On the latest episode, I have the privilege of being in conversation with Shawna Bluestar Newcomb, of Shawnee, Lenape and Zapotec lineage, who has been opening hearts and minds across the world as an international speaker, visionary leader, intuitive healer, medium, spiritual guide and mentor for changemakers. Shawna is a delegate with the Mother Earth Delegation and has been a featured speaker at universities, global conferences, festivals, podcasts, radio, and online summits. In her dedication to personal and planetary healing, she helps to lead a global movement with her father, Steven Newcomb, for conscious change, speaking out on the Domination Code of cultural and planetary exploitation. Shawna offers a fresh perspective and alternative approach to social and conscious change with her unique teachings on The Reverence Code. Shawna is dedicated to healing for the Earth, humanity, future generations, and all beings in this time of The Great Shift, and a return to what she calls, The Time That Was Before. 

On today's episode we explore: 

• Shawna's spiritual background,  including how her Indigenous background immersed her in ceremony as a young child, and how early intuitive experiences shaped her worldview
• How the Divine Feminine first spoke to her about what she refers to as The Great Shift while she was vacuuming (yes, really!), and how this underscores the presence of the sacred in our everyday lives
• Shawna and her father's work to bring awareness to the harm caused by the Doctrine of Discovery, including the Catholic Church's role in spreading it and how this created what they refer to as a Domination Code
• Shawna's own understanding of what she refers to as the Reverence Code, and how it hearkens back to a Time that Was Before
• Why she believes it's possible to stay firmly rooted in a state of reverence AND in our so-called real world
• Why it's so important to say yes to what she refers to as "Spirit tweets", or those everyday moments of connection to a divine source greater than ourselves

Show Notes:

• If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/
• My book, “Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine,” is now available Womancraft Publishing! To learn more, read endorsements and purchase, please visit  https://womancraftpublishing.com/product/home-to-her/. It is also available for sale via Amazon, Bookshop.org, and you can order it from your favorite local bookstore, too.
• Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review! For the podcast, reviews on iTunes are extremely helpful, and for the book, reviews on Amazon and Goodreads are equally helpful. Thank you for supporting my work!
• You can watch this and other podcast episodes at the Home to Her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hometoher
• You can learn more about Shawna at her website, www.shawnabluestar.com . You can also follow her  on Instagram @shawnabluestar, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shawnabluestar/.
• You can also learn more about Shawna's Sacred Feminine Rising Healing immersion course here: https://www.shawnabluestar.com/sacredfemininerisin
• Shawna's father Steven Newcomb's documentary is The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code. You can learn more about it and his work here:  https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/the-doctrine-of-discovery-unmasking-the-domination-code/
• Here is some more information about the papal bulls and the Doctrine of Discovery, which Shawna referred to during our discussion: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493 
• In March 2023 (after this episode was recorded), the Vatican officially disavowed the Doctrine of Discovery. You can read more, including some reactions from Indigenous peoples to the news, here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/vatican-reject-discovery-doctrine-indigenous-demands-1.6795728
• You can also learn more about the Mother Earth Delegation of United Nations here:  https://motherearthdelegation.com/. And watch some of there past gatherings on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@MotherEarthDelegation
• Please support my friends at the Missing Witches podcast during their annual reparations fundraiser! You can learn more about their show and donate to their efforts here:  https://www.missingwitches.com/tag/reparations/

Related podcast episodes: 

• The Opportunity of this Moment with Jyoti Ma: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/the-opportunity-of-this-moment-with-jyoti-ma

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