If your spiritual life feels more like a discipline than a joy — and your body feels more like used car than a temple — this podcast episode is for you. Most of us are really familiar with trying to be good, well behaved, and nice as the goal of our gifts and our practices. But what if we could liberate our relationships, intimacy, pleasure, and power instead?

In this episode, grace re-introduces the show and explores the liberatory path of erotic devotion.

Because when our wounds, fears, and secret desires emerge, they’re not coming up so we can judge ourselves and feel bad forever. They’re coming up so we can burn more brightly and become free.

You can only be a true leader and lover from the path of erotic devotion. Tune in to embark on your journey of surrender, empowerment and ecstasy.

we discuss —

• What the erotic is + is not
• How to connect with sensuality + intimacy
• Why destiny requires desire
• Ways to get out of transaction mode and why that matters
• The paradox of power and surrender
• Why devotion is not about victimhood or obedience

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

• The Transformative Power of Desire & Devotion w— grace allerdice x Erin Kelley
• erotic devotion for modern mystics

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What's underneath the frustration, resentment, guilt and plaguing sense that you're not doing enough to save the world?

This un-embodied paradox is probably why your business isn’t working, why your creations don’t have that sparkle, why your mission isn’t moving, your creativity is stagnant, or your relationship is just… ok.

Be sure to listen to the end, for a simple and portable embodiment practice to help you ground into the present moment.

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What if you don’t have to “deserve” a beautiful life? But as long as you’re trying to be very, very good… you can’t actually have one?

In this episode, grace unravels the false promises of the “good girl” and invites you to release the belief that being good is how you get what you want.

Time to break out of good girl jail.

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Judgement and ideology are alive and well everywhere. But what if we left them behind and stepped toward Mystery?

Listen in, and learn how to stop avoiding the Mysterious path and find the antidote to separation.

We discuss —

• Why we choose judgement + ideology instead of uncertainty
• What we’re really craving when we reach for God
• How to embrace the path toward Mystery
• “Everyone is God in drag.” — Ram Dass
• Why your body is not better or worse than your spirit
• Humble stewardship + discerning difference without judgement

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Clark Strand was a Zen Buddhist monk. Now he writes books of love poetry to Kali Ma and manifestos to the Dark.

In this conversation, we trace his spiritual path from childhood Protestantism through monasticism and massage school — ultimately leading him into deep devotion to the Divine Mother.

Listen in, as we step into the Dark together.

We discuss —

• the many paths of spiritual devotion
• the patriarchal traditions of many world religions
• how Clark encountered the Divine Mother
• feeling safe in the dark
• why Now is the hour
• human civilization vs human culture
• the power of simple-hearted devotion
• writing poems for Kali
• remembering our birdsong

More about our guest —

• The Way of the Rose.org
• Waking Up to the Dark, book by Clark Strand
• Now is the Hour of Her Return, book by Clark Strand

Mentioned in the episode —

• The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
• The Gospel According to the Dark

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In the second half of our conversation about Initiation, we’ll investigate what happens when we avoid initiation and how to recognize when we’re doing that.

We discuss —

• The difference between spiritually mature individuals who embrace initiation versus those who avoid it
• How lack of initiation keeps us stuck in adolescent emotional patterns
• Why we struggle to connect with and embody powerful energies
• The importance of death and rebirth cycles in spiritual transformation
• How to recognize and respond to initiation when it appears in our lives
• What is really behind the energy of initiation and what it could unlock

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Today we explore why true transformation is so challenging in dominant Western culture.

We discuss —

• Why change is not just about "knowing better"
• Two crucial ingredients of the forgotten art of Initiation
• Why many people struggle to make sense of their transformational experiences + resist growth
• What the ego’s role is in all of this
• What it means to come of age

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Your Purpose is more about your Being than your doing.

Join me as we step off the path of productivity and onto the path of alchemy.

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Too often we think of the truth as an objective reality we find outside ourselves.

But what if it’s actually a story we tell together?

Today we welcome Michael J Morris back to the podcast for a soulful conversation about the stories we tell and how we tell them.

We discuss —

• Telling stories about the “end” of the world
• How story situates us within Time
• What truth is + isn’t
• Astrology as an artistic practice
• Stories of Beauty, Love + God
• How the qualities of our lives tell a story
• Resonance + dissonance
• Loving the world exactly as it is
• What breathing has to teach us about loving
• Death as a story of Life

More about our guest —

• Michael’s website
• Michael’s IG

Mentioned in the episode —

• The Fountain
• Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway
• M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• 78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
• When No Thing Works by Norma Wong
• Norma Wong on How to Survive the End of the World podcast
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
• June Jordan

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I had a dream showing me that so many people are living lives they’ll regret.

When I asked for the antidote, the response was profound — Live a beautiful life.

That’s all. Live a beautiful life.

In this episode, I share about what vision and offer reflections on why beauty is everything.

Tune in for support and inspiration to release regret and align your life with the Beauty.

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