Unmasked & Open Hearted

Kathryn Halcyon is a Sexuality Counsellor based out of Sydney, Australia. Fluent in the sacred language of intimacy, Kathryn is committed to living with full, authentic expression. Her purpose is guiding others on their journey inwards, in reclaiming their pleasure, deep peace and sexual joy.

Drawing upon natural rhythms, holistic counselling approaches and the unique beauty of each of her clients, Kathryn's guidance practice is grounded in warmth and comfort that activates the heart and nourishes the soul.

Kathryn spends her open time recording episodes for her podcast, Soul & Sex, dancing, painting and spending time with loved ones in nature.

Human Design Info: 3/5 Manifesting-Generator with Emotional Authority

Astrology Info: Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon, Virgo Rising

Highlights of this episode:

• Kathryn's personal experience as a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) + how she honors & embraces her sensitivity
• How Kathryn supports empaths & deeply sensitive individuals in connecting back to themselves, loving themselves, embracing their sexuality, & developing healthy romantic love & relationships
• Understanding polarity in your body - your masculine energy vs feminine energy
• How you receive vs. give love & energy when you are a predominantly feminine-energy being
• The process of opening up your heart AND your stomach to cultivate trust & anchor into safety during sex & intimacy
• What "shadow work" is - why it's so important for your healing, self love, great sex & pleasure
• Creating safety within yourself through be-friending your shame, insecurities, & other shadows
• Kathryn's experience with forgiveness & letting go to heal some womb trauma
• A discussion on Astrology placements + a peak into Kathryn's Astrology chart looking at her Scorpio vs Virgo energy & her Venus in Libra
• The story behind Embrace & Embody - Kathryn's new business with Janice X May (Her interview is Episode 43!)
• Our discussion on our individual journey's healing codependency patterns

Kathryn's Website: www.kathrynhalcyon.com

Connect with Kathryn on Instagram: @kathrynhalcyon

Check out the content & workshops from her new brand Embrace & Embody with Janice here: @embraceandembody

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Follow the Spotify playlist here: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Intro & outro by: @serennasounds

This is one loooong solo episode filled with ALL the behind-the-scenes updates from this July - from having to cancel my trip to Peru, to embarking on a new intuitive development journey, to discovering a new intolerance to perfectionism on social media, to releasing some unworthiness blocks around love, to launching a brand new group coaching program.

This one is jam-packed. Enjoy!

Instagram accounts for the women I mentioned inside this episode:

Rachael Cohen: @infinitesucculent

Jess Bubbico: @jessbubbico

Julie-Anne Kelly: @julieannekellywellbeing

Link to all the details around my upcoming group program (we begin on August 11th): I am... HOME.

Connect with me on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Email me: [email protected]

Dr. Eva Brown Ph.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who specializes in multi-generational family systems theory, cybernetics, trauma informed communication, emotional intimacy, sacred sexuality & life inter-workings. She has been in private practice for 15 years, working with individuals, couples and families.

During Covid-19 she opened a new brand called Sacred Partners, in which she teaches individuals and couples the philosophy, development and process of conscious & sacred partnership from the beginning to Awakened & Healed.

Her teachings are deeply theoretical and science based, while merging ideologies of western and eastern philosophy. A combination of mindfulness, embodied integration and practical skill are the main tenants of her overall work process with clients. You can expect to attune to an emotionally connected, consciously attuned, sexy, sacred partnership while working with Dr. Eva.

Human Design Info: 1/3 Projector with Splenic Authority

Astrology Info: Libra Sun

Highlights of this episode:

• Dr. Eva's personal career journey shifting from selling sexual products & consulting women in spicing up their sex & love lives to going back to school for her masters & Ph.D so she could support women & couples on a deeper level
• Her beautiful love story - how she met her husband & Sacred Partner, Paul, and their easeful journey from friendship to dating to marriage
• Understanding your partners triggers, standing by your partners side during difficult times, & supporting them during their own time of need
• The moment where Eva released the expectations & codependent needs she was holding onto inside of her relationship unconsciously to allow the space to grow & evolve in unconditional love inside of her marriage
• Eva's journey recommitting to her own sovereignty & building her own 6-figure business during one of the most challenging years of her marriage
• The beauty of a partner's unconditional love mirroring back to you the love you can also develop for yourself & Eva's experience with this supporting her to depend her own self love & self worth
• Healing from burn out & adrenal fatigue - Eva's journey shifting from over-giving in work to giving back to herself through intentional self care practices, embodying more feminine energy, nurturing her inner child, spending time in nature, honoring rest, & more
• As a business owner, honoring your worth & value through charging higher rates & receiving more money to support your energetic output & lifestyle needs
• Evolving our relationship with sex as women & allowing ourselves to prioritize & receive pleasure
• The intentional sex experiment inside of her marriage that led her to deepen in her ability to receive
• Working with orgasmic manifestation & exercises to reprogram your subconscious mind with empowering beliefs

Dr. Eva's Website: SacredLifePartners.com

Connect with Dr. Eva on Instagram: @sacredpartners

Listen to Dr. Eva's Podcast: Sacred Partners Podcast

Join Dr. Eva's FB Group: www.facebook.com/Dr.EvaBrown

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Follow the Spotify playlist here: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Intro & outro by: @serennasounds

Jess is a Speaker & Teacher who brings this ideology to life through illuminating how you are uniquely designed to create in the world while empowering your intuition as your faithful guide. Jess teaches intuitive development classes to awaken your intuitive gifts to support yourself & others.

Jess believes in a world where the 'woo' is no longer taboo and your 'weird' is your greatest wisdom.

Human Design Info: 4/6 Manifestor with Emotional Authority

Astrology Info: Aries Sun, Libra Moon, Aquarius Rising

Highlights of this episode:

• Jess' early childhood experiences connecting with the spirit world & those who have crossed over
• Jess' unique journey opening up her intuitive gifts & embarking down the path of entrepreneurship & starting her own business
• How Human Design can be a powerful roadmap & reflection for your personal & spiritual journey
• Our multiple passion for making spirituality & spiritual systems/tools more mainstream & accessible in our society
• Exactly what "intuition" is & how every single person is intuitive in their own unique ways
• How you can tap into your senses & subtle energy to explore your own intuition - Jess also explores this live inside of the episode - was very cool!
• Discerning between "fear" & "intuition" - & connecting this to the Human Design Chart (specifically the spleen center!)
• The importance of understanding your unique fears, patterns, & subconscious limitations so that you can move beyond them
• Some beautiful insights into having an Open Emotional/Solar Plexus Center & Open G Center in your Human Design Chart
• What an "Open/Undefined" Center means in Human Design
• What a "Defined" Center means in Human Design
• Balancing out the "Not-self themes" of your Human Design Chart
• A fun exploration of elements of my chart & Jess' chart

Jess' Website: www.jessbubbico.com

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jessbubbico

Enrollment is currently open for Jess' program, Spark! Find more details here: https://www.jessbubbico.com/spark

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Follow the Spotify playlist here: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Intro & outro by: @serennasounds

Dr. Danielle is a chiropractor, dancer, and uses both of these to facilitate nuero-somatic regulation. In other terms, she is a doctor of the nervous system. She teaches people how to process stress and trauma within their body, mind, and energy in order to restore connection and function to their entire system. She helps clients in 1:1 in persion sessions by doing what is currently called Quantum Alignment and also helps educate clients to heal themselves and reprogram their subconcious via coaching. She loves the study of our brain-body connection as well as all things considered "woo-woo" in the world. Her practices are a crossroads of the science of neurology and energetics of spirituality in order to help people consciously create and heal their life. She is also an akashic records practitioner and uses these and other channeling tools within her sessions.

Danielle loves spending her time in Mexico as well as traveling with her work, such as doing her quarterly visits to Los Angeles, and will be extending her sessions to other locations as well. In her spare time she loves to be at the ocean, spending time with family and friends, and making the most of life.

Danielle is a 3/5 Generator with Sacral Authority in Human Design & a Virgo Sun, Leo Moon, Libra Rising in Astrology - with a lot of Leo energy sprinkled through her chart!

Inside this interview, we dove into:

• Danielle's personal story where a car accident shifted her life path from moving to New York to become an aspiring professional dancer to enrolling in chiropractic school
• The intuitive evolution of her chiropractic business - from working for someone else, to starting her own practice in Montana, to deciding to split her time between Mexico & LA seeing clients, leading workshops, and mentoring patients & clients online
• Danielle's own personal experiences with past physical & emotional trauma & connecting the dots between trauma healing & her chiropractic work
• A breakdown of trauma - what it is, how Danielle defines it as a disconnection from our spirit, and how it shows up for each of us in a unique way
• How to regulate your nervous system, come back home to your body, and feel safe inside of your body
• What exactly "stress" is, how it shows up in your body, and how to create a new story around it
• The importance of slowing down to recalibrate our nervous systems & honor our bodies, especially as women
• An exploration of all of Danielle's body & self care practices - make sure to take notes during this part!
• The importance of PLAY & incorporating more fun & joy back into your life

Connect with Danielle on Instagram: @drdanielle.divine

Danielle's Website: Dr Danielle Divine

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Follow the Spotify playlist here: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Intro & outro by: @serennasounds

Theora Moench is the founder of Truly Chosen, a dating and relationship consulting agency. She's self-fashioned the equivalent of a Ph.D. in relationship theory and practices by studying personally with and learning closely from some of the leading experts in the field - including Tony Robbins, David Deida, John Wineland, Alison A. Armstrong, Londin Angel Winters, and Justin Patrick Pierce.

She combines a variety of modalities including neuroscience, relationship psychology, the energetics of intimacy, as well as easy-to-implement, actionable practices to help her clients accelerate their trajectory towards the partner, love, and commitment they truly want with ease.

Theora is a 4/6 Manifestor with Emotional Authority in Human Design & a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon, Virgo Rising in Astrology.

Inside this interview, we dove into:

• Theora's unique childhood story growing up in co-housing group (which is an intentional community) with a wide array of family & relationship dynamics which fueled her own fascination with relational theory & partnership
• The gift of intimate relationships as a spiritual beacon to call us forward into who we actually want to become
• How the relationships we attract can either reenact or heal relational trauma we experienced when we were younger
• "Conscious partnership" vs "Sacred Union"
• Sacred Union as a two-bodied prayer, a spiritual playground, serving something greater than just their individual selves
• The importance of creating contracts for yourself on how you commit to showing up as an individual AND as a partner
• Co-dependency - how to heal these patterns inside of relationship, community, & through working with professionals
• When it's time to leave a relationship, when it's important to stay committed to the relationship, and how to navigate this
• The beauty of creating Sacred Union inside of yourself & how Theora has committed to doing this with herself
• Cultivating your own Divine Union within through harmonizing, honoring, and embodying both your Alpha (Masculine) energy & Omega (Feminine) energy
• Working with embodiment - music & intuitive moment - to harness your Omega/Feminine Energy
• An exploration of how these dynamic energies show up inside of romantic relationship - for heteronormative couples & for queer couples

Connect with Theora on Instagram: @trulychosen.co

Theora's Website: Truly Chosen

Theora's new program, Reclamation, is currently open for enrollment. Message her on Instagram for more details!

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Follow the Spotify playlist here: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Intro & outro by: @serennasounds

Beautiful, inside this episode I peel back the layers and share more about my own decision to love myself five years ago & the journey that's unfolded since. I also share all the details inside of my upcoming group coaching program - Unmasked & Open Hearted.

This is the final time I will be running this program & I want to make sure you know about it! It's an incredibly journey in emotional healing, self love, & spiritual growth.

*** Update - the group program is now beginning with our kick-off call on Friday, June 25th. Enrollment will officially close on Saturday! ***

To set up a discovery call with me & chat more about this program, email me: [email protected]

Connect with me on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Rachael Cohen is an intuitive life coach, energy worker, plant connector, and author. Rachael is the creator and owner of Infinite Succulent – a spiritual coaching, botanical art and educational service. Through the use of intentional and creative engagement with the natural world, Rachael reconnects her clients with Spirit and their own souls.

Rachael is a 4/6 Projector with Emotional Authority in Human Design & a Cancer Sun, Taurus Moon, Cancer Rising in Astrology.

I absolutely LOVE Rachael's joyful spirit, brilliant mind, & creative soul. I am so excited to share this conversation with you.

Inside this interview, we dove into:

• Rachael's background working in environmental education, training animals, and connecting with people with nature to help create a more sustainable future
• Her experience navigating depression, anxiety, and existential fears (ecophobia) that developed during her time deep in environmental education & the earlier years of motherhood
• How her therapist helped her uncover the trapped energy she was holding within her third eye chakra & recommended that Rachael start The Artists Way by Julia Cameron & begin finding a creative outlet
• Her powerful experience working with succulents to quiet her monkey mind, bring her back into the present moment, and access her own creative expression & deep connection with Mother Nature
• Using personal creative expression to reconnect with your soul & unlock your own medicine
• The subtle art of communicating & connecting with plants (+ what this can teach us about connecting to our own souls)
• How plants energetically open us up to receive the flow of unconditional love & life force energy
• Connecting with the energy & aura of trees to ground your body, calm your nervous system down, and balance your emotions
• My hilarious story around the time I hugged a tree at the park & had a horrible allergic reaction
• A deep dive into Rachael's intuitive, psychic medium gifts - clairvoyance, clairsentience, claircognizance, & clairaudience.
• Some peaks into my recent intuitive reading with Rachael, her insights, my insights, & working with signs.

Connect with Rachael on Instagram: @infinitesucculent

For intuitive, psychic readings with Rachael: Book a Spirit Session

*** Use the code: CLIENTLOVE up until the end of July for 20% off your reading! If your soul is feeling a pull, I highly recommend booking one! ***

Inside this episode, I share straight from my heart about a personal family experience we've been navigating recently & how I've been staying present with it & surrendering to the entirety of it all.

I also share about the importance of loving all parts of yourself, especially the messy parts you've been taught to judge.

I finish the episode by pulling a beautifully aligned card from my oracle deck with a message for you to walk away with.

Join me for my upcoming free workshop on June 16th: Loving All Parts of You

Check out all the details of my upcoming group coaching program which begins on June 23rd: Unmasked & Open Hearted Group Coaching Program

Connect with me on Instagram: @shannonkeating

For all inquires about 1:1 coaching for teens/young adults, email me here: [email protected]

Podcast music (intro & outro) by: @serennasounds

Jess Stillwell is a an Analyst at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) & LGBTQ-Advocate. She is also a Projector in Human Design (with Self-Projecting Authority) and a Sagittarius Sun, Cancer Moon, & Scorpio Rising.

This is a really beautiful, important episode. We dove into Jess' personal experience discovering her sexuality & coming out as a lesbian in high school where she didn't receive the full support she needed to feel safe being visible.

We ventured through her journey in receiving the support she needed to embrace her sexuality, allow herself to be more visible, explore her gender expression, & receive love for being herself.

Some highlights from this episode:

• Jess' experience in high school where she first realized that she was attracted to women
• The advice & resources Jess would want for young girls and parents/teachers so that our younger generation can feel more loved & supported in discovering their sexuality & exploring themselves
• The resources / groups Jess has leaned on for deeper support throughout her journey - clubs, therapy groups, the LGBTQ+ community, & more
• Jess' experiences cutting her hair, exploring gender expression, & how she prefers to express herself now
• Our conversation & exploration around masculine vs feminine energy dynamics when it comes to same sex vs opposite sex relationships
• Jess' advice for straight women & straight men around how they can be more inclusive & supportive to the LGBTQ+ community
• Her personal experience coming to my women's circle & how she felt afterwards - liberated, light, confident, & connected with herself & her sexual identity
• Behind-the-scenes into our upcoming online women's circle for Queer Women - Connected in Pride
• The power of CELEBRATING yourself as a Queer woman.. HAPPY PRIDE!!!

Join us for our upcoming Queer Women's Circle on June 8th: Connected in Pride

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jstillz09

Connect with Shannon on Instagram: @shannonkeating

Listen to the playlist on Spotify: Unmasked & Open Hearted

Podcast music (intro & outro) by: @serennasounds