tracking and much, much more.

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NOTE: In this episode, we talk about the potential failure of the AMOC (Atlantic meridional overturning circulation) and since I was speaking off the cuff, there's a danger that this could be spread as misinformation.

So to be clear: Here's a really nice, succinct and digestible explanation of what the AMOC is, and a nice, succinct, and conservative interpretation of what the shutdown would do, from The Guardian (Oct 23, 2024):

"AMOC, or the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, is a system of ocean currents that brings heat into the northern Atlantic. Warm surface water from the tropics flows north and releases its heat in the subpolar Atlantic, south of Greenland and west of Britain and Ireland. Then it cools and sinks to a depth of between 2,000m to 3,000 metres before returning south as a cold current. Amoc is one of our planet’s largest heat transport systems, moving the equivalent of 50 times the human energy use, and it has a particularly strong impact on the climate in Europe, affects the ocean’s CO2 uptake and oxygen supply, as well as rainfall patterns in the tropics."

"The effects (of a shutdown) include a cooling of the northern hemisphere, particularly northwestern Europe. There would also be a shift of the tropical rainfall belt to the south, which is bad because the rains will move away from the rainforests to regions that are not used to so much rainfall. So this will mean droughts in some regions and floods in others.

AMOC collapse would also have a major impact on the northern Atlantic sea level, which would rise by half a metre or so, in addition to the rise caused by global heating. It would also reduce the CO2 uptake of the ocean because AMOC sinking in the northern Atlantic takes a lot of CO2 down into the deep oceans where it is safely locked away from the atmosphere.

AMOC collapse would also change the nutrient supply and reduce the oxygen of the deep oceans. This would have a massive effect on marine biology and the entire ecosystem of the northern Atlantic."

Generally speaking, what climate scientists in the past had predicated would not happen until after 2050 is happening now, 30 years earlier. It's not that much of a stretch then, to say that what they predicted would happen *before* 2050 will occur a decade earlier. So the possible range of hitting a tipping point to an AMOC shutdown was predicted to be somewhere between 2030 and 2075, or the end of the century as the very outside possibility of it taking that long.

So that puts the tipping point to shutdown right around... now.

Learn more about the AMOC shutdown from collapse expert, Sharon Astyk

 

We're preparing for a soul-searching kind of year with the Hermit card overlighting our path. In the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, Key 9 (in other words, card number 9) is the Hermit card. In numerology, next year is a 9 year (2+0+2+5). So we look to the lessons of the Hermit card for clues about our developmental task on the spiritual level for the year ahead.

In this episode, I share a brief overview of the Fool's entire journey through the Major Arcana, using Rachel Pollack's Three Cycles of the Majors before I dive deep into the lessons of the Hermit.

Plus we'll notice some patterns when it comes to some intensely disruptive historical events that occured the last time we experienced some of the major outer planet transits that will be happening again in 2025, (which, when taken altogether, are really giving Hermit vibes).

Plus! I offer a 5-card spread to help you interpret the Hermit card and how you can apply its lessons in 2025.

Referenced in this episode:

Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy by Chris Marmolejo

Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen

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{Witches New Year Podcast Retreat} In this very special episode, we're doing a deep dive into the Eleusinian Mysteries and the cults of Demeter and Persephone, including a special trance journey to walk the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis, as the ancient initiates did.

Referenced in this episode:

Eleusinian terracotta figurine

Dr.Cyndi Brannen

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Marija Gimbutas

Charlene Spretnak

Dr.Mara Keller

Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries

The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries by R.Gordon Wasson* (I have concerns about super shitty and extractive research methods here - not sure I recommend but am citing for proper attribution of research I accessed for this class and subsequent podcast)

Present-day Eleusis from Google Earth

Present-day Athenian Agora

Trance music: "Adrift 2" by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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We're back with another class from The Numinous School archive: Trancework Fundamentals. Here you'll learn:

• what is trance? • how does it work? • what is it good for? • is it safe? • what qualities should we look for in a guide to signal that we can trust them with this process?

I'm giving you this information now so you're well prepared in advance of the next episode which will feature a richly evocative trance journey to participate as an initiate in the Eleusinian Mysteries, a 9-day rite of devotion to Demeter, Persephone, Hekate and others, one of the most famous rites of the Hellenistic world performed annually in the autumn.

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The ritual craft for this year's Samhain Wheel of the Year is a perennial favourite: Witch Ladders! I never get bored of them. And I rarely get rid of them, but when I do you'll learn in this episode what I do with them when the magic is finished. You'll want to consult your copy of The Spirited Kitchen for help in deciding which Magical Correspondences will fulfill your intention and make this an effective spell for you. Or simply listen to this episode in full and let the spirit move you towards the materia magica that intuitively works for you!

Mentioned in this episode:

Witch ladder inspo 1

Witch ladder inspo 2

Witch ladder inspo 3

Witch ladder inspo 4

Witch ladder inspo 5

Witch ladder inspo 6

Somerset Witch Ladder: Witches' Ladder: The Hidden History

Knot of Isis

Gordian Knot

Trinity Knot/Triquetra

Buddhist Endless Knot

Constrictor Knot

In the Bath House at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia by W.F. Ryan

The Power of Words in Miracles, Visions, Incantations and Bewitchments by Klaniczay Gabor

Carmina Gadelica

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In this essay I will show how Thomas Aquinas, due to his early life attachment ruptures and abandonment wound, and under the influence of the violent toxic masculinity of the Inquisition and Aristotle's writings, became a 23 year old incel who went on to drive an 800 year wedge between intuition and the mind for people of European descent.

Enjoy!

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Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition with Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Why Evil Exists with Professor Charles Mathewes, Ph.D., University of Virginia

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Happy 49th birthday to me! Here's my gift to you: This is the first episode of a personal retreat podcast miniseries! Half of the episodes help you prepare for the season of the witch, the other half offer a guided day of ritual, trancework, self-care, and divination for 2025. It's a party at your own pace! A party for introverts! We're all doing similar things but inside our own homes on our own time. Huzzah! 🎉 🥳 🎂

I'll be honest, I've got a lot going on right now so this is probably the most off-the-cuff episode I've ever produced. But if you can put up with all my side quest, stories and tangents, there's a lot of good instruction here, especially for folks who are new to working with altars or ancestors.

Here's a shrine I made for Isobell, my grandmother

Mentioned in this episode:

Crafting Personal Shrines: Using Photos, Mementos & Treasures to Create Artful Displays, by Carol Owen

YouTube: AirDry Clay Shrines by CraftyChica Kathy Cano-Murillo

TNP99: Monsters and Magical Beings with John Michael Greer

AstroMagic Miniseries

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Did you know that matrescence – the process of becoming a mother – takes approximately 2-3 years? It's far from the 3, 6, or 12 month process we've been made to believe. In fact, 20 years after giving birth to my child, I'm still grappling with how it changed me, how I want to mother, and what this identity means to me.

My guest for this episode is Jessie Harrold, coach, doula, educator and author of Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage. We're talking about:

• Who goes through "matrescence"? Who is a mother?? What is mothering??? • Should postpartum depression (or postpartum anxiety) an expected part of matrescence? • How do we manage the grief, rage or ambivalence that often comes with motherhood? • How are mothers specially equipped to disrupt social norms like capitalism?

Please do pre-order Mothershift before November 11 – get your own Mothershift journal as a bonus gift!

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Jordan Pickell is a Vancouver, BC-based a trauma counsellor. Issues centred in her work include boundary setting, making friends and building community, and the impacts of trauma, violence and oppression. She's our hype woman today for building better boundaries with our parents.

I happened to see on Instagram that Jordan is once again offering her 2hr online workshop, Build Better Boundaries, on Friday, November 15, 2024. It's recorded in case you can't make it live, and it’s less than $40 Canadian!

In that workshop, you’ll map your current relationship dynamics, you’ll uncover your personal boundaries blueprint, and craft a personalized boundaries action plan. In other words, you’re going to get yourself out of the freeze response, and lay the critical groundwork for success so that when you actually do the thing, you are mobilized and confident and ready to handle whatever happens next.

Enjoy this conversation as a warm-up: You'll hear me share about my own journey of setting boundaries, more than a decade of estrangement from my mom, and repair with impacted family members. Jordan shares about her family's style of "enmeshment", the experience of being a first daughter, and cultural factors as a person of mixed race. 

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Welcome back to the second of this teensy tiny Tarot miniseries. Remember, we're continuing our Tarot journey in The Numinous Network throughout the fall and into the new year. Join us for this deep dive! All classes are recorded and archived with no time limit for viewing.

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This is actually an excerpt from a now-retired course I used to have called Intro to Tarot. You'll get all the backstory of that in this episode, but the main content here is about the history of the Tarot going all the way back to a syncretic figure called "Hermes Trismegistus" who was not a singular person but rather a collective of writing by powerful magi, like how Homer is not actually one writer but ratherthe combined works of several bards over centuries...It's mysterious and fascinating and I hope you enjoy this sweet lil artifact from my archive!

Stay tuned for part two on the proliferation of decks across the globe and through the ages, from the Sola Busca deck of the Renaissance to the icon and groundbreaking Rider Waite Smith, to today's artist-driven marketplace of Post Modern decks! Subscribe to this podcast to get that episode automatically in your podcast player.

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My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating a kinder relationship with our ever-changing bodies.   Connect with Dawn at tendandcultivate.com   Follow her on Facebook and Instagram     Referenced in this episode   Mia Mingus, disability rights activist and contributor to Octavia's Brood with her story, Hollow   Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride    Sabrina Strings and her book, Fearing the Black Body    Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast    Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist   Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays   Culture Work on TikTok and Substack   Betty Martin   Dr. Asher Larmie, The Fat Doctor   (their Ozempic masterclass is listed here)   Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health   Ep229: What it Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy on sex and pressure   Ash of The Fat Lip - A Fat Liberation Podcast came up with the infinifat classification - details about the history are here: --- https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/ --- https://cherrymax.medium.com/community-origins-of-the-term-superfat-9e98e1b0f201   Covid PSA:   WHO technical document   University of Bristol study   Elevator Covid transmission study   ☎️ Leave feedback for this episode! ☎️    Check out The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year   Learn more about The Numinous Network

We're not afraid of grappling with the tough stuff here on The Numinous Podcast! In this episode we're engaging with high stakes violations of values and betrayals that lead to Moral Injury.

Moral Injury can occur when you do or fail to do something, when you witness something, or when you hear about something after the fact, that violates your deeply held beliefs and values in a high stakes context.

Certainly healthcare practitioners and mental health professionals will be interested in this discussion, but also anyone who has grappled with moral emotions like outrage, shame, guilt, and remorse.

Moral injury is a social wound that helps the collective stay co-operative. Grappling with Moral Injury is a civic responsibility – a moral obligation as our guest says – and a sign of a healthy pro-social individual.

Our guest on this episode is Dr.Robyn Walser, a licensed psychologist and co-author of 7 books on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (commonly known as ACT). She has most recently written a book entitled,The Heart of ACT: Developing a Flexible, Process-Based, and Client-Centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  She’s an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the Director of TL Psychological and Consultation Services, and works at the National Center for PTSD. Dr. Walser has been offering ACT workshops since 1998.

 

Referenced in this episode

Case Conceptualizing in Acceptance and Commitment therapy for Moral Injury: An Active and On-Going Approach to Understanding and Intervening on Moral Injury, by Jacob Farnsworth, Lauren Borges, Sean Barnes and Kent Drescher and Robyn Walser

The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values by Robyn Walser, Wyatt Evans, Kent Drescher, Jacob Farnsworth

The Heart of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Talk by Robyn Walser (YouTube)

 

The Moral Injury Course

• Become a member of The Numinous Network and begin a supportive somatic practice ahead of the live sessions. Group somatic practice sessions happen Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

• If appropriate, begin The Safe & Sound Protocol (included in membership) to support nervous system resilience.

• Attend the live sessions, starting in June. Live Sessions form a sequential series of psychoeducation and progressively layered activities:

Friday, June 28, 10-11am PT

Saturday, June 29, 9-9:45am PT

Sunday, June 30, 10-10:45am PT

Monday, July 1, 10-10:30am PT (optional for additional or catch-up work)

Fridays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, 10-11am PT

Live sessions will be recorded and archived for later viewing at your convenience.

• Optional: Stay on with us for aftercare! In August, we're streamlining the calendar and focusing on somatic practice and weightlifting. (Discharging anger by lifting heavy shit!) In September, the full calendar of events is back up and running, with additional SSP co-listening sessions to support nervous system regulation ahead of the American election season.

The Moral Injury course is included in Numinous Network membership which is offered at a sliding scale from $45 - $75 US per month, providing access to over 30 live events and over 50 hours of video on-demand.

 

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This episode is going to be a very special one for all the listeners who live with chronic illness and all the listeners with Indigenous heritage. These stories and experiences are interwoven in my conversation today with Anishinaabe medicine woman, Asha Frost. 

Asha Frost (she/her) is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She’s a longtime healer working with homeopathy, plant medicine, and ceremony. She’s also the author of the bestselling book, You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance, as well as the Sacred Medicine Oracle Deck.

This is real talk about living with chronic illness, and about white supremacy and colonialism in the wellness industry and the medical field.

In this episode, we explore the perennial paradox of any health diagnosis: the tension/balance between accepting the reality of chronic illness while also reaching towards healing.

Throughout, Asha shares some of the medicines that can be helpful on this journey.

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Pre-order her new oracle deck, The Animal Elders Oracle

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Mental health professional and somatic coach, Aurelie Richards, is back on the show and we’re talking about secure attachment in movement work – community organizing, workplace unionizing.

How can we do this in a way that's sensitive to the realities of interpersonal neurobiology? In a way that recognizes the value of presencing secure attachment in an environment that naturally brings up unresolved trauma, lack of safeness, perhaps even hostility?

The topic of our show today is very aligned with the energy of the Beltane season, particularly the weaving of the labour movement and other liberatory movements with the energies of spring, collective mobilization, and ecstatic, creative union. 

We get into the nitty gritty of working with a disorganized attachment field within movement work.

We dive into astromagic as part of our organizing strategy.

We discuss the intricacies of power mapping in groups and organizations.

It's a juicy case study of Aurelie's labour organizing experience in a German context with lots for us to learn!

Connect with Aurelie

For resilience coaching, somatics, and burnout prevention visit Aurelie's website. 

Aurelie's resilience workshops, team building, and wellness in the workplace offerings 

Her anarcho queer feminist health collective is actively seeking new members in Berlin!

Folks can direct questions or reach out for support to post@aurelierichards.com.

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Content note: Specific, sometimes graphic, discussion of death.

Shawn Leonard is a Mi'kmaq psychic medium. Gifted and accurate, his television show on APTN called 'Spirit Talker' depicts him travelling to Indigenous communities across the country, learning about their culture and spiritual teachings, and connecting them with their Beloved Dead.

Along the way, he brings hope, healing, and closure, and deepens his connection to his own Mi'kmaq heritage and the medicine of his Indigenous name, White Eagle Spirit Talker.

 

Connect with Shawn

Follow on all the socials: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Get Shawn's book Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mi'kmaq Psychic Medium (I enjoyed his reading of the audiobook version!)

Join his online course starting in September 2024, Spirit Talker Tribe

Find his oracle deck

Watch Spirit Talker on APTN's streaming service, Lumi

(Also check out Indians and Aliens while you're there!)

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If you're a 35 - 55 year old woman, you grew up in the very particular cultural landscape of the pre-#MeToo era. You grew up with boy-centered stories like The Outsiders, Stand By Me, Goonies and The Lost Boys, the  everyday male violence and misogyny of entertainers like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison, and hypersexualized movies and music like Porky's and "Me So Horny" – LOTS TO UNPACK THERE. Time to revisit and tell our own stories.

Emelia Symington Fedy's memoir, Skid Dogs, is a brave, bittersweet coming-of-age story about a group of high school girls in the '90s navigating friendship, sex, and parents from the retrospective view of a now 30-something woman supporting her mother's cancer journey.

Content Warning: We're talking about rape culture, sexual assault, and gender-based violence in this episode, the impacts still felt decades on, and the process of sexual healing as middle aged women.

We also get a little explicit with the language so…headphones highly recommended!

This is a raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture, and to be honest it was so searingly accurate I had to wait a minute and gather myself before I invited @emeliasf to come on the show to discuss it.

Publisher's Weekly describes it this way:

“With plenty of Juicy Fruit, padded bras, and pot smoke, the narrative begins as a nostalgia-tinted reverie before evolving into a devastating portrait of the pre-#MeToo era from someone on the other side of it. The author’s candor and courage will move readers regardless of when or where they came of age.” 

Buy Skid Dogs at your favourite local bookseller or the alternative.

Sign up for Emelia's newsletter on her website.

 

Reach out to a Crisis Line to debrief:

Canadian mental health resources

American mental health resources

International Suicide Hotlines

 

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Content Note: This is a very honest and frank conversation about our topic – modern dating. You may want to listen to this one through headphones! We’ve got a really FUN episode ahead with Canada’s Dating Coach, Chantal Heide, who has some great advice for all the women who are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to date men.

Honestly, I think this might be my new comfort listen. It's so soothing to hear someone preach about sovereignty and self-love and high standards!

Chantal is the author of several books on dating and relationships, among them the notable title, No More Assholes: Your 7 Step Guide to Saying Goodbye to Guys and Finding the Real Man You’re Looking For. 

Chantal's approach to dating is at once more conservative and more radical than most. From a neurobiological attachment perspective, I have no notes. Very sound advice. I never did it this way, but if I was single and wanting to date a man, I'd do it this way.

Check out CanadasDatingCoach.com and follow Chantal:

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When I tell you that a tarot book is one of the best antiracism workbooks I’ve ever come across, I hope you take note. I honestly think if anyone, whether an adept or a newer student of antiracism, were to pick up Tarot for the Hard Work, it would keep them busy with exercises and practices for the rest of their lives. And, not incidentally, forge a deeper relationship with their tarot practice.

The author and my guest for this episode is Maria Minnis, a tarot reader who teaches about blending spirituality with liberation work. 

Tarot for the Hard Work is a provocative exploration of the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana that re envisions these archetypes as beacons that illuminate the various ways racism takes root both in ourselves and in the world. With exercises and thought-provoking recommended reading and resources, readers are guided to use Major Arcana themes to dismantle internalized racism, racism in relationships, and racism in communities.

This book exceeded my expectations and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Referenced in this Episode

I’m Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority’, by Daniel Lim

"Global Majority" Wikipedia entry

Who Are People of the Global Majority and Why It Matters, by Britt Hawthorne

My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem

They Called Me Number One, Bev Sellars 

I Am Woman, Lee Maracle

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Percentage of Asymptomatic Infections among SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant-Positive Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Face Masks and Respirators in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Current Materials, Advances and Future Perspectives

The People's Public Health Education Campaign is a project of the People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls - follow her on Instagram Twitter or Facebook for more!

 

I am a huge fan of Wayne McCrory's book, The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. Wayne McCrory is a registered professional biologist specializing in the study of wild horses, bears and western toads.

Wayne is a leading expert on bear conservation and human-bear conflict. He was a driving force in the creation of the Khutzeymateen/K’tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary as well as the Kitasoo Spirit Bear Conservancy, and for 30 years he worked with many others to end B.C.’s grizzly bear trophy hunt.

Wayne has published more than ninety scientific reports on wildlife and conservation, including two technical reports on wild horses in BC and Alberta. With horse genetics expert Dr. Gus Cothran, he has coauthored two reports on the genetics of wild horses in the Chilcotin.

In Wild Horses of the Chilcotin, there’s also kind of a low key mystical aspect to the book too - through the sharing of his dreams and experiences on the land, you get the sense that there’s an underlying subtext around a scientist encountering his spiritual self and seeking to defend and protect something bigger, something ineffable yet essential to the human spirit.

 

Buy the book: The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future

Learn more about the Elegesi Qiyus (Eagle Lake Henry) Wild Horse Preserve of the Xeni Gwet'in

Watch In the Valley of Wild Horses on YouTube about the Xeni community 

Friends of the Nemaiah Valley

 

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The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be, JB MacKinnon

Sharon Astyk re: collapse

Yvonne Owens

Recent mask effectiveness research and NIOSH citation by Consumer Reports

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Looking back and looking forward, standing on threshold with a full decade of The Numinous Podcast behind me, I share 10 Qualities of Leadership, 3 secrets about the show, plus a bonus secret and another extra special bonus secret, a clip of my favourite 15 minutes out of the 10,000+ minutes of the show, and I cry a few times, of course.

So it's a pretty full episode with a good dose of edu-tainment!

Thank you so much for your support over the years.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Barefoot doctors

Mirabella Ponders the Mystery

Grieving Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips

Pollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron

Thank you to Thanh Mai K'Taaya of SpringUp for language around self-harm and self-determination.

 

The People's Public Health Education is a project led by The People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, that seeks to create art and belonging around staying Covid-Safe during the on-going SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Join us for the organizing meeting on April 3, 2024 (or receive the materials if you can't attend).

 

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This episode is for people who are seeking guidance about how we shall live and work and be joyful together in the face of on-going pandemic. Our guest is Dayna Nuckolls, known online as The People's Oracle, creator of the Divination For Liberation Framework of Sidereal Astrology and The 7 Essential Needs™️. Dayna is a multi-oracle diviner, musician, writer, speaker, and teacher. I'm so excited for her new project: The People's Public Health Education Campaign.

We're talking about the pandemic, we're talking about liberatory astrology, we're planning for a future that includes a grassroots collective care renaissance.

I hope I'll see you at the organizing meeting! 

The People's Public Health Education Campaign Info Meeting Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6pm Central via Zoom Register to attend (or to receive meeting materials if you can't attend in person): https://bit.ly/pphec2024   For questions please contact Dayna on Insta @PeoplesOracle or James @jameslpoteet www.ThePeoplesOracle.com Follow Dayna on Instagram and Twitter: @PeoplesOracle YouTube: www.YouTube.com/LynnDayna Get the 2024 Sidereal Astrology Guide: https://shop.ThePeoplesOracle.com/collections/2024   Mentioned in this Episode   StatsCan Report, Dec 2023: Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19  

Nature Medicine: Higher health risks associated with each Covid re-infection: Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection

  Mask blocs   Ba-Zi Chinese predictive astrology   Covid-19 Monoclonal Antibodies - emergency use authorization   How to Survive a Plague, by David France   Clean Air Club of Chicago   *** Leave feedback for the show!   Learn more about The Numinous Network   Sign up for my newsletter

 

My guest today is Efu Nyaki, a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing. I first heard about Efu through my friends, Patricia Petersen and Thérèse Cator who were each members of the inaugural BIPOC-only cohort of Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner trainings. They recently graduated from that multiyear program and I couldn’t be more delighted to congratulate them on this tremendously wonderful achievement! 🎉 Finding a BIPOC practitioner of SE is getting easier in great measure because of the trailblazing work of today’s guest, Efu Nyaki.

 

Efu is a faculty member at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and also a professor of Systemic Family Constellations Therapy at the Hellinger Science Institute, and is also the founder of AFYA, a women’s holistic healing centre in Brazil. I’m delighted to welcome Efu to the show.

 

Find Efu's book, Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing: Ancestral Wisdom from the Snail Clan of Tanzania

Follow her on Instagram

 

Referenced in this episode

BIPOC-only SE training in January 2024

Blog post on epistemic privilege and humility

Patricia Petersen Counselling (incl attachment-informed couple counselling)

Thérèse Cator - Circle of Reclamation

 

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This episode is a short retrospective of highlights from nearly a decade of The Numinous Podcast!

Below, I've sorted ten years of episodes into 14 playlists. If you don't see 14 categories below in your podcast player show notes, click here to view them on the podcast website. Enjoy!

 

Intuition, Spirituality, and the Mysteries of Life

TNP4: Love and Angels with Robin Arnold

TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon

TNP7: Spirituality + Recovery with Trinity Donnelley MacRae

TNP9: Meditation, Channeling and Connection with Dr.Jonni Gray

TNP11: Public, Private and Political with Louise

TNP13: Spiritual Self-Esteem and Professional Integrity as an Intuitive Practitioner with Judee Gee

TNP14: Carl-Greger on Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening and Direct Experience

TNP16: Jenna DellaGrottaglia on Art + Intuition

TNP17: Shakti Roumagoux: Catholic, Quaker, Engaged Buddhist

TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne

TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart

TNP25: Findhorn and Facilitating Inner Knowing with Kate Sutherland

TNP27: Shamanism and the Corporate World with Agneta

TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom

TNP32: Sex, Spirituality and Intuition with Lesley Stedmon

TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 1- Trusting Your Intuition

TNP36: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 2 - Trusting Your Pendulum

TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 3 - Common Questions About Intuition

TNP41: Elle North on Tarot + Intuition

TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism and the Heart of Business

TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teaching from the Living Earth

TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery

TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality

TNP52: Humanism, Atheism and Optimism with Emrys Damon Miller

TNP53: Astronomy's Mysteries with John Reid

TNP59: Ritual + Magic with John Michael Greer

TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1

TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2

TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3

TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark

TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation

TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses

TNP74: Sacred Beekeeping with Nikiah Seeds

TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy

TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc

TNP78: Niana Hierlander on the Uncommon Marriage of Celtic Shamanism and Catholic Mysticism

TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path

TNP81: {Numinous School Tutorial} Your Intuition Questions Answered

TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I

TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony

TNP89: The Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb

TNP90: The Celtic Golden Dawn with John Michael Greer

TNP92: Sufism, Dreamwork and Belonging with Toko-pa Turner

TNP96: Secrets of the Temple with John Michael Greer

TNP98: Priestess, Shaman, Mystic, Scapegoat with Sarah Kerr

TNP99: Monsters and Magical Beings with John Michael Greer

TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine

TNP102: Sarah Selecky and Radiant Shimmering Light

TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall

TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson

TNP124: Elizabeth Brown on Dowsing and Causative Diagnosis

TNP126: Controlled Remote Viewing with Laurie Lambert Williams

TNP127: Moon Magic with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

TNP128: Scottish Folk Magic with Scott Richardson Reid of the Cailleach's Herbarium

TNP129: Palm Reading with Helene Saucedo

TNP130: Sigil Witchery with Laura Tempest Zakroff

TNP131: The Twelve Faces of the Goddess with Danielle Blackwood

TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times

TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic

TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime

TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine

TNP149: Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola

TNP150: Hekatean Witchcraft with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP158: Beyond Crystal Basics with Nicholas Pearson

TNP159: Norse Ritual Animism and Seidr with Maris Bergrune

TNP162: Entering Hekate's Garden with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies

TNP170: Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden with Nicholas Pearson

TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau

TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta

TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator

TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology

TNP180: What Makes a Witch? with Carmen Spagnola

TNP183: Journey from Maiden to Mother with Sarah Durham Wilson

TNP184: Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte

TNP185: Trance, Dreams and the Collective with Carmen Spagnola

TNP188: Fumbling Through...All Of It with Kael Klassen

TNP190: Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy

TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP205: Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene and Miracles

TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen

TNP212: Shauna Janz on Ancestral Veneration in Child-Free and Queer Lineages

TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid

TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP230: Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on working with Your Guides

TNP232: Be the fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

 

 

Attachment, Human Relationships, Parenting, Families, and Cults

TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children

TNP29: Conscious Parenting with Colleen Adrian

TNP31: Creating Community with Carolyne Taylor

TNP33: Community, Autonomy and Forgiveness with Michael Phillips

TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language and Poetry

TNP40: Bethany Webster on Healing the Mother Wound

TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery

TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse

TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality

TNP51: Love in the Apocalypse with Carolyn Baker, PhD

TNP56: Motherless Daughter, Mother: Sheila Webster

TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1

TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2

TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3

TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important

TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy

TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I

TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

TNP84: Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice

TNP86: Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson

TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth

TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall

TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread

TNP116: Matthew Remski on Attachment, High Demand Communities and Yoga's Culture of Abuse

TNP118: Patti Elledge on Attachment, Grieving Together, and Mobilizing Outrage

TNP121: Alexandra Stein on Disorganized Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Regimes

TNP138: Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphan's Journey

TNP151: Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence

TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri

TNP166: Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans)Midlife with Aurelie Richards

TNP172: A Love Note to Grievers with Angela E Morris

TNP189: Recovering Towards Mothering with Taryn Strong

TNP194: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 1

TNP195: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 2

TNP196: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 3

TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 4

TNP208: {Special Class Recording} Attachment + Contact Nutrition 

TNP213: Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan

TNP218: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP223: Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE

TNP228: New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach, Chantal Heide

 

Voices of the Global Majority (BIPOC - Black, Indigenous, People of Colour)

TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children

TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness

TNP57: Homeless and Hopeless, to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan

TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds

TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces

TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women

TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important

TNP70: Sewit Thomas Jones on Language and Belonging

TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation

TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy

TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc

TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path

TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony

TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth

TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd

TNP95: Preparing with Quest with Patricia and Ashley

TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall

TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine

TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali

TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan

TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega

TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway

TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe

TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness

TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements

TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation

TNP125: Stephanie Papik on Inuit tattoos and Cultural Reclamation

TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness

TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic

TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime

TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine

TNP152: Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan

TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri

TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith

TNP156: Elaine Alec on Calling Your Spirit Back from Trauma

TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta

TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator

TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology

TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway

TNP187: Sinking Into Sacred Truth and Giving It Voice with Velda Thomas

TNP201: {AstroMagic Miniseries} The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson

TNP211: Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger

TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

TNP223: Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE

TNP224: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign

TNP227: Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis 

TNP230: Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on working with Your Guides

TNP232: Be the fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

 

Collapse, Dismantling Systems of Oppression, and Revolution

TNP21: Culture, Colonialism and Spirituality with Josiah Neufeld

TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips

TNP28: Communism, the Beatniks and the Guru with Michael Phillips

TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque and Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits)

TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse

TNP54: Nicole Foss on Navigating the Perfect Financial Storm

TNP55: How to Build a Life Boat with Nicole Foss

TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark

TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds

TNP67: Confronting Whiteness with Rachael Rice and Marybeth Bonfiglio

TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces

TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women

TNP71: Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses

TNP75: Jennifer Jacquet Asks, Is Shame a Necessary Tool for Social Cooperation?

TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I

TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony

TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth

TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd

TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson

TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali

TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan

TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega

TNP109: Tending the Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak

TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway

TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe

TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness

TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread

TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements

TNP119: John Michael Greer on The Long Descent

TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation

TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller

TNP134: Decolonizing Scottish Highland History and Radicalizing Gaelic Folk Culture with Michael Newton

TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness

TNP139: Colonial Influence on Hide Tanning Past and Present with Mara Cur

TNP143: Bear Hebert on Unlearning Oppression

TNP145: Holly Truhlar on Tending the Threshold of Collapse

TNP146: Carmen + Holly on Collapse Psychology and the Importance of Grief, Ritual, Accountability and Play

TNP147: Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse and Meaning Through Poetry

TNP148: Seeing Yourself Through the Apocalypse with Lindsay Tunkl

TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith

TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola

TNP168: Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinricks

TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies

TNP171: Crystie Kisler is Connecting Land and Food

TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway

TNP193: How Much is Enough in Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben

TNP207: {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times

TNP215: Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin

TNP218: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

TNP221: Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

TNP224: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign

TNP227: Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis

TNP234: Unlearning Fatphobia + Embracing Pleasure with Dawn Serra

 

Grief, Death, and Mortality

TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips

TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse

TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc

TNP84: Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice

TNP86: Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson

TNP89: The Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb

TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall

TNP122: Pashta MaryMoon on Accompanying the Dying, Hospice Singing and Preparing for our Death

TNP123: Sarah Kerr on Being a Death Doula and Coping with Loss When a Pet or Plant Dies

TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller

TNP138: Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphan's Journey

TNP152: Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan

TNP172: A Love Note to Grievers with Angela E. Morris

TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP230: Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on working with Your Guides

 

Midlife/Perimenopause

TNP165: Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds

TNP179: Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds

TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood

TNP166: Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans)Midlife with Aurelie Richards

TNP182: Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie

TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid

TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen and Ruben (Part Four)

TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau (this one is maybe indirectly related - I can't remember specifics but it feels aligned!)

TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray

TNP220: Empower Your Menopause with Dr.Kristin Schnurr, ND

TNP228: New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach, Chantal Heide

 

Creativity, Business, and Practitioner Skills

TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon

TNP8: Better Living Through Metaphor with Sarah Selecky

TNP15: Lauren Bacon with Tools to Diffuse Imposter Syndrome and Comparison

TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne

TNP38: Brooke Semple on Culture, Design, and Authenticity

TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism and the Heart of Business

TNP45: Emrys Damon Miller on Graphic Design and Shamanism

TNP58: Kindness and Goodness, in Business and Life with Carrie Klassen

TNP60: How the Healer Heals Herself with Lindsay Rose Turner

TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds

TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women

TNP71: Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc

TNP91: Emelia Symginton Fedy is Trying to be Good

TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall

TNP102: Sarah Selecky and Radiant Shimmering Light

TNP109: Tending the Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak

TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness

TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread

TNP167: Lessons Learned from Ira Glass, Roxane Gay, and the Making of The Spirited Kitchen

TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau

TNP177: Journal as Altar, Pages as Portals with Erin Fairchild

TNP178: Eliza Robertson on Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses

TNP181: {Takeover Episode} The Making of The Spirited Kitchen

TNP184: Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte

TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid

TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

 

Land, Nature, and Animism

TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon

TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart

TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom

TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teaching from the Living Earth

TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds

TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women

TNP70: Sewit Thomas Jones on Language and Belonging

TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd

TNP95: Preparing with Quest with Patricia and Ashley

TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine

TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson

TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread

TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements

TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times

TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine

TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan

TNP162: Entering Hekate's Garden with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP170: Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden with Nicholas Pearson

TNP171: Crystie Kisler is Connecting Land and Food

TNP205: Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene and Miracles

TNP206: Alexa Linton on Interspecies Relating and Healing with Horses

TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen

TNP221: Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

TNP226: Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory

TNP232: Be the fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

 

Astrology

TNP12: Georgia Nicols on Astrology and Patterns of Knowing

TNP23: Making the Most of Mercury Retrograde with Georgia Nicols

TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood

TNP178: Eliza Robertson on Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses

TNP198: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Eliza Robertson and the Sun

TNP199: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Bronwyn Simons on Moon Magic + Lunar Consciousness

TNP200: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola

TNP201: {AstroMagic Miniseries} The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson

TNP202: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter

TNP203: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Kristin Mathis, Venus and the Orphic Hymns

TNP204: {AstroMagic Miniseries} ET Shipley on the Power of Saturn

TNP224: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign

 

Somatics, the Body, and Healing Journeys

TNP32: Sex, Spirituality and Intuition with Lesley Stedmon

TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque and Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits)

TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness

TNP57: Homeless and Hopeless, to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan

TNP60: How the Healer Heals Herself with Lindsay Rose Turner

TNP91: Emelia Symginton Fedy is Trying to be Good

TNP94: Mapping Reclamation with Rachael Maddox

TNP132: Somatic Mentoring with Patti Elledge

TNP156: Elaine Alec on Calling Your Spirit Back from Trauma

TNP168: Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinricks

TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies

TNP187: Sinking Into Sacred Truth and Giving It Voice with Velda Thomas

TNP190: Rooting the Myths of Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy

TNP210: RCCX Theory of Complex Illness with Carmen Spagnola

TNP211: Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger

TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray

TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

TNP220: Empower Your Menopause with Dr.Kristin Schnurr, ND

TNP223: Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE

TNP232: Be the Fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

TNP233: Understanding Moral Injury with Dr.Robyn Walser

TNP234: Unlearning Fatphobia + Embracing Pleasure with Dawn Serra

 

Poetry

TNP20: Llynne Phillips and Sacred Poetry

TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language and Poetry

TNP147: Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse and Meaning Through Poetry

TNP221: Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

 

Elder Wisdom

TNP12: Georgia Nicols on Astrology and Patterns of Knowing

TNP20: Llynne Phillips and Sacred Poetry

TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips

TNP28: Communism, the Beatniks and the Guru with Michael Phillips

TNP33: Community, Autonomy and Forgiveness with Michael Phillips

TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse

TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses

TNP122: Pashta MaryMoon on Accompanying the Dying, Hospice Singing and Preparing for our Death

TNP132: Somatic Mentoring with Patti Elledge

TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan

TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid

TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP221: Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

TNP226: Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory

 

 

Carmen & Ruben / Rubenations

TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality

TNP75: Jennifer Jacquet Asks, Is Shame a Necessary Tool for Social Cooperation?

TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I

TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

TNP100: Cocktail Pairings for Your Listening Pleasure

TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller

TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan

TNP193: How Much is Enough in Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben

TNP194: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 1

TNP195: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 2

TNP196: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 3

TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 4

 

Just Me Talkin'

TNP1: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor, (Premiere Episode, March 30, 2014)

TNP2: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor

TNP3: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor

TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 1- Trusting Your Intuition

TNP36: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 2 - Trusting Your Pendulum

TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 3 - Common Questions About Intuition

TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1

TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2

TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3

TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark

TNP81: {Numinous School Tutorial} Your Intuition Questions Answered

TNP149: Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola

TNP160: The Bruce Springsteen Soundtrack

TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola

TNP180: What Makes a Witch? with Carmen Spagnola

TNP185: Trance, Dreams and the Collective with Carmen Spagnola

TNP200: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola

TNP207: {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times

TNP208: {Special Class Recording} Attachment + Contact Nutrition 

TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen

TNP225: 10th Anniversary Episode! 3 Secrets + My Thoughts on the Mystery of Life

 

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Today, we welcome Clark Strand to the show to talk about his book, Waking up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse. Clark has written numerous books and articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he is co-author with previous podcast guest, Perdita Finn, of the book, The Way of the Rose.

 

In this episode, we go back to the beginning, in more ways than one. We explore the Deep Time of our neolithic ancestors, and even just how distant the world of our ancestors of less than 100 years ago seems, as we discuss the ways in which electric light has shaped our lives and our psyches. We discuss how electrification has led us to the climate crisis we’re in today. Waking up to the Dark is an urgent message from an apparition that Clark calls Our Lady of Climate Change about the challenges to come. 

 

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Learn more about the Way of the Rose Fellowship

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Perdita Finn's episode of The Numinous Podcast

Sophie Strand's episode of The Numinous Podcast

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I have been a student in the most life-changing class about perimenopause for the better part of this year. Actually, it’s a telehealth group – a group of patients meeting monthly for online sessions – under the care of Dr.Kristin Schnurr, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in complex endocrine concerns including perimenopause and postmenopause.

In this episode, we explore:

• how long perimenopause lasts • how to know which stage of perimenopause you're in • why vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) can be more serious than we think • the connection between ACE scores and perimenopausal symptoms

and so much more!

Referenced in this episode:

Read Dr.Kristin's full bio here.

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Dr.Kristin's Upcoming Therapeutic Small Group Programs:

• Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition - This group would be a good fit for those of you still menstruating or if it has been less than one year from your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens.
• Emergence - An Exploration of Life After Menopause - For those of you for whom it has been 12 months since your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens.

Beginning in January 2024 these groups will meet virtually every month for 12 months. Over the course of the year, you'll cover comprehensive and up to date information in a safe and nurturing space. The emphasis will be on listening to your inner wisdom as you make informed decisions in support of your own unique health. Registration opens November 20th, 2023 via newsletter mail-out. If you miss that deadline, email the office to get on the waitlist: office@drkristinschnurr.com  

• Self-Paced Course: Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition (Coming Soon! Visit her website and sign up for her newsletter for the announcement)

 

Resources

International Menopause Society

The Menopause Society

Daily Record of Severity of Problems tracking sheet

ACE Studies information and quiz

 

Perimenopause Playlist of relevant Numinous Podcast episodes

TNP165: Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds

TNP179: Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds

TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood

TNP182: Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie

TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid

TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen and Ruben (Part Four)

TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau (this one is maybe indirectly related - I can't remember specifics but it feels aligned!)

TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray

 

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Wow, this is a juicy one. My dear friend, Thérèse Cator, is back on the show in this special replay of a session we co-led as a warm-up event for my Witches New Year Gathering happening on October 28, 2023.

Thérèse Cator is a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner who specializes in helping people develop a connection to their bodies that promotes wellness and healing. Cator’s work provides an intersectional and decolonial lens that is rare in an overwhelmingly white and ableist somatics field. Thérèse is also the founder of Embodied Black Girl, a global community that stands for the embodied liberation of Black women and femmes and women of color everywhere. Embodied Black Girl is devoted to creating a safe space for to heal from intergenerational trauma, racialized stress and colonial conditioning in service of our individual and collective liberation and healing. Thérèse has been featured in Forbes and MindBodyGreen, and she has delivered workshops to major tech companies while maintaining her focus on Black women's and femmes' health.

We've been friends since 2017 and over the years have been in trainings together as students, as well as co-facilitated and collaborated on projects. We often independently come up with new directions we want to take with our work, only to find the other was planning the exact same thing. And that's what happened here! We are each offering facilitator trainings in 2024 and we're here to give some insight into our shared philosophical approach.

Referenced in this episode

TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony

Sign up for Thérèse's newsletter on her website

Find out more about Thérèse's background here

Can academic reading be healing?, by Katherine Firth (the Routledge article based off Sedgewick's concept of "reparative reading") 

Sedgewick's original essay on "paranoid reading" versus "reparative reading"

TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell

 

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Learn more about the Metaskills of Collapse in my Collapse 101 course in The Numinous Network, or join us to experience our manner of approach for group facilitation. 

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My guest today is Perdita Finn, co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the non-denominational international fellowship, The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. Her newest book is called Take Back the Magic:Conversations with the Unseen World. It's part spiritual memoir, part ancestral veneration how-to, part takedown of the patriarchy through correspondence with her deceased father who was a doctor. 

I absolutely loved this conversation and could listen to Perdita for hours. I highly recommend you seek out her book, Take Back the Magic, and spend some time communing with your Beloved Dead.

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Referenced in this episode

TNP73 Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming PrePatriarchal Goddesses

 

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Author photo by Juliet Lofrado.

I saw a meme that said, "If I am googling symptoms and the treatment says "mindfulness", I know there's no treatment for my condition". I laughed but...for real, can't we do any better than this??

Let's have a real conversation about the pervasiveness of burnout and the gaslighting of the wellness industrial complex. If you're a regular listener, you know we have a clear line of sight on patriarchy and capitalism and we have long been well aware that they're the underlying cause, as with white supremacy, ableism, all of it. Clearly self-help and meditation isn't enough.

And yet, there is something to it, isn't there? It would be awfully ignorant of me to not recognize that a millenias-old practice probably has some merit. The benefits of meditation on our overall wellbeing and to support restoration of the nervous system are clear, (experientially if not always empirically).

Here to muddle through this with me today is my friend, Annie Bray, a longtime meditation teacher and bodywork practitioner. She's also a somatic coach and one of our Guides in The Numinous Network leading monthly Polyvagal Theory-informed meditation sessions. Annie also studied with Joanna Macy, root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, and we invoke her as a muse in this conversation, reflecting on her spiritual leadership as a woman in later life. It's nice to reflect on those who've inspired us as we navigate our entrepreneurship in the wellness space.

Annie has 20 years' experience as a manual therapist, plus deep study in trauma recovery, applied polyvagal theory, meditation, yoga and trauma-informed coaching. In her work, she aims to support folks to feel reliably well-met, relatively safe and free to engage with life meaningfully.

Check out Annie's website here

Learn more about Annie's 1:1 Somatic Coaching

REORIENT: a 12-week meditation program for midlife caregivers, based deeply in both WTR and in attachment and polyvagal theory, set to run again in January, with increased focus on midlife caregivers dealing with burnout.

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Referenced in this episode

Joanna Macy

Work That Reconnects

Recent studies on burnout

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Donald Winnicott's Good Enough Mother studies

Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time, by Laura Khadouri

 

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