Breathe In, Scream Out

Katie is back! After a summer break, Breathe In, Scream Out is officially back in session. This week she sits down with librarian and yoga teacher Alex (Ali) Plante, who has some thoughts about why none of us seem to know how to read anymore.

From why we’re struggling to read between the lines to what it means to be privileged, Katie and Ali get into literacy, critical thinking, and why staying curious matters more than ever. Ali also shares her winding path from tech to librarianship and yoga, and how navigating her husband’s stroke during COVID reshaped her understanding of community, privilege, and care.

In this episode, they discuss:

• The literacy crisis and why reading comprehension matters more than ever
• Access to information and the importance of libraries
• Why audiobooks count as reading (and why accessibility matters)
• Algorithms, echo chambers and questioning the information we consume
• Ali’s career journey from tech and advertising to academic librarianship
• Curiosity, critical thinking, and learning to trust your gut
• The unexpected connection between librarianship and yoga
• Navigating her husband’s stroke during COVID and the power of community and care

When she’s not in the library or teaching yoga, Ali’s research spans everything from medieval women and household power to digital archiving, emo music, fandom, and Supernatural subtext. She also leads retreats for book lovers who want to read, relax, and maybe do a little yoga to undo what hours spent curled up with a book have done to their spines.

Connect:

• Katie’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie’s Website: katiehealywellness.com
• Ali’s Instagram: @thealiplante
• Ali’s Substack: @thealiplante
• Ali’s Bluesky: @thealiplante.bsky.social

Resources:

• Listen to the Libra Season Playlist

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

This week on Breathe In, Scream Out, Katie wraps up the season with one final episode before taking a summer hiatus, sharing the biggest astrological shifts that will guide us through the months ahead.

From Cancer season and Mercury retrograde to Jupiter's move into Leo and the upcoming shift of the lunar nodes into Aquarius and Leo, this episode explores what it means to reconnect with your intuition and prepare for a new chapter of creativity and self-expression. Katie also shares an honest (and passionate) rant about AI, why human connection matters more than ever, and feeling into your creativity.

In this episode, she discusses:

• Why Katie is taking a summer hiatus
• A passionate conversation about AI + creativity
• Cancer season themes: intuition, home, emotional safety, self-worth
• The Cancer–Capricorn axis and balancing softness with discipline
• What Mercury retrograde in Cancer is asking us to revisit
• How Neptune and Saturn retrogrades invite reflection + deeper life lessons
• Jupiter's entrance into Leo and a year of creative expansion
• The shift of the North + South Nodes into Aquarius and Leo
• Moving beyond external validation toward authentic self-expression

As always, breathe… and enjoy the rest of your summer!

Connect:

• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to the Cancer Season Playlist
• Special Offer: In honor of the one year anniversary of Breathe In, Scream Out, Katie is offering a free birth chart reading for listeners who share the episode on social media (or with a friend) or leave a written review of the podcast. Just screenshot your share or review and send it to her via email, [email protected], or DM.

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

You don’t need to choose between stability and pursuing your passions.

In this episode, Katie sits down with yoga instructor, content creator, and corporate professional Alyssa Bruno to discuss balancing multiple passions while building a life that feels authentic and fulfilling. Alyssa shares how she found yoga, what it's like to navigate a corporate career while teaching and creating content, and how life often unfolds in ways we could never predict.

Together, they explore the courage it takes to put yourself out there and the lessons hidden within “failure.”Alyssa also offers a refreshing perspective on jealousy, viewing it not as something to suppress, but as a signal pointing us toward the dreams and experiences we truly desire.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Alyssa discovered yoga
• Why balance is they key to life
• Why you don't have to fit into just one identity
• Learning to embrace life's unexpected turns
• Overcoming the fear of being seen on social media
• The limitless nature of creativity
• The dangers of comparison
• Why jealousy can reveal what you truly want
• Creating a life that reflects your interests and passions

Alyssa's story shows that you don't have to choose just one path—you can create one that's entirely your own.

Connect:

• Alyssa Bruno’s Instagram: @yogabyalyssa
• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to the Gemini Season Playlist
• Special Offer: In honor of the one year anniversary of Breathe In, Scream Out, Katie is offering a free birth chart reading for listeners who share the episode on social media (or with a friend) or leave a written review of the podcast. Just screenshot your share or review and send it to her via email, [email protected], or DM.

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

Gemini energy is often misunderstood as chaotic, but beneath the quick wit and ever-changing energy is something deeply human: the desire to connect. To understand and be understood. To sit across from another person and genuinely want to hear their story. Katie explores Gemini as the eternal student of the zodiac—read: mutable, adaptable, endlessly curious, and capable of creating entire realities through language and thought.

Katie reflects on the shadow side of Gemini energy too, especially the tension between communication and manipulation. This season really asks us to examine not only how we communicate with others, but also how we communicate with ourselves.

Whether there’s a skill you’ve been wanting to develop or a story you’ve been wanting to rewrite, this episode is an invitation to create intentional space for it now.

Key Dates:

• Gemini Season: May 20 – June 21
• Sagittarius Full Moon: May 31
• Gemini New Moon: June 14

She also discusses:

• Why Gemini is known as the “eternal student”
• The mutable energy of Gemini season
• Communication as creation + the power of words
• Why curiosity can become a spiritual practice
• Intellectualizing emotions vs. actually feeling them
• The beauty of listening deeply to others
• How Gemini energy helps people feel seen + understood
• The shadow side of Gemini (manipulation)
• Creating space for new skills + ideas
• Sharing your voice with the world

Connect:

• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to the Gemini Season Playlist
• Special Offer: In honor of the one year anniversary of Breathe In, Scream Out, Katie is offering a free birth chart reading for listeners who share the episode on social media (or with a friend) or leave a written review of the podcast. Just screenshot your share or review and send it to her via email, [email protected], or DM.

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

In a culture obsessed with digestibility and performance, what happens when movement becomes about feeling instead of being seen? This week, Katie sits down with Emily Rose—Erotic Embodiment Mentor for women, founder, and co-leader of The Business Coven—for a conversation about grief, pole dancing, pleasure, creativity, femininity, and financial abundance. Together, they explore embodiment beyond wellness buzzwords, building a business without self-abandonment, and what it means to create a life rooted in sensuality and authenticity.

“Embodiment is the art of living and sensuality is the pleasure of being,” says Emily Rose, describing pleasure not as something indulgent, but as a way of returning to yourself and expanding your capacity to fully experience life.

They also discuss:

• The stigma + assumptions surrounding pole dancing
• What embodiment actually means in everyday life
• Building a business during COVID with little financial stability
• Navigating fear + uncertainty
• The age of performative wellness
• Being an artist in a world that “contains”
• Why freedom in movement can feel uncomfortable at first
• The emotional and embodied power of pole dancing
• The intimate community she has built through her work

Connect:

• Emily Rose's Instagram: @the.sensual.ceo
• Emily Rose's business: @thrive_embodiedarts
• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to Taurus Season Playlist
• Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

We’ve entered Taurus season, which means it’s time to stop spiraling in your head and come back into your body. Into your breath. Into what you can actually touch, taste, feel… because life is meant to be savored.

Let us ground into the energy of Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac and the first earth sign of the zodiac calendar. Ahead, Katie explores what it really means to feel safe, abundant, and at home in your life. With a Scorpio full moon opening us to emotional depth and a Taurus new moon inviting intention around pleasure and stability, this is a moment to balance the external and internal, the material and the emotional, the surface and what lies beneath.

Key dates:

• Taurus Season: April 19 – May 20
• Scorpio Full Moon (Flower Moon): Friday, May 1
• Taurus New Moon: Sunday, May 16

Katie also discusses:

• The body as a compass (throat, thyroid + expression)
• Taurus + Scorpio: sister signs that mirror surface and depth
• The tension between materialism and true abundance
• How to be present without bypassing your emotions
• The difference between indulgence and nourishment
• What happens when Taurus energy becomes stuck
• Reframing abundance as a feeling, not a number
• Uranus in Taurus + embracing your inner “weirdo”
• Learning to trust what you already have instead of chasing more

Connect:

• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to Taurus Season Playlist
• Learn more from Meghan Rose: @the_meghanrose
• Tap with Gala Darling: @galadarling
• Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

Sometimes the thing we’re most exhausted by isn’t our job, our schedule, or even our relationships—it’s the constant striving to have it all together. The busyness and the pressure to prove that we’re doing enough, being enough, achieving enough. And yet, underneath all of it, there might be a voice asking for something else entirely.

In this episode, Katie sits down with Lynn Mull, a holistic career coach, author, and former Wall Street professional who spent nearly two decades in financial services before redefining success on her own terms. Blending corporate strategy with practical wellness, Lynn brings a grounded perspective on what it actually looks like to step out of autopilot and into alignment. From navigating a shocking and life-altering experience in her career to learning how to follow curiosity, ask for help, and take ownership of her life—financially, emotionally, and energetically—this conversation is an invitation to stop doing what you think you should be doing and start living life on your own terms.

They also explore:

• Why asking for help can feel so uncomfortable
• Lynn’s unexpected journey from Wall Street into the wellness space
• The profound impact of experiencing her boss’s murder and how it reshaped her life perspective
• What it really means to turn inward and begin “the journey within”
• Letting yourself explore without needing a perfectly mapped-out plan
• How to start making time for yourself when life already feels full
• The importance of being willing to try
• Why modern society glorifies busyness + how to unlearn it
• What it means to truly be the leader of your own life, including owning your financial reality
• Why some people resist leadership in their own lives
• Using tools like astrology as a framework for deeper self-understanding
• Practical ways to start asking for help and receiving support
• Advice for women feeling stuck or misaligned in their careers
• Learning to thank yourself for taking care of yourself

Connect:

• Lynn Mull’s Website: lynnmull.com
• Lynn Mull’s Instagram: @_lynnmull
• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Lynn’s Oracle Deck: lynnmull.com/shop
• Listen to Aries Season Playlist
• Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

Happy New Year to all who celebrate! Confused? It’s because Aries kicks off the astrological calendar, marking the beginning of a new cycle. Aligned with the start of spring, this season brings fresh energy, momentum, and a natural push toward action.

In this solo episode, Katie breaks down Aries energy, exploring what it actually means to be in a season of “beginning” and self-focus. With Saturn and Neptune both influencing Aries, this is a time for taking your visions seriously… and doing something about ‘em. She also unpacks the Aries-Libra axis, especially under the Libra Full Moon, where relationship dynamics and avoided conversations may come to the surface.

Key dates:

• Libra Full Moon on April 1
• Aries New Moon on April 17

Katie also explores:

• Aries season as the start of the astrological new year
• What it means to be self-centered (in a healthy way)
• Reframing selfishness
• Saturn in Aries: discipline + commitment to your goals
• Neptune in Aries: vision + taking action on your dreams
• Why desire itself is proof of possibility
• The shift from waiting to initiating
• The difference between healthy conflict and drama
• Understanding Aries (“I am”) vs. Libra (“we are”)
• The shadow side of Libra, including indirect communication
• Using the Aries New Moon to feel into your next dream
• Why discomfort signals growth, not failure

Connect:

• Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
• Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

• Listen to Aries Season Playlist
• Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

In this episode, Katie sits down with yoga teacher, studio owner, and entrepreneur Kate Lombardo for a conversation about redefining success and what it means to work hard. Kate shares her journey from being a traditional classroom teacher to building a life in the wellness space, while confronting the deeply ingrained scarcity mindset that once shaped her relationship to money.

A major turning point came in 2008 when her lung unexpectedly collapsed in New York City, forcing her to slow down and reexamine the pace and pressure she had been living under.

Drawing from positive psychology principles and her lived experience as both an entrepreneur and now mother, Kate reflects on the mindset shifts that helped her move from financial fear and perfectionism toward a life rooted in joy and meaningful connection. The conversation explores the power of awareness in unlearning inherited beliefs about productivity, the importance of pausing, and the idea that done is often better than perfect.

They also discuss:

1. Why joy can be a powerful form of resistance in a hustle-driven culture
2. Kate experiencing a collapsed lung in New York City + what that led to
3. Unlearning the belief that hard work must feel exhausting to be meaningful
4. The role of subconscious work in shifting deeply ingrained patterns
5. Why having basic needs met is foundational for creativity and expansion
6. The difference between awareness and hypervigilance in personal growth work
7. Moving past perfectionism and embracing the idea that done is better than perfect
8. Reframing the mindset from “life happens to me” to “life happens for me”
9. The importance of pausing in a culture that rewards constant motion
10. Why community is a key driver of joy and long-term success
11. A new perspective on leadership as service and collective growth
12. The energetic power of giving back and participating in something larger than yourself

Connect:

1. Katie Healy’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
2. Katie Healy’s Website: katiehealywellness.com
3. Kate Lombardo’s Instagram: @kate.lombardo
4. Empowering Yoga Teachers to Make More Money + Create Sustainable, Long-Lasting Careers: With Rooted

Resources:

1. Listen to Pisces Season Playlist
2. Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.

Welcome to Pisces season, aka the final chapter of the zodiac year! In this episode, Katie explores what it means to surrender and trust the unseen. As the sun moves through Pisces from February 18 to March 20, we enter a liminal space between winter and spring, endings and beginnings, the conscious and the subconscious. This is a season of intuition, imagination, and deep emotional honesty… it’s a time to let go or be dragged.

Katie unpacks the tension between Pisces’ surrender and Virgo’s perfectionism, the role of the North and South Nodes in collective evolution, and why this season is asking us to FLOW. Together, these transits invite us to release the inner critic, trust our intuition, and use our gifts in service of something larger than ourselves.

She also discusses:

1. Pisces as the final water sign + the archetype of ascension
2. Honoring your feelings instead of overriding them
3. The subconscious, dream realm + what exists beneath the surface
4. The Pisces new moon as a release of inner limitations and unworthiness
5. The Virgo full moon + confronting the harsh inner critic
6. Eclipse season as accelerated growth + timeline shifts
7. The North and South Nodes: comfort zone vs. soul growth
8. The collective shift from South Node Leo to North Node Aquarius
9. Using individual gifts to support humanity
10. Mercury retrograde in water signs in 2026
11. Dissolving illusions + deepening spiritual awareness

Connect:

1. Katie’s Instagram: @katiehealywellness
2. Katie’s Website: katiehealywellness.com

Resources:

1. Listen to Pisces Season Playlist
2. AstroTwins: Understand your North + South Nodes here
3. Book a birth chart reading with Katie by emailing [email protected] (Leave a review for the podcast & get 10% off your reading!)

Breathe In, Scream Out is produced by Marielle Marlys.