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On this week’s episode I welcome a friend, teacher, and fellow art witch/medicine woman, Nicole Granati.

Nicole is a spiritual midwife, psychic minister, animal communicator and clairvoyant healer who helps people navigate the great in-betweens—whether that's birth, death, or stepping into a new chapter of life. With one foot in the mystical and the other firmly planted on Earth (probably barefoot), she offers deep care, clear vision, and a little bit of well-timed cackling to those walking the path of transformation.

In this episode we get into:

• The massive death portal of her dog, her grandmother, and her pregnancy release (abortion) that initiated her into the work she now offers as a spiritual midwife
• The process of mourning her maidenhood journey and stepping into her motherhood path without any cultural support, acknowledgment, or initiation
• The complex meeting of grief and relief that accompanies the decision to release a pregnancy
• The severe lack of postpartum care, support, and education for miscarriages and abortions
• How the abortion industry downplays the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual weight of pregnancy release
• Ceremony, ritual, and tending that can be retroactively offered to women/couples who move through the experience of pregnancy release alone or together
• The influence of spirit babies on relationships, family constellations, and the decision to keep or release a pregnancy

This is a conversation that is rarely had within the Pro-Choice movement and abortion rights conversation. And, yet, I feel that it is one of, if not the MOST, important one for us to be having. May it offer you the medicine that you are seeking on your own path of reproductive sovereignty.

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In this extended episode with Ariel Robles we talk about the hierarchy between “master plant teachers” like ayahuasca, huachuma, psilocybin mushrooms and the gentle, more subtle, but equally impactful herbal allies that we can also carry in our medicine bag.

We touch on the sensitivity and heightened state of nervous system receptivity that herbal teachers like chamomile, tulsi, and rose can introduce into our daily practices and how ceremony with the earth can take many different shapes.

This conversation left me smiling. Hope you enjoy!

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In today's episode I share my conversation with a dear friend and medicine sister, Ariel Robles. Ariel is a Holistic Somatic Coach blending psychology, spirituality, and earth-based practices to guide deep transformation. With a background in clinical psychology, she integrates somatics, Source Code, and herbalism to help individuals shift unconscious patterns and embody their fullest potential. Her approach weaves together mind, body, and spirit for profound healing and growth.

In our conversation we touch on:

• Ariel’s upbringing as a first generation immigrant and how she navigated the shock and disconnection of assimilating in White culture
• How court-mandated therapy opened the door to her path within the Western paradigm of mental health and eventually led to her becoming a therapist herself
• The process of burnout that forced her to reconsider her path in the Western healing context and opened her up to more ancestral and holistic healing modalities
• Learning how to connect to the cyclical nature and magic of the menstrual cycle as a tool for true embodiment + healing
• Codependency within healer/patient dynamics and the damage that it creates on both ends of the relationship
• Balancing the clean expressions of Yin + Yang (feminine + masculine) polarity within our healing modalities and paradigms
• How Ariel now interweaves her therapy background into her somatic approaches, relational polarity work, and herbalism offerings within her uniquely perfect healing practice

This episode is for everyone who feels the call to interweave the healing modalities of various lineages and hold space for the value that they all bring to the conversation.

Enjoy!

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In this extended episode, Christiana shares her painful but, unfortunately, very common story of gynecological abuse and medical negligence during an unmedicated cervical biopsy and how the abuse echoed through her body for years after the fact in the form of interstitial cystitis.

I also share my own experience of gynecological rape and how it took me years to unravel the deep sense of betrayal that I felt towards a female health care provider that assaulted me within a medical context.

For both Christiana and I, we see the suffering that we've experienced in our wombs and pelvic bowls as the big initiations into the womb work that we do today. However, we also firmly align with the truth that women should not have to be undergo any form of medical rape in order to step into their role as womb wisdom keepers and women's health care practitioners.

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On today’s episode I share my soul soothing conversation with a dear medicine sister, Christiana Eva. Christiana is a healing arts guide and psycho-spiritual integration practitioner, guiding people into deeper relationship with their body, soul, and earth. She is also a musician, student of the plants, and women’s health care practitioner.

In this episode we touch on:

This interview made my heart sing! Enjoy!

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MENTIONED:

Prevention + Schizophrenia — The Role of Dietary Factors

Prenatal Nutritional Deficiency + Risk of Adult Schizophrenia

In this extended episode, Allegra and I discuss our shifting feelings and perspectives around abortion rights and how we no longer fully align with either “political” camp. Allegra also shares about a profoundly transformative ceremony that she experienced at the Moon Dance where women were able to honor the life and death of their unborn children.

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Today, I share my conversation with a dear friend, sister, and fellow mujer medicina, Allegra Preuss. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Allegra studied dance and journalism in NYC, searching for richer ways to merge creativity and service. Back in Miami, she began alchemizing her experiences into offerings like Jellyfish Jam, a movement medicine practice, and The Observation Deck, an oracle card deck. A doula, writer, performance artist, ceremonialist, and educator, she plays the intersection of art and spirituality, exploring the range of feeling and healing.

In this episode we touch on

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In this exclusive extended episode I talk about how I accidentally got hired at Pro-Life pregnancy center the exact same week that I started my herbal abortion training in order to support pregnancy release outside of the medical system. I share about how illuminating and surprising the dual experience has been and how grateful I am to see all sides of the abortion conversation up close and personal.

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In this extended episode, Anna and I talk about the grounding medicine of animal foods and how important it is to be nourishing our bodies after ceremonial work.

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In this deeply personal and transformative conversation with my dear friend and sister, Anna del Amor, we share about our journeys of healing disordered eating patterns by breaking free from the rigidity of dogmatic veganism and embracing the life-giving vitality of animal foods for thriving female reproductive health.

Reflecting on our time spent in indigenous communities, we discuss how ancestral wisdom and embodied intuition guided us to dissolve our rigidity, come into right relationship with eating meat, and rediscover balance in nourishment. This episode is an invitation to heal the disconnect between body and mind, honor our biological rhythms, and celebrate the deep connection between nourishment, vitality, and thriving life.

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