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In this episode, I’m joined by Steve Rio, co-founder of Enfold in British Columbia. Steve and his wife, Austin, support people exploring 5-MeO-DMT.

We talk about what draws people to this work, how Enfold approaches preparation and readiness, and the role of somatic support and integration. Steve shares how they think about supporting people through trauma and emotional material, and why the care surrounding an experience matters before and after the ceremony.

Learn more about Steve and Enfold:

Enfold: https://enfold.org/

Steve Rio: https://enfold.org/people/steve-rio/

Learn about 5-MeO-DMT: https://enfold.org/course/learn-about-5-meo-dmt/

Enfold application: https://enfold.org/apply/

Steve on Instagram: https://instagram.com/steverio

Enfold on Instagram: https://instagram.com/enfoldinstitute

Steve’s podcast, Still In It:

Website: https://enfold.org/still-in-it/

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/still-in-it-5-meo-dmt-stories/id1725204109

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13iV1SummrDnucCMeUOnSC

This conversation is for educational purposes and reflects personal perspectives. It is not medical advice or a recommendation to use any substance.

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What happens when the way you created success is no longer the way you are meant to move forward?

In this episode of Body Wisdom Rising, Alyssa sits down with world-renowned mentor, best-selling author and visionary entrepreneur Danette May for a deeply honest conversation about loss, spiritual awakening, intuition and surrender.

Danette shares how her work evolved from nutrition and fitness into something far more spiritual: helping people reconnect with the divine wisdom already living within them. She opens up about the personal initiations that shaped this evolution, including the loss of her son, depression, profound upheaval and a recent chapter that caused her to question what was true, what was real and who she could trust.

They explore what it means to develop spiritual gifts while remaining grounded, why Danette is careful not to position herself as the authority over another person’s truth and how she is learning to stop driving every part of her life and allow herself to be guided.

Danette also shares the story behind Soul Writing, the deeply personal practice that is now becoming a new show and offering, and why she believes our intuition is one of our most valuable forms of wisdom.

In this conversation:

• How Danette’s work evolved from fitness and nutrition into spiritual teaching
• The personal initiations that catalyzed her awakening
• How loss and depression can unravel what is no longer true
• Navigating spiritual gifts without giving away your sovereignty
• The fear of becoming visible in spiritual work
• Learning to trust messages from the other side
• Why Danette stopped trying to be the agent, jockey and racehorse
• Moving from force and control into receptivity and surrender
• The origins of Soul Writing
• Why your intuition is gold, especially when something feels off

About Danette May

Danette May is a world-renowned mentor, best-selling author, visionary entrepreneur, motivational speaker, wife and mother. She is the #1 best-selling author of The Rise and Embrace Abundance, co-founder of Mindful Health, LLC and Earth Echo Foods, and founder of The Rise Movement.

After losing her son during childbirth, going through a divorce and finding herself with only $47 to her name, Danette chose to rewrite her story. She began healing through what would become her three core pillars: healing foods, healing movement and a healing mindset.

Today, Danette leads multiple eight-figure transformation brands, including Fit Rise 365 and Lotus Rising. She has empowered millions of people around the world to rise into radical self-love, reconnect with their power and create a healthier body, mind and spirit.

Connect with Danette

Instagram: @thedanettemay
Facebook: Danette May
TikTok: @thedanettemay
YouTube and new show: @TheDanetteMay
Website and offerings: danettemay.com
Read Embrace Abundance: danettemay.com/embraceabundancebook
Get The Rise: therisebook.com

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Today on Body Wisdom Rising, I’m joined by Krysta Francoeur, a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, and creator whose work weaves together wilderness, ritual, nervous system healing, and transformation.

After moving through chronic illness, emotional trauma, and a profound nervous system collapse, Krysta began rebuilding her life and creative work from the ground up. She is the creator of The Oracle, an app that brings together astrology, Human Design, and Gene Keys to help women reconnect with who they are and what they are here to create. She is also the host of Rewilding Humanity, a podcast exploring healing, awakening, reclamation, and rebirth.

This is a powerful conversation about what can emerge when the life and identity we once knew fall away. Let’s get into it.

CONNECT WITH KRYSTA FRANCOEUR

Website: https://magickmaven.com

The Oracle App: https://oracleapp.io

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magick.maven/

Rewilding Humanity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewilding.humanity/

Rewilding Humanity Podcast: https://magickmaven.com/pages/rewilding-humanity-podcast

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2hwUsyX5JO3ozKFL75mSKw

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/rewilding-humanity-plant-medicine-trauma-healing-spiritual/id1634502605

Rewilding Humanity UNFILTERED on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/RewildingHumanity

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Eclipse season feels strange because we’re crossing a threshold where one story is ending while another is already beginning, and your body often registers the shift before your mind can explain it. We break down what eclipses actually are, why the North Node and South Node matter, and how to track real-life endings and openings without spiralling into fear. 

• why eclipse season can feel foggy, emotional, and physically intense 
• what a solar eclipse and lunar eclipse are in simple terms 
• how the North Node and South Node describe growth versus the familiar 
• what a South Node eclipse in Leo can complete around identity, attention, and performance 
• what the Aquarius Leo nodal cycle asks of us around community, belonging, and contribution 
• how Pisces Virgo themes show up as control versus surrender, structure versus flow 
• how to use your birth chart, degrees, houses, and aspects to see what you’ll feel most 
• what conjunctions, oppositions, and squares to an eclipse can bring up 
• practical ways to move through eclipse season with discernment, rest, and journaling 
• past eclipse cycles to review so you can spot repeating patterns and turning points 

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Big realizations are easy to chase. Lasting transformation is harder, quieter, and way more embodied. Alyssa sits down with Dr. Jesse Hanson, PhD psychologist and somatic healer, to unpack why so many people have powerful insights, breathwork highs, or psychedelic experiences, then land back in the same loops a few weeks later. We trace the difference to bihemispheric healing: weaving clear left-brain understanding with right-brain somatic experience so your nervous system, posture, breath, and relationships actually change.

We dig into what “safe space” really means, and why energetic safety is not enough without relational safety. Jesse shares how preparation, trauma education, and clinical frameworks like EMDR-informed approaches, parts work, attachment patterns, and nervous system regulation can prevent people from feeling broken when old material rises. Alyssa adds the lived reality of trauma residue surfacing in a well-held container, and how co-regulation and asking for help can become the moment where the body finally learns something new.

You also hear a grounded map for trauma reprocessing and integration, including why corrective experiences matter, why the work is the work whether or not plant sacraments are involved, and how language like “you are the medicine” can bring your power back home. Jesse closes by sharing new offerings, including the Wisdom Collective for men and a practitioner-focused training around trauma reprocessing mastery, plus details on our co-hosted Costa Rica retreat (January 17 to 23). If this conversation sparks something in you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What would change if you trusted your body to lead?

Connect with Dr. Jesse Hanson

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessehansonphd/
• Hanson Healing: https://www.hansonhealing.com/
• MentalHealth.com: https://www.mentalhealth.com/
• The Wisdom Collective: https://thewisdomcollective.vibepreview.com
• Awaken Experience Costa Rica: https://www.awakenexperiencecostarica.com

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A rare planetary alignment is peaking, timelines feel like they’re shifting, and a lot of people are wondering whether we’re heading for another 2020-style crisis or something entirely different. I slow the noise down and walk through what’s actually being discussed, including the work of French astrologer André Barbault and why long-term planetary cycles often line up with major collective turning points. For me, the headline isn’t fear. It’s a collective choice point, a moment where conditions may be getting more supportive for growth, innovation, and conscious evolution, depending on how we respond.

From there, I bring it back to the part we can actually influence: the conditions inside our own lives. Awakening is a natural unfolding, but we can create an environment that supports it. I share the practices that helped me integrate healing in a grounded way, especially somatic healing and nervous system regulation, plus the role of ceremony as a container for grief, endings, and rites of passage. When we stop overriding the body, we get clearer about what’s true, what’s conditioning, and what needs to change.

We also explore evolutionary astrology as a practical tool for separating your soul blueprint from the endless “shoulds” pushed by culture. I share an example from my own chart, and then reframe manifestation as conscious co-creation with God or the divine: not forcing outcomes from ego, but becoming so aligned that your life starts reflecting your integrity. If you’ve been feeling the pull to step into your next chapter, I also share why I created my nine-month container, The Calling, and what it looks like to be supported through deep transformation.

If this lands, subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next, share it with someone who’s in a transition, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What choice are you being asked to make right now?

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Alyssa shares the three frameworks that gave her language for  her spiritual awakening and helped her stay grounded through uncertainty, intensity, and real-life responsibilities. She keeps returning to one test of the path: does our spirituality make us more embodied, humble, and accountable. 
• why language and frameworks reduce fear and isolation during awakening 
• awakening as an ongoing relationship shaped by daily choices and integration 
• Stan Grof’s spiritual emergency lens and the role of discernment 
• somatic work and nervous system support as the bridge from insight to change 
• common forms of spiritual emergency, from kundalini symptoms to peak experiences 
• psychic opening and intuition, including how urgency can signal fear or trauma 
• past life material and the question of healing over certainty 
• channeling and guidance measured by responsibility, not spectacle 
• near-death experiences and the challenge of returning to ordinary life 
• Carl Jung on persona, shadow work, projection, and individuation 
• Rudolf Steiner on the middle path between fantasy and reductionism 
• spiritual inflation and why humility is non-negotiable on this path 

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We explore Wetiko as a collective mind virus and how it hides in projection, separation, and the parts of us we refuse to see. We connect Jungian shadow work, addiction as spiritual hunger, and the way awareness and embodiment help us reclaim life force and choose a different path. 
• defining wetiko through Paul Levy’s lens as a collective psycho-spiritual blindness 
• noticing transmission through projection, othering, scapegoating, and moral certainty 
• linking addiction and compulsive behaviour to disconnection and spiritual hunger 
• reclaiming creative energy by bringing shadow material into awareness 
• distinguishing judgement from discernment and staying protected through being 
• naming spiritual superiority, victim-perpetrator dynamics, and groupthink traps 
• understanding awakening as descent, not bypassing, with will and somatic healing 
• using triggers as information, including envy, resentment, fear, and reactivity 
• unpacking polarization, ideological possession, and consumer culture as wetiko fuel 
• practising the antidote through humility, curiosity, community, and conscious choice 

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Certainty is intoxicating, especially after a big awakening. Then the rug pulls out: a trusted teacher gets exposed, a “destined” relationship reveals its shadow, or a movement you thought was truth starts acting like the very system it resisted. I’m Alyssa, and I’m naming the force behind that pattern: the trickster archetype, the boundary crosser known as Hermes, Loki, and Ichtomi, who shows up wherever we’ve become unconscious, inflated, or rigid.

I walk through Carl Jung’s framing of the trickster as the psyche’s self-correcting mechanism and why it’s rising so loudly right now in spiritual communities, wellness and ascension spaces, conspiracy frameworks, and even UFO disclosure narratives. We talk about how counterculture can quietly become groupthink, how pedestals get built and then pulled apart, and why that collapse can feel like betrayal even when it’s also a call back to humility and truth.

From there, we get practical: what to do when your nervous system wants to grab a new ideology, why “switching sides” doesn’t solve the deeper pattern, and how holding paradox becomes the doorway to the second awakening. We explore shadow work, projection, attachment, and somatic healing as essential tools for real discernment, not paranoia. If you’re ready to stop outsourcing authority and start living from embodied clarity, press play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review.

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Right before things finally open, life can feel like it is doing the exact opposite of what you asked for. That is not “bad luck” or the universe punishing you, it can be your psyche applying pressure to expose what still needs to be integrated so you can actually hold the upgrade you say you want.

We explore three major tests that often arrive before a breakthrough on the spiritual awakening and individuation path, inspired by Jungian psychology and grounded in embodiment. We start with shadow confrontation and the golden shadow, how triggers, projections, envy, and even the inability to receive compliments can reveal the parts of you that were exiled for safety. From there we move into the tension of opposites, where you cannot stay identified with only one pole like strong or good or spiritual, and you learn to sustain the tension long enough for something new and more whole to emerge.

Then we get honest about synchronicity. Real meaningful coincidence tends to be weighted and humbling, and it asks something of you. False synchronicity inflates the ego and feeds specialness, confirmation bias, and spiritual narcissism. I share practical tools that bring it all into daily life: a shadow inventory practice, somatic integration in the body, active imagination, and simple dreamwork that builds a real relationship with the unconscious over time.

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