The Phoenix Perspective Podcast

The Phoenix Perspective Podcast

By Kori Rae Kovacs, BSN RNHealth & FitnessEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Phoenix Perspective Podcast episodes

  • 5. The Healing Power of Sisterhood: How It Awakens Your Sensuality and Intuition (with Kelly Joy)

    What happens when women gather in safety, truth, and devotion to one another?

    TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of sexual trauma, non-graphic. Please be advised.

    In this deeply intimate and powerful conversation, Kori Rae sits down with spiritual healer and priestess Kelly Joy to explore how sisterhood becomes medicine — regulating the nervous system, healing sexual trauma, and awakening long-forgotten gifts within the body.

    Together, they share personal Phoenix stories of illness, surrender, sensual reclamation, and spiritual awakening. This episode weaves lived experience with embodied wisdom, revealing how voice, pleasure, and intuition come back online when women are witnessed and supported by other women who truly see them.

    In this episode, you’ll explore:

    • Why healing doesn’t happen in isolation — and how sisterhood creates safety
    • The connection between sensuality, voice, and spiritual gifts
    • How pleasure and embodiment can regulate the nervous system
    • Navigating shame, illness, and identity after trauma

    Whether you’re craving deeper connection, healing old wounds, or feeling the call to reclaim your voice and sensual power, this episode is an invitation to remember: you were never meant to walk this path alone.

    How to connect with Kelly Joy:

    • Follow Kelly on Instagram: @thetashkana 
    • Connect with Kelly on Facebook: Kelly Joy on Facebook

    If this episode resonates with you:

    • Follow/subscribe to The Phoenix Perspective Podcast so you don't miss an episode, releases every moon phase!
    • Share it with a friend who you feel would love this show
    • Come hang out with Kori in her world of women’s health, cycles, and spiritual rebirth in the Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health | Facebook

    Nurse Notes: Crohn’s disease is a lifelong autoimmune condition that causes inflammation in the gut, often leading to pain, digestive issues, and fatigue. In severe cases, it can cause serious complications such as internal bleeding, infections, or life-threatening flares.

    Further Resources:

    Books referenced in this episode:

    • Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashouer (aka Mama Gena)
    • Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell
    • Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch

    👉 Looking for a soul-aligned women’s health community? Join the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group! Click to join: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health

    👉 For cycle-centred wellness support and health coaching, apply to work with Kori, visit Sacred Phoenix Wellness

    👉 Follow Kori on Instagram: Kori Rae Kovacs

    👉 Have a period or women’s health question, interested in being a guest, or have an idea for the show? Email Kori at [email protected]

    58 min
  • 4. Womb Wisdom 101 - The Beginner’s Guide to Your Cycle, Hormones & Feminine Energy

    💓 Your Womb has a lot to say... are you listening to her?

    If you’ve ever felt unprepared for your own energy, emotions, or needs throughout the month, it’s not because your body is unpredictable — it’s because no one ever taught you how your cycle and feminine energy actually work.

    In this episode of The Phoenix Perspective Podcast, Kori Rae Kovacs offers a gentle, beginner-friendly introduction to the menstrual cycle, breaking down the four phases and the hormonal shifts that influence your energy, mood, intuition, and capacity throughout the month.

    Using the analogy of the four seasons, Kori helps you understand why your body feels different week to week — and why those changes are not flaws, but natural rhythms designed to support you.

    This conversation bridges science, womb wisdom, and lived experience to help you reconnect with your feminine rhythm, feel more prepared in your daily life, and stop fighting your natural cycle.

    Whether you’re brand new to cycle awareness or finally ready to understand what your body has been trying to tell you, this episode is your starting point for cyclical living and self-trust.

    This episode is for you if you want to:

    • Understand the four phases of the menstrual cycle
    • Learn how hormones affect your energy, mood, and intuition
    • Stop feeling caught off-guard by your cycle
    • Begin cyclical living in a simple, grounded way
    • Rebuild trust with your body and feminine rhythm

    ✨ You don’t need to master your cycle — you just need to meet it with curiosity.

    If this episode resonates with you:

    • Follow/subscribe to The Phoenix Perspective Podcast so you don't miss an episode, releases every moon phase!

    • Share it with a friend who you feel would love this show

    • Come hang out with Kori in her world of women’s health, cycles, and spiritual rebirth in the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group. Request to join here: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health | Facebook

    Further Resources:

    👉 Order your 2026 Cycles Journal© here: https://cyclicalroots.com/?ref=Sacredphoenix Don’t forget to use the coupon code SACREDPHOENIX to receive 10% off your purchase!

    👉 Looking for a soul-aligned women’s health community? Join the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group! Click to join: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health

    👉 For cycle-centred wellness support and health coaching, apply to work with Kori, visit Sacred Phoenix Wellness

    👉 Follow Kori on Instagram: Kori Rae Kovacs

    👉 Have a period or women’s health question, interested in being a guest, or have an idea for the show? Email Kori at [email protected]

    Thank you for listening! Remember, you are so worthy of your Vibrant Life! 💖 Kori

    47 min
  • 3. The Hidden Impact of Period Stigma on Your Confidence & Self-Trust

    🩸 Periods are not a problem... and neither are you.

    You can’t separate your relationship with your period from the way you see yourself. If you bleed, menstruation is an intrinsic part of your lived experience—and the messages you absorbed about your cycle may be quietly shaping your confidence, self-trust, and relationship with your body.

    In this episode of The Phoenix Perspective Podcast, Kori Rae Kovacs explores the cultural stigma surrounding periods and how societal views of menstruation—from sacred and honored to silenced, medicalized, or shamed—become internalized as a woman’s self-image.

    Drawing from history, modern culture, personal story, and womb wisdom, Kori walks listeners through the spectrum of beliefs about menstruation and reveals how these narratives impact nervous system safety, self-esteem, rest, intuition, and body trust.

    This episode invites you into gentle self-reflection around how you were taught to view your period, how that belief may still be influencing you today, and how reclaiming a conscious relationship with your menstrual cycle can be a powerful act of healing and sovereignty.

    You’ll also learn the simplest, most accessible way to begin repairing your relationship with your cycle: curiosity and tracking.

    This episode is for you if you want to:

    • Understand period stigma and menstrual shame
    • Rebuild confidence and self-trust
    • Heal your relationship with your body
    • Explore cyclical wisdom and menstrual health
    • Begin reconnecting with your womb and feminine rhythm

    If this episode resonates with you:

    • Follow/subscribe to The Phoenix Perspective Podcast so you don't miss an episode, releases every moon phase!

    • Share it with a friend who you feel would love this show

    • Come hang out with Kori in her world of women’s health, cycles, and spiritual rebirth in the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group. Request to join here: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health | Facebook

    Further Resources:

    👉 Order your 2026 Cycles Journal© here: https://cyclicalroots.com/?ref=Sacredphoenix Don’t forget to use the coupon code SACREDPHOENIX to receive 10% off your purchase!

    👉 Looking for a soul-aligned women’s health community? Join the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group! Click to join: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health

    👉 For cycle-centred wellness support and health coaching, apply to work with Kori, visit Sacred Phoenix Wellness

    👉 Follow Kori on Instagram: Kori Rae Kovacs

    👉 Have a period or women’s health question, interested in being a guest, or have an idea for the show? Email Kori at [email protected]

    Thank you for listening! Remember, you are so worthy of your Vibrant Life! 💖 Kori

    43 min
  • 2. How to Heal Your Body Image (and Why It Changes Everything)

    🚫 Saying bad things about your body is killing your confidence.

    We learn to treat our bodies like problems instead of partners — and when your body feels like the enemy, it becomes almost impossible to care for yourself with consistency, compassion, or devotion.

    If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t “stay on track,” why motivation disappears, or why self-criticism seems to sabotage your wellness goals… this episode is for you.

    In this episode of The Phoenix Perspective Podcast, Kori Rae Kovacs explores self-esteem and body image through a deeper lens: your relationship with your body is not fluffy or optional — it’s the foundation of your health, hormones, energy, confidence, and ability to receive love.

    Kori shares her own turning point in 2022, the moment she realized her body wasn’t something to fix, but someone to care for — her soul’s mate.

    From there, she breaks down how chronic self-criticism puts the nervous system into fight-or-flight, disrupts hormones and metabolism, impacts mental health and intimacy, and even shapes how our children learn to see themselves.

    Then Kori gives you a practical pathway forward: four relationship pillars you already understand in external relationships — trust & safety, love, joy, and compassion — and how to apply them to rebuilding body trust and creating a more loving inner partnership.

    This episode is for you if you want to:

    • Heal your relationship with your body and rebuild body trust
    • Shift from self-criticism to self-love and devotion
    • Understand how stress and nervous system safety affect hormones, weight, and energy
    • Improve confidence, intimacy, and emotional well-being
    • Break generational patterns around body image for your kids

    If this episode resonates with you:

    • Follow/subscribe to The Phoenix Perspective Podcast so you don't miss an episode, releases every moon phase!
    • Share it with a friend who you feel would love this show
    • Come hang out with Kori in her world of women’s health, cycles, and spiritual rebirth in the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group. Request to join here: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health | Facebook

    Further Resources:

    👉 Order your 2026 Cycles Journal© here: https://cyclicalroots.com/?ref=Sacredphoenix Don’t forget to use the coupon code SACREDPHOENIX to receive 10% off your purchase!

    👉 Looking for a soul-aligned women’s health community? Join the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group! Click to join: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health

    👉 For cycle-centred wellness support and health coaching, apply to work with Kori, visit Sacred Phoenix Wellness

    👉 Follow Kori on Instagram: Kori Rae Kovacs

    👉 Have a period or women’s health question, interested in being a guest, or have an idea for the show? Email Kori at [email protected]

    Thank you for listening! Remember, you are so worthy of your Vibrant Life! 💖 Kori

    49 min
  • 1. Life Seasons, Women’s Health & Rising Through Challenges — The Phoenix Perspective

    What if you didn’t have to choose between science and spirituality to heal? What if your symptoms, your seasons of burnout, your “dark nights,” and even your menstrual cycle were all speaking the same language — the language of cycles?

    In this first episode of The Phoenix Perspective Podcast, Kori Rae Kovacs (RN, womb priestess, body intuitive, and wellness coach) introduces the heart behind the show: a bridge between science-based women’s health and soul-led healing.

    Kori shares why she created this podcast, what you can expect this season, and how the Phoenix archetype became the guiding symbol for the work — a living metaphor for birth, life, death, and rebirth that shows up in nature, the moon, the menstrual cycle, and the biggest transformations of our lives.

    You’ll also hear Kori’s own Phoenix story: the cataclysm that shattered her life in 2016, the years of rebuilding, the impact on her health, and the spiritual awakening that ultimately birthed her path in women’s health and cyclical living. This episode sets the foundation for everything that comes next — hormones, cycles, nervous system healing, embodied self-trust, and the reclamation of a vibrant life.

    This episode is for you if you want to:

    • Understand what The Phoenix Perspective Podcast is about and who it’s for
    • Explore women’s health through cyclical awareness (menstrual cycle + moon + seasons)
    • Bridge science and spirituality in a grounded, empowering way
    • Make meaning of loss, reinvention, and “dark night of the soul” seasons
    • Reclaim resilience, purpose, and a more vibrant life after hardship

    🔥 You’re not broken — you’re in a cycle. And healing is happening.

    If this episode resonates with you:

    • Follow/subscribe to The Phoenix Perspective Podcast so we can reach more Phoenixes!
    • Share it with a friend who you feel would love this show
    • Come hang out with Kori in her world of women’s health, cycles, and spiritual rebirth in the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group. Request to join here: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health | Facebook

    Further Resources:

    👉 Order your 2026 Cycles Journal© here: https://cyclicalroots.com/?ref=Sacredphoenix Don’t forget to use the coupon code SACREDPHOENIX to receive 10% off your purchase!

    👉 Looking for a soul-aligned women’s health community? Join the Vibrant & Aligned Facebook group! Click to join: Vibrant & Aligned: Women's Hormone and Spiritual Health

    👉 For cycle-centred wellness support and health coaching, apply to work with Kori, visit Sacred Phoenix Wellness

    👉 Follow Kori on Instagram: Kori Rae Kovacs

    👉 Have a period or women’s health question, interested in being a guest, or have an idea for the show? Email Kori at [email protected]

    Thank you for listening! Remember, you are so worthy of your Vibrant Life! 💖 Kori

    46 min

About The Phoenix Perspective Podcast

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A podcast for women over 30 rebuilding their lives after loss and major life changes.

A rupture happens in your life, and suddenly, you’re staring at a future that looks nothing like…