In this Best of DFB, we revisit Nikki Silvestri. Nikki is a new Mama and speaker with equal parts vulnerability and razor-sharp analysis. She is the Founder of Soil and Shadow and working to create system change while improving relationships between communities. In this conversation we get into:

• Why our good ideas don’t flourish because we don’t know how to work well together
• How your change-making work can reflect abundance and not scarcity
• How the process of shadow work makes you face your own worst nightmares
• How once your life has changed you realize there isn’t that much to be afraid of
• What it takes to ask yourself new questions
• How the seed of shadow work is allowing opposites to exist simultaneously that seem irreconcilable
• Why we are obsessed with reconciliation as a society
• Why suffering is a part of life and how you have to accept it as such
• Why connection is the seed of everything, and how it creates possibilities that didn’t exist before
• How boundaries enable you to do your own work
• How to welcome the shadow parts of yourself back home
• How shadow work makes you a better leader by allowing you to see all of yourself
• Why we need to speak to people in a language they understand when approaching shadow work
• How anything you are attracted to or repulsed by is your shadow at play
• How you can find yourself in the projection of your shadow
• Why learning to properly integrate shadow work is so important
• Discernment is how to stay on the good side of shadow work
• Why it’s necessary to uncover limiting beliefs
• How being a mother shows you where you are managing your experiencing vs just experiencing
• Why you are not the extreme versions of yourself
• How practicing whole traditions leads to wholeness

• CLOSED // Go deep on a 3-month journey into shadow work with Nikki Silvestri at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/shadowlab // Applications close July 2, 2018
• Connect with Nikki and her Soil and Shadow offerings through her website at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/
• Follow Nikki on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri/

Get the full show notes at www.dreamfreedombeauty.com.

Rachel of Aeolian Heart is an astrologer, psychonaut and spiritual alchemist. She offers natal chart readings, horoscopes, educational courses, and tarot readings. Rachel’s latest course, SPIRITUALIZED, is an 8-week course that guides participants through the stages of alchemical transformation. The course is focused on healing the chakras and planetary imbalances, particularly beneficial for people seeking help with grief or transition.

In this conversation, we dive into:

• An invocation of Thoth as an ancient guide in magical and alchemical studies
• How mythologies can become syncretic, intertwined within different cultures
• Rachel’s personal relationship and experience working with Thoth
• Learning to transmute grief into creative work
• Remembering to connect with spirits and ask questions
• How the celestial occurrences in the sky are also reflected on earth
• How Uranus is moving into Taurus on March 6, 2019, the beginning of a 7-year transit
• A revolutionary time when a new era will emerge.
• Reconnecting to the Earth’s wisdom
• How the relationship between Jupiter and Saturn for the last 200 years is shifting
• How to interpret Uranus in Taurus in your personal natal chart
• How the alchemical arts could potentially be impacted by Uranus in Taurus
• The difference between using astrology to hypothesize the future vs. studying the past
• How to use astrology as a tool to receive guidance
• About Aeolian Heart’s new course, SPIRITUALIZED
• How the elements of each planet can be associated with different types of metal
• How the SPIRITUALIZED course can work to expand your capacity for love, forgiveness and flexibility

Bonus! Rachel shares her experience of smoking the venom of a poisonous toad, allowing her to shed grief in her lead stage of alchemy in this week’s secret episode!

Links

• Aeolian Heart featured in Dream Freedom Beauty Episode112
• Register for SPIRITUALIZED (Registration closes February 19th, Class starts February 27th)
• Learn more about Rachel and Aeolian Heart on her website, www.aeolianheart.com
• Connect with Rachel on Facebook @Aeolian Heart Astrology  
• Follow Rachel on Instagram @AeolianHeart
• Learn more about Rachel’s online courses
• Check out Rachel’s inspiration for her last course title, SPIRITUALIZED, the band

Nadine Artemis is an author and botanical maker living in Ontario, Canada. She is the founder of Living Libations and author of Renegade Beauty. As a leading entrepreneur of botanical body care, Nadine shares her journey to creating holistic beauty products and practices supported by science. She talks about everything from women’s studies to self-dentistry--literally everything under the sun!

In this episode, we get nerdy about:

• How to safely enjoy botanicals as a form of self-care and beauty ritual
• How the sun is beneficial for the skin and what sunscreen does to the body
• Using pure plant extracts as holistic body care
• Ways to wisely interact with the sun and how to cultivate a harmonizing relationship
• Plant extract formulation as an offering to the earth and to the diety of your body
• How Living Libations was intuitively formed as a business
• How Nadine’s personal journey to creating Living Libations began
• How to stay centered in the process of birthing a business
• How to cultivate health in your body
• How tears of joy and sadness are different on a molecular level
• How to become aware of blocks that prevent us from receiving inner guidance
• The link between orgasms, meditation and manifestation
• Rebuilding after a fire that took everything from the business
• Finding the goodness and abundance, even through struggle
• Building a creative and pleasant workspace for the community

Bonus! Nadine talks about how to build a business structure that is flexible and effective for a modern-day work climate in this week’s secret episode!

• Connect with Nadine and her offerings at www.livinglibations.com
• Read Nadine’s books, Renegade Beauty, Holistic Dental Care, and Successful Self-Dentistry
• Connect with Living Libations on Instagram @LivingLibations
• Connect with Living Libations on Facebook @LivingLibations
• Visit the Living Libations YouTube channel
• Track your Vitamin D intake through this sun exposure app http://dminder.ontometrics.com/

Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author, and poet. She considers herself a modern-day medicine woman and a voracious student of the mystery. Through the shamanic therapy lens, Shonagh conducts 3-day retreats in her home where she nurtures her guests as they embark on their life-changing soul journey.

In this week’s episode we explore:

• How Shonagh manifested a Farmhouse in Vermont
• Shonagh’s chapter contribution in The Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine
• How to honor the voice of the feminine and the voice of the indigenous
• How to reclaim wisdom traditions
• Shonagh’s calling to work with mushrooms
• How we are living in a Roman-style civilization that has reprogramed our culture to forget its roots
• How reconfiguration of the mind is the key to unlocking untapped potential
• Earth medicine as a method to rewild human consciousness
• Food as medicine and healing the gut
• How Shonagh midwifes clients through the death and rebirth of the soul
• Plant extracts as a method to wean off synthetic medication
• Shonagh’s Ayahuasca Initiation
• Shonaugh’s connection to folkloric being, Pan
• How to identify and explore portals
• The pillars of Shonagh’s manifestation process
• The difference between truth and reality
• How word choice and speech symbolizes a declaration
• Breaking the spell of doubt
• Working with the sidhe (fairies) to manifest Shonaugh’s Fairy Tree Cottage
• How the body is electric and attracts energy into our magnetic field
• How nature is not instant coffee, manifestations require effort and work

Bonus! Learn about Pan as a connector to the Otherworld beings and how mushrooms can be used as a tool to rewire our conscious mind to connect more deeply with these beings. You won't want to miss the live storytellings from Shonaugh in this week’s secret episode!

• Learn more about Shonagh and her offerings at shonaghhome.com
• Follow Shonagh on Instagram @Shonagh.Home
• Check out Shonagh's course Manifesting 101
• For more information on how to work with Shonagh, connect with her by email at [email protected]
• Dive into Shonagh’s latest book contribution, The Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine
• Shonagh’s upcoming retreat at her home in Vermont, Daughters of the Fairy Tree to be launched in Vermont in April of 2019

• Brugh Joy, M.D., Shonagh’s late teacher who studied the shadow self, dreams and Jungian philosophy
• Tom Kenyan, psychotherapist, sound healer and shaman
• Michael Pollen’s How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
• Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo

Get the full show notes at www.dreamfreedombeauty.com