As some of you may know, this last year I've been on a deep physical and spiritual journey with mold. What a ride it has been.

Challenging, illuminating, and transformative, I consider my journey with mold to be an initiation unlike any other I've experienced.

Many women - especially postpartum women - are struggling with health issues and depletion. I made this podcast episode with all of us in mind, not only those of us dealing with mold.

In the episode, I relay basic information about mold: how one might identify it; test for it; recover from it.

Perhaps more importantly though, I talk about the soul growth this experience offered me and how its medicine- the medicine of decline and decay - may be important medicine for our times and how women may just be the canaries in the coal mine.

I speak about:

-self trust and standing for what we KNOW

-the difficulties of living in a world that trumps feeling and prioritizes thinking

-the story my body is telling me through burnout and depletion

-the body as the deepest layer of the unconscious

-when we can't symbolize our personal hardships, we somatize them

-our cultural stories around rest and self-worth

-the symbol of the Siren as a woman who can traverse the unconscious

-depression and 'going down'

-working with our dreams