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To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien
By Erin O'Brien, LPC, LLCSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthEducationSelf-ImprovementRelationships
To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien episodes
- Daring to Tell My Story of Healing, Transformation, and Personal Liberation
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What happens when we dare to speak our deepest truths? When we step into the fullness of who we are, without editing out the uncomfortable parts?
This episode marks a turning point in our journey together as I reveal the intersections of my social identities as a licensed psychotherapist, a queer woman, a mother, and—perhaps most vulnerably—a practicing witch. I explore how these parts of myself inform one another and create the foundation for the healing work I do in the world.
From my earliest memories of guiding friends into trance states as a child to finding community within a Wiccan tradition as an adult, my spiritual path has always intertwined with my therapeutic practice. Both require rigorous self-knowledge, commitment to growth, and willingness to face shadow aspects. Both offer frameworks for transformation and healing.
I share how parenthood became my most profound initiation, confronting me with intergenerational trauma patterns I desperately wanted to break. As part of a lineage of "unmothered mothers," I faced my deepest fears about repeating harmful cycles with my own children—a reckoning that led me to integrate various healing modalities, including expanded state healing work.
This vulnerability serves a purpose beyond personal catharsis. By modeling truth-telling, I hope to create space for you to examine your own story with compassion and courage. Because our individual healing is inextricably linked to collective liberation. We must dismantle oppressive systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the insidious legacy of colonialism from the inside out, beginning with ourselves. As above, so below.
In our next episode, I'll guide you through your own storytelling journey using a reflection process I use with the folx I work with in my practice. Until then, remember: your truth matters. And we must dare to tell it if we hope to heal ourselves and our world.Recorded on 6/6 and 6/11.
Information on the incredible community and magickal tradition that I am a part of called, Assembly of the Sacred Wheel: www.sacredwheel.org
1 hr 9 min - The Magick of Truth-Telling
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The journey toward transformation requires truth-telling— and I will go there with you, because our stories contain powerful magick and sharing them honestly creates pathways for healing and authentic connection. Join me in daring to face what is hidden, what is vulnerable, knowing that when we keep the truth about our experience hidden, we block the potential for genuine growth, connection, and the ability to dismantle internalized systems of power and dominance so that we can be a part of collective liberation. One truth is that we are relational beings, and everything we experience, from our earliest attachment experiences to our personal path and how we navigate the world around us, happens within the context of our relationships. The path of healing then begins with honesty – and how the areas where we most passionately strive to support others are often the very places within ourselves that require the deepest attention. truth, and integration. Thank you for being in-relationship with me as I strive to be just as honest here, as I invite you to be.
Episode recorded on 6/6/25.
42 min - Dark Moon Journey for Our Regeneration
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Welcome to the first episode where we will be exploring the powerful energies of the dark moon, a liminal time that encompasses both life and death, opening up possibilities for our regeneration journey. Let's dare together to breathe into the darkness, slow down, and go deep into our experience across the dimensions of intergenerational patterning and social positioning to listen to the wisdom and power of our bodies, hearts, and souls with the support of our spirit team, ancestors, and life itself in service to our highest path and purpose. We move closer to healing, transformation, and collective liberation with each breath we take together for alchemy, abundance, and love. Thank you for joining me and if these offerings are meaningful to you, I hope you subscribe to continue To Dare, Together!
Recorded 5/26/25
34 min - Teaser Episode!
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Welcome to this brief introduction to my new podcast, To Dare, Together ~ Truth Seeking in the Depths for Healing, Transformation, and Collective Liberation. Full episodes to be released on the Dark Moon, Monday May 26, 2025! I hope you dare to join me then. Bye for now!
Recorded 5/23/25
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About To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien
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Hello friend! Welcome, my name is Erin O'Brien, and I'm daring to create and hold space for decolonized healing, transformation, and collective liberation. I'm a licensed psychotherapist for…
over 20+ years, a relationship counselor, a spiritual intuitive, a shadow worker, and witch, and I believe that true therapuetic practice, calls for right-action and remembers all the ways of wellbeing. This is a place that will remember the old truths and reconnect them to their land and to their people. Together, we will unite the relational, social, spiritual, psychological, energetic, ancestral, scientific, environmental, political, and magickal, because they are most powerful when working as a sacred whole ~ AS ARE WE! 2026 is a time To Dare to create the world that we've been dreaming of. To Dare to be the dream we have been waiting for... Let’s do it.
Together, we will restore right-relationship to ourselves, to each other, to the land, and to the Divine. We will seek to know the truth in the depths, and dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal. To descend and arise, transformed in the cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a truly embodied and integrated place. To be in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, accountability, repair, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, generosity, prosperity, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our community.
We will dare to align our body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Ready to couragousely examine our original and chosen families, relationships, communities, cultures, systems in society, intergenerational patterns, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective. Because when we are together, we will seek to know what is true. We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another. So let’s will it together. Our bodies hold so much intelligence if we just slow down enough to listen. When we know how to keep silent and just be, just breathe, just listen, we know how to summon our greatest powers of transformation.
My offering each episode will be a combination of solo explorations and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, space-holders, embodied healers, spiritual intuitives, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more.
We will focus on embodiment, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation. We will work with our unconscious/shadow to illuminate what needs to be transmuted or released. We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life. We will understand how colonization wounds are at the core of our dis-ease and disembodiment. We will create ways of relating that promote connection, celebrate differentiation, respectfully move through conflict, and preserve each other's dignity. We will conjure the wisdom of our ancestors to strengthen our communal spaces. We will create rituals to attune with the cycles of nature, lunar rhythms, astrology, and the wheel of the year. We will do pathworkings and divination, and so much more. Are you ready To Go?
Once again, THIS IS THE TIME To Dare to create the world that we've been dreaming of. To Dare to be the dream we have been waiting for... Let’s be it together.
“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown