The Madelyn Moon Show

Episode 280: Do you often resist masculine structure and leadership? Is your body screaming that it isn’t a good fit for you, or is it your fear/ego coming up to keep you safe from going outside your comfort zone? Do you often question whether it’s fear that’s holding you back or your intuition? 

 

It can be tricky to navigate structure and leadership with our flow and creativity. It can be difficult to distinguish between a hard “no” and what fear is telling us we should do to keep us safe. It can be challenging to know if it’s our intuition or our laziness that’s keeping us from going on the date, attending the networking event, starting our own business, etc.

 

If you’ve been trying to navigate these waters, listen to this podcast episode as Madelyn explains how she checks in with herself to know whether it’s intuition or fear. She gives you several examples, as well as offers her best tools, so you can easily move forward with processing your decisions with ease. 

 

Show notes:

• We see our own resistance to structure reflected in others.
• The main reason why we refuse to have someone lead. 
• Why we often reject the masculine container.  
• How to go inward to see how to create your own boundaries.
• Why your ego is simply trying to keep you safe. 
• The difference between intuition and laziness.
• We’re often trying to validate not wanting to go to the event we signed up, so we call it "intuition".
• “Intuition is more instantaneous—it’s not a slow roll.”
• Madelyn's example of intuition leading.
• Guidelines on how to go deeper to questioning your fear and getting curious on the why.
• "We're moving from discipline fatigue to decision fatigue and the balance is to find a middle ground."
• The necessary barrier around social media.
• When we don't go to the event you signed up for, you're really saying: “I don’t want to feel uncomfortable so I’m just going to stay home."
• How to summon in your masculine energy.
• Purpose-driven (masculine) vs feeling-driven (feminine).
• Why commitment is hard for feminine beings. 
• "3 circles of commitment” tool.
• The importance of having a structured detox.
• “You can have structure around your lack of structure.”
• Creating structure with a daily practice of giving yourself 30 days off or 30 days on. 
• Feminine Spirit School (your one-stop-shop for all things feminine and masculine energy) begins in January. Learn more HERE. 

 

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Episode 279: Courtney Davis is an entrepreneur and a guide for women on the path of sexual & spiritual awakening. She is the founder of The Empowered Woman, an online platform providing education & high-quality products to support women to heal from sexual shame, trauma, & conditioning while awakening their pleasure & power. Courtney Davis believes in radical self-permission and her highest joy is guiding others to live their full potential by first guiding them home to themselves. She is known for guiding women into reconnection with their emotional body rather than bypassing it, and believes this to be a major key to women’s sexual empowerment.

 

Show notes:

• Feminine spirit school starting soon
• Wands that have properties toward sexual healing.
• Her experience with S-Factor and why she moved to New York City.
• The foundation of her work and why she got started.
• The creation of her crystal pleasure wands and how they promote sexual healing.
• Madelyn’s favorite: the cervix serpent.
• Madelyn’s deep surrender practice with the serpent wand.
• Courtney’s experience with receiving a yoni massage from a mentor.
• How to know who you can trust your body with.
• Her six-month tantric experience.
• What is the “trauma vortex?”
• Courtney's core qualities and why she resonates now with femininity than masculinity. 
• “Anything that is truly uncomfortable, is masculine.”
• “The whole tantric world is not all bliss.” 
• The self-beliefs that she’s been on a mission to heal and shatter.
• Why she may move out of the sexual healing space eventually.
• Her preference for monogamy.
• “Commitment can create a lot of safety.”
• “Getting in touch with the deep feminine longing while we wait for our masculine is really beautiful. You meet more of yourself by being present to that.”
• “It’s a beautiful practice to not have what you really want.”
• Sensitize yourself to the fact that you don’t have it—allow yourself to be sad and angry. Do not desensitize yourself to that.
• “The irony is we meet all the uncomfortable parts of us without needing to solve them, the more deeply we can meet another because that capacity is there.” 
• Wands HERE Enter: MADDYMOON for 10% Off
• Viva La Vagina Course HERE Enter: MADDYMOON for 10% Off

 

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• Women-Only Facebook Group: Yoni Pleasure & Awakening

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Episode 278: Do you want help in going after your dreams—the ones that you feel are totally unobtainable, but keep burning within you? Do you want to get better at the work you do? Do you want to finally take that plunge and move across the world? Whatever your big desire is, hiring a coach can help you obtain in.

 

In this episode, Madelyn Moon discusses why everyone needs a coach to obtain the life you truly desire. Coaches are the reason why people are taking their dreams seriously. When we put down our money to hire a coach and declare to the Universe that we're ready, a beautiful, transformative journey begins. The Universe meets you halfway with your desire and helps you bring your dream to fruition. If you've got a dream—a vision, a burning desire, this podcast episode is for you.

 

Show notes:

• "Finding expanders in life" - a coined term by Lacy Phillips 
• Madelyn’s journey with her first coach.
• How Madelyn was able to afford a coach that was out of her price range at the time.
• Why she coached 20 people for free.
• “I trust that when things are not perfect—that's the way they're supposed to be.”
• “Every time I have made an eternal leap, the universe has rewarded me.”
• Currency is the root word of 'current' - currency is supposed to be flowing. 
• Energetically, when you clamp on your money, you’re clamping on the flow.
• Money is like germs—you just wash it off and it comes right back.
• The missing part in manifestation is the action.
• Sometimes spending money is meeting the universe halfway. 
• The online courses that Madelyn created.
• Why she finally felt confident to do retreats.
• Coaches are the reason why people are taking their dreams seriously.
• “When we’re about to make a change, we’re hyper-aware of the loss.”
• It’s not about the time that we’re spending with a coach—it's about the impact, which can take place in less than a minute.
• Must-read: You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
• Must-read: Time Warrior by Steven Chandler
• Must-read: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 
• The art of calendar blocking and how it's changing her workflow.
• “Because you pay the money, you take the coaching more seriously.”
• Why Madelyn will forever have a coach and an investment in her life.
• Email me - [email protected]
• When you spend an amount that’s larger than what you might normally do, look at all of the reasons why that investment is deeper than the physical amount.

 

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Episode 277: In this podcast episode, Madelyn Moon helps you to understand the three stages of communication introduced by David Deida. According to David Deida, an international teacher and author, there are 3 stages of relating. These stages govern how we share our desires and feelings in this world with the most important people in our life.

 

Madelyn has been living her life by these stages of communication for the past two years. She's becoming more empowered and embodied by this work, leading to deeper, fulfilling relationships, as well as more fun and a playful nature. She's never taught this information before as she wanted to fully become immersed it in well enough to articulate it, but it's time she passes this juicy information on to you to transform and heal your current relationships.

 

Through this brief introduction and the several examples that she gives, you'll understand how to love deeper, express yourself fully and give your greatest gifts in your relationships.

 

Show notes: 

• Stage 1:
  • Archetype - The 1960's submissive housewife and the macho breadwinner.
  • This stage is what we experience most of the time in this world.
  • It's our old wounds/trauma being reenacted over and over. 
  • "Repressed, shut-down archetype" — we're given a role and we have to stick with it.
• “Withholding is not how we create loving, deep partnership.” 
• How to share your truth so that the person is magnetized by you. 
• Stage 2:
  • Archetype - The working girl and the sensitive boy.
  • “I” statements—speaking from your perspective.
  • "When this happened, I felt..."
  • Very communicative… you feel a trigger and you’re upfront about it.
• Stage 3:
  • Archetype - the radiant goddess and the warrior of love.
  • You bring your gift of creativity and embodiment to your partner— you take the focus off of you. 
  • This is where polarity comes from. 
• Masculine’s nervous system is really thick because they’ve had years of being desensitized. 
• Example: wanting your partner to help you clean. 
• Feminine: there’s never enough love.
• Masculine: there’s always so many burdens.
• “Give the thing that you would like to receive.”
• How to make people-pleasing light and fun: “I’m a very bad girl.” 
• Masculine Haka dance HERE

 

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Episode 276: Dr. Jordana Jacobs is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. Her approach is integrative, combining psychodynamic and existential therapy into her treatment of patients. Dr. Jacobs’ training at Memorial Sloan Kettering working with terminally ill cancer patients, her studies in Northern India, and her Vipassana meditation practice inspired her research on the complex relationship between death awareness and love. Her dissertation, entitled “Till Death do us Part: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Satisfaction in Long-term Romantic Relationships” specifically explored the ways in which priming for death has the potential to increase intimacy in partnerships. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Jordana Jacobs now gives talks and leads meditations aimed towards helping people accept inevitable mortality so that they are able to live and love more fully.

 

Show notes:

• Must-read book: On life After Death by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Embodied Archetype Retreat: Unlock parts of yourself that you've been shaming, blaming or hiding for too long. Apply here.
• Feminine Spirit School - the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! HERE
• Dr. Jordana Jacob’s background that led her to this impactful work.
• The destructive narratives that we tell ourselves about death.
• Why thinking we might go to hell is still preferable to many people rather than the unknown.
• The incredible story of her great aunt who survived the holocaust with false papers who was in love with a German officer. 
• Why death was incredibly helpful to think about when she was going through heartbreak.
• “Death is an anchor.”
• Death is really about surrender and lack of control.
• Esther Perel - “Fire meets air.”
• Buddhist parable: real flowers vs plastic flowers.
• “The more you try to stop it, the more it will come.”
• “Anything we cling to is a form of attachment.”
• What Dr. Jordana Jacob says to people who have a tremendous fear of death.
• “Fear and love can’t live in the same house.” Bobby Klein 
• Two questions to ask at the end of your life: Am I love and did I love?
• The pure, unconditional love we have for animals and how to process their deaths.
• What Dr. Jordana Jacob thinks happens when we die.
• The importance of “death reminders.”
• “You have to think about death 5 times a day in order to live fully.”
• Death reminder app HERE
• Her written exercise to put death into perspective.
• “We live 2 lives, and the second one begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius 
• If you act out of fear, you speed up your life.
• “Presence is where we access love.”
• “Dating: We’re doing it wrong” article HERE
• Must read: Let's Talk About Death Over Dinner by Michael Hebb and The 5 Invitations by Frank Ostaseski 

 

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• Website

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Episode 275: Self-love memes can have quite an impact on us—both positively and negatively. This podcast episode is all about debunking popular "inspirational" self-love memes that float around the interwebs. We normally think of memes as relatively harmless, but they're often used to propagate ideas and influence thoughts in our culture, which can be dangerous when you don't take the time to truly pay attention to what's behind the words. 

Madelyn Moon is stepping on her soapbox to talk about one self-love meme in particular that got her attention recently. The meme states, "If I disappear on you, it's out of self-love." She discusses why this meme is incredibly toxic to our psyche. She explains why popular memes such as this can cause dissonance, wounds, and even trauma for people.

Show notes:

8-week Feminine Spirit School Course gets started January 6th: Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Embodied Archetype Retreat with Jamie Wollrab: https://maddymoon.com/events/

How to identify when a commitment is something you should let go of.

"The 3 questions to ask yourself for fierce self-honesty" episode: https://maddymoon.com/self-honesty/

Why we shouldn't give so much power to our feelings. 

Why Madelyn doesn’t agree with a lot of self-love memes and why they’re harmful.

An explanation of the 3 different attachment styles.

Saying that you’re going to disappear is actually saying: “I have no idea how I feel and I'm completely uncomfortable with my desires in this relationship."

Anyone who is disappearing on someone is coming from a place of not knowing how to articulate their feelings—not wanting to feel uncomfortable with that conversation and show their true vulnerability. 

Why we’re confusing what boundaries are in our society. 

Madelyn’s anxious attachment style. 

“Many people are saying no to things that have the deepest possibility for growth, in the name of self-love—they're canceling friendships, relationships, plans.”

Sefl-love and self-care is a way we hide. 

“If you emotionally withdrawal, you are not serving anyone.”

The actual vulnerability is not disappearing; it’s speaking your needs. 

The right person for you is going to feel like the wrong person at some point. 

The crucial importance of speaking what you need in your relationships. 

Disappearing is not an act of self-love, outside of the realm of abuse.

What real, vulnerable communication is.

If the world had more closure, there would be a lot less trauma.

The process and Madelyn's example of creating closure.

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Episode 275: Self-love memes can have quite an impact on us—both positively and negatively. This podcast episode is all about debunking popular "inspirational" self-love memes that float around the interwebs. We normally think of memes as relatively harmless, but they're often used to propagate ideas and influence thoughts in our culture, which can be dangerous when you don't take the time to truly pay attention to what's behind the words. 

 

Madelyn Moon is stepping on her soapbox to talk about one self-love meme in particular that got her attention recently. The meme states, "If I disappear on you, it's out of self-love." She discusses why this meme is incredibly toxic to our psyche. She explains why popular memes such as this can cause dissonance, wounds, and even trauma for people.

 

Show notes:

• 8-week Feminine Spirit School Course gets started January 6th: Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up HERE. 
• Embodied Archetype Retreat with Jamie Wollrab HERE
• How to identify when a commitment is something you should let go of.
• "The 3 questions to ask yourself for fierce self-honesty" episode HERE
• Why we shouldn't give so much power to our feelings. 
• Why Madelyn doesn’t agree with a lot of self-love memes and why they’re harmful.
• An explanation of the 3 different attachment styles.
• Saying that you’re going to disappear is actually saying: “I have no idea how I feel and I'm completely uncomfortable with my desires in this relationship."
• Anyone who is disappearing on someone is coming from a place of not knowing how to articulate their feelings—not wanting to feel uncomfortable with that conversation and show their true vulnerability. 
• Why we’re confusing what boundaries are in our society. 
• Madelyn’s anxious attachment style. 
• “Many people are saying no to things that have the deepest possibility for growth, in the name of self-love—they're canceling friendships, relationships, plans.”
• Sefl-love and self-care is a way we hide. 
• “If you emotionally withdrawal, you are not serving anyone.”
• The actual vulnerability is not disappearing; it’s speaking your needs. 
• The right person for you is going to feel like the wrong person at some point. 
• The crucial importance of speaking what you need in your relationships. 
• Disappearing is not an act of self-love, outside of the realm of abuse.
• What real, vulnerable communication is.
• If the world had more closure, there would be a lot less trauma.
• The process and Madelyn's example of creating closure.

 

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Episode 274: Amir Khalighi has been working with men for past 25 years. He is the founder of EmbodiedMasculine.com, a movement dedicated to training and empowering men to live purpose-driven lives. He is a men’s coach, speaker, teacher and artist. He is also the founder of BelovedPoetry.com, an online space dedicated to sharing the works of such masters of love as Rumi, Hafez, Kabir, Neruda and others.

 

Show notes:

• Feminine Spirit School - Early bird pricing is open now! Click HERE
• A few spots remain for the Embodied Archetype Retreat with Jamie Wollrab Apply HERE
• Amir’s latest musing.
• Why it’s incredibly healing for the masculine to go into nature.
• Masculine is on this quest constantly to get things done and all he wants is his burdens to go away.
• If you're in the business of teaching or spiritual evolution, you have to be in touch with Her (nature.)
• When men are faced with women, you are both in awe and fear.
• “Fear of the Feminine and the Amazon Fires” Elephant Journal article HERE
• The disconnect and destruction that the masculine consumes.
• Psychologist Robert Moore took the concept of Jung’s archetypes and used it to create a framework that explained the development of mature and integral masculinity in men. 
• Amir discusses the 4 masculine archetypes (King, Warrior, Magician and Lover) and their shadow counterparts.
• Armir explains what an archetype is and how every man has these fibers within him. He either fully expresses them or they become shadows.
• The King is the seat of the power The King is the masculine equivalent of the Great Mother. 
• The Warrior is decisive and acts with authority in serving his king or higher self.
• The Magician is associated with mystery, alchemy and transformation. The Magician is a thinker; an intuitive. 
• The Lover embodiment is artist and brings humanity to the other archetypes.
• Your air is something you take in every single day, every moment, so why not have it be the purest possible? For 10% off your first air purifier order, go to molekule.com and enter code MADDYMOON at check out!
• Embodying Archetypes with Jamie Wollrab HERE
• “I’m a queen looking for a king.” - Madelyn Moon
• For someone who wants a king, what does a person need to expect and know?
• How Amir and his wife create a beautiful, harmonious relationship and the ways she holds space for him.
• What happens when the warrior goes into his shadow
• “If it’s not connected to the heart, it’s abuse.”
• His experience with being an actor and the similarities with embodiment work.
• “Everything serves our journey forward.”
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Episode 273: Gahl Sasson is an established author and has been teaching workshops on Storytelling, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Mysticism around the globe for over 20 years. His first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by HH the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. He recently published a book on the astrology of 2018 and 2019.

 

He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named “Los Angeles’ Best Astrologer” by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. In 2017 his academic article, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles but gives seminars and workshops regularly in over 13 countries. His web site is www.CosmicNavigator.com

 

Show notes: 

• Candor is a company fiercely devoted to being radically honest. Madelyn’s go-to morning beverage is their nootropic Matcha Coconut drink: it warms up her spirit and provides sustainable energy throughout her entire workday. Go to www.choosecandor.com/maddy and use code “MADDY10” for 10% off your next order.
• Embodied Archetype Retreat: Learn how to integrate your “shadow sides” so that they not only feel welcomed in your life but they also create more love, peace and feminine/masculine harmony. Apply here.
• Feminine Spirit School: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here.
• The significance of Gahl's name.
• The significant impact that Gahl's name has had in his life. 
• In America, roughly 50% of the most popular names are from the Bible.
• Different spellings of your names have different energies, but they all carry the same story.
• When debating what to do in life, it’s important to ask: what would your name do?
• Your name is cross-cultural. When things are repeated amongst cultures, we need to pay attention.
• What lies behind your name contains all of your DNA. 
• What do you do if you’re named after someone you don’t like?
• Your name is the most important word in your life and is what creates the most emotion for you.
• What do nicknames do to our souls?
• People who don’t like their names normally have a problem with themselves — there is a part of themselves that they're denying. 
• How Gahl feels about people changing their names. 
• Transgender and changing your name.
• Gahl's story of how he almost had a different name.
• Does Gahl believe in coincidences?
• Having a strong connection to naming your children a particular name.
• The significance of the Lord of the Rings’ names.
• Are last names as important as first names?
• Must-read book: Circe by Madeline Miller 

 

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• New York City Event
• Newsletter Signup
• Website 
• Facebook

 

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Episode 272: Madelyn Moon was recently interviewed by Sam Asser of the Inner Experience Podcast about not belonging. Madelyn enjoyed this episode so much that we wanted to share it with all of you. Madelyn and Sam discuss what it means to feel safe to be in your feminine essence as a modern-day woman. They discuss why receiving help can be so hard and how mainstream society plays a huge part in this struggle. They also talk about how to let go of perfection and soften your edges physically (and energetically) to begin to create change and a deeper connection to yourself. It's a juicy episode that they both enjoyed so much that they kinda forgot they were recording.

Show notes:

Candor is a company fiercely devoted to being radically honest. Madelyn's go-to morning beverage is their nootropic Matcha Coconut drink: it warms up her spirit and provides sustainable energy throughout her entire workday. Go to www.choosecandor.com/maddy and use code "MADDY10" for 10% off your next order.

Masculine and feminine polarity work and intimacy offers you the depth of relationships and friendships that is possible.

“To really feel safe in your feminine, you have to be really close to your masculine.”

How to set goals that are nourishing and feminine.

Madelyn was raised to be aggressive and driven and why she’s grateful for that. 

"It is such a gift to be seen as weak."

The damage that comes from “doing it all.”

Madelyn’s disconnection from her feminine and how she reclaimed it.

Her need for perfection, wanting to be "one of the guys," and her toxic masculinity.

How to energetically and physically soften your edges.

“When we embody softness in our body, we energetically begin to embody softness.”

How she creates art out of things that upset her. 

How do you find the blend between expressing form your heart and show/performance?

How Madelyn moved out of perfection.

What it means to be in your ‘messy’ feminine.

Madelyn's pattern in disappearing and taking flight physically and emotionally

How to feel a trigger and also feel pleasure in your body.

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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

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COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

EMBODIED ARCHETYPE RETREAT: unlock parts of yourself that you’ve been shaming, blaming or hiding for too long. Learn how to integrate your “shadow sides” so that they not only feel welcomed in your life but they also create more love, peace and feminine/masculine harmony. Apply: http://maddymoon.com/events