In this episode, Sara interviews Ariel Finlinson, host of Ladies Talking Love. Ariel's passion is helping women find joy and fulfillment in sex... and her journey to hosting a podcast on the topic started when the young women she taught asked questions about Heavenly Mother! Ariel walks us through her journey of coming to understand her place in gathering Israel, and how that is intimately tied up in understanding women's priesthood power, coming to know Heavenly Mother, and teaching women about their sexuality.

Jess and Sara recorded this episode right after General Conference in April 2021, when these thoughts were fresh on our minds, and are sharing it with you now as we prepare for another General Conference.

Seeking and celebrating Heavenly Mother can be hard to do while listening to General Conference. She's rarely mentioned over the pulpit, and that has left us feeling bitter or upset at times. But those feelings--while valid and warranted--don't help solve the problem! In this episode, we discuss ways that we've invited Heavenly Mother into our General Conference weekends, and how you can do the same!

As an ally researcher with a graduate degree from Colombia University in psychology, and the person running the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program for her company, Anne Katherine (who goes by Kate) gives us this invaluable conversation around inclusivity at the level of divinity. She shares "The Architect," a short story she wrote for @OurMotherInHeaven on Instagram. Her words inspire us to expand our vision of what godhood for God our Mother might look like. She urges us to find the divinity inside each one of Her children, reminding us that we're all part of the body of Christ... or the elephant in the room. 

Kate is on Instagram as @kate.toronto. She has been interviewed for her LGBTQ research on the Lift + Love podcast, as well as on Listen, Learn, & Love, episode 132. 

Precia delves into why she seeks the Mother, and what kind of impact seeking Her on a wider level would make. From deleting Instagram for fear of going astray, to receiving dreams from Her, Precia's journey seeking the Goddess is captivating and inspiring. May we each create our own path to the Mother following Precia's example, and by so doing become a people more prepared for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

In this episode, Jess and Sara have a conversation about things they've learned since seeking Heavenly Mother. A uniting theme among all of their learnings is abundance. They discuss how the Mother invites them to feel all of their feelings, to love all of Her children, to see the vastness of the role of motherhood, to care for all creation, and more!

Kate shares about her experience as a Trailwalker for the ANASAZI Foundation as a college student. She relates lessons she learned about Mother Nature and how they might enhance our understanding of Heavenly Mother. Looking back, she sees how the Mother was with her and the other walkers in the Arizona wilderness during their hardest times, from being caught in monsoons to struggling to make fire.

Kate can be found on Instagram as @daughterofmother_earth, where she shares ways of recognizing the Divine Feminine in nature and our bodies, along with tips on sustainable living and affirming our cycles and birth giving. 

Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Mother's Milk, along with Kevin L. Barney's article from Dialogue and a blog post by Whitney Call, former member of Studio C,  were influential in Kate's early seeking. Each of these works is linked below. Kate also references the books The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World and The Anatomy of Peace during the interview. These can be found on Amazon or at many bookstores. 

Mother's Milk: https://qnoor.com/products/mothers-milk

Kevin L. Barney's article: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/how-to-worship-our-mother-in-heaven-without-getting-excommunicated/

Whitney Call's blog post: http://callmewhit.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-clumsy-pondering-on-asherah-wisdom-mom.html

This week, Sara and Jess interview artist Emily Shay about her work, "Rest in Me," an artistic depiction of Heavenly Mother with one of Her daughters, who rests her head in Her Mother's lap. Emily tells how she was inspired to create this work by the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic and the intense need for rest. She finds a unique sense of simultaneous gentleness and strength from Heavenly Mother and offers that feeling to viewers of this piece of artwork.  She also teaches about how the doctrine of Heavenly Mother isn't new, but is a restoration of the ancient worship of the Heavenly Family. We discuss how knowing our Heavenly Mother fills in gaps in our worship and invites wholeness.

Becky shares six ways she has connected with Heavenly Mother personally and gives examples within each. Her approach is accessible, simple, and sweet. Using the litmus test of trying the fruits of each category to see how it feels, Becky suggests:

1. Using Her name

2. Creating and enjoying art

3. Communing with nature

4. Imagination and visualization

5. Nurturing 

6. Personal revelation & writing a heaven letter 

Becky's love for Heavenly Mother and relationship with Her are inspiring. Pick a method she shares and put it to the test yourself, and see your own relationship with your divine Mother grow!

Becky Edwards can be found on Instagram as @purposedrivenmentoring and on her blog at purposedrivenmotherhood.blogspot.com

Sara interviews her friend Carly Beesley about her evolving relationship with Heavenly Mother. Starting from a book club discussion with friends, Carly dug deeper into her relationship with Heavenly Mother. Carly loves seeing Heavenly Mother in nature and connecting with Her in a variety of ways, and acts on President Nelson's invitation to seek personal revelation by learning about Heavenly Mother. We discuss how our doctrine of Heavenly Mother isn't a fringe doctrine, but mainstream and critical to our theology. Carly rejoices in the healing doctrine of Heavenly Mother that honors the divinity of femininity and how the doctrine of a Mother God makes her so excited to share the gospel!

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In this episode, Jess interviews Meagan Bigger about her experiences connecting with and sharing Heavenly Mother with her daughters and at church. Meagan's enthusiasm for speaking about Heavenly Mother is infectious. She inspires us to discuss more freely our divine feminine deity, and to continue shouldering the "beautiful burden" of bringing Her more into the light.