Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Poet, adventure guide and ecstatic earth worshiper Jacqueline Suskin shares about poetry and cultivating relationships with the earth and all its inhabitants.

You’ll also hear about:

• Using poetry as a channel for the earth

• How connected we all are even though we feel alone

• How the power of making things up is our strongest magic as humans

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Jacqueline Suskin is a self-proclaimed ecstatic earth worshiper, the author of eight published books, all of which center around the earth and its bounty. Currently, she’s focused on bringing her nature poetry curriculum into classrooms around the country and her new book “A Year in Practice – Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression” is available at all major booksellers.  This episode was recorded in July 2021 during her time as artist in residence at Folklife farm in Bayside California. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Jacqueline’s calling to make poetry more accessible and help people open the door to its transformative possibilities

• How poetry’s ability to condense deep concepts and quickly take us to the heart of the matter is the perfect medium for our era’s shorter attention spans

• Reminding people that we are part of the earth and that to forget this connection is to forget ourselves

• The delight that is possible when we align with the senses

• How deep relationship with anyone or anything involves connecting and communicating on a sensory level beyond language

• The importance of releasing the pressure to have a certain outcome and just responding to whatever the moment requires

• How agenda, outcome and productivity are overvalued by our society at the expense of witnessing and spaciousness

• Magic not having to look a certain way 

• How establishing relationships with the natural elements can allow one to be more spontaneous and less prescribed with their rituals

• Jacqueline’s experience running an artist residency 

• How things can change overnight when we keep showing up in openness and presence, but the amount of time, space, and attention it takes to keep at it can be hard

• Stewarding a sense of self to become more connected with our stories, wounds and joy

• How healing yourself heals everything else – it’s literally all you can do

• Witnessing the shift as we return to more traditional ecological knowledge

• The importance of lying down and letting the earth hold you

• The power of vulnerability 

• Poetry as a mindset and not just written words on a page

• The institution of poetry vs the spirit of poetry

• The importance of continuing to be open and following the signs in your life

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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• Learn more about Jacqueline’s offerings at www.jacquelinesuskin.com

• Connect with Jacqueline on Instagram @jsuskin 

• Connect with Jacqueline on Substack https://substack.com/@jsuskin 

• Check out Jacqueline’s book A Year in Practice

References:

• Episode 102 || Jacqueline Suskin

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• Folk Life Farm

• Bill Thompson

• Poem Store

• Bruce Nauman

• Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck

• The returning of Tuluwat Island

• Land Back Movement

• Shawna’s registry

• Natalie’s website

• Noticing with Natalie Podcast

• The AuDHD Flourishing podcast

• Enter The Portal podcast

• Rooted Business podcast

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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Soul tender and doula Trudy Titilayo shares about coming into relationship with her ancestors as they help her guide souls through the spiral of life and death. 

You’ll also hear about:

• Being called into relationship with the ancestors

• Moving from being the Witness into being the Teacher

• Doulaing as more than just supporting the birthing process

• Teaching our daughters choice

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Trudy Titilayo is a witness to Life's longing for itself. A humble steward of this sacred journey through birth, breath, death and rebirth, in honor of our Ancestors and the next seven generations. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Ancestral calls to the spiral road

• Trudy’s relationship with her grandmother 

• Witnessing and connecting the dots of memory

• The reciprocal gifts Trudy has both given and received within the Earth Speak Collective

• Learning to show up for oneself and finding one’s voice

• Going through the pandemic as a chrysalis moment

• The power of sitting (and dancing) with the ancestors without expectation or knowing why

• The journey of becoming a doula including Trudy’s own birth story

• Birth and death as our most vulnerable moments

• The damage that being separated from our ancestral land causes not only ourselves, but future generations

• Trudy’s pilgrimage to her ancestral lands

• Big news from Shawna

• Trudy’s experiences recognising the death transition and holding her family through the portals of life

• The subtlety of signs and learning to trust the call

• How the work Trudy has done towards liberating herself has impacted her daughters

• Giving yourself permission to claim all of yourself

• Doulaing identity

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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• Learn more about Trudy’s offerings at https://trulysacredcircles.com

• Connect with Trudy on Instagram @trulysacredcircles

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• Pharoah Ramses III 

• Kemetic Yoga

• Natalie channels Daisy

• Ifá

• Revivalist Pentecostal church

• Psilocybin mushrooms

• Doula

• Dr Daniel Foor

• Kemet

• Nile River Valley

• Maroons

• VBAC

• LSD

• Mother Teresa

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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Poet and educator Jacqueline Suskin shares about watching the ways humans choose to nurture their connection with the land and its cycles.

You’ll also hear about:

• How creative expression is the practice of life

• Moving through the immensity of eco grief to use it as creative fuel

• How loving the earth is loving ourselves

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Jacqueline Suskin is a self-proclaimed ecstatic earth worshiper, the author of eight published books, all of which center around the earth and its bounty. Currently, she’s focused on bringing her nature poetry curriculum into classrooms around the country and her next book “A Year in Practice – Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression” is available at all major booksellers.  

In this episode, we talk about:

• Rewriting beliefs around urban spaces lacking connection with nature

• Finding the right level of human connection to help uncared for land flourish

• How the conversation around land stewardship is more complicated than just planting a bunch of trees

• Honoring decay

• How we don’t have to reinvent the wheel

• The younger generation having so much to say (about the earth)

• How allowing people the time and space to dream and explore will allow them to connect with the earth 

• Going beyond duality to allow both hope and hopelessness to exist simultaneously

• How we can’t have awe without attunement to despair and grief

• How we have the power to change everything in this moment

• How cultivating trust in the now can help us soothe our despair and expand our trust in the future

• Jacqueline’s new book A Year in Practice

• Remembering the cycles that are already in us to align with the rhythms that exist in the world

• The difficulty of transitions

• The grief of loosing the familiarity of the way we know the seasons

• The connection between imagination and intuition

• How supporting the community is a pathway to combat our isolation

• How practicing relationship involves showing up for it no matter who or what we are in relationship with

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

• Become an Earth Speak Sponsor and reach more of the people you're meant to serve www.earthspeak.love/sponsor 

• Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our t-shirt 

• Support Earth Speak and make a donation  

• Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

• Learn more about Jacqueline’s offerings at www.jacquelinesuskin.com

• Connect with Jacqueline on Instagram @jsuskin 

• Connect with Jacqueline on Substack https://substack.com/@jsuskin 

• Check out Jacqueline’s book A Year in Practice

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• A brief history of Detroit

• Poem Forest Australia

• Folk Life Farm

• Inside Out Literary Arts Detroit

• Poem Store

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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In this conversation, Natalie & Shawna share what's on their hearts and minds, and explore the next phase of Earth Speak. You’ll also hear about:

• How did we get here and how do we co-create more aliveness in the future  

• How to support different communities and move away from marginalization

• Capacity, somatics, and co-creating community 

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit

• Learn to trust your intuition

• Activate your Earth magic

• Expand your healing & divination skills

• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life

• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path

• Embody & express your creative power & truths

• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit. Learn more at www.natalie.net.  

Shawna finds inspiration from all aspects of life but most notably nature and human connection. She brings experience and awareness from being a white assuming mixed-race black woman living in America. As a student of Psychological Ethnic Anthropology, she enjoys liberating folks from aspects of what make them feel othered by society. Learn more at @shawna.cason and @folkflorist 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Natalie and Shawna discuss ideologies, constructs, and the early history of anthropology 

• Finding safety within oneself so we can find safety within community 

• How we both inherit and are influenced by ideologies 

• Deconstructing race and the myth of race 

• Shawna shares her experience of being mixed-race and multicultural 

• The concept of the melting pot, whiteness, and the erasure of cultures

• How to support different communities but move away from marginalization

• That we are all the same species, the same race 

• How did we get here and how do we co-create more aliveness in the future?  

• How power structures have separated and governed the relationship between humans and the Earth

• Systems of othering

• Co-existing and celebrating difference 

• We explore, how when one person is oppressed in the system we are all oppressed 

• The ways that power structures create and maintain oppression 

• Looking to nature for models of how to thrive together 

• Moving away from the myth of scarcity 

• Surviving, thriving, and embodying sustainablity within late capitalism

• What is capacity? 

• What can we co-create in community, when we come from a place of safety? 

• Honoring and finding safety within ourselves so we can honor the need for safety in others

• Moving forward through trauma healing, embodiment, and navigating the nervous system 

• Answering the call to create healing for ourselves and our community 

• And so much more!

Secret Episodes! Get access to past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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• Support Earth Speak and make a donation 

• Share your thoughts about this episode or anything else, at https://www.earthspeak.love/shareyourtruth 

• Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

• Connect with Shawna on Instagram @shawna.cason and @folkflorist 

• Learn more about Natalie’s offerings at natalie.net

• Connect with Natalie on Instagram @natalierossmedia, natalie.alexandra.ross and @totalhippies

• Explore Natalie’s YouTube channel 

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• Ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology 

• Anthropology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology 

• Construct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism 

• Somatic experiencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_experiencing 

• Jim Crow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws 

• Melting pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot 

• Book || Race in America https://amz.run/6dTZ 

• TED Skin Color is an Illusion || Nina Jablonski https://www.ted.com/talks/nina_jablonski_skin_color_is_an_illusion 

• Book || Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color https://amz.run/6dNe 

• Homo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo 

• UVC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#UVC 

• Vitamin D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D 

• Melanin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin 

• Early human migration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations 

• Swallowtail butterfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowtail_butterfly

• Episode 99 || Natalie + Shawna https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/natalie-and-shawna-99 

• Critical race theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory 

• Plato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato 

• Socrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates 

• Late-stage capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism 

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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Jenner Linden shares her breakthrough moment where she realized that everything was not what it seemed. You’ll also hear about:

• What happened when Jenner listened to her intuition and created a heart-centered community

• Connecting with other witchy folks in a safe supportive space 

• What it feels like to be seen as your true self

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit

• Learn to trust your intuition

• Activate your Earth magic

• Expand your healing & divination skills

• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life

• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path

• Embody & express your creative power & truths

• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

*****

Jenner Linden founded The Wild Ones Community to **give voice** to heart-centered seekers and transformational leaders. As an intuitive coach, she has cultivated a healing space where folks are free to explore their wild side and path to personal fulfillment. Jennifer’s annual ReWilding Online Retreat has attracted over 18K people from around the world dedicated to shedding layers of conditioning and living out their truth. With the right tools, everyone has the power to fall wildly in love with the lives they are creating.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Jenner shares her bathroom floor moment and the story of her breakthrough

• What happened when Jenner stepped outside her programming 

• Taking off the layers that are hiding your magic 

• Shadow integration and walking side by side with the darkness

• On taking healing to the next step and integrating the awareness moments 

• What happened when Jenner felt seen as her true self for the first time 

• Trusting in love and connection

• Creating and navigating boundaries 

• How creating a devotional, daily practice can affect how you show up in the world 

• What are morning pages and why it works for Jenner and her business 

• How intuitive messages show up for Jenner 

• What Natalie and Jenner wish they had discovered sooner on their healing journey  

• What is the Wild Ones Community?

• The ways that the Wild Ones Community is supporting folks in being seen as their true witchy, woo, and wild self 

• Connecting with other witchy folks in a space supportive and heart-centered space

• Jenner shares about her upcoming free ReWilding Online Retreat  

• And so much more! 

Secret Episodes! Get access to past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

• Become an Earth Speak Sponsor and reach more of the people you're meant to serve www.earthspeak.love/sponsor 

• Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our t-shirt 

• Support Earth Speak and make a donation 

• Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

• Learn more about Jennifer’s offerings at www.thewildones.community 

• Learn more about the Free ReWilding Retreat

• Explore the ReWilding Activation Bundle

• Join the Wild Ones Community  

• Connect with Jennifer on Instagram @we.arewild // https://www.instagram.com/we.arewild

• Explore Jennifer’s Pinterest 

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• Episode 63 || Becca Piastrelli https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/becca-piastrelli-63  

• Human Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Design 

• NBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC 

• Red Lake shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lake_shootings 

• Columbine High School Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre 

• Book || The secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(Byrne_book) 

• Shadow integration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology) 

• Kundalini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini 

• Vagus nerve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve 

• Morning pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Way 

• Akashic Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records 

• NLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming 

• Tapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Freedom_Techniques 

• Ayurveda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda 

• Higher Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_self 

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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In this catch-up chat, Natalie & Shawna share about liberating oneself from imposter syndrome. You’ll also hear about:

• What's coming next for Earth Speak? 
• Somatics and liberation 
• Making a living doing the work you never expected to be doing but are perfectly positioned for
• Natalie shares about her new program Confident Offer 

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

*****

Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit.Learn more at www.natalie.net, and sign up for her new program, Confident Offer.  

Shawna finds inspiration from all aspects of life but most notably nature and human connection. She brings experience and awareness from being a white assuming mixed-race black woman living in America. As a student of Psychological Ethnic Anthropology, she enjoys liberating folks from aspects of what make them feel othered by society.Learn more at @shawna.cason and @folkflorist 

In this episode, we talk about:

• What’s changed for Natalie and Shawna, and what they’ve been up to during hiatus
• Reflecting on the journey and the wintering of Earth Speak 
• Following the threads and doing what lights you up  
• Shawna shares about volunteering at a butterfly garden  
• Natalie shares about her work with rescue bunnies 
• Feeling safe enough to get paid 
• Learning and re-learning how it feels to be content, happy and joyful  
• Making a living doing the work you never expected to be doing but are perfectly positioned for
• The myth of perfection 
• That the path to your purpose may not be linear 
• Creating space to integrate and be more of who you truly are 
• Polyvagal theory and liberating yourself from imposter syndrome 
• Threat vs safety 
• What happened when Natalie reached her critical mass safety
• Embodying the new
• How we inspire others by doing what lights us up
• What is coming next for Earth Speak?
• And so much more!

Secret Episodes! Get access to past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
• Become an Earth Speak Sponsor and reach more of the people you're meant to serve www.earthspeak.love/sponsor 
• Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our t-shirt 
• Support Earth Speak and make a donation 
• GoFundMe for Earth Speak community member https://www.gofundme.com/f/dv-fleeing-for-safety 
• Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

• Connect with Shawna on Instagram @shawna.cason and @folkflorist 
• Learn more about Natalie’s offerings at natalie.net
• Learn more about Natalie's new program, Confident Offer
• http://www.natalie.net/confidentoffer?utm_campaign=confidentofferbeta&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=organic&utm_term=earthspeak 
• Connect with Natalie on Instagram @natalierossmedia, natalie.alexandra.ross and @totalhippies
• Explore Natalie’s YouTube channel 

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  
• Chamomile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamomile 
• Earl Grey tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey_tea 
• Oatstraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat 
• Ann Norton Sculpture Garden https://ansg.org/ 
• Horticulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticulture 
• Human Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Design 
• Redwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens 
• Episode 90 || Natalie Ross  https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/natalie-ross-90 
• Somatic experiencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_experiencing 
• Bipolar 1 disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_I_disorder 
• Polyvagal theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvagal_theory 
• Naomi love https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/about-naomilove 
• Clairvoyance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance 
• The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice || Book  https://amz.run/6LbG 
• Staci K. Haines - https://strozziinstitute.com/staff/staci-k-haines/ 
• Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD https://strozziinstitute.com/staff/richard-strozzi-heckler/ 
• Cycad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycad 
• Banana slugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug 
• Quantmine leaping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap 
• Swallowtail butterfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowtail_butterfly 

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/

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Natalie Ross, Earth Speak co-founder, shares about the traditions around the Celtic holiday called Imbolc that signifies the beginning of spring. From Natalie:

"My ancestral lineages are Celtic and Nordic. What I’m sharing is part of my investigations into my own ancestral roots to discover who are the people in my lineages who were Indigenous to a land, and what were their beliefs and customs. If you enjoy this, please let us know!"

You’re going to hear about:

• What Imbolc is and why it was one of the 4 most important celebrations of the year
• How the Wheel of the Year isn’t actually Celtic
• Brigid, the multi-faceted goddess associated with Imbolc

I’ll also share several ways you can celebrate Imbolc in your own practices and rituals.

This whole episode transcript is posted on our website in the show notes at www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/folklore-and-imbolc-38.

If you’re wanting to connect more with others who practice Earth magic, then join us in the Earth Speak Collective membership. We’re doing community rituals and co-creating a culture of Earth-honoring and magical connection. You can join the Collective at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective.

Links:

• Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective 
• Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our T-shirt https://www.earthspeak.love/shop
• Natalie's new program, Confident Offer http://www.natalie.net/confidentoffer?utm_campaign=confidentofferbeta&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=organic&utm_term=earthspeak

Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

We would LOVE to see how you choose to celebrate Imbolc. Please tag us @earthspeak in your Imbolc posts on Instagram, so we can celebrate with you.

Thank you to Scarlet Crow and Emily Sprague for our theme music.

See the show notes for this special episode here 

Naomi Love shares the role of the space holder to be trauma-informed and create a safe environment for healing work to happen. You’ll also hear about:

• What is somatic womb healing? 
• Creating space for integration 
• What happens when facilitator training is not trauma-informed 
• Cultivating resilience to meet what arises 

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!).

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Naomi Love helps people to track patterns that keep them held in repeating disharmonious cycles in the way they think, feel, experience and relate with life. She guides people home to their true nature and share with the KEY's to setting themselves free from the old paradigms.

In this replay episode, Naomi shares about what is womb healing and how to facilitate ceremony in a trauma-informed way. Access to the Temple of the Womb Apprenticeship closes on January 11th, 2023. Learn more and connect with Naomi at the Wise Womb Medicine Path and at www.naomilove.org.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Living on the diverse lands of Hawaii 
• What is somatic womb healing and how Naomi developed her teachings 
• Tracking patterns and trauma within the body
• Getting out of the mind and into the body 
• Differentiating between emotion and the ego
• Learning to receive and relate in healthy ways 
• The stomach as the most vulnerable aspect of the body
• The role of the space holder in creating a safe environment for healing work to happen 
• Why do womb work?
• Agency vs power over 
• The miracle of birth and creating life 
• Healing ancestral trauma 
• Feeling out of resonance with your truth
• What happens when facilitator training is not trauma-informed 
• Creating safety for yourself and others with energic hygiene 
• Why opening space is different to holding space 
• Toxic positivity 
• Cultivating resilience to meet what arises 
• Getting to the root of your trauma 
• Bringing the focus back to healing 
• Creating space for integration 
• Being in right relationship with your role as a facilitator 
• Learning to feel safe with touch in a non-sexual way 
• Feeling connected to the cosmic web of creation 
• Coming back to your true nature 
• How Naomi came to study and teach womb work and cacao ceremony 
• Communing with plants 
• Honoring the spirit of the medicine of cacao 
• Ask the Oracle 
• Getting clear on your offerings 
• And more!

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• Temple of the Womb || Training https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/womb-temple 

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  
• Episode 52 || Naomi Love https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/naomi-love-42 
• Episode 2 || Naomi Love https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/naomi-love-intuition-orientation 
• Fae folk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy 
• Somatic experiencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_experiencing 
• Law of attraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought) 
• Endocrine system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_system 
• Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism 
• Dalai Lama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama 
• Ego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego 
• Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting 
• The Tracker || Book https://amz.run/5Z8n
• Bodywork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodywork_(alternative_medicine) 
• Shamanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism 
• Clinical nutrition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_nutrition 
• Herbalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine 
• Tantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra 
• Ibu Robin http://iburobin.com/ 
• Ecstatic dance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatic_dance 
• Nine Perfect Strangers || Mini-series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Perfect_Strangers_(miniseries) 
• Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics 
• Human Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Design 
• ADHD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder 
• Eckhart Tolle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle 
• Restoring the Kinship Worldview || Book https://amz.run/5aDj 
• Episode 67 || Kat lee https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/kat-lee-67 
• Yoni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni 
• Temple of the Womb || Training https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/womb-temple 
• Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean 
• Cacao Facilitator Training https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/cacao-ceremonial-facilitator-training 
• Yoni egg https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoni_egg 
• Yoni steam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_steaming
• Ayahuasca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca 
• Peyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote 
• Non-binary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender 
• Hysterectomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterectomy
• Four seasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Hotels_and_Resorts
• Resonance Ritual || Mentorship https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/resonance-mentorship 
• Fire Heart || Book https://store.bookbaby.com/book/fire-heart 
• Miss Beatrice https://earthcenteredhealingarts.com/about-miss-beatrice 
• Rosita Arvigo https://rositaarvigo.com/ 
• Ann Drucker https://earthcenteredhealingarts.com/about-ann-drucker 
• Domini Ponti - night time call you witch day time 
• Tobacco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco 
• Ixchel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixchel 
• Maiden Mother Crone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Goddess_(Neopaganism) 
• Daisy Kaye https://www.schoolofbreathmedicine.com/about-daisy-kaye 
• Spirit Weavers https://spiritweaversgathering.com/ 
• Sound healing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_therapy 
• Narcissist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism 
• Gemini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(astrology) 
• Connect with Natalie https://natalie.net/ 
• Connect with Shawna https://www.instagram.com/shawna.cason/ 

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Content warning - while we’re not getting graphically gorey, this is an intense topic that still resonates with the challenges we face today in a society ruled by supremacy. Pay attention to your body and your needs, and if it’s too much, pause or turn it off.

Natalie + Naomi share how prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers. You’ll also hear about:

• What is - a witch, witchcraft, paganism, Wicca, a heretic, the Great Witch Hunts?
• The witch wound and the sisterhood wound 
• The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death 

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• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

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Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit. Learn more at www.natalie.net.

Naomi Love is a ceremonialist & medicine woman with over thirty years of experience working with tens of thousands of clients and students around the world.Naomi is the Creatress of Wise Womb Medicine Path, an Earth medicine school guiding you through the Holy Trinity Blueprint of Womb Healing.She trains trauma-informed ceremonialists, Somatic Womb Mentors & Somatic Womb Therapists worldwide.IG: @wisewomboracle www.wisewombmedicinepath.com

In this episode, we talk about:

• The Witch wound 
• Reclaiming + geeking out on what really is a witch
• What it truly means to Natalie and Naomi to embody being a witch 
• Being nature-oriented, and finding safety in nature ‘
• How we continue to perpetuate the stereotypes about witches
• Womb-witch, green-witch, word-witch 
• Working in co-creation with living lifeforce energies 
• Marketing and devising a common enemy to create unity 
• How prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers 
• Natalie and Naomi share some of the dirty politics and ways witches have been tortured and forced to prove their innocence 
• The myth of purity 
• The outlawing of nature worship in the late 900s 
• Collective fawning and why we feel like we have to make ourselves small and appease others 
• The worldview of the dominator 
• Killing for followers 
• The modern-day witch hunts
• The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death 
• The sisterhood wound 
• The art of relating to the human and more-than-human
• Co-creation vs domination 
• On gravitating toward a guru  
• Naomi shares about her upcoming free virtual Womb Healing Retreat!
• And so much more! 

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References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  
• Stuff You Should Know podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/  
• Witch-hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt 
• Paganism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism 
• Wicca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca 
• Witchcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft 
• Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts 
• Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism 
• Kinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship 
• Tantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra 
• Tattered Cover bookstore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattered_Cover 
• Naomi Love on the Witches and Wine Podcast https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/musings/2020/2/7/witches-and-wine-interview 
• Museum of Witchcraft and Magic https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/ 
• Occult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult 
• Split-leaf philodendron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa 
• Herbalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine 
• Sharman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism 
• Kundalini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini 
• Protestantism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism 
• Catholic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church 
• Charlemagne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne 
• Heretics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy 
• Scapegoat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat 
• Tv series || The Tudors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors  
• Laws of Athelstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan  
• Stonehenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge 
• Pope Alexander the IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_IV 
• Protestant reformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation 
• Constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Definition 
• Sovereignty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty 
• Documentary || Inside the Mind of Cats https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21340412/ 
• Black Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death 
• Mongoose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose 
• Book || The Hammer of Witches / The Malleus Maleficarum https://amz.run/5xnS 
• Gerald Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner_(Wiccan) 
• Joan of Arc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc 
• Yogi Bhajan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa 
• Apotropaic magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magic 

Witchy Resources and References:

• Book || Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu https://amz.run/5xnM
• Scott Cunningham https://amz.run/5xoF 
• Book || The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America https://amz.run/5xnV 
• Book || The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present https://amz.run/5xnX 
• Book || High Magic's Aid https://amz.run/5xnY 
• Book || The God of the Witches https://amz.run/5xnZ 
• Book || The Gnostic Religion https://amz.run/5xna 
• Pagan studies scholar Ethan Doyle White https://independent.academia.edu/EthanDoyleWhite 
• Journey into Witchcraft Beliefs https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs 
• Madeline Montalban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Montalban 
• Witchcraft: Eight Myths and Misconceptions https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths 
• Ten Common Errors and Myths about the Witch Hunts, Corrected and Commented http://www.brianpavlac.org/witchhunts/werrors.html 
• What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM 
• Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft https://www.academia.edu/12229695/Doyle_White_E_2016_Wicca_History_Belief_and_Community_in_Modern_Pagan_Witchcraft_Sussex_Academic_Press 

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Natalie shares how she grew her business, shifted her patterns, and found aliveness, ease, and capacity. You’ll also hear about:

• Aligning with your work and understanding your purpose
• Finding safety and co-regulating in community 
• Natalie and Kat share about the Embodied Curiosity - Business Alchemist Mentorship

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• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

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This week we are sharing a replay from The Empowered Curiosity Podcast, with Spiritual Business Mentor Kat Lee and Earth Speak Founder Natalie Ross. In this episode, Natalie and Kat share 

Kat Lee is a Trauma-Informed Emotional and Somatic Alchemy Coach, host of The Empowered Curiosity Podcast, and Creator of The Heart Lab. She guides her community to rewrite their relationship to safety, love, trust and belonging so they are able to cultivate conscious relationships and manifest their Dao (purpose). Kat believes that healing is a deep remembrance of who you are + recognizing that you are not broken. She believes that the Body, Mind, and Soul are interconnected and respond best to an integrated approach where all the parts of you are remembered. She believes in leaving room for magic. For slowing down to allow your intuition and Truth to rise to the surface. For finding validation through being rather than doing. For flowing through life being actively allowing rather than grasping. Kat’s role as coach and space-holder is to be your mirror and share tools and techniques that lead you back to the clarity of your own Heart and autonomy to make choices that are best for you, your body, and your Spirit

Natalie Ross is the host of the Earth Speak Podcast and co-founder of Earth Speak and the Earth Speak Collective. Natalie is also a trauma-informed marketing coach for spiritual entrepreneurs. She weaves mycelial webs that help people connect with self, community, nature, and spirit for personal and collective healing. Having experienced the debilitating impact of complex trauma (cPTSD), she knows how hard it can be for intuitive, caring people to exist, let alone run a business, in this society fueled by greed and domination. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• When Natalie realized she didn’t want to be a spiritual teacher 
• How Natalie is now supporting change makers and heart-centered entrepreneurs to get clear on how to communicate their message and their values
• Changing the paradigm from domination to kinship 
• Nervous system integration and regulation in business 
• Healing trauma and creating a business rooted in cycles
• On questioning whether you are aligned with your path 
• Co-regulation and biological empathy 
• Embodying your boundaries through your business 
• Finding safety and nervous system regulation in community 
• Making friends with the protective parts of yourself 
• How Natalie shifted her patterns and found aliveness, ease, and capacity 
• Natalie’s love of bunnies and how working with rescue bunnies changed her life 
• Embodying boundaries and protecting your energy in business 
• How BAM has supported Natalie and changed her life 
• Business as a spiritual practice
• Building a business that is both rooted in your purpose and your nervous system regulation 
• Kat shares about her 2022 Business Alchemist Mentorship

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• Learn more about Natalie at natalie.net

References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  
• The Empowered Curiosity Podcast https://www.empoweredcuriosity.com/blog 
• Business Alchemist Mentorship https://www.empoweredcuriosity.com/bam2022 
• Kat Lee || Episode 67 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/kat-lee-67 
• Nat + Kat || Episode 79 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/nat-and-kat-79 
• Shawna https://www.instagram.com/shawna.cason/ 
• Daoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism 
• Acupuncture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture 
• Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism 
• Co-regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation 
• Parasympathetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system
• Somatic experiencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_experiencing 

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