I put up a question box in Instagram asking for your questions about plant medicine ceremonies and I got so many of them, I hopped on the @womanscircle one morning to respond to your curiosity. In this Q&R we discuss cultural appropriation and honoring the indiginous ways, psilycybin, how to find a safe practitioner pouring medicine ceremonies, and all kinds of other topics.  If your question wasn't answered, reach out to us on Instagram!  (@christablackgifford, @iamlukegifford @womanscircle)

If you come from any kind of Judeo-Christian roots, the truth is important because it sets us free.  The hard evidence is in, & our convesation with Brian Muraresku & his NYTimes Best Seller book The Immortality Key sheds light on the substances in some of the early Christian Eucharist--& it might surprise you. Brian shares history of the early Christian underground cult in its early form, women's role in leadership, his journey spelunking beneath the Vatican, & how this secret might have gone underground. Find Brian at www.brianmuraresku.com, follow him at @brian@muraresku, & buy his book The Immortality Key to further your curiousity in this new avenue of thinking.  (@christablackgifford @iamlukegifford @womanscircle)

It's time we start talking about what we've been up to for the last two years, and ceremonialized plant medicine ceremonies have been a big part of our journey. Growing up in the church, plants were completely off limit, even deemed evil or bad. But our experience has been quite the opposite, circling us back around to our foundational faith and healing us at the deepest level. Today we talk about the ceremonial aspects of Ayahuasca, Huachuma, our move to Costa Rica, and Jesus.  Listen with an open heart and mind, and reach out with any questions! (@womanscircle @christablackgifford @iamlukegifford)

I live a magical, mystical life. Things happen to me that blow people away, asking how in the world I pulled another rabbit out of the hat. For many years I had piled up so many disappointments that I expected the worst, I expected things to go wrong. And guess what? They always did.  But when I began working with my spirit to cultivate expectation, faith, hope, & gratitude before anything external changed—I would get the FEELING I wanted before the external world materalized—& then a funny thing would happen. Life would begin to work its magic to match my belief.  Anyone can do this because you’re a creator of your internal world. Are you ready to invite the magic of creation into your life & create a life beyond your wildest dreams?  (Follow @womanscircle for live teachings, @christablackgifford & @iamlukegifford for more!)

I opened up the @womanscircle in Instagram, asking them for questions they wanted me to respond to. In this weeks episode, we talk about the energy of money, the energy of abundance, & how to break a poverty mentality--no matter how much money you have in the bank! We chat about tools in the moment to heal nervous system dysfunction, what happens when betrayal crashes & I can't get out of heavy emotions, how to practicaly use meditation & prayer to change your world, & why I use Instagram filters at times! At the end, I put out a charge to everyone listening of your role in the changing of the world--& it begins with you diving into your inner darkness, becoming a master of your internal realm, & changing your INNER state before your OUTER state shifts.  You are the healer of your life, the liberator, the Creator. So what are you creating? (Make sure & follow @womanscircle @christablackgifford @iamlukegifford for more resources!)

For a majority of my life, I had let life's past disappointments numb me to what I loved, or even liked. Which meant, I couldn't FEEL the love of all the little things I enjoyed every day. But what if we could retrain ourselves, very simply, to FEEL love for what we already have? What if we could choose a feeling we love to experience, & then identify 3 simple things to consciously FEEL that feeling every day?  You CAN, I do this every day, and in today's podcast, you're going to learn how to do this. When we practice the feeling of love for the small things every day, we live in our Spirits--creating a FULL LIFE that we love.  (Mentions: @moonrisecreation @anjelahjohnson) Reach out to us if you'd like personal support navigating some of life's tougher circumstances. @christablackgifford, @iamlukegifford, @womanscircle)

So what do I do when I can’t feel forgiven for the really, really, really BIG things I’ve done and am doing? What do I do when I feel stuck in my cycles of guilt and shame, & my little practices of self-forgiveness aren’t getting to the massive boulder of guilt that’s stuck in my body? Sometimes we can't forgive ourselves. We need help. We need an outside gesture of forgivenss to come into the mistakes we've made, cleanse us from the inside-out, replace the blackness we're holding onto, & make us new. And this is possible for anyone, no matter what you've done in the past. In today's teaching, we'll learn 3 new practical steps we can take to prep ourselves to recieve forgiveness, and then the 2nd half of this podcast is a meditative practice to EXPERIENCE it. (Follow @womanscircle for live Monday teachings, @christablackgifford and @iamlukegifford for annoucements of new offerings, retreats, & experiences!)

For most of my life, I punished myself severely on a daily basis. Criticizing, judging, shaming, berating myself for the mistakes I made, consciously & unconsciously. This culture of punishment isn't something I wanted--it was something I had INHERITED. And I didn't have to recielve that inheritance anymore, retraining my mind, my heart, my body to have grace for myself when I made mistakes, when I looked in the mirror, when I hurt those I loved. In this episode we will learn where our inherited culture of punishment came from, how to unplug from it, and receive our spiritual inheritance of forgiveness & grace where we experience it on a daily basis.  (Follow @womanscircle for upcoming practices on this teaching!)