Erotic Devotion (formerly home-body podcast)

Janet Raftis is a master energy healer and divine feminine channel. She works with people to support them in accessing their divine wisdom, power and authentic soul expression in the world. In this episode, we talk about personal healing work and how that has shown up in her relationships, business + finances. She also shares about her recovery journey with addiction while healing from sexual trauma.

We discuss:

• How she defines authentic soul expression
• Her journey through personal shame, addiction + trauma 
• How she healed from PTSD and learned to feel safe in her body
• Connecting with the divine feminine + feeling worthy in relationships
• The (messy) reality of spiritual awakening
• How to work towards even greater, fine-tuned, inner alignment
• The importance of boundaries and how she used to let people walk over her
• The growth + learning she experienced from her business + financial journey
• How perfectionism can keep you really small
• The connection between our sense of worth and our ability to heal
• How individual healing serves collective healing

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In this episode I talk about m o n e y and our relationship to abundance - specifically addressing feelings of guilt and how we potentially use 'spirituality' to bypass our relationship to money. I also address some of your questions about abundance+ capitalism, and interacting with resources, and I share some of my personal struggles and insights around money. Head's up: there is some explicit language in this episode, if you are sensitive to it.

I discuss:

• Money is a resource that we all need to operate
• Our individual relationship to money and how we think about it
• Separating how much money you have from your worth and your character
• The false dichotomy between being profitable and being of service
• How I grew up feeling guilty about money
• Making up for lack of money by being overly helpful
• Abundance as the natural state of the earth’s order
• The other things that make up Abundance besides money
• Is participating in Abundance causing harm?
• How it’s not enough to resist a harmful system
• The problem of relegating “doing good” to non-profit
• Unconscious thinking holding us back
• The 2 things I hear a lot in spiritual communities that I totally disagree with
• Redefining profitability
• Subconscious fears around impact + responsibility
• Abundance is not something we manifest.

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Today, I’m speaking with Don Smith from Kiss the Ground. We’re talking about soil health, regenerative practices that can heal the land, and why that’s important. Don is a teacher for their soil advocate training, which is a program for educating people about how and why soil regeneration is important and equipping them with the tools and knowledge to be more effective advocates for regenerative practices that can heal the land and absorb some of the negative consequences of climate change. Don gives us a science lesson as to how this works, why it’s important, and what we can do to encourage this necessary movement and healing.

We Discuss

• Why soil health is so important
• The current, degenerated state of soil and how it got here 
• What is soil regeneration - how it impacts the environment + food
• Why sustainability isn’t enough
• A breakdown of regenerative agriculture 
• The capacity of land to be healed
• The essential components of soil regeneration
• The current farming paradigm + why it’s not the best practice for soil health
• Kiss the Ground’s scholarship program to retrain farmers
• How regenerative agriculture is also more profitable than degenerative practices
• How re-orienting government subsidies + legislation could be game-changing
• How education can reinforce empowerment for activism + change
• Taking a non-partisan approach to advocacy
• The relationship of soil microbiome to our nutrition and health
• The most important things you can do to support soil health

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to:
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler - Connecting with the Sentience of the Earth, Realizing Our Innate Goodness + Healing
Episode 24 w/ Jordan Hamm - Emergence: Neuroscience, Creativity + Miracles
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace - Revaluing Maintenance + Relating to the Earth

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Kiss the Ground's website
Kiss the Ground's educational videos
Kiss the Ground's soil advocacy program
Kiss the Ground's book
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization (book)
Regreening the Desert (documentary)
Tanzania reforestation
Fantastic Fungi (film)
Dirt to Soil (book) by Gabe Brown
A Regenerative Secret (documentary)
White Oak Pastures
Life in Syntropy

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"It helps to marvel at that miracle in every living thing. Life itself is an emergent property of the earth."

Jordan Hamm is an assistant professor at Georgia State University in the neuroscience department. He runs a research lab studying brain circuitry, specifically in the context of neuro-psychiatric disorders. In this episode, he talks with us about the phenomena of emergence that is every where within our living world. I must admit, in this episode we nerd out pretty hard. We also talk about what emergence means in our nervous system, brain functioning, consciousness, + creativity.

We discuss:

• What is emergence and how he came upon it within his field
• How the brain is an emergent machine
• How meditation creates emergent patterns in the brain
• Consciousness as an emergent property of matter
• The working theory around all matter experiencing consciousness on some level
• How we can appreciate the simpler emergence around us 
• Being alive is a phenomena
• How emergent order is inherently cooperative 
• How chaos participates in order
• How emergence relates to creative process, relationship + transcendence
• Dynamics between life, order and entropy

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to:
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler - Connecting with the Sentience of the Earth, Realizing Our Innate Goodness + Healing
Episode 13 w/ Andrea Glik - Somatic Healing + De-pathologizing our Stories
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace - Revaluing Maintenance + Relating to the Earth

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Jordan Hamm's Lab
Alan Watts - Earth is Peopling
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
On Being Episode w/ John Polkinghorne
Erwin Schrödinger

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Rachel is a money coach who works with soul-centered entrepreneurs through her practice called Blissful Budget. In this episode, we talk about the practicalities of money as well as relating to money in a healthy way in your life + business.

We discuss:

• Her approach to money includes numbers + narratives
• Common money stories she hears from clients
• Her strategies for incorporating more ease into business + work
• Deconstructing the narrative that money has to be hard
• How to set intentions for your money
• How to prioritize your spending
• Her personal reconstruction in relationship to money + work
• Why it’s important to look at your money
• The gap in financial education and fear
• Looking at your money with a long-term perspective
• Putting money into places that bring you happiness
• Dealing with guilt + worthiness around making money
• How entrepreneurship is not the best fit for everyone

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to
Episode 20  w/ Sarah Price - working on ease + the value of coaching
Episode 15 w/ Dr. Tiffany Johnson - reframing how + why we work
Episode 16 w/ Morgan Wider - finding joy in how you dress + allowing yourself to be seen
Episode 14 w/ Pamela Barba - shifting paradigms around branding

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Creating Money (book)

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Diana Rose is an astrologer, tarot reader, reiki master teacher, a writer, teacher. “Supporting people in seeing reality in ways that open up possibility. In this episode we talk about her journey into this work, showing up and actually taking responsibility for what you care about, a new tarot deck she’s collaborating on, and her thoughts on appropriation and  magic practices.

We discuss—

• How she got into the work that she does and how she first encountered her tools
• Her experience working in the mental health industry
• The Rosebud Tarot - a deck she’s collaborating on 
• How to stand up for what you care about 
• How to engage with the planet Saturn as a support
• Engaging with practices without appropriation + exploitation
• What living in alignment with her own astrology looks like
• How she’s been working with embodiment and leaning into lunar themes
• Tarot for Radical Self Care

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Michael J Morris
Episode w— Lindsay Mack

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Diana’s Twitter
Diana’s Patreon

Mentioned in the episode —

Llewellyn Worldwide
Susan Miller
The Astrology Podcast
Pagan Otherworlds Tarot
United Astrology Conference
Rosebud Tarot
Dita von Teese
Zola Jesus
NORWAC
Tracy Quinlan
Haus Witch
Circo Tarot - Marisa de la Peña
Jo Gleason - profections
Tarot for Radical Self Care
Demetra George
Marc Jones
Jessica Lanyadoo
Chani Nicholas

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In this episode, I'm talking with artist Sanithna Phansavanh.  He’s a visual artist based here in Atlanta. I have always enjoyed and had an affinity for his work.  In this episode we talk about creative process, the importance of fallow periods and rest, re-orienting practices towards play and approaching spirituality with a mind open to redrawing lines.

We discuss

• The paradox of a singular style
• Growing up as an immigrant + how he found his way to art making
• Work life balance challenges as a working artist who also has to make a living
• Reaching burn out + taking a year off
• Re-orienting his practice towards play
• Reading + writing as a powerful source of inspiration 
• How to know when a piece is “done”
• His current relationship with reductionism + simplicity
• Playing with archetypes, mythology and abstraction
• Thoughts on failure, creative process, quantum theory + the flow state

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w—Blake Beckham
Episode w— Aaron Samuel Davis

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Sanithna’s website
Sanithna’s IG
Sanithna’s Twitter

Mentioned in the Episode —

Michi Meko

Forward Warrior is an annual mural installation + community event in Cabbagetown, Atlanta, GA. The event is organized by Atlanta artist Peter Ferrari.

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Life + business coach Sarah Price shares about what makes a good brand, her not-to-easy definition of the word “ease” and what helps move the needle for her clients.

We discuss:

• How she defines a good brand
• Her transition from a marketing agency into coaching
• Her definition of ease + how  it leads to your superpowers
• How to identify when you’ve done good work with a client
• The most common things she sees holding people back
• What design thinking means to her
• Her side hustle that serves as a project for gratitude
• The dynamic balance of life + work integration 
• The questions and priorities that help re-center her

LINKS

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Episode w— Morgan Wider

Episode w— Dr Tiffany Johnson 

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In this beautiful conversation with Lindsay Mack, we discuss what it looks like to evolve with the Tarot and how to begin to build your unique relationship + perspective with the cards. She asks us to bring more wildness to our intuitive practices and shares ways she chooses the soul when seeking direction in life + business. Lindsay is the founder of the Soul Tarot School + host of the Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast.

"I think that the wildness within us is the purest form of who we are."

We discuss:

• How she first encountered the Tarot + started working with it
• What “wildness” means to her and how it became essential to her approach
• How she has integrated intuitive practices while also healing trauma
• Using the Tarot for inclusion + evolution
• The Tarot archetypes both inside + outside of the deck
• How the teachings of the cards can change as we change
• The successes + challenges when choosing to be soul-centered in business
• Some of the reasons why we fear resting
• How the Tarot can be a tool to bring us back to Self
• The evolution of the Tarot in the context of social justice

LINKS
If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode on the Full Moon in Aquarius
Episode w— Tracee Stanley

More about our guest —
Tarot for the Wild Soul website
Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast
Lindsay's Instagram

Mentioned in the episode —
Jennifer Benetato, Integrative psychotherapist
Tarot of the Holy Spectrum, deck by Chase Voorhees

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free class — How to Not Need Instagram
free class — the Moon in your Natal Chart

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Consulting astrologer Michael J Morris gives us an overview of the cultural context and Hellenistic perspective of astrology. They also help us look ahead to some of the overarching themes and major transits for the upcoming year of 2020. 

We discuss

•What is astrology’s function from a wider cultural perspective
•The cultural context of Hellenistic astrology
•What does an astrology reading look like?
•What makes up your birth chart?
•How astrology can help us appreciate difference
•The major astrological themes for 2020
•Eclipses
•How do different modalities of astrology offer complexity
•How to interact with astrology in a supportive way

Michael J. Morris is a witch, astrologer, artist, writer, facilitator, educator, and yoga teacher. They are currently a visiting professor at Denison University where they teach in the Department of Dance, Queer Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies. They also maintain a consultation practice called Co Witchcraft Offerings where they enter astrology and tarot within ritual, meditation, and healing practices to support people in making meaning of their lives, personal healing, and collective liberation.

LINKS

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Other episode with Michael J Morris

Episode with Blake Beckham

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Michael's website
Michael's IG
Michael's Twitter 

Mentioned in the episode —

Adrienne Maree Brown
Audre Lorde
Tricia Hersey - The Nap Ministry
Donna Haraway - “Situated Knowledges”
Predictive Astrology, book by Bernadette Brady

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