SACRED FREEDOM

In this raw, real-time episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, host Elizabeth Marth shares what she’s walking through right now: the emotional letdown that follows a period of deep connection, flow and aliveness.

Fresh from a trip to Florida, where she spent time in art, culture and conversation (including a visit to Ca’ d’Zan, John and Mable Ringling’s historic home in Sarasota), Elizabeth explores why a spiritual high is so often followed by a “crash.” Drawing on emotional manifestation, nervous system regulation, and her own story of healing from years of depression, she offers a new way to see those quiet, empty seasons. They aren’t a sign that you’ve lost your connection to God or your soul. They’re the negative space that’s just as important as the full parts.

If you’re a mom who has lost track of herself, or you’re moving through grief, transition, or the in-between, this episode is permission to slow down, be with yourself, and trust that your connection is always there, even when you can’t feel it.

Highlights

• What emotional manifestation is and how creating your inner world shapes your outer one
• Why travel, art and new experiences make us feel so alive, and why coming home can feel so heavy
• The “Christmas letdown” effect, and why the crash after a high is natural, not a failure
• How the art idea of negative space changes the way you see sadness and “nothingness”
• How to hold grief, loss and transition without catastrophizing or fearing you’ll get stuck
• Simple ways to regulate your nervous system through water, nature, breath and stillness
• Why your connection to God, your soul and the divine never actually disappears

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This week on the Sacred Freedom Podcast, host Elizabeth Marth is joined by Audra Phelps, M.Sc, MNLP, a self-described "identity archeologist" who helps women rebuild their lives after leaving high-demand religions. Together they have a raw, and eye-opening conversation about faith deconstruction, religious conditioning, and what it really takes to trust your own voice again.

Audra was raised in a strict Mormon household, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shaped everything from what she ate and wore to who she married. She shares how being told that every question was "letting Satan into her heart" taught her to distrust herself and hand her power to an outside authority. She talks about marrying at 20 after a six-week engagement, getting kicked out of BYU and motherhood years that felt stolen by perfectionism and a never-ending checklist. Through a ten-year "slow erosion," marked by anxiety, depression, a move to Kazakhstan, and finally a church policy her body physically rejected, she reached the moment she took off her temple garments, looked in the mirror, and said, "I am not Mormon."

This episode is for every woman who has ever pushed down her questions to keep the peace, who followed "the plan" without stopping to ask if it was hers, and who is ready to find out who she really is underneath what she was taught.

If you've ever felt torn between what you were taught and what you know deep down, this episode is your invitation to listen to your own voice.

Episode Highlights

00:19 Meet Audra Phelps, the identity archeologist
 02:20 Mormon vs. LDS: same church, different name
 03:01 Growing up in a strict Mormon household
 05:28 Questioning as a child and being told it was letting Satan in
 06:57 How religious conditioning teaches you to distrust yourself
 09:11 BYU, temple worthiness, and the checklist for choosing a husband
 14:06 "You can figure out love later": engaged in six weeks
 20:28 Getting kicked out of BYU
 23:21 Perfectionism and the checklist of a "good Mormon mom"
 29:52 Body shame, modesty culture, and sexuality
 38:13 Moving to Kazakhstan and finding space to question
 41:35 Learning what truth feels like in your body
 44:11 The last straw and the moment she said, "I am not Mormon"
 50:31 Telling her husband and her kids
 54:09 A family mission statement: "Choose what you believe and allow others to do the same"
 57:28 The conversation she wishes she'd had with her children
 1:01:00 "I'm so glad you got our family out": changing her kids' trajectory
 1:04:36 Reclaimed, Audra's 8-week coaching program

Get to know Audra:

Audra Phelps is an identity archeologist and coach who helps women who have left high-demand religions, especially the Mormon (LDS) Church, uncover the beliefs they were given, process the grief, guilt, and loss that come with leaving, and learn to trust themselves again. A former high school biology teacher who spent years teaching internationally with her family, Audra now guides women through her 8-week program, Reclaimed, and offers one-on-one coaching. She is currently writing her first book.

Website: Mama Audra - https://mamaaudra.com/

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In this episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth opens up about the heart of her work: walking with women at a crossroads. Whether it’s a loss, a divorce or a marriage in question, an illness, a career change, aging parents, or children growing up and needing us less, Elizabeth explores what happens when life as we know it shifts and why so many women in midlife find themselves overwhelmed, confused, and unsure of what they truly want.

Elizabeth shares how her own work has evolved, from shadow work to conscious uncoupling, and how it has always mirrored her life. She reflects on the crossroads that shaped her: losing her mom six years ago, questioning her marriage, closing her interior design business, and starting Sacred Freedom. Now she’s navigating a new one. With a sixteen-year-old son and a daughter starting high school, she finally has time and space for herself and her work, while also grieving the role she once held in her children’s daily lives.

At the center of this episode is a powerful truth: you can’t think your way out of a crossroads, you have to live your way out. Elizabeth explains why trying to logic our way to answers keeps us stuck, and why the greatest gift she gave herself was space, quiet, and time to hear her own voice above all the conditioned voices around her. She shares how time alone in nature, journaling, walking, and being in the presence of God helped quiet her busy, anxious mind and reconnect her to her inner knowing and her soul.

She also explains what she means by creating coherence within yourself: activating your senses, embracing sensuality and presence, and luxuriating in the simple goodness of the present moment, from a fire on a winter night to a lemon in a glass of ice water. These small rituals soothe the nervous system, and Elizabeth describes why healing has to happen in steps: first teaching your body it’s safe in the now, then that it’s safe to feel good, to choose yourself, and to follow your heart even when it disappoints others.

The invitation throughout is to come back to your body, to the place where your heart expands and your body exhales, and feel what is true for you. This, Elizabeth says, is emotional manifestation: creating an inner world of peace, presence, and coherence so you can move through the crossroads and create more of what you actually desire.

Episode Highlights

00:00 Why she’s becoming more visible in her work
 01:21 A prayer to connect with women who are where she’s been
 02:16 From shadow work to conscious uncoupling
 02:36 Serving the woman at the crossroads
 03:20 The crossroads of midlife: loss, marriage, and reinvention
 04:06 A new crossroads: kids growing up and grieving her role as a mom
 05:39 What can set off a crossroads
 05:58 Why you can’t think your way out of a crossroads
 07:00 The biggest gift: space, quiet, and time
 08:01 Finding God, herself, and peace in nature
 10:26 Quieting a busy, anxious mind
 11:28 Creating coherence through sensuality and presence
 13:22 Simple rituals that soothe the nervous system
 14:14 Learning to crawl before you run: recalibrating your body to safety
 15:57 Emotional manifestation when life feels like too much
 16:47 Coming back to your body to find what’s true for you
 18:28 Midlife changes and the freedom waiting on the other side

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In this episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth gets honest about a feeling most of us know intimately: not feeling heard, not feeling understood, not feeling like we truly matter to the people around us. She explores this through every kind of relationship, romantic, family, friendships, work, even our relationship with money and health, and makes the case that our relationship with our higher self is the one everything else is built on.

Elizabeth unpacks a core idea from her work in conscious uncoupling and shadow work: our outer relationships are mirrors of our inner relationship with ourselves. When you feel unseen by someone else, the real work starts by looking inward first, not by focusing on what they're doing wrong. She shares her own pattern of feeling like she doesn't matter, a belief rooted in an enmeshed relationship with her mother, and how it's resurfacing now in an unexpected way, as her kids grow more independent and she suddenly has more time and space for herself than she's had in years.

She talks through what it actually feels like when this pattern shows up: not feeling listened to, not feeling appreciated, not feeling loved, and the practice of pausing to ask what's actually going on within before looking outward for someone else to fix it. She's clear that creating a felt sense of safety within yourself, through connection with your higher self or soul, has to come first. Without that safety, this kind of inner work simply isn't accessible.

She also explains how this shows up in how we treat other people, sharing a personal example of a time she wasn't fully present while a friend was trying to talk to her. The invitation throughout is not to blame or shame yourself, but to notice the pattern, identify the old wounded belief underneath it, and find a truer, more expansive story about who you are. This, she says, is emotional manifestation: doing the internal work of transformation so that what shows up externally can actually bring lasting fulfillment, and so you stop waiting to feel seen and start showing up seen, first for yourself.

Episode Highlights

00:00 Why relationships, all of them, are at the center of this work
01:07 The relationship with your higher self as the most foundational one
03:00 Conscious uncoupling, shadow work, and how relationships reflect us back to ourselves
05:28 The lifelong pattern of feeling like you don't matter
07:02 Putting everyone else's needs ahead of your own
09:09 Healing as a spiral, not a straight line
10:26 A season of more time for herself, and what it's bringing up
13:20 The moment she notices she's not feeling heard, understood, or loved
14:16 Why the first place to look is always within
17:36 Creating internal safety before doing the deeper work
20:08 A real example: when she wasn't fully listening to a friend
21:21 Identifying old wounded beliefs and finding the truer story
23:07 Why this is emotional manifestation, not just physical

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In this raw episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth is recording from Siesta Key, Florida, in what she calls full summer mode, and shares a message that came through strongly in the middle of the night, something she says happens often when she travels and steps outside her usual routine.

Elizabeth talks about energetics, a part of her work she hasn't always brought fully into her teaching, and unpacks a core idea: we don't attract what we want, we attract how we feel. She uses money as an example, you can say all the affirmations you want, but if some part of you still feels like it's never coming, that internal mismatch is the real work to look at. For Elizabeth, this has become a journey of doing the internal work, cultivating the peace, love, and abundance she wants to feel inside.

From there, she introduces the image that runs through the whole episode: the belief that we only get to have breadcrumbs, or a slice, of what we truly desire, instead of the whole loaf. 

Elizabeth makes the case that gratitude for what's already working and wanting more are not in conflict, and that the real shift is choosing to see life through a lens of abundance instead of scarcity. She also gets honest about how she's wired differently from a lot of teachers who preach pushing through fear: for her, feeling safe is non-negotiable, and small steps that build trust and safety are what actually lead to the bigger shifts.

She closes with an invitation: notice where you've been accepting breadcrumbs, get curious about what the whole loaf would actually look like for you.

Episode Highlights
00:00 Recording from Siesta Key - messages that come through when she travels
01:06 Energetics, and why this part of her work is coming more into her teaching
02:24 Why you attract how you feel, not just what you think
03:28 Doing the internal work before the external work
04:39 Relationships and connection and a piece of her own story
07:56 The "chasing breadcrumbs" concept and where it comes from
08:19 How childhood beliefs still shape what shows up for us as adults
09:49 The belief that you only get a slice, not the whole loaf
10:21 Wanting more isn't wrong. We're expanding beings
11:07 Why "I get to have it all" is a belief you can choose
12:11 Gratitude for what's working alongside wanting more
14:48 What you believe, you create. Examining your own beliefs
15:54 A journaling prompt: where are you accepting less than you want
17:49 Why she has to feel safe before taking big action
20:54 The invitation: where are you settling for breadcrumbs

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In this candid episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth tackles a word she has mixed feelings about: manifestation. She admits it's become trendy and often misunderstood, but unpacks what it actually means, an idea or thought taking physical form, and why she believes manifestation is happening constantly, whether we're conscious of it or not.

Elizabeth walks through the manifestation process most people are familiar with: you ask, you energetically align with what you want, and then it shows up. But she pushes past the common examples (money, a dream car, physical success) to share something more personal. She grew up with financial security and physical comfort, and those things came easily to her. What she didn't have was a felt sense of safety, worth, or peace, and no one had taught her that those, too, could be created.

She opens up about living in a state of confusion for six years, even while doing deep spiritual and energetic work, and the moment she realized she had the power to focus differently. She talks through the small, practical shifts that actually moved the needle: catching herself repeating "I'm so confused," learning the concept of becoming neutral, returning again and again to a felt sense of safety, and starting with the smallest things she could feel clear about before tackling the bigger picture.

Her larger point: manifestation isn't only about creating things in the physical world. It's also a powerful tool for shifting your internal experience, and when your inner world shifts toward peace and safety, your outer world tends to follow. This is the heart of Sacred Freedom: helping people find emotional freedom, learn to hear their own voice, and trust themselves so the external world becomes a reflection of what's happening within.

Episode Highlights
 00:00 What manifestation actually means, and why the word feels overused
 02:23 Different approaches to manifestation, from books to teachers to techniques
 03:23 The book that helped this concept finally click for her
 05:10 The general framework: ask, align, receive
 06:22 Getting energetically aligned with what you actually want
 07:16 The Magic Shop, and the limits of manifesting only physical things
 09:00 Growing up with financial security, and what was still missing emotionally
 10:44 Expectation, resistance, and why some things come easily
 11:11 What was actually missing: feeling safe, worthy, and at peace
 12:47 Living in confusion for six years despite doing "all the work"
 15:47 Interrupting "I'm so confused" and the power of "I am" statements
 16:16 The practice of becoming neutral
 17:09 What actually shifted things: a daily meditation practice
 18:00 Starting small: finding what you do feel clear about
 18:54 Returning again and again to a felt sense of safety
 20:16 Learning to listen to your own voice instead of everyone else's
 22:09 Manifestation as an internal practice, not just an external one

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Elizabeth

In this deeply personal episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth explores a concept that has shaped her spiritual journey for the past five years: that our desires are guidance, and learning to listen to them changes everything.

Elizabeth traces this idea back to her work with mentor Gina DeVee, but takes listeners somewhere more personal first into her own family history. She shares how her mother and grandmother, shaped by wartime survival and generational trauma, never had the luxury of asking "what do I desire?" and how that inheritance showed up in her own enmeshed relationship with her mother, where her own desires were something to hide rather than honor.

From there, Elizabeth unpacks the difference between desires for physical things and what she calls our deeper desires the soulful, deep-seated longings that act as a roadmap to our fulfillment. Drawing on A Course in Miracles, Abraham Hicks, and Gabby Bernstein, she talks about the importance of quiet, stillness, and presence as the practice that lets those desires surface and become clear.

She shares the story of a spontaneous, seemingly impractical trip to the Bahamas that came together with ease once she listened to that inner nudge, and gets honest about a season of going quiet, on social media and in her own coaching, while she waited to hear her own voice again rather than everyone else's. The throughline: desires aren't random. They're guidance, and building trust in them starts small.

She closes with a reminder that this work isn't about bypassing what's hard, but about learning to notice what you're desiring in each moment, however small, and following it. Live deeper, live truer, live freer.

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In this episode of the Sacred Freedom Podcast, Elizabeth Marth explores a concept that came to her during one of her daily morning walks: the symbiotic relationship between seeing through God's eyes and God wanting to see through ours.

Drawing on teachings from A Course in Miracles, the Bible, Abraham Hicks, and John Randolph Price, Elizabeth unpacks what it actually means to see the world, other people, and ourselves through the eyes of God, or source, or the universe, whatever word resonates most. She shares how learning to see this way shifted her own emotional world in real, tangible ways: easing her depression, softening her anxiety, and grounding her in a sense of worth that no longer depends on outside validation.

But the heart of this episode is the second, less commonly discussed half of that relationship: the idea that God also wants to see through our eyes. Elizabeth explores what it means to believe that our individual perspectives, our joys, our tragedies, our lived experience, actually expand the Divine, and how living that truth (not just intellectually understanding it) can transform our relationship with ourselves, with God, and with everyone around us.

This is an invitation to consider a different kind of spiritual relationship: not one we chase outside ourselves through people, achievement, or approval, but one cultivated quietly, within.

Episode Highlights

00:00 A morning walk in nature and how it brings Elizabeth back to herself
 01:00 The concept at the center of this episode: seeing through God's eyes, and God seeing through ours
 02:03 The "I Am" energy and the idea that we are all part of one creation
 03:22 Feeling the flow: how this energy shows up in meditation, prayer, and nature
 04:32 What A Course in Miracles teaches about retraining the mind to see differently
05:15 Judgment, alignment, and why criticism of others is really about our own energy
07:09 How seeing through God's eyes shifted Elizabeth's depression and anxiety
08:22 Why knowing your worth from within changes how you show up in the world
08:47 The less common idea: that God wants to see through our eyes too
09:40 Living in constant companionship with God, source, and love
10:33 The "infinity sign": how seeing through God's eyes and being seen loop back to one another
11:23 An invitation to cultivate a relationship with your soul and God, the same way we do with people
12:27 Elizabeth's mantra: live deeper, live truer, live freer

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Elizabeth

After several months away, Elizabeth Marth returns to the podcast with a new name and an honest look at where she has been on her journey. Elizabeth shares what she's been learning: how to live deeper, truer, and freer, and why that journey required stepping back from nearly everyone else's voice in her life so she could finally hear her own.

She reflects on the years following her mother's passing, a season spent absorbing coaching, certifications, and outside wisdom, until she realized she'd built a good life around everyone's voice but her own. From there, Elizabeth opens up about learning to sit in silence with herself and with God, trusting her own intuition, and slowly releasing the pressure to perform, in her relationships, her work, and even in how she shows up to record a podcast.

This episode also introduces the heart behind the new name, Sacred Freedom: closeness with God, and freedom from fear, old conditioning, and the need to explain herself to anyone. It's a warm, unfiltered reintroduction, and an invitation for listeners to give themselves permission to live differently too.

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In this powerful episode of The Illicit Feminine, Elizabeth Marth explores Gate 9 of the Sovereign Descent Journey: The Devotional Self a deeply transformative invitation to return to your soul as your primary source of truth, safety, and authority.

So many women have been conditioned to devote themselves outwardly to partners, roles, belief systems, and external validation often at the cost of their own inner knowing. But what happens when devotion begins within?

This episode unpacks the difference between devotion and obedience, and reveals how emotional and spiritual outsourcing keeps women disconnected from their power.

Elizabeth shares how to reclaim your inner authority, rebuild trust with your body and intuition, and create a life rooted in self-devotion.

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve lost yourself in relationships, roles, or expectations this conversation will bring you home.

Episode Highlights:

 02:00 – Introduction to Gate 9: The Devotional Self
 03:00 – Your Body as Your First Soulmate
 04:30 – Why We’ve Been Conditioned to Look Outside Ourselves
 05:30 – The Many Roles Women Devote Themselves To
 07:00 – When Devotion Leads to Self-Abandonment
 08:00 – Attachment, Authority, and Emotional Outsourcing
 10:00 – Learning to Return to Yourself First
 12:00 – Devotion vs. Obedience: A Critical Distinction
 14:00 – Reclaiming Inner Authority Without Losing Connection
 16:00 – Why We Attach: Safety, Conditioning, and Survival
 18:00 – Creating Inner Stability Instead of External Dependence
 19:30 – Trusting Your Inner Knowing as a Felt Experience
 20:30 – Reflective Questions to Reclaim Your Sovereignty
 21:00 – Devotion Begins Within: A New Way Forward

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who is ready to come home to themselves.

And if you’re walking your own path of reclamation, make sure you’re following The Illicit Feminine so you don’t miss Gate 10 in this powerful series.

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