Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Mary Adelle (she/her) is a creative facilitator, sexuality coach, sensual writer, and hot queer witch. She supports ex-catholic and ex-religious femmes as they reclaim their bodies, sexualities, pleasure, and witchery through creative facilitation and anti-oppressive coaching.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/mary-adelle

In this episode, we talk about:

• Mary’s journey with Catholicism and witchery
• How Mary’s family relationships have shifted through deconstruction
• Reclaiming Jesus
• Reclaiming Catholic mysticism & writing spells in her poems
• Taking back power from religious institutions
• Transmuting the seven deadly sins including lust and gluttony
• Claiming queerness and not feeling queer enough
• Expressing queerness through creativity
• Why Mary feels compelled to write
• Being honest in our journaling
• Pleasure and sensuality as part of the creative process
• Attuning to pleasure
• Mary reads the “Nadia and her vibrator” section from her sensual novella Nadia

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Connect with Mary on her website and Instagram. Get a copy of Nadia in print or ebook.

Welcome to Libra season! In this episode, your host Eryn does a collective Libra season tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk pleasure, truth, reciprocal relationship + more. Plus, she talks about being a self-employed witch!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/libra-season-medicine-2021

Check out the free class: Attract Your Ideal Customers Without Doing All The Things.

Listen to my interview with business witch Sarah M Chappell: Building a Business that Works for You, Your Values & Your Needs.

Register for Erotic Poetry Writing Class. Libra season, baby!

Phuong-Thao (she/her) is a Somatic Practitioner, ReBloom Coach and Trauma Educator supporting QTBIWOC & 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in navigating life transitions and moving from a place of survival to thriving & living life on their own terms from a place of deep self trust and connection to their bodies, voices, and aliveness so they can live an uncaged life.

In this episode, Eryn and Phung-Tao discuss:

• Phuong-Thao’s healing journey
• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn trauma responses
• Shame over our body’s trauma responses
• What fills the gap when we don’t understand our lizard brain responses
• Seeking safety after trauma
• Telling the truth as an act of love
• Phuong-Thao’s deconstruction journey
• Her journey with self-trust after Catholicism
• How Catholicism reinforced that she should disconnect from herself and not trust herself
• Feeling like too much & feeling like you’re bad
• The pedestal of “goodness”
• Shame from church
• Moving towards sexual liberation and including yourself in the pleasure equation
• The power of choice
• How to start connecting with your body

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/phuong-thao-nguyen

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Join the upcoming virtual erotic poetry writing class. Last day to join HOLY - one spot left!

Connect with Phuong-Thao on her website and Instagram. Download her free 30 day observe your yes and no worksheet here.

The Living Open podcast is back with a solo episode! In this episode, your host Eryn shares about her healing journey this year & talks about reclamation rituals, healing around compulsory heterosexuality, coming out, shifting identity & more.

Apply for HOLY, a 7-week reclamation circle & support group for ex-religious folks who want to create ex-religious community and heal from the impacts of dogmatic religion together (starts Sept 15th). 

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Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks.

Stevie Leigh (they/she) is a somatic practitioner, a writer, mystic, and a caretaker in many forms. In service to body autonomy and literacy, they help people find their way back to themselves. 

In this episode, Eryn and Stevie talk about:

• Stevie’s healing journey and how they came into somatic work
• Critical inner voices and parts of ourselves
• Slowing down & trauma
• Integrating head and body for trauma healing
• You are fine just how you are!
• Growing around our trauma, not getting rid of it
• What is somatics?
• Working with somatics and spirituality for trauma healing
• Stevie’s journey with queerness
• What is the self? What are our selves?
• Accessing more expansiveness and curiosity and imagination
• Hangups around wellness world meets capitalism
• The trauma of capitalism
• The empress archetype & pleasure
• Growing our awareness of pleasure

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/stevie-leigh

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Register for pleasure magic: a tender embodied journey into deeper pleasure.

Connect with Stevie on their website and Instagram.

Welcome to Leo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Leo season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk authenticity, bravery, telling the truth about ourselves + more.

Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class. Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. 

Check out the Religious Trauma workbook.

My IG live with Sarah Chappell.

Sarah (she/her) of Shadow Femme is a practitioner who blends together shadow work, astrology, and human design to help people own their full, authentic selves. She's a biracial queer femme who specifically loves working with cycle breakers and people who are navigating liminal identities. 

In this episode, Sarah and Eryn talk about:

• Sarah’s journey with shadow work and how she’s gotten to this moment in her life
• What is shadow work?
• Her journey with queerness & sexuality & gender & shadow work
• I share about my journey with queerness too & what that has to do with shadow work and cutting off parts of self
• Seeking cis male approval and validation
• How she blends shadow work, astrology and human design to work with them all
• The process of integrating shadow parts / rejected parts
• The purpose of our different parts
• Imposter syndrome when it comes to mystical and intuitive practices
• I also read a poem about coming out!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sarah-shadow-femme 

Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class. Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. 

Connect with Sarah on her website and Instagram.

Liz Migliorelli belongs to a lineage of spinsters, hedge witches, bee maidens, apple romancers and herb cunning-folk. She is a herbalist, animist and educator. Liz weaves together and facilitates classes on plant medicine, storytelling, ancestral remembrance, earth rhythms, folk magic, hearth culture, poetry and social justice movements. 

In this episode, Eryn and Liz talk about:

• Her journey with plants and magic
• Folk magic as nourishment for life
• Ancestral folk magic practices she has woven into her life
• Healing for our ancestry through the way we live
• Dream magic & incubating dreams
• Why she loves poetry & what poetry means to her
• Turning back to poetry when things fell apart
• Flower essences as poems
• A poem that has been resonating with Liz lately
• Fires of spring versus fires of summer, the different ways elements express in different seasons
• Noticing as an ancestral practice
• Leaning into the subtle magic of seasonality

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/liz-migliorelli 

Check out Eryn's poems daddy and dinner party on Tilted House's website. Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class. 

Connect with Liz on her website and Instagram.

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. 

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Linda Gregg
• An Almost-Gone Radiance by Autumn Richardson

Erin Alise (she/her) is an illustrator and witch who helps creative witches get clarity on their purpose and keep inspired through uncertain times. In this episode, Eryn and Erin talk about:

• Erin's journey with creativity and magic
• The process of claiming "witch"
• Core witchcraft values and beliefs
• Noticing the magic around you
• Sigils & symbols
• Weaving and integrating magic into your life
• Magic as a pivot point during the day
• Simple pivot spells
• Using what you have to make magic
• Personal symbology and personal grimoires
• Symbolism as shaped by the collective
• Staying creative in uncertainty
• Being an artist who sells creative work and still feeling connected to your work
• Working with your internal creative flow
• Creating wells for creative nourishment
• Creative seasons and cycles

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/erin-alise-borzak 

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. 

Register for the erotic poetry writing class. 

Connect with Erin Alise on Instagram, TikTok, and her website.

Welcome to Cancer season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Cancer season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk guilt, boundaries, stories we tell ourselves + more. 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/cancer-season-medicine-2021 

Register for the summer solstice breathwork ceremony (tonight!).

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.