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We're back for another juicy one! Join Mike, Doug and Shelise as we unpack purity culture, religious indoctrination and sexual shame with the founder / host of Purity to Polyamory:

Purity to Polyamory is a podcast and writer/creator dedicated to helping people in deconstructing purity culture, oppressive religious structures, and recovering religious trauma survivors who are exploring non-traditional relationship structures such as ethical non monogamy and polyamory.

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Generational trauma can be defined as trauma that isn’t just experienced by one person but extends from one generation to the next.  As we continue the process of inner work, we soon discover that many of the wounds we carry are much older than us and may have continued in our family lines for generations.

In this episode, Mike, Doug and Shelise reflect on a listener email and discuss the process of beginning to heal our ancestral lines.

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Links:

Aubrey Marcus Sexual Healing Episode w/ Layla Martin

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As we engage in self work, we often find that difficult, familiar emotions resurface--emotions that we may believe we have already dealt with and released. When this happens, we can easily believe that we are regressing. However, emotions come in waves, and progress isn't measured by the absence of emotions but in our capacity to experience more, to feel more, and to ride even stronger waves.

Join us this week as Mike, Doug and Shelise unpack recent experiences with our shadows. What happens when we embrace these strong emotions rather than pushing them away?

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Aubrey Marcus Sexual Healing Episode w/ Layla Martin

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Get ready for a high-energy, high vibrational love fest as we get of out our heads and drop into our bodies, talking all things embodiment and ecstatic dance with Tiffany Mertens (Mystic Mentorship).

About Tiffany:

Tiffany is a spiritual mentor and empowerment coach who specializes in helping men and women heal themselves through movement and rituals.

Over the years she has been doing the heavy heartfelt work, healing old wounds and patterns, while curiously exploring the depths of her soul's calling.  She began working with her shadow and through the reflections of her mentors, realized how important it is to have an open platform and a judgement free space to dig deep and uncover the sometimes brutal truths. This led to creating her own mentorship program, Mystic Mentorship so she could share her experience with others who are also learning how to create more conscious connection to others, while deepening the love they have for themselves. In addition to her soul work, she is an international performance artist and facilitates classes and workshops based around ecstatic dance.

"The power of movement is exceptionally unique and once you tap into it, it will blow your mind! These classes help both men and women feel even more connected to themselves, their bodies, and their imagination to reach deep states of pleasure and flow. I’M GOING TO HELP YOU HEAL YOUR WOUNDS SO YOU CAN TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND FEEL FREE TO BE YOUR BADASS AND VIBRANT SELF."

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So excited to be back with Glenn from Infants on Thrones!  And yes, it is another episode where we play in the sandbox of symbols and stories and fictions that are probably a little different – or maybe very very different – from the normal symbols and stories and fictions of everyday discourse that we rarely stop to recognize as symbols and stories and fictions because we just think of them as “reality” – which, when you really stop to think about it, is only experienced and communicated through multiple competing systems of symbols, stories, and fictions.  Stop.  Take a breath.  This is fun, right?  Playing with symbols and stories and fictions all in the service of learning how to become a more kind, compassionate, understanding, accepting, nurturing, joyful, peace-making human being.

Links for Infants on Thrones:
Join their new study group here.

Fill out the Return to Kolob Extra Terrestrial Belief Survey here.

Support Infants on Thrones on Patreon here

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In today's episode, we discuss the root of many of humanity's biggest fears--the fear of death, including :

• The process of death (as a labor process similar to birth)
• Preparing for death
• Role of psychedelics in confronting our fear of death
• Death as a teacher to help us live in the present moment
• Eternity is in the now
• Role of a death doula
• Sharing, abundance and the power of communal living
• Celtic Wheel of Time and the cycles of life
• And so much more...

Leanne is so wise and delightful. Can't wait for you to listen!

About Leanne:

Leanne is a former school teacher turned yoga instructor, death doula & educator as well as a plant medicine advocate. She believes that natural psychedelic plant medicines, and their synthetic relatives hold vast potential as tools for improving health and wellness, and she is especially interested in their benefits for end of life anxiety. 

She is passionate about changing the narrative around death and dying by creating space to explore what death means to each individual, so that the fear of the unknown subsides. She believes contemplating death can be a huge catalyst to living the life of your dreams.

Instagram:  @leannenolan_yoga
Website: www.leannenolan.com

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Growing up in orthodox religion, we learned to seek validation of our worthiness from external sources (God, bishop, parents, etc.). Learning to trust ourselves and reclaim our inner authority can be a long, frustrating, but also beautiful, process.

In this episode, Mike, Doug and Shelise explore that process, discussing what has been coming up for them in recent weeks. Regardless of where you're at in your journey, just know that....you got this!


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Humans are social creatures and we depend upon the power of the collective for our survival. This "it takes a village" approach also extends to our self-work efforts. 

In today's episode,  we are joined by Adrienne, co-creator of our new Mighty Networks Support Community, to discuss the importance of receiving support and connection from other humans as we work to heal our individual and collective traumas.

Along the way, we also discuss:

• Trauma-informed yoga
• Infertility in Mormonism
• The patriarchy's obsession with women's bodies
• Creating light
• And much more....

Enjoy!

Adrienne is a bad-ass, ex-mormon, spiritual seeker, vegan, childfree after infertility, community builder and trauma-informed yoga instructor. You can follow her on IG @iamadriennejohnson


Mighty Networks Community

Our Mighty Networks Community is a space for folks who desire to access expanded states as a way to find our inner authority, release the trauma, do the work, and heal. All while being held in a community of individuals co-creating this beautiful space together. Come join us!


Other links for this episode:

Kundalini Yoga w/ Syd Strabala
The Body Keeps the Score


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Journey with Mike and Doug this week as we recount our recent dreams and medicine experiences, exploring themes such as: 

• Leaning into our unique gifts
• Co-creating with the Universe
• "I am my own best medicine"
• Accessing anger
• Experiencing life vs. Meaning of life
• Speaking on behalf of our wounded parts
• Holding space for those we trigger

Thank you for joining our group therapy session. We hope you enjoy!

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Take a journey with us through the realms of science and medicine with Reid Robinson, MD MBA in this powerful conversation about the current state of legalized psychedelic therapies and the power they have in a clinical setting. 
 
 We dive into: 
 
 The unexpected power of a firsthand psychedelic experience
 Ketamine assisted psychotherapy
 The impacts of trauma
 The ethics of capitalism in the psychedelic space 
 
 In our delightful ongoing exploration of duality, this episode complements our love of the woo in a grounded and pragmatic way. 
 
Reid Robison, MD MBA, is a board-certified psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at Novamind, an organization focused on evidence-based psychedelic treatments. Reid serves as Medical Director of Center for Change, an Eating Disorder treatment program in Utah. He is the co-developer of the Emotion-Focused Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy model. Reid is currently the coordinating investigator for the MAPS-sponsored study MDMA assisted psychotherapy study of eating disorders. To date, Reid has guided thousands of ketamine therapy journeys and hundreds of Spravato (esketamine) dosing sessions and provides medical support and psychedelic therapy at plant medicine retreats abroad.