This week marks a significant turning of the wheel for Wild Sovereign Soul, not only have we rebirthed as The Wild Sovereign Soul Show, which is the first phase of our wider rebirthing of *everything* we do, it's also the first episode of our co-founders Lian Brook-Tyler and Jonathan Wilkinson sitting down together for their monthly, free-flowing conversations honouring the path of the Wild Sovereign Soul.

It's challenging to live in this crazy modern world, the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what we know will help.

Each month, they'll be meeting live themes from the modern world head on, weaving together what they're currently consuming and creating, how wildness, sovereignty, and soul are showing up in their own lives, along with questions from listeners and the team, and the patterns they're seeing across our students and clients. There is room for curiosity, disagreement, and humour, alongside reflections drawn from their own experiences and initiations, as well as insights from ancient wisdom traditions, astrology, Gene Keys, shamanism, and more.

The show offers grounded perspective, practical insights, and stirring activations for staying soul-led, aware, and responsive inside a modern culture that continually asks us to flatten and deaden ourselves. Each episode is also an invitation to journey deeper with the themes within the Wild Sovereign Soul community, UNIO.

In this episode, Lian and Jonathan reflect on twelve years of shaping this work, and on the moment it became clear that Wild Sovereign Soul wasn't another rebrand, but a naming of what had always been at the heart of what they do.

Just some of what they speak includes….

The increasing pain and struggle that so many of us are experiencing right now - even more so than they began this work 12 years ago, the soul as North Star, the choices that forge sovereignty, thawing bodies numbed by modern domestication, the moments that awaken soul through loss and love, and the ordinary places this path shows up, in nature, in boredom, and in the decision to say yes or no when it truly matters.

Listen if you have ever felt out of place in the modern world, sensed there was a truer life waiting, or wondered what it actually takes to live it.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• Things aren't getting easier, they're only getting crazier and the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what brings us back to ourselves, each other and our own souls

• How reclaiming wildness restores instinct, belonging, and aliveness in a world that trains us to live from the neck up

• Why sovereignty always asks a price, and how choosing it reshapes fear, agency, and the way you meet challenge

• What happens when the soul becomes your North Star as a lived orientation that changes everything

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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All The Everything is Lian's solo show where she dives deep into a topic, often woven around a myth or fairytale that she's been journeying with.

The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the one: Make sure you're subscribed to our Moonly News email list and are a member of our Facebook group and we'll let you know when the next one is happening.

Lian explores what creates a soulful Christmas, beginning with the way the season stirs old memories and sudden tenderness, then circling through the frantic pace that pulls so many of us away from what we actually long for. She speaks about ancient midwinter traditions flickering beneath the surface of modern life, the hush that falls when the light begins to change, and the quiet ache that arrives when we slow down enough to notice what is really happening inside us.

From there the conversation moves into the practices that help you hold your ground in the middle of family dynamics, sensory overwhelm and the expectations that seem to gather in the dark of December, settling finally on how vision, community and small daily gestures shape the kind of Christmas you actually want to live.

Listen if you have ever felt both joy and dread rising together, wondered why familiar patterns return each year, or longed for a holiday that welcomes every part of you.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How the old rhythms under Christmas reveal themselves once you stop trying to perform the holiday and start listening for what is already moving beneath it

• Why acknowledging longing, memory and discomfort can create a steadier, warmer Christmas than pushing for cheer ever could

• What happens when you root your Christmas in real soulful practices rather than pressure, and how this transforms the way you experience community, self-care and the season itself

🌿 AWAKENING YOUR WILDNESS PRACTICES Wild Practice 1: Sunrise or Moon Greeting

1. Make an intentional devotional choice to go outside each morning or night (depending on whether you're a morning or night person).

2. Go out even for a very short amount of time (even one minute).

3. Greet the sunrise or the moon.

4. Pause and commune with that great being.

5. Let the light (sunlight or moonlight) touch your face.

6. Imagine your breath matching its ancient rhythm.

7. Allow its blessing into you.

8. Receive the gift of light.

Wild Practice 2: Choose a Place in Nature & Make an Offering

1. Choose a place in nature (a sit spot, special tree, or a place you feel drawn to).

2. If you don't have one, go and find one.

3. Take a small offering that won't damage the environment or wildlife.

4. Offer it intentionally (for example, seeds for birds).

5. Whisper your gratitude.

6. Make this an intentional act of giving at Christmas in a way that is wilder and older.

7. The offering can be for the place itself or the creatures who live there.

Wild Practice 3: Mini Wild Wonder Walk

1. Go for a short walk (even five minutes).

2. Do not set a goal or destination.

3. Allow your belly button to lead you.

4. Notice your body and your breath as you walk.

5. Notice what shifts as you return to belonging to the earth.

6. Come out of the busy, material world and return to your body and the earth.

7. Do this intentionally, even briefly.

👑 ACTUALISING YOUR SOVEREIGNTY PRACTICES

Sovereign Practice 1: Inner Child Christmas Inquiry

1. Ask your inner child:

2. What do you wish for Christmas this year?

3. What do you fear?

4. What do you crave?

5. What do you long for?

6. What would allow you to feel safe and welcomed?

7. Allow your inner child to answer you.

8. This can be a daily practice, especially in the mornings.

9. Keep your inner child present with you through the Christmas period.

Sovereign Practice 2: Throne of Sovereignty (Before Family Gatherings)

1. Before a family gathering (or before guests descend):

2. Stand or sit with both feet on the ground.

3. Breathe into your belly.

4. Imagine yourself sitting on the throne of your life.

5. Feel yourself rooted to the earth.

6. Imagine a crown on your head, opening to spirit and allowing it to flow through you.

7. Let this remind you of being centred, grounded, and guided.

8. Return to this embodied memory whenever you feel pulled out of centre or old patterns arise.

Sovereign Practice 3: Permission to Leave the Room

1. If a situation becomes tense, difficult, or painful:

2. Give yourself permission to leave the room.

3. It can be brief.

4. Even knowing you have permission can be enough.

5. Use simple excuses if needed (loo, letting dogs out, stepping into the garden).

6. Take a moment to ground yourself, reconnect with your inner child, and return to yourself.

7. Recognise this as a sovereign choice.

✨ AWAKENING THE SOUL PRACTICES

Soul Practice 1: Read a Nourishing Poem

1. Read a poem that nourishes you.

2. Poets mentioned: David Whyte, Mary Oliver (or your own favourites).

3. Make it a daily ritual, ideally in the morning.

4. Notice the line that speaks to you that day.

5. Journey with that line throughout the day.

6. Ask:

7. What is it wanting your soul to know?

8. What is it opening your soul to?

9. Let the poem be a soul touchstone through the day.

Soul Practice 2: Soulful Meditation / Being With Your Soul

1. Meditate in whatever way feels nourishing.

2. It does not need to be long (even five minutes).

3. Avoid forcing or obligation.

4. Create beauty:

5. Light a candle.

6. Gaze into the flame.

7. Simply be with yourself and your soul.

8. This may not even feel like "meditation" — it is a moment of communion with your soul.

Soul Practice 3: Listen Deeply

1. Listen to something nourishing:

2. Music

3. An audio (e.g. Richard Rudd / Gene Keys)

4. Let one phrase, melody, or sound shape the tone of your day.

5. Allow it to move through you.

6. Notice what your soul is being called to.

7. Let it remind you of your inner light, especially in bleak or wintry times.

Question 1

"If I could shape Christmas around what my soul actually longs for this year, what would it look like?"

Question 2

"Will you hold that vision?"

Will you hold the vision of what Christmas would look like if your soul was met and fulfilled in what it longs for? It is a sovereign choice to hold a soul-aligned vision.

• To join Lian for the next LIVE making of All The Everything: Make sure you're subscribed to our Moonly News email list and are a member of our Facebook group and we'll let you know when the next one is happening.

• Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Be Mythical facebook group or in UNIO.

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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This week's show is with Isaac Wortley and Eddy Elsey, both practicing apprentices of a traditional Mongolian lineage holder, who founded Mother Tree Shamanism.

Isaac is an English shaman, who experienced a calling from a very young age. This led him to search out an authentic traditional teacher of Mongolian shamanism. Over ten years ago, he was initiated by his teacher, the founder of Mother Tree Shamanism, and has been an apprentice ever since. He has also studied traditional Mongolian/Tibetan medicine for last three years. He currently lives in the Midlands in England providing shamanic and traditional medicine services for people in the West.

Eddy has been studying as an apprentice with Mother Tree Shamanism for the last 3 years after transitioning to traditional shamanism from his previous background in neo-shamanism. He lives between the Midlands and London, and works as a traditional massage therapist. He is passionate about helping people discover authentic and traditional forms of spirituality.

In this episode, Lian, Isaac and Eddy explore why traditional shamanism matters so deeply for those of us in the West. They touch on Eddy's descent into illness through neo-shamanic practice, the shock of meeting Mongolian shamans who can name events and symptoms with startling clarity, and the gap between learning shamanism in a weekend and a cosmology that allows a traditional shaman guide a herder to lost cattle on the steppe.

From there the conversation turns to the forgotten role of the shamanist, the everyday person who knows how to live in balance - a first aider rather than a surgeon, metaphorically speaking, and what spiritual hygiene might look like in British life rather than faraway cultures. Listen if you have ever felt your life unravel around the edges from shamanic work, wondered whether your symbols and visions are actually helping, or wished for community instead of having to do it all on your own.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How understanding spiritual hygiene and universal law changes the way you move through sacred sites, daily rituals and the hidden consequences of your practice

• Why becoming a shamanist, with grounded cosmology and everyday balance, may soothe the hunger to be a practitioner more than yet another training ever could

• What happens when shamanism becomes practical again, from dealing with health and relationships to the tangible, measurable changes that follow real ritual

• Mother Tree Shamanism on Facebook & Instagram

• Eddy's Website & Instagram

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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This week's show is with Caitlín Matthews. Caitlín is an internationally renowned author, a teacher of shamanic training programme, a facilitator of Systemic Ritual® and the co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS).

Caitlín is the author of over 80 books, including Diary of a Soul Doctor, Singing the Soul Back Home, the Art of Celtic Seership, Celtic Devotional and The Celtic Book of the Dead. Her books have won a number of awards. She is known internationally for her work on the spiritual, mythic and ancestral traditions of Britain and Ireland. She teaches and works with communities and spiritual institutions worldwide from Iceland to Portugal and from USA to Australia.

Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul, via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing or given an honourable place in modern society. Caitlín has had a shamanic healing practice in Oxford for the last 30 years, working in the community to deepen connections to the ancestral traditions which are our heritage.

In this conversation, Lian and Caitlín explore what a real, living spiritual practice looks like in the midst of modern life, touching on the way people become porous when they have no spiritual resource, and the jittery fear that grows when we only trust material safety.

They share what actually helps in the every day: small repeatable practices, honest prayer that uses different prepositions, and rooting myth and archetype back in the land beneath your feet so you stay human rather than trying to become a god.

Listen if you have ever longed for a daily practice that feels real, wondered where to begin, or worried that you are somehow "not authorised" to walk a spiritual path.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How simple, daily gestures of attention to body, land, weather and soul can turn spiritual practice from a guilty obligation into a steady resource that stops you feeling like that unglazed china cup

• Why Caitlin's way of praying for, with, from and to reshapes responsibility, dissolves the fear of "doing it wrong", and widens who and what you understand yourself to be in relationship with

• What happens when you root archetypes, myths and personal practice in actual soil, seasons and place rather than abstract psychology: the stories come alive, your own life steadies, and you remain a person in service to the myth rather than being swallowed by it

• For Caitlín's books & courses see: www.hallowquest.org.uk

• For more of Caitlín's writing on a range of topics, including a year-long course, Blessings of the Celtic Year, see her Hallowquest Sanctuary at https://substack.com/@caitlinmatthewstigerna

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

• Episode on the 3 cauldrons with Rhonda McCrimmon

• How to cultivate a sacred relationship with life - Sara interviews Lian

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In this week's show Lian is joined by Jane Teresa Anderson BSc Hons. Jane Teresa is a dream analyst, dream therapist, author, podcast host, and mentor, living in Hobart, Australia.

Published by Hachette, Little Brown (Piatkus), Random House, and Harper Collins, Jane Teresa Anderson is the author of seven books about dreams and dreaming, and her 2024 debut fiction novel, Ninth Life.

She is a frequent guest in the media and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers' dreams for more than 1,500 shows across commercial and ABC stations.

Jane Teresa hosts a long-running podcast series, The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson, where she analyses her guests' dreams and shares dream interpretation tips and insights. The Dream Show celebrated 16 years (and 290 episodes) in May 2025.

With an Honours degree in Zoology specialising in developmental neurobiology from the University of Glasgow, (graduating as Jane Teresa Newton), Jane Teresa has been researching dreams since 1992 and developing and teaching dream alchemy practices (exercises) that shift perspective and reprogram unconscious limiting beliefs.

In early 2017 she established The Dream Academy as a platform to deliver her courses online.

Jane Teresa's approach to dream analysis, dream therapy, and dream alchemy is based on her independent research and on deep work with clients since 1992. She consults by Zoom.

In this episode, Lian and Jane look at dreams in the most grounded and personal way. Jane shares her journey from neurobiology to a radio experiment that became a major research project. They explore how dream images grow from the last day or two of lived experience, how the mind pulls old memories into the mix, and why this approach differs so deeply from symbol-driven or archetypal methods.

The conversation turns towards what actually makes sense in practice… how personal dreamwork reveals what the mind is trying to update and how a symbolic image changes the moment you speak it aloud.

Listen if you have ever been chased by a recurring dream, wondered whether outlandish scenes mean anything, or sensed that your dreams are trying to move something in you that daylight has not touched.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How personal dreamwork differs from symbol-based or archetypal interpretation, and why it lands more cleanly

• Why telling a dream aloud brings new clues to the surface and begins to shift the inner pattern

• What happens when you rewrite a dream image through simple dream alchemy and feel the effects the next day

• Jane Teresa's Website

• The Dream Academy

• Join Jane Teresa on Instagram & LinkedIn

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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This week's show is with Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again).

Since 2001, he's been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace.

Tad did improv comedy semi-professionally for 25 years, co-ran Edmonton's progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, founded streetcarshows.com and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helped to launch and co-facilitate the Nova Scotia Gaels Jam.

He is from Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy [Beaver Hill] and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan [Beaver Hill House]) and currently lives in Duncan, BC (Quw'utsun territory).

In this episode, Lian and Tad explore how living stories form culture, meaning they're more than psychological metaphors, they're teachings tied to the land and beings around us. They touch upon Tad's Waldorf childhood and the years he drifted, the Gaelic homecoming that pulled him to Scotland and an elder storyteller. They follow the thread from archetype to architecture… sun, soil, and seasons.

From there the conversation turns to how stories remember what a culture must not forget, why punishment poisons, and how initiation is smuggled into folktales so boys and girls grow into people.

Listen if you have ever felt imprinted by myth then somehow lost your connection to it, wondered why archetypes can feel lacking, or longed for belonging.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How Tad's own hunger for ancestral story led him from activism to Gaelic study, reawakening a lineage of belonging

• How old stories once carried medicine, mapping the plants, elements, and ethics that kept a people alive

• Why myth without land becomes psychology, and what returns when stories are rooted back in place

• Visit Tad's Website

• Tad's Ethical Marketing Starter Kit

• Find out more about Membership for Marketing for Hippies

• Join Tad on Instagram & YouTube

• See Tad's Upcoming Events

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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In this week's show Lian is joined by Stephanie MacKay. Stephanie is a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong—to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. As founder and director of Fianna Wilderness School, she has spent the past 15+ years guiding rites of passage, seasonal myth circles, and nature-based mentorship rooted in the wilds.

Stephanie's work braids together her Celtic ancestry, years of deep study with Martín Prechtel and the Animas Valley Institute, and a fierce love of story as medicine. She is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of ancient European stories. Drawing from the wellspring of these old mythologies, she seeks to uncover the hidden pathways that lead us to our cultural origins—reviving traditions long forgotten and reawakening the deep cultural wisdom carried in our bones

Whether she's guiding wilderness quests, tending seasonal myth circles, or walking the long road of cultural regeneration, Stephanie's devotion is to the deep remembering of who we are and how we belong—through mythic threads that call us back into sacred relationship with the world.

In this episode, Lian and Stephanie explore how old stories court the soul. They touch Angela Carter's Red Riding Hood and Stephanie's visceral surprise of feeling Eros as a living thread, the way Lian was moved by Skeleton Woman and the Fisherman's skin against skin, and what union in stories like these is really calling us towards.

They trace how desire becomes devotion: noticing where longing really points, letting projection soften so love grows more human and more sacred, and beginning with small ceremony that says 'yes'.

Listen if you are moved by myths of great love or sense that what you hunger for is older and deeper than romance.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How Eros in fairy tales reveals the soul's appetite for the sacred, and why that changes how we read love stories in ordinary life

• Why projection makes partners carry the sacred, what breaks when they cannot hold that projection, and what becomes possible when the sacred is welcomed directly

• What happens when you treat ceremony as a first language, even a few words and an offering, and let the next step show itself

• Visit Stephanie's website

• Fianna Wilderness School website

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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In this week's show Lian is joined by Hugh Newton. Hugh's life began in the midst of a war in Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia). Growing up in such harsh conditions meant that he had to work hard to overcome his complex childhood trauma. Hugh began his self-development journey 30 years ago, and has been passionate about both supporting men to step into the fullest versions of themselves, and strengthening and uplifting the African continent that he loves so much.

Hugh works as the lead male facilitator at Celebration of Being, and was a certified leader at A Band of Brothers for 7 years. He's also a trained shadow work facilitator and coach. His body of work supports men to show up as their best selves in the world, overcome their wounding, and build rich, nourishing lives for themselves and those they love.

In this episode, Lian and Hugh explore men, trauma, and the long road back to wholeness. They touch Hugh's childhood on a remote Rhodesian farm under civil war, the day a nine-year-old was trained and armed to protect his mother and sister, the years of numbness that followed, and the moment he named the predator within and chose to meet it.

They turn to what creates healing: men's work that faces danger with love, simple daily honesty instead of performance, and steady boundaries that make intimacy possible.

Listen if you are or love a man who can't feel, wondered why good men go numb, or wanted to understand how even the deepest wounds in men can become strength.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How men's childhood survival strategies become adult numbness, and the concrete steps that begin to thaw it without collapsing into chaos and overwhelm

• Why naming the predator within changes behaviour, desire, and trust in relationship, and the practices that keep it in the heart rather than the shadows

• What happens when women respond to men's early, imperfect vulnerability with steadiness and praise… and how that accelerates genuine masculine healing

• The Sovereign's Journey - May 2026 edition

• Hugh's book on Amazon

• Regular online workshops for men

• Join Hugh on instagram

• Join Hugh on Facebook

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

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There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

This week's show is with Caitlín Matthews. Caitlín is an internationally renowned author, a teacher of shamanic training programme, a facilitator of Systemic Ritual® and the co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS).

Caitlín is the author of over 80 books, including Diary of a Soul Doctor, Singing the Soul Back Home, the Art of Celtic Seership, Celtic Devotional and The Celtic Book of the Dead. Her books have won a number of awards. She is known internationally for her work on the spiritual, mythic and ancestral traditions of Britain and Ireland. She teaches and works with communities and spiritual institutions worldwide from Iceland to Portugal and from USA to Australia.

Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul, via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing or given an honourable place in modern society. Caitlín has had a shamanic healing practice in Oxford for the last 30 years, working in the community to deepen connections to the ancestral traditions which are our heritage.

In this conversation, Lian and Caitlín explore the very real but mostly forgotten 'small print' of working with myth and archetypes. They touch the older meaning of myth as something that never happened and is always happening, the danger of lifting archetypes out of their living stories, and the cost of hubris when we claim what is not ours. They look at what actually helps: context, reciprocity, and clear human boundaries.

They name moments that have taught them: Lian's unexpected meeting with Athena on a sunlit hill above the sea, Caitlin's doorstep story that fused life with the horse goddess, and the terrible Bali tale that shows why respect matters. Listen if you have ever felt the call of a god or goddess and wondered how to answer it whilst keeping both your wonder and your wits.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How sacred contracts, offerings, and manners keep archetypal work sane, grounded, and mutually respectful

• Why context and lineage matter, and what goes wrong when archetypes are severed from their myths

• What happens when identification replaces relationship, and the simple practices that restore right distance

• For Caitlín's books & courses see: www.hallowquest.org.uk

• For more of Caitlín's writing on a range of topics, including a year-long course, Blessings of the Celtic Year, see her Hallowquest Sanctuary at https://substack.com/@caitlinmatthewstigerna

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In this week's show Lian is joined by Serdar Hararovich. Serdar is a Relationship & Secure Attachment Specialist offering integrative, attachment-based coaching and healing. He supports both men and women to heal early attachment wounds, establish inner security, reclaim their deepest self, and cultivate the emotional skills required for deep, soulful, and secure love.

Serdar works with a wide variety of individuals - including, but not limited to, therapists, relationship coaches, and other practitioners. The common thread among his clients is a deep desire to go beyond the surface - people tired of quick-fix techniques and oversimplified approaches to healing. Those ready to do the kind of work that awakens their deepest potential - allowing them to master the art of true intimacy and experience the kind of love that transforms everything.

In this episode, Lian and Serdar explore what it really means to honour the differences between men and women without turning them into prescriptions or performances. They touch the gap in how partners want to communicate between dates, why anxious attachment can pile five issues into one talk, and what withdrawal can really signal. They look at emotional safety in plain terms, the pull of projection and transference, and how simple, steady awareness shifts the tone of a relationship.

They look at what actually helps: recognising difference without blame, letting curiosity replace judgement, and using relationship as a mirror for self-knowledge. Listen if you've ever wondered why men and women so often miss each other, felt uneasy naming masculine or feminine traits, or wanted a way to see those forces as sacred, human, and alive rather than stereotyped.

We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

• How honouring difference deepens intimacy without falling into polarity roles

• Why curiosity and emotional safety make real understanding possible

• What happens when you stop performing gender and start living it as energy and truth

• Visit Serdar's Website

• Serdar's upcoming course

• Join UNIO, the Community for Wild Sovereign Souls… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth.

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

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