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We're so honored to share this week's episode with TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them)! TanyaMarck (lovingly nicknamed TM) is a beautiful soul and friend. They are the founder and alchemist of Vamanos, a breathwork and meditation facilitator, an intuitive practitioner, a medicine person, a witch, and a person in recovery. 

Sometimes we're not aware of how the universe is guiding us in the moment, but in looking back on the synchrinicities it becomes clear there are no coincidences. And that's what makes this conversation so special for all of us. Our connection is an incredible reflection of the gifts we receive from the universe when we embark upon our healing journeys.  

This week TM takes us back to the start of their journey and how the universe began planting seeds for their healing in 2010. Through a series of control+alt+delete moments, they accepted the invitation to examine their experiences in education and 12-step recovery, and began to explore who they are outside of those systems.

TM's journey is a profound representation of what's possible when we're open to receive guidance from the universe. Through sharing their experiences, we explore the process of shedding and letting go of what's no longer aligned. We get to see how those experiences create space to call in healing, community, magic, and the tools that can help us move through life's challenges while cultivating deep spiritual connections.

"I do feel very passionately that considering all of the ctrl+alt+deletes that keep happening all the time around us, that our greatest gift is to respond with magic and modeling and guiding, from a place of love and compassion and understanding."

Our conversation with TM is a really beautiful reminder that healing is a process of constant growth. It teaches us how to use our gifts of discernment, intuition, and intention in order to stay in alignment with ourselves, and to cultivate deep connections to the land, the plants and animals, our ancestors, and the world around us around us. You don't want to miss this week's episode! 

Connect with TanyaMarck IG at @tanyamarck and learn more about their offerings online at TanyaMarck.com.

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2023 Retreat Update 🙏❤️🙏

We're so excited to announce our first medicine retreat, Land is Body is Land, a sensory celebration of embodiment. Join us May 23rd-28th in Playa Azul, Costa Rica!

On this retreat, we'll give ourselves permission to slow down and learn the languages of frequency and sensation. We'll reconnect our senses and give ourselves space to feel, move and express. And we'll reconnect to the land that sustains our bodies, learning to commune with the spirits of Nature and the Earth. We believe that healing happens in community and relationship, so we'll be visiting a biodynamic farm, deepening our sacred relationship with food. And we'll be journeying through breathwork, receiving sound and energy healing, and journeying with the sacred mushroom.

If you'd like to learn more, visit wearealldaughters.co and if you're interested in joining us, please fill out the intake form on our site. We hope to welcome you into our circle.

We're so excited to be kicking off this season with Angelica Sievers! Angelica is a bodyworker and wellness business owner located in Long Beach, California. She provides a safe space for women to soften and her intention is to create more love, flow, compassion, consciousness and healing within the community. She offers bodywork, energy healing and root healing sessions. And she believes through softening we can decolonize our bodies, connect to our intuition and truly heal.

"Our bodies know how to make space for all those different emotions and let them move through us and then eventually release. Our bodies know how. And when the brain and the headspace wants to get so involved in that process because ego or control or fear or whatever, that's when we run into that overthinking or shutting down or you know what I mean. So it's really just putting the trust in our body's innate wisdom."

In this episode, Angelica tells us about her journey and why she decided to move away from the traditional Western model of therapy to help others. We talk about what it means to decolonize our bodies, and how she supports her clients in a process of reconnecting with their bodies to understand what the root cause of their physical and emotional experiences is so they can truly heal.

If you would like to learn more about Angelica's offerings and work with her, you can find her online at sieverswellness.com and connect with her on IG @sieverswellness .

Ayako (AYA-ko) Monsell has been known affectionately known on socials as @MyHempFairy since they'd hand out CBD samples around the Southern Paiute area of the Las Vegas cannabis industry. Since then, they've used their background in public health to provide scientific education for over 5,000 of those interested in medical cannabis licenses or support from all over the US & even other countries.

Their goal is to advocate for others to be a smart consumer & aware of what to expect out of products. Currently they offer additional psychedelic education with a continued focus on science. In their free time, Ayako enjoys music and Asian studies from bunka embroidery to feng shui. They are also very spiritually attuned with gifts such as mediumship & clairaudience.

In this episode, Ayako shared the complicated history and politics of Cannabis, the bliss molecule anandamide and how it relates to Cannabis, the difference between CBD and CBN, and how the specific terpenes Myrcene and Pinene can help support meditation practices.

Follow them at MyHempFairy.com.

Kate Johnson, JD is a Certified Cannabis Educator, Certified Cannabis & Health Coach, and the founder of Your Kush Coach, where she helps people find the right CBD and THC products for their bodies. 

Cannabis has been her lifeline in managing the symptoms of Complex PTSD, and now she's dedicated her life to helping people feel better with this magical plant.

We learned so much from Kate about terpene profiles, the inaccuracies of Sativa/Indica/Hybrid categorization, the differences between cbd/cbg/cbn, edibles vs. tinctures, and how you can begin to work with the plant by exploring different strains.

The following references are mentioned in the episode –

• Cannabis Coaching Institute  for those who are interested in becoming a Certified Cannabis Educator or Certified Cannabis & Health Coach. Women-owned and run.
• Tweedle Farms is an organic, family-owned farm in Oregon producing high-quality hemp flower and CBD products at very affordable prices. Mothership, Lifter, and Remedy are some of Kate's favorite strains of theirs.

Follow Kate on instagram @yourkushcoach_.

If you are interested in working with Kate, email her at [email protected].

Brittany Lillegard is the Education and Content lead for the Dutch organization Microdosing Institute (MDI). MDI is an education, community and research platform dedicated to providing accessible education on the practice of microdosing and supporting and encouraging research on the practice.

In addition to driving the educational content for Microdosing Institute, Brittany has been in the wellness space for over 15 years and is also a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and Yoga and Meditation Teacher. She's lived in five countries and currently lives full-time in her self-converted van with her pup Polly.

Brittany shared with us how her healing journey began with a total life overhaul and two-year trek around the world after a series of panic attacks. Her journey led her to breathwork, Wim Hof Method cold exposure, and eventually plant medicine journeys.

We talked about how cold exposure practice can help develop resilience and reduce anxiety during macrodose journeys. We also discussed the need for community when walking with plant medicine, whether it's your own practice or in learning how to facilitate journeys for others, reflected in the MDI microdose coaching certification program Brittany helped create.

Follow Brittany on Instagram.

Find out more about the Microdosing Institute's 6-week Microdosing Program.

Join the Microdosing Institute Discord Community.

TJ Moss is an Emmy-award winning singer-songwriter, the creator of the Nile St. Studio and the "Voice of the Muse" program that he co-facilitates with his wife Laura Rose, a vocal coach for women's empowerment. 

He shared with us his healing journey in attending men's retreats, the masculine archetypes that he learned to embody through these men's groups, and how an emotional breakthrough during a recent retreat prepared him for the unexpected passing of his father this year.

We were so inspired by TJ's story and vulnerability. Learn more about him on instagram @tjmossmusic. Listen to the project he shares with his wife – Rose and the Water – and their latest EP "Day Night."

Lauren Swanson is a Lead Clinician at WonderMed, a telemedicine company delivering at-home ketamine to calm  anxiety.

We talked about how ketamine works, and how this treatment can be done from the convenience and safety of your home through their proprietary program Wonder Calm – a self-administered, at-home treatment using ketamine, which has been scientifically proven to produce positive mental health outcomes.

We were both fascinated by the treatment program and the success stories Lauren shared with us.

Find out more about WonderMed at wondermed.com and on Instagram @wondermedhealth.

We invited holistic healer Jamie Harb back to have a conversation around her offering called SRT, or Spiritual Response Therapy.

She describes SRT as "a system of researching the subconscious mind and soul records to quickly find and release the discordant, limiting ideas and replace them with loving, supportive ideas and beliefs. SRT provides an exacting, powerful, virtually painless and accurate way of changing the landscape of our inner and outer lives, enabling us to live our lives more freely. This 'research,' which is accomplished with the help of higher guidance (your 'High Self'), includes finding past life energies, subconscious blocks, and negative soul programming. Once identified, these blocks and negative energies can be cleared from the subconscious, soul (Akashic) records, allowing you to heal yourself on all levels."

Learn more about SRT and Jamie's offerings at holisticunalome.com. Follow her on Instagram at @holisticunalome.

We welcome Jaime Breeze back for a second episode around grieving our animal family members. Jaime is a medium and animal communicator that works with people to find and reconnect with their reincarnated animals.

Sam's animal soulmate Mika, a 13-year-old German Shepherd, transitioned two months ago. Jaime helped Sam reconnect to Mika's spirit and helped support her in her grieving process.

In this conversation, we talk about how Jaime found her dog Breeze again and she shares how she has helped her clients reconnect to their passed beloved animal and locate them when they reincarnate. She shares how we can make peace with our animals' passing, and how we can prepare ourselves as we await our reunion.

"Trust the love that your animal has for you. They're never going to leave you. It may feel like that at this moment when you're grieving and so low but they aren't leaving."

Follow Jaime on Instagram at @jaimebreeze.

This episode is dedicated to our beloved Mika. Rest in peace sweet girl. Can't wait to be reunited in the physical realm again.

Content warning: This conversation discusses suicidal feelings. Please exercise discernment when listening.

The founder of Microdosify, a Canadian microdosing company, is a suicide survivor turned entrepreneur on a mission to bring psychedelic healing to the world. After overcoming two decades of depression with the help of psychedelic mushrooms and his dedication to self-improvement, he founded Microdosify to help fulfill his mission and share his story. 

This was one of the most vulnerable conversations we have ever had on this show. He shared his backstory that led to the creation of Microdosify – physical and emotional abuse, substance abuse, drug dealing, incarceration, and his miraculous survival through multiple attempts to end his life.

"If you had not gone through everything that you had gone through, would you still be the same person you are today, pursuing what you are doing today? Like if I didn't go to prison, if I had no concept of what law and order and consequences was, would you have the courage to pursue Microdosify how you are now? And I'm like no, I probably wouldn't."

Find out more about Microdosify at microdosify.com. Follow them on Instagram @microdosify2.0.

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