Welcome back to Season 3 of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast!

In this episode, hosts Sydney & Melissa embark on a poignant journey, exploring their personal experiences with grief and loss.

Exploring Grief:

Moving Through Stages of Grief:

Wisdom in Death:

Realizations and Reflections:

Closing Thoughts:

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In the last episode of Season 2, Melissa & Sydney bring you the gift of Paul Quinton. Paul is a Spirit Channel, and one of thier favorite people of all time. Paul is the creator of the Alignment Modality. This modality takes you on a journey of discovery. Moving through emotion and the shadow. Bringing you into alignment with the universe, the planet and your higher self. Teaching you what it means to be human and opening your eyes up to who you truly are.

Melissa and Paul discuss the Alignment Modaity. Melissa talks about her ongoing experience as she has been moving through this training. What it has meant to her and how she has dealt with the emotions it has brought up in her.

Paul takes us through the modality and talks about what it entails.

Sydney brings up an issue she has been moving through with some of her clients and Paul gives her advise on how to help them. A very insightful and collaborative experience.

In the end, Paul channels his guides and talks about what to expect for the New year.

Talking about insight and change. Moving through this reality with grace. Taking time for gratitude and the human experience.

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Connect with Paul Quinton at alignmentmodality.com

In Episode 66 Melissa & Sydney talk to podcast host and men's coach Brent Dowlen about his podcast The Fallible Man and what it means to him. How it began when he was asked by the women in his life to translate what men were talking about and feeling. They talk about men and relationships and what women can do to help a man on his journey. Discussing how women help by being in their feminine nature. Not by being weak, but by choosing to come together in partnership and helping them to create a home.

Brent talks about how men relate to one another. How they stand side by side one another during conversation instead of facing one another head on. Noticing that in nature, a show of agression is to stare one another down.

He discusses how and where violence can come into play and how men use physical touch to teach one another right from wrong. discussing how men can settle a score quickly and move on as friends.

Brent talks about toxic masculinity and why he feels that this label needs to be put to bed. Discussing how he believes men are getting a raw deal a lot of the time and being judged by others and being compared to the broken men in this world.

He talks about how men need to be able to check one another in order to teach one another respect and how many men haven't learned respect at home. That it is up to the other men in society to rectify that. Otherwise these broken men become loose cannons out in society and hurt others along the way.

Melissa realizes that she has no idea what men go through and asks about the violence that Brent is talking about. Wondering if it is always necessary. Sydney brings up nature and how wolves take control of the pack in a similar way that Brent is describing. Brent talks about using physical touch to break men out of a state of negative behavior.

He states that a good man is one who is capable of extreme violence, but chooses not to use it unless necessary. A man incapable of violence is useless. He needs to be a protector and that men need to find a middle ground.

That the Lone Wolf mentality is bad for men and they need to be surrounded by balanced men in order to thrive.

Looking at bridging the gap between men and women. Building healthy partnerships and healing together. Allowing men to be men and asking women to support them by being women. Having true acceptance for one another. Learning how to relate with compassion and love.

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Connect with Brent Dowlen at:

The Fallible Man Podcast

thefallibleman.com

readmeastorydad.com

Episode 65 starts with a quote by Margaret Atwood. Melissa and Sydney discuss what the quote means to them and get into a deep discussion about how women can feel as though they are being watched all of the time and how, even when there is no actual man in the vacinity, women take on their own voyeuristic point of view on the inside and how there seems to be a sexual watcher whether or not a man is present.

They notice that being attached to a man has always been a survival mechanism for women. That, as women, we are just beginning to move away from that. That it would be helpful to ask ourselves "Where is the man in me?" and what type of man that lies deep within and that we have internalized and that shows up in our minds and can cause us to feel less than.

Realizing that the answer is doing the inner work and deciding that we are enough. No matter what society or other people think or say. Believeing that we are magnificent.

Sydney talks about the embodiment process and how she is moving through it for herself. She gives us tips about beginning to love who we are. Asking the question, what does it mean to me to feel sexy and beautiful? Noticing that to her, true sexiness is the creation process. Asking how she can be sexy for herself. Finding beauty in how her heart experiences the world. Moving away from what society says about any of it. Creating a healthy masculine point of view internally. Becoming free.

Giving ourselves permission to play around with social norms. Noticing what we really like and what we really want. Deciding what makes us comfortable in our own skin. Challenging societal fear. Challenging ourselves to go in deep and investigate for ourselves.

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Connect with Sydney Decker at innerelementwellness.com

Get Sydney's Book: Cleanse Your Energy

Get Sydney's Journal: Cleanse Your Energy Journal

Melissa & Sydney begin with a song and discuss how they have been feeling during the full moon energy and the heaviness they both have been moving through. Talking about finding our inner peace and going within to get quiet. Unplugging from the world and sitting with ourselves while looking into what we truly want.

They talk about living in the "Old World" vs. the "New World" and how interesting it is living in both energies. Watching the evolutionary process.

Sydney talks about how we are seeing the collective pain body and collective fear right now. How we are feeling the shadow and heaviness because light is breaking through. Discussing how 2024 will be a very transformative year.

They discuss how uncomfortable we all are right now as we heal and how we are all beginning to speak up and speak out. How we are talking about our traumas and beginning to change ourselves and how strange that feels, no matter what side of the discussion we are on.

Sydney talks about our individual journeys and how we can relate to one another as feminine and masculine. Understanding that the feminine energy is creation energy and how we have been living in the destruction energy of the masculine. How we need to get out of survival mode and into creation mode.

Asking questions of ourselves about what type of world we want to be a part of. What type of world do we want to create? Then taking steps to create that in our daily lives. Pouring creation into what we might want to destroy. Choosing compassion and love for ourselves and others.

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Find Sydney's Cleanse Your Energy Journal HERE!

Find her book Cleanse Your Energy HERE!

Troy talks about how he began his spiritual journey and how he started out feeling as if he was separate from nature and that he had to notice this feeling of separateness before he could feel a deep connection to God.

He talks about how God can move from our minds into our hearts and when that happens we realize that there is no condition that you can put on God and that Divinity exists even in absolute darkness.

They talk about how much pain there is in the world right now and how it can be so hard to love certain people. Noticing that God is in every single person on the planet despite how they act or what they might do. Troy shares with us a quote: "I have not come to teach, but to Love, and Love will teach.

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You can find Troy Hadeed at troyhadeed.com

Melissa and Sydney start this one out with breathwork and a meditation. Using the breath as an anchor into the present moment. Realizing that they needed to center and drop down into the heart.

Sydney talks about wanting to get quiet and Melissa shares her feelings about watching where we are putting our energy. Noticing that we need to take care of ourselves and that it is not up to us to save other people, especially when they aren't asking us to.

They talk about how important it is to show ourselves grace and that just noticing our reactions is a big deal. Sydney shares an experience she has been moving through and finds herself telling a familiar story. Discussing that healing occurs in layers and that we are being asked to look at and release old habits and patterns.

They talk about compassionate action. How we can show up for ourselves and other people at the same time. Noticing that everything that happens in our lives is here for us. Helping us to heal.

Sydney talks about how when you are on a spiritual journey you are sometimes seen as being a person who always self sacrifices and turns the other cheek. Allowing others to hurt us without doing or saying anything about it. Noticing that living in love and light means taking care of yourself first and knowing who we are.

They take a look at what it looks like to allow healing and practicing new ways of being. What it looks like to trust in yourself and to grow. Moving through the emotions and working through shedding old ways of being. Allowing the space for the new love of self and others to break through.

Sydney talks about tuning into our bodies when we are triggered and how the body and mind tell different stories and how that can look. Noticing that we usually listen to the mind while dragging our bodies around behind us.

Listening to ourselves and figuring it all out. Creating space in our lives for healing. Trusting in ourselves and our abilities.

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In Episode 61 Melissa & Sydney talk about becoming embodied and how to do that via self-care. They discuss the healing work they did together in Pittsburgh and Melissa talks about her journey right now and what that looks like. Asking herself if she is coming from a place of fear.

Sydney discusses how our collective mental and emotional bodies are being deconstructed and broken down and how uncomfortable it is and will be for us all. Talking about how our physical expressions are connected to our emotional and mental bodies and how we need to go within and not give our power away to healers, doctors and gurus, but to become sovereign instead. Trusting in ourselves and who we are. Recognizing that we must find the connections between all of our bodies. Using the investigative process in order to find clues to healing.

They discuss the 5 individual bodies and how they effect us and what we can do to take care of ourselves. Listening to what our bodies need and not getting so wrapped up in the doing that we forget about the Being.

They discuss fighting urges in parts of ourselves vs. softening into any resistance and how the softening works out so much better because it allows us to see the real reasons behind our feelings and reactions and triggers in the moment.

Sydney gives us action steps to take to help regulate our nervous system and to shut down overwhelm and bring us out of a fight or flight mind-set.

Melissa discusses her Pancha Karma experience with Sydney and how much it changed her relationship to her body. Moving from one of disgust to one of connection and hope.

Noticing how much the physical body matters and feeling the sacredness of it all.

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Connect with Sydney at innerelementwellness.com

Find Sydney's Book "Cleanse Your Energy" and

Companion Journal on Amazon NOW!

Jessica Karels is a Tarot reader, psychic and energy healer who helps people cut through the hustle of life so that they can handle life's curveballs. She runs The Mystic Geek, where she uses a mix of magical and mundane techniques to provide transformational coaching. She also hosts The Spiritual AF Sunday podcast, where she explores topics that receive only superficial coverage in social media spaces. Jessica is also a gamer nerd and cat mom and enjoys reading books that examine the weirdness we call humanity.

Witchcraft is getting things done on the mystical plane. Jessica gives us the low down and a bit of history about witchcraft and talks about the holidays and seasons that witches pay attention to. Noting that Halloween is a big holiday for them.

She talks about how she went from a Jehova's Witness to practicing witchcraft. Becoming a computer science major minoring in religion. This brought her to a place of wanting to dig in deeper and that's when she began to look at alternative practices.

She became interested in nature and became aware of the seasons and lunar cycles, but decided to go easy on herself for not being the "perfect witch".

Jessica discusses how technology and witchcraft can be very similar and how they both connect us to the physical and the ether.

Sydney talks about the internet and how it is an energetic connection and Jessica agrees and talks about tapping into energy via long distances. Speaking on the necessity of having boundries on social media because there is energy behind comments and other interactions that happen there. When you feel attacked it could be the anger the person was feeling who commented on your post.

The women talk about Generative AI and wonder what the future will look like because of it. Noticing that AI can create music now and wondering if it will be able to evoke emotion like some human created music does.

Sydney wonders if AI will take away from humanities emotional intelligence, but recognizes that AI is very helpful, and talks about her AI restaurant experience.

Jessica reminds us how far we have come with our technology, and that when it changes people can become displaced, but that it is that fear of losing our identity with our work that is the bigger issue.

Embracing our humanness and also change. Finding balance and not living in fear. Evolving in all ways, mind, body and spirit.

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You can connect with Jessica Karels at themysticgeek.com

Find her on social media: Instagram-@the_mystic_geek

Twitter-@themysticgeek

Go check out her podcast: Spiritual AF Sundays

In this deep dive of an episode Melissa & Sydney talk about the new energy on the planet and how it's becoming very hard to hide in the shadows now. The truth is coming out and the light is shining on it all.

They discuss how uncomfortable it is right now as the systems are being shaken up and how it is causing the dirt to rise to the top.

They talk about how easy it is to give away our power and how we find fault in others and forget that we are a big part of the problem.

Sydney talks about doing shadow work and facing and embracing all parts of ourselves. Facing your darkness and realizing that it is not evil, it is unconciousness. She discusses getting to a place in your spiritual journey where you can begin to invite that darkness inside. Noting that you must be very centered and trust yourself enough to realize that you are light. Then you can begin to integrate the darkness. Light inviting the darkness to become light.

Noticing the battles and struggles within. Calling our power and peace back home.

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