In this beautiful and heartfelt episode I share my conversation with Aries powerhouse, Marissa Baumgartner. 

Marissa is the founder of Native Women's Wellness Movement LLC and descends from the Young Chief lineage of the Cayuse peoples. Marissa's work centers around inter-generational healing and restoring women's work, with an emphasis in Indigenous communities. As an INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioner she created Hummingbird Wisdom Women's Care where she intends to serve the needs of her community. She is the mother of two young children and spends her time in the garden, on the river, and with her family.

In this episode we get into:

• The womb-to-tomb work of the traditional midwife within an intact culture

• The professionalization of birth and care work

• The fracturing and loss of wise womb ways and reclaiming the medicine of womanhood

• Creating safety and autonomy for women in all birthing settings — both at home and in the hospital

• The difference between mothering a daughter and mothering a son

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Happy 1st birthday to my baby, The Serpentine Path Podcast! I am so blessed to be the mother of this project ❤️

In this bonus episode I reflect on all of the magic that has been birthed over the past year of the podcast. I share about how the show came to be, how it's transformed, and how I see things evolving in the future.

Huge THANK YOU to all of my guests, listeners, and supporters!!!!! I cannot wait to see how the show evolves in this upcoming year.

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In today’s episode I share my conversation with a dear sister, Aleja Grajeda. Aleja, a Colorado native, lives in Albuquerque, NM. She is a mother, small business owner, community herbalist, reiki practitioner, doula, and certified INNATE Postpartum Care provider. She also provides folk healing services to her community when called to do so.

In this episode we get into:

• Aleja’s role as a necessary rebel who came in to reorient her family line
• Breaking out of the rigid box of spirituality and reintegrating Christ consciousness back into her daily life
• Unlearning people pleasing and embodying our true authenticity
• The Old Testament translation of the word “WOMAN”
• Releasing the need for parental acceptance
• The syncretic interweaving of Christianity and indigenous traditions
• The practical and humble application of our spiritual practices and healing offerings

This episode is for anyone who has ever questioned the “legitimacy” of their spiritual path based on other people’s opinions and perspectives. May you continue to find your way to spiritual authenticity…whatever that looks like for you! 🩵

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In today’s episode I share my conversation with the uncancellable, unfuckwithable, unbreakable Clementine Morrigan. Clementine is a writer, zinester, podcaster, and literary punk based in Montreal, Canada. She is well known for her unflinching approach to deep and difficult topics including (but not limited to) surviving incest and other forms of trauma, trauma informed polyamory, bisexual women’s sexuality, opposing cancel culture on the left, and finding compassionate, non-punitive approaches to ending the cycle of violence.

In this episode we get into:

• Taking on the role of “cycle breaker” within a family line

• How childhood sexual abuse and incest impact every member of the family structure and clarifying what “counts” as sexual abuse

• The long term physical, emotional, mental, relational, sexual, and spiritual impacts of childhood sexual abuse

• Clementine’s 11 years in Alcohols Anonymous and why she eventually left the program

• Working with plant medicines to heal the deepest layers of childhood sexual abuse that burrow into our bodies, minds, and spirits

• The rampant trend of feminist scholars who didn’t protect their own daughters from sexual violence

• The right for childhood sexual abuse survivors to NOT end up in the sex industry

This episode is dedicated to late and beloved poet, Andrea Gibson, who spoke openly and courageously about their own experience as a childhood sexual abuse survivor in their writing. As a CSA survivor myself, this conversation holds a very special place in my heart. My highest prayer is that it touches all those who are asking to receive this medicine in their hearts.

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In today's solo episode I go deep into my beautiful, intense, insane, and highly non-recommended path with the medicine of yagé (aka the Colombian brew of ayahuasca). After sitting in hundreds of ceremonies over the past 4+ years, living in the jungle full-time for 1.5 years, and seeing all sides--the good, the bad, and the ugly--of this medicine, I have quite a few thoughts that I feel can be supportive to those who may be considering walking with this plant at some point in their lives...

In this episode I get into:

• How I first found my way to ayahuasca at age 24 and why my path escalated as quickly as it did
• The reality of walking this path as a woman and how lucky I was to find safe male elders to learn under
• The dangers of mixing different plant medicines and lineages
• The importance of working with safe and loving elders who walk with integrity
• Why I don’t recommend that people follow the path that I walked with this medicine (even though I am grateful for all that I experienced with it)
• My mixed feelings about ayahuasca retreat centers
• Who is the kind of person that I feel can benefit from working with this plant

This episode is dedicated to my late and beloved teachers, abuelo Querubin and abuela Maria. My path with this medicine would not be what it is if I had not met them. My highest prayer is that the teachings that they passed onto me can have a positive impact, in small or big ways, for all those who come across this episode. My story is also partially their story and I am forever grateful for all of the trust, care, love, and orientation that they continue to offer me from the stars.

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In this extended episode Ashanti shares a beautiful family constellations meditation that supports our capacity to be able to say "YES TO WHAT IS" with difficult moments in our lives. Listen to the full episode over on substack

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In this episode I share my beautiful, life-giving conversation with Ashanti Cervantes. Ashanti is a facilitator of Family Constellations who helps people unravel inherited patterns and return to the truth of who they are. With a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy and a rich background in parts work, relational communication, attachment theory, and masculine/feminine polarity, she brings a deeply attuned approach to healing. Her work is rooted in a practice of presence—allowing what needs to be seen to reveal itself—and the power of love as a transformative force. Ashanti is here to guide others toward more aligned and liberated ways of living.

In this episode we get into:

• The four forces of love within of family constellation therapy as a means to restore lost love to a family system
• Ashanti’s experience of reconnecting with her father after 15 years of separation
• Learning how to accept men into our lives and to make space in our hearts for their love, protection, and provision
• Healing our own feminine distortions and recognizing how much damage we are doing to ourselves as women
• The importance of no longer seeing men as “enemies” or “adversaries”
• All the subtle, sneaky, imperceptible ways that women consciously and unconsciously emasculate men
• The biological reason why women set the tone in the relationship and why women hold the power to shift the entire relationship dynamic with men
• Holding reverence for our own inner masculine and not degrading the yang structure that allows our yin/feminine to flourish

May this episode help bring you back into loving alignment with the masculine--both internally and externally

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In this mini bonus episode I share one of my most insane time traveling, shape shifting, dimension hopping stories from my deep dark days in New York City.

Shout out to the cosmic nightclub bouncer who got me back on track!

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In this extended episode with Aya Maria we get into:

• How birth control impacts our ability to choose a partner that is both biologically and spiritually aligned with us
• The biological and psycho-spiritual transformations that have to occur throughout a fertility journey in order to call life forth
• The man’s impact on fertility and a woman’s overall womb health
• The use of reproductive technologies to circumvent the deeper lineage work and spiritual healing within a family bloodline
• How we can co-create realities that allow us to move from a place of safety rather than from a place of fear

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In this week's episode I share my conversation with one of my teachers, Aya Maria Maldonado. Aya Maria, mother, professional autonomous midwife, perinatal educator, and artist, is in service to the creative reproductive continuum—supporting people to remember themselves as extensions of raw natural power and as the ultimate authority over their sexual and reproductive health. She offers full-spectrum midwifery care in Tabio, Colombia, 1:1 virtual consults, as well as online and in-person immersions and trainings.

In this episode we dive deep into:

• ​Orienting to future ancestry as we individuate from our family’s of origin
• ​The art of birth care and how it reconnects us to the elemental technologies of all of our lineages
• ​The role of being an “in-between” person that travels through different timelines of modern, globalized society and ancestral, land-based life way
• ​Taking the response-ability to interweave the tools of clinical analysis and mammalian body intelligence when making decisions about our health (particularly throughout pregnancy and birth)
• ​How we can co-create thriving communities by aligning with our sense of common unity
• ​Remembering that, as women, we hold the blueprint within us to give birth and support birth with reverence, integrity, and love

May this episode reorient us all back into the gift of response-ability and the life-exalting capacity that we all carry within our innate blueprint of human vitality!

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