Endings and new beginnings. Opening to the unknown. A chapter has closed and the future is to be revealed. This is a short episode. A bridge perhaps… Stay tuned.

Building trust with ourselves requires far more than good intentions. We make endless promises but often nothing changes. We’re stuck and we don’t recognize it until we ready to receive the key to unlocking these patterns. Being able to locate that key on a ring of limitless options comes with willingness and its own timing.

Entrepreneur of the Year.
Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses according to the San Francisco Business Times.
A decent six figure salary.
A birthday celebration mountain biking in Bhutan.
A gorgeous metallic blue Audi.
A perfect, beautiful adopted child.

All the things.

All of the boxes ticked.

The vision board pictures matched.

And it was all smoke and mirrors.

There was the this void inside that none of the external things that I was able to manifest could fill. This feeling of emptiness.

Until

I was willing to do the work I’d never before been able to access.

One of the key pieces that I have dealt with my entire life is that of belonging. I have felt like an outsider from the time I was a child.

What I have learned is that we gather proof of our beliefs and we recreate them in the external world.

Particularly in society today we other others and we other ourselves.

Bringing our belonging, I have learned, is an inside game. It is something that we have to decide to do first if we have a story that we've told ourselves that is contrary to that.

I get to decide that whether I look like, sound like, play like anybody else in the room, I belong. I belong here on this planet. I belong as a human being to humanity - just as everybody else in the room, the court, the circle, the team belongs.

Melanie Ann Layer puts it this way,

“Belonging is what happens when we decide we belong and we show up - equal power, but different.”

I belong in every room I walk in. All we need to belong is to choose that we do.

"The way that we're going get through this whole thing that's happening in the world is by helping each other cross over (and not necessarily into death - there will be moments where that happens) but to cross over the different thresholds that come at these different pitstops and points in life. We’re gonna get through this and it's going to be taking all of us to walk each other home."

My guest in this episode is Anointing Priestess and Spiritual Midwife, Emi Navas. Join us as we explore the power of presence, plant medicine and priestessing as pieces that we all can utilize in supporting each other and our planet.

Emi can be reached via her website.

Emi can be reached here.

With tensions and triggers in the world at an all time high, this episode contains gold that all of us can benefit from right now and for our futures. My guest, Megan Pass, has served as key anchor point, guide and friend in facilitating my shift from endlessly swirling in the vortex of trauma response to now being able to be embodied in the present in a way I had never before experienced. Our discussion touches on how that shift occurred and how we can all support ourselves in greater trauma awareness in our day to day lives.

Megan Pass is a ceramic artist, intuitive, mother, and cycle breaker. Her previous career in physical therapy and personal life led her through an unique way to approach trauma and build awareness to heal all our bodies.

She believes that the greatest force and power in existence is love and is a lifelong student with special interests in the physical body, spirituality, intuitive skills, psychology, relationships, and the death/rebirth cycle that occurs in life changes and transitions. It has brought her full circle into whole body healing as she has healed herself and walked many people through their own healing journey.

She is a cycle breaker, committed to personally breaking the generational patterns and trauma that keep us small in our current culture and systems. She uses her work as an artist to bring light codes into tangible form using ceramics and other mediums in the form of altar and ceremonial items.

An intuitive and channeler for the last decade, she is deeply connected to many star kindred beings with a mission to awaken a remembrance to be fully embodied in love.

She takes great joy as a partner to her beloved deeply committed to being in sovereign relationship and a mother to two powerful light souls, 2 deeply loved canines, a mini black Egyptian panther and caretaker of the land.

www.meganpass.com

Mentioned in this episode: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. You can listen to it on Spotify Premium for free here. *10 hours of listening is included for free. The book is 16 hours long but additionally time can be purchased.

Elsa Alegria is an Ordained Priestess and Focalizer of the 13 Moon Mystery School, and the temple keeper of The Radiant Heart Sanctuary, offering women spiritual guidance and ceremony as a sacred feminine wisdom keeper.

After 20+ years, in corporate interior design, Elsa Alegria answered her soul’s call to reimagine her life. She obtained a degree in nutrition and worked as a registered dietitian nutritionist, for 5 years, with the mission of guiding women back to their inner knowing and vitality. She soon discovered that her work expanded beyond nutrition into the spiritual realm.

Through the deep inner work of the divine feminine, she found her path as a priestess, offering transformational space in 1:1 spiritual mentorship, cacao ceremonies, and sacred feminine temple circles. 

Learn more about Elsa Alegria and her offerings at www.elsaalegria.com

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Upcoming guests for Season Two of Another Kind of Mother include Elsa Alegria, Megan Pass and Kelly Yerger. Stay tuned!

We have an opportunity to change the trajectory of the planet. It is up to each of us. We can do this. But we have a choice to make.

The wisdom shared by my guest Marilyn Steele is a richly woven tapestry, particularly around her work of DreamWeaving and the fact that it’s time to wake up from this nightmare that we are living so we can weave a new dream. She shares that something is trying to reach us in our dreams and we are being called to go within and listen.

Dr. Marilyn Steele is a Jungian Psychologist, Author, Artist, Mentor and DreamWeaver. You can learn more about Marilyn here.