The Megan Walrod Show

What is Lunar Living? As Kristina says, “It’s an opportunity to be more reflective, to not always be in push mode and active all the times; to respect down periods, to understand fallow times and to consciously allow that and plan your life around your cycles as much as possible.” Yet it can be challenging to live this way in a world that values productivity and views rest as a sign of weakness. Join us in this rich conversation of rewilding as we explore the challenges of being lunar in a solar world, and share perspectives, practices and resources to support you in honoring both your internal lunar and solar, without letting the mind’s conditioning limit you in any way; and how to work with your ebbs and flows without losing momentum or visibility.

After we wrapped up our recording I realized I’d forgotten to ask Kristina the question I ask all of my guests: What brave woman inspires you these days? So I asked her afterwards and here’s her response: “The brave woman who inspires me right now is my body, and the body of the feminine in general. My body is resilient, she loves fiercely, she holds all of me. I'm expanding my capacity to feel her, to live inside of my own body more and more from a place of deep compassion for all that my body has lived through. I'm feeling less resistance to my aging body - my midlife, postmenopausal feminine vessel. Bringing awareness and deep reverence for my matrilineal ancestral body and the collective feminine body - for every woman's body. The goddess body, this precious body.” 

Journaling prompts:

1. How do you access/receive your intuition? 

2. What are the practices you engage in that invite you into that receptive way of being so you can actually receive your intuition?

3. What are some of those choices or actions you’d like to take that invite you into more vulnerability and visibility?

4. What are the things (and resources) that can support you in that, before, during and after?

FREE GIFT: Get a free astrological reading from Kristina: https://kristinawingeier.com/contact-ama

FREE CLASS: Join Kristina for a free Goddess Codes Class (all about VENUS!): https://kristinawingeier.com/free-goddess-codes-class

Connect with Kristina: https://www.instagram.com/kristinawingeier/https://kristinawingeier.substack.com

Learn more about Kristina: www.kristinawingeier.com

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About Kristina:

Kristina combines her intuitive gifts and understanding of astrology to support clients on their journey through earth school. She is a passionate advocate of the embodied feminine, explored through myth, astrology and somatic practices. Her teaching focuses on working with the feminine celestials in astrology, including Venus, the Moon, the Asteroid Goddesses & Black Moon Lilith. 

Kristina has been a practicing astrologer & teacher for the past decade. In addition to being an Intuitive Astrologer, she is a Certified Hypnotherapist in the Spiritual Counseling Practice of Depth Hypnosis, a trained Wayfinder Life Coach and a Daring to Rest yoga nidra facilitator. She is currently studying Human Design with Erin Claire Jones (Winter 2023).

Prior to astrological consulting and teaching Kristina worked as a doula & homebirth midwife for over 10 years. She has rained extensively in many healing modalities including herbalism, nutrition & energy medicine; all of these practices continue to inform her practice.

Drop right into this potent, juicy conversation with Dr. Melissa Bird, and be inspired by her confidence, revolutionary nature and deeply rooted wisdom. She takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a Native American, bisexual, feminist growing up in Utah, through to her current risks and adventures of disrupting the land and farming industry with Mermaid’s Garden. In her life and work, she bridges the gap between religion, spirituality and magic, and calls herself a Christian Witch. Melissa’s courage to move beyond what is acceptable in order to live a thriving, soul-filled life, is palpable and contagious…so watch out! You might just be called to embark on your own graceful revolution. 

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Connect more with Dr. Melissa:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-melissa-bird-016640199/

https://www.instagram.com/birdgirl1001/

https://www.youtube.com/@DrMelissaBird

https://www.facebook.com/birdgirl1001https://www.tiktok.com/@birdgirl1001

About Dr. Melissa Bird

Dr. Melissa Bird is a descendant of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes. She is a nationally recognized lay preacher, author, life coach, and podcaster. Dr. Bird has made hundreds of keynote speeches and workshops before audiences at universities, conferences, and religious institutions worldwide. Her combination of education, real-life experience and practical advice makes her a powerful force of change in the lives of the people she connects with. Past audience members have described her speaking as “fierce,” “revelatory,” “life-changing,” “enthusiastic,” and “inspirational.”

Dr. Bird creates the genesis for a new brand of leadership and graceful revolution. She inspires personal understanding through contemplation, helps people use their intuition to change their lives and communities, and encourages the healing of grief and loss through spiritual connection. Her words awaken revolutionaries, trailblazers and powerful innovators who are seeking deeper connection and expansive growth. She is the host of The Thinnest Veil podcast and the author of SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers Your Journey to Advocacy and the co-author of the best-selling book Women Connected in Wisdom - stories and resources rooted in the 8 dimensions of wellness. 

When she’s not working, she can be found reading trashy novels while drinking Earl Gray tea with heavy cream. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her husband, three children, two dogs and one three-legged cat.

Learn more about her startup farm and retreat space at https://www.themermaidsgardenoregon.com/

Tune in for a rich and honest exploration of self-intimacy, and the story of how Jessamyn ‘stayed close to herself’ throughout her recovery. Addiction can carry such a big stigma, which is why Jessamyn is committed to sharing her story and living her sobriety ‘out loud’ to help dissolve the shame and open the channels for healing conversations.  

Quote in episode from “Compassion,” a poem by Miller Williams:

“You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”

Continue the conversation in our Brave Women, Brave Living community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bravewomenbraveliving

Connect with Jessamyn on IG: @jessamynsara @thereclamationbar

Find out more about Jessamyn: https://jessamynsara.com/

Pre-order her book: https://whispersuponwaking.com/

Learn more about The Reclamation Bar: https://shoutoutarizona.com/meet-jessamyn-turgesen-healing-facilitator-sobriety-mentor-creator-of-the-reclamation-bar/

About Jessamyn:

Jessamyn is a trauma-aware, body-based healing facilitator using her training in massage and somatic therapies to assist clients in their healing/recovery journeys. She is trained as a birth doula as well as a death/grief doula which has informed her capacity to be "with" humans in spaces of high transition. Jessamyn is a poet, writer and photographer. These skill sets play a significant role in how she shows up with and moves in the world. She is also a certified transformational life coach with a particular focus on the work of self-intimacy as a powerful tool of transformation and growth. 

What do you do when you’ve created the life you desire, only to discover it’s not fulfilling? You let that old life die and follow your heart to create a new life. At least, that’s what Manjit bravely did. Yet it’s never straightforward is it? The caterpillar does dissolve into goo before it becomes a butterfly. Tune in to hear Manjit’s story of how she unwound from an addiction to adrenaline and external validation to discover the intelligence and wisdom within her own body; what she discovered in that messy middle melt of the in-between place; and how she cultivates radical self-love on the daily.

Connect with Manjit on IG: https://www.instagram.com/pleasure_labs/

Watch her free Masterclass, “From Self-Abandonment to Radical Self Love,” here:

https://youtu.be/XD8VLS7EeeQ

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About Manjit:

Love, Sex and Relationship coach, Manjit is inviting women to break chains of oppression & cultural shame and return to their true essence. Through healing her own sexual trauma and integrating layers of deep ancestral & feminine wounding; Manjit is leading the way for women to reclaim their sexual, sensual and spiritual sovereignty. 

With a scientific background and a lifetime of spiritual practices, Manjit consciously weaves a unique blend of pragmatic & energetic processes to guide women beyond the ‘good girl’ narrative and embody their radiance. Manjit is deeply aligned with the Tantric philosophy that everything is consciousness and we are intrinsically whole. Her devotion to self-love, self-compassion and self-acceptance allows for a deep, alchemical, loving container.  

Rachel takes us behind the scenes and shares her journey with facing and overcoming a deep sense of feeling broken. Whether or not you’ve experienced anxiety, depression or trauma yourself, tune in to be inspired by Rachel’s wisdom that can serve us all. She talks honestly about how she healed, the different support she called upon personally and professionally, mindset shifts that helped her overcome perfectionism, the gift of boundaries and getting to her authentic zen self. 

Connect with Rachel:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelafeldman/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachelfeldmanbusinesscoach

Download her free gift:https://yourhealthcoachbiz.com/health-coach-find-your-zen-rachel-feldman/

Continue the conversation in our Brave Women, Brave Living community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bravewomenbraveliving

About Rachel:

Rachel helps coaches save time and money using her done for you programs, opt in freebies, workshops. After only earning 13K her first year in coaching, she knew she needed to learn how to create a sustainable business built with a solid sales funnel. Rachel went from making 13K to 72K by year 2 1/2 and then broke six figures in her third year of business. Today, Rachel teaches the same system she built her successful health coaching practice to other health and wellness professionals. She's helped more than 8,000 health coaches rock their biz to the next level using our done for programs. 

Grab some free tools at https://rachelafeldman.com and build your biz stat at https://yourhealthcoachbiz.com/

SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service), or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

CW: sexual abuse.

1. Brave living: a dynamic dance of external and internal influences

2. Intergenerational influence, impact, healing and evolution

3. Leaps of faith with career and overcoming trauma

4. Navigating the guilt and shame of going beyond cultural expectations

5. Consent, non-consent and consequences

6. The influence we have when willing to have challenging conversations

7. How we learned, and how we’re teaching our kids, not to listen to our/their bodies

8. Finding your voice with people when they’re not respecting you

9. Journaling practice: how to be a friend to yourself

10. Prioritizing self even when it’s inconvenient for others

11. The possibility of exuberant living

Free Gift: 5 Questions to Ask to Stop Self Sabotage in Relationships: https://bit.ly/RelationshipeBook

Free Gift: Being a Different Possibility for Children: Tools to Help Children Be Successful By Accessing Their Magic and Unique Gifts: https://bit.ly/BDPChildreneBook

Website: https://www.empoweringlightlanguage.com/

Choosing a Different Future podcast:

https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/author/sirisrivas/

Link to show with Megan as guest on Siris’ podcast:

https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/shows/ditching-yourself-break-free-of-codependence-with-guest-megan-walrod/

National Sexual Abuse Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)

https://www.rainn.org/

About Siris

Siris Raquel Rivas-Verdejo is the owner of Empowering Light Language, LLC, where she creates a nurturing and expansive space for people to access their true selves and increase their awareness around communication, interpersonal relationships, culture, health, body awareness and choice, to name a few. She infuses energetic modalities into her services as a Family-Child Coach, Body Relationship Coach, Speech-Language Pathologist, and Learning-Behavioral Specialist with cutting-edge psychology and results-driven empowering tools and strategies. With a passionate, fun and poignant facilitation style, Siris provides dynamic private sessions, staff training, parent workshops and guest lectures. She loves to travel and play with different languages and hopes to create a world where people can connect to each other and themselves with joyful ease.

In this rich and intimate conversation, we go behind the scenes with Muneeza Ahmed, Intuitive Medicine Woman®, to hear her stories and insights about motherhood and marriage; her calling and connection to God; how she sources courage and is guided by her intuition; and how being bedridden fueled her determination to create better boundaries and change her business model. Tune in and be inspired by her passion for helping women trust their own intuition, raise children to make good choices for themselves, and prioritize our own self-care so that we can show up even more powerfully to all that’s most important to us.

Find out more about Muneeza:

www.muneezaahmed.com

Download her free gifts here: https://muneezaahmed.com/the-intuitive-3-day-mindfulness-juice-cleanse-guide/

And here:

https://muneezaahmed.com/links/

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About Muneeza:

Muneeza Ahmed is the CEO of Healthy Moon, LLC, and calls herself the Intuitive Medicine Woman®. Over the past 15 years she’s supported over 10,000 people in 85 countries to heal from autoimmune and chronic illness so they can lead thriving, joyful lives. She also trains practitioners in the Muneeza Method®—her proprietary “healing recipe”.

How do we become an invitation to receive that which we desire? How do we shift out of anxiety (like the little bird in “Are You My Mother?” by P.D. Eastman) into a space of trust and surrender? Tune into this “Solo Quickie” episode to discover how I’m approaching this in my own life (in my “Find An Agent” Mission), and how you can as well, whether it’s an agent, partner, client or whatever else you might desire. Journaling prompts and home play included. (And remember, the mother bird in the story does eventually show up. She was there all along.)

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1. A different perspective on being brave.

2. Stepping into risk. Taking a chance on yourself and your dreams.

3. Fear as an attraction point and indicating the direction to go in.

4. Tapping into the future self version of yourself that’s done that thing that scares you.

5. Quantum jumps: what they really are.

6. Surrender the old to say yes to the new.

7. The transition from solopreneur to 7-figure CEO.

8. “Who am I who doesn’t work hard? If I’m not that person, how do I function? Who am I as someone who enjoys my life?”

9. Energetic mastery: choosing our response rather than reacting.

10. Having different kinds of conversations in relationship.

Come join our online Brave Women, Brave Living community to continue these conversions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bravewomenbraveliving

About Cory Michelle:

Cory Michelle is a rising star in the world of personal transformation and manifestation. With her unique blend of wisdom, insight, and pure awareness, she helps her clients tap into their full potential and create the life of their dreams. Her signature process, "Identity Transformation," has produced life-changing results, and she is renowned for her ability to help her clients achieve quantum leaps in their lives. Whether she's leading a workshop, giving a keynote speech, or working one-on-one with her clients, Cory Michelle is a magical activation of your dreams coming alive.  So if you're looking for someone to help you unleash your full potential and make your biggest dreams a reality, Cory Michelle is your Unicorn Coach.

Find out more about Cory here:

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1. Lessons learned in leadership: what it takes to pioneer a movement.

2. We may not have control as to where our journeys begin, but along the way, we can shape the narrative we want for ourselves. We have the power within us to shape our lives.

3. The power of mentorship and how it changes how we see ourselves.

4. Being on purpose: when you know you’re the person who needs to lead the change you want to see.

5. Patriarchy, power and privilege.

6. African proverb, “If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a community.”

Come join our online Brave Women, Brave Living community to continue these conversions! Click the link and request to join: https://tinyurl.com/BWBLCommunity

Get connected with Monica and Girl Up here:

https://monicanyiraguhabwa.com/

https://www.girlupuganda.org/

https://twitter.com/on7monica1

https://www.facebook.com/girlupuganda

About Monica Nyiraguhabwa:

Monica, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Girl Up Initiative Uganda, is a grassroots leader supporting adolescent girls’ education. She’s an Obama Africa Leader Fellow, Perennial Fellow, Cordes Fellow, and African Visionary Fellow. She’s been featured on the Today Show with Michelle Obama and several other members of the Girls Opportunity Alliance. She also had the honor of meeting Oprah in her home in California. Monica has an MA in Education, Gender and International Development from the University College of London and a BA in Adult and Community Education from Makerere University. She’s a speaker, activist, pioneer, mom and powerful woman on purpose.

About Girl Up Initiative Uganda (GUIU)

Since 2012, Girl Up Initiative Uganda has provided young women and girls with opportunities to succeed and thrive as leaders in their communities through holistic education and economic empowerment. We envision a world where girls are given the opportunity to reach and tap into their full potential through access to formal and non-formal education, economic inclusion, skills-building, and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Our programs are driven by our communities, for our communities.