The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Self Love”

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 75: Gayle Nowak - The Heart Knows The Way

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Have you ever noticed that ever since your business showed up in your life, so have your deepest fears and false beliefs stories and wounds buried deep in your subconscious as well? There's a reason for that. Our guest today, Gayle Nowak says that when you dare to listen to your wounded heart, you begin to heal and free yourself from the pain, fear and false belief that are keeping you stuck in your business.

Gayle is a transformational retreat leader and founder of the story stylist and award winning expert positioning consultancy for speakers, authors and mission led entrepreneurs. She's passionate about creating experiences for messengers, healers, and entrepreneurial lightworkers that help them get real about how they truly feel so that they can find the message and story that best positions their magic.

As a result, her clients clear their visibility blocks and show up powerfully. To speak and lead from a happy, loving heart

Listen in and learn why our biggest mess is also our most powerful message and how Gayle discovered vulnerability as the source of strength for her clients.
Our business’s success is often directly proportional to our willingness to do our healing work.
Our wounded hearts hold a resonance for truth telling and that by revealing our true story, we directly attract the clients who are meant for us.
Learn why getting out of your head and into your heart is the quickest path to showing up powerfully.

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Episode 71: Nina Manolson - Body Peace

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

This episode was very emotional and moving for me. I don’t know a woman who doesn’t have a negative relationship with her body, including me. There’s so much self-loathing about the skin we are in. Many women feel betrayed by their own bodies, and I don’t think we are aware that the more we self-loathe, the more the beauty industry wins. It’s tragic. This conversation with Nina is incredibly important and revealing.

Nina Manolson is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps women end the war with food and body to feel truly at home in their bodies. Really at home. The kind of at home where you can run around naked and not worry about what is “good enough” or what others will think. The kind of good that allows you to feel ultimate freedom and body peace.

Nina is also a Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher, Nationally Board Certified Holistic Health Coach, and Certified Body-Trust Guide.

She helps her clients move past the deprivation-diet paradigm and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating and living, which creates profound, long-lasting change in and with their bodies.

Nina works with individuals and groups and writes body poems – all in service of helping women create a respectful and nourishing relationship with their bodies. Learn more at: NinaManolson.com

Our culture is the issue, and the beauty industry shows up a fatphobia and weight stigma. There's a way that we're actually not treated as well. When we live in a larger body, there's a way that we're not welcomed.
The Patriarchy is a societal money-making machine that benefits off of our body shame, and it’s a 72 billion dollar industry.
It’s important for us to unpack and divest from the diet culture to reclaim ourselves.
There is no ideal size.
When we come into a relationship of body peace, we come into a relationship with the incredible wealth of wisdom that our body holds.
The messages from the media, and now social media, for our kids is brutal on their relationships with their bodies.
Our body should not feel like a prison. We deserve a different reality in our relationship with our bodies and food. We do not have to stay in that prison.

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Episode 68: Nic Frick - Career Alignment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Gah! I love this this woman because she's so unapologetically herself! Tune in as Nic and I talk about how "the trance" shows up for women in our career and in our self care. You might be suprised to learn that by being the "work hero", you are actually demonstrating how the trance of unworthiness can sneak up on us in the most unexpected ways.

Nic Frick is a career coach, guiding women through the roller coaster of career transitions. Her holistic approach is a result of her commitment to discovering her own self-care practices and her career spanning tech, recruiting, customer service, and teaching yoga. Her programs integrate both career growth strategies and healing modalities to ensure work-life balance and sustainability for her clients.

She believes that you can have your dream job if you trust your own authority, start with your why, and lead from your values. Nic prides herself on being the best hugger anyone has ever met. She is committed to dismantling white supremacy, feels happiest on a surfboard, loves sending handwritten letters, and starts getting ready for bed at 8:15 PM.

Nic grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Peru. She is currently living with her hubby and daughter in San Francisco, California and they are obsessed with finding the tastiest food possible and avoiding winter as much as possible.

In 2017, before becoming a mother, Nic decided to name it “The Year of Nicole” to explore what self-love was really about. She learned, healed, and acquired many tools she now uses in her work with women.
Usually, women have to look at their careers in tandem with their self-care, because these are deeply connected.
Self-care means investigating your thoughts.
We have to nourish ourselves and then give to others from our overflow.
Women have been taught the mentality of scarcity mindset through the patriarchy, but it’s important to invest in ourselves, now more than ever.
Nurturing yourself can be taking a lunch break, which can mean a profound shift.
Women invest 90% of their income in their family and their community while men invest 30%.
Most women at work are facing burnout.
“It’s going to be hard to find a job if I don’t have a job” is a cultural lie that keeps us stuck.

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Episode 61: Vironika Wilde - LOVE & Gaslight

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Vironika Wilde is a poet, spoken word artist, award-winning author, nomad, feminist, cat fanatic, and activist.

More than a poetry book, Love and Gaslight is a story. Divided into five chapters, it sparks with one woman's decision to leave an unhappy relationship. Her choice begins a painful unraveling. Poem by poem, she searches for lost innocence and unpalatable truth.

Veronika is also a sexual assault survivor reclaiming her body. She is an immigrant climbing into the home-sized hole in her heart. She is an adult comforting her inner child. She is a woman questioning the social conditioning that governs her freedom.

Love and Gaslight is raw, political, and transgressive. It's edgy, feminist, and relevant. Most importantly, it's honest. You will feel it. Whether it makes you feel sad, glad, or attacked, it will also make you feel brave enough to speak your truth.

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Poetry can reveal truth and heal trauma. Vironika has been writing poetry since she was a child and after publishing two self-help books, she decided to dive more deeply into her poetry.
As a woman, your healing process comes up for you each month when you have your period. So once a month, when you're on the progesterone part of your cycle, it comes back and it gives you an opportunity to process whatever it is that hasn't been processed.
Toxic relationships are crazy making.
Vironika realized that she and her partner were recreating childhood traumas with each other. He was casting her into this role of his mother, and she was casting him into this role of her father, which tends to repeat itself over and over again until you learn to heal your inner child.
Vironika came from the former Soviet Union to Canada with her parents as immigrants.
Vironika had to learn to empty herself in her friendships with others in ways that would not re-traumatize herself.
It’s really important to find a friend that can hold space for you.
In the former Soviet Union there is a big culture of repression, so much so that many people have throat issues and thyroid issues that have to do with voice suppression.
Sometimes we are doing the right thing but with the wrong person.
Love and Gaslight is a collection of poems that share the process of healing.

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Episode 52: Sage Polaris - Work, Life, Love

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Patriarchy stress disorder, pandemic parenting, and creating a wildly successful and profitable business from a place of pleasure and desire - these topics are just the tip of the iceberg in this incredible episode with my esteemed guest, Sage Polaris.

Many of you may already know that I am a lover of language, words, naming “it," synchronicity, and mysticism. I knew that the name “Sage” already intrigued me, and so of course I had to go digging below the surface, feeling into the deeper essence of what it means:

Sage.
noun

a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience.

adjective, sag·er, sag·est.

wise, judicious, or prudent:
sage advice.

It did not take me long to recognize that Sage is aptly named, but then the name “Polaris” also had me Googling!

Polaris: Also known as the North Star. Polaris lies nearly in a direct line with the Earth's rotational axis "above" the North Pole—the north celestial pole—Polaris stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the stars of the northern sky appear to rotate around it.

I mean, can you stand it?
Sage Polaris.

Her name got me thinking about what it takes to be "sage." What I know about wisdom is that it's often gained by having faced tremendous trials, difficulty, and extreme challenges.

There is a reason for instance, that Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, has the companion totem animal of the owl. An owl is a symbol of wisdom and is known to “cleave” through the darkness, able to view things from a higher perspective.

I am loving the wisdom, perspective, and “Sage" offerings delivered in this episode. Listen in as we dive deeply into work, life, and love, and what Sage is doing to invite women to join her in seeking higher perspectives that bring more love and pleasure to our businesses and lives. I think you'll be amazed by what you hear.

Thank you for your time, Sage! You are a gem!

Sage Polaris has written high converting copy for more than 350 clients earning them millions of dollars. She helps personal brands and service providers sell more of their service or offer with the words on their website.

She has worked with Chrisette Michele, James Wedmore, Rick Mulready, and Amber McCue. Basically, she makes money for the “internet famous” people we all look up to.

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Sage has created her business by design, "If you share my values, I can work with you.”
Pandemic parenting + entrepreneurship has meant that Sage gets to show up authentically, sometimes with kids crawling all over her, while knowing that she's chosen to work with the clients who understand that this is part of where we all are in this moment.
Women are showing up for work differently, and not just during the pandemic. We have been evolving towards more work-life balance and honoring each other in this duality, of women who are out in the workforce and mothering at the same time and bringing that together in a way that feels supported.
Sage takes 4 months off each year, consistently doubles her revenues each year, and she does so unapologetically.
Sage writes “copy that converts” but really her job is to create “resonance” using language and words, and integrity to communicate the essence of her clients' offerings which she also calls "the sixth sense of copywriting."
Using this method, Sage has had upwards of 1.2, 5 million in revenues in a single launch for her clients.
All industries have a gritty and sleazy side, but if you are aware of your values aligning with your clients' values, it can be a magical marketing experience for both you and the customer.
Valerie Ryan is the author of the book, Patriarchy Stress Disorder and Sage has all of her students read it as a reminder that we are in a system that was built to oppress many people, particularly women, and that this is at the core of how we “work” and do life.
As women, we have to be aware of how we burn ourselves out because when we do that we can’t affect positive change in the world.
We have to pay attention to how we place conditions on ourselves as women, even withholding love from ourselves because we don’t realize that we’ve loved ourselves with conditions based on how we “perform” in our business.

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Episode 28: Kerri Hummingbird - The Second Wave

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0400

Have you ever felt that you came here to be of service or had a deep curiosity to know more about your purpose, or suspected that you are part of something bigger? Then you may be part of The Second Wave.

While we can often think that change on the planet, and in human evolution, is up to someone else, this book explores why we each play a role in making change happen and birthing the new world. Especially now when we are all feeling so much fear and division. This book is about trusting what’s happening, knowing we are exactly where we need to be, and allowing ourselves to be compassionate, loving and vulnerable- even in the darkest, messy moments.

Listen in as Kerri and I dive into the mess of the human experience and talk about self love, sovereignty, soul contracts, 5th dimension conversations, self-judgement, current world issues, division, fear, and the many way’s we have to reveal, feel and heal, what is coming to the surface so that we can expand and transform into a more loving and just world, together.

I loved my interview with Kerri, because I love her honestly, her grit, and her down to earth way of explaining and exploring spiritual concepts that can otherwise feel out of reach. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it.

Kerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide, inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with an authenticity, passion and purpose that positively impacts others. She catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom with her Reinvent Yourself programs for individual and group mentoring. She is the international best-selling author of “The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama” and the award-winning best-selling book “Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love” which describes the early years of her spiritual awakening. She has served as a social activist, leader, and philanthropist for over three decades. She is the Founder of the Skills Not Pills Movement and Host of Soul Nectar Show.

• Sovereign means : the truth already. It’s the idea that we are whole and complete, with all the tools we need within.
• We come to earth to have an experience of forgetting who we really are and all that we are capable of.
• Your soul is designed so that you can have the fullest experience you wanted to have on earth.
• We all have a unique thumbprint, which is symbolic of the unique being that you are.

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