Spaces Between

Fenix is Gina's ceremonial guide with plant medicine, an artist, energy healer, and dear friend. They discuss Fenix's personal healing journey including her battle with breast cancer, the search for her birth family, and her deep work with plant medicine, particularly Ayahuasca.

Fenix shares her experiences of moving from victimhood to a state of awe and curiosity, emphasizing the importance of feeling, intuition, and being present. They explore the themes of perfectionism, self-love, compassion, and forgiveness.

• Rebirth through lived experience, not theory or surface-level healing.
• Remembering one's true nature after profound loss, rupture, or abandonment.
• Healing is non-linear and often initiated through crisis rather than choice.
• Listening to the body as an intelligence, not something to override or fix.
• Grief is a teacher and initiator, not something to "get over."
• Spiritual bypassing and performative wellness culture.
• Healing requires slowing down, presence, and deep honesty.
• Healing happens in relationship — with self, with others, our ancestors, and with the Earth.
• The importance of creating safe containers for transformation.
• Healing emerges from integration, not perfection.
• The feminine as embodied wisdom, not gender.
• Trauma is acknowledged as stored in the nervous system, not just memory.
• True restoration involves grief, anger, love, and joy — all welcomed.
• This conversation is less about becoming "better" and more about coming home to yourself.

• The Deepest healing of the Mother Line I've ever experienced.
• I reconnected with my mother, who passed away when I was 17 yrs old.
• Connecting to my ancestral line and all of the women who felt disrespected, under supported, and under-resourced as mothers and women.
• Feeling in my body the great disrespect to the Earth.
• We are not separate from the earth.
• We deeply need to come back to our hearts and souls.
• What one does to another is not separate, we ALL feel it, and she feels it (The Great Mother).
• The Climate crisis is also collective trauma, violence, and divisiveness.
• Looking at thought patterns and the relationship with my mind.
• The Divine Timing of Things.
• The ineffable experience of working with this medicine.
• Bliss and loving dance with the divine.
• All of the information that came through – this life, past lives, and future.
• I felt home – it was a deep REMEMBRANCE OF COMING HOME.
• All of the love I felt and received.
• Receiving and experiencing love at such a depth and allowing it in.
• Feeling deeply into self-love.
• We are all so loved by the divine and we are all inherently worthy beings.
• Breathing, Trusting, and Surrendering to life and the overwhelming moments in ceremony.
• Merging with the matrix of the universe, no time and no space, I died, the Eternal Space Between (no birth and no death). The terror and beauty in that. Wild to experience while being alive in a body.
• Grandmother Ayahuasca spoke to me in moments of overwhelm.
• "Come back to your breath. Come back to your heart."
• The power of remembering who you REALLY ARE.
• It is a miracle to be alive.
• To be human is to learn and relearn the lesson of letting go, forgiveness, and love.
• We co-create with the universe.
• Don't forget the power of your breath.

Bestselling author and spiritual teacher Rebecca Campbell and I sit down to explore the themes of her latest book, Your Soul Had a Dream – Your Life is It. Together, we dive into the sacred journey of healing the mother line, the experience of awakening, and the profound initiations of motherhood.

We reflect on how grief, rage, and joy are all part of life's initiatory process, and how avoiding pain also numbs us to life's ecstasy. Rebecca shares how we are collectively being called by the Great Mother Earth to wake up, heal ancestral trauma, and attune our nervous systems to the rhythm of the Earth.

Amid what she calls "rebirthing times," we discuss how embracing the sacred in everything — even in the descent — can guide us through personal and collective transformation. This is a conversation about deep feeling, sacred reconnection, and navigating the birth of a new humanity.

• The importance of set, setting, and safe facilitators.
• Individual and Collective healing in a group setting.
• Noticing my analytical mind before and during ceremony.
• Healing the feminine wound - the resonant emotional waves we would go through.
• Boundaries of not caretaking other women (for all of us).
• Up front and personal with my shadow material. Whoa!
• The presence of a Benevolent spirit (AKA God, the Universe, Spirit).
• Feeling my emotions on the deepest level.
• The power and impact of sound (moaning, grunting, humming, and releasing).
• We were held in the feminine (The divine mother, the facilitators, nature).
• Mirrors (Everyone is a mirror).
• We are here to grow, learn, and open our hearts.
• The beauty of being alive is magical and mysterious.

In this conversation, I sit down with my friend Jenna K., to discuss her ceremonies with MDMA and psilocybin.

• Feeling the "call" to sit with the plant medicine.
• The deep surrender to letting go of control.
• Feeling safe enough in the life that she had created, to feel like she would be held through these experiences.
• How her life made sense to her after the initial MDMA journey.
• Her body purging out the trauma during the ceremony.
• The shame and feeling of brokenness when the childhood trauma was revealed.
• That her childhood abuse was not her fault.
• Stepping into her Knowing - that her body and these memories were the truth.
• The deep healing, illuminations, and heart opening within herself.
• The continual and necessary work between ceremonies.
• How to resource oneself after uncovering traumatic material.
• How anger and rage have protected her.
• The need for continual softening.
• That plant medicine is not a "cure all" but dives deeply into traumatic material that needs to be seen and held.
• The connection to spirit in these experiences.

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After being a therapist for over a decade and being committed to my personal therapy for years... I decided it was time for me to heal on a deeper level. Every bit of my intuitive being knew that I needed to heal trauma and imprints from life on a cellular level. To show up as a better partner and mother, but most importantly... healing the relationship with myself. What I learned is that talking through our problems only goes so far and we must tap into the body to truly heal trauma.

• Trusting myself and trusting life
• A complete surrender to the unknown
• We know the way back home to ourselves
• Individual and Collective projected pain - the pain body
• We all have things to heal (Look at the state of our world)
• We are all temperature dials in a room (What energy are you bringing?)
• How do we come back to the heart and heal from the heart...not the mind
• Old spaces of trauma held in my body
• The release through movement and sound
• Release control and allow
• The non-negotiable of set and setting and safe facilitators

I've been thinking a lot about individual and collective shadow. How do we keep our hearts open during dark times? We all must become closely acquainted with our shadow or dark side.

Each of us has a dual nature: we are light (conscious) and dark (unconscious). The dark side of our personality—the "other," the shadow side—is made up of what we think is our primitive, primal, negative impulses—our "existential kink." Our existential kink also drives the dark or negative repeating patterns in our life: always choosing the abusive partner or boss, settling for less, thinking that we're undeserving, not worthy. But it also is the source of our greatest power.

I do a deep dive into Carolyn Elliot's book, Existential Kink, which offers a truth-telling guide for bringing our shadow into the light. Inviting us to make conscious the unconscious, Elliott asks us to own the subconscious pleasure we get from the stuck, painful patterns of our existence.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn."

The salvation of man is through love and in love."

-Viktor E. Frankl

Humanity feels like it is on a precipice and that we are in the eye of the storm collectively. I understand that humanity has experienced 200,000+ years of war, but these times feel particularly charged right now. In this episode I talk about:

• Whether or not humanity can ever live in a peaceful way, or if it is naive to even ask that question?
• Is part of being human, being violent on some level? Whether that means violence with our thoughts, speech, energy, and behaviors?
• My thoughts on "evil" and I discuss my feelings on darkness in the individual and collective.
• The need for each of us to heal our own inner wars which become outer wars.
• How can we all soften and live more from our hearts versus ego righteousness, pain, and reactivity
• Love is the answer to our evolution
• I believe the alternative is going to be catastrophic globally