Explore every episode of the podcast By the Fire with Faye

After awakening, it’s not clarity that usually blocks your next evolution, it’s the Shadow quietly taking the lead.

In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, we meet the Trickster: the part of you that calls control “strategy,” fear “alignment,” and self-protection “intuition.” She doesn’t arrive in chaos, she arrives organised, prepared, and very convincing.

We explore how Shadow Strategy shows up in modern business and leadership, including:

• Avoiding visibility while telling yourself you’re “waiting for the right time”

• Procrastinating on the work that actually matters

• Launching too many services to avoid full exposure

• Resisting goals in the name of freedom

• Holding onto offers and identities you’ve outgrown

Through a Jungian lens, we unpack the archetypes at play: the Innocent, Orphan, Caregiver, Rebel, Sage, and Magician, and reveal how these self-protection strategies were once necessary, but now quietly keep you small.

This episode is an invitation to move from Shadow Strategy to Sacred Strategy — not by bypassing fear, but by understanding it.

As Carl Jung reminds us: “Where your fear is, there is your task.”

If you’ve been busy but not moving… Aligned but not expanding… This episode will help you see why.

Pull up a chair. The fire is warm.

🔥 Next episode: The In-Between — the liminal space after awakening where so many women lose their footing.

For more information about Faye visit: https://www.fayeoftheforest.co.uk Or say Hi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fayeoftheforest_businessmentor

Awakening rarely arrives gently.

It comes as a crack in the life you built — a panic attack, a grief you can’t explain, a body that refuses to carry the old identity any longer. In this opening episode of By the Fire with Faye, we begin at that moment.

Not as failure. But as initiation.

This episode reframes breakdown as a sacred summons and introduces the Descent as the first true step on the feminine path of awakening. Drawing on myth, depth psychology, and soul-based traditions, we explore why the Wild Woman awakens by falling apart — and why the body often knows long before the mind can make sense of what’s happening.

You’ll be guided through:

• Awakening as initiation, not collapse

• Why the body speaks before the mind understands

• The Descent as the beginning of becoming — not the end

• The five phases of descent: Preparation, Dissolution, Soul Encounter, Metamorphosis, and Enactment

• How the feminine path differs from the hero’s journey — an inward pilgrimage rather than a conquest

If you’ve ever wondered why your awakening didn’t look like clarity, light, or ease — but instead felt like losing everything you thought you were — this episode offers language, context, and deep validation.

You are not broken. You were never meant to stay the same.

Pull up a chair. The fire is lit.

🔥 In the next episode, we meet the one who often takes over after awakening — the Trickster — and explore how the Shadow quietly shapes our lives and businesses in the name of safety.

For more information about Faye visit: https://www.fayeoftheforest.co.uk Or say Hi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fayeoftheforest_businessmentor