The Serpentine Path

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In this episode I share my conversation with a radiant, whimsical, faerie soul sister, Natalie Deryn Johnson.

Natalie is a movement artist, oracle guide, poet, and healing photographer. She has created for stage, art film, community gathering, solo shows, and is newly emerging publicly as a songstress. She is a lover of bathtubs, waterfalls, moss, and enchanted heartfelt presence.

• How she ended up having two IUDs in her body at the same time for 3 years without realizing it
• Her experience of being hospitalized for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and the medical malpractice that occurred throughout the process
• The forced contractions in an IUD insertion that create traumatic womb imprints in the physical and psycho-spiritual tissues of a woman’s pelvic floor
• Healing from internalized misogyny and gender dysphoria by reclaiming her cyclical nature as a fertile woman
• Moving through the realities of sexual boundary violations and feeling at peace in our female bodies within contexts of solo and partnered intimacy and relationship

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

October 5, 12, + 19 from 1-3pm EST // $33 for access to all three classes + recordings

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES -- STARTING OCTOBER 5!!!

In today's conversation, I share the first episode of an ongoing series about women's birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

In this episode with Madeline Penn we get into:

• Her immediate rejection of the hormonal birth control pill which eventually led to a traumatic IUD insertion where she passed out on the table
• The process she underwent in her decision to remove her hormonal IUD after having it inserted for seven and a half years
• The profound physical, emotional, and spiritual rebirth that she went through when she finally came home to the innate wisdom of her menstrual cycle and fertility
• Boundary violations and the miseducation that young men and women receive in regard to fertility, sexuality, and consent
• Healing the root cause of hormonal acne from the inside out

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, The Natural Birth Control Series -- starting October 5!

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES — STARTING OCTOBER 5

In this week’s episode I share my tender and illuminating conversation with one of my teachers, Luka Barba of Deeply Rooted Healing Traditions.

Luka serves the women and families of her community by providing the traditional care so often absent during the powerfully transformative postpartum period. At the foundation of her work is a focus on generational and lineage healing as she helps clients integrate and somatically process birth imprints (also referred to as birth trauma). Integrating these experiences allows individuals to avoid passing traumatic experiences forward into their future experiences as well as into future generations.

In this conversation we dive into:

• What is a birth imprint and how does it impact the way that we develop, evolve, and move through the world
• How we can call awareness of our birth imprints to the surface in order to re-pattern our psyches, nervous systems, and soul paths
• The importance of integrating and taking consciousness of your own birth story in preparation for a future motherhood portal + pregnancy journey
• The intergenerational trauma of infant male circumcision and the cultural reckoning that is being called for in order to protect the psycho-sexuality dignity of our baby boys
• The necessity for birth workers to address their own birth imprints before stepping into the birth field with the families that they are serving

May this episode help you open the door of your own birth story and support you in the intergenerational healing that blossoms when we bring our birth imprints into conscious awareness

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Here for the Truth Podcast — The Untold Costs of Circumcision with Jenna McClelland

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In this extended episode with Briana Georjae we get into:

• Understanding an indigenous and spiritually intact perspective of paranoia, hallucinations, and psychosis

• How plant medicines can create breaks in the psyche and what integration support is required in order to reweave the fragmented parts of ourselves back together again

• The amount of PHYSICAL safety required in order for the SOUL to feel safe enough to come back to the body

• Autism, neurodivergence, time travel, and psychiatric incarceration

• Body work, movement, embodiment practices, physical containers, and communal witnessing to help bring us back into the present timeline through integration

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In this tenderly psychedelic episode I share my conversation with a dear sister and fellow traveler of the cosmos, Briana Georjae.Briana serves from the critical need to preserve and foster the innate intelligence of women’s bodies. Within a traditional, intuitive and woman-led container, she offers herbal consultations, holistic womb care, psychedelic integration and doula services.

In this episode we get into:

• How her early journey with addiction awakened her path of health sovereignty and personal autonomy
• The various cultures, traditions, lineages, and teachings that she has interwoven and learned from on her path
• How her childhood in the Black Baptist Church offered her a model of guardianship and spiritual containment that eventually fed into her work in ceremonial plant medicine spaces
• Why she eventually took a step back from plant medicine work into order to deepen into her path with women’s wisdom, birth keeping, and reproductive health
• Who is “allowed” to call themselves a guardian, facilitator, space holder, etc. and the level of self-inquiry that is required to walk in true integrity on the path

May this episode support your own sacred journey of inter-dimensional lineage weaving and ceremonial magic!

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⁠The Natural Birth Control Series — October 5, 12, + 19 — LEARN MORE!!!

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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

Enjoy!

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The Natural Birth Control Series — October 5, 12, + 19 — LEARN MORE!!!

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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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Sexual Hooks: Why our vaginal tissue memory makes it so damn hard to get over an ex

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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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