The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Emotion”

Episode 105: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:15:00 -0500

Bergen Hyde is someone I was immediately drawn to because of her beautiful heart and her willingness to feel and share her experience with others so deeply.

Listen in as we describe the archetypical journey of Wounded Maiden to the Cherishing Mother in our work with the sacred feminine and hear Bergens’s personal story of starving for the nourishment of the divine feminine and how she came to find her.

What is internalized patriarchy, and how does it impact women?
What is the wounded maiden, and why is she so prevalent in the world today?
What are the traits of Wounded Maiden? What are the Traits of Mother?
What is The Triple Mother Wound, and how can we reveal it and heal it?
What is the Death Mother?
How can the dark feminine energies hurt or help us?
Why does the Patriarchy want to keep women pretty, pleasing, and polite?
What is the archetypal underworld, and why must we go there to discover who we are?
How can women awaken from the trance of patriarchal religion to discover the sacred feminine's nourishment?
How did Bergan begin to conceive of her work with WOMB?
Why it’s so important for women to become embodied and know their own inner wild?
How can women return to flow and keep the flow?
How can women connect more deeply with Mother Earth?
What does it mean to be with the “pain of transformation?”

Bergen Hyde has lived in Provo, Utah for the past 13 years with her husband and three kids. Her favorite things are dancing, salty snacks, spending time in the mountains, preferably in a body of water. Bergen is the oldest of 4 and grew up in Wisconsin.

She is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of WOMB, which she founded with her two sisters Jentri and Sarah. They hold women’s circles, workshops, retreats, and one-on-one mentoring designed to support women in healing internalized patriarchy, integrating the sacred feminine, and reclaiming personal sovereignty.

Bergen has been devoted to the sacred feminine for the last four years and is currently training under Sarah Durham Wilson as a Wounded Maiden to Mature Feminine practitioner.

Special Guest: Bergen Hyde.

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Episode 87: D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D., Kohenet - Lilith's Fire: Honoring the Sacred Feminine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

To be with D’vorah Grenn is to sit by the fire with the wise woman, and to deeply connect to and reveal the suppressed herstory of the sacred feminine.

As a teacher and a scholar, she is a wealth of introspection, warmth and storytelling and I love both her brilliant mind, and her loving and playful heart.

D’vorah and I travel to ancient and erotic places in this episode and reveal the layers of power contained within the uncensored and creative feminine life force to discuss what’s possible as more women awaken and step into our power.

In addition to being a disciple of truth and divinity, D’vorah is also a lover of laughter and sisterhood, so I know you’ll love this episode and the revelations we share that include:

Why Lilith is such an important archetype for women, and why her fire needs tending.
Understanding that for thousands of years women have been silenced, erased, marginalized, and our opinions and preferences discounted, denigrated or mocked and why that has to change.
D’vorah shares her personal story about her descent into her dark night and recounts her own reclamation and spiritual awakening.
Contemporary thinkers have been redefining "sin" and re-visioning the erotic as a sacred life force. These concepts are so important for women to explore and embody.
Why women feel deeply nourished by learning more about the sacred feminine, and how it fills an inner void when we reveal hidden stories about the feminine face of the divine.
How religions have been part of fracturing our understanding of the divine feminine and suppressing the importance of her presence in our lives.
The power of women’s circles and being witnessed, received and loved in our true expression by other women in sisterhood.
Why Eden is a paradise, and not a prison, and how women can reclaim our power and our voices by leaning into the true mythologies and stories of the feminine, not the stories that were co-opted and shaped to fit a narrative intended to keep women oppressed and unrealized.
The more conversations women have about our lives, our ideas, our philosophies, our experiences and our real feelings, the more unified and collaborative we can become and the better our world will be.

D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. & Kohenet/Priestess, is Founding Director, The Lilith Institute (1997). She Co-Directed the former Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, and founded Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine. An Adjunct Professor at Napa Valley College, D'vorah also serves as a spiritual mentor and guide. Her Talking To Goddess anthology includes sacred writings of 72 women from 25 traditions. Other publications include Lilith's Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce; "The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses; and the Jewish priestess and Lilith entries, Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions. Contact info: dvorah@lilithinstitute.com; @lilithinstitute on Instagram, or The Lilith Institute on Facebook.

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Episode 77: Dale Allen - Goddess Calling

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

This episode is positively filled with wisdom and beauty. Goddess Calling - Healing Through Feminine Archetypes.

Listening to Dale Allen share her insights is like listening to a master storyteller at work. I’ve rarely experienced a woman so connected to her self-expression while so effortlessly integrated with her body.

While you can’t see her, you might be able to imagine her moving and flowing throughout this interview, connecting to all of us as we listen. She tells us of her discovery of the Goddess, about how she came to know the healing power of archetypes, and her belief that now is the time for us to remember the Divine Feminine.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why does the term GODDESS make some of us uncomfortable?
What is our core wound, and why do we all have one?
How can archetypes help us to heal?
How is the GODDESS related to the Return of The Divine Feminine?
How can we listen for the GODDESS CALLING?
Why now? Why is the feminine the missing piece for what ails us as humans/society?
Why a BREAKDOWN is needed for a BREAKTHROUGH.
Why Women?
Why reclaiming emotion is a critical piece of our inner peace.

Dale Allen was honored to present to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, her one-woman show, In Our Right Minds™, Guiding Women to Their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor. The Vice President of the Commission invited her to return the following year for an encore. She has brought her talents to scores of audiences at universities, theaters, expos, and workshops across the U.S. and Canada and from Kauai to Dubai. Described as having the energy of “a Cape Canaveral lift-off,” she thoroughly engages and inspires her audience, ranging from highly educated corporate leaders to teenage girls seeking their place in the world.

Dale Allen is a veteran of corporate, commercial communications. Her extensive resume includes hundreds of voice-over, on-camera, and live presentation projects. Some of the most quality-conscious companies, such as BMW, Canon, and MasterCard, among others, have chosen her to represent their brands. Her energy and enthusiasm, sincerity, and strength infuse her presentations and impact audiences.

Dale's Opening Prayer:

“Our mother who art within us, each breath brings us to you. Thy wisdom come, thy will be done, as we honor your presence within us. Each day, you give us all that we need. Your abundance calls us to give and receive all that is loving and pleasurable. You are the courage that moves us to be true to ourselves, and we act with grace and power. We relax into your cycles of birth, growth, death, renewal out of the womb, the darkness, the void comes new life, where you are the mother of all things. Your body is the sacred earth and our bodies. Your love nurtures and unites us all now and forevermore."

Amen.

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Episode 48: Libby Bunten - Rupture to Radiance

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:00:00 -0500

This podcast brought me so much pleasure! Libby Bunten is a dear friend and colleague that keeps me thinking, daring and belly-laughing.

Join us as we travel into the deep rupture of Libby’s personal awakening and into the world of radiant feminist leadership development.

Libby’s infectious love of laughter, life and leadership is accessible and inspiring. As a highly accomplished independent consultant in the global online business world with Arbonne, Libby’s passion is is to strengthen the lives of women in her local community and beyond. Raised in a quintessential Maine coastal town, Libby always did “whatever it took” to make a living and get the job done. Before a career in social marketing, she did everything from manual labor to freelance writing. A brief stint in a toxic, patriarchal, corporate work environment propelled Libby to pursue an MS in Clinical Psychology which ultimately led to her work in feminist leadership development with like-minded, independent and irreverent women. When she isn't cheering women on, you can find her traveling with her Hebrew Hunk, Paul, singing karaoke, or in deep surrender to the abyss that is the journey of healing.

We are programmed not to take ownership of our innate gifts. The “art of bragging” comes from Mama Gena and is really about celebration and learning to create a culture of claiming our accomplishments and celebrating one another.
Libby had experienced “The Mother Wound” first hand and found herself at a point in her life where she was seeking a way to reveal her true self.
Libby came home from Mama Gena’s weekend experience and cried for a week, which is something Mama Gena calls a “rupture”.
Trying to suppress your emotion is like trying to push a balloon underwater.
Giving permission and space for our emotion creates a clearing, and if we do this work enough- the work of unbecoming, we can return to our original divine design.
After completing a Mama Gena weekend, Libby enrolled in Rockstar Camp with Megan Jo Wilson and took her awareness and the work of unbecoming even higher.
Social marketing is aligned with leadership development and often gets us way out of our comfort zone. It often confronts us with the level of independence it gives us, and calls us to be more responsible, visible, and engaged.
Women are uniquely suited to do well in social marketing because it’s about relationships, community and authentic connection.
Feminist leadership is about getting all voices at the table.
Women are circling in ways that are creating a spiral of evolution, and helping each other ascend into a higher understanding of what we are capable of, and how we are all connected.
Libby continues to build her thriving Arbonne community, and next on her bucket list is writing her book!

Special Guest: Libby Bunten.

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Episode 35: Alyssa Neill: Nourishment From the Inside Out

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:15:00 -0400

Alyssa describes herself as a walking paradox so I found myself feeling right at home in our very progressive discussion with a surprise “ending." It also happened to be National Orgasm Day, so, there’s that. You're welcome.

Alyssa Neill is a holistic Registered Dietitian, Certified Life Coach, in-training Quantum Alignment Human Design Analyst, and a Nourishment Evangelist, who deeply enjoys exploring all the avenues of nourishment, including & especially (!) those that are culturally taboo.

She works with clients one on one in her private practice and hosts groups, intensives, and retreats. Alyssa loves nothing more than creation, expression, learning, and connecting. She climbs, dances, hikes, and adores being anywhere outside.

Alyssa is a Human Design G-Center Authority Projector, a Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, and Capricorn Rising. While she appreciates all of these ways to define who she might be in relation to you, she also loathes when people try to define her.

This episode covers:

Reclaiming How We Nourish.
Nourishment guided by the body's wisdom.
Stripping away the externalized authority and conditioning (e.g. "you should look like this," "you must eat less," "be smaller here," "bigger here," "bad foods," "be neat," "chew quieter," "don't fart," "that's inappropriate," "masturbation is a sin," "not ladylike," etc.) and reacquainting ourselves with our Selves and our Senses.
Nourishment guided by our Individualized Inner Authority & Senses (via sensation).
Less socially acceptable modalities/avenues of nourishment: creative expression, sexuality, sensuality, being int the body, intimacy, etc.
Why? Well, great damn question. Our life-soul trajectories are often so externalized. We don't trust ourselves because we have been taught not to.
We have been taught to live within the very specific, often very comfortable structure of existence, and while it has worked well for some, for many of us it a) causes dis-ease if we try to ignore our soul-purpose by overriding internal signaling b) leads us to numbing out c) puts our power outside of ourselves (i.e. consumerism, judgment culture, shame-guilt as drivers), which in turn paralyzes us d) causes massive amounts of confusion, pressure, and tension

Shownotes:

Alyssa was the one who would bring up uncomfortable conversations at the dinner table.
She didn’t realize that she was pushing the envelope.
Stories that reveal Alyssa’s humanity.
Alyssa’s work in the world is to meet Women where they are and begin the conversation about nourishment, and all avenues of nourishment including menstruation, food, emotional health, sexual health, allowing sensation and pleasure.
Norms don’t resonate with Alyssa.
Western society has conditioned us to be separate from our nourishment.
Alyssa remembers being an adolescent and becoming very self-conscious due to development at an early age.
We’ve been conditioned to think of sex as predatory vs. a natural part of coming into our sexual essence.
An experience with disordered eating became a catalyst for Alyssa to recognize her disconnection from her body and her radiance.
Disorder creates disease - because it makes us separate from the truth of who we are.
Sensation (sensuality) is a huge part of nourishment.
Our bodies are super organisms working synergistically - even our microbiome responds to what we are feeling.
When we are in our senses we are not overthinking.
Alyssa works with clients to help them reframe the narratives they might have around food, body, and everything.
When we are caring for ourselves we glow with radiance.

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Episode 24: Karen Anderson - The MotherLode

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 20 May 2020 03:00:00 -0400

Karen Anderson is leading the conversation about healing the generational wounds between mothers and daughters and using this challenging relationship as an opportunity and a catalyst for growth, leadership, wisdom, and creativity. Karen challenges the current patriarchal definitions of these energies and notes that for millennia, women have been burnt at the stake (literally and metaphorically) when we wield our emotions, power, and creativity intentionally. She acknowledges the many women in our maternal lineages that have suffered mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically as a result of the unexpressed emotion, the unused power, and the untapped creativity within them. Karen hopes to disrupt these generational patterns through a project she calls The Motherlode.

In it, she will be highlighting twenty creative women who have learned from their difficult relationship to their mothers, specifically around power, emotion, and creativity, and how to alchemize these energies in service to their leadership, relationships, and work, and why it matters.

Listen in as Karen and I unpack the importance of revealing and healing these generational wounds and why they are such a rich source of insight for our leadership with other women. If you would like to participate in The Mother Lode, simply visit Karen’s website.

Karen is the author of several books, most notably:

“From the time you were born, and even when you were in the womb, your relationship with your mother served as a blueprint for your relationship with yourself. Your mother’s beliefs were the basis for your own. You learned to treat yourself the way your mother treated herself, and the way she treated you. This is generally an unconscious process.” ~ Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

Show notes:

The term “motherlode“ refers to the source of gold from which small nuggets originated, a principal source or supply.

Sometimes women are left out of the conversation about the divine feminine if they don’t identify with terms like ”goddess."

Our relationships with our mothers can serve as a blueprint for our relationships with ourselves.

Many of us have been our mothers’ “student” for decades and may have been handed beliefs and values about our bodies, identity sexuality, gender, etc.

A deeper examination of what our mothers taught us about emotion, power, and creativity can be a valuable source of insight and revelation as it relates to our own personal leadership.

If women are to have more say in the world, more of us need to understand and teach, directly and explicitly, and by consciously modeling the true nature of emotion, power, and creativity, not the current patriarchal definitions.

Many of us have been taught that emotion is weak vs. a powerful source of energy to summon.

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