Legacy of Love

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  • 011: From Blackouts to Recovery & Sober Living with Katie Iredale

    “I was dating this heroin addict, and he woke me up one day and told me, ‘You just projectile puked across the room and it hit me in the face.’ I was like, didn’t care because I was like ‘dude you’re the loser, you’re the loser here.’” - Katie Iredale

    Katie Iredale is a passionately driven entrepreneur who travels the world photographing humans in love. Katie’s photography brand specializes in small intimate weddings and destination elopements. Katie also lives a life in recovery and finds great fulfillment in helping others achieve sobriety.

    In this episode, you’ll hear:

    • Katie’s journey from hating her job & in her free time taking photos & editing them on her phone to becoming a high demand wedding & elopement photographer
    • Going from party animal, abusing drugs, regularly drinking to black out, & seizing up from alcohol withdrawal, to thriving in sobriety
    • Spiritual awakening & radical life shifts through yoga teacher training
    • Finding happiness in a completely new lifestyle alongside recovery
    • Business tips: being yourself, navigating emotions & a pandemic as an entrepreneur
    • Choosing a path of freedom through faith, acceptance, & an inner knowing that we will always be provided for
    • Katie’s Awaken My Soul Soulection:

      Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand

      The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

      The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz

      Katies Offerings:

      Wedding & Elopement Photography

      Branding Photography for Female Entrepreneurs

      Family Photography

      Mentorship Program For Starting A Photography Business

      How To Get Your Business Up and Running - A Step By Step Guide

      Connect with our guest Katie:

      Katies Instagram: instagram.com/katieiredalee

      Katie’s Website: katieiredalephotography.com

      Connected With Me!

      Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

      Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

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      1 hr 11 min
    • 010: Spiritual Practices To Create Hormonal Harmony with Kristi Kuttner

      “People aren’t draining your energy, you’re draining your energy. People don’t drain your energy unless you let them.” - Kristi Kuttner

      Kristi Kuttner is a southern California based yoga + meditation teacher,  Reiki Master healer, spiritual mentor and co-host of the Spirit Made us do it podcast. Kristi is also an advocate for holistic wellness which includes hormonal health, nutrition, self-care and positive psychology, Kristi has helped hundreds of students and clients deepen their connection to their own healing and watched them transform into the best version of themselves.

      In this episode, you’ll hear:

      • Profound impacts of energy work & Reiki
      • Journey to healing hormonal imbalance
      • Taking responsibility for our own healing process, creating energetic boundaries with ourselves, & not taking on other peoples healing work
      • Connecting to Universal source energy
      • Benefits of Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, & intuitive somatic movement
      • Inner child & shadow work to become your highest self
      • Creating value to yourself & the world by having a daily spiritual practice
      • How to release worry & move forward during intense times
      • Kristi Kuttner’s Offerings:

        Spiritual Practices for Hormonal Health Digital Course

        Womb Healing Guided Meditation 

        Guided Meditation with Distance Reiki Energy Healing

        Yoga Classes (virtual ones available as well)

        Reiki & Yin Yoga Trainings

        Kristi Kuttner’s Awaken My Soul Soulection:

        Spirit Made Us Do It podcast

        Flo Living app: track your period & cycles

        Moonlight Gratitude by Emily Silva

        Connect With Our Guest Kristi Kuttner:

        Instagram: @sittinprettykristi

        Website: www.kristikuttner.com

        Connected With Me!:

        Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

        Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

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        1 hr 19 min
      • 009: Mindful Eating + Energy Healing to Heal Your Body with Nia Carrillo

        “I’m not going to be able to really help my clients & serve other women if A. I’m treating my body poorly, & B. Feeding it things that don’t necessarily serve it in any way physically or spiritually.” - Nia’s Carrillo

        Nia Carrillo is a degreed Holistic Nutritionist and Energy Healer that specializes in helping women transform and love their body without stressing over the scale or food.

        In this episode you’ll hear:

        • Mindful eating: ditch dieting, the scale, & calorie counting
        • Improving self confidence by healing childhood trauma
        • Energy healing to heal the body, improve health, & lose weight
        • Plant-based eating for optimal health
        • Thoughts on alcohol from a Holistic Nutritionist & Holistic Health Coach
        • Putting pleasure & self love back into our eating & movement experience
        • Nia Carrillo’s Offering:

          Online community Shine comes with a free 3-day trial: www.soulistichub.com and is $29/mo after

          1:1 Coaching

          Nia’s Awaken My Soul Book & Resource Soulection:

          Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole

          A Course in Weight Loss by Marianne Williamson

          Nutrition For Your Intuition by Doreen Virtue

          Episode #175 of Highest Self podcast: Why I Don’t Drink with Sahara Rose

          Connect with our guest Nia:

          Instagram: @eclectic.wellness

          Website: www.eclecticwellnessSD.com

          Connected With Me!:

          Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

          Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

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          58 min
        • 008: How to Expand Your Sexuality & Release Trauma with Kristin Murray Alexi

          Trigger warning: please listen with caution. This episode contains stories & experiences of sexual assault, & the topic of abortion.

          Kristin Murray Alexi is a Sexologist who works with both men and women around the world educating them on the intricacies of female pleasure. Kristin is also a Therapeutic Yoni Massage Practitioner, specialising in trauma release and pleasure expansion. Kristin offers a gentle approach to the field, allowing people to feel comfortable exploring this aspect of humanity. Kristin is currently also offering trainings to people feeling called to do this work.

          In this episode, we talk about:

          • Living from an orgasmic state & connecting to our sexual sense of self
          • Benefits of role play, conscious kink, & bondage
          • Boundaries & communication with our relationship & our sexual desires
          • Kristin’s journey to sexual freedom, & vision for her pleasure expansion
          • Female sexuality & honoring the four stages of the female cycle
          • Trigger warning: healing trauma from sexual assault, miscarriage, & abortion
          • Why most men are not open to anal play, & how to dearmor your anus
          • Accepting & loving the way the Yoni looks, smells, & tastes
          • What healthy enthusiastic consent looks & sounds like
          • Kristin’s Offerings:

            For All of Kristin’s Courses Click Here

            FREE 7 Day Yoni Love Challenge

            Spirit Baby Program

            FREE Pleasure Profile Paper

            7 Day Self Pleasure Challenge Coming Soon!

            Online Dance Coming May 30, 2020

            Connect with her about her Conscious Kink & Breathgasm Workshops


            Kristin’s Awaken My Soul Book & Resource Soulection:

            Tantric Orgasm For Women by Diana Richardson

            Orgasm Unleashed: Your guide to pleasure, healing and power by Eyal Matsliah

            The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka: Teachings from the Nagual Tradition

            Woman Code by Alisa Vitti

            Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf


            Connect with our guest, Kristin:

            Instagram: instagram.com/yonilicious

            Website: yonilicious.com.au

            Patreon: patreon.com/bePatron?u=13995902

            Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UC3mzA8H0K1Xv32n28BgpdJA


            Connected With Me:

            Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

            Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com


            Loved this episode? Leave us a review on iTunes!

            1 hr 52 min
          • 007: Creating A Life of Magic, Ancestral Connection, & Ceremonial Cacao with Christine Olivia

            “When you are drinking the cacao & you’re sitting with it, what it feels like this budding open. This blossoming open. Your heart feels like its flowering open. And you can literally feel your body opening up to the cacao, sometimes feel tingles & sensations in your hands & in your feet.” - Christine Olivia Hernandez

            Christine Olivia Hernandez is an author, cacao ceremonialist, first time screen writer, and director. Her screen play is an adapted version of her published book, "A Child of Magic," a fiction based on her own journey of remembering and a reminder to tap into the inner child, truth, and magic. She enjoys creating, expressing, and helping others through storytelling and cacao ceremonies. Christine’s Guatemalan ancestors have deeply connected her to the gentle plant medicine cacao. In ceremonial settings she serves the sacred “Gift of gods” and guides her clients back to their hearts with love.

            In this episode, you’ll hear:

            • Christine's ancestral connection to plant medicine cacao
            • Purpose, benefits, healing, & transformation of ceremonial cacao
            • How to host a sacred & intentional cacao ceremony
            • Tending to our inner child with self care & love
            • Feeling into the childlike magic & mystical beings all around us
            • Beautiful ways to connect with & feel our ancestors
            • Christine’s Offerings:

              The HeArt Of Cacao Online Program

              FREE Inner Child Meditation

              Christine’s Awaken My Soul Book & Resource Soulection:

              A Child Of Magic by Christine Olivia Gargas

              Cacao Source

              Keith's Cacao

              SuperSoul Conversations with Oprah

              The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

              Books by Marianne Williamson

              Connect With Our Guest, Christine:

              Christine’s Instagram: instagram.com/christineolivia_

              Christine’s Website: iamchristineolivia.com

              Connected With Me:

              Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

              Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

              Loved this episode? Leave us a review on iTunes!

              1 hr 5 min
            • 006: Amrita Orgasms & Water Priestess Arts with Dakota Chanel

              “If every woman was adored & worshipped & tended to, & seen as this divine embodiment of the goddess that she is, we wouldn’t put up with anything. We wouldn’t put up with any kind of sexual engagement that wasn’t that. But since we don’t have a reference point, we allow things that we don’t deserve.” -  Dakota Chanel

              Dakota Chanel uplifts women around the world to remember & reclaim their inner magic & gnosis through her online Water Priestess Mystery School, Amrita Orgasm Course & Mermaid Goddess Retreats. She has supported hundreds of women in over 15 countries to be empowered in their divine feminine being. You can find her barefoot in dresses, & celebrating the beauty of life with her beloved in Hawaii.

              In this episode you’ll hear:

              • Amrita orgasms aka “female ejaculation”: how to have them, & embracing our wild primal nature
              • Reclaiming sensual sisterhood through sensoriums
              • Water Priestess Arts: working with all the waters on the planet
              • Magdalene Consciousness: awakening through sacred union of love & partnership
              • Creating heaven on earth, starting with ourselves & our family
              • Path of the Priestess: releasing the need to be understood
              • The power of saying “yes” to following our heart
              • Dakota’s Awaken My Soul Soulections:

                Sacred Waters on Vimeo

                FindASpring.com

                The Secrets of Water on Gaia

                LiveSpringWater.com

                Womb Awakening by Anza Bertrand & Seren Bertrand

                Ode to Minoa by Theresa Dintino

                The Sophia Code by Kaia Ra

                The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd

                The Magdalen Manuscript by Tom Kenyan

                Initiation by Elisabeth Haich

                Anna Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong

                Silver Wheel by Elen Tompkins

                The Wisdom of Water by John Archer


                Connect with Dakota:

                Dakota’s Website: dakotachanel.com

                Dakota’s Instagram: instagram.com/dakota__chanel


                Stay Connected With Me:

                Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

                Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

                Loved this episode? Leave us a review on iTunes!

                1 hr 8 min
              • 005: Meeting the Moment As An Embodied Soul with Naia Kete

                “It's about really giving yourself permission to be who you are at any given moment, & meet the moment fully. Welcome the discomfort, welcome what feels hard but also, give yourself permission to say ‘yes’ to a future version of yourself.” - Naia Kete

                Naia Kete is a singer, songwriter and social justice advocate with a powerful voice to match. As  lead singer & bass player of pop/reggae band, SayReal, wellness coach and lifestyle influencer, she empowers people to change the world by changing themselves. Her commitment to emotional health and spiritual development is a signature of her work and her powerful mindset hacks help to create the environment through which exceptional transformation can occur - teaching people to practice compassionate curiosity with themselves and others. Educating, healing and inspiring through her music and teachings, this woman is one to watch.

                In this episode, you’ll hear:

                • Fully embodying your soul within this human body, & feeling it all
                • Developing your relationship with your past, present & future self
                • Self care as an act of global service: your energy is your currency
                • The power of asking questions, & having compassionate curiosity
                • Intuition: it knows everything, how to align & be in-tune with it
                • Healing ancestral wounds by embracing intimacy
                • Naia Kete’s Awaken My Soul Soulection’s:

                  A Line Within podcast

                  The Business Babe Podcast

                  Womxn Awake podcast


                  Connect with our guest, Naia:

                  Naia’s Instagram: instagram.com/naiakete

                  Say Real Music Website: sayreal.bandcamp.com

                  Downloadable: www.livelikenaia.com


                  Connect with your host, Melissa:

                  Melissa’s Instagram: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

                  Melissa’s Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com


                  Liked this episode? Share with a friend & leave us a review over on iTunes!

                  1 hr 15 min
                • 004: Womb Mysteries of the Sacred Feminine with Hannah Grasso

                  “When we bleed we are actually bleeding a consciousness, & we are birthing at the same time.” -  Hannah Grasso

                  Hannah Grasso is a Yoga & Embodiment Teacher, a Womb Empowerment Educator, period is Power Podcast host, and Co-Founder of the Yoni Temple School for Womb Empowerment Education. She helps soul-driven women with big visions to cultivate a rich connection to your feminine embodiment so that your life’s work and relationships are fueled by pleasure and your confident, authentic essence. She went on to obtain 4 advanced yoga certifications including a powerful practice called Amba Movement which takes a more feminine embodiment and nature-focused approach. Hannah is also a trained Birth Doula and a mother.


                  In This Episode, You'll Hear:

                  • Womb Empowerment Education to step into your power & purpose
                  • How the globe is experiencing the Enchantress Phase
                  • Ways to healthily & gracefully moving through death & birth cycle’s
                  • Womb connection, menstrual cycle, understanding nature, & being in a sacred relationship with our bodies
                  • Healing the beliefs & patterns in our matriarchal / ancestral lines
                  • The four archetypes & phases of our menstrual cycle
                  • Tapping into pleasure as an embodied way of living

                  • Hannah’s Offerings:

                    Free- Womb Dance Live on Zoom every Tuesday at 11AM PST

                    Wombyn’s Full Moon Circle on 5/9
                    Yoni Temple School - Medicine Sisters Membership Community launching in May


                    Period Is Power Podcast Episode Mentions:

                    The Bleeding Times: Menstruation, Pregnancy Release, & Postpartum w/ Samantha Zipporah

                    The Science & Mystery of Blood + Period in Luxury with the MahinaCup with Alila Rose Grace


                    Hannah’s Awaken My Soul Soulection:

                    Womb Wisdom: Awakening the Creative and Forgotten Powers of the Feminine by Anaiya Prakasha and Padma Aon Prakasha

                    Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life


                    Connect with Hannah Grasso:

                    Hannah’s Instagram: instagram.com/iamhannahgrasso

                    Yoni Temple School Instagram: instagram.com/yonitempleschool

                    Hannah’s Website: hannahgrasso.com

                    Yoni Temple School Website coming soon! Keep a look out over at --> www.yonitempleschool.com


                    Let's Connect: 

                    Melissa's IG: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

                    Melissa's Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

                    Loved this episode? Leave us a review on iTunes

                    1 hr 16 min
                  • 003: Raising Your Frequency to Oneness & the Law of Attraction with Noel Strane

                    “In the morning ask yourself, ‘What sounds the most fun? What sounds the most fulfilling,’ and do those things.” - Noel Strane


                    Noel Strane grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area as a standout baseball player, thinking the pros were definitely in his future. When an injury in college derailed his career, he felt incredibly lost and was left wondering what he would do with his life. After several challenging years trying to find his life path, Noel attracted a mentor into his life who re-introduced him to spirituality, and to the Law of Attraction. Now a decade later, Noel has been passionately evolving and becoming more and more aware of his life purpose to inspire, impact, and uplift humanity! Noel loves spreading the awareness around the world of Who and What we truly are, and that we all can be, do, and have anything!


                    In this episode, you’ll hear:

                    • Moving from illusion of separation, to truth of oneness
                    • The process of creation: getting into an energy of flow state
                    • Law Of Attraction: You can be, do, & have anything you align your frequency to
                    • You are here for a reason, to participate in the rising of humanity
                    • Releasing “I’ll be happy when…” limiting belief systems
                    • Choosing to embody a higher frequency in the NOW
                    • What the Universal Abundance mindset is all about
                    • Noel Strane Awaken My Soul Soulection:

                      Power of Now by Eckhaert Tolle

                      A New Earth by Eckhaert Tolle

                      Happy Pocket Full Of Money: Infinite Wealth & Abundance in the Here & Now by David Cameron Gikandi

                      Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles


                      Noel’s Offerings:

                      Universalabundace.co


                      Stay Connected!

                      Connect With Our Guest, Noel!

                      Noel’s Instagram: instagram.com/theangelofabundance

                      Noel’s Website: NoelStrane.com


                      Connect With Your Host, Melissa!:

                      Melissa’s Instagram: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen

                      Melissa’s Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com


                      Liked this episode? Share with a friend & leave us a review over on iTunes!


                      1 hr 2 min
                    • 002: Awakening to A Path of Healing with Megs Emerson

                      “There was a moment where I just stopped fighting. I stopped swimming. I stopped everything & I just, I just was. And I think it was at that moment of surrender that I was then brought back up to the surface of the water, & I was able to swim back to the boat & get back in the boat.” - Megs Emerson

                      I’m soul excited to share with you, Awaken My Souls' first guest on the podcast - sweet sister Megs Emerson. She descends from a long line of powerful women who facilitated healing for their communities and families. Megs’ mom introduced manifesting to her by age thirteen, she began making vision boards & practicing manifesting rituals. In 2013 Megs had a life changing near death experience that catapulted her into a world of healing. Megs is a powerful woman, women's coach, energy & reiki healer, yoga & meditation teacher, witch, & a forest & herbs lover. She is empowered to help women release anxiety, bust through shame & anxiety, so that they can reclaim their power.

                      This episode takeaways:

                      • Megs near death experience that launched her into a path of healing 
                      • Why failure is a positive thing What being a witch really means 
                      • Tools for manifesting your dream life 
                      • How to release anxiety, & energy that is not yours 
                      • Deconstructing the false narrative “I’m too old” 
                      • Megs Offerings: 

                        • Complimentary 30 Minute Alignment Coaching Call: this is for those of you looking to free yourselves of anxiety
                        • Guided Meditation For Letting Go  
                        • Guided Breath Meditation 
                        • 30 minute Mindful Movement Class on Tuesday Mornings @ 9:00am-9:30 EST on the World On Pause page 
                        • Thursday Mornings 1 Hour Yoga Practice 11:00am-12:00pm EST on Megs IG Live 
                        • Awaken My Soul Guest, Megs Soulection: 

                          The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle 

                          Connect With Our Guest, Megs Emerson!: 

                          Megs Instagram: instagram.com/megs_emerson 

                          For Megs energy healing & yoga visit her here: loveyoga.ca 

                          For Megs coaching visit her here: emersonscoaching.com 

                          Connect With Your Host, Melissa!: 

                          Melissa’s Instagram: instagram.com/melissa_mcewen 

                          Melissa’s Website: awakenmysoulcoaching.com

                          Liked this episode? Share with a friend & leave us a review over on iTunes!

                          59 min

                        About Legacy of Love

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                        Legacy of Love is the podcast for women and couples who refuse to settle for mediocre love. Hosted by Melissa Peters - Relationship & Femininity Coach and devotedly married woman - this show helps…