The Wild Sovereign Soul Show

Lian and psycho-spiritual researcher Bernhard Guenther explore how spiritual warfare plays out in each person's life, why purpose shifts over a lifetime, and how to tell a wounded inner part from an outside force.

Bernhard Guenther is a psycho-spiritual researcher, teacher, and guide whose work explores the deeper architecture of reality and the evolutionary challenges humanity faces during this Time of Transition.

Drawing on over two decades of study, practice, and inner work, he integrates esoteric wisdom, depth psychology, trauma healing, shadow integration, and a clear understanding of the spiritual and hyperdimensional forces that influence human consciousness.

He is the founder of Piercing the Veil of Reality and co-host of The Cosmic Matrix podcast with his wife, Laura Matsue Guenther. Through online courses, mentoring, articles, podcasts, and retreats, he helps sincere seekers cultivate discernment, embody their true nature, and align with their deeper purpose in a time of profound change.

In this episode, Lian and Bernhard return to spiritual warfare for a second conversation, this time bringing it home to the individual soul and what each person might be called to. Bernhard shares how he came to the US in his twenties certain he'd be a drummer, practising eight hours a day and visualising success, and how none of it worked out, until a roommate introduced him to bodywork and he found a healing gift in his hands.

They talk about dharma as something fluid, lived as fully by a plumber who loves his craft as by anyone teaching spirituality, and look at why people fixated on fighting outer darkness can leave their own shadow untended... mistaking an abandoned inner child for an entity attachment, or sliding into grandiosity once they identify with the warrior archetype.

Listen if you've wondered what your role is in the spiritual war, whether your purpose has to be something grand and overtly spiritual, or how to know if it's an entity or a part of you that’s creating thoughts and feelings.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the pull to feel chosen, special, or already awake is one of the most dangerous traps on the spiritual path
• How to tell a wounded inner part from something that has come in from outside
• Why focusing on dark forces can draw them closer, but why ignoring them leaves you more exposed
  

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Visit Bernhard’s website https://veilofreality.com/
• Mastering spiritual warfare https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com/
• Watch the first part of our conversation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhokymeTmM&t=2524s
• Join UNIO, The Fellowship for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : 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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If you've ever avoided a mirror or deleted a photo of yourself because you couldn't stand what you saw, here's what's really behind that, and it has almost nothing to do with how you look.

In this episode, Lian answers a question sent in by a viewer: "How do you love and live inside a body that doesn't look the way you want it to?"

Lian takes us back to a much older relationship with the body that most of us have lost entirely, one that sits outside both sides of where this conversation usually goes, body positivity on one end, looksmaxxing, GLP-1s and filters on the other.

She looks at what's really happening every time you catch your own reflection, the real reason that drop in your stomach shows up at all.

Lian moves into what it takes to find your way back to that older relationship, and why thinking your way there, or fixing your way there, rarely works.

This one's for you if you've ever wondered how to love a body that doesn't look the way you want it to.

#bodypositivity #relationshipwithyourbody #soulsode #reclaim #filters #looksmaxxing #comehome #body #homeinyou #loveyourbody

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.

What you’ll learn from this video:

• What's actually happening in the moment you catch your own reflection or see a photo
• Why the comparison you're running has stopped making any sense
• What it takes to come home to a different relationship with your own body

If this is helpful, there’s more of this waiting in our WSS fellowship, UNIO, twice monthly live guidance circles… come join us!

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Stephen Jenkinson, creator of the Orphan Wisdom School and grief literacy advocate, explains what it's like to turn a lifetime of teaching about death toward his own Parkinson's diagnosis, and what he's found there that has broken open, humbled, and moved him.

Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, has taught internationally and is the creator of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. The School convened semi-annually in Ontario, and in the Gulf Islands, Canada and in Wales and Iceland.
He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work).

Apprenticed to a master storyteller when a young man, he worked extensively with dying people and their families, is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital, and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school.
He is also a sculptor and traditional canoe builder whose house won a Governor General’s Award for architecture.

Since co-founding the Nights of Grief and Mystery with singer/songwriter Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/ tent show revival/ storytelling/ ceremony of a show across North America, U.K. and Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

He is the author of Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse (2026) and numerous other books (for a full list of his books & music see the show notes linked below).

Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (2008, dir. Tim Wilson), a portrait of his work with dying people. Lost Nation Road (2019, dir. Ian Mackenzie), and Murmurings of the Land (2025, dir. Mattias Olsson).

In this episode, Lian and Stephen talk about what it's like to have spent decades helping other people meet their dying, and then have to meet your own diagnosis. That question runs under everything they cover, from the childhood illness he now recognises as an early imprint, to the raku cup he broke and had mended with gold (Photo in show notes, link below).

They get into the word anesthetic, and how splitting it open changed how he understood addiction and beauty both, why he pushes back on the word joy, and what it means to recognise an ending while you're still inside it, rather than only afterwards, once it's already gone.

Listen if dying feels like something that will just happen to you one day, and perhaps something you'd rather not think or talk about, than something you're consciously living into.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• What a man who spent years teaching about loss, learned from taking out his most beautiful possession locked away, untouched, for a decade
• Why gratitude isn't the reward for hard times passing, it's what can arise when you refuse to forget they happened at all
• Why knowing your own death is inevitable does almost nothing, and what it takes to stay inside that knowledge day to day

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Visit Stephen’s website https://orphanwisdom.com/
• Stephen’s new book Tembling, Still https://orphanwisdom.com/trembling-still/
• Join UNIO, The Fellowship for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/: 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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If you've ever wondered why your soul can feel so hard to hear, even when you're trying everything you know, here's what Jonathan says is really in the way, and three ways through it.

In this video, Jonathan goes into why so many of us end up guided by something other than our own soul, the false self, old wounds, the conditioning of a fast, noisy modern world, and what that costs us over a lifetime. He looks at why the soul so rarely shouts to be heard, and why most people go their whole life mistaking its whisper for silence.

He moves through the three primordial strands of the Wild Sovereign Soul path, wildness, sovereignty, and soul, and offers one simple, aligned action from each, small enough to start today, real enough to shift how clearly you can hear yourself.

Watch if you sense there's something important underneath the busyness of your life that you haven't had the space to properly hear.

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.

What you'll learn from this video:

• The one thing that closes the channel to your soul faster than anything else

• The real reason so many of us end up guided by everything except our own soul

• What it takes to hear your soul, which has never once stopped speaking

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Lian and NDE survivor Landon Dennis explore what his near death experience showed him that changed the course of his life, and what he learned about the power of prayer in particular: that it can arrive as literal beams of light, strong enough to drive away the dark presences he'd experienced since childhood.

Landon lives in St. George, Utah, works as a peer support specialist, and has spent recent years sharing his near death experience across podcasts and his own YouTube channel.

In this episode, Lian and Landon focus on what his NDE revealed about the power of prayer, from the beams of light he saw driving dark shapes away from him, to the moment he questioned two beings about whether prayer meant anything at all and was shown proof rather than given an answer. Along the way he describes arriving in a field of grass that seemed to glow with its own kind of love, and meeting his grandfather and niece as lights who still gave him the full weight of a hug and the words he needed to hear.

The conversation returns to a night behind a dumpster that his NDE later showed him differently: the dark shapes he'd felt around him that night, and what they turned out to be once prayer arrived as light and drove them off.

Listen if you've ever prayed and doubted it was doing anything, kept praying for someone who seems unreachable, or wondered what happens to the people you've lost.

#NDE #prayer #powerofprayer #question #love #ancestors #afterlife #light #dark #emotion #fearofdeath #fearoflife #miracle #neardeathexperience

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• What happened when Landon questioned the power of prayer out loud during his NDE, and was shown proof rather than given an answer
• Why the years of prayers his family said for him, never knowing if they were making any difference, turned out to have been answered and stored away long before he needed them most
• Why the emotional flood he felt watching paramedics work on his own body, so intense he says he felt like he was going to explode, turned out to be something other than fear of death
  

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Landon’s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/landonius28
• Landon’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@FromTheDumps
• Join UNIO, The Fellowship for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : 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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Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly
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If you’ve ever turned down a job, an opportunity, or a date you truly wanted, here’s what’s really driving that “no”, and what it takes to trust yourself with a “yes” again.

In this video, Lian looks at why rejection can feel far more dangerous to some people than others, especially in ADHD and autistic minds, where this is often described as “rejection sensitive dysphoria”. She looks at the biological piece, differences in how the brain regulates emotion and filters threat, the genetic thread that runs alongside ADHD and autism, and the lived history of being misunderstood or criticised that can train a nervous system to expect rejection even when nothing dangerous is actually happening.

She moves into what that fear costs over time, the jobs untaken, the people never asked, years spent grieving what could have been, and what it actually takes to build real evidence in the body that rejection is survivable, one small “yes” at a time.

Watch if you’ve ever talked yourself out of a job, a date, or an opportunity, right before anyone else could turn you down first.

#fear #rejection #soulsode #ADHD #autisticminds #rejectionsensitivedysphoria #emotions #nervoussystem #sovereign #body #brain

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why rejection can register in some nervous systems as real danger, not just discomfort
• How years of being misunderstood can train the brain to expect rejection before it happens
• What it actually takes to build enough trust in your own body to let a real “yes” through
  

If this is helpful, there’s more of this waiting in our WSS fellowship, UNIO, twice monthly live guidance circles… come join us!

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Wild Sovereign Soul co-founder and soul guide, Lian Brook-Tyler, has spent over a decade studying beauty as a soul path rather than a surface concern... she explains why beauty deserves the same conscious attention we already give relationships and money, and what can happen once we stop pretending it doesn't already command our attention.

This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her, could be literally anything - explored through the lenses of science, spirituality and story - hence the name of the show!

It is created for those who feel called toward a soulful life shaped by meaning, depth, truth, and love… for those who feel unsatisfied with quick answers or surface level takes. This is a rich rabbit hole that Lian journeys through alongside you. She speaks from her own lived experience and unfolding process… while inviting you into your own as you listen.

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

In this episode, Lian explores beauty not as something skin deep, but as a spiritual practice, tracing it from the evolutionary science of adornment through myth, history and her own teenage attempt to reconstruct herself in the image of Marilyn Monroe. She looks at the handicap principle behind why humans adorn themselves at all, research showing how self-surveillance breeds body shame, and what myths can show us.

She brings in the Jungian analyst James Hollis on making our projections conscious, the psychologist James Hillman's case that recovering our sense of beauty is how we recover our lost soul, and her own Beauty Archetype work exploring the Lover and the shadows of chasing beauty and abandoning it. She closes by mapping Venus, the Ascendant and Chiron in the birth chart, asking what your own placements might reveal about your particular path with beauty.

Listen if you either chase beauty for approval or dismiss it, and are wondering if there could be something deeper beyond both.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the same evolutionary instinct behind a forty thousand year old deer tooth necklace may be the same one now, but distorted, driving those anxious checks in the mirror
• How the myth of Psyche and Aphrodite shows that even the soul and Goddesses aren’t exempt from beauty's pull or the envy of it
• What happens when beauty is offered as a conscious devotion rather than performed for approval or discarded out of caution
  

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Watch the episode which explores the myth of Psyche and Eros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lx9PKm203c&t=705s
• Register your interest in Beauty Potion https://wildsovereignsoul.com/beauty
• To get your birth chart https://www.astro.com
• Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul, subscribed to our Moonly News https://wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul 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 Wild Sovereign Soul facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul or in UNIO https://www.unioacademy.com.
  

Wild Sovereign Soul

Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly

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If you keep saying "yes" when your whole body is screaming "no", here's what's actually driving that, and what it takes to change it.

In this episode, Lian Brook-Tyler, goes back to where the "good girl" first learned her trade, the moments in childhood, somewhere around four, five, six years old, when a small child worked out that a "yes" could keep the peace, keep the love coming, keep a parent or teacher from turning cold. 

Lian looks at why that pattern stops feeling like a strategy and starts feeling like personality, and why the body carries it long after the mind knows the danger has passed.

Lian moves into why logic never wins the argument with her, why forcing, reasoning, or shaming that part rarely works, and what it actually takes, a slow build of inner authority, someone steadier for her to finally hand the reins to, and what it looks like to speak a "no" when that's the truer answer.

Listen if you've ever felt a real "no" rising in you, in a meeting, in a relationship, at the dinner table, and felt your throat tighten or your words soften before they leave your mouth.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the "good girl" was built to keep you safe rather than obedient, and why that distinction matters

• How the body keeps running old calculations long after the literal danger has passed

• What it actually takes to become someone she trusts enough to hand the reins to, and how that lets a true "no" get spoken
  

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : 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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Fermentation expert and author Kirsten K. Shockey joins Lian to explore what we lose when we stop fermenting our own food, why choosing inconvenience is becoming a countercultural act, and what microbes might be running more of the show than we think

Kirsten K. Shockey is a mother and grandmother who loves to plant trees and rescue beavers. When she isn’t playing or helping people to make, enjoy and connect with their food she can be found writing about life and fermentation at fermentingchange.substack from her home in the mountains of southern Oregon. 

Kirsten is the author of award-winning Homebrewed Vinegar, coauthor, with her husband, Christopher Shockey, of award-winning The Big Book of Cidermaking; award-winning Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments; Fiery Ferments; and the best-selling Fermented Vegetables and Fermented Vegetables second edition. 

She is co-founder of The Fermentation School a women-owned and women-led benefits corporation supporting the voices of independent educators to empower learning and build culture where you can find her online courses.

In this episode, Lian and Kirsten look at ‘friction maxing’, and why so many people are finding themselves drawn back to slower, harder, more hands-on ways of doing things, and what fermentation has to do with it. They talk about what it means to choose inconvenience, how the microbes we co-evolved with for millions of years are still shaping our cravings, our gut, our moods, and possibly even more, and what gets lost when we hand all of that over to a factory and call it progress.

The conversation moves into the fear that stops most people before they even start, the grief of skills that stopped being passed down, and what Kirsten has noticed about what happens to people once they have something alive and bubbling on their counter, how quickly it stops feeling like a hobby and starts feeling like something precious that they didn't know they were missing in their lives.

Listen if you keep finding yourself drawn to slower, older, more hands-on ways of doing things and you're not sure how to make that happen in your busy life, or if you already ferment and have noticed it feels like more than just a hobby, and are wondering what that could mean.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the question fermentation folk keep coming back to is: who domesticated whom, us or the microbes?

• How friction maxing can show up as inner or outer inconvenience and discomfort

• What a single jar of something bubbling on a kitchen counter might be doing for a person's relationship with the living world

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Visit Kirsten’s website https://ferment.works/

• Visit The Fermentation School https://www.fermentationschool.com/

• Kirsten’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kirstenkshockey/

• Fermenting Change Newsletter https://fermentingchange.substack.com

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : 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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Lian is joined by Jason Grechanik, a master tabaquero with nearly a decade of Amazonian immersion and over a thousand people guided through plant ceremony, to explore what it looks like to do a plant dieta with the trees of Celtic and Northern European tradition, why these trees are subtler to work with than Amazonian plants, and what people have healed through that extended relationship.

Jason Grechanik trained in the Mamankunawa tradition under curandero Don Ernesto Garcia Torres. He spent many years working at the renowned Shipibo healing center Temple of the Way of Light in Peru. He is the host of The Universe Within Podcast (180+ episodes, 20,000+ monthly listeners) and co-founder of the Nicotiana Rustica Project, a living practice that bridges Amazonian sacred tobacco traditions with Celtic tree wisdom. His background spans Ashtanga yoga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and herbalism.

In this episode, Lian and Jason explore what a Celtic tree dieta looks like in practice, from the diagnosis and the period of isolation, to the role of tobacco as amplifier, to the moment towards the end when the dieter finally learns the name of the tree they have been working with. 

They look at why these trees are subtle to receive, what opens a person enough to hear them, and how the physical medicine of a tree and its emotional and spiritual medicine turn out to be expressions of the same thing. Jason walks through the willow in some depth, its connection to grief, to water, to the lungs, to the underworld, and to what can begin to shift in a person when they spend extended time in relationship with it.

From there the conversation opens into what people have healed through this work, from Lyme disease and ovarian cysts to heartbreak and stagnation, and into Jason's sense of what these trees are ultimately offering, which is perhaps a felt sense of being at home in oneself, the way an oak or a willow simply is.

Listen if you've always felt drawn to a particular tree and wondered whether that pull means something, or if you've done plant medicine work before and found yourself curious about what's available closer to home.

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.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the Celtic trees are worked with through the medium of tobacco, and what that amplification makes possible that the tree alone might not

• How the physical properties of a tree, what it grows near, how it moves, what it heals in the body, are a map of its emotional and spiritual medicine

• What happens in a dieta when the guide doesn't tell the dieter the name of the tree until the very end, and why that changes what gets received

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Visit Jason’s website https://jasongrechanik.com/

• Nicotiana Rustica Project http://nicotianarustica.org/
• The Universe Within Podcast https://jasongrechanik.com/podcast
• Jason’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jasongrechanik/

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

Wild Sovereign Soul

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

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