The Madelyn Moon Show

Episode 336: Yogic intimacy and Tantra are spiritual embodiment practices that both encompass and extend beyond sex. Madelyn has been focusing on Tantra to complement the Yogic intimacy work she's been engaged with for years. Learning just basic physical intimacy is a challenge for many of us, let alone exploring and enhancing by engaging the physical with the spiritual, and the masculine with the feminine. Madelyn has been focused more on her TikTok and Instagram these days, as she's been using visual components to teach these concepts. In this episode Madelyn catches up on what she's been up to and explores some tools and practices available to bring art to our intimacy.

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Show Notes:

• Madelyn's intention is to now release one podcast episode per month.
• The podcast is no longer at the forefront of her prerogatives as a teacher.
• Follow Madelyn on Instagram and TikTok, where she's taking her polarity teaching with a visual component. This will be her focus for her time.
• Madelyn welcomes your feedback on the new plan!
• Artistic Intimacy Workshop: maddymoon.com/artistic
• This is a two-hour workshop on how to bring art into your intimate life.
• Madelyn has been doing a Tantra course, supplementing the Yogic intimacy she's been studying and teaching.
• Men often deplete their chi or lifeforce through ejaculation - women 'get' energy and are energized via sex and orgasm.
• One of the prime quests of the male's journey to living a Tantric lifestyle is to prolong or delay ejaculation, orgasm without ejaculation.
• In Tantra you are vitalized by multiple orgasms, but physical ejaculation is depleting.
• Much of Madelyn's work to date has approached from the more spiritual, less physical side of intimacy.
• This is largely due to the purity culture in which she was raised.
• When she was young, Madelyn wore a ring symbolizing her marriage with God.
• While that was part of a negative purity culture, she has adapted the concept and considers herself married to a personal god, and connects with this through the sensual.
• Sisu Society has changed and evolved. No longer a group coaching program, now a course with tons of practices: maddymoon.com/sisu-society
• Feminine Spirit School is a foundational, but still deep, study of feminine/masculine: maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit
• As always, one-one-coaching is available as well. maddymoon.com/coaching

Connect with Madelyn: 

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonfitness/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/madelynmoon/
• Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes: http://maddymoon.com/itunes
• Download my Four Favourite Feminine Embodiment Practices: https://maddymoon.com/freegift

Photo credit: Lisandra Vazquez Photography

Episode 335: Brandon Beachum is an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic. Brandon has been a serial entrepreneur since childhood, and in 2011 while living on a friend’s couch he co-founded what is present- day ResortShare. Today, Brandon’s primary focus is on helping people shift their perspectives to innerstand the “ultimate nature of reality’’ and create more of what they want to see in their world!

In an effort to do so, Brandon released his first book in January 2021, The Golden Key: Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance. In it Brandon shares the 8 keys of abundance, which he has unlocked over 25 years of experience and deep exploration. He is gifting these keys to the world via the book to help others unlock their own divine potential.

He is also inviting readers to participate in a unique abundance manifestation game that entails them making an energetic contribution for the book after reading it, and then doing three abundance manifestation exercises for 88 days designed to flow abundance back in their direction. In an effort to practice what he preaches, he will also be sharing 50% of the revenue generated from listeners with any podcasts he discusses the book on.

You can download The Golden Key: Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance audio or eBook at GoldenKey.Gift with the code MOON.

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Show Notes:

• Madelyn has been focusing her attention on her free videos on Instagram and TikTok.
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madelynmoon
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@madelynvictoriamoon
• As the number of podcast episodes has decreased, now is a great time to like, comment, and subscribe on podcast episodes. Mind Body Musings needs your help to move up in the rankings and reach as many people as possible!
• Brandon had just started shooting his show Optimystic when the COVID lockdown started.
• The show was put on hold, but now that things are opening back up, things are moving on it again.
• Brandon has experienced staggering synchronicity around the date of July 28th.
• 25 years ago Brandon experienced a spiritual awakening or epiphany of understanding the nature of reality, that we're all connected.
• He had a strong impulse to share it with the world, which led to his podcast and everything after.
• He wanted to distill this awareness down to a book to reach as many people as possible.
• There are eight Abundance Secrets outlined in The Golden Key:
• See the Oneness
• Know the Illusion
• Focus Your Flow
• Align Your Intentions
• Be, Be, Be
• Trust the Mystery
• Love What Comes
• Master the YoUniverse, the Golden Key that ties all together.
• Remember to get your audio or eBook copy of The Golden Key by using code MOON at GoldenKey.Gift.
• Madelyn and Brandon discussed Focus Your Flow more in depth as a tie-in to her masculine/feminine work.
• Subtitle of the book is 'Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance'.
• When Mario Andretti was asked about what advice he gives to new drivers, "Whatever you do, don't look at the wall."
• Where attention goes, energy flows, so you're going to hit the wall.
• Finding the fine line between identifying a problem and championing it.
• When Mother Teresa was asked if she would join a march against the war, she said she would not march against it, but should there be a march for peace, she would be there.
• Identifying an issue on its own isn't enough - you have to identify it so you can avoid it, not move energetically toward it.
• If you see something that's bad or awful, you want to give a lot of attention to fight it. Instead, take its power away by redirecting your attention and energy.
• Evolution is a spiral, and we circle back on things we think we've processed.
• Book: Oneness by Rasha - Brandon refers to it as a "handbook for ascension" - https://amzn.to/3rzXVvs
• Brandon and Madelyn discuss Richard Rudd's The Gene Keys: Unlocking the Higher Purpose Hidden in Your DNA – https://amzn.to/30HLJyv
• "Turning drama into dharma."
• Our challenges are opportunities for us to find and refine our place in the world and in relation to others, responding versus reacting.

Connect with Brandon:

• Get your Golden Key book - https://goldenkey.gift/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/0ptimystic/
• Podcast - https://www.positivehead.com/

Episode 334: As more and more of us as individuals and as a society become aware of our own feminine/masculine and engaging in conscious embodiment, the path to equilibrium in a relationship can sometimes feel like it's become more and more difficult. The "bold masculine" impulse to operate by mandates, to organize and structure, can conflict with the more important and valuabe acts of simply being present.

In this episode, originally recorded for The Rising Man podcast, Madelyn and host Jeddy Azuma discuss boundaries, the bold masculine, and the intersection of embodiment and intimacy.

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Show Notes:

• Madelyn participated in this conversation on Jeddy Azuma's The Rising Man podcast - https://maddymoon.com/rising-man
• There's a workshop next week - Artistic Intimacy - maddymoon.com/artistic
• If you're interested in using feminine (energy) and masculine (consciousness) energetics in your day-to-day life, know that there's a playful way to handle conflict in your relationship, and are fed up with closed-hearted "lol okay" statements but don't know how to escape that space, this workshop is for you.
• What is the difference between a boy and a man?
• A boy has energy of either tiptoeing or stomping on eggshells.
• A man is more even-keel eggshell walking, more confident, more present in himself, more breath in the way he'll live his life.
• His presence allows her to be more at ease.
• Madelyn had to reprogram her constructs from upbringing - that certain emotions were "wrong."
• When she started on her embodiment path, she learned to use her physical body to reveal anger, reveal grief.
• This led to her presenting herself in relationships more in real time, avoiding language that leans on shame and blame.
• The masculine can be characterized as consciousness, depth, nothingness - the container.
• The feminine can be characterized as energy, motion, chaos - what fills the container.
• Women often get caught off guard when a man finally arrives at being in touch with his emotions, which can lead to defensiveness from both.
• Whoever is more consumed and focused on more love in the relationship, is the one in the feminine.
• You cannot be penetrated by life when you're constantly setting up boundaries - think of a sandbox instead.
• Setting boundaries is not about trying to create separation and walls.
• Men can feel dry and boring after too much focus on providing the stability they perceive as being asked of them, and deprioritizing adventure.
• Women want your truth - don't say yes if you mean no.
• Feeling the "no" within a "yes" is damaging to trust in a relationship.
• Be authentically present through eye contact, aftercare, awareness, not necessarily analyzing and structuring.
• Sometimes the more valuable work is done by not "working" on it, but being present for it.

Connect with Madelyn: 

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonfitness/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/madelynmoon/
• Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes: http://maddymoon.com/itunes
• Download my Four Favourite Feminine Embodiment Practices: https://maddymoon.com/freegift

Episode 333: Genevieve is your go-to expert on the Erotic. She is a Sexual Expansion Speaker and Guide who has been influencing the Erotic Arts for the past 15 years. Genevieve is a Certified Erotic Blueprint™ Coach and Erotic Blueprint™ Master Trainer (under Jaiya, sexologist for Tony Robbins, Julianne Hough, and other major leaders, and creator of The Erotic Blueprints™ which have been mentioned on The View, The Talk, Oprah Magazine, People Magazine, and more), Former Professional Dominatrix and Certified in Accelerated Evolution Psychospiritual Methodologies under Satyen Raja (trainer for T Harv Eker, Colin Sprake, and Gabor Maté, to name a few). Genevieve is also certified in Somatic-Based Chakra Therapy by Anodea Judith, author of Eastern Body, Western Mind and Wheels of Life and has a background in psychotherapy, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. Through her transformational online group events and workshops and 1:1 sexual mastery mentorships, Genevieve guides you in freeing your sexual conditioning so that you can show up FULLY and rediscover your sexy, wild, passionate, liberated self.

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Show Notes:

• Trigger warning: Today's episode covers deep (and often explicit) facets of sexuality, including reclamation of sexuality post-trauma. Wear headphones!
• Genevieve has a workshop on Your Erotic Blueprints in Sisu Society: https://maddymoon.com/sisu-society
• Every morning, Genevieve starts her day alone in her own space, and claims the day with three hours of orgasms - no computer or phone until 11:00 AM.
• When she was a teenager, Genevieve would spend nights at punk shows, but go home early enough to get to ballet class the next morning.
• At first she felt there was a dichotomy between these two activities, but she came to realize they were both an expression of the same thing.
• Genevieve knew even as a young child that she was meant to change the world.
• She didn't know in which path she'd make this impact, so she did as many different things as possible.
• Genevieve didn't grow up familiar with the concept of "safety" and was molested and raped multiple times.
• She only knew sex as violence and pain until later in life.
• There was no relationship of her body beyond a tool to be used.
• Genevieve was homeless briefly at age 16. A girlfriend at 18 suggested she explore becoming a dominatrix.
• At this point is when she stepped into her own sexual power. "Oh, my sex isn't for other people."
• Previously sex had largely been transactional, not done for enjoyment.
• Now she was able to use people's kinks (often expression of pain and trauma as a filter to experience pleasure through) to bring them through their trauma and into healing.
• Genevieve was raped at age 13, but didn't consciously acknowledge it as such until later in life.
• She was later able reclaim it through work with a partner.
• When people who are not experiencing pleasure due to trauma are able to reclaim it, they invariably realize that it was because they were terrified of the power of their pleasure. They were protecting themselves from pleasure.
• She had to learn how to be intimate and gentle with herself.
• Many of Genevieve's mentors are much older, and the death of one of these friends and guides became a regular and frequent reality for her.
• Genevieve has been non-monogamous (Shapeshifter Erotic Blueprint) for as long as she can remember - her lovers are like family or best friends.
• Her partner was new to even the concept, so it has been a process of communication, acknowledging triggers will occur and utilize them to confront their fears together.
• Genevieve's book: Fuck Yourself Open has more detail on Genevieve's 20+ years of erotic exploration through her lived experience and gifts you the simple, effective tools to reclaim your body and its innate wisdom, once and for all - https://amzn.to/2NTfnND
• Your pleasure is your responsibility!

Connect with Genevieve:

Join The Pleasure Circle here: http://genevievepleasure.com/free/

Episode 332: Rotana is a Saudi Arabian performance artist, singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, she moved to Los Angeles five years ago to pursue music after quitting her job at Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in the world. She is currently working on her one woman show/musical, Alien of Extraordinary Ability (named after her immigration status), and her debut album which just released her latest singles Sin Again and Stuck in America.

Rotana describes herself as an initiator, an erotic being, and a liberator. As an artist that reckons daily with the experience of “other”, she is determined to give movement, sound, beauty and witness to that experience. After premiering her one woman show at FORM, a world renowned festival featuring artists and poets like Aja Monet and Florence and The Machine, she received the attention of publications like GQ noting that Rotana “delivered one of the most spine-tingling performances of the entire FORM festival.” She has also collaborated with brands including Fendi, Miu Miu, Lucky Brand, and more. Rotana has been named one of BBC’s 100 most powerful women and covered by GQ, LA Weekly, Huffington Post, Vice Arabia, Vogue Arabia, NPR, and AJ+. Her performances have spanned cities globally including Paris, Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, New York, and at the Sundance Music Festival. Straddling a profound love for her home and the determination to be free, Rotana’s music speaks to the journey of self realization in the face of Saudi tradition, God, sexuality, family and the immigrant experience.

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Show Notes:

• Try Care/Of! For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code moon50
• Book: Divine Names: The 99 Healing Names of the One Love - https://amzn.to/3rYLkmm
• Much of the mysticism around Islam is centered around Sufism, and numerology plays a big part in the background of the practice.
• Rotana has been drawn to a sensual aspect of prayer and chanting, which has been a challenge when contrasted with her more orthodox upbringing.
• Madelyn discusses her interface with this same concept via the Book of Solomon in the Bible.
• Ijtihad: to be a warrior within yourself - "doing the sometimes impossible work of sitting with your intuition and owning what that means for you."
• Rotana believes part of her mission on Earth is to bring back holiness to our first and second chakras.
• Rotana grew up in a gated community in Saudi Arabia nicknamed "Little America," a town built for employees of oil company Saudi Aramco.
• Just outside of the community, society was much more restricted and conservative.
• Rotana was initially more drawn to the traditional community, but as time went on she felt the pull of inner sensuality, creating a dissonance between the two domains of her life.
• After college, Rotana returned to Saudi Arabia to work at Saudi Aramco - the dissonance was taking its toll, causing panic attacks and anxiety.
• She traveled to India to take part in what was effectively a rehab experience.
• Rotana realized she needed to rebuild herself, undo everything, and came to America as a musician and creator.
• In 2019 she performed at FORM festival. and read scripture from the Quran.
• Her performance was captured on video, and it went viral.
• Her juxtaposition of the Quran with herself as a woman, with sexuality, with religious freedom, was intensely controversial and offended many back at her home, resulting in her effectively losing her family.
• Book: Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown - https://amzn.to/2LTH0W3
• Pleasure needs to be reframed as, instead of being selfish and frivolous, to something that is necessary for our vitality, well-being, and sustainability as a species.
• Madelyn asks Rotana who God is to her, and because of her background and what she's gone through, it triggers a deep emotional response in Rotana. Her answer is amazing and a bullet in show notes wouldn't do it justice. Be sure to listen to the episode to hear it in her own words!

Connect with Rotana:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrotana/
• Music Video - Sin Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVgUgm0CLo
• Music Video - Stuck in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEyyNQ-4VY

Episode 331: Most of us know about the Hero's Journey, the narrative template wherein the "hero" undergoes a series of patterns by which he actually becomes the hero. But what about the heroine? The feminine Heroine's Journey obviously doesn't follow the same pattern and has its own nuance and particulars. In special episode, Madelyn presents one of her full sessions from Sisu Society, outlining how to consider your own truth and story through the lens of the Heroine's Journey as described by authors Maureen Murdock and Camy Tang.

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FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: Join here: https://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Show Notes:

• This episode is a special full class from Sisu Society.
• Purchase the Sisu Society for 10% off using code MINDBODYMUSINGS: maddymoon.com/sisu-society
• This is about being brilliantly resilient in your feminine.
• Come back to your most pure, original, effortless state, which is being loved and being open.
• You have probably been living The Heroine's Journey unconsciously your entire life.
• The Hero's Journey is about what a man will endure through his life to become his own hero.
• Joseph Campbell said The Hero's Journey takes men to the place that women have been all along.
• Author Maureen Murdock disagrees with this somewhat and believes there's more to it. Get the book The Heroine's Journey here - https://amzn.to/2YZPXA7
• The Hero's Journey is about "things that happen," while The Heroine's Journey is more about transformation, disembodying and associating.
• Women's leadership and women's sexuality are two prominent fronts in the modern Heroine's Journey.
• Write or consider your own story as fiction.
• This allows you to get distance from it, as well as explore concepts and areas you might avoid or not give yourself permission to explore in nonfictional consideration, such as memoir.
• Madelyn then walks through Camy Tang's Heroine's Journey worksheet - available here: maddymoon.com/camy-tang-worksheet
• Number one: the illusion of the perfect world.
• Think of a time before a big change - what was something you needed, that you didn't know at the time?
• What archetype were you inhabiting at the time?
• Number two: separation from the feminine, something that "jarringly separates you from the voice in your womb."
• Not necessarily traumatic or bad, but something that changed your path - the call to adventure.
• What is the thing that happened to you? And how did you lose what you cared about, what you thought you needed to have?
• Don't judge yourself - this isn't about guilt or correction. Focus on what it's bringing up for you.
• Number three: the point of no return, and the preparation of the journey.
• The identification of the masculine.
• When did you separate from the feminine and how did you identify with the masculine?
• Number four: the descent - the journey into the underworld.
• This is the part where you'll experience the most trials.
• Number five: the illusion of success.
• Life is full of exquisite expansion and contraction, and going into contraction isn't failure or a less important part than the expansion or success.
• Number six: death.
• All is lost, the black moment.
• All is taken, the ultimate bathroom-floor breakdown, divine opening.
• This is the moment where you are face-to-face with the ultimate fork in the road or inflection point.
• Number seven: surrender.
• You've surrendered, and your "spiritual team" rallies around you, and you come back into the feminine.
• Number eight: healing with the mother, rebirth, and healing with the wounded masculine.
• Now coming into the space of conscious masculinity in rhythm with the feminine.
• Now it's about coming back into the world.
• Number nine: return to the perfect world, master of two worlds, freedom to live, final reward, integration.
• Think about your relationship with the feminine at different stages compared to it now.
• Be present even in the chaos.

Episode 330: Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Her latest book is WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics. Mirabai is on the 2020 Watkins List of the “100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People of the World.” She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

Madelyn's conversation with Mirabai Starr covers longing, feminine mysticism, religion, white privilege, spiritual heritage, and vast mysteries vs. specificity in spiritual practice.

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Show Notes:

• Reading Mirabai's book Wild Mercy is "like drinking a very tall glass of water after being in the desert for a very long time."
• Madelyn's Feminine Spirit School - 8-week 7-module course, is 75% off - maddymoon.com/feminine
• Mirabai doesn't "avoid others' voices" when writing or creating.
• There's only one of each and every one of us and yet we're all connected, so there's nothing to protect, in a way.
• Some of Mirabai's favorite books:
• Eve Ensler - In the Body of the World - https://amzn.to/2YhwXg1
• Anne Lamott - Traveling Mercies - https://amzn.to/3iJ4HfG
• Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird - https://amzn.to/3pkX7dx
• Mirabai is writing a new book about her mother and has been recording (social-distanced) conversations with her.
• Regardless of what happens with the book, she'll always have these moments now documented.
• Mirabai is focused lately on considering privilege, white or otherwise, and its interface with spiritual study and navigating it in such a way without appropriation.
• As we reach different stages of our lives, we're temperamentally varied and crave different things in our spiritual yearnings and practice.
• "Individual liberation is a meaningless concept to the feminine" - the specificity isn't always as desirable because of the vast mystery in spiritual traditions.
• Mirabai was given her name by Ram Dass, after the 16th century Hindu ecstatic poet and devotee of Lord Krishna.
• Her relationship with the divine has "taken the pressure off" of her grounded earthly relationship with her husband.
• Longing has been vilified in a way, and Mirabai's mantra lately has been, "Let's reclaim longing." Longing is also holy.
• Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of the book Wild Mercy.
• Mirabai translated St. Teresa's The Interior Castle - https://amzn.to/3cc605x - and St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul - https://amzn.to/36cSjQ9
• Audiobook of Wild Mercy just released, narrated by Mirabai herself. To receive Mirabai's book Wild Mercy as an audiobook, sign up for Audible using our affiliate link and get your first book free: https://audibletrial.com/mindbodymusings
• Try Care/Of! For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code moon50

Connect with Mirabai:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mirabai.starr.author/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirabaistarr/
• Website: https://www.mirabaistarr.com/]

Episode 329: If you're on a self-aware and overt path of energy and relationship work, it can be both a challenge to grow if your partner isn't a "conscious man" on the same path, hasn't read the same books, attended the same workshops, and cultivated the same awareness of intimacy dynamics. However, there's also a great opportunity there, since if both partners are doing the same work very consciously, it can lead to a stilted sense of rigidity and overwhelming self-consciousness. It's okay if you carry these ideas more consciously than your partner!

In this episode Madelyn explores this concept, covers the trouble spots as well as the benefits, and how to align your sensibilities to enhance your intimacy and stop waiting for the perfect conscious man.

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Show Notes:

• This episode's topic is "withholding."
• For an introduction to the topic, see Madelyn's Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ32l27nOF8/
• There's a misconception that both partners must have the knowledge of spirituality/sexuality in order for the couple to work in that sphere.
• Book: Blue Truth by David Deida: https://amzn.to/2XzltnK
• It only takes one person to be conscious and understanding of things like "eye contact during sex deepens intimacy."
• It's important to break the barrier of fear of looking or feeling stupid in order to evoke your spiritual intimacy and sexuality together.
• Intimacy with someone who is aware of these dynamics is different than intimacy with someone who is not.
• Both partners being very aware of this can make the process feel too predefined and static, or transform it into a performance.
• On the other hand, it can be a challenge if you or your partner is not aware.
• Taboos are the way that we sexualize our shame, which can be very positive.
• It's showing you a place that deeply desires to be nourished and loved.
• If your partner is not aware of the work, those darker places might challenge their identity.
• If you are waiting for someone to check off all of these boxes, you are withholding, and you're the one suffering.
• The deeper you go into your own practice, the more you will evoke it in your partner.
• This process can open you up to falling in love with more and more different "types" of people.
• Instagram and other platforms have a lot of strange censorship going on - make sure you're on the email list as a backup! maddymoon.com/feminine

Connect with Madelyn: 

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonfitness/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/madelynmoon/
• Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes: http://maddymoon.com/itunes
• Download my Four Favorite Feminine Embodiment Practices: https://maddymoon.com/freegift

Episode 328: We are all creators - whether we're creating a podcast, a beautiful meal, music, a drawing, or our living spaces. The pressures of content creation and consumption on social media can leave us feeling disconnected with the pure joy of creation and enjoying content. At the end of 2020, Madelyn took a step back from social media and content creation and did a bit of Instagram cleansing, which then led to a reevaluation of her own time and energy, and a break from the podcast as well.

In this episode Madelyn discusses this break, how to use the stresses of 2020 as an opportunity for change in 2021, rapture, and the joy of naps.

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FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: Join here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Show Notes:

• Madelyn was light on podcasts in December.
• This stressful time is not so much like "being put through the wringer" as "being put through the portal."
• Break started with Instagram break in November - deleted from phone, installed to make a post and taken off
• Madelyn was struggling with the constant pressure of social media - "Instagram hamster wheel."
• There's a difference between being a "creator" and having to "create content."
• When the creations are used to make a living, they become something different.
• Madelyn had lost sight of the actual spirit of creation in the pressure create content.
• Every creation comes with a to-do list.
• Part of our evolution as a society is also reflective of changes like this, moving to what's important.
• She's been cocooning since moving, creating her new space.
• Madelyn's word for the year: Rapture
• Madelyn wrote a book during this time, in addition to the novel she's been working on.
• Social media can be like an infant that needs constant care - even just the stress of keeping up and commenting that takes your focus away from the joy of creating for creation's sake.
• Look to how you can bring in more help for yourself this year.
• One spot for one-on-one coaching is opening up in January!

Episode 327: Sarah Poet is an alchemical life coach, healer & teacher who activates modern women on a soul path of fully reclaiming her energetic, spiritual, and financial sovereignty by transmuting her feminine and masculine trauma and standing in the full & unified truth of who she is. She is the host of the Sacred Remembering podcast for modern women waking up to the truth of who they are. You can watch her TEDx on reclaiming the feminine and masculine within each human as well as read her blog and more at www.sarahpoet.com.

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Show Notes:

• There is a wound carried in all feminine creatures - The Female Provision Wound.
• Sarah took her name ("claimed the name of her soul") by engaging a self-baptism activity at a retreat.
• The significance of names was discussed in Episode 273 with Gahl Sasson - maddymoon.com/gahl-sasson/
• Sarah was raised in a small-town religious context.
• She became pregnant relatively young. After returning home, there was a sense of, "Now I'm going to try to be good," but also a sense of, "No matter what you do, you won't be worthy."
• Going through something like a divorce can particularly activate the Provision Wound - "But I'm in your house."
• It's important to evaluate where you are in victim consciousness, especially if you balk at the idea of "being a victim."
• If you think of habits and behaviors that are expressing wounds and getting in the way of growth, think of that conditioning like software, and evaluate where and when that software was "installed."
• It's okay to have needs in a relationship - not every need is a codependency.

Connect with Sarah:

• Website: www.sarahpoet.com
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/sarahpoetembodiedbreath
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/embodiedbreath