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Tend HER Wild Podcast
Author: Dr. Betsy Rippentrop and Kate Moreland
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Dr. Betsy Rippentrop, a psychologist, and Kate Moreland, a lawyer and CEO, are having conversations about how women have been conditioned to lose connection to their inner voice and natural instincts, and how the time has come for us to re-wild. Both grew up as overachievers and perfectionists and took traditional career paths, following the rules society set for success. This required a loss of authenticity and a disconnection to their own wild essence. We explore questions and tools around how best to listen to our inner voice, re-wild ourselves, and live the most authentic life, where we thrive instead of survive.
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In today’s episode we review this past year and all that unfolded in the podcast and in our personal lives. We talk about the highs and lows, the practices that sustained us, and we reveal our theme for Season 4 that begins February 2026.
In today’s episode we explore:
Reflections on the year of the snake, 2025, and all the shedding that we did.
The guests we interviewed in this last year that really made an impact.
How the wild woman archetype worked with each of us in the last year, and our realization that reawakening our inner wild is a process that takes us deeper into our soul.
The highs and lows we personally endured (death, divorce, loss, grief) and how the highs and lows seem so entwined.
The practices that have helped us this last year.
Our excitement for Season 4, and our theme “No More Playing Small”.
Past Episodes from Season 3 that We Mentioned:
180. Ginette Biro: A Near Death Experience & Divine Connection to the Other Side
173. Maddie Corman: Accidentally Brave
172. Reverend Sarah Goettsch: Unapologetic
170. Renee Zukin: Every Day, I’m Brave
165. Hope for the Future: Meet The Sons Jack Moreland & Pieter Rippentrop
163. Rage as Teacher
154. The Multi-Hyphenate Wonder that is Kristin Hanggi
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub (https://thelocalhub-ic.com/)
Kate Moreland Coaching (https://www.katemorelandcoaching.com/)
Dr Yoga Momma (https://dryogamomma.com/)
Heartland Yoga (https://heartlandyoga.com/)
Join Kate in person at the Winter Gathering at the Well on Sunday, January 11th from 1-5pm
Find Registration info here
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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Medium Dani Worrell returns for an incredible live podcast event recorded at Revival’s pop-up studio in downtown Iowa City, where she offers intuitive readings for the audience.
In this episode, we explore:
Dani’s recent personal intuitive reading with her mentor, where her grandmother came through—a powerful figure who once encouraged Dani to shut down her gifts, now returning with guidance and affirmation.
The importance of signs and synchronicities from the universe and from loved ones who have passed, and how we can learn to recognize and trust them.
How the connection with loved ones doesn’t end when they leave this earth, and how tuning into these signs keeps the door open.
Several live intuitive readings Dani performs for audience members, offering profound messages from the other side.
A collective reading for the entire room, including Dani’s message that women will be stepping more fully into their power in 2026—the Year of the Horse—claiming what they truly deserve.
Details on Dani’s holiday reading special, which you can access by reaching out through her website.
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Epsode 171: Dani Worrell: The Power of Practical Alignment
Episode 164 : Christina Woods: Unraveling the Heal
Episode 111: Rod Stryker: Your Soul’s Purpose
Episode 100: The Upper Limit: Living In Your Full Potential
Episode 80: Self Compassion: The Secret Sauce of Life
Episode 72: The Power of Hypnosis: Debunking Myths & Understanding How it Works
Episode 66: Therapy Anyone?
Episode 57: Dharma: Why are we all here?
Find Dani here:
https://www.practical-alignment.com
Email Dani at:
practicalalignment@gmail.com
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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Today’s interview kept us laughing nearly the entire time, and yet was deeply poignant as our guest shared her story of scars. Ophira is a stand-up comedian, author, and story teller who has been lauded as one of the “top 10 comics that funny people find funny”. Our attention was rapt as we listened to her many physical and emotional scars and how she has been able to create art, humor, and even happy endings from her life experiences.
In today’s episode we explore:
Ophira’s early days as the youngest of six children in Alberta, Canada in a family where telling jokes was their love language. She speaks of two major events (one with a meat grinder) before the age of 10 that created deep scars on her body, and the ripples that these experiences had in her life.
When she realized she was funny and decided to pursue a life as stand up comedian. She shares the challenges of this career and the humanizing power of it which is what keeps her going.
How her work doesn’t avoid showing her own vulnerability and talking about hard things, but why in the end she prefers to write the happy endings.
Her most recent show “Scars” (which Kate saw live) and how the audience participation has become her favorite part.
The diagnosis of breast cancer and how it brought more scars which was devastating because she thought she was done with scars on her body.
Her future projects, the liminal space, and how she views life as a year to year sublet.
Bio:
Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine’s “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City’s comedy clubs. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee. Follow her at www.ophiraeisenberg.com.
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy That Make You Laugh:
Episode 172: Reverend Sarah Goettsch: Unapologetic
Episode 159: Cara Flynn: From Control Top Pantyhose to Mountain Climbing
Episode 135: Mandy Fabian: Fiercely Feminine Director
Episode 103: Lyz Lenz: This American Ex-Wife
Episode 77: Barbie: Getting Out of the Box
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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In today’s joyful episode, we dig into our “magic bags” and surprise each other with our current favorite things. We share our top 10 unique items, shows, apps, and little delights we’re loving right now.
As the holiday season begins, we’re also reflecting on the power of our dollars and the importance of spending with intention. In honor of Small Business Saturday, we highlight some of our favorite local businesses—many of them women-owned—and invite you to join us in supporting small businesses (especially women owned), local makers and entrepreneurs this year.
Kate’s List:
1.The book “The Mountain is You” by Brianna West (Cielo Iowa City)
2.Brandi Carlisle’s album “Returning to Myself”
3.Le Bon girlfriend socks from Revival
4.Hu Ha underwear
5.Heather Cox Richardson Letters
6.Colorscience tinted moisturizer
7.Elise Loehnen’s “Pulling the Thread” podcast
8.Cold Foam from Trader Joe’s
9.The show “The Diplomat” on Netflix
10.Bergamot scented deodorant cremo
Betsy’s List:
1.Kusmi Tea – Tea from France
2.Trevor Hall song “Blue Sky Mind”
3.Jones Road Miracle Balm
4.Ego Battery Powered Leaf Blower and Lawn Mower
5.Ozlo sleep pods
6.Trip sparkling drink
7.Time Shifter App
8.Spoon Flower Wall Paper
9.Netflix Show “Nobody Wants This”
10.Tiny Flower bouquet from Willow and Stock
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy? Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 13-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming details visits https://dryogamomma.com/reclaim-heroines-journey-of-transformation
Join Kate at this local event January 11th
Winter Gathering at the Well with Water Bearer
Want to go on retreat? Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Local Businesses that we love! Thank you for your partnership at events and for being so amazing!
https://downtowniowacity.com/retail/
@cielogoods
@revivaliowacity
@amadecommunity
@theagendaperiod
@glowhydrationllc
Dr. Jane
Lucie Petersen
@kittycornersocialclub
@deluxeiowa
@sidekickcoffeeandbooks
@willowandstock
@heartland_yoga
@pureluxeapothecary
@ravenandmagnolia
@omgiftsiowa
@mosaic_iowacity
@littlelightsonthelane
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@catherinesboutique
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“There is an aspect that women need to master if you’re going to be a wild woman and that is dealing with what can only be called women’s rage. The release of that rage is required. Once women remember the origins of their rage they feel they may never stop grinding their teeth. Ironically, we also feel very anxious to disperse our rage for it feels distressing and anxious. We wish to hurry up and do away with it. But, repressing it will not work.”
—Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run with the Wolves
In this episode we explore:
-How anger is often considered a “bad” emotion, but that it is truly useful information and can offer us energy to sort through the complexities of life
-How perfectionism and the need to be nice can repress anger early in life
-How Kate found anger and rage as young women in spaces (law, politics, human rights) where appropriate anger could be acknowledged and accepted
-How Betsy, whose training was to be good, nice and likable, held anger back until later in life
-How women often repress anger, which then can manifest in the body as depression, heart problems, digestive issues
-Heathy ways to express anger and how to figure out what message anger is trying to give us
A Finnish study that mapped emotions onto where they are felt in the body
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1321664111
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 163: Rage As Teacher
Episode 131: Life Quakes
Episode 124: Shadow Work
Episode 98: Shake if Off: Facing the Criticism and Embracing Your Light
Episode 76: Women Finding Their Voice
Episode 55: Boundaries & Self Sabotage
Episode 42: Midlife Awakening: Rise from the Ashes
Episode 33: Anxiety: Surrender with Gratitude
Episode 30: Grief: It’s Complicated
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy?
Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 13-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming details visits https://dryogamomma.com/reclaim-heroines-journey-of-transformation
Want to check out the Waterbearer event on January 11, 2026 in Iowa City visit:
Winter Gathering 2026
waterbearercollective.com
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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In today’s episode, we dive into a rich and inspiring conversation with yoga teacher Uma Subramaniam. Uma shares her journey from growing up in India—where yoga was a natural part of daily life—to her years in the U.S. financial industry, and ultimately, to rediscovering her calling as a lifelong student and teacher of yoga. Through her story, Uma beautifully illustrates how yoga is not just a practice, but a way of being—one that guides her understanding of purpose, balance, and self-awareness.
In this episode, we explore:
Roots in India: Uma’s early exposure to yoga through her father and how morning practices by the sea taught her stillness, breath, and focus.
A Spirited Beginning: How she describes her young self as a “Tasmanian devil,” and how yoga offered her a grounding foundation even as a child.
Life Choices and Transitions: The story of her arranged marriage, her studies in international business, and her move to the United States.
Returning Home: Her family’s decision to move back to India—to care for her parents and reconnect their children with their heritage and culture.
A New Chapter: Uma’s choice to leave the corporate world and return to yoga as a path to healing and wholeness—ultimately earning her master’s degree in yoga and opening six yoga studios.
Yoga as a Way of Life: Uma’s belief that yoga is life itself—that its true purpose is to help us understand who we are and why we are here.
What’s Next: Her excitement about the upcoming Yoga Teacher Training with Betsy and Kimberly, launching in Iowa City in January 2026.Bio: Uma’s early experiences with yoga started at the age of 10 with her father, and strictly adhered to traditional yogic principles that included practicing before sunrise on an empty stomach. An Arts graduate with a specialization in English Literature, she later went on to pursue an associate degree in International Business. She worked as an Internal Auditor for one of the top banks in the US and lived in the US for over a decade. When she moved back to India in 2008, she turned back to yoga for personal practice and soon decided to teach. She has a Master’s Degree in Yogic Sciences, a Master’s degree in Vedanta (philosophy) and is a Yoga Alliance Registered ERYT500 Teacher, RCYT(Children’s Yoga) and RPYT(Prenatal Yoga) certified teacher from the Yoga Academy.
Uma designs her classes to work slowly into classical practices beginning with awareness to spine, breath and the mind space. “I like my students to experience transformation with even a simple 30 minute practice”. She considers herself still a student, a teacher and therapist, a believer in yoga, naturopathy, ayurveda and natural, holistic and wholesome treatment of the human body and mind. Her happiness and satisfaction lies in her students improving steadily and in having strengthened their interest and belief in yoga, and holistic treatment of their body and mind. She is happiest when she is also able to encourage them to inculcate this new-found way of living among their family and friends.
With experiential knowledge of different schools of yoga (Sivananda, Satyananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Yin and hot yoga), and having watched the yoga industry bloom around the world and particularly in Bangalore, Uma helps lead your way to the many options and offerings yoga has for the discerning seeker.
Heartland Yoga Teacher Training: January 2026
This hatha training, co-taught by 3 experienced teachers, will prepare you to not only teach yoga but will introduce you to scientific research in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness to offer trauma informed practices to support mental health and healing.
Link for more information: https://dryogamomma.com/heartland-ytt-2026/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy About Yoga and Embodiment:
Dharma: Why are we all here?
The Heroine’s Journey: Reclamation of the Feminine
Meditation: The Royal Road to Self
Episode 90: Michala Boehm: The Wild Woman’s Way to Embodiment
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy?
Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 10-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming detils visits https://dryogamomma.com/reclaim-heroines-journey-of-transformation
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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At the start of Season 3 on Tend Her Wild, astrologer and coach Cathy Pagano talked about 2025 as a year of endings and beginnings. Today Kate and Betsy get personal and reflect on a moment in Iceland 4 years ago when they both had an inkling of something hard they were going to have to face. Kate faced her challenge 2 years ago that we discussed in Episode 44, and now Betsy is facing her challenge. We had no idea where this conversation would go, but feel it is an exploration into honesty, nudges from the soul, and surrender.
In today’s episode we discuss:
Betsy’s internal process and her story of leaning into a big relationship change.
The messiness of life, navigating times of doubt, and how our brain resists change which is why it’s easy to stay in complacency.
The pockets of darkness, self-hatred, shame and guilt that accompany divorce.
The moment Betsy turned inward, quit asking for people’s insights or perspectives, and chose to move into trust-fall and surrender.
How when we don’t shed our skin like the snake, we cannot survive.
Following the soul, breaking generational patterning, midlife reckoning, and moving into a life of more authenticity and truth.
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 173: Maddie Corman: Accidentally Brave
Episode 151: Imagine a Better World – Lessons from the Astrology of This Time
Episode 120: Crossing the Threshold to a New Decade
Episode 103: Lyz Lenz: This American Ex-Wife
Episode 61: Marsha Nieland: A Possibilitarian
Episode 44: Breaking Up With My Job
Episode 42: Midlife Awakening: Rise from the Ashes
Episode 28: Freedom in Truth
Episode 9: Making Hard Decisions from the Heart
Episode 2: Meet Betsy
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy?
Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 10-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming details visits https://dryogamomma.com/reclaim-heroines-journey-of-transformation
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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Today’s interview was both eye opening and fascinating as we interviewed Ginette Biro, a medium (someone who can see, hear, and communicate with spirits on the other side). We hear about her journey of opening into these gifts, and a near death experience she had at 2019 that encouraged her to step up and show more of her wisdom and perspective.
In today’s episode we:
Learn how Ginette was already seeing spirits by the age of 5, but had no language to express it, nor family members with a similar gift.
How her psychic gifts continued to grow and she began to hear spirit around 17 years old which freaked her out and led her to find mentors and guides to create a framework for her, and help her learn to discern her voice from the voice of spirit.
How friends and family responded to knowing about her gifts, and the naysayers along the way.
The near death experience that happened to Ginette in 2019 during a routine surgery that took her to heaven where she was greeted by friends and family on the other side.
The white room that Ginette eventually made it to during her near death experience where she saw the blueprint of her life, had a life review, was given the option to change destiny points, and the decision she made to return to her body instead of stay in the realm of spirit.
The agreement she made to spirit that she would step up and share more of what she knew with the world, and how Ginette is doing just that.
Bio:
Ginette Biro s a powerful medium who is clairaudient, clairvoyant, clairsentient and claircognizant. She can hear, see, feel and know information from spirit and other dimensions. Since Ginette was a child, she has been channeling beings from the 4th to 12th dimensions, connecting people to the other side and bringing messages to inspire and inform our world. Ginette has many spirit guides and ascended masters and beings who are guiding her to support the planet in its ascension. In addition to these remarkable gifts, she has spent soul time on the other side through a near death experience. This allowed her to see and understand how our life blueprint and soul’s journey actually works.
Learn more about Ginette’s work at www.avalonspirit.com.
Listen to Ginette’s podcast here: https://avalonspirit.com/blogs/ginette-biro-podcast
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy About the Esoteric:
Episode 171: Dani Worrell: The Power of Practical Alignment
Episode 145: Dr. Candida Maurer: Vibrant Explorer
Episode 138: Lily French: Awakening to Human Design
Episode 99: Cate Stillman: The Witch’s Cancer Journal
Episode 90: Michala Boehm: The Wild Woman’s Way to Embodiment
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy?
Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 10-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming details visits https://dryogamomma.com/reclaim-heroines-journey-of-transformation
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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We reviewed the Heroine’s Journey that we talked about in Episode 60, and took it a little deeper today after exploring this beautiful methodology for a full week on a recent retreat in Greece. There are many steps on the Heroine’s Journey (see book by Maureen Murdock), but today we dive into the step called “Descent to the Goddess” and what this actually means. Our conversation processes the retreat and what we both learned, as well as the lessons of several women who attended.
Today we discuss:
How historically the feminine energy got pushed down, and that perhaps it is because the feminine energy holds power and creation whereas the masculine holds consciousness and awareness. We need them both but there is often a fear of power. However feminine power is not power over (as we are used to in our culture), but rather power within.
How we worked with Goddess energy on retreat, and the many different forms of Goddess that include: the maiden, the mother, the warriors, the sage, the mystic, the queen, the lover.
Why it is important to understand which feminine energies you resonate with, which energies you push away, and how it is often the energy we reject that we need to integrate most in our life.
The power of intergenerational learning (which we had on retreat – 44 women ages 28-76), and the big lesson Betsy got from one of the youngest participants.
A call to all women to own our inner feminine as a way to soothe, integrate and harmonize what is happening in humanity.
The Heroine’s Journey is a book written by Dr. Maureen Murdock based on her understanding the feminine version of the Hero’s Journey as articulated by Jospeh Campbell in The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy About the Balance of the Feminine & Masculine:
Episode 60: The Heroine’s Journey: Reclamation of The Feminine
Episode 85: Exploring The Three Phases of Womanhood
Episode 120: Dr Sharon Blackie: Hagitude
Episode 121: A New Feminine Is Rising
Episode 146: Balancing Our Personal Masculine & Feminine Energies
Episode 150: Healing the 3 Feminine Wounds
Episode 152: Wise Women Are Waking Up…But What About the Men?
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to do your own Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Betsy?
Consider joining Reclaim: A Heroine’s Journey with Betsy. This 10-week online course takes you on a journey “in and down” (the feminine path) to reclaim your lost feminine parts, heal your wounded masculine parts, receive initiation from the Goddess, and return a changed person. This course runs during the darkest days of the year, which tends to be the best time for depth work according to Dr. Betsy. This course begins November 2025. For all the upcoming details visits www.dryogamomma.com.
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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In today’s episode, we dive into The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz—a timeless guide to personal freedom and transformation. As we prepare for our upcoming retreat in Greece with 44 incredible women, we explore how these four agreements can serve as a foundation for group connection, compassion, and authentic living.
Together, we imagine what it would be like if our culture truly lived by these principles—and how much more kind, peaceful, and loving the world could become.
In This Episode, We Discuss:
How The Four Agreements reflects a re-wilding process—returning us to our true, untamed selves, which is at the heart of this podcast’s mission.
Ruiz’s beautiful description of the “normal human being” at two years old—joyful, expressive, and unafraid to show emotion.
The process of domestication—how the world teaches us to conform, quiet our voices, and disconnect from our authentic selves.
How these agreements can guide us to live as peaceful warriors amid today’s uncertainty and change.
The four agreements themselves:
Be Impeccable with Your Word
Don’t Take Anything Personally
Don’t Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best
The agreements that most resonate with us—and how we’re working with them as areas of personal and collective growth.
Book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
The Power of Healing in Community
Women Finding Their Voice
The Heroine’s Journey: Reclamation of the Feminine
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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It really is a time for us to step up and take some responsibility for our own nervous system, so for today’s episode we revisit the topic of nervous system dysregulation and how most of us are likely dysregulated due to the stressors of modern day life. We reveal our personal nervous system default responses, and we talk about the tools that seem to help us get back to a more regulated state.
Today we discuss:
That stress is here to stay and how 1/3 of adults report stress is completely overwhelming most days according to a report by the American Psychological Association.
How we cannot “think” our way to a different nervous system response because our nervous system is autonomic which is why somatic based approaches are key to helping us regulate.
The signs that you may be dysregulated.
The ways our nervous system responds to stress, and how each of us has a default response to stress.
The things that Kate does to regulate herself and the things Betsy does.
Why the type of connective tissue we have may also help us understand our default nervous system response and how Kate and Betsy have completely different types of connective tissue!
Wisdom Wednesdays with Dr. Betsy that address Nervous System, Stress, & Trauma
Are You Resilient?
Coming Home to Your Body: Getting To Know Your Nervous System
How To Find Calm in a Divisive World
Trauma: Your Body Keeps the Score
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
For the nervous system mapping with Fannie Hungerford, join the Tend Her 4.0 Course and her lesson happens in week 2. https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 152: Wise Women Are Waking Up…But What About the Men?
Episode 146: Balancing Our Personal Masculine & Feminine Energies
Episode 134: Reflections on the Wild Woman Archetype & What Wisdom She Can Share in These Divisive Times
Episode 106: Meditation: The Royal Road to Self
Episode 91: Finding Calm in a Divisive World
Episode 83: Our Precious Bodies
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
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In today’s episode, we sit down with actress Carmen Serano-Gingles, who shares a powerful story of healing, resilience, and transformation.
Carmen opens up about navigating her own “dark night of the soul” and the hope she now brings to other women as a coach and guide. Having survived multiple layers of trauma in both childhood and adulthood, she eventually discovered true self-love and a deep sense of wholeness in midlife. Through courageous inner work and generational healing—supported by psychedelic journeys—she reconnected with herself and opened the door to authentic love.
This journey is at the heart of her forthcoming memoir, The Beauty Between the Breaks, which she describes not just as a book, but as a movement of healing, connection, and love.
In our conversation, we explore:
Carmen’s painful first decade of life, marked by abuse and a deep sense of not belonging—at home or at school.
Becoming a mother at 16, repeating her own mother’s pattern, and navigating a complicated relationship.
The trauma and resilience tied to her son’s birth with cerebral palsy—and her determination that he would always be seen by the world.
How her son opened unexpected doors, including being signed by a modeling agency at 19, which launched her acting career.
Her 18-year marriage to a narcissist, a move to New Mexico, and raising two beautiful daughters while pursuing modeling and acting.
A devastating sexual assault in her 30s that shattered her but also forced her to confront buried memories—ultimately becoming the catalyst for her healing journey.
The lifelong process of facing her complicated relationship with her mother, and how her healing work has rippled across generations.
The profound impact of psychedelic journeys, which helped her cultivate empathy for her mother and reframe her family dynamics.
The arrival of a new, healthy love after doing the work to become whole.
The vision behind her memoir and artistic collaborations—transforming pain into beauty and amplifying the voices of artists of color.
Carmen’s story is one of courage, alchemy, and radical love. It’s an invitation to believe in the possibility of healing—no matter how broken the past may feel.
Excerpt “What I Learned About My Mother”
“And then my Nana came through. My mother’s mother,
who had adored both of us.
I heard her clearly:
“Stop looking to her to be your mother.
I am your mother.
She is your tormented sister.”
I knew she didn’t mean those words literally. It was a soul-level truth, a reframe. My
Nana was reclaiming her maternal role in my life and reminding me that my ownmother was too wounded to play hers.
“She cannot give you what you need.”
And in an instant, everything changed.
I wasn’t angry anymore.
I wasn’t grieving what I didn’t get.
I saw my mom not as the woman who failed me, but as a girl who had been broken
too.
A girl who had been hurt by her own father.
A girl who survived things I’ll never fully understand.
And in that space of truth,
compassion bloomed…..”
Learn more about Carmen’s work:
Breaking Bad : Played Carmen Molina, the principal of J.P. Wynne High School.
Urban Justice: (2007): Co-starred with Steven Seagal.
Deadly Impact: (2010): Appeared in the film.
Next Friday: (2000): Had a role in the comedy film.
Marvel’s Runaways : Portrayed Alice Hernandez.
@carmenserano
Donate to The Beauty Between the Breaks : A memoir, organized by Carmen Serano-Gingles
gofundme.com
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 164 : Christina Woods: Unraveling the Heal
Episode 150: Healing the 3 Feminine Wounds
Episode 80: Self Compassion: The Secret Sauce of Life
Episode 66: Therapy Anyone?
Episode 145: Dr. Candida Mauer: Vibrant Explorer
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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In today’s episode we interview Tracy Tritle about her year living everywhere and nowhere at once in an old VW camper van. At the age of 55, Tracy found herself at rock bottom after leaving a corporate job and experiencing the ending of a long term marriage. She followed her instinct and said yes to a new adventure, and today we talk about all she learned.
Today we discuss:
Tracy’s early life on a dairy farm with a kind family where she felt like the “unicorn of the family” who never quite fit in and was muted.
The moment she decided to buy a burnt orange flower power VW camper van, and the feeling she had of exhilaration and “what did I just do?”.
Her loose plan to follow Route 66 West, and all the many detours and adventures along the way.
Her enmeshed relationship with GiGi (the camper van) that included break downs, selling her, rebuying her, shipping her home from Alaska, and her vow that she will never get rid of her as she is part of “my legacy”.
Women’s reaction to hearing about Tracy’s adventure which includes jealousy and the feeling “I could never do that” and Tracy’s belief that anyone can do it.
Tracy’s program for women that work with 3 key components: Put self first. Find Your Wild. Reclaim your spark.
Learn more about Tracy’s work here:
From Burnout to Breakthrough! Unlock Your Legacy
Burnout to Breakthrough! Unlock Your LegacySupporting women at the highest levels of their careers to break the cycle of burnout so they can experience a life that is exciting and meaningful and enables them to leave their deepest legacy.
itstimetogetvisible.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytritle
tracy@tritleconsulting.com
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 162: Jennifer Brandl: Meet Betsy’s World Traveling Sister
Episode 19: From Iowa to Mt Everest: A Conversation with Jen Loeb
Episode 87: Dr. Stacey Shelby: Tracking the Wild Woman Archetyp
Episode 142: The Upper Limit: Living in your Full Potential
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
The Local Hub
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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This is a theme that we have been wanting to explore on the podcast for months, but have been dragging our feet. (Perhaps because we both identify closely with this pattern). We looked for an expert on this, and reached out to Melody Beattie last year, author of the best seller “Codependent No More”. She agreed to come on the podcast but requested we wait until the Fall when she had a new book coming out. Melody passed away this past February at the age of 76. May you Rest In Peace Melody and thank you for opening so many of our eyes to the pattern of codependency.
Today we discuss:
The definition of codependence: You love other people more than you love yourself.
Betsy’s reckoning with her own codependency.
Kate’s first contact with the book “Codependent No More”.
How control is the addiction of codependence.
How women raised in a patriarchy are set up to align with the pattern of codependence.
Why the relationship with our children is inherently codependent.
The tools that can help manage this pattern.
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 163: Rage As Teacher
Episode 133: Domestic Abuse: Wisdom from a Survivor, Dr. Lauren Welter
Episode 124: Shadow Work
Episode 108: Angie Chaplin: Sober Leader
Episode 68: Monica Berry: The Alchemy of Sobriety – Despair to Dignity
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
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In today’s episode we interview Maddie Corman, an actress with a powerful story of betrayal trauma, how she managed the darkest chapter of her life, and the hope and support she is providing to other folks in similar situations. After her husband was arrested for downloading child pornography, her world blew up. It took her years to move through the aftermath, and she tells her side of the story (and why she choose to stay with her husband) in her new one woman show released on HBO called “Accidentally Brave”, and directed by Kristin Hanggi (former guest on our podcast).
Today we discuss:
Maddie’s first 10 years as a childhood actress living outside of New York, and her powerful relationship with her mother who died when Maddie was 16.
The day that Maddie learned the news of her husband’s arrest, and how she did the only thing she knew how to do: go to work.
The years of utter pain and confusion that followed the arrest, how she handled people’s responses to this very public news, the angels that came in to her life, her decision to stay her husband, and the deep healing that came.
How Maddie navigated protecting and parenting her children, and how they are doing 10 years later.
Why Maddie decided to get a coaching certification after the number of women reaching out to her wanting to talk about their betrayal trauma.
Maddie’s Bio: Maddie Corman is a seasoned American actress and playwright that you’ve seen in classic films including Some Kind of Wonderful, Maid in Manhattan, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and our favorite television shows like Law and Order, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Madam secretary and Younger just to name a few. She joins us today to talk about her own evolution and story of hope.
After a personal crisis went public about 10 years ago, her world turned upside down. In her latest project, Maddie wrote a play telling her own story of betrayal called Accidentally Brave, The film version of Maddie’s acclaimed solo show Accidentally Brave is currently featured on Max and was directed by her dear friend Kristin Hanggi (a guest we adore and recently had on the podcast). With unexpected humor, Maddie Corman shares a story of perseverance and hope in the face of crisis. Maddie is also now doing betrayal counseling and coaching work through the accidentally brave community in an effort to support people struggling with betrayal trauma as a result of sex and porn addiction or infidelity to help them reclaim their story. Maddie is married with 3 children and lives in New York.
To work with Maddie: https://www.maddiecorman.com/
Accidentally Brave on HBO: http://accidentallybrave.com/
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 160: Are You Dysregulated?
Episode 133: Domestic Abuse: Wisdom from a Survivor, Dr. Lauren Welter
Episode 125: Shadow Work
Episode 103: Lyz Lenz : The American Ex-Wife
Episode 150: Healing the 3 Feminine Wounds
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Locals Love Us
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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In this episode, we sit down with Reverend Sarah Goettsch, a Lutheran pastor whose preaching has inspired communities for over 20 years. A fierce advocate for social justice and an unapologetic ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, Sarah brings both fire and empathy to her ministry. Her journey has been shaped by resilience, courage, and a commitment to standing with those on the margins.
Together we explore her powerful story—from growing up in a conservative faith tradition to breaking barriers as a woman in ministry, to speaking truth to power even when it comes at a cost.
Today we discuss:
Sarah’s early roots growing up in the conservative Missouri Synod, losing her mother at age 10, and stepping into the role of caretaker for her younger brothers.
Her all to ministry and how her pastor encouraged her toward leadership, despite the male-dominated church culture.
Her road to seminary from teaching in Hungary to finally following her deep call to become a pastor.
The life lessons she learned in Seminary while studying alongside women who redefined her vision of leadership.
Her personal challenges navigating divorce as a pastor and experiencing the judgment of her congregation.
Sarah’s belief in speaking truth in preaching and her belief that a pastor’s job is not to condemn, but to remind others of God’s unconditional love.
We discuss religion, fear, and control and how institutions use fear to control, why church attendance is declining, and the dangers of religion blending with politics.
Sarah’s courage presiding over a same-sex wedding in a small town, facing backlash, and choosing to stand with the excluded.
Why she’s drawn to “the edge,” always seeking out those who’ve been pushed aside.
What she observed working with young women who constantly apologized, and how this robs us of passion and fire.
Her gift of interweaving scripture with current events, showing up authentically even with fear. Why organized religion isn’t necessary for all, but can still be a meaningful way to wrestle with love, existence, and eternity.
How after years in male-dominated spaces, Sarah now embraces the support and wisdom of women who see and uplift her.
Sarah’s story is one of grit, honesty, and courage. She challenges us to rethink the role of the church, to confront the ways fear and control shape us, and to live unapologetically in our truth—even when it’s uncomfortable.
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 40: Anger: Channel the Fire
Episode 107: Jocelyn Davis: Insubordinate
100: The Upper Limit; Living in Your Full Potential
114: Use Your Voice
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Locals Love Us
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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Dani Worrell is an intuitive medium and professional organizer who helps people clear their heads and hearts. She began fully using her gifts of intuition after alcoholism nearly took her husband. After doing a lot of inner work, she has stepped into the power of her intuitive gifts to help others.
Today we discuss:
The day at her kitchen sink listening to the TendHER Wild podcast and how she manifested being on the show to tell her own story.
Growing up in Arizona and how her early conditioning with her Grandmother and the Catholic Church shut down her gift of intuition.
Her decision to leave the Catholic Church as a young adult, moving to public school and going by “Dani”instead of “Danielle”.
Her powerful meditation experience several years ago that led to her opening up and reclaiming her psychic gifts of intuition to help others.
How the “good girl” archetype showed up for her and her work as a “bud tender” in Arizona.
How she almost lost her husband to alcoholism several years ago and led to the pretty box of her life falling apart.
Navigating her own relationship with alcohol and how when she got sober too, her gifts fully came online.
Knowing her purpose and stepping into her work as an intuitive medium to connect with people who have passed in order to help people here on earth.
Her message for the collective to pulsate the energy of love and peace during these dark times- in order to raise the vibration.
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 164 : Christina Woods: Unraveling the Heal
Episode 111: Rod Stryker: Your Soul’s Purpose
Episode 100: The Upper Limit: Living In Your Full Potential
Episode 80: Self Compassion: The Secret Sauce of Life
Episode 72: The Power of Hypnosis: Debunking Myths & Understanding How it Works
Episode 66: Therapy Anyone?
Episode 57: Dharma: Why are we all here?
Find Dani here:
https://professionalorganizerscollective.com/daniworrell
practicalalignment@gmail.com
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
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In today’s episode we interview author Renee Zukin. In her new book “Everyday I’m Brave” Renee shares her story of her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and her journey of conquering fear in order to live a bigger life. Renee reveals that being diagnosed late in life after having her third child began a healing process that has led to finding freedom and using her gifts to help others conquer their fear.
Today we discuss:
Renee’s early ability to hold the tension of opposites, both fear and adventure, when her family moved from Detroit to Iowa. Her early love of fashion and how in an effort to fit in, she shut down parts of herself in middle school.
How in her thirties she was misdiagnosed with anorexia and then finally correctly diagnosed with OCD which suddenly helped her make sense of her life. How getting the right kind of support and strategies changed how she lived her life.
Her evolution after diagnosis and how having information allowed her to make choices from a more grounded place. The freedom she found when she learned that our thoughts do not define us.
The impact of her OCD on her children and how they have adapted and supported her different habits. How she has modeled resilience and bravery for her children by embracing fear and allowing herself different experiences to perform such as singing in a band and tap dancing.
The importance of holding onto glimmers of hope and having trust that it will get better. What she has learned about her own resistance and rebellion and how grace and self-compassion are necessary as we all have set backs.
Find more on Renee’s book, how to work with her, and her book launch part on August 8th at https://www.reneezukin.com
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy:
Episode 167: Dr. Jackie: Being a Mom is the Best Thing for my OCD
Episode 160: Are You Dysregulated?
Episode 145: Dr. Candida Maurer: Vibrant Explorer
Episode 138: Lily French: Awakening to Human Design
Episode 133: Domestic Abuse: Wisdom from a Survivor, Dr. Lauren Welter
Episode 129: Dr. Sharon Blackie: Hagitude
Episode 115: Dr. Arielle Schwartz: Awakening the Spiritual Heart
Episode 87: Dr. Stacey Shelby: Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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This is part 2 of our interview with Brenda Crawford about her journey through cancer treatment and her perspectives on living and dying 5 years into her journey.
The shift in identity that Brenda experienced after her diagnosis, and how she began to embrace balance in a brand new way.
Brenda’s realization that wasn’t good at self-care (even though she believed she was), and how her diagnosis snapped her into radical self-care.
Her desire to feel all of life and no longer be desensitized to it.
The impact of this diagnosis on her marriage, her kids, and the complication of cancer treatment during covid (she spent 18 months in her house).
Her view that when people say “life never gives you more than you can handle”, her response is bullsh#@. She believes life constantly gives you more than you can handle and our job is to surrender to what we cannot control and ask for help.
The legacy Brenda wants to leave.
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy about Health:
Episode 128: Anne Marie Nest-Pinero & Kristin Marrs: Performance Art that Educates about Infertility & Miscarriage
Episode 122: Nina Lohman – The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
Episode 108: Angie Chaplin: Mindful Sober Leader
Episode 105: Kate O’Donnell: Ayurveda for Women
Episode 99: Cate Stillman: The Witch’s Cancer Journal
Episode 88: Sam Ferm-LeClere: Healing with Chronic Illness
Episode 83: Our Precious Bodies
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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Brenda Crawford is the first guest we’ve interviewed that didn’t have a bio for us to read, and she explained that what she would have had us read in years past is no longer fully true. She has many accomplishments: psychologist, musician, wife, mother, businesswoman – however, her identity completely shifted 5 years ago when out of the blue, and with few symptoms, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. This interview was raw, real, funny, hopeful, and as Brenda said, an opportunity to leave a legacy for my children. We were so spellbound by Brenda’s story that it’s as if we were beyond the confines of time, which is another way to say, we need 2 episodes to cover her full story! Today’s episode is an introduction to Brenda, her family, her history with the medical establishment, and her initial reaction to her diagnosis. Check next week for part 2 of this amazing interview.
Today we discuss:
How Brenda “loved my childhood” as a precocious child, but one who didn’t cry much or show pain.
Her familiarity with the medical establishment starting with chronic ear infections as a child, a mystery illness at 5 years old that put her in the hospital for several weeks, a car accident in college, and now a 5 year journey through 104+ cancer treatments.
Her amazing 2 children and why spiritual sovereignty has been a key concept in how Brenda is relating to them.
The unexpected diagnosis that turned her world upside down during a time that she felt “on top of my game”.
The moment her doctor showed her the scans of innumerable lesions on her liver and “everything stops and in a second your entire life is different”.
To join the Tend Her 4.0 Course on Hope (It’s Free!), visit here: https://dryogamomma.com/tend-her-4-0-hope/
Past Episodes You Might Like with Kate & Betsy about Health:
Episode 128: Anne Marie Nest-Pinero & Kristin Marrs: Performance Art that Educates about Infertility & Miscarriage
Episode 122: Nina Lohman – The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
Episode 108: Angie Chaplin: Mindful Sober Leader
Episode 105: Kate O’Donnell: Ayurveda for Women
Episode 99: Cate Stillman: The Witch’s Cancer Journal
Episode 88: Sam Ferm-LeClere: Healing with Chronic Illness
Episode 83: Our Precious Bodies
Today’s Episode sponsored by:
Kate Moreland Coaching
Dr Yoga Momma
Heartland Yoga
Want to go on retreat?
Want to join Betsy in Costa Rica in May 2026 at her favorite retreat center to help you reorganize your inner space using yoga, meditation, energy medicine, and hypnosis? All the details here!
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