We are bodies of Water, living on a body of Water.

This episode is an invitation to feel the sacred intelligence of Water that moves through our blood, spirit, earth and cosmos — and to remember that this Intelligence flows within you. May this conversation awaken reverence, responsibility, and deep belonging with the living waters that sustain all life.

Isabel Friend is an international ambassador of Water, public speaker, and educator. As a student, servant, and steward of Water, she seamlessly blends science and spirit into a comprehensive cosmology of Water wisdom. Spanning the practical insights of health, hydration and biology, to empowering tactics for Watershed guardianship and ecological activism, to the esoteric and subtle insights of ancient indigenous Water wisdom, to the heady scientific discoveries of cutting edge Water research, Isabel's offerings are as multifaceted as Water itself. She has taught about Water throughout the US, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bali, Mexico and Thailand. She is currently semi-nomadic, and enjoys spending her time fire-dancing, hiking, riding her motorcycle, and geeking out like a mad scientist in her laboratory. Most importantly, Isabel is deeply devoted to helping YOU embody the empowerment that is inherent in being a body of Water, living on a body of Water. Because Water is life, and life is sacred.

In this episode, we explore:

• What true hydration actually means in the body — why simply “drinking more water” is often just irrigation, and what is required for genuine cellular hydration
• The watersheds that exist within our own bodies, and how dehydration impacts these internal rivers — experienced as pain, inflammation, gut dysfunction, and mental health challenges
• Why movement is the missing piece that “completes” hydration - and the flow within our lymph, fascia and blood/vascular systems
• The feminine energetics and nature of water — and why “the water we drink is the blood of the Earth”
• The significance of springs and our ancestral and energetic connection to them
• Indigenous hydromancy techniques and water divination
• Water and Light — how sunlight, moonlight, and starlight inform the water within us
• Photons, water consciousness, and angelic frequencies
• Water glyphs and the language of water
• The political reality of Water — who owns it, whether it should be owned, and how this issue is already unfolding globally
• My personal experience with water sovereignty and the floods that ravaged my hometown in 2022
  

This episode is both a remembering and a reckoning — a return to reverence and a call to conscious guardianship. May it awaken your relationship with Water as sacred, alive, and inseparable from your own body, blood, and breath.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Masaru Emoto

Dr Carly Nuday

Analemma Water Wand

findaspring.org

Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger - Callum Coats

The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram

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For all her courses: www.waterislife.academy

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Join her upcoming Water Is Life Retreat in Tulum (March 2020)

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What if grounding isn’t a wellness trend or health hack — but a physiological relationship your body has always known how to participate in?

In this episode, we explore grounding not as a stress-relief practice, but as a living, electrical dialogue between your body and the Earth. We unpack what’s actually happening inside your physiology when your bare skin touches the ground — and why your blood, nervous system and immune system are all designed to be in relationship with the living planet beneath your feet.

This is a conversation about electrons and inflammation, blood flow, nervous system regulation and eco-somatic intelligence — all woven through the remembering that your body is not separate from the Earth, but shaped by her.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• Why the body is electrical — not just chemical

• How grounding supports inflammation regulation and immune balance

• The role of electrons in neutralising free radicals

• How grounding impacts blood flow, circulation, and oxygen delivery

• The nervous system’s relationship with electrical fields

• How modern life disrupts our natural exchange with the Earth

• The body’s deep memory of soil, water, and the natural world

• Simple, embodied ways to weave grounding into everyday life

This episode is an invitation to remember your body as ecological, conductive, and relational being — already in conversation with the living world.

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What if your dreams were not something happening to you — but something dreaming through you?

What if the womb, the dream realm and the Earth were one interconnected continuous oracle… and you are part of it?

This conversation is an invitation into that re-membering.

I’m joined by Stella Porta — dream educator, visual alchemist, and creator of Honeywomb. Stella’s work serves as the living archive of feminine gnosis. Through dreamwork and myth, she helps women reclaim the ancient symbols that once shaped culture - from the bee, the serpent and the wolf. Her teachings are rooted in the body’s wisdom and the ancestral memory that awakens the lineages of the Great Mother. She teaches that our dreams are oracles — living maps that guide us toward the life our soul longs to create.

In this episode we explore:

• The relationship between the womb and oracular practice, and how the womb has always been an embodied gateway into the wyrd, the collective web of knowing.
  
• How dreamwork leads us into direct communion with an animate world, where everything is alive, conscious and speaking.
  
• The difference between trying to “get” something from dreams vs. living as part of the dreaming world itself.
  
• What it means to be a Dream of the Earth — and how the land and more-than-human beings may also be dreaming with us.
  
• The shift in perception that comes when we realise we are not separate from the intelligence of life, but expressions of it.
  
• Stella shares beautiful examples of dream and land communication that will genuinely give you goosebumps.
  
• Dream hygiene and practical advice to enter into dreamwork
  
• The oracular womb practice of Womb Sipping and its connection to the bees
  
• Intuition within the context of dreaming and beyond

• The remembering of the lineages of the Great Mother within the collective, why the feminine was silenced under patriarchy, and how the re-membering is rising now
  

This is a delectable, meandering, soul-stirring conversation that asks you not just to see dreaming differently — but to set aside everything you think a dream is. Together we look through a different lens.

A world that is alive.
A world that is conscious.
A world that is endlessly weaving — through you, with you, as you.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Stella’s Herstory Library Reading List

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Website: https://www.honeywomb.com/

Instagram: @stella.porta

Substack: https://theherstoryarchive.substack.com/

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The new year carries a particular kind of energy — not a demand to reinvent ourselves, but an invitation to re-orient.

In this episode, I’m reflecting on this seasonal threshold and what it means to align our ‘new year intentions’ with nature’s rhythms.

I’m also sharing how my approach to health has shifted over the past year — away from quick fixes and optimisation, and toward relationship with the body as an intelligent, animate ecosystem.

This episode is both reflective and practical.

I walk you through:

• The biggest health changes I made in 2025, shaped by lived experience, mould toxicity, and a return to simple foundations

• What I’m focusing on in 2026 to support gut/hormonal health, vitality, and long-term wellbeing

• How I’ll be knuckling down on some health challenges, the tests and support that I’m reaching for and the daily habits I’m prioritising

This episode is not prescriptive — rather it is designed to spark your curiosity within your own health.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

The Astrology Lounge: The Astrology of 2026; You’ve Waited for This Moment

Dirty Genes by Dr Ben Lynch

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Have you felt that quiet pull to root deeper — into the land beneath you and the wisdom within you?

Today I’m joined by the beautiful Emma Robles, whose work weaves earth wisdom and womb connection into the most nourishing tapestry. 

Emma is a clinical nutritionist and herbalist with her masters of science degree in using food as medicine. She is a poet and a passionate devotee of cyclical living. She helps women learn how to live in tune with their bodies, while using food, herbs, and art as medicine. 

Together, we explore the places where the earth and the womb meet — and how returning to one so often draws us home to the other.

In this episode we explore:

• Emma’s journey and relationship with the earth — including how her experience with a severe eating disorder was inextricably linked to her coming home to her womb.
  
• The way the earth holds us, and how we can deepen our connection to the land we actually live on rather than longing for somewhere else.
  
• How Emma’s relationship with the earth informs her relationship to her womb (and vice versa), plus gentle pathways to begin aligning with your own cyclical rhythms and gifts.
  
• Emma’s beautiful wave analogy for understanding the menstrual cycle — especially the potency she sees in the energy of the luteal phase.
  
• A nourishing conversation on herbs, and practical ways to support and tend to the womb and hormones.
  
• How each phase of the menstrual cycle aligns with the Traditional Chinese Medicine elements of Metal, Earth, Fire, Air, and Water — a framework that left me deeply inspired and eager to explore more.
  

This episode is a weaving — earth, body, rhythm, medicine, remembrance.
May you feel held inside it.

EPISODE RESOURCES: 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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In this episode, I share five simple yet powerful ways to root into a new home — practices for deepening your relationship with the house itself, the land beneath it, and the more-than-human beings who share it with you.

Whether you’ve just moved or have lived in the same place for years, these rituals will help you connect more intimately with the spirit of your home and the land you dwell upon — transforming your space from somewhere you live into somewhere you truly belong.

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Imbolc arrives not as a single moment, but as a gentle threshold — the slow stirring of spring within and without. In this episode, I invite you into a sensory reflection on the early signs of awakening that mark this cross-quarter festival: birdsong returning, buds swelling on the trees, the quiet shift in your own inner landscape.

We explore Imbolc as a season of transition — a time to notice what is beginning to bloom, and what winter has softened within you. I share personal reflections, a sensory check-in, simple ritual ideas like door-washing and early spring cleaning, and journaling prompts to help you root into the energy of this time.

May this episode feel like a warm breath of life after the hush of winter.
Blessed Imbolc.

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In today’s episode, I share a personal life update — something that’s shifted the ground beneath my feet and invited me into a deeper season of slowness, presence, and sacred adjustment.

Alongside the update, I share what’s been holding me through the unknown — the simple daily rituals and perspectives I’m leaning into as we navigate this new chapter.

Inside, I speak to:

• A tender diagnosis in our family

• The concept of sacred wintering and living in the unknown

• How I’m adjusting my pace and presence

• The daily rituals anchoring me right now

• The herbs I've been reaching for support

• An invitation to meet your own season with care

If you’re in a time of uncertainty, transition, or quiet change — I hope this meets you gently.

I've been digesting a season of death, endings, and composting — both in the natural world and within my own life.

In this episode, I share what’s been unraveling for me lately, and how I’m learning to trust the quiet wisdom of the void.

This is a prayer for the fertile dark, and for all that is yet to bloom.

Comment or share with me what resonates deeply with you!

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Did you know your brain changes when you bleed—opening a doorway to deeper intuition, clarity, and instinctual wisdom?

Our ancestors knew this, honouring the altered state of menstruation as sacred. Now, science is finally catching up, revealing how the menstrual phase transforms brain function and heightens our connection to unseen realms.

Yet, in a world that dismisses the intelligence of the feminine body, this ancient knowing has been forgotten. In this episode, we explore the fascinating interplay between your cycle and your mind, and how to reclaim the power of your bleeding time.

✨In this episode, we explore:

• How your brain shifts throughout the menstrual cycle
• Why menstruation is a time of heightened intuition, insight, and clarity
• How science is proving what our ancestors knew—that menstruating women enter an altered, more receptive state
• The ways patriarchal conditioning has severed women from their cyclical intelligence
• Practices to harness the wisdom of your bleeding time

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🔻Download my free guide:The Ritual of Bleeding

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✨Work with me 1:1: Deepen your embodiment to your full feminine spectrum & cycle awareness –learn more here

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