Welcome back to the second of this teensy tiny Tarot miniseries. Remember, we're continuing our Tarot journey in The Numinous Network throughout the fall and into the new year. Join us for this deep dive! All classes are recorded and archived with no time limit for viewing. 📣 Click here to leave feedback for this or any other episode. 📣 Learn more about the SSP Learn more about The Numinous Network

This is actually an excerpt from a now-retired course I used to have called Intro to Tarot. You'll get all the backstory of that in this episode, but the main content here is about the history of the Tarot going all the way back to a syncretic figure called "Hermes Trismegistus" who was not a singular person but rather a collective of writing by powerful magi, like how Homer is not actually one writer but ratherthe combined works of several bards over centuries...It's mysterious and fascinating and I hope you enjoy this sweet lil artifact from my archive! Stay tuned for part two on the proliferation of decks across the globe and through the ages, from the Sola Busca deck of the Renaissance to the icon and groundbreaking Rider Waite Smith, to today's artist-driven marketplace of Post Modern decks! Subscribe to this podcast to get that episode automatically in your podcast player. Thanks to folks who write helpful honest reviews! They help the right listeners find a sense of belonging and resonance - I super appreciate you taking the time to write a few words. 📣 Click here to leave me some direct feedback 📣 Learn more about the Safe & Sound Protocol Learn more about The Numinous Network

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

We're not afraid of grappling with the tough stuff here on The Numinous Podcast! In this episode we're engaging with high stakes violations of values and betrayals that lead to Moral Injury. Moral Injury can occur when you do or fail to do something, when you witness something, or when you hear about something after the fact, that violates your deeply held beliefs and values in a high stakes context. Certainly healthcare practitioners and mental health professionals will be interested in this discussion, but also anyone who has grappled with moral emotions like outrage, shame, guilt, and remorse. Moral injury is a social wound that helps the collective stay co-operative. Grappling with Moral Injury is a civic responsibility – a moral obligation as our guest says – and a sign of a healthy pro-social individual. Our guest on this episode is Dr.Robyn Walser, a licensed psychologist and co-author of 7 books on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (commonly known as ACT). She has most recently written a book entitled,The Heart of ACT: Developing a Flexible, Process-Based, and Client-Centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  She’s an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the Director of TL Psychological and Consultation Services, and works at the National Center for PTSD. Dr. Walser has been offering ACT workshops since 1998.   Referenced in this episode Case Conceptualizing in Acceptance and Commitment therapy for Moral Injury: An Active and On-Going Approach to Understanding and Intervening on Moral Injury, by Jacob Farnsworth, Lauren Borges, Sean Barnes and Kent Drescher and Robyn Walser The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values by Robyn Walser, Wyatt Evans, Kent Drescher, Jacob Farnsworth The Heart of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Talk by Robyn Walser (YouTube)   The Moral Injury Course • Become a member of The Numinous Network and begin a supportive somatic practice ahead of the live sessions. Group somatic practice sessions happen Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. • If appropriate, begin The Safe & Sound Protocol (included in membership) to support nervous system resilience. • Attend the live sessions, starting in June. Live Sessions form a sequential series of psychoeducation and progressively layered activities: Friday, June 28, 10-11am PT Saturday, June 29, 9-9:45am PT Sunday, June 30, 10-10:45am PT Monday, July 1, 10-10:30am PT (optional for additional or catch-up work) Fridays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, 10-11am PT Live sessions will be recorded and archived for later viewing at your convenience. • Optional: Stay on with us for aftercare! In August, we're streamlining the calendar and focusing on somatic practice and weightlifting. (Discharging anger by lifting heavy shit!) In September, the full calendar of events is back up and running, with additional SSP co-listening sessions to support nervous system regulation ahead of the American election season. The Moral Injury course is included in Numinous Network membership which is offered at a sliding scale from $45 - $75 US per month, providing access to over 30 live events and over 50 hours of video on-demand.   *** ☎️ Leave me feedback! ☎️  *** Learn more about The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year *** Sign up for my newsletter

This episode is going to be a very special one for all the listeners who live with chronic illness and all the listeners with Indigenous heritage. These stories and experiences are interwoven in my conversation today with Anishinaabe medicine woman, Asha Frost.  Asha Frost (she/her) is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She’s a longtime healer working with homeopathy, plant medicine, and ceremony. She’s also the author of the bestselling book, You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance, as well as the Sacred Medicine Oracle Deck. This is real talk about living with chronic illness, and about white supremacy and colonialism in the wellness industry and the medical field. In this episode, we explore the perennial paradox of any health diagnosis: the tension/balance between accepting the reality of chronic illness while also reaching towards healing. Throughout, Asha shares some of the medicines that can be helpful on this journey. Connect with Asha Follow her on all the socials: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok Pre-order her new oracle deck, The Animal Elders Oracle Visit her website to sign up for her newsletter *** ☎️ Leave feedback ☎️ *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Sign up for my newsletter to hear when The Moral Injury Course opens

Mental health professional and somatic coach, Aurelie Richards, is back on the show and we’re talking about secure attachment in movement work – community organizing, workplace unionizing. How can we do this in a way that's sensitive to the realities of interpersonal neurobiology? In a way that recognizes the value of presencing secure attachment in an environment that naturally brings up unresolved trauma, lack of safeness, perhaps even hostility? The topic of our show today is very aligned with the energy of the Beltane season, particularly the weaving of the labour movement and other liberatory movements with the energies of spring, collective mobilization, and ecstatic, creative union.  We get into the nitty gritty of working with a disorganized attachment field within movement work. We dive into astromagic as part of our organizing strategy. We discuss the intricacies of power mapping in groups and organizations. It's a juicy case study of Aurelie's labour organizing experience in a German context with lots for us to learn! Connect with Aurelie For resilience coaching, somatics, and burnout prevention visit Aurelie's website.  Aurelie's resilience workshops, team building, and wellness in the workplace offerings  Her anarcho queer feminist health collective is actively seeking new members in Berlin! Folks can direct questions or reach out for support to post@aurelierichards.com. No socials, but sign up for Aurelie's newsletter  *** ☎️ Leave feedback or ask me a question ☎️  *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Sign up for my newsletter to hear when The Moral Injury Course begins

Content note: Specific, sometimes graphic, discussion of death. Shawn Leonard is a Mi'kmaq psychic medium. Gifted and accurate, his television show on APTN called 'Spirit Talker' depicts him travelling to Indigenous communities across the country, learning about their culture and spiritual teachings, and connecting them with their Beloved Dead. Along the way, he brings hope, healing, and closure, and deepens his connection to his own Mi'kmaq heritage and the medicine of his Indigenous name, White Eagle Spirit Talker.   Connect with Shawn Follow on all the socials: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Get Shawn's book Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mi'kmaq Psychic Medium (I enjoyed his reading of the audiobook version!) Join his online course starting in September 2024, Spirit Talker Tribe Find his oracle deck Watch Spirit Talker on APTN's streaming service, Lumi (Also check out Indians and Aliens while you're there!) Visit Shawn's website to sign up for his newsletter *** ☎️ Leave feedback ☎️ *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Check out Sero for psilocybin support at HeySero.co

If you're a 35 - 55 year old woman, you grew up in the very particular cultural landscape of the pre-#MeToo era. You grew up with boy-centered stories like The Outsiders, Stand By Me, Goonies and The Lost Boys, the  everyday male violence and misogyny of entertainers like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison, and hypersexualized movies and music like Porky's and "Me So Horny" – LOTS TO UNPACK THERE. Time to revisit and tell our own stories. Emelia Symington Fedy's memoir, Skid Dogs, is a brave, bittersweet coming-of-age story about a group of high school girls in the '90s navigating friendship, sex, and parents from the retrospective view of a now 30-something woman supporting her mother's cancer journey. Content Warning: We're talking about rape culture, sexual assault, and gender-based violence in this episode, the impacts still felt decades on, and the process of sexual healing as middle aged women. We also get a little explicit with the language so…headphones highly recommended! This is a raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture, and to be honest it was so searingly accurate I had to wait a minute and gather myself before I invited @emeliasf to come on the show to discuss it. Publisher's Weekly describes it this way: “With plenty of Juicy Fruit, padded bras, and pot smoke, the narrative begins as a nostalgia-tinted reverie before evolving into a devastating portrait of the pre-#MeToo era from someone on the other side of it. The author’s candor and courage will move readers regardless of when or where they came of age.”  Buy Skid Dogs at your favourite local bookseller or the alternative. Sign up for Emelia's newsletter on her website.   Reach out to a Crisis Line to debrief: Canadian mental health resources American mental health resources International Suicide Hotlines   *** ☎️ Leave feedback on this episode ☎️

Content Note: This is a very honest and frank conversation about our topic – modern dating. You may want to listen to this one through headphones! We’ve got a really FUN episode ahead with Canada’s Dating Coach, Chantal Heide, who has some great advice for all the women who are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to date men. Honestly, I think this might be my new comfort listen. It's so soothing to hear someone preach about sovereignty and self-love and high standards! Chantal is the author of several books on dating and relationships, among them the notable title, No More Assholes: Your 7 Step Guide to Saying Goodbye to Guys and Finding the Real Man You’re Looking For.  Chantal's approach to dating is at once more conservative and more radical than most. From a neurobiological attachment perspective, I have no notes. Very sound advice. I never did it this way, but if I was single and wanting to date a man, I'd do it this way. Check out CanadasDatingCoach.com and follow Chantal: TikTok Facebook  Instagram  Twitter YouTube iTunes Podbean *** ☎️ Leave feedback on this episode! ☎️ *** Learn more about my Facilitation Training. *** Tag me when you share on Instagram!

When I tell you that a tarot book is one of the best antiracism workbooks I’ve ever come across, I hope you take note. I honestly think if anyone, whether an adept or a newer student of antiracism, were to pick up Tarot for the Hard Work, it would keep them busy with exercises and practices for the rest of their lives. And, not incidentally, forge a deeper relationship with their tarot practice. The author and my guest for this episode is Maria Minnis, a tarot reader who teaches about blending spirituality with liberation work.  Tarot for the Hard Work is a provocative exploration of the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana that re envisions these archetypes as beacons that illuminate the various ways racism takes root both in ourselves and in the world. With exercises and thought-provoking recommended reading and resources, readers are guided to use Major Arcana themes to dismantle internalized racism, racism in relationships, and racism in communities. This book exceeded my expectations and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Buy the Book Follow Maria on Instagram   Referenced in this Episode I’m Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority’, by Daniel Lim "Global Majority" Wikipedia entry Who Are People of the Global Majority and Why It Matters, by Britt Hawthorne My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem They Called Me Number One, Bev Sellars  I Am Woman, Lee Maracle *** TNP222 Podcast Playlists for Special Interests 10 Years + 14 Themes Leave me a note or voicemail! ☎️ Sign up for my newsletter *** YouHaveToLiveYour.Life Percentage of Asymptomatic Infections among SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant-Positive Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Face Masks and Respirators in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Current Materials, Advances and Future Perspectives The People's Public Health Education Campaign is a project of the People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls - follow her on Instagram Twitter or Facebook for more!

I am a huge fan of Wayne McCrory's book, The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. Wayne McCrory is a registered professional biologist specializing in the study of wild horses, bears and western toads. Wayne is a leading expert on bear conservation and human-bear conflict. He was a driving force in the creation of the Khutzeymateen/K’tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary as well as the Kitasoo Spirit Bear Conservancy, and for 30 years he worked with many others to end B.C.’s grizzly bear trophy hunt. Wayne has published more than ninety scientific reports on wildlife and conservation, including two technical reports on wild horses in BC and Alberta. With horse genetics expert Dr. Gus Cothran, he has coauthored two reports on the genetics of wild horses in the Chilcotin. In Wild Horses of the Chilcotin, there’s also kind of a low key mystical aspect to the book too - through the sharing of his dreams and experiences on the land, you get the sense that there’s an underlying subtext around a scientist encountering his spiritual self and seeking to defend and protect something bigger, something ineffable yet essential to the human spirit.   Buy the book: The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future Learn more about the Elegesi Qiyus (Eagle Lake Henry) Wild Horse Preserve of the Xeni Gwet'in Watch In the Valley of Wild Horses on YouTube about the Xeni community  Friends of the Nemaiah Valley   *** The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be, JB MacKinnon Sharon Astyk re: collapse Yvonne Owens Recent mask effectiveness research and NIOSH citation by Consumer Reports *** Leave feedback for this episode

Looking back and looking forward, standing on threshold with a full decade of The Numinous Podcast behind me, I share 10 Qualities of Leadership, 3 secrets about the show, plus a bonus secret and another extra special bonus secret, a clip of my favourite 15 minutes out of the 10,000+ minutes of the show, and I cry a few times, of course. So it's a pretty full episode with a good dose of edu-tainment! Thank you so much for your support over the years.   Mentioned in this episode: Barefoot doctors Mirabella Ponders the Mystery Grieving Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips Pollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron Thank you to Thanh Mai K'Taaya of SpringUp for language around self-harm and self-determination.   The People's Public Health Education is a project led by The People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, that seeks to create art and belonging around staying Covid-Safe during the on-going SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Join us for the organizing meeting on April 3, 2024 (or receive the materials if you can't attend).   *** Leave feedback for the show here ☎️

This episode is for people who are seeking guidance about how we shall live and work and be joyful together in the face of on-going pandemic. Our guest is Dayna Nuckolls, known online as The People's Oracle, creator of the Divination For Liberation Framework of Sidereal Astrology and The 7 Essential Needs™️. Dayna is a multi-oracle diviner, musician, writer, speaker, and teacher. I'm so excited for her new project: The People's Public Health Education Campaign. We're talking about the pandemic, we're talking about liberatory astrology, we're planning for a future that includes a grassroots collective care renaissance. I hope I'll see you at the organizing meeting!  The People's Public Health Education Campaign Info Meeting Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6pm Central via Zoom Register to attend (or to receive meeting materials if you can't attend in person): https://bit.ly/pphec2024   For questions please contact Dayna on Insta @PeoplesOracle or James @jameslpoteet www.ThePeoplesOracle.com Follow Dayna on Instagram and Twitter: @PeoplesOracle YouTube: www.YouTube.com/LynnDayna Get the 2024 Sidereal Astrology Guide: https://shop.ThePeoplesOracle.com/collections/2024   Mentioned in this Episode   StatsCan Report, Dec 2023: Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19   Nature Medicine: Higher health risks associated with each Covid re-infection: Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection   Mask blocs   Ba-Zi Chinese predictive astrology   Covid-19 Monoclonal Antibodies - emergency use authorization   How to Survive a Plague, by David France   Clean Air Club of Chicago   *** Leave feedback for the show!   Learn more about The Numinous Network   Sign up for my newsletter

My guest today is Efu Nyaki, a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing. I first heard about Efu through my friends, Patricia Petersen and Thérèse Cator who were each members of the inaugural BIPOC-only cohort of Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner trainings. They recently graduated from that multiyear program and I couldn’t be more delighted to congratulate them on this tremendously wonderful achievement! 🎉 Finding a BIPOC practitioner of SE is getting easier in great measure because of the trailblazing work of today’s guest, Efu Nyaki.   Efu is a faculty member at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and also a professor of Systemic Family Constellations Therapy at the Hellinger Science Institute, and is also the founder of AFYA, a women’s holistic healing centre in Brazil. I’m delighted to welcome Efu to the show.   Find Efu's book, Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing: Ancestral Wisdom from the Snail Clan of Tanzania Follow her on Instagram   Referenced in this episode BIPOC-only SE training in January 2024 Blog post on epistemic privilege and humility Patricia Petersen Counselling (incl attachment-informed couple counselling) Thérèse Cator - Circle of Reclamation   Sign up for my newsletter to be notified when my Level 1: Multidisciplinary Facilitator Training and Level 2: Metaskills for Trauma Sensitive Care training is offered in spring 2024   Tell me your thoughts on this episode! Leave me a voicemail or note at this link.

This episode is a short retrospective of highlights from nearly a decade of The Numinous Podcast! Below, I've sorted ten years of episodes into 14 playlists. If you don't see 14 categories below in your podcast player show notes, click here to view them on the podcast website. Enjoy!   Intuition, Spirituality, and the Mysteries of Life TNP4: Love and Angels with Robin Arnold TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon TNP7: Spirituality + Recovery with Trinity Donnelley MacRae TNP9: Meditation, Channeling and Connection with Dr.Jonni Gray TNP11: Public, Private and Political with Louise TNP13: Spiritual Self-Esteem and Professional Integrity as an Intuitive Practitioner with Judee Gee TNP14: Carl-Greger on Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening and Direct Experience TNP16: Jenna DellaGrottaglia on Art + Intuition TNP17: Shakti Roumagoux: Catholic, Quaker, Engaged Buddhist TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart TNP25: Findhorn and Facilitating Inner Knowing with Kate Sutherland TNP27: Shamanism and the Corporate World with Agneta TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom TNP32: Sex, Spirituality and Intuition with Lesley Stedmon TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 1- Trusting Your Intuition TNP36: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 2 - Trusting Your Pendulum TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 3 - Common Questions About Intuition TNP41: Elle North on Tarot + Intuition TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism and the Heart of Business TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teaching from the Living Earth TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality TNP52: Humanism, Atheism and Optimism with Emrys Damon Miller TNP53: Astronomy's Mysteries with John Reid TNP59: Ritual + Magic with John Michael Greer TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1 TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2 TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3 TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses TNP74: Sacred Beekeeping with Nikiah Seeds TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP78: Niana Hierlander on the Uncommon Marriage of Celtic Shamanism and Catholic Mysticism TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path TNP81: {Numinous School Tutorial} Your Intuition Questions Answered TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP89: The Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb TNP90: The Celtic Golden Dawn with John Michael Greer TNP92: Sufism, Dreamwork and Belonging with Toko-pa Turner TNP96: Secrets of the Temple with John Michael Greer TNP98: Priestess, Shaman, Mystic, Scapegoat with Sarah Kerr TNP99: Monsters and Magical Beings with John Michael Greer TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine TNP102: Sarah Selecky and Radiant Shimmering Light TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson TNP124: Elizabeth Brown on Dowsing and Causative Diagnosis TNP126: Controlled Remote Viewing with Laurie Lambert Williams TNP127: Moon Magic with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener TNP128: Scottish Folk Magic with Scott Richardson Reid of the Cailleach's Herbarium TNP129: Palm Reading with Helene Saucedo TNP130: Sigil Witchery with Laura Tempest Zakroff TNP131: The Twelve Faces of the Goddess with Danielle Blackwood TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine TNP149: Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola TNP150: Hekatean Witchcraft with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP158: Beyond Crystal Basics with Nicholas Pearson TNP159: Norse Ritual Animism and Seidr with Maris Bergrune TNP162: Entering Hekate's Garden with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies TNP170: Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden with Nicholas Pearson TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology TNP180: What Makes a Witch? with Carmen Spagnola TNP183: Journey from Maiden to Mother with Sarah Durham Wilson TNP184: Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte TNP185: Trance, Dreams and the Collective with Carmen Spagnola TNP188: Fumbling Through...All Of It with Kael Klassen TNP190: Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP205: Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene and Miracles TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen TNP212: Shauna Janz on Ancestral Veneration in Child-Free and Queer Lineages TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn TNP230: Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on working with Your Guides TNP232: Be the fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost     Attachment, Human Relationships, Parenting, Families, and Cults TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children TNP29: Conscious Parenting with Colleen Adrian TNP31: Creating Community with Carolyne Taylor TNP33: Community, Autonomy and Forgiveness with Michael Phillips TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language and Poetry TNP40: Bethany Webster on Healing the Mother Wound TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality TNP51: Love in the Apocalypse with Carolyn Baker, PhD TNP56: Motherless Daughter, Mother: Sheila Webster TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1 TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2 TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3 TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture TNP84: Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice TNP86: Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP116: Matthew Remski on Attachment, High Demand Communities and Yoga's Culture of Abuse TNP118: Patti Elledge on Attachment, Grieving Together, and Mobilizing Outrage TNP121: Alexandra Stein on Disorganized Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Regimes TNP138: Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphan's Journey TNP151: Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri TNP166: Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans)Midlife with Aurelie Richards TNP172: A Love Note to Grievers with Angela E Morris TNP189: Recovering Towards Mothering with Taryn Strong TNP194: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 1 TNP195: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 2 TNP196: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 3 TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 4 TNP208: {Special Class Recording} Attachment + Contact Nutrition  TNP213: Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan TNP218: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn TNP223: Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE TNP228: New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach, Chantal Heide   Voices of the Global Majority (BIPOC - Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness TNP57: Homeless and Hopeless, to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important TNP70: Sewit Thomas Jones on Language and Belonging TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd TNP95: Preparing with Quest with Patricia and Ashley TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation TNP125: Stephanie Papik on Inuit tattoos and Cultural Reclamation TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine TNP152: Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith TNP156: Elaine Alec on Calling Your Spirit Back from Trauma TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway TNP187: Sinking Into Sacred Truth and Giving It Voice with Velda Thomas TNP201: {AstroMagic Miniseries} The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson TNP211: Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator TNP223: Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE TNP224: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign TNP227: Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis  TNP230: Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on working with Your Guides TNP232: Be the fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost   Collapse, Dismantling Systems of Oppression, and Revolution TNP21: Culture, Colonialism and Spirituality with Josiah Neufeld TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips TNP28: Communism, the Beatniks and the Guru with Michael Phillips TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque and Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits) TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP54: Nicole Foss on Navigating the Perfect Financial Storm TNP55: How to Build a Life Boat with Nicole Foss TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP67: Confronting Whiteness with Rachael Rice and Marybeth Bonfiglio TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP71: Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses TNP75: Jennifer Jacquet Asks, Is Shame a Necessary Tool for Social Cooperation? TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega TNP109: Tending the Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements TNP119: John Michael Greer on The Long Descent TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller TNP134: Decolonizing Scottish Highland History and Radicalizing Gaelic Folk Culture with Michael Newton TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness TNP139: Colonial Influence on Hide Tanning Past and Present with Mara Cur TNP143: Bear Hebert on Unlearning Oppression TNP145: Holly Truhlar on Tending the Threshold of Collapse TNP146: Carmen + Holly on Collapse Psychology and the Importance of Grief, Ritual, Accountability and Play TNP147: Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse and Meaning Through Poetry TNP148: Seeing Yourself Through the Apocalypse with Lindsay Tunkl TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola TNP168: Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinricks TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies TNP171: Crystie Kisler is Connecting Land and Food TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway TNP193: How Much is Enough in Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben TNP207: {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times TNP215: Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin TNP218: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

Today, we welcome Clark Strand to the show to talk about his book, Waking up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse. Clark has written numerous books and articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he is co-author with previous podcast guest, Perdita Finn, of the book, The Way of the Rose.   In this episode, we go back to the beginning, in more ways than one. We explore the Deep Time of our neolithic ancestors, and even just how distant the world of our ancestors of less than 100 years ago seems, as we discuss the ways in which electric light has shaped our lives and our psyches. We discuss how electrification has led us to the climate crisis we’re in today. Waking up to the Dark is an urgent message from an apparition that Clark calls Our Lady of Climate Change about the challenges to come.    Get or gift a copy of Waking Up to the Dark Learn more about the Way of the Rose Fellowship Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge Follow Clark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarkstrand/ Perdita Finn's episode of The Numinous Podcast Sophie Strand's episode of The Numinous Podcast *** Learn more about The Spirit of Yuletide Join The Numinous Network Review this podcast! *** {NEW!} Leave a comment or question for me – I may respond in a future episode!

I have been a student in the most life-changing class about perimenopause for the better part of this year. Actually, it’s a telehealth group – a group of patients meeting monthly for online sessions – under the care of Dr.Kristin Schnurr, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in complex endocrine concerns including perimenopause and postmenopause. In this episode, we explore: • how long perimenopause lasts • how to know which stage of perimenopause you're in • why vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) can be more serious than we think • the connection between ACE scores and perimenopausal symptoms and so much more! Referenced in this episode: Read Dr.Kristin's full bio here. Follow her on Instagram. Get on Dr.Kristin's newsletter by visiting her website here: www.drkristinschnurr.com Dr.Kristin's Upcoming Therapeutic Small Group Programs: Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition - This group would be a good fit for those of you still menstruating or if it has been less than one year from your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens. Emergence - An Exploration of Life After Menopause - For those of you for whom it has been 12 months since your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens. Beginning in January 2024 these groups will meet virtually every month for 12 months. Over the course of the year, you'll cover comprehensive and up to date information in a safe and nurturing space. The emphasis will be on listening to your inner wisdom as you make informed decisions in support of your own unique health. Registration opens November 20th, 2023 via newsletter mail-out. If you miss that deadline, email the office to get on the waitlist: office@drkristinschnurr.com   Self-Paced Course: Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition (Coming Soon! Visit her website and sign up for her newsletter for the announcement)   Resources International Menopause Society The Menopause Society Daily Record of Severity of Problems tracking sheet ACE Studies information and quiz   Perimenopause Playlist of relevant Numinous Podcast episodes TNP165: Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds TNP179: Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood TNP182: Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen and Ruben (Part Four) TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau (this one is maybe indirectly related - I can't remember specifics but it feels aligned!) TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray   Does this material resonate? Join us live! Check out The Numinous Network and come to the Peri/Meno Jams and AMAs Come hang out with us for The Spirit of Yuletide   Like what you heard? Give a little love to the podcast with a nice review!

Wow, this is a juicy one. My dear friend, Thérèse Cator, is back on the show in this special replay of a session we co-led as a warm-up event for my Witches New Year Gathering happening on October 28, 2023. Thérèse Cator is a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner who specializes in helping people develop a connection to their bodies that promotes wellness and healing. Cator’s work provides an intersectional and decolonial lens that is rare in an overwhelmingly white and ableist somatics field. Thérèse is also the founder of Embodied Black Girl, a global community that stands for the embodied liberation of Black women and femmes and women of color everywhere. Embodied Black Girl is devoted to creating a safe space for to heal from intergenerational trauma, racialized stress and colonial conditioning in service of our individual and collective liberation and healing. Thérèse has been featured in Forbes and MindBodyGreen, and she has delivered workshops to major tech companies while maintaining her focus on Black women's and femmes' health. We've been friends since 2017 and over the years have been in trainings together as students, as well as co-facilitated and collaborated on projects. We often independently come up with new directions we want to take with our work, only to find the other was planning the exact same thing. And that's what happened here! We are each offering facilitator trainings in 2024 and we're here to give some insight into our shared philosophical approach. Referenced in this episode TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony Sign up for Thérèse's newsletter on her website Find out more about Thérèse's background here Can academic reading be healing?, by Katherine Firth (the Routledge article based off Sedgewick's concept of "reparative reading")  Sedgewick's original essay on "paranoid reading" versus "reparative reading" TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell   *** Learn more about the Metaskills of Collapse in my Collapse 101 course in The Numinous Network, or join us to experience our manner of approach for group facilitation.  Last call to get your ticket for Witches New Year! Recordings available to stream until Nov 7, 2023. Sign up for my newsletter so you'll know when my facilitation training opens in Feb/March 2024. Like this episode? Give it a review! As you can tell, I read them and they matter to me!

My guest today is Perdita Finn, co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the non-denominational international fellowship, The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. Her newest book is called Take Back the Magic:Conversations with the Unseen World. It's part spiritual memoir, part ancestral veneration how-to, part takedown of the patriarchy through correspondence with her deceased father who was a doctor.  I absolutely loved this conversation and could listen to Perdita for hours. I highly recommend you seek out her book, Take Back the Magic, and spend some time communing with your Beloved Dead. Follow Perdita on Instagram Join Perdita's Substack   Referenced in this episode TNP73 Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming PrePatriarchal Goddesses   Like this episode? I'd love your review! 🙏🏻💖   Check out Witches New Year 2023   Learn more about The Numinous Network   Check out my book, The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year Author photo by Juliet Lofrado.

I saw a meme that said, "If I am googling symptoms and the treatment says "mindfulness", I know there's no treatment for my condition". I laughed but...for real, can't we do any better than this?? Let's have a real conversation about the pervasiveness of burnout and the gaslighting of the wellness industrial complex. If you're a regular listener, you know we have a clear line of sight on patriarchy and capitalism and we have long been well aware that they're the underlying cause, as with white supremacy, ableism, all of it. Clearly self-help and meditation isn't enough. And yet, there is something to it, isn't there? It would be awfully ignorant of me to not recognize that a millenias-old practice probably has some merit. The benefits of meditation on our overall wellbeing and to support restoration of the nervous system are clear, (experientially if not always empirically). Here to muddle through this with me today is my friend, Annie Bray, a longtime meditation teacher and bodywork practitioner. She's also a somatic coach and one of our Guides in The Numinous Network leading monthly Polyvagal Theory-informed meditation sessions. Annie also studied with Joanna Macy, root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, and we invoke her as a muse in this conversation, reflecting on her spiritual leadership as a woman in later life. It's nice to reflect on those who've inspired us as we navigate our entrepreneurship in the wellness space. Annie has 20 years' experience as a manual therapist, plus deep study in trauma recovery, applied polyvagal theory, meditation, yoga and trauma-informed coaching. In her work, she aims to support folks to feel reliably well-met, relatively safe and free to engage with life meaningfully. Check out Annie's website here Learn more about Annie's 1:1 Somatic Coaching REORIENT: a 12-week meditation program for midlife caregivers, based deeply in both WTR and in attachment and polyvagal theory, set to run again in January, with increased focus on midlife caregivers dealing with burnout. Follow her on Instagram Referenced in this episode Joanna Macy Work That Reconnects Recent studies on burnout Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski Donald Winnicott's Good Enough Mother studies Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time, by Laura Khadouri   Check out The Numinous Network to try Annie's class and more! Review The Spirited Kitchen on Amazon   Like this episode? I'd love your review! (Thanks in advance for taking the time 💖)