The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Healing”

Episode 174: Seana Zelazo: The Way of Inanna: A Heroine's Guide to Living Unapologetically

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

In this episode, my guest, Seana Zelazo, delves into the mythology of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the powerful lessons this myth holds for women and personal transformation.

We discuss topics such as the influence of Inanna's mythology on our own journey and the impact of patriarchy on our perception of the divine feminine, the significance of the second chakra and creativity, the initiatory experience of darkness and rebirth, the importance of self-love and embracing the messy parts of ourselves, and the role of forgiveness and compassion in healing.

We also explore concepts of feminine power, the dismantling of power systems, and the birth of a new world. Through this conversation, we invite listeners to reflect on your own experiences and to embrace your divinity.

Topics Discussed:

Inanna's mythology and its relevance to todays modern women
How the patriarchy influences our perception of the divine feminine
Transcending the binary
How Inanna teaches us to embrace cycles and seasons of our lives
The power of the second chakra and our creativity
The initiatory experience of darkness and rebirth
The importance of self-love and embracing the messy parts of ourselves
The role of forgiveness and compassion in healing and relationships as a mirror.
Understanding our own challenges
Feminine power and dismantling power systems
The birth of a new world

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Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war

Seana Zelazo, LICSW is an author, psychotherapist, intuitive channel, and spiritual coach. Her book, The Way of Inanna: A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically, is available from booksellers worldwide and at Amazon. Learn more at seanazelazo.com

Special Guest: Seana Zelazo.

Episode 167: HeatherAsh Amara - Into The Fire: A Journey of Love, Loss, and Resilience

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Monica talks to the incredible HeatherAsh Amara. As a best-selling author, mentor, land steward, and philanthropist, Heather shares her journey of weaving earth-based wisdom, mindfulness, and practical strategies for creative, courageous, and compassionate individual and community change. The episode covers HeatherAsh's experience of rebuilding her land after the largest wildfire in New Mexico dramatically altered her life and destroyed her property. She emphasizes the importance of staying accountable and open-hearted in the face of natural disasters and challenges. Together, Monica and HeatherAsh delve into the idea of holding onto things at the surface of life, and learning to let go and surrender to the flow of life to open ourselves up to transformation. They also discuss the vital importance of becoming aware of global systems such as patriarchy and white supremacy and working toward social justice and change at a local level. Listeners will surely appreciate the joy and magic that these times have to offer. Join Monica and HeatherAsh in this episode to learn how to become more resilient and conscious in the face of adversity.

Topics Discussed:

The aftermath of the largest wildfire in New Mexico
Rebuilding the land after a fire
Learning how to sit with grief and loss
Understanding global systems that affect us all
Spirituality and joy in tough times
Heather's upcoming writing project
Leaning into the unknown
Cultivating resilience and diversity on your land
The importance of community and storytelling
The creative process

Best-selling author, mentor, land steward, and philanthropist, HeatherAsh Amara has spent the last three decades weaving together earth-based wisdom, mindfulness, and practical strategies for creative, courageous, and compassionate individual and community change. She is the author of 9 books, including the bestselling Warrior Goddess Training series and The Seven Secrets of Happy and Healthy Relationships with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr

Special Guest: HeatherAsh Amara.

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Episode 147: Asia Suler: Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Sometimes I stumble upon a human who is a quiet earth quake that shakes my world and cracks opens my heart. This is my experience of Asia Suler who writes with the soul of a sage and the words of a thousand wise women on the subject of self-compassion and empathy including how mother-Earth mirrors everything we need- if we could attune ourselves to experiencing her unconditional love.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the groves and meadows, rivers and tree's, but to the homes within ourselves.

Listen in as Asia illuminates the healing power of our living Earth—giving us permission to know ourselves deeply and intimately on our way to personal and ecological healing.
As she encourages us to know our own goodness, empathy, intuitive connections, we expand our capacity for healing and tap into a new awareness that can become our own potent vehicle for planetary transformation.

In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.

As we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth which then mirror back to us our beauty and our magnificence.

Not only will you love listening to Asia, you will absolutely cherish her revelations and her writing that includes reflection prompts at the end of each of her essays.

Mirrors in the Earth encourages us to embrace our inherent brilliance and the medicine that lives within each of us!

In this episode:

Hear how Asia’s own trauma led to her own deep inquiry into healing.
Hear why we are far more cared for than we ever might have believed
Experience the beauty of mother earth through Asia’s writing and allow yourself to be carried into a deeper understanding of where to look for the earths mirrors in your own life.
Why we need to believe in our own goodness and how we can begin to embrace our shortcomings with compassion by experiencing the symbols, signs and cycles of nature
Why being in our own world is so important and how our conditioning taught us to pay attention to things that discourage us from using our imagination.
Why our imagination is the key to creating a new world.

Music by: Alex Weinstein Music - Heading Home

Episode 137: Helen MacMillan - The Gift of Pain

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

In today's episode, Helen MacMillan shares her personal story and celebrates the birth of her new book, "The Gift of Pain."

The first time someone suggested that pain could be a gift, I resisted with every fiber of my being, and yet, it took some time for me to recognize the deep wisdom it continues to teach us when we are willing to listen.

And once we allow pain to come and sit at the table with us, and we listen and respond, the pain will usually leave us.

In all cases, pain is a messenger, a prophet, and a gift, AND we must not learn to live with it.

Listen in as Helen and I dive deep below the surface to interpret the wisdom of our pain:

Is pain necessary for growth?
What inspired your book "The Gift of Pain?"
Why pain is is something we must NOT learn to live with.
Learn the 5 step process to shift your mental, emotional, and energetic state
How is pain currently serving you?
Some examples of Helen's work with clients in pain and what it's teaching them.

Helen MacMillan is an author, life coach, healer, and wise woman who facilitates the personal growth integral to achieving your greatest potential and living your most joyful and fulfilling life.

Through her 1:1 and group coaching programs, workshops and retreats, Helen equips her clients with healing that allows them to powerfully and authentically create success from the inside out, using their wisdom as their guide. Helen combines her strong intuitive gifts with the practical expertise and wisdom gained from building three successful businesses, being married (twice), and raising three boys (while maintaining her sanity) to help her clients create a life they LOVE with ease and grace.

Originally from Jamaica, Helen resides in the USA with her husband Gary and their dog Sadie.

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Episode 130: Gina Clover - Our Lady of the Apocalypse

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Meet Gina Clover.

I adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual.
Basically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society. Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity. This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us.

In this episode you’ll hear Gina’s exploration of Capitalism and how it’s intimately tied to other systems of oppression.
Gina’s future vision and her invitation to co-create a better world.
What is animism and how to distinguish it from spirituality + her endeavor to build a community where people can co-create a future, grieve the current reality, and honor what they most value.
The story of her own personal apocalypse and what it taught her.
Why she decided to call her substack “A Girl Has No Brand”
Learn what “collapse-aware” rites of passage mean and how it applies to where we are now.
Hear about what Gina describes as life’s invitations to radicalize. Why humor, collaboration, and community are the keys to the future.

Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.

She currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.

The ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.

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Episode 122: Sara and Charlotte Vetter - Mother-Daughter Healing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:15:00 -0400

I hope you enjoy this moving and provocative interview on Mother Daughter healing with Sara and Charlotte Vetter.

I became aware of the mother wound in my life at an early age but had no idea how common it was. It was not until I viewed my relationships through a patriarchal lens that I was able to see more clearly how this dynamic is established and then passed down through the generations.

I think this is a subject that’s critically important and is finally being revealed. I am deeply grateful for the love and liberation modeled in this episode between these two beautiful women because this work takes so much courage and self-reflection. I’m honored they trusted me to facilitate the interview- it was a gift to witness.

“For daughters growing up in a patriarchal culture, there is a sense of having to choose between being empowered and being loved.” - Bethany Webster

In this episode you’ll hear about:

Sara’s breakdown and divorce when Charlotte was 12 years old.
The Mother Wound and how it’s passed through the generations from mother to daughter.
Hear Charlotte describe what it was like to witness her mother's unhappiness and how she coped as a teenager.
Hear about Sara and Charlotte's patriarchal upbringing and how they chose different paths.
Why does generational trauma get passed down in a patriarchal culture?
How Charlotte and Sara made their way back to each other after distance and healing.
Charlotte’s interest in “next culture” and sustainable and community living.
Historically, women have internalized toxic messages which condition us to believe that our worth is tied to patriarchal values such as our level of production, or our identity as wife, caretaker, and mother- and how this is changing.
As more women awaken to our worthiness and sufficiency in the Sophia Century, we break the generational patterns that keep us in oppressive behaviors of self-sacrifice, and disempowerment while teaching our daughters to do the same.

Charlotte Vetter is a playful powerhouse with a deep devotion to living an awakened life. Her mission is to ignite inspiration through transformative and impactful experiences while empowering individuals with the tools to feel resourced and radically expressed.

Known for her soul blueprint evolutionary astrology readings and engaging live classes, Charlotte’s approach is strong, yet graceful. By bringing levity to challenges, she guides her clients to honor themselves, while breaking through blockages to reprogram body and mind. The result? A life filled with more radiant JOY.

Sara Vetter is the Managing Director of the Soul of Money Institute and is a coach, consultant, workshop leader, keynote speaker and strategist.
She has been working with the Soul of Money Institute since 2001 and has become a key player in all the initiatives of the institute, working in partnership with Author and Founder Lynne Twist.

She is also the Major Gift Officer and fundraiser extraordinaire for the Pachamama Alliance, raising millions of dollars a year for the last 12 years- Pachamama alliance is an alliance between indigenous people of the Amazon and conscious committed people in the modern world and has raised millions of dollars and led and participated in more than 20 delegations and leads high level immersion trips to the Amazon Rainforest
Sara has played a leadership role with the Nobel Women's Initiative, working closely with the six Nobel Women Peace Prize Laureates on fundraising, strategy and special delegations. Sara has co-led delegations to Dharamsala, India to see his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Democratic Republic of Congo to work with Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee. She also co-led a coalition to Liberia working closely with Ms. Gbowe and Nobel Laureates Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and Shirin Ebadi.

Sara is also a member of the WPO (Women’s Presidents Organization).
Sara’s effectiveness in producing results for the Soul of Money Institute and Pachamama Alliance are legendary. It was her initiative that landed Lynne Twist’s interview on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday in 2016.

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Episode 120: Vanessa Chakour - Awakening Artemis

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:15:00 -0400

Talking to Vanessa Chakour about her book Awakening Artemis was a joy! We discuss how we are not separate from nature or exempt from the natural world. How our survival is dependent on this interconnected nature with plants, animals, and fungi with whom we share ecosystems and exchange intellectual ideas.

I can not express how much I loved this book, her writing, and the lessons explained in it. She shares why it was important to process personal traumas and write them into these stories to share with others. (I might have fangirled hard over her book.)

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

Vanessa discusses how she came about choosing the title for the book and the multi-layers of meaning.
Learn fascinating things about the weeds and flowers all around us that offer us profound benefits.
How can plant life heal and restore humans?
Be astonished by the many ways in which the wisdom of plants and knowing them more deeply can help us illuminate and understand ourselves.
Listen to how her book helps people empower themselves as they connect with nature
Listen to how she developed a love for boxing and how it became a healing modality
Get a sneak peek into what is coming next

“A weed is a plant out of place.” ― Jim Thompson

Vanessa Chakour is an herbalist, visual artist, rewilding educator, former pro-boxer, environmental activist, and founder of Sacred Warrior—a multidisciplinary educational and experiential “school” offering plant medicine, wildlife conservation, and meditation through courses, workshops, and retreats with a diverse group of teachers. Sacred Warrior’s Rewilding Retreats are in partnership with the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, The Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica, and Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands. Vanessa has shared her work as a speaker at the United Nations, Brown University, and the Muhammad Ali Center, and as a visual artist, in galleries from Tribeca to Chelsea. She lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches around the world.

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Vanessa Chakour
Book: Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature: Chakour, Vanessa: 9781984882097: Amazon.com: Books — https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Artemis-Deepening-Intimacy-Reclaiming/dp/1984882090?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1648431351&sr=1-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=revelationwom-20&linkId=a39bd4666f3db0cd003c02a5828d1a0a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
Book Retailers - Awakening Artemis by Vanessa Chakour: 9781984882097 | PenguinRandomHouse.com
News — Vanessa Chakour
Instagram: Vanessa Chakour (@vchakour)
Facebook - Vanessa Chakour
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Book: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype: Clarissa Pinkola Estés: 8601420340220: AmazonSmile: Books
Book: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom: John O'Donohue: 9780060929435: AmazonSmile: Books
Newsletter: Earthly Bodies | Vanessa Chakour

Episode 115: Kyle Russell- Revealing the Power of Crystals

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:15:00 -0500

In this episode I speak to Kyle Russell about his thirty-five year journey with crystals and how he structured a new method for defining and categorizing them. Kyle is a wealth of knowledge including writing his popular book, Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow. I think you will really appreciate his perspective and his story of how it all started! This episode will enhance your own understanding of crystals (and life itself) not to mention that this episode was super fun!

How Kyles journey began and why he did not touch a specific crystal for 20 years!
What the term Geo-sentient means
How Kyle's approach differs from everyone else out there talking about Crystals?
Learn How existing crystal practices can be hard for some (Clearing, Cleansing, Charging, and Programming) and how Kyle approaches it.
Kyles system for grouping all stones into 10 categories.
Hear how Kyle prioritizes balancing inspiration with logic, and metaphysical with scientific

For 3 decades, Kyle Russell has been an innovator, educator, and online personality - having just published his book - Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow.

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Episode 112: Alexis Conason - The Diet-Free Revolution

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:15:00 -0500

"Diets don’t work—and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight—tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived ourselves for a little bit longer—we’d be happier, healthier, and more desirable. But it’s just not true."

I loved this conversation with Dr. Alexis Conason, who sheds light on diet culture to help us understand some of the myths that we have been taught about weight, health, value, and self-worth.

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we’ve been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick-fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: it’s about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves. She helps us discover what really nourishes us while teaching us how we can listen to and love our bodies. Enriched with case studies, meditations, stories, lessons, and activities—her 10-step program is a revelation!

In this episode, she tells us about her journey with dieting and the revelation that diets don’t work and that the whole industry is aware of this.

Learn about her book The Diet-Free Revolution and its impact on people, especially women.
Reframing dieting and diet “failure” as pervasive aspects of our culture—not individual failures—The Diet-Free Revolution offers an empowering roadmap to healing, self-acceptance, and radical new ways of relating to and loving our bodies
She shares her WHY in helping women bust the myth about their bodies being “the problem”
Why mindful eating is key to a weight-inclusive framework
What motivated her to create her online mindful eating course with The Anti-Diet Plan
She also shares the number one thing that people can do if they want to heal their relationship with food, including:
Challenge your assumptions about weight and health
Find fullness and manage emotional eating
Embrace your “yum” and tune into taste with mindful eating
Trust your body to be your guide

Dr. Alexis Conason is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). Alexis is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center affiliated with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.

A lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food, including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course, eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves to stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.

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Episode 108: Stella Eisenstein - The Resonance of Healing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:15:00 -0500

I started making appointments with Stella this past summer through the recommendation of a friend because I had recently had mercury fillings removed from my mouth. It seemed that even though I was on a detox regimen, my body was still having trouble, and my migraines were getting worse vs. better.

After a couple of sessions, I noticed that my body responded to what Stella would say and do in our sessions. My curiosity and fascination led me to start asking deeper questions about what she was doing and how she was doing it, to which she generously shared with me that I, too, could learn to help my body heal.

This led to a number of discussions about bringing attention to my body, how I could access the energetic field, and allow the healing to occur by “getting out of the way,” as Stella will often say.

Over months of getting to know her more deeply, I am often struck by her gentle but deep wisdom and her perspective on certain things that are happening in the world in mainstream medicine. I marvel at how she orients herself in the world of healing, with respect for multiple modalities and room for contemplating the larger questions that continue to invite us to seek our own answers.

Stella is not a woman of small intellect. She is professionally trained in multiple modalities and an apt pupil of her own healing experiences and the miracles that have occurred in her presence through her understanding of how to communicate with the body. She has healed herself twice of cancer and has also healed herself of autoimmune thyroid disease and scoliosis. She believes that we can heal anything if we are willing to reveal what’s wanting our attention and why it’s calling us into the invitation in the first place.

Stella also happens to be one of the most genuinely loving people I have ever met. I have witnessed and experienced her generosity and integrity, not only for how she holds her work as a practitioner but also as a wife to her husband Charles, a mother to her son, and a teacher and a friend.

I’m proud to bring you this interview because I believe Stella's work in the world is incredibly relevant, especially at a time when many seek to unentangle themselves from the medicalized world of experts, prescriptions, and diagnoses that often leave us with nothing but frustration, inflammation, and a bottle of pills to suppress the symptoms vs. reveal the root cause.

In this great time of revelation, we are making our way back to ourselves, our intuition, and our bodies. We are trusting the body's innate healing potential through the quantum energy field - where all things are possible - especially miracles.

In this episode, we will reveal:

Stella’s story of healing breast cancer and what she had to first reveal in herself in order to heal.
What Stella means by "re-skilling” medicine and why she wants to teach others how to heal.
We are in a time of spiritual emergence, and we are being invited to reclaim the middle path in our communities.
Why Stella changed her name, and how she shifted her work over time into the realms of energy and spirit.
How “allowing” plays a profound role in healing.
How Stella developed her intuitive skills over time.
Why Stella believes the body holds the wisdom and why Integrative Manual Therapy is the next frontier of energy medicine.

Stella is a writer and intuitive bodyworker. Her work draws from her training in multiple modalities, including Oriental Medicine, Esoteric Acupuncture, Ortho-Bionomy, Depth Hypnosis, and Integrative Manual Therapy. Before becoming a bodyworker, she was in publishing in New York, mainly as a travel writer. Her first memoir, Star Sister: How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings, and Learned to Trust intuition, was published in 2012. Her new memoir, about healing from breast cancer, scoliosis, and autoimmune thyroid disease, is currently being serialized at resonantattention.substack.com.

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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 101: Maggie Moore - Its All Happening For You

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:15:00 -0500

Visiting with Maggie in this episode felt like dipping my cup into a crystal-cool spring of delicious water because she is so refreshing.

Her playful, fun, engaging way of being is contagious in the best way. She’s someone who occurs to me as vibrant, open, and alive, and she brings laughter and light everywhere she goes.

In this episode, we explore death, fear, hiding, transforming, embodiment, and allowing love to bloom in our lives.

We all live in a story about our lives, and often we are unaware of it. Once we become aware, we can narrate it and author it how we want to live it.
To bear witness to someone's darkest moments and not look away is so healing and is the greatest gift we can give one another.
To be a truth-teller is courageous and contagious.
Maggie has been able to use her embodiment work with her bonus daughters, which has been a gift.
Pain in the body has something to tell us, and there’s information waiting to be released if we can lean in and listen.
Chakra Shaking is all about moving energy, tuning into the body, and engaging with the tools of the divine feminine.
Change isn’t about changing the pain but the story around the pain.
Maggie says that Reiki to her is the permission to self-heal.

Visionary Healer, Sacred Jewelry Maker, and Chakra Shaking Creator, Maggie Moore is an unstoppable force of good.

Maggie manipulates metals with intention. Her hands move energy as an empath and channel to spirit. She is directed by laughter, and her path is one of the soulful, playful teacher.

She brings her wit and good humor to all she does and gives her clients permission to laugh and release their past while holding them in a sacred space of healing.

Well-versed in hands-on and long-distance healing, Maggie has been a Reiki Master and intuitive healer for 18 years. She has crafted a career as a fine arts jeweler since 2007, which she creates into sacred talismans which work in tandem with the divine combination of her healing work. She has created a new form of healing movement called Chakra Shaking to enhance her blended gifts.

Episode 85: Ximena Vengoechea - Listen Like You Mean It

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

I have long believed that the most powerful, useful, and underutilized skill we have at our disposal is the skill of listening.

If you want to help heal the world and create peace on earth - learn to listen!

Meet Ximena. She’s brilliant, articulate, and passionate about helping others develop this powerful skill. We had such a rich conversation about how learning this skill can quite literally change everything for the better.

Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the new book, Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (from Portfolio Books/Penguin Random House). She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse and writes "Letters from Ximena," a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. She is best known for her project The Life Audit. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, Ximena previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

In this episode:

Learn why listening is the key to intimacy and connection.
Why listening can be such a gift and such an act of generosity and love.
Why when people don’t feel heard, they often escalate their behavior and lash out.
Why listening is a “slow” skill and how to bring more peace into our lives by learning to do it.
There are layers to listening, and often if we are paying attention, we can hear other important things that get revealed when we truly listen.
How to protect yourself from being a listening martyr and getting listening fatigue. In other words, how can empaths protect themselves when they are deeply listening to others?
Learn how to listen with compassion without taking on the emotional energy of someone else.
Why awkward silence is such an important part of the listening skill set.
Conduct a relationship audit to determine where you have energy leaks.

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Episode 81: Dr. Valerie Rein - Patriarchy Stress Disorder

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

When I first heard the term “Patriarchy Stress Disorder,” I had a gestalt moment. In an instant, it seemed, I experienced a revelation of magnitude in which I could see the formerly invisible structure that I had existed within and that had impacted me for my entire life, but for which I had no name.

Listen in as Dr. Valerie Rein exposes the system of oppression the majority of us have been impacted by, but few of us have a context or a name for. Hear for yourself why her work is being hailed as the most important work of our time.

Dr. Valerie Rein has discovered Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD) and created the only science-backed system for helping women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing the intergenerational trauma of oppression. She holds an EdM in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Her bestselling book, “Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment” has been heralded by Amazon reviewers as "the most important body of literary work of our modern times" and "perhaps the most important book of the century for women." Her cutting-edge programs have helped thousands of women shift from survival to thriving and master the game of "How good can it get?" in their work and personal lives.

PATRIARCHY STRESS DISORDER (PSD) is generational collective trauma or oppression that women have experienced in the patriarchy for thousands and thousands of years. It manifests in multiple ways but ultimately creates an invisible barrier to women’s ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment.
Most of us are socially conditioned to be “Good Girls,” “A Good Wife,” and “A Good Mother,” and as long as we live a life of compliance, we don’t experience a lot of friction.
Most women are not in touch with our desires; we simply follow the tracks laid down by the Patriarchy in terms of what roles we can fill and how we can live.
However, once we can see the invisible barrier, we begin the “jailbreak” journey, where we start to reach for our authentic desires and access our inner liberation.
One of the most significant issues women face is not having role models of women living fully actualized lives who have stepped fully into their own sovereignty and feeling whole in all areas of their lives.
Women may have mastered their lives in one area but still have trouble relaxing, being playful, or considering themselves successful. They can’t identify what’s wrong or what’s holding them back, and this is when the psychology of PSD really begins to get interesting because this oppression lives in our nervous systems, and it must be released and expelled.
When women go from surviving to thriving, once this hidden system of oppression has been revealed, a daily practice and community are essential to keeping the work alive.

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Episode 78: Dr. Dain Heer - Body Whispering

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Join me for a conversation about Body Whispering with Dain Heer and our innate capability to heal from what ails us by learning to listen to the body's wisdom and discern our pain and disease from another.

In this episode we cover:

Many of us have the innate gift of being empathic, which makes us natural facilitators of healing.
It’s important to be able to facilitate healing without taking on another’s pain as our own.
The greatest gift we can give another is to empower them with choice and to bring their own power to heal into their awareness.
“What are you dying to get out of?” and “Whose pain is this?” are questions to consider when we are dealing with chronic pain or terminal illness.
Learning to ask your body what it needs and listen to its answers.
Reacquainting ourselves with chaos as a form of awakening consciousness and activating opportunities for healing.
Fixed points of view are also “stuck” points of energy in the body that may create dis-ease.

In the episode, I refer to the following story to illustrate how we tend to judge an experience. In this story, the experience shifts as the old farmer continues to suspend judgment to view the conditions from other perspectives:

“There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically. "Maybe," the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed. "Maybe," replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy for his misfortune. "Maybe," answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. "Maybe," said the farmer.”

Beginning his journey as a chiropractor, Dr. Dain Heer has been facilitating, exploring, and celebrating the magic of bodies for the last 30 years.

Along his journey, he developed his signature energy work called the Energetic Synthesis of Being: a totally different way that invites a new level of awareness and energetic transformation with bodies which includes kindness, caring, and communion.

Growing up, Dain had a lot of abuse in his life, but he never chose to be a victim. He learned very early on the power of real courage, choice, and resilience. He learned to transform life's challenges into a gift of strength, awareness and continue being in the question. Dain says judgment is the biggest killer on the planet, especially the judgment of ourselves.

Based on his own life experience, he asks, "What if we could get out of the wrongness of ourselves and see every wrongness, the places where we judge ourselves the most, as a strongness? What would be possible then?"

Reaching far beyond what people say with words, Dain looks at the energy of what is being presented and invites people to live without apology, no longer needing to hide their differences and unique capacities from the world. Body Whispering- A New Way of Seeing, Being & Healing is Dain's latest book. Learn more at www.bodywhispering.com.
Keep up to date with @dainheer on Instagram and on Facebook @dainheer. More at www.drainheer.com.

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Episode 67: Carole Marie Downing - Tune to Joy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

I love this conversation so much because it’s about the transformative power of singing and music for healing and attunement to ourselves and others. It’s about creating connections and daring to use the instrument of our bodies to bring our voices more fully into the world.

How beautiful is that?

Meet Carole Marie Downing, a coach, song leader, and facilitator passionate about creating resilience through challenging times. Her initial career was in nursing, working in areas of hospice and integrative medicine. She then shifted to coaching after receiving a master's degree in psychology, emphasizing consciousness, health, and healing.

She utilizes both her professional background and personal experience to gently support clients to tune in to their capacity to thrive. After a loss and significant life transitions, her most recent work as a song leader and music guide encourages people to sing and learn music in a way that creates connection and cultivates the transformational act of bringing our voices fully into the world. Carole Marie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves hot cups of tea. She enjoys making music out of everything life offers up and going barefoot in the sand.

** Carole believes we can use music as a way to create more connection and bring our voices to the world.**

Attunement - If we were to look at an instrument that was out of tune, we wouldn't say that it was broken or hopeless; instead, we would tune it, and I feel this is the same with people.
If life isn't going exactly as we would like, and we are out of sync with the world, it’s simply a request for re-attunement and noticing where we need to come back into alignment.
We can look at our relationships with ourselves and others as being out of tune or in harmony.
Initially, Carole experienced music as a way to heal from the grief of loss.
Sometimes, life experiences can’t be captured in words, and only music can help us express and move through our pain. When we allow ourselves to feel that deeply, we become wise to the fact that there can even be other emotions felt while we are in pain, such as beauty and gratitude.
Our culture influences whether we feel safe enough or confident enough to bring our voices into the world. Many people have this idea that they have to sound a certain way to sing, which is not true.
It’s so important that more of us access our voices in this way and that we look at a chorus as a metaphor for our humanity. Sometimes there is disharmony, and this is always true; before we have harmony together, it’s a necessary part of the process.

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Episode 62: Dr. Dain Heer - No Judgment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

No Judgment.

Even the title of this episode makes me breathe easy.

I loved my conversation with Dain and gained so much insight and enjoyment from listening to him talk. He spoke about the power of non-judgment and why it is vital to our wellbeing to clear judgment from our energetic centers so that we can stop suppressing our true nature and live a life of allowance. In this episode, he teaches us to uncreate the realities that no longer serve us. That all of the projections, expectations, separations, and rejections placed on us by ourselves or by anybody else keep us from being as weird and different as we are. He encourages us to let that go and create something new by accessing our conscious awareness. I have no doubt you will gain deep awareness just by listening to this episode.

Meet Dr. Dain Heer:

Dr. Dain Heer is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and facilitator of consciousness and change. For over 20 years, he has been inviting people to embrace their true greatness—people from every culture, country, age, and social strata.

In his talks and workshops, he uses a unique set of tools and provides step-by-step energetic processes to get people out of the answers, conclusions, and judgments that are keeping them stuck in a cycle of no choice and no change – leading them into the moments of awe that have the power to change anything.

For Dain, judgment is the biggest killer on the planet, especially the judgment of ourselves. Based on his own life experience, he asks, “what if we could get out of the wrongness of ourselves and see every wrongness, the places where we judge ourselves the most, as a strength? What would be possible then?”

Show Notes:

One of the most seductive things in the world is when someone sees you with no judgment. And we keep looking for that from the outside world or hoping for it and very seldom receiving it. And yet we never looked to how can I be that person for myself?
Symptoms of the trance of unworthiness, perfectionism, and self-loathing are all based on judgment.
We live in a world where parents are taught that the right way to be a parent is to teach their kids to judge. The idea is to teach them to judge right from wrong and good from bad.
We've gotten away from asking questions. When we were kids with such curiosity about the world, most of us were made to feel wrong for asking way too many questions.
A definition for consciousness: “where everything and everyone exists, and no one and nothing is judged."
Access Consciousness is available in over 183 countries, and they have about 700 facilitators worldwide.
People are depressed, confused, overwhelmed, and don’t know how to ask the questions that get them started on their own journey. Teen Incidence of suicide is skyrocketing worldwide.
Beginning to function from a state of allowance will ease the suffering of many, many people.
People are either seekers: growth aware, or non-seeking: growth averse.
Laughter truly is the best medicine.

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Episode 58: Liz McCartney - The Human Mess & Accountability

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Liz McCartney offers healing wisdom and knowledge to humanity through her gift as a spiritual channel. She is a master teacher of Reiki and combines meditation and pranic healing in her work with her clients. Her focus is on creating a synergistic connection to help her clients embrace the human experience through the divine being. Imagine a synergistic relationship to healing through the divine being within you - this is the work of Liz McCartney.

Liz and I decided to riff on what is currently happening in our country and why it seems so much easier to blame, shame, numb, and deflect, and why it is so important that we start working on the unresolved and unhealed wounds within.

We hope that this episode will normalize the human mess with some intersecting conversations that may reveal more awareness and even normalize the healing process.

In this episode, we define "the mess” as something we either try to hide or won’t hold ourselves accountable for because we don’t want to look at our own shadows or unhealed wounds.
We have a choice to make; we can choose to be willfully ignorant of the root causes of our disruption, of our disparity, and our needs to heal, but in doing so, we not only do great harm within ourselves, we're actually harming the collective energy and creating a bigger mess.
Part of the journey of enlightenment and consciousness, however, requires us to overcome this struggle.
Nobody really wants to talk about hard things. We tend to disassociate from difficult situations and to avoid challenging topics that make us feel vulnerable.
We don’t often think of our ignorance as being willful, but as Liz mentions in this episode, it’s a choice to continue to choose suffering.
Many of us are hiding a mess in our lives behind a prettier picture we show the world.
Addiction, family dysfunction, and trauma are part of a perpetuated generational cycle if we don’t actively choose to break that cycle.
If you have grown up this way, you may not have a healthy model for behaving differently, but we have access to healthy models these days if we seek them.
Often we create enemies outside ourselves when the real war is the one we are having on the inside. Our refusal to look at ourselves as the original source of our own suffering is what contributes to many of the isms.
When we talk about creating more unity in the world, we first have to look at our own unity within ourselves. If we are fractured inside, we must be accountable for healing ourselves.
Qanon is perhaps an example of a movement of people who are hiding their own white supremacy, racism, sexism, unresolved rage, and fear, and are refusing personal accountability for the way things are in their own lives. Instead, they blame outside forces or direct their attention on fantastic distractions so that they don’t have to look at their own stuff.
We are all in an ongoing state of healing, but we will not get anywhere unless we take inventory of our own personal mess and ask for help and support where we need it.

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Episode 57: Rebecca Gold - Yogic Writing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Rebecca Lyn Gold has been writing since the age of 6 when she found a floral cloth covered 5-year diary (with a lock and key) in her Christmas stocking.

She is now an author, editor, writing coach and the founder of Yogic Writing-- a practice that utilizes the philosophies and disciplines of yoga, meditation and journaling for writers of all levels to break through resistance, uncover memories, and find story nuggets buried within.

Her books include: "Till There Was You: An Adoption Expectancy Journal," "A Wizard Called Woz: a biography of Stephen Wozniak," "That's Why We're Here: Stories from passionate James Taylor fans," "How To Write It Funny" with author/humorist Amy Koko, and "A Friend Named Sunny Skies: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Music of James Taylor."

She is currently writing: "From Your Mat to Your Memoir: Creating a yogic writing practice to find and write your life stories."

Rebecca believes that writing is a spiritual practice, much like yoga or meditation. It takes courage to forge ahead, even when you have no idea where you are going.

You step on the mat, you greet the page, you meet your resistance, and then you Let. It. Go.

Rebecca has 3 children (who live in 3 different states-- although she tries not to take that personally), three grandchildren, and a 4th on the way. She lives with her husband Osvaldo and their dog Brownie in Providence, Rhode Island (for now).

She leads workshops, retreats and online programs using Yogic Writing as a tool for women to find and write their life stories.

Rebecca has a deep connection to the music of James Taylor due to a healing she experienced through his music, and would turn to music and storytelling as a way to comfort and connect to herself when she felt depressed or lonely.
Rebecca was 13 when she experienced a traumatic event that forced her to keep secrets. it’s also when she discovered journaling as a tool to access her deeper feelings process her emotions, and taking back her power.
Rebecca teaches her Yogic Writing Method that allows women to first connect to their body to access its deeper wisdom, and then to write from that deeper place.
If 100 Women were surveyed and asked if their lives dream were to write a book that at least 85% would share the desire to tell their story through a book.
Every woman has a story to tell, they just need to believe that their story is worth telling.
Initially Rebecca was doing a lot of surface level writing until she discovered yoga and began combining the practices of Yoga and Writing, and what she found is that the two were beautifully suited to one another.
Yogic writing helps women to break through to deeper levels of story-telling, and to stand in the center of their story as survivors and thrivers, vs, victims.
Breath practices, prompts, and yoga poses are all part of her writing retreats given throughout her programs.
Women who have experienced trauma ( and many of us have) are able to use this method because it’s gentle and self-guided, but also very effective at moving the stuck or trapped emotion through and helps women tap into deeper insights that come through in their writing.
When the pandemic started, Rebecca and many others found solace and comfort when she created a group called “The Corona Chronicles” on facebook and each day she would write a prompt and the group members could share what they had written.
From your mat to your memoir is a workshop Rebecca offers a few times a year, and she keeps it to a small and intimate group so that they can share their writings with each other and get the individualized attention to their writing.

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Episode 49: Liz McCartney - Soul Synergy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Today’s episode is with special guest Liz McCartney to talk about all things spiritual.

We often come into our paths with the true elements of ourselves unknown. We feel adrift throughout our lives and seek relation within ourselves as human beings but have our true essence unknown. The often unanswered questions of our origin, path, and purpose can only be answered when we become connected to the Divinity in which we were created.

Liz believes in a true connection to ourselves as human beings and our true Divine Being. She has been guided to create a synergistic approach to healing through the connection of our Divine being and our human existence.

Through her connection to the Source of all Universal Life Force Energy and the higher dimensional beings of light, wisdom, and knowledge of the Fifth Dimension, offered with a gentle, warm, patient, kind, gracious, and unique presence, Liz brings you into the truest form of yourself through the synergy of your soul's beauty and healing.

Liz offers healing wisdom and knowledge to humanity through her gift as a spiritual channel. She is a master teacher of Reiki and combines meditation and pranic healing in her work with her clients. Her focus is on creating a synergistic connection to assist her clients to embrace the human experience through the divine being. Imagine a synergistic connection to healing through the divine being within you - this is the work of Liz McCartney.

Liz offers a full scope of energetic healing. Most healing modalities are singular in focus, instead of having a synergistic impact on the healing of mind, body, spirit.
Liz helps her clients to bring them into connection with their own divine being and helps surface subconscious patterns and beliefs that might be impeding healing and growth. She helps clients answer: Why am I here? What is my purpose?
We are a divine being in human form.
Mythology and prehistory is a wonderful place for women to turn to create a context for their own journey.
When we are created in divinity we are given many gifts, including our divine purpose and our spirit guides.
When we do our own inner work, we release our lower energy and ascend in our conscious awareness.
Men and Women have equal access to the masculine and feminine energies within and both are capable of moving and shifting in and out of those energies as needed for the relationship and our roles in raising families, careers, etc.
We all experience stages in our lives where we feel a lack of grounding and fear, and our emotions and actions are not in alignment with each other. This is the result of an imbalance within our energetic body
Liz uses intuitive healing, light, and messages she channels from the Source of all universal life force energy, higher dimensional beings, and ancestral lineage to discover and release any energetic, genetic, or hereditary imbalances found within the clients she works with.
When we are able to restore the flow of energy that was once stagnant or blocked throughout our energy centers, we come into a synergistic connection between our divine and our energetic being.

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Episode 30: Coral Brown - Mythos and Meaning

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0400

I’m thrilled to Introduce Coral Brown, who is known and loved in her local community and around the world.

Coral is a mother, a dharma dweller, and a teacher of teachers. She is known for her integrative, lighthearted approach that fuses the energetic, creative energy of vinyasa yoga with her experience as a holistic counselor. Coral is a licensed mental health counselor and draws on twenty years of experience in yoga, philosophy, and holistic counseling to provide fertile, open space for the processes of healing and transformation.

Coral’s teachings are fueled by the desire to reveal and cultivate the essence of our individual and collective dharma and instill it into every aspect of our being.

Coral leads worldwide teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and has featured classes on YogaGirl.com.

Listen in as we talk about yoga philosophy, chakras, the nine faces of the Goddess, Hindu mythology, our basic human needs, the principals of Shakti Shiva, and what’s happening in the world now, and so much more.

In this episode, Coral shares more about her extensive studies in philosophy and yoga which have allowed her to access a layer of healing that goes beyond traditional methods. She explains that she was “blessed with depression,” and how this experience helped her to more deeply understand and embrace her own dharma.

Coral shares her own dharma statement (statement of purpose) reflecting the values she holds:

Truth, Compassion, Reverence, Commitment, Considerate, Ethical, Generous, Service, Respectful, Humility, Resilience, Perseverance, Mindful, Integrity, Loyal, Purposeful, Empathy, Faith.

“I strive to mindfully live in alignment with my authentic self and to risk discomfort if it serves my personal evolution.
In dealings with others, I will act with integrity and goodwill. I will be graceful, fair, conscious, and truthful.

I will tenaciously continue to develop my skills and use them with humble confidence to raise the collective consciousness toward healing, fortifying, and integrating body, mind, and spirit. I will live what I love.”

As a licensed holistic counselor, Coral is interested in supporting and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit of each client. She holds space and provides guidance and support that leads to personal transformation and integration. She believes that while this process takes courage, it can be lifesaving and life-changing. Her ideal client is someone who is ready to take the risk to fully embrace their strengths and their vulnerabilities in order to live a meaningful life.

Aurobindo: "If there is to be a future, it will wear the crown of feminine design.”

Show Notes:

The Search for MEaning + Dharma and Shraddha - the understanding of our purpose.
Shiva/Shakti and the integration of the masculine and the feminine.
Mythos - the story of the people.
The shadow side of our human experience can be integrated, healed, and whole when we can look at our imperfections objectively and give ourselves permission to embrace all aspects of our Self.
The nine nights of the Goddess which include both masculine and feminine principals.
Using the Gods and Goddesses as archetypes to understand aspects of the self.
The Long Bag We Drag
The Meeting of East and West
Yoga as a practice to integrate the masculine and feminine within us.
Start where you are.
Yoga helps us tap into our parasympathetic brain where we can regulate and relax, where we feel safe, effective, inspired.
Resources and Reference from Coral PDF

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Episode 27: Dr. Terrlyn Curry Avery - Revealing and Healing Religious Wounds

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:00:00 -0400

What do systemic racism and religious wounding have in common? Both are very damaging to our souls if we don’t reveal and heal them.

Listen in as Terrlyn and I talk about the importance of taking the time to investigate our own traditions and beliefs. We discuss how all must examine and reveal where unconscious bias and disempowering interpretations might be getting in the way of tapping into the true spirit of our divine nature as well as how we can all relate to one another as members of a larger spiritual community where everyone gets to belong.

Dr. Terrlyn L. Curry Avery is a pastologist, spiritual leader, author, and TEDx speaker. She is the creator of pastology, the dynamic approach to transformation that focuses on the synergy between spirituality and the human psyche. She helps transformational leaders stay grounded in their faith, values, and purpose by providing both spiritual and psychological support as they manifest their own greatness and help others to do the same. Dr. Curry Avery helps leaders recognize and understand how ingrained disruptive and damaging messages from various religions may impact their finances, decision-making, careers, and personal self-image. She holds a Ph.D. from Hofstra University and a MDiv. from Yale University. She is the author of Sacred Intelligence: The Essence of Sacred, Selfish and Shared Relationships and was the previous host of her own Public Access Show.

Enjoy this rich discussion of the patriarchy, giving up your power, religious trauma, understanding how race and religion can separate us if we are not mindful and aware, and what might be possible if we were to give ourselves permission to reimagine and broaden our perspective on the sacred.

Show Notes:

We need to be able to look at religion and the divine through a number of different perspectives and stay open and stay curious, and give each other the freedom to have our own experience.
Language can segregate unless we put the stories of the Bible into context.
If we were to look at each other as spiritual beings we would not be in such division.
Many of us have hidden religious wounds that can keep us feeling unworthy, undeserving, and in shame.

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Episode 25: Vanessa Ryerse - In the flow

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 27 May 2020 03:00:00 -0400

Meet my dear friend Vanessa Ryerse. She is an entrepreneur, an ordained pastor a working artist, and a mother. I first learned of Vanessa when I heard her on Rob Bell’s Podcast The Robcast a couple of years ago and I knew I had to reach out and know her more deeply.

It turns out, she’s my people, and our initial conversation actually sparked a desire in me to begin my own podcast. Vanessa helped me realize that I wanted to give women who are doing powerful work in the world a bigger platform to share their ideas, revelations and work. She’s talented, open-hearted, rebellious, and thinks about things deeply - with her heart.

When Vanessa talks you want to lean in and listen real close so you don’t miss something magical. She’s always making beautiful things and she’s always integrating and building bridges for herself and for others between the human and the divine.

Vanessa pastors at her start up: Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville with her husband Rob. They have four children, biological and adopted, ranging from college to preschool. She sells in two Etsy shops: one for vintage home decor and clothing, The Classic Butterfly, and another featuring her broken china mosaic art, The Mosaic Butterfly.

Listen in as we talk about her new sermon series, her own understanding of Patriarchy, her religious trauma, how she’s shifting the narrative of gender hierarchy with progressive theology and so much more.

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