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In today’s episode, Alexandra answers some of your questions about love, business, and different ways that codependency can show up in our lives.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Using discernment around celebrities or well-known people in the public eye, and how to distinguish between being attracted to someone’s spotlight vs. seeing them as a human being underneath it all.
• Ideas on how to be comfortably yourself in a romantic relationship and be in awe of the other person, but not in worship of them, and what that difference really is.
• What codependency actually is and how it can be applied beyond just romantic relationships, but often to our businesses as well.
• Identifying the difference between working hard with passion to put your gifts into the world, or being in addiction with your business and the way you are putting your work out into the world.
• And more!

This week, Alexandra speaks with Danielle Paige, who is a Spiritual Teacher, Intuitive Astrologer, Healer, and Guide here to help you remember your unique soul blueprint so that you can live your life with purpose and passion!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why Danielle ultimately chose to remove her breast implants, even though she initially felt resistance to the idea when she first received the message to remove them from her spiritual guides.
• The importance of using discernment and listening to intuition when making big life changes, shifts, and decisions.
• Ideas on understanding and reframing major life changes and challenges as soul contracts that are important for us to experience as part of our soul’s awakening and healing.
• The methods and tools that helped Danielle heal through Lyme disease and other aspects of her health crisis related to having breast implants.
• Ideas on how to break down, separate, and discern between what is actually happening in the present moment in your life and all of your past experiences and selves that are being activated by the present moment.
• And more!

Connect with Danielle:

• Offerings HERE
• On Instagram HERE
• Soulcial Society - Private FB group for women HERE

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This week, Alexandra shares with us all about her move from Los Angeles to Colorado and how her life and her rituals are adjusting to the new scenery.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How being surrounded by nature is actually being surrounded by the unknown, and how that relates to the unknown within our own bodies.
• The similarities in the learning curve of adjusting to living in the city or the mountains, and how learning to slow down and trusting in the body has been key.
• How moving out of the city has impacted Alexandra’s nervous system and therefore, her rituals, and what that transformational process has been like.
• Why Alexandra and her partner have decided to keep their relationship private and mostly offline for now, and how that has allowed for more presence in each moment together.
• And more!

This week, Alexandra speaks with Gabriela Herstik!

Gabriela Herstik is a witch, author, and fashion alchemist residing in the city of Angels whose work lives at the intersection of the esoteric and erotic. She is the author of "Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft", "Bewitching the Elements: A Guide to Empowering Yourself through Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit" and "Embody Your Magick: A Guided Journal for the Modern Witch." Her writing has been published in Vogue International, Glamour, Allure, Refinery29, and other outlets around the web and she's had columns on witchcraft, Goddesses, and weed with NYLON, Chakrubs, and High Times. Gabriela recently co-founded Kink Coven, a monthly Full Moon circle and virtual play party that casts a spell of protection on sex workers around the world, and she is currently working on two books, one on Goddesses and one on Sacred Sex. Gabriela is a devotee of the Goddess of Love and believes magick is for everyone.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Gabriela’s definition of what it means to “work with a Goddess” and ideas on how you can integrate that into your rituals or daily practices.
• How working with a Goddess is different from the mainstream manifestation practices often taught today, and how worshipping and working with a Goddess is actually a reciprocal relationship to be nurtured.
• Gabriela’s experience of attending Alexandra’s Shibari retreat years ago and how trying the practice of Japanese rope bondage opened up integrating sensual kink practices into her work with the Goddess, and how it helps to counter the more heady, masculine practices and devotional studies in her life.
• Ideas on what kink really is, and how it can help you to fully own your erotic self and what you desire.
• And much much more!

Photo of Gabriela above by Alexandra Herstik.

Connect with Gabriela on IG: @GabyHerstik

Discover more about Kink Coven at kinkcoven.love

Buy “Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft” here.

Buy “Bewitching the Elements” here.

Buy “Embody your Magick: A Guided Journal for the Modern Witch” here.

Check out Gabriela’s other work here.

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In this week’s episode, Alexandra shares a personal story around her evolution and relationship to women’s beauty standards and how we present ourselves to the world.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Alexandra’s experience of building a business while using pretty glossy pics and how over time that felt less authentic as a brand message.
• Why it’s important to bring awareness to our actions, thoughts, and beliefs, and be in active engagement with the WHY around WHAT we are putting out into the world.
• Ideas on looking at your own relationship to perfectionism and seeing where in your life it may pop up, especially in today’s online world.
• How to gauge when it’s time to distance yourself from something so that you can heal your relationship with it, and if/when you can begin to reintegrate it into your life.
• And more!

This week, Alexandra speaks with Ruby Warrington, author and Founder of Numinous Books. Creator of the term “Sober Curious,” her books Sober Curious and The Sober Curious Reset have helped spearhead a global movement to reevaluate our individual and collective relationships to alcohol. Other works include Material Girl, Mystical World and The Numinous Astro Deck.

With 20+ years’ experience as a lifestyle journalist, Ruby is also an editor and book doula, and is known as a true thought leader in the Now Age space. She also hosts the popular Sober Curious podcast.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Ideas on giving yourself the time and space to evolve and bring consciousness around your projects, especially as you’re evolving out of an old form of expression into a new.
• How reading and storytelling can be a healthy form of escapism and can provide comfort and refuge during more anxious times.
• How social media and the culture of commentary in online spaces has added more fear and hesitancy for writers and storytellers sharing in today’s world.
• The difference between anger and grief as motivators for change, and how they can affect our culture differently.
• Ideas on what is considered to be ‘enough’ in our culture in terms of wealth, money, and the cultivation of assets and possibilities for what our culture could be if we shifted our idea of what all humans require for a comfortable and well-lived life.
• How Ruby’s writing style and voice has evolved since her first book was published and the ways in which it has matured now that she is working on her third book.
• And so much more!

Follow Ruby on IG: @numinous_books and @rubywarrington.

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In today’s podcast, Alexandra answers a listener’s question on how to find joy through pain.

In this episode, Alexandra discusses:

• The importance of using your breath to feel into your pain and the emotions associated with it.
• How to express how you feel about pain in a healthy and necessary way, and how to avoid staying stuck there in the healing process.
• Ideas on using creativity to transmute the pain into artful expression.
• How to see pain as your teacher and welcome in any lessons that are there for you to integrate into your life.
• And more!

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On today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, who have been collaborators for 18 years and are founders of the “ecosex movement” where they aim to make the environmental movement more sexy, fun and diverse through art projects. They were official Documenta 14 artists (2017) where they premiered their film, “Water Makes Us Wet”, had a visual art exhibit, and gave Ecosex Walking Tours. They were named 2019 Eureka Fellows. Currently they’re completing a book about their work, “Assuming the Ecosexual Position” for University of Minnesota Press.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The many definitions of ecosexual and how both sex and eco sex is a spiritual act and way of being.
• How anyone can be an ecosexual, exclusively or in addition to any other sexualities you may identify with.
• Ideas and examples on approaching life through art and how to become a life artist.
• Beth and Annie’s wedding series of marrying the Earth and how ritual can be full of laughter and play, while still holding reverence for the depth of the ceremony.
• And much more!

Read Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover book - order at University of Minnesota Press or on Amazon

Discover Annie and Beth’s body of work - sprinklestephens.org / sexecology.org

On today’s episode, Alexandra is answering a listener question around healing the father wound and learning how to trust men in order to be healthy in love.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Alexandra’s healing journey of transferring hate into love with her father, and how to discern for yourself which shade of acceptance and forgiveness you can begin to work with in your own process of healing.
• How to look at the imprint of what someone (your father, for example) left on you is and how to begin to explore how you can transform those imprints and turn them into healing and growth for yourself.
• Ideas on how to begin to open yourself up to trusting masculinity again by identifying both the harmful aspects of the masculine example you were given AND also the positive traits and examples you’ve experienced.
• Ideas on navigating a relationship when you are in the process of healing with father and trust wounds.
• And more!

On today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Madison Margolin, one of the founders of Double Blind Magazine, a super sexy and inclusive magazine on psychedelics!

Madison Margolin is the co-founder and editorial director of DoubleBlind, a media company and education platform at the forefront of the rapidly growing psychedelic movement. As a working journalist based between New York and Los Angeles, Margolin has covered psychedelics, cannabis, drug policy, Jewish culture, and spirituality for a variety of publications including Playboy Magazine, Rolling Stone, Nylon, VICE, LA Weekly, Tablet, and was featured in High Times among other outlets. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School and UC Berkeley, Margolin has traveled everywhere from pot farms in the Emerald Triangle to the shores of the Ganges River, and all over Israel-Palestine, exploring the role of plant medicine in religion, mental health, and conflict resolution. She got her start in journalism with a column on cannabis at the Village Voice, after having lived in south Tel Aviv working with Eritrean refugees. With more than 6 years of experience covering cannabis and psychedelics, Madison has spoken on topics like social equity, cannabis feminism, drug journalism, and so forth at conferences like SXSW, Horizons: Perspectives in Psychedelics, Digital Hollywood, the Association of Alternative New Media, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Pepperdine's Cannabis Law Symposium, and more. 

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• What psychedelics are and what they do in your mind and your being, and why it’s so important to understand and make room for the integration part of the process of working with psychedelics.
• Ideas on accessing states of being that are experienced during a psychedelic trip even when sober, or in our everyday.
• Ideas on what the regulation and capitalization of psychedelics may do to the experience, and some ideas on how to maintain the sacredness of the ritual even as the industry grows in the mainstream.
• Exploration of some of the stereotypes surrounding psychedelics and how Double Blind is steering the conversation and intention behind psychedelics in a direction to accurately show who is engaging with psychedelia.
• And more!

Connect with DoubleBlind Magazine and see their online course on How to Grow Mushrooms at doubleblindmag.com

Connect with Madison at madisonmargolin.com / jewishpsychedelicsummit.org

Connect with Madison and Double Blind on IG: @madisonmargolin / @doubleblindmag / @jewishpsychedelicsummit

And on Twitter: @margolinmadison / @doubleblindmag