Matriarchal Medicine

This is the last episode of Matriarchal Medicine.

I started this show two years ago as an exercise for my throat chakra: speaking my truth, out loud, in public, for the first time. It gave a lot of female practitioners a platform they hadn't had before.

It also taught me something I didn't expect. Even the masked, filtered, safe-enough version of myself was too much for some of the people in my life. That cost me relationships. It also called in my people — one of my closest soul-sisters found me through the homeopathy episodes on this show.

Matriarchal Medicine did what it came here to do. The brand it lived under is retiring with it, because I'm not interested in writing the same chapter twice just because it's comfortable. I'm done translating myself down to a size that keeps the peace with people who were never coming with me anyway.

What's next is sharper and unmasked. It's an audio series called The Existential Scar: The Gift of the Shadow: maternal mental health, shadows, patterns, homeopathy psychology past the "learn it in 15 minutes" version, SOMA practice, and the real reason the business structures I spent two years helping practitioners build never actually got built.

No paywall. Just a threshold, and it's yours to cross.

Listen to The Existential Scar & the Gift of Shadows

Thank you for two years of showing up — from a voice memo app on the floor of our 5th wheel in the Florida heat, to this. If this is goodbye, I pray you're deeply nourished on your way to matriarchy.

Throughout this season of Matriarchal Medicine, we’ve talked a lot about community — sisterhood, collaboration, and the village so many women are longing for as mothers and entrepreneurs.

But in this finale, Audrey goes to the place most conversations avoid: the underbelly of the village.

The subtle sabotage.

The quiet competition.

The relationships that smile on the surface but can’t actually hold your expansion.

This episode is a grounded, honest exploration of the shadow side of sisterhood — why not everyone in your circle wants you to win, how this pattern traces back through history and the witch hunts, and what it asks of us now as women reclaiming matriarchal leadership.

Rather than blaming or bypassing, Audrey invites radical responsibility: to look at where we’ve stayed small to belong, where we’ve tolerated relationships that drain us, and how we begin choosing community that can celebrate us out loud.

This is not a call to isolation it’s a call to discernment, integrity, and embodied belonging.

• Why community can feel painful even when everyone is “doing the work”
• The nervous-system cost of expanding in spaces that can’t truly hold you
• Subtle sabotage, comparison, and polite withdrawal — and how to name them without gaslighting yourself
• How historical trauma fractured women’s trust in one another
• The unconscious payoff of staying small or tolerated
• Why resentment is a signal, not a moral failure
• What mature, matriarchal sisterhood actually requires
• How to build community rooted in reciprocity, honesty, and safety, not fantasy

If this episode resonated, if you’re craving community that doesn’t require you to shrink, perform, or over-explain yourself... you’re invited to My Kitchen Table.

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The village we’re longing for isn’t behind us.

It has to be built — slowly, consciously, woman by woman.

In this conversation, Audrey sits down with one of the most requested women in her community: Victoria Goyre, a woman whose entire life has been marked by initiations — birth, death, motherhood, shamanic apprenticeship, Western medicine, scar tissue remediation, and two years of GAPS that cracked open the doors to her intuition and lineage.

Victoria shares the raw and unfiltered story of becoming a mother at sixteen and hiding her pregnancy for six months…

the night her mother found out…

the health scare that forced her into a decision she never felt ready for…

and the moment she realized she wanted to live.

That initiation carried her into 25 years of nursing — pediatric oncology, ICU, ER, bone setting, watching children cross over, learning to communicate with the unseen, and becoming a medicine woman “in captivity,” as she puts it.

And then her life split open again: through postpartum, through spontaneous healing, through Stream scar tissue work, and through GAPS — the new initiation that rewired her physiology, her intuition, her boundaries, and her motherhood.

This episode is a masterclass in slow growth, sacred self-belonging, lineage repair, and creating a business that honors the seasons of a woman’s body.

Her first initiation at sixteen and the moment she chose life.

Bone-setting, ICU ethics, oncology patients, and intuitive encounters she tried to shut down.

Her first scar tissue remediation appointment with Ellen — and the spontaneous healing that followed.

Rebuilding her physiology from infant → toddler → maiden → mother, reliving stored memories, and reclaiming intuition.

Why she refuses to sprint and is designing a life she can sustain for decades.

Her three core truths discovered “at the bottom of the soup bowl.”

Why she keeps openings in her schedule and refuses the bro-marketing “scale fast” culture.

GAPS as the medicine that shifted her son’s reading, attention, emotional regulation, and confidence.

✨ Connect with Victoria Gyore

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If this episode stirred something in you — the desire to walk this path with women who understand the overlapping threads of motherhood, medicine, healing, and business — join My Kitchen Table, Audrey’s community for holistic female entrepreneurs.

A story like this isn’t linear — it’s a spiral, and Victoria shows exactly what it looks like to walk the spiral with devotion, slowness, and a deep reverence for the body as the first teacher.

In this intimate sister-to-sister episode, Audrey and her sister Cortney revisit the unconventional childhood that shaped them — spending half their lives in a remote fly-in lodge deep in the Canadian wilderness.

They talk about what that upbringing gave them: resourcefulness, work ethic, entrepreneurial instinct, and the ability to create something out of nothing.

And what it cost them: dysregulation, pressure, unpredictability, and the emotional labor of growing up inside a family business.

Together they reflect on how those early patterns show up in their motherhood, their businesses, their nervous systems, and the way they now choose to raise their own children with more presence and gentleness than they ever received.

This episode is both nostalgic and revealing — a story of breaking generational patterns, honoring what served, releasing what didn’t, and learning to mother in a way that heals the girl you used to be.

✨ Growing up in the middle of nowhere

Lessons from lodge life, isolation, and working from childhood.

✨ What the wild imprinted in us

Resourcefulness, problem-solving, improvisation — and chronic dysregulation.

✨ Parents as entrepreneurs

What we absorbed by watching our parents run businesses: the good, the messy, and the “we’re not repeating that.”

✨ From survival to choice

How adult nervous system work changed the way we create, mother, and lead.

✨ Doing motherhood differently

Breaking urgency culture, choosing presence, protecting home as sacred, and raising kids who don’t have to earn belonging.

✨ How our childhood shaped our businesses

ADHD tendencies, grit, creativity, and our ability to build unconventional work that supports our families.

About Cortney:

Cortney is a stay-at-home mom of two and the owner of two small businesses that reflect both her creativity and her love for community. She owns The TÜK Boutique, a custom gift boutique where she laser engraves and designs personalized pieces ranging from earrings to Christmas ornaments and everything in between. She is also the owner of Cortney’s Pawperty, a warm and trusted home-based doggy daycare and boarding service. Balancing motherhood with entrepreneurship, Cortney has built a life centered on family, passion, and the joy of creating meaningful connections, whether through a handcrafted gift or caring for someone’s four-legged family member.

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In this intimate sister-to-sister conversation, Audrey sits down with her younger sister Cortney — a multi-business mother navigating ADHD, homeschooling, creative entrepreneurship, and the art of being deeply resourceful.

Together they explore what it actually looks like to build a life around your values, your kids, your capacity, and your creativity… even when the path makes zero logical sense on paper.

This episode is a grounded, real-life look at matriarchal leadership inside the home and inside business — full of laughter, honesty, and practical wisdom.

✨ How Cortney built multiple income streams — organically and intuitively

From custom laser engraving to dog boarding to bookkeeping to becoming a travel agent, Cortney shares how she followed simple threads, trusted her creativity, and built a life that works for her family.

✨ ADHD, creativity, and why some mothers thrive with more, not less

Cortney explains how her brain works and why having multiple projects actually regulates her instead of overwhelms her.

✨ Homeschool rhythms & being present with your children

Her simple, beautiful morning routine with the girls — including undivided eye contact — and why flexibility matters more than perfect structure.

✨ Pricing, worthiness, and learning not to undercharge

Cortney shares how she raised her prices, stopped discounting her work, and began attracting clients who value her time — because every moment away from her kids has to be worth it.

✨ Redirecting devotion back to yourself

A powerful segment on shifting from overgiving to self-resourcing, and how this year became her first true season of choosing herself.

✨ Music, mindset, and the energetics of calling things in

From “the monkey song” to manifestation playlists — the surprisingly sweet conversation on how sound shapes your subconscious and your business.

About Cortney

Cortney is a stay-at-home mom of two and the owner of two small businesses that reflect both her creativity and her love for community. She owns The TÜK Boutique, a custom gift boutique where she laser engraves and designs personalized pieces ranging from earrings to Christmas ornaments and everything in between. She is also the owner of Cortney’s Pawperty, a warm and trusted home-based doggy daycare and boarding service. Balancing motherhood with entrepreneurship, Cortney has built a life centered on family, passion, and the joy of creating meaningful connections, whether through a handcrafted gift or caring for someone’s four-legged family member.

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✨ Sit with Audrey inside My Kitchen Table, a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it — a place to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the season you’re in.

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In this episode, Tara Vogel — professional astrologer, coach, and founder of The Luminary Community — joins me to explore how astrology can illuminate the invisible threads between our childhood imprinting, nervous system patterns, and the way we parent our own children.

Tara shares the story of how her daughter’s chart became her entryway into astrology — transforming her from a mother searching for answers into a guide helping others align their parenting with the rhythms of the moon.

We talk about how the first seven years of life set the tone for our nervous system, why our children mirror the parts of us that most need re-parenting, and how understanding the lunar and eclipse cycles can help us regulate, reconnect, and rewrite generational patterns.

Whether you’re new to astrology or already live by the stars, this conversation will help you ground cosmic wisdom into daily mothering — with grace, humor, and a deep respect for the body.

✨ Follow @luminaryparenting on Instagram for daily insights and to join The Luminary Community, where Tara shares voice-note forecasts and teaches her signature Parenting Astrology School.

✨ Sit with me inside My Kitchen Table, a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it — a place to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the season you’re in.

About Tara Vogel:

Tara is a certified professional astrologer and coach who is passionate about helping people stay connected to themselves and their soul’s path via the cosmos. She loves to dive deeply with her clients and believes that understanding your astrological natal chart is one of the greatest tools we have for developing our consciousness while we’re here on planet Earth.

Tara reports daily on how to use the celestial bodies to support you in your everyday life in an easy-to-understand and practical way. She posts everyday on Instagram and gives further insights to her Astrology Community -The Luminary Community. Tara believes in a holistic approach to living and weaves her knowledge of nutrition, herbal medicine, the PolyVagal theory of working with the nervous system and The Internal Family Systems method of psychotherapy into her work. Being a mom of three, living astrology daily and ecstatic dance have been her greatest avenues for healing and wholeness.

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In the second part of our conversation, Natalie Kanbergs and I explore what it means to honor the season you’re in — as a mother, a maker, and a woman in business.

We talk about lineage, homemaking, and how the work of our hands becomes the work of our hearts.

Natalie reflects on motherhood as apprenticeship — a lifelong initiation that teaches us presence, patience, and the slow burn of creative devotion.

This episode is an invitation to descend into the ordinary sacred — to let your home, your business, and your becoming nourish one another.

✨ Experience Natalie’s creations at TU·ET·AL — her line of alchemical soaps and skincare crafted with reverence for nature, ritual, and the feminine body.

✨ Join My Kitchen Table, a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it — a place to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the season you’re in.

About Natalie:

Natalie Kanbergs is an entrepreneur, writer, herbalist, traditional birth attendant, postpartum care practitioner, and producer. Moving fluidly between the machine of modernity and nature’s perfection, she weaves alchemy, birthwork, and Earth magic into her life and work. Through TU·ET·AL, Natalie shares transcendental soap and skincare rooted in devotion to the sacred beauty within us all. She is currently running her business, homeschooling her children, and deepening her studies in alchemical herbalism while tending to the art of balance in everyday life.

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This episode began, as so many do, in the thick of real life.

In the first half of our two-part conversation, Natalie Kanbergs — mother, wife, and founder of TU·ET·AL— invites us into the messy, devotional, and deeply creative path that gave birth to her alchemical skincare line and the home it was built inside of.

Together, we talk about the evolution of her work, the pressure to produce while mothering, and what it means to listen to the rhythms of both business and body.

This part of the conversation unfolds slowly — a stream of thought from a woman integrating creation, motherhood, and the art of daily living.

⚠️ Listener note: this episode opens with a story that includes mention of a firearm and a playground incident. Please care for your nervous system and listen in a way that feels supportive for you.

✨ Experience Natalie’s creations at TU·ET·AL — her line of alchemical soaps and skincare crafted with reverence for nature, ritual, and the feminine body.

✨ Join My Kitchen Table, a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it — a place to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the season you’re in.

About Natalie:

Natalie Kanbergs is an entrepreneur, writer, herbalist, traditional birth attendant, postpartum care practitioner, and producer. Moving fluidly between the machine of modernity and nature’s perfection, she weaves alchemy, birthwork, and Earth magic into her life and work. Through TU·ET·AL, Natalie shares transcendental soap and skincare rooted in devotion to the sacred beauty within us all. She is currently running her business, homeschooling her children, and deepening her studies in alchemical herbalism while tending to the art of balance in everyday life.

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@neue.natalie

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Audrey sits down with Dr. Lacey Nevel to talk about the real mechanics of mothering, business, and nervous system stewardship. Lacey shares how she creates space to regulate (hello, nightly sauna sessions), why building team was non-negotiable after being literally bypassed as “the office manager,” and how Free Spirit Chiropractic functions as a community hub, not “just” a clinic. Together you explore parenting as shadow work, detaching so you can show up clean, and new offerings for women chiropractors who are navigating motherhood and a male-dominated profession.

We cover:

• Nervous system stewardship in real life: how Lacey uses the sauna to detach, reset, and choose where to show up each day—“20 minutes of literally just detaching from everything.”
• Why team matters (and the moment it became non-negotiable): a local chiropractor walked in and asked “Where’s the husband? Where’s the doctor?”—and Lacey decided that day to get help at the front desk and protect her role as doctor and owner.
• Community as the heartbeat: Free Spirit is intentionally built as a gathering place—patients name “community” as their favorite part of the practice.
• Roots & wiring: raised by a single-mom entrepreneur; “keep going” grit, Enneagram 7 creativity, and the “Gap and the Gain” realization about achievement cycles.
• Parenting as shadow work: the invitation to address our stuff through our kids; why it’s easier to avoid discomfort and how it shows up anyway.
• New work for women in chiropractic: a seminar and 1:1 coaching focused on intention, detachment, and showing up for yourself so you can show up for others—especially post-baby.

Resources & links:

• Follow @drlaceynevel and @freespiritchiropractic
• Listen to Free Your Frequency with Dr. Lacey & Dr. Colten
• Sit with Audrey inside My Kitchen Table — a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it; where women come to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the work they were born to do.

About Dr. Lacey Nevel:

Dr. Lacey Nevel is a true wellness visionary wearing multiple hats. She is mama of two, wife, chiropractor, *retired* birth doula, and entrepreneur.

​Her life purpose is to serve individuals and families with an abundance of love, using chiropractic as a portal for deep connection and understanding. She lives a life committed to elevating the consciousness and authenticity of others and along with her soul mate, Dr. Colten Nevel, aspires to create a space of love for the community to gather.

In part two of this conversation, Audrey and Katherine move from the framework into the flesh: from philosophy to lived experience.

They explore:

• Healing sisterhood and witch wounds through embodiment and right relationship.
• What it means to rewild rites of passage for our times — from birth to business to death cycles.
• The importance of supervision and being held while holding others.
• The courage it takes to restore the feminine principle in professional spaces.

This is the continuation of a conversation that bridges the personal and the professional — a reminder that the way we do our work is the work.

✨ Join Katherine’s Cultivate — bi-monthly online professional accountability, supervision, mentoring, and peer-support circles for spaceholders: birthworkers, circle-keepers, perinatal professionals, therapists, kinesiologists, and other women in the helping arts who long to be held as they hold others.

✨ Sit with Audrey inside My Kitchen Table — a community for female holistic entrepreneurs who get it; where women come to be resourced, nourished, and witnessed in the work they were born to do.

About Katherine:

Katherine is a Community Weaver, Energy Alchemist, Integrative psycho-somatic-socio-spiritual and shamanic Therapist, Accredited Social Worker, Doula/Birthkeeper, Kinesiologist, Ceremonialist, Circle Keeper, trauma-informed Spaceholder, Rewilding Advocate, Wife, and Mama of two wildling boys.

In order to hold space for others, we too must also be held. Thus, Katherine tends to women and spaceholders yearning to come home to their bodies and their unique medicine, to heal sisterhood and witch wounds, and to expand their own capacity to receive and hold. She is deeply passionate about the reclamation of rites of passage-remembering, restoring, and re-imagining them for our times from a somatic lens.

Get in touch with Katherine:

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