Today I’m hosting another panel episode with three guests who’ve been on the show before; Dominique Bryant Williams, Community Coordinator at WomanSpirit Reclamation, Flora Ware, Marketing Mentor and founder of Earth Song Temple, Dr. Carla Ionescu, The Artemis Expert and host of the Goddess Project podcast. Together we look at the pros and cons of having an “official” Church of the Goddess and/or a Goddess religion.

Dominique Bryant Williams is the Community Coordinator at WomanSpirit Reclamation, where she supports women in their journey to self-sovereignty and embodiment. She studied Marine Biology and Environmental Science at the University of California Santa Barbara, and now she dives deep into the work of inner child reclamation and rest as resistance. She is currently at work on a project based on the untold aspects of US history, exploring the intersections between mental conditioning, spirituality, and restorative justice.

SUPPORT: To become a sustaining member and pay what you’re aligned with WomanSpirit Reclamation, visit jointhereclamation.com

FOLLOW: You can find Dominique on Instagram @queenqueetie and at the WomanSpirit website, jointhereclamation.com

Flora Ware Flora Ware to the show today! Flora Ware is a Paradigm Shifter, Goddess Guide, Priestess, Creatrix, Vocalist, and the Founder of EarthSong Temple. She serves a global community of women as a Ceremonial Priestess, Sacred Musician and Cyclic Living Teacher. Flora specializes in archetypal spirituality and embodiment, helping women hear their soul's voice, awaken the Goddess within, and align their life and work with their unique feminine power. Flora is deeply connected to her Celtic ancestral roots, having been on the path as a practicing Witch since her first full moon Women's Circle in 1993. She lives in Vernon, BC, Canada with her wife and young wizard-in-training.

SUPPORT: Purchase books, take classes or become a sustaining member of Earth Song Temple, or purchase Flora’s “Songs for the Wheel of the Year” album at floraware.ca

FOLLOW:  You can find Flora online at floraware.ca or at the Facebook group - Awaken the Goddess Within, or @flora_ware on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube

Carla Ionescu, Ph.D., better known as the Artemis Expert, is an author,

Carla was born in Romania under the Communist Regime, and escaped with her family when she was 10 years old. As a kid, she loved getting lost in the world of myth and archaeology and turned it into her life's work as an adult.  Carla’s also an adrenaline junkie, an animal lover, and a natural born storyteller. She likes to ride motorcycles really fast and review archival documents very carefully. In the summers she scavenges new locations and cities worldwide, digging through the remains of grave sites, ruins, and abandoned buildings, trying to uncover the long-lost mystery that is Artemis, The Great Mother.

SUPPORT: Dr. Ionescu’s work on Patreon patreon.com/goddessproject or by purchasing a copy of She Who Hunts on Amazon or get a signed copy and Artemis swag from artemisresearchcentre.com/shop-online/

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LISTEN: You can listen to The Goddess Project podcast

Today I’m happy to welcome Razena Unwin. Razena been following the Goddess path for many decades. She led a study group called “Within Every Woman is a Goddess” for several years, facilitating several Goddess retreats that focused on the descent into the Underworld. She also started a Tarot study group that morphed into a metaphysical study group. She is also a certified Chakradance instructor.

Today I’m excited to welcome Kay Louise Aldred to the show! I’ve actually had my eye on Kate for some time so I was really glad when Monette Chilson made the introduction. Kay is an Educator, an Author, and a Mentor. She writes and edits for Girl God Books; Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood, Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences, and Somatic Shamanism: Your Fleshy Knowing as The Tree of Life. Kay has degrees in Theology and post graduate certification in education plus pastoral leadership experience. As a lifelong learner and researcher, Kay has immersed herself in exploring and experiencing sacred and healing modalities and expanded her skillset, qualifying as a Wellbeing Coach, Yin Yoga Teacher, Somatic Educator, Trainer and Advanced Practitioner in Energy and Shamanic Medicine and Sacred Feminine Leader. Today, as a trauma-informed teacher and facilitator, Kay offers online and in-person courses, workshops and resources. I finally get to have an episode about spiritual ecstasy, a topic I’ve been wanting to cover since the podcast began. Buckle up and hold on to your hats listeners; this may be a difficult episode for some as we get raw and real about some subjects you may consider taboo.

Kay Louise Aldred has been teaching and working pastorally since 1996. She graduated from Durham University with a BA (hons) First-Class in Theology in 1995 and went on to study a PGCE at York St John the following year. She taught and held Pastoral and Curriculum Leadership positions in Education between 1996 and 2016, apart from during a short career break when she gave birth to three children and completed a Counselling qualification and MA in Theology.

Kay visions, speaks and writes. She is an activist and advocate for individual, institutional and collective evolution - through education, embodiment and creativity - marrying together metacognition, intuition and instinct. As a neurodivergent individual Kay is also passionate about both supporting and ensuring accessibility to her work for all neurotypes and is an Associate of Neurodiverse Connection UK.

SUPPORT:  You can purchase all of Kay’s workbooks directly through the Girl God Books website at thegirlgod.com/purchase_books, Amazon, and most other popular booksellers. You can also sign up to work with Kay one-on-one or enroll in one of her online courses at her website, kaylouisealdred.com

 FOLLOW: You can find Kay online @kaylouisealdred on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

Today I’m hosting another panel episode with three guests who’ve been on the show before; Liz Kelly, author of Home to Her and host of the Home to Her podcast, Dr. Carla Ionescu, The Artemis Expert and host of the Goddess Project podcast, and D’vorah Grenn, our Kohenet Ruach from Episode 29. Today we’re talking about the disconnect of academic research knowledge between the scholars and the average spiritual seeker who is looking for solid info about the Goddess along their journey.

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, award-winning researcher, educator, community builder, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine. Her writing has been featured in a variety of online publications, including Forbes, Mashable, Rebelle Society, Human Parts (a Medium publication), and Braided Way, as well as the Girl God Books anthology Just As I Am: Hymns Affirming the Divine Female. An initiated priestess in the 13 Moons lineage, she also holds certifications in Reiki, as well as Vinyasa and Yin Yoga.

SUPPORT:  You can support Liz’s work by purchasing Home to Her on Amazon or direct from the publisher, WomanCraft Publishing (of course we’d prefer the latter) womancraftpublishing.com/product/home-to-her/

FOLLOW:   You can find Liz at her website, www.hometoher.com and on Facebook and Instagram @hometoher

LISTEN:  You can listen to the Home to Her podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and most other popular pod streaming platforms. You can also watch the episodes at Home to Her on YouTube

Carla Ionescu, Ph.D., better known as the Artemis Expert, is an author,

SUPPORT: Dr. Ionescu’s work on Patreon patreon.com/goddessproject or by purchasing a copy of She Who Hunts on Amazon or get a signed copy and Artemis swag from artemisresearchcentre.com/shop-online/

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LISTEN: You can listen to The Goddess Project podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and most other popular pod streaming platforms. You can also watch the episodes at The Goddess Project on YouTube

D'vorah Grenn, Ph.D., is an educator, writer and mashpi’ah ruchanit (spiritual guide.) She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality in 1997, Co-Directed the Women's Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University, and has taught many Humanities and Philosophy classes at Napa Valley College. Her writings include: Lilith’s Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce; Talking to Goddess: Powerful Voices From many Traditions, a prayer/blessing anthology with sacred writings from 72 women in 25 spiritual traditions; "The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses; Jewish priestess and Lilith entries in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions and “Spiritual Brokenness and the Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine” in FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary feminist journal. She co-hosted 50 episodes of “Priestessing the Priestesses" and Tending Lilith’s Fire” broadcasts with Kohenet Annie Matan.

SUPPORT:  You can purchase D’vorah’s books and other merch at:

lilithinstitute.com/lilithwp/shop/ or you can purchase "What Would Lilith Do?" T-shirts and other merch at redbubble.com/shop/ap/84226530

FOLLOW: You can find D’vorah online at www.lilithinstitute.com  or

LISTEN: Listen to the past recordings of Priestessing the Priestesses at youtube.com/@tendinglilithsfire

Today I’m really pleased to welcome one of our foremothers of Goddess Spirituality, Dr.Glenys Livingstone, to the show. Dr. Livingstone has been on a Goddess path since 1979. She is the author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, which fuses the indigenous traditions of Old Europe with scientific theory, feminism, and a poetic relationship with place. Her new book A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony documents the synthesis of her work over the past decades. She is the author of the children’s book My Name is Medusa, and co-editor of the anthology Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom. Glenys has contributed to eleven other anthologies, including Goddesses in World Culture edited by Patricia Monaghan (2011), Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Vicki Noble (2015), and Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture, edited my Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (2018). In 2014, Glenys co-facilitated the Mago Pilgrimage to Korea with Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang. She produced PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs and teaches a year-long on-line course "Celebrating Goddess and Cosmogenesis in the Wheel of the Year".

SUPPORT: You can purchase a copy Glenys’ new book, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos, through Girl God Books or buy a signed copy directly from Glenys on her website at pagaian.org/a-poiesis-of-the-creative-cosmos/signed. Although Glenys’ first book, PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, is available for free on her website, you can also purchase a softcover copy from Amazon or an eBook from iUniverse so royalty proceeds go to Glenys. The pagaian.org website also has PaGaian Cosmology meditation CDs for sale, links to buy Glenys’ My Name is Medusa book, and other PaGaian goodies. Or sign up for Glenys’ year-long course, Celebrating Goddess and Cosmogenesis in the Wheel of the Year.

FOLLOW: You can find Glenys online at her website, pagaian.org on YouTube @paGaian, and on Facebook @glenys.livingstone or @PagaianCosmology or join her Facebook group at facebook.com/pagaian/group

Today is the very first Girlfriend God panel discussion with Monette Chilson and Ronna Detrick. We get down and dirty with the Bible, yes that Bible, uncovering forgotten stones looking for our beloved Goddess between the pages of the patriarchy, mostly in the Old Testament.

Monette Chilson is a feminist scholar, author, and founder of WomanSpirit Reclamation, and she has written and spoken about the Divine Feminine for the past decade. She calls herself an “excavator of our sacred feminine lineage.” She founded WomanSpirit Reclamation to support women in navigating their awakening from patriarchal indoctrination in community with one anotherShe is the author of Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga and My Name is Lilith.

SUPPORT: Support Monette’s work by purchasing her books on Amazon, My Name is Lilith @ amazon.com/MyNameIsLilith and Sophia Rising @ amazon.com/SophiaRising or support the WomanSpirit Reclamation community by taking a course, becoming a sustaining member of the sisterhood, or purchasing from the marketplace. jointhereclamation.com

FOLLOW: You can find Monette online at jointhereclamation.com and @monettechilson and #womanspiritreclamation on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Ronna Detrick combines her love of writing with a Master of Divinity degree and a career that has included coaching, spiritual direction, professional development training, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. She left the church and its dogma nearly twenty years ago but took the stories of women with her. She. She shocked and delighted her audience in a provocative Tedx Talk on an Eve who inspires and empowers women instead of shaming and silencing them. Her new book, REWRITING EVE: Rescuing Women’s Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own, comes out on October 3rd, 2023.

SUPPORT:  You can sign up to work with coaching or spiritual direction one-on-one with Ronna at her website, ronnadetrick.com, or pre-order a copy of REWRITING EVE here bookshop.orgrewritingeve

FOLLOW:  You can find Ronna online at her website ronnadetrick.com or @ronnadetrick on Instagram and Facebook.

Today, I’m really pleased to welcome my good friend Celeste Elliott to the show! Celeste Elliott is a Medium and a Spiritualist Minister with the Church of the Living Spirit, and the host of the Blog Talk Radio show, Wake Up to Spirit. Celeste was born and raised in Northeastern Ohio. She grew up in and around the metaphysical and Spiritualist community and studied mediumship in traditional development circles and workshops. She is a year-round resident of Lily Dale and a Registered Medium on the grounds. In the off-season she travels to serve churches, teach, and demonstrate Mediumship. (To learn more about Lily Dale, visit lilydaleassembly.org) Celeste and I get into what Lily Dale is and how to get in there, what Mediumship is and is not, my personal experience with Celeste’s mediumship, and what the term “Spiritualist” actually means.

SUPPORT:  Purchase an online mediumship reading at any time or Join Celeste any Friday evening from November-June at 7pm Eastern for an online development class at celesteelliott.com. You can also visit Celeste in person at Lily Dale, NY if you’re ever in the area.

FOLLOW: You can find Celeste online at her website celesteelliott.com, on Instagram @celestemelliott, TikTok @celestethemedium, and Facebook @celeste.elliott.338.

LISTEN: Tune in to the Wake Up to Spirit every

Today I’m happy to welcome Lori Davis to the

FOLLOW: You can find Lori online at her website and

LISTEN: You can listen to the Her Half of History

Today in the hot seat I’ve got the illustrious Princess O’Nika Auguste. She is a Saint-Lucian feminist writer, theologian, and a historian. She has degrees in literature, history, and religion. She also has certification in public history, ancient history, medieval history, and medieval religion Her research focuses are gender, violence, sexuality, and slavery in sacred texts and in historical contexts. Princess’ work has been featured on Pop Culture and Theology, Christian Feminism Today, LAPP Brand Magazine, and Intersect Antigua. She is a frequent contributor to the Popular Culture Dialogue Series on YouTube. Princess gives us an overview of the present and past spiritual scene of the Caribbean Islands and how her own spiritual path has evolved in recent years.

SUPPORT:  You can support Princess and the work she does and content she creates in several ways. You can become a member of her Patreon at patreon.com/isletheologian, make a donation at ko-fi at ko-fi.com/isletheologian, or purchase swag at her Zazzle store at zazzle.com/store/isletheologian

FOLLOW: You can find Princess online @isletheologian on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube or subscribe to her newsletter via Substack at princessonikaauguste.substack.com

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Today I’m super excited to welcome D’vorah Grenn to the show! Kohenet Ruach D'vorah Grenn, Ph.D., is an educator, writer and mashpi’ah ruchanit (spiritual guide.) She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality in 1997, Co-Directed the Women's Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University, and has taught many Humanities and

SUPPORT:  You can purchase D’vorah’s books and other merch at:

lilithinstitute.com/lilithwp/shop or you can purchase "What Would Lilith Do?" T-shirts and other merch at redbubble.com/shop/ap/84226530

FOLLOW: You can find D’vorah online at lilithinstitute.com/lilithwp/  or @lilithinstitute on Instagram or at @IDvorah on Facebook

LISTEN: Listen to the past recordings of Priestessing