🎧 Episode Summary / Notes

In this episode, Teresa sits down with Jeff — bodyworker, energy nerd, and low-key good witch — for a deep dive into bodies as technology, witchcraft as “good energetic manners,” and what it actually means to stay grounded while playing in the invisible realms.

What starts as laughter about baby witches on Instagram and “bad energetic manners” turns into a living masterclass on attention, trauma, and coherence. Jeff shares how he walked away from a burnout-adjacent life in New York’s media world, moved back to Portland, and began studying bodywork and energetics with his aunt — a quiet genius who teaches principles instead of techniques.

Together, Teresa and Jeff explore:

🧙‍♀️ Witchcraft as intention, not malice — and why a witch is “a woman who knows her own mind.”
🧠 The body as advanced tech: trauma as stored story, chemistry, and information.
🌍 Grounding as a non-negotiable: why anything you can’t ground “isn’t real” in this reality.
👐 Receiving through the back body — and how twin-to-twin transfusion shaped Jeff’s relationship to receiving.
📱 Attention as life force in capitalism: burnout, “owning your attention,” and the cost of staying online.
🌌 Dark matter, sci-fi, and the multiverse as metaphors for energetic work and timelines.

The episode moves between geeky energy theory, tender personal story, and genuine first-date chemistry — a real-time map of two people practicing coherence, curiosity, and self-love in public.

⏱️ Timestamps (Highlights)

00:40 – Re-introducing Jeff & the “baby witches” meme
02:00 – Would you call yourself a witch? Intention, spellwork & energetic manners
05:30 – From film school & NYC editing rooms to magical bodywork
09:30 – Meeting Aunt Linda: principles vs techniques in body & energy work
14:30 – “The body is the healer”: tension, mechanics & instant shifts
19:30 – Trauma, stored stories & time-traveling through the body
25:00 – Grounding: why anything you can’t ground isn’t real (here)
30:00 – Ceremony on the dance floor: 12–13 hours, microdosing & intention
36:00 – Twin-to-twin transfusion & the lifelong challenge of receiving
43:00 – Receiving through the back of the chakras & feeling held
50:00 – Attention as currency: burnout, capitalism & “we own your life force”
57:00 – Nature as a coherent field: how chaos resolves in coherence
1:03:00 – Dark matter, multiverses & choosing which future we feed
1:10:00 – Self-love, friendship & “the best first date I’ve had in a long time”

🪞 Pull Quote

“Where your attention goes, your life force follows.
If you don’t own your attention, someone else owns your energy.” — Jeff

🔗 Mentions & References

• Doctor Strange (Marvel)
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+)
• Constellation (Apple TV+)
• The Pleiades / star constellations
• Milkshake Festival, Amsterdam
• Microdosing mushrooms & low-dose edibles as ceremony tools
• Concepts: dark matter, coherence fields, twin-to-twin transfusion

📍 Recorded in: Amsterdam

Produced by: Teresa Mendez
Studio: The Closet at the Edge of the World
Season Theme: Reclaiming the Body as Sacred Technology