MUM

Welcome to Season 3 of Mum! In this episode, host Ellen Wong and guest Śivani Howe (medium and intuitive artist) discuss the nuances of living versus surviving, and how the relationship with death impacts the way people live their lives. They talk about the collective navigating rapid transformation of the present, holding conflicting emotions of joy and grief, and the societal shift towards higher awareness. It emphasizes the importance of loving in moments of difficulty and maintaining boundaries while embodying love. Practical advice is offered for navigating these turbulent times through community, self-awareness, and embracing one's higher mind.

About Guest: Śivani Howe is a Medium, Intuitive Artist, Sannyasin and the Spiritual Director of Ishtadev Niwas Ashram, an off-grid retreat center and farm wherein she guides individuals through all aspects of living and embodying their true potential through foundations of love, service and Yoga Ecology. She has travelled the world speaking, channelling messages of love and teaching in ways that raise one’s consciousness and quality of life.

Śivani will share about how connecting to our guides before we transition is often a very supportive way of creating awareness before we leave the body. Śivani's upcoming online program - Roots & Wings offers 6 months of Spiritual Wellbeing Capsules which include live and recorded yoga asana practices, channelled messages and spiritual talks to help you maintain moments of calm and genuine solace throughout your day. Mum listeners can be offered a 10% Discount, using the code weraw10.

Link with Śivani:

* Youtube Channel: @sivanihowe

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MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.

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In this MUM episode, Spiritual Medium Jaime Breeze shares how relationships with pets transcend physical life and can continue through reincarnation. Jaime sheds light on how she communicates with animals on the other side, providing comfort to those who are grieving their animal companions, and emphasized the importance of acknowledging grief, encouraging individuals to honor their feelings and the memory of their pets through rituals and journaling.

About Jaime Breeze:

Born with an inner sense of ‘knowing’, Jaime was aware of the Spirit World from a very young age. At 3 years old, she began speaking openly about her past lives and about ‘others’ around her that nobody else could see. By the age of 16, Jaime had begun working with Spiritual Healers that taught her how to develop her natural gifts, harness her insights, and learn different healing modalities. Over the years, Jaime’s fascination with Heaven, reincarnation, and with those who have crossed over, along with her training, has allowed her skills to flourish.

In early 2016 however, Jaime suffered a great loss and battled with her first true experience of grief. After seeking guidance from grief counsellors and therapists, Jaime began to understand that navigating her grief would truly test her in ways she had never been tested before. There were no books to read, exercises to complete or steps to follow in order to help make the pain go away. Even the personal knowledge of life after death still did not bring her the healing or peace she so desperately needed.

Months later while visiting with a friend, an image of a young man who we will call “Luke” appeared out of nowhere in front of her. Luke psychically communicated to Jaime who he was, how he passed and that he needed to deliver a message to his sister who was still on earth. Jaime couldn’t deny what was happening so she quickly started telling her friend all about it. Her friend listened intently to what Jaime was relaying from this Spirit. To Jaime’s surprise, her friend knew exactly who Luke was and was actually friends with Luke’s sister who lived on the other side of the country! Jaime’s friend quickly delivered this sacred message to Luke’s sister whom had longed for some sign from her brother since the day he had passed. Reassured by his efforts to contact her, she now knew that although his physical form had moved on, he would always be there for her in spirit.

Until this point in her life, Jaime had never experienced such a strong connection to a spirit. The energy Luke showed her, the love he had for his sister, and his concern for her was unfathomable. Not only did Luke find a portal of sorts to connect with his sister, he also gave Jaime back her hope and excitement for life again. It was during that moment that other spirits began appearing and Jaime realized she was to be a Spiritual Medium on a professional level. She knew that the time had come to embrace her gift and help both herself and others to communicate with those who had passed. Mediumship brought back a zest for life for Jaime. She now knew she needed to experience and understand what ultimate grief was before the doors to the other side could fully open. She understood now that her past experiences of lost love combined with her true understanding of grief and all its many intricacies gave her the life the purpose, she had long desired. Her intention, her goal, was now clear. Through the deliverance of messages and signs from those departed, she would use her skills to help people feel joy and purpose in their lives again and bring an element of peace and comfort to those souls left on earth to grieve.

Link with Jaime:

* Beyond the Rainbow Bridge Masterclass: A Pet Medium’s Guide to Understanding Your Companion’s Journey Through Death and the Afterlife

* Instagram

* Website

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MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Spirit Medicine Retreat

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

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In this MUM episode, Somatic Coach and Bodyworker Amy Jones returns to discuss her complicated relationship with her womb space, the therapeutic value of body work, and the process and implications of hysterectomies.

Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual trauma

About Amy Jones:

Amy Jones is a weaver of story and ritual. She is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker, utilizing her many years of training to inform her work. She is the creator and host of Rituals Of Our Mothers, a podcast dedicated to exploring and healing the daughter/mother relationship, and interlacing the simple yet profound sacred acts of ritual and self-care into meaningful memory.

In April of 2022, Amy published The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes, a love story depicting the depths of human struggle and victory told through the melodies of poetry. Find Amy on Instagram or Facebook @ritualsofourmothers

Link with Amy:

* Rituals of Our Mothers Podcast

* The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes Book

* Instagram

* Facebook

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Spirit Medicine Retreat

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, Kyley Caldwell, a money coach and trauma alchemist, shares her grieving process about a former best friend, how anger can take shape and help into setting boundaries, and embracing self-love amidst fears of abandonment.

About Kyley Caldwell:

Kyley Caldwell is a money coach, trauma alchemist, and all around magic maker and seeker. Her sacred work is helping us turn towards the parts of ourselves that we’ve been taught to reject, so that we might remember that we are whole.

Link with Kyley:

* Money Magic Masterclass: Money freedom requires that we feel safe with and within ourselves, and that is a deep journey of trauma release and self-compassion.

* Website

* Instagram

* TikTok

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Spirit Medicine Retreat

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, Bridget Ferris, a licensed clinical social worker based out of Philadelphia, shares how her journey led her to a fulfilling career in social work, focusing on grief counseling and providing support to those facing the end of life or dealing with loss.

About Bridget Ferris:

Bridget Ferris experienced the sudden death of a friend in 2011 as a young adult and has been drawn to grief work ever since. She is a licensed clinical social worker based out of Philadelphia, PA who has been walking shoulder to shoulder with individuals and families navigating health crises and various stages of grief via her work in adult hospitals for the past 10 years. She has also spent many hours volunteering at Camp Erin, a children’s bereavement camp as a Grief Chief or clinical lead for various groups of children. She is drawn to grief work because she recognizes that people are in deep pain and feels the American culture does not support people the way they need. She hopes to have an impact on people’s lived experience with grief by normalizing and building community with those living with it.

She recently started a private psychotherapy practice with a focus on grief to continue this important work.

Link with Bridget:

* Website

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, Somatic Coach and Bodyworker Amy Jones shares about her relationship with her mother, grandmother and Grief, how dreams and signs from loved ones indicate ongoing presences bridging realms, and exploring the depths of emotion post-loss.

About Amy Jones:

Amy Jones is a weaver of story and ritual. She is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker, utilizing her many years of training to inform her work. She is the creator and host of Rituals Of Our Mothers, a podcast dedicated to exploring and healing the daughter/mother relationship, and interlacing the simple yet profound sacred acts of ritual and self-care into meaningful memory. In April of 2022, Amy published The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes, a love story depicting the depths of human struggle and victory told through the melodies of poetry. Find Amy on Instagram or Facebook @ritualsofourmothers

Link with Amy:

Rituals of Our Mothers Podcast

The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes Book

Instagram

Facebook

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

Private Mentorship

Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, deathworker Hope De La Mora shares the profound impact of the deaths in Hope's life starting at a young age, the deep grief experienced when we lose our animal soul companions, and how talismans can keep the energy of our loved ones close with us.

Content Warning: We discuss suicidality which may be triggering for some individuals. Please exercise conscious discernment when listening.

About Hope De La Mora:

Hope De La Mora (founder of Hope Ascendant) is a Metaphysical Minister, Ritualist, Death Liberationist, Talisman Maker, and Quantum Healer deploying self-channeled healing and attunement modalities.

Hope grew up in a dynamic way where multiple inputs and cultures informed Hope’s growth and abilities (from both an epigenetic and experiential perspective). This ultimately led Hope to the study of cultural anthropology and history, which continues to inform Hope’s work for both the living and the dying.

Hope and death became friends at a very early age through the untimely (and in some cases intentional) deaths of friends and close family. Between 2010 and 2013, Hope would become the caregiver and death doula for both of Hope’s Grandparents who were like parents to Hope and the primary force cultivating Hope’s development.

However, it was not until the 2020’s that Hope would begin listening to the whispers of this calling to deathwork, finally becoming formally trained through INELDA in 2023, just as Hope was companioning Edward, Hope’s 19 year old non-human guardian + familiar along his walk to the death portal.

Hope’s heartwork is in service to both the living and the dying ~ for the living, the subtle art of unlocking one’s innate metaphysical wisdom + stepping onto one’s path of gnosis, and for the dying, the rituals and sacred memorial objects that provide comfort to the living and a sacred space for the dying. Hope’s service is not just limited to humans, either.

Finally, Hope has a deep calling to expand awareness + advocacy for death and dying praxis in vulnerable populations, such as the incarcerated and the undomiciled, as well as begin conversations on how we may better companion and serve neurodivergent individuals in the process of death, dying, and grief.

Link with Hope:

* Hope’s Services

* Instagram: @hope_ascendant

* Instagram: @traditionsindeath

* Facebook

* YouTube

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, Death Midwife and Artist Rebecca Mullins shares about death work being collective liberation work,and how her experience of her mother’s sudden passing led to the creation of a ritual offering that supports the dead in crossing over.

About Rebecca Mullins:

Rebecca Mullins is a Death Midwife, Multidimensional Artist, Animist, Grief Guide, Parent, Ancestral Liberator, Energy Practitioner, Conscious Culture/Paradigm Disrupter.

She serves her community from a decolonial, liberatory & Soul centered place. She works with the seen and unseen realms and energies to create art and ritual tools, plus guides people in traversing life and meeting death in a sacred, conscious, compassionate, honest & heart-led way.

Her body of work and service is guided and informed by the elemental, ancestral (human + non-human) and cosmical planes - for this she’s deeply grateful.

From Rebecca, “The prayer I hold for us all is fullness & liberation of the Soul. May the work I create and offer the world empower folks to walk the braiding path alongside one another.”

Link with Rebecca:

* Rebecca’s Website

* Instagram

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.

Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

MUM Links

* Private Mentorship

* Membership

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, PAT counselor Catherine Warnock shares about Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, ego dissolution versus ego death, and how the sacred mushroom can support in easing the journey towards end of life.

About Catherine Warnock:

Catherine Warnock is a Licensed Professional Counselor registered in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Colorado. Specializing in helping people resolve their trauma, she developed Emotional Triggers Treatment (ETT) and received training in Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy (PAT) at Therapsil in Canada. Catherine has been offering PAT retreats and plant therapy microdosing coaching services since 2022. She also offers training courses to other healing practitioners interested in learning how to guide clients safely and effectively with PAT for relief from anger, anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, relationship issues, unresolved grief, chronic pain, and end-of-life issues.

Link with Catherine:

• Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Preparation Guide Pamphlet


• PAT practitioner trainings


• PAT client retreats

MUM Offerings:

• Water + Fire Grief Circle: a free 60-minute monthly grief/prayer ritual to support our community

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe

In this MUM episode, harm reductionist and sex & intimacy coach Cara Kelsey shares their practice of deviancy and its connection to deathwork.

About Cara Kelsey:

Cara Kelsey is a mixed ethnicity, white, polyamorous, trans queer from the desert (O'odham Land) and the bay area (Ohlone Land). They are a harm reductionist, deathwalker, sex and creative relationship coach and somatic bodyworker. They are co-founder and resident deviant of Peace Out Loud, a community project and muti-generational, muti-cultural trans and Black led collective. They co-create spaces for grief, shame, rage, sex and joy and hold containers for unknowing and deep curiousity. They are committed to following Black and Indigenous leadership and answering calls to action and service. All of this work is possible and sustainable through a sacred and substantial grief practice. All of this work is done in an endless pursuit to put their ego to rest.

Link with Cara:

• Siren and Deathling


• Deviance as Holy: a subversive storytelling project told through art and media that is not only focused on, but wholly devoted to, deviance.


• Peace Out Loud


• Instagram

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe