Today I chat with Emma Kathryn who brings fantastic insight into a wide range of magical topics including folk practices, witchcraft, and connecting with nature.

Emma Kathryn is an animist witch, obeah woman and is also initiated into Vodou, a blend that reflects her heritage. She lives in Nottinghamshire, UK where she reads tarot and weaves magic. Emma is also an author, and has several books including her latest, Season Songs: Rediscovering the Magic in the Cycles of Nature

Emma's website:https://emmakathrynwildwitchcraft.com/

Emma's IG:https://www.instagram.com/emmakathrynwildwitch/?hl=en

Emma's Season Songs book:https://bookshop.org/a/98195/9780738771175

OTD website:https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/

Feeling rage about the world around you? It's sacred and you can use it to help create inspired action! Today listen in as I chat with Brialle. Brialle brings so much wisdom to teach how to start moving through that sacred rage, helplessness, and other feelings that come along with being alive in 2025.

Brialle is a breathwork alchemist, somatic coach, and wellness educator committed to helping change makers lead with greater ease and joy. As a former burnt-out social worker turned healer, Brialle intimately knows what it's like to feel overwhelmed by compassion fatigue, struggling to slow down and rest out of fear that the causes you care about will suffer. After a decade of decolonizing from grind culture, learning to listen to the language of her body, and guiding hundreds of others to do the same– she's a big believer that personal transformation is integral to collective liberation and teaches about the importance of radical self-care for sustainable advocacy. Being guided by Brialle, you can expect to dive deep to release repressed emotions and years of pain held in the body, and moments later be dancing and laughing to reclaim your joy and sovereignty.

Brialle's website: https://bewellwithbrialle.com/

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/

Need a quick way to ground, cleanse, and bring your power and energy back to yourself! Listen along!

Join me for a quick chat about the end of season survey results!

Listen as I chat with Anthony Lightz about the spiritual resolutions that listeners submitted!

Listen as I chat with Tim Rayborn about the spooky lore that surrounds christmas and winter!

Tim Rayborn is an acclaimed and prolific writer of books on many different topics. He has written nearly fifty books for eight publishers about music, the arts, history, the paranormal, mythology, how-to books, and several other topics. In addition, he works as a ghost writer, editor, and book coach. He lived in England for nearly seven years and has a PhD from the University of Leeds.

He’s also an internationally acclaimed musician who plays dozens of unusual instruments, including medieval instrument reconstructions and folk instruments from Northern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He has appeared on over forty recordings, and his musical wanderings and tours have taken him across the US, all over Europe, and to Canada and Australia. His recent books include The Scary Book of Christmas Lore, Northern Mythology, The Scary

Book of Valentine’s Day Lore, and Sip and Sensibility: An Inspired Literary Cocktail Collection.

Tim's Christmas Lore Book: https://bookshop.org/a/98195/9781646434527

Tim's website: https://timrayborn.com/books/

OTD end of the year survey: https://forms.gle/E5QWSFUVHrxLiR9C8

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/

This week I chat with Kristina about:

Kristina Cosmic Butterfly is a yoga teacher and psychic medium. She was catapulted onto her spiritual path in 2018 following the traumatic death of her partner. Without any prior psychic skills, she decided to learn mediumship as a way to stay connected to the other side, and in doing so found her calling as a healer. Kristina’s approach is casual with a lighthearted sense of humor. She specializes in working with Spirit Guides to deliver practical advice and teaches others on how to connect, transform, and empower themselves. Kristina is passionate about sharing the importance of balancing the spiritual and the physical, living an embodied life, and connecting to nature.

Take the season-end survey! : https://forms.gle/rgM19aNL3BDSSo9w5

Kristina's website: https://kristinacosmicbutterfly.com/

Kristina's IG: https://www.instagram.com/_cosmicbutterfly/

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/

Today I chat with Katie Turner, a therapist who specializes in spiritual awakenings about how to help spot the differences between a spiritual awakening and a mental health concern. This is an important topic that isn't addressed very often in the spiritual community and I think it's important to have an open conversation about it.

Katie Turner is a Registered Psychologist, speaker and the founder of Katie Turner Psychology Inc. and the author of F*ck Toxic Spirituality: Avoiding Red Flags and Navigating the Spiritual Path with Integrity.

Katie believes in a holistic approach to healing. She has studied a wide range of Western psychological approaches and Eastern healing techniques. Katie is passionate about helping her clients to heal the past, find more peace in the present and to create their best possible future. Her mission is to bring together the science of psychology to the practice of spirituality. She offers consultation services, sessions, workshops and resources for organizations and modern-day spiritual seekers.

Take the year end survey!: https://forms.gle/UXjgXKar9p7KJhVKA

Katie's website: https://katieturnerpsychology.com/

Katie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/katieturnerpsychology/

Katie's book: https://katieturnerpsychology.com/book

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/shop

Today I chat with Brigit who walks us through using Tarot to help create a soul aligned life!

Brigit Esselmont is an intuitive entrepreneur and best-selling author of Everyday Tarot and Intuitive Manifesting, as well as the founder of Biddy Tarot, a seven-figure business that has empowered millions worldwide to trust their intuition and access their inner power. Her mission is to bring Tarot into the mainstream as a modern, intuitive tool for purpose-driven individuals, helping them live life to their fullest potential—no crystal balls required. Brigit’s expertise has been featured in outlets like Huffington Post, Mind Body Green, and the Being Boss podcast. With over a decade in business, she’s also a Master Practitioner in NLP and Hypnosis and has appeared on stages across the US and Australia. When she’s not teaching or coaching, Brigit enjoys life on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, with her husband and two daughters.

Biddy Tarot website: https://biddytarot.com/

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/shop

Submit your spiritual resolution! : https://forms.gle/FyWespr95U44Jh1W9

Take the season-end survey!: https://forms.gle/dL8nN8myv5E11Ytd7

It's the final folklore episode of the month! This week listen in as I chat with Elyse Welles (seeking numina). Elyse tells us folklore tales of nymphs and cryptids. This is a fun one! We chat about how connected folklore is to the land, and about Elyse's work too!

Elyse's website: https://www.seekingnumina.com/

Elyse's IG: https://www.instagram.com/seekingnumina/

Elyse's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@seekingnumina

OTD website: https://www.openingthedoorpodcast.com/

OTD book recs: https://bookshop.org/shop/openingthedoor