Women Waken: Spiritual Healing for Trauma in Relationships to Shift from Codependency to Divine Feminine

On last week's solo episode, when I pulled the Empress of Pleasure card from my W.I.T.C.H Oracle deck, I stated that I'd need to do an episode based on that fabulous card. And indeed, I have delivered. I wanted to explore further this concept of Pleasure being our Teacher, rather than Fear or Hurt & Pain.

On this solo episode, I share some personal life updates and then dive into one of my favorite topics (and experiences) PLEASURE!. I offer my thoughts on the various ways we can experience pleasure, the important distinction between pleasure and joy, that ancient stigma around pleasure, and the benefits of incorporating more of it in our lives. Then I get into some Themes of 2025 that I've seen emerge and share a card that I pulled on Monday's Full Moon that illuminated this message of getting Back to the Basics!

* Women Waken Wednesdays will be held weekly on Wednesdays at 6pm PST starting on February 1st! This is a virtual Women's group I'm holding for my beautiful listeners. i would love for you to join! Please contact me (IG or Email) for Zoom info!

W.I.T.C.H, Woman. In. Total. Control. of Herself. The Oracle Deck by Angi Sullins and Silas Toball, https://angisullins.com/witch-oracle-deck/

The Mary El Tarot, https://www.rachelswirl.co.uk/review/the-mary-el-tarot/
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It's remarkable how life can change in an instant. Something unexpected & perhaps unwanted can significantly alter our current circumstances. It is out of our control and leaves us asking, what do i do now? My guest this week, Nick Prefontaine,  has a remarkable story of facing such a life altering event and made the choice the respond to it with an incredibly positive and even humorous attitude. Nick Prefontaine is a 3x best-selling author and was named a top motivationalspeaker of 2022 in Yahoo Finance. He’s aSpeaker, Founder and CEO of CommonGoal. At 14, Nick suffered a life-threatening snowboarding accident. His parents were told he probably wouldn't ever walk, talk or eat on his own again. He did.

On this week's guest episode Nick shares his heroic survival story of sustaining a life threatening injury, going into a coma, and then proceeding to run out of the hospital upon an incredible recovery. Nick embraces being able to share the more Spiritual side of his story including his near death experience and the strong intuition he had which helped him survive and to have a remarkably speedy and progressed recovery when he was originally told me might never speak or walk again. He brings a levity to otherwise tragic experiences and is no doubt a great inspiration to others.   

About Nick:
 
In his talks, Nick shares the same system that helped him run out of the hospital. He teaches the audience how they too can apply this same system to their lives to make it through any trauma, crisis or life challenge. Using the S.T.E.P.system he is able to lead clients through their trauma. Once they make it through, that is where their limitless potential lies. Nick’s been featured in BrainzMedia, Swaay and AuthorityMagazine.

Learn more about Nick and his work here: 
WEBSITE: WWW.NICKPREFONTAINE.COM
EMAIL:[email protected]
PHONE: +1 401-371-9235

It's a New Year and with it come a whole new slew of twist and turns and challenges to make you question everything you thought was healed and resolved within you. Woohoo! What a fun ride this life is, eh?! The good news is that life dolling out these hurdles means you're Soul is on a path of growth and evolution. You're ready to level up which almost always comes down to accepting yourself as you are, even when you feel faced with perceived failure or disappointment. 

On this week's solo episode, I offer you all the gentle reminder that you are a Divine Feminine, continuous work in progress and deserve the utmost respect and grace for yourself as you navigate the twists and turns of this year. There will be times when you feel like you didn't show up how you would have liked, that's OK. There will be times when you respond in a way that feels yucky and like regression, that's Ok. All along you're still growing and evolving and learning. I share some personal anecdotes, both recent and from years path, that illustrate experiences of doubting and questioning myself and how I've come to understand these moments. I also offer the idea that just because we deviate from what we consider to be our highest, most aligned expression doesn't mean you're not progressing on your path. Or that you don't have beautiful wisdom, support, guidance and kindness to share with others. 

W.I.T.C.H, Woman. In. Total. Control. of Herself. The Oracle Deck by Angi Sullins and Silas Toball, https://angisullins.com/witch-oracle-deck/

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Whitney Walker, LMFT
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Welcome to the first Guest Episode of 2025! And what a perfect guest we have this week to kick off this powerful year as her focus on Women's Wisdom perfectly compliments the message of Women Waken. Corinna Wood has been a visionary teacher of holistic women’s wisdom for over 30 years, Corinna is known as a trailblazer—including founding and directing the nation’s largest herbal conference for 15 years. She is passionate about encouraging Women to embrace and understand their needs and how to get them met. 

On this Guest episode, Corinna shares her story of overcoming early life trauma and an eating disorder which inspired her to help other Women find their way to a place of inner peace and well being. She speaks of her unique approach to inner growth and healing, through engaging nature’s energy and gives us a special treat of talking about how we are nearing the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. & what might we expect emotionally through this earth-based lens. Together we discuss why it is so hard for women to pay attention to their needs and how a lot of women, especially those working through trauma, have difficulty trusting their own intuition. Or trusting themselves. This leads to Corinna explaining her remarkable resource, the Wise Woman Needs Wheel.

Bio:
At the forefront of the convergence of the natural health community and the women’s movement, Corinna Wood has supported many thousands of women on their healing journeys. A visionary teacher of holistic women’s wisdom for over 30 years, Corinna is known as a trailblazer—including founding and directing the nation’s largest herbal conference for 15 years. Today she is pioneering an earth-based, woman-centered toolkit for inner growth and healing.

Connect with Corinna at www.corinnawood.com

Grab your free copy of the Wise Woman Needs Wheel at www.corinnawood.com/needs
Upcoming Seminar! https://www.corinnawood.com/self-healing-seminar

Welcome to 2025, Everybody!! We've made it! I'm seeing this year as a summit; we've made it up the hardest part of the mountain in the 5 years of this decade so far. And now we've reached a higher perspective and are open to receiving greater wisdom and insights. So it's time to get ready because big changes and great progress are on there way!

On this Solo episode I offer some life & Women Waken updates and do a reading for my lovely listeners on the messages and themes of this New Year of 2025! Pulling from the beautiful Spiritsong tarot and cosmic Starseed oracle decks. This year will be powerful indeed, Dear ones!

Spiritsong Tarot Deck: https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/spiritsong

Starseed Oracle Deck, https://starseedoracle.me/

Go Your Own Way: https://youtu.be/DubafeFeJ7Y?si=DESRTJWagAs6kknr

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Happy 2025 Everybody! I'm feeling very energized & empowered by this energy coming in with the New Year. I hope you all are feeling it as well & are entering the New Year with optimism and bold aspirations. To kick off the year I welcome back again my dear & talented friend, Erin Sikopoulos, owner of Turn a New Leaf Intuitive Energy & Bodywork. The morning of her our first interview, Erin received a very powerful & interesting channeled message from what referred to itself as Beings of Feminine Energy. We didn't have time to cover this information in our first conversation so we met again for a second interview, which I'm sharing with you all today!

On this guest episode, Erin returns to share about her unique and profound experience of channeling messages from Beings of Feminine Energy & what they had to say. Essentially they offered 8 attributes or archetypes that make up the Yin or Feminine presence in our World and described them each. These 8 archetypes include Lady Peace, The Chameleon, Lady Justice, Luna, Intuition, Imagination, The Alchemist, & The Mother. Erin shares what she was told about each of these aspects of the Feminine and it was fascinating and fun to explore and consider together! We hope you all enjoy!  

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Erin Sikopoulos, owner of Turn a New Leaf Intuitive Energy & Bodywork, helps clients find ease navigating their lives in mind, body and being. Her soulful, high impact 1:1 sessions and group experiences are a masterful integration of intuition, gem energy and bodywork, offering space for profound solitude and inquiry into self. In her hands and under her guidance people gain the impeccable clarity they need to enjoy ease, peace and balance. 

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*Happy New Year Dear Ones! A final re-release for 2024 with some sweet, subtle messages to guide you into 2025 with intentions based in love, peace, and self regard. Highest blessings to each of you!!

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So often it can feel like we don't have time to focus on all the aspects of our lives that need our our attention; work, relationships, self care, exercise, meditation, joy, sex, and many others. In this week's solo episode I wanted to address this struggle to achieve balance and expand on topics that my guest from last week, Kinjal Shah, and I spoke about on the show last week. These include asking the question of, what is wellness? How can we begin to bring our life into greater balance so that we can begin to experience wellbeing at the level of mind, body, and emotions? 

On this solo episode I offer 3 tips for taking steps towards a greater understanding of ourselves and our needs to obtain balance, harmony, and fulfillment in life. These 3 steps include:

1) Making a "Wheel of Wellness" to better conceptualize what areas of our lives our meeting our needs/lacking
2) Asking ourselves the huge question of, "Who am I?" free from titles and labels
3) Building awareness around what we consume and listening to our bodies to tell us what's working and what's not

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Alright, Ya'll may be tired of hearing it, because I've been talking about it for a year now, yet I needed to offer ONE LAST episode sharing the message of the Ol' Magician in the Mirror. One, because it is very powerful and pertinent to sit with before moving into a New Year. Two, because I was given a Divine synchronistic sign that indeed I needed to do a final episode on it!

On this very last Identify & Heal solo episode (not only of the year but of ALL TIME as I'm changing the solo episode format in 2025) I offer some inspiration on setting yourself free for infinite possibilities in your future and review the message of the Magician in the Mirror who asks you to focus ONLY on what you want!

https://archangeloracle.com/2014/02/01/magician-and-the-mirror/

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Well it's happening again! Another episode devoted solely to one of my favorite topics, tarot! Now many of you know that tarot is near and dear to my heart as I felt I was initiated by the tarot Goddess when the ball dropped into 2020. A Qoman at a New Years party did a little reading for me and afterwards she looked at me and said, "This deck no longer belongs to me, this is yours." Wow! It was powerful. My guest this week also felt the sudden and undeniable draw to dive head first into the Divination of tarot. So much so that my guest, Nicole Colella, immersed herself in the study of tarot to become a veritable master in a few short years. 

On this week's guest episode, Nicole shares about her story of discovering (or being discovered by) tarot. How she uses tarot as the primary form of communication with Spirit. She tells of how she was guided to discover and share the gift of the Quantum Tarot Healing modality. She describes this unique modality and how she incorporates it in her work with clients. It's a lively, excited conversation between two ladies who adore tarot. We share our take on various cards (Nicole has a very unique take on the Devil card!) and the many ways be've come to have a deep appreciation for the Divine tool of tarot.

Bio:

Using the Tarot as the primary form of communication with Spirit, Nicole receives information to assist both people and animals in recognizing situations blocking their current path. She helps her clients identify issues needing to be addressed in order to progress. 

Through her metaphysical studies and Spiritual connection, Nicole was guided to discover and share the gift of the Quantum Tarot Healing modality. Quantum Tarot Healing is a synergistic blend of tarot, crystals, and energy healing that creates a unique healing experience which can be delivered in person or remotely.

Links:

IG: @cardshapertarot
Website: www.CardShaper.com 

Happy Yuletide lovely listeners! We've reach that sweet special week, the last one of the year, that always seems to feel like a time of no time. We're closing the year and celebrating holidays so it's OK to eat candy for breakfast and chocolates all through the day. You may never get out of your pajamas (or bed) and subsist on leftovers. I for one am a big fan! So this is just a little episode to wish you a happy time of year where there are no rules and to encourage a bit of peace and joy mixed in.

On this Divine Feminine solo episode I share some thoughts on the Yuletide season and pull a card from the gorgeous Nature Whispers Oracle Deck.

Nature Whispers Oracle Deck: https://blueangelonline.com/shop/card-decks/oracle-cards/natures-whispers/

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Feel free to reach out to me to see how we can work together and send your questions, feedback, and requests for future solo episodes here: 
Whitney Walker, LMFT
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