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ep. #33 If you've dipped your toe in the waters of yogic practice or philosophy, and you have if you've ever even googled "mindfulness", this conversation will deepen and clarify some of the common mistranslations and misunderstandings of how to live our lives while also walking a spiritual path. We especially explore the ways being a parent can often feel "in the way" of our spiritual goals and practices. The difficult distance between our ideals and reality. Kaya speaks so beautifully to the gift we can give ourselves and our children when we practice and live our spiritual journey as family. In this episode, I share about my own personal upbringing, raised in a yogic intentional community. Kaya also has a deep and meaningful relationship with this community, and we both hold so much love and respect for the teachings, the people and the beauty that is present there. While I do speak to some of my personal experiences and interpretations, I am sure they were unique to my own experience, my own family system and the projecting we as humans do onto others. So I ask you to hold what you hear with the awareness of both being true: reality and projection. Things we touch on: The misconceptions of practicing non-attachment The absolute and the relative realities we exist in Spiritual bypass Splitting of life into spiritual life and the rest The four stages of life How not to sacrifice your spiritual life Accepting or rejecting mental/emotional reactions We can model our humanity for our kids What family spiritual practice can look like Clarifying karma yoga and selfless service I do my work so you can do yours Where to start Kaya Mindlin is a Yoga therapist and educator who has been teaching the “softer side of yoga” for 19 years.Learn more about Kaya's work at YogawithKaya.com  Kaya's InstagramUse the code "wildandwise20"for 20% off this ONLINE program: The Nectar of ActionExplore the most essential teachings for householders seeking true spiritual growth amidst the responsibilities of life.BEGINS JULY 15 2021Mallika's website: https://www.thewildandwise.com/Mallika's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thewildandwise/If you have enjoyed the show, please rate, review and subscribe in iTunes. You can also check out some of our other older episodes: Episode 2 - Baba Yaga and Our Wild Woman IntuitionEpisode 3 - Exploring Our Inner Knowing with Kadhi BoEpisode 4  - Earth Magick and Regenerative Ways of Living with Marysia MiernowskaUpcoming Offerings:Want to join a F R E E virtual New Moon Circle? Click here Support the show

ep. #31  This conversation and episode is truly one of Mallika's favorite of all time. Lara Veleda Vesta is an author and illistrator, exploring  dís-ability, rites of passage, ancestral mythology, folklore and the sacred creative.  She lives with Myalgic Encephalomeylitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a disease caused by viruses and inflammation with an infectious trigger.  Prior to her illness, Lara was a university professor teaching classes in English and writing and a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion. Lara's deep work and knowledge of integrating difficult initiatory experiences, expanded by her use of ritual, research and linguistics, help her blend a beautiful weaving of return to old ways, old knowing and the deep peace that is available to us all. Explored in this episode:  Why narrative is so important to healing Stages of initiation and rite of passage Finding the joy available in healing Reorienting our job/to-dos to come from spirit and ancestors Sacred life is available to any one of us Collective rite of passage this past year Redefining our values and letting things go How do we know when we are on a "return" Ritualizing every aspect of the passage Grief is part of the return and integration of the passage Silence is integral for sacred work The potency of being together in a ceremonial frame Illness and disability were hallmarks of initiation in historic stories The opportunity and communication that comes through as symptoms of illness How to stay out of resistance to pain and other difficult symptoms The power and potential of the millions of people who are ill or living with disability What is your super power?Quotes from Lara:"We need each other's stories so we can know what's survivable.""What I have found useful is ritualizing every aspect of the process."Mallika's InstagramMallika's Website Ashley’s InstagramAshley's Website Support the show

Ep. #30 In today's episode, Mallika invites her friend, Elanne Kresser, to share a deep exploration of cultural healing and the hope for education that teaches our children to live within and honor the beautiful space we occupy, birthing a new paradigm of partnership, of tending and  of caring for all beings.  Mallika and Elanne have been friends since 2013 and have been in conversation with each other about many topics, from conscious parenting and healthy relating styles, to the current paradigm of "compulsory schooling" and examining or shifting cultural constructs. Elanne Kresser is devoted to the labor of birthing a world in which all voices, both human and otherwise, are honored. She has practiced in the Ordinary Mind School of Zen for two decades and directed The Dharma School for children for eight years, and her adult life has been dedicated to community-based, culturally-generative, earth-honoring education. She is a practitioner of ancestral and cultural healing and loves supporting others to reclaim their self-worth, life purpose, and sense of belonging. Her people hail from Bavaria, Bohemia, Jämtland, Sweden and England.Elanne Kresser's WebsitePeter GreyJohn Taylor Gatto"Weapons of Mass Instruction" By John Taylor Gatto Things we touch on in this episode: Feeling belonging with place Personal wellness = "how able am I to meet the changing conditions of life" Wellness is relational Animism, at it's foundation, is relationshipHow teaching in today's system that is devoid of meaningful workThe ancestors are who hands us our cultureDepth of cultural healing available through getting right with our ancestorsTending ancestral connection through education A new paradigm of relating and tending and caringThe natural friction when shifting from an old to a new paradigmDistinguishing between education and compulsory schooling and the values at the base of the current schooling structureWays that we can each play a role in starting this shiftThe possibility that we re-imagine schooling is hereHomeschooling, free-schooling, unschooling, democratic schooling, and the movement for self-directed educationWhat practical ways can this be implemented in a schooling settingThe clarity that can come from ancestral involvement in these projectsQuotes from Elanne: Wellness requires relationally (12 min)The ancestors are who hands us our culture (24)Education is ultimately the transmission of culture (25)Mallika's InstagramMallika's Website Ashley’s InstagramAshley's Website Support the show

ep. #29 Mallika explores and deepens into the framework of syncing our lives up with the phases of our menstrual cycles. She explains each of the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle and how they are mirrored by cycles in the natural world.  Topics touched on: Frames for cyclical livingTuning into phases of the moonMenstrual cycles mirrored in the natural worldMicro and Macro lens of this frameworkAcknowledging for ourselves allows us to communicate to othersEmbracing the wisdom and the How to help folx who don't have this biology understand the wisdom of listening to these cyclesPractical tips for working your schedule in accord with our cyclesSpring/Follicular phase is a time for: Tending, watering, listening to your desires, brainstorming what's possible, loving and trusting with a young heart, feeling the energy of creation, acknowledging fruits of your labor that are starting to form.Summer/Ovulatory phase for: Taking action, finding support, inviting and collaborating, selling your boss (or yourself) on the new business plan, being with old conflict in a new way, enjoying yourself and following your pleasure.Autumn/Luteal phase: honoring what came to fruition, softening back into yourself, enjoying the bounty of your efforts, taking stalk of what didn't work, beginning to prepare for winter by recognizing where you need to conserve your energy or plan for more nourishment.Winter/bleed phase is a time for: resting, nourishment, releasing what needs to go, going within, writing down your dreams, letting go of attachments, healing, being. Ashley’s InstagramAshley's WebsiteMallika's InstagramMallika's WebsiteSupport the show

ep. #28 Ashley talks with Abigail Heins, a fellow water woman and a deep feeler, weaver, and healer.This conversation was inspired by the cocreation of Ashley and Abigail to start a water prayer circle for women who are wanting to become mothers, which starts in May! Topics we touch on : Wellness in relationship to openness to other beings, and flow of water Abigails path to working with water through the water in the body The lymph system as the body's inner rivers The connection between sound, water, and creation The whales, their songs, and some of their teachings The waters connection to life and creation Sound as a key to movement and water The depth of the prayer to bring children into the world in this time The seeds of the water mama circle Abigail is a womb guardian, a weaver, and a voice of the whales. Fertility, and the natural cycles of life has always been at the core of her passion and work. From teaching on natural birth control and womb blood empowerment, to sharing Ayurvedic breast massage and whale womb healings. Her offerings support people to root into the wisdom of their body and the wisdom of this earth. Intended to support the reclamation of our juicy, pulsing, sensual soul connection to life. Her current focus is to support the wombed ones prepare for conscious conception. To be anchored in their own vessels of love and indigenous roots in this earth, to birth the future generations of star children. You can check out her IG @whalewombweaving and her website ~ wombweaving.com  Ashley’s Instagram Ashley's Website Mallika's Instagram Mallika's Website Support the show

ep. #27 Mallika and Ashley dive into an area of Mallika's work that has sprung from her own healing journey - working with story, metaphor, myth and ancestral stories. Mallika and Ashley both share pieces of their own ancestral stories, how they honor the broader sense of self and working with the pain and discomfort they have been born to work with in their own stories. Mallika is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, currently living in North Carolina. While not practicing as a therapist, she is currently guiding women through re-membering ancestral wisdom, reclaiming their intuition and releasing patterns of self-inflicted pain. Mallika holds groups and individual sessions for moms to step into the unknown places with grounding resources, unconditional love and relational skills to lead them from fear and pain to whole, supported and strong ways of moving through the world. Through Mallika's therapeutic skills, knowledge of yogic philosophy and practices, and experiences/trainings in conscious mothering, she discovered a responsive approach to working with her clients. In that work she brings humor, love and the ability to stay with the difficulties that arise. She eases clients through the painful and scary places to generate  nourishing support, deeply connected awareness, and to embody the blessings of their lineages.What we touch on:Stories and myth help us know ourselves and our experiencesRelationship between belonging and ancestral storiesImpact of ancestral stories being erased through war, colonization and migrationWays that old ancestral experiences continue to be enacted and lived out todayBeing with individual pieces of stories as a way to deepen our relationship to parts of ourselvesComing to terms with having personal lineage lines in both colonizers and the persecuted Finding this work through Narrative Therapy, Carl Jung's archetypes  and Gestalt TherapyTarot as a source of metaphor and imageryThey ways story lives outside of us and within usAwareness of expanded sense of selfBeing careful not to bypass the experiences of this lifeOur job is to be ruled by our prayerDifference between allowing feelings and being ruled by feelingsPassing down of the internalized parent voiceHow our life, even the painful parts, are an offering to our ancestral healingWhat is Mallika's new program, Myth, Animism and My Ancestral Stories all about! Read more about Myth Animism and My Ancestral StoriesMallika's InstagramMallika's WebsiteAshley’s InstagramAshley's WebsiteSupport the show

ep. #26 Ashley talks with Dr. Mia Hetenyi, a writer, ceremonialist, and grief doula. Their conversation weaves through many topics, with a continued thread of the power of the wild world to support our grief and lives. Topics we touch on :* Spring happenings in the landscapes we live with. The spring energy of waking up, growing, and shifting **Our sense of safety impacting how open we are to tuning into eros and aliveness in land*Ancestral connection to specific landscapes**How nature can help us recalibrate our worthiness and belonging* *"Trauma doesn't exist in nature", grief and hard experiences move through the animal body**Systemic racism and patriarchy impacting access to the wild**The importance of children building relationships with the wild*  *Ways that Hungarian culture honors death**Redwood trees supporting Mia's capacity to get sober and grieve* *Addiction as a spiritual illness**Feeling safe and held by sprit/nature/other as the groundwork for moving big feelings**Cultural patterns of emotional suppression impacting our grief* *Building relationship to the divine mother, and healing the mother wound**Meeting resistance to taking care of the body* *Lack of cultural containers for grief and the large amounts of unprocessed grief in this culture**Grief opening our connection to our true self, and clarifying our relationships*Dr. Mia Hetenyi is a grief doula for recovering humans. She serves as an inner guide, ceremonial facilitator and writer with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. She has been an eternal student of all things related to the soul, psyche and the the devotional path of the Great Mother. Along with 25+ years of clinical experience, she has spent most of her life doing a deep dive into studying and practicing meditation, inner journey, ceremony and ritual, dream work and energy healing.After recovering herself from addictions and experiencing an awakening to her soul, she fused her knowledge together to create an innovative approach to healing trauma, codependency, addiction and most ailments connected to difficulty grieving...the root of so much of our modern day suffering. Dr. Hetenyi on Instagram Dr. Hetenyi's website.Resources referenced:The Sophia Code by Kaia Ra The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel Ashley’s InstagramAshley's WebsiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Website  Support the show (https://www.thewildandwise.com/donate)Support the show

ep. #25 Mallika welcomes her husband into a conversation about the trajectory of their 17 year relationship, particularly the elements that have supported authentic connection and getting through the dark times of disconnection. He speaks with humor and vulnerability about the reality of conscious parenting while working really hard to meet Mallika in a deep and loving marriage.  The flow of the conversation going something like this: The dance of "fighting" that we did for many years - Hold Me Tight by Sue JohnsonMallika's love language not being met well by Steve - Love LanguagesOur Enneagram Episode on being in relationships Do we think we are good parents? Ancestral wounds and patterns showing up in our kidsPriorities in parenting - Raising emotionally healthy kidsWhen and why to transition out of RIE parentingWhen we thought our marriage might be overMain nuggets that Steve took away from couples therapyThe impact of jealousy early on in our relationshipMaintaining attraction to each other as we ageAre we desensitized to what is attractive to us by porn and media?The deeper relational work we both had to do to healGetting through the belly of the beast and emerging into a totally new relationshipThe surprising impact of how much their therapist liked SteveHow distraction can help find connection"Don't go to bed angry" isn't good adviceHidden Brain episode on marriageMallika's InstagramMallika's Website Ashley’s Instagram Ashley's Website Support the show

ep. #24 In this season episode we talk about how we can align ourselves with the energy of spring and ideas for creating a spring altar at home! References: Bronwyn's Instagram The Circle Round Book Mallika's Website https://www.thewildandwise.comAshley’s InstagramAshley's Website Wild and Wise InstagramSupport the show

ep. #23 Mallika has a conversation with Rui Liu ("Rae"), CEO and Founder of Grass People Tree, a tea company bringing the story of living tea and the wild, indigenous and ancient tea from her homeland in Southwest China. This deep conversation touches on holistic wellness, personal integrity and the joy of laughing and being together in a simple life. Topics we touch on: Relationship between tea and holistic wellnessHow tea is picked "alive" and "whole", like a human bodyHow Rui's sense of home changed when she started Grass People TreeLearning to translate and teach something you innately knowHow tea is connecting us to the ancestors with every sip, every leafBringing tea to London, a place that colonized China, and healing relationship to teaThe ancestral wisdom that lives in all of usThe need to balance the intellect with the primal feeling of being a humanSimplify to come back to our inner wisdom and connection to everythingTea being a process to facilitate "getting rid of" the excessing doing in our livesThe root of helping others is our self-workThe impact of being fixed on one perceptionGrass People Tree websiteIG for Grass People TreeIG for Rui Wild and Wise InstagramMallika's Website Ashley’s Instagram Ashley's Website Support the show

ep. #22 In this episode, Ashley speaks with Aaron Schiller!Aaron is the founder of Launch Medicine and the host of the launch medicine podcast. He is focused on helping people find the sweet nectar in their life and business and get their vision out into the world in a healing way.  Prior to starting Launch Medicine, Aaron coached founders and executives from small businesses to organizations such as Apple, Yale University, and Norcal Cannabis. Topics we dive into:Water as medicine, movement, and central to the cycles of life  The connection between the way we treat water and grief Water and spirit as a ever-present help available to us Water supporting our own growth and blossoming Bring ceremony and prayer into family life The complexities of relating to our businesses, money, and capitalism Bringing our deep gifts into the world through businessThe process of launching a new business or rebrandingCollaboration as the key to business successReframing business as a relationship Going all-in on your passions and missions Aaron’s history with reconnecting with spirit through AARepatterining ancestry through prayer and practice The inquiry of how to treating your family as sacred Integrating the spiritual into your daily lifeTransforming beyond the nuclear familyAaron’s information: Launch Medicine WebsiteLaunch Medicine Instagram Launch Medicine Facebook Launch Medicine SpotifyLaunch Medicine Apple Podcast  Website https://www.thewildandwise.com/donateAshley’s Instagram Ashley's Website Wild and Wise InstagramSupport the show

ep. #21 In todays episode, Ashley interviews Tania Laisuna, David Coral, and Lorena Rodriguez. Tania and David call in from the Putumayo region of Columbia where they live, and work on a community project that fosters the continuation of ancestral knowledge and the transition to a more sustainable way of living.They weave an exploration of "buen vivir", an indigenous concept from South America that expands colonized perspective of wellness. This episode of full of beauty and life! We hope you enjoy :)This episode includes full translation in Spanish and English!¡Este episodio incluye traducción completa en español e inglés! Topics we touch on:Broadening our understanding of wellness to include cycles of the earth and ethical codes of community and relationship to ecosystem. This concept of wellness, or buen vivre, as intrinsically related to our contact with all living beings Morning practice of greeting yourself The interrelationship between how inner waters and outer waters History as a living thingTrue wellness integrates history of place and of peopleGiving back to the people are were mistreated and harmed is part of wellnessBuilding relationships to native plants as a pathway to reconnectionBuilding relationships with the indigenous people and stories where plants medicines originate.Sacred medicines like tobacco, chicha, cocoa, alcohol Circling as a process for inquiry and as a way to build relationships with medicine  The continued effort it takes to heal and create wellness. Their home, life and project:https://www.larealidad.org/Instagram:  @eslabon_la_realidad/PayPal Donations to the land and Community Project!Nuh Jay Music:https://nuhjay.bandcamp.com/Kun Music:https://soundcloud.com/kun-hilando-el-sonido......................................................................Ashley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Water Mama CircleMallika's websiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art ProcessSupport the show

ep. #20 In today's episode, Mallika shares a conversation she had back in early December with Amber Magnolia Hill. Amber shares a lot about her personal experience loosing her mother in a car accident 5 years ago. She graces us with her vulnerability and authentic emotional experience as we dive into what It means to loose someone so vital, how she continues to tend her relationship with her mother and the entwined relationship with life/death-tending and motherhood. Amber's Instagram Amber's website Mythic Medicine Amber's Podcast Medicine Stories Things we dive into in this episode:Amber's experience of the grief of loosing her motherLittle "g" and big "G" griefGrief is sacred space that continues to hold your relationship to something that existed. The darkness that thrives on the feeling of being alone The Inevitability of loss and deathHow our culture is set up to deny deathSpontaneous, simple rituals to rememberAngelica, Osha and Violet - plants for allowing and supporting griefThe grief the come with motherhoodImpact of raising children outside of village/communityMotherhood and tending life and deathCreating containers for children that minimize cultural traumaHealing and emotional self-regulation for ourselves as parentsThe collective grief we are feeling during CovidThe complexity that can be held inside a conversationThe Denial of Death by Earnest Becker The Belonging Podcast Atlantic Article The Nuclear Family Was a MistakeRachelle Garcia Seliga   Innate Traditions Inuit Morality Play book about parentingElizabeth Kubler Ross Brené Brown podcast with David Kessler Ashley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Parent Prayer Circle Mallika's websiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art ProcessSupport the show

ep. #19 In this episode Ashley talks with Cass Phelps about the process and potential for creating internal containers for healing and growth. Cass offers workshops throughout the world and conducts a private practice in Kauai, HI. His gift of insight allows him to assist his students in their Self Awakening and healing process; realizing their inspirations and full potential. Cass is a Somatic Movement therapist, certified Reiki Master, Sound Healing therapist and lifelong musician. He also creates movement performance works and is known to call on different forms of Art Therapy, dance and the innovative intelligence of play. His unique approach to sound, breath, movement and resting-stillness unifies the creative and healing arts together as one. A strong sense of humor and laid-back style help Cass to deliver the awakening transmission:  “All Is Within.” In this episode you will here us talk about:  Creating containers for healing and growth The relationship between nourishment and expansion Tuning into the biological intelligence of life The importance of listening to our bodies' needs Resolving trauma through presence  The gift process Phase 1: Receive your own gift Phase 2: Nourish yourself with your gift Phase 3: Share your gifts to the world Receiving the nourishment of your own gift The magnetism of connecting with essence The gift of sensitivity Bringing this work to children Resources Mentioned: Cass's Website:  https://awake-one.com/ The Gift Process: https://awake-one.com/gift-process Video of Cass teaching Biological Breath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ppb-mnO30 Video of Cass teaching a spinal spiral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1pdWmSwOc Ashley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Parent Prayer Circle Mallika's website Mallika's Instagram Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process Support the show

ep. #18 Ashely and Mallika explore various pillars of wellness and how to bring them in during the winter months. Winter is not just a time of year where energy disappears, but actually there is a different kind of energy present and available to us. It's an energy of darkness - not like evil, but like the quiet, underbelly of life, the waters we were born from, the soft, warmth that we all need. Topics we cover:Chinese Medicine's calendar of the seasonsLack of relationship between capitalist economy and the need for restWays to incorporate deepening rest even when we have to keep working full-timeMyelination of our nerves and our bodiesWhy electronics are worse for us in the winterEnergy available for slow evening learning of craft activitiesGreat time of year to practice meditating, especially if you have a hard time with it normallyUsing the landscape to prompt our psychological processesDream journalingMovement practice in the darkFoods that nourish and foods that depleteAshely's Chinese Medicine teacher Bronwyn Ayla Jessica Prentice's cookbook Full Moon FeastAshley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Parent Prayer Circle Mallika's websiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art ProcessSupport the show

ep. #17 Stasha Ginsberg is a lover of depth and discovery. She is a published author and poet. She is also a storyteller, teacher, mother, dancer, musician, performer, tarot reader and facilitator of soulful writes of passage programs for youth and adults.Stasha is a midwife of story journeys. She perceives each human to be a wild matryoshka, or nesting doll, full of stories. She loves the creative process and its capacity to crack open a story and lead one on a rite of passage, mythic journey through the landscape of body, soul, place, longing, memory & imagination.Mallika and Stasha sat down to talk about the role the story can play in healing and creating wellness. Stasha shares about her personal initiation into healing work using story and we also dive deep into the layers of medicine that are available within the story of Vasilisa and Baba Yaga. Topics we touch one:- Story is the fabric of our humaness- "Spiritual enlightenment" ca actually be a bypass for doing the dark and deep work- The story that came knocking for Stasha- Connecting the personal and the mythic- Story activates parts of ourselves and a wholeness of self can emerge- The stories in our heads- Five Rhythms dance- Disney versions of old fairytales- Longterm work with one story- Vasilisa the Brave (meeting Baba Yaga)- Working for the elixir of life- This is a time to journey into the dark with Vasilisa and others- The time to do the work and the time to set that work down- The Individual call Into the forest- How grounding simple work is in times of great fear"How do we go to sleep and trust?""Ultimately story just wants us to make sense out of what it means to be human.""Those stories speak louder from the heart than from how we see them or pick them apart"Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin AmericaStasha wanted to make sure to add a piece about how to embody the work you do with a story. After letting a story live in you, finding a way to be witnessed in the embodiment of that story is a culmination or crescendo of that process.Listen to me reading Vasilisa's story (as written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes) In Episode 2 And I dive into it again in Ep. 12Here is a link to Stasha's performance/monologue, the end piece of her work with Kirsten Wilson in Boulder, Co. ( Letting the Body Speak )Kirsten's websiteStasha's website: stockingstories.wordpress.comStasha on Facebook: The Wild MatryoshkaStasha on Instagram: The Wild MatryoshkaSupport the show

ep. #16John and Ashley recorded an emergent conversation for today's podcast episode. The conversation is packed with so much wisdom while still retaining a flow and easeful aliveness. There are SO many amazing quotable nuggets in this one.John Wolfstone is a storyteller, filmmaker, community organizer and a mentor for Rites of Passage work. John is a curious explorer and question asker. Here are some of the questions I (Mallika) hear being held in this conversation and the work that John is doing In the world:How do we do the work, the healing and rebuilding, that is here for us to do in this lifetime, and not get swept away into the anxiety of wanting to also see the results of the work right now? How can we move to the next stage of development from the adolescent type of maturity associated with the hyper-Individualism and our current definition of freedom? How can we actually find more freedom in "staying put" than in the flight of travel, or new relationships or careers?Topics we cover: The missing relationship with deathWhat is Eros and how to connect with itWhat does it mean to restReclamation of our alivenessRite of passage/ quest for InitiationHyper-IndividualismRelationship with placePolyamory and staying with one partnerLoyalty and integrityTamera Peace Research Center In PortugalWhen healed people start a communityHealing self In relation to birth familyAncestor relationships bring down anxietyRecommendations for building relationship with ancestorsChildhood trauma living in the lineageWounds are the sacred cut Into the giftJohn's website: www.johnwolfstone.comAshley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Parent Prayer Circle Mallika's websiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art ProcessSupport the show

ep. #15Here is an introduction to how the show will be changing, and why. Ashley and I have known each other for years, and have had so many deep, wonderful and expansive conversations about healing, relationships, growth, spirit, and being authentic. Stay tuned for Ashley's first Interview! And many more episodes to come. Ashley's websiteAshley's InstagramAshley's Parent Prayer Circle Mallika's websiteMallika's InstagramMallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art ProcessSupport the show

ep. #14 Steph Barron Hall is a speaker, certified Enneagram coach, author of the new book, The Enneagram in Love: A Roadmap for Building and Strengthening Romantic Relationships, and host of the Ask an Enneagram Coach podcast. Stephanie founded her Instagram page, @NineTypesCo, in 2017 as a way to explore her own interest in the Enneagram, and it has since grown into a community of people who are all learning about the Enneagram, themselves, and their relationships together. Stephanie specializes in bringing clarity to complex concepts and communicating the Enneagram in a way that is relatable and concise so that it can be transformative for all.Topics we touch on:Getting to know your motivationAsking "why" and "what is it about this that had be react like this?"Taking responsibility for your own feelings and reactionsCyclical/spiralic growth of life and in process with the EnneagramHow the 45 different type pairings can help you know your typeHow can you use the Enneagram as a parent?Reparenting yourself with the "unconscious childhood message" and the "lost childhood message"Common number pairingsSpecific pairings that work well togetherEnergy level and typeThe Wisdom of the Enneagram Types by Don Richards Riso Understanding the Enneagram by Don Richards Riso and Russ HudsonThe Complete Enneagram by Beatrice ChestnutThe Wild and Wise websiteThe Wild and Wise InstagramSupport the show

ep. #13 Coming back from hiatus, I take this episode to dive into motherhood, a topic I have worked with for many years, as a therapist, a RIE-trained facilitator and as a mother! Like many moms, I struggled with the "myth of perfection", especially the first couple years of being a mother. I thought, "If I can be perfect, maybe my baby wont experience pain, disappointment, fear, etc" Shifting to a more relational style of parenting, when I found RIE, helped me see that the most important goal of motherhood is raising people who are prepared to be in healthy relationships. I share more about which metaphors and resources I look to now for a model on how to be in balance and in respectful relationship with all beings. I also announce a giveaway, very special and dear to my heart. Please head over to my Instagram to enter the give away, which closes on Thursday at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Resources mentioned in this episode: Resources for Infant Educarers Liz Memel was the teacher of our RIE classes The Witch's Herbal Apothecary by Marysia Miernowska Marysia's new offering School of the Sacred Wild JLCreator on Instagram Article about JL's work Center for Babaylan Studies Join one of my FREE virtual New Moon Circles Join my email list for updates and windows into my favorite things Support the show