The Making & Mending Podcast (Yarrow Magdelena)

Hi sweet listeners,

I am delighted to bring you a charming, inspiring and joyful conversation with the wonderful Melissa Word. I have loved her Grief Threads program so much and could listen to her talk about bodies, grief and art forever. Here is some of what we explored:

• Approaching dance & movement in a totally new way
• Listening and learning from our grief
• Opening our arms wide wide wide to what art can be
• Finding secret information inside ourselves

Melissa Word is an artist, dancer, writer and somatic facilitator. Her work takes the form of live performance, workshops, textile collages, drawings and newsletters. She specializes in creating transformative group experiences for people who want to feel more creative and connected to themselves–quilting classes for grief, movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair, voice work for expanding consciousness. She is a current arts educator with the Alliance Theatre, and formerly with the High Museum of Art and Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. Her pedagogy is based in somatic inquiry, presence and mindfulness practices, experimental voice work, intersectional discourse, liberatory social movements, and the perennial power of play.

https://www.melissaword.com/

https://www.instagram.com/melissawordstudio/

Thank you so much for listening! 

In this episode I am talking about what slowness means to me in my practice right now and how I've learned to still appreciate the process when chronic illness and disabilities slow me down. I'm taking a longer view on things, thinking about how slowness makes space for observations and stories to be woven into my work and how stitching and carving supports my wellbeing in so many ways. I'm also asking questions about devotion, the value of time and the beauty of simplicity and simple aesthetics. 

I hope that if you've ever felt too slow you'll find comfort in listening! 

Here is more info on Stitching Together in 2024: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am talking about taking a specific question into the darker time of the year, thinking about what spiritual practices I want to commit to this season, trying something new & gathering tools that are meaningful to me.

You can join my Substack here if you like: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

This episode is such a wonderful note to end on before I am heading into a little break - it was a true joy to talk to Justine & Larisa who wrote the wonderful book called The Grieving Therapist. I hope listening will feel as comforting as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Diving deep into collaborative creative projects
• Processing pandemic grief and making meaning from what happened
• Exploring what change might come from loss

Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. Justine runs Blue Box Counseling, a private practice in Minneapolis, MN and is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine also co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts and has presented a TEDx talk.

TedTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtZU0_xmKY&t=1s

Larisa Garski is the chief of clinical staff for Empowered Therapy in Chicago IL. Larisa is the co-author of The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World, and Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life. Larisa has also contributed to numerous other books on pop culture and psychology, co-hosts the Starship Therapise podcast, and is an AAMFT-approved supervisor.

The Grieving Therapist book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724011/the-grieving-therapist-by-larisa-a-garski-lmft/

Starship Therapise podcast: https://www.starshiptherapise.com/podcast/

Thank you for listening!

I'm so happy to bring you a new interview episode in amongst all these recent solo grief journals. My wonderful guest is Danette Relic, who was also on episodes 116 and 48 (back in 2018, the before times!). Danette is sadly a fellow griever who also lost a parent this year, so in this episode we're chatting about keeping our magic safe, what we learned from past heartbreaks and how we see the value of feeling all the feelings. There is, in short, a whole lot of permission in here, plus a very exciting giveaway for Danette's book Crash Bloom (which will be such a great winter companion/Christmas gift). 

Danette Relic is an author, artist and coach, married to herself since 2001. From a young age, Danette was inspired by reading, drawing, using her imagination, and falling in love.  She is a self-projected Projector in Human Design, a Sagittarius Sun, Libra Rising with a Gemini Moon who takes her pleasure seriously. Her passion for self discovery, relationships and creativity shapes her work and her life in every way.

You can hear her explore these themes on her podcast, The Soft Shoulder. You can receive Letters from Danette via her newsletter by signing up on her website, Radical Creative Sanctuary dot com. Her first book, Crash Bloom: a creative guide for growing through your breakup was released this year and is available wherever you most love to buy books

Sign up for Danette's newsletter and reply with a note to say that you listened to the episode to take part in the book giveaway: 

https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/1061093/132924347441481224/share

Thank you so much for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

Welcome to a new format on here - little weekly check ins about grief, process and slow seasons. I promise it wont all be sad, it will also be weird, expansive and sometimes wonderful. 

I know a lot of people who lost really significant loved ones this year and I know that we all need to feel less alone in that strange adventure. I hope these episodes can be with you and your sadness. 

I will still record about all kinds of other creative things too and if you like you can request me covering a specific topic by sending me a speakpipe note: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM Its free, it can be anonymous and I would really love to hear from you! 

I would also like to invite you to Gentle Hands, a four week group program starting November 6th: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/gentle-hands/

Thank you for listening,

Yarrow

This episode feels like it was really touched by the beautiful full moon I saw rising over the Scottish sea yesterday! I was chatting to my friend Rowan Walker earlier today, who was also on episode #126 recorded back in 2021. We caught up on creative practice, building intimacy with the tarot and overcoming road blocks and perfectionism. It was a total delight and I hope you'll enjoy listening too!

i’m rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same.

ofhawthornandyew.com

Working the wands program: https://ofhawthornandyew.com/workingthewands/

Previous episode: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/podcast/126-plant-friends-ritual-anarchy-with-rowan-walker/

Happy new year!

In this episode I'm talking about how I am centring mental health & wellbeing in my creative practice this year - removing barriers, creating space for accessible participation & dreams, finding the sweet spot of gentle accountability and indulging wildly in flow states! 

More info about my web design work is here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/

and you can join Stitching Together here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am talking about craving even more simplicity in my life, decluttering really hard and planning for a low buy year. I pulled everything out of my wardrobe again, sold a whole bunch and made a few well considered purchases. I feel peaceful in my commitment to buy very little next year and really hopeful to grow as a maker and learn more about why I buy for comfort and how I might shift that. 

You can join my Substack and the free Spark sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

I received a really good question about how creativity can heal or harm from a listener and am answering the best I can! I talk about how being creative makes me feel, key creative experiences and also ways in which structural problems show up in creative practice. 

I would love to hear from you if you have a question for me too: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

and you can join my Substack and Spark Sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

This is an episode I recorded by the river this morning, I am talking about what might happen when we die - why I think it's an important question, what dreams have to do with it and what I love about not actually knowing. 

I hope it gives you some food for thought! 

Here is the Create & Launch program: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

This conversation was the first interview I did in a while and it was such a beautiful way to drop back into conversation! I spoke to the wonderful fellow Venus in Scorpio Joelle of Butch Yoga. Their practice and way of being in the world is so joyous, I really hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:

• Sitting with big spiritual questions
• Not finding a home in mainstream yoga spaces
• Embodying butch identities beyond stereotypes
• Integrating spiritual practices into our lives

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together.

More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats 😻😻😻 https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/

Today I am talking about the value and magic of anger, about how I am trying to be intentional with where I am directing it and about how I am trying to get comfortable with this feeling. 

Feel free to send me questions here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Sending blessings and love to your day,

Yarrow

Perhaps an odd day to publish a new episode, but I thought this might be nice to share today for anyone who also feels a little overwhelmed with the festivities at a time of so much uncertainty and upheaval.

Finding and exploring one's creative voice is something I have been thinking about a lot this year - I explored stripping back the media overwhelm, identifying core messages and symbolism and, as always, unraveling perfectionism.

I hope this episode gives you something interesting to think about too!

Here is more info about the Stitching Together community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/

Love,

Yarrow

I recorded this episode by the river this morning and talked about the why & how of small ritual quilts. My little waffle includes thoughts on the meaning of ritual and what has changed for me three years after publishing my book Rituals, what I love about working with reclaimed materials and how I use these small ritual quilts in my day to day for beauty & inspiration. 

The workshop on May 21st I mentioned is over on the Making app, you can sign up here: https://themakingapp.com/

here are the ritual quilts I am currently offering: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/art/

and here is the Create & Launch program I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/

Enjoy! 

Welcome back, I'm still here and still grieving, thank you for joining me in this weird and wonderful process. For this episode I had a beautiful listener question about finding balance and seeking simplicity when you're also kind of a maximalist in some areas of your life. 

You can send me a question over here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

And you can join my Substack and Spark sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

I am finally back with an interview for you! This was a real balm to my sore heart -  lots of textile explorations, community arts magic and just true delight with Cordy of Transmissions Quilts. Tune in for encouragement, giggles and a gentle restoration of faith in humanity. 

Cordy says - I am a white trans quilter living in the East Bay. Alongside my quilts, I work as an arts educator and childcare worker primarily with trans teens and queer families. I hope to exist in a lineage that sees quilts as radical objects that not only represent our collective hunger for freedom but also, through making them, allow us to take active steps towards that freedom. I come from a bloodline that has largely forgotten its creativity and I am interested in resuscitating that, starting in myself. I’m trying to move slower and talk less. One current poetic guide is Chessy Normile.

https://transquilts.net/

https://www.instagram.com/coanofsilence/

In the second instalment of my Getting Ready for Winter series I am sharing things that have helped me pay more attention to what I love - making, cooking, wandering and having conversations. As the days grow shorter many of us feel we want more of those things, but it can be so so hard to make time. If you feel the same I hope this episode will offer you some ideas & inspiration. 

You can join my Substack here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am catching up with you, fellow grievers or curious podcast listeners, about entering a new phase of grief, preparing for the holidays and imagining a new kind of future. I hope that it makes you feel gotten, even if not everyone gets it.

You're welcome to join our Spark sessions here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

Patient and appreciated listeners, I am bring you another wonderful conversation with Lara Irene Vesta. I hope this find you well, with a bit of sunshine on your face and a quiet moment to dive in. Here is some of what we talked about:

• Writing beautiful books from bed
• Growing wild gardens that tend to themselves 
• Rites of passage and spiritual sinkholes 
• Finding ways to stay connected to enchantment when things are hard 

Lara Irene Vesta is a writer, artist and educator exploring sacred stories and lineage traditions. She is the author of the Moon Divas Guidebook, Wild Soul Runes and Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal and Rebirth. Her current creative practice is reclaiming offline life, renewing faith and remembering ancestral crafts and skills. She shares this journey in the Olden Practice newsletter and through by-donation classes at the Wild Soul School.

https://www.laravesta.cohttps://www.oldenpractice.com Olden Practice Substack

Newsletter:https://laravesta.substack.com 

Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/larairene 

Year of the Dark Goddess Book Links:Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Dark-Goddess-Journey-Renewal/dp/1578638275
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-the-dark-goddess-lara-vesta/1144014419 

Thank you for listening,Yarrow

In this grief journal episode I am talking about yesterday's birthday, dealing with big and small anniversaries as well as my current daydreams. 

You're also welcome to send me questions via Speakpipe here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Love,

Yarrow

For this episode I had the honour of talking to Joelle of Butch Yoga again - we had a great first chat for episode #159 and so in this one we got to dive a little bit deeper. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Finding time for stillness in one's body
• Bringing in joy, self-compassion and playfulness 
• Letting things move through our bodies

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together. More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats

https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/

https://butchyoga.com/

Thank you for listening!

If you're like me, having gentle accountability to slow down & be creative makes it much more likely for you to do things that bring you joy. Maybe you too feel that you need it more than ever. 

After a bit of a break I am bringing my Patreon back, because I miss our creative time together and also because I am excited to share my research on radical needlework with you. In this episode I am sharing the new structure for my Patreon/Stitching Together in 2024 - a community space focussed on making, mending, writing & wellbeing. 

Learn more here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am sharing five sweet & simple things I'll be doing to make the month ahead more beautiful. Think home spa, love letters, self-commitment and flowers. I hope you'll feel inspired! 

You can join my monthly Spark Sessions for extra ritual support via my Substack here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

and here is more info about the upcoming donation based workshop on ethical marketing: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ethical-marketing-workshop/

Love,

Yarrow

This episode is my first interview with a guest in about eight months and I could not feel more excited & honoured to speak to Chaney Williams. There was so much in this conversation that was a balm to my soul - we talked about life-changing moments and accidents, listening to the whispers of your ancestors and our bodies, quiet spaces to create and dreaming new dreams. I hope you love it as much as I did!

Chaney Williams (she/they) is a full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specifically their poetry and creative non-fiction essays are confessional in nature because they create what they know and what haunts them because it is the way they make sense of the world they exist in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to her ancestors, future descendants, and the collective.

https://chaneywilliams.squarespace.com/ 

https://chaneywilliams.substack.com/ 

Stitching Together Community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/ 

Thank you for listening,

Yarrow

Hello my fellow grievers and soft folks, here is another chapter for you - this one is about building your whole life around your nervous system and what that looks like for me at the moment. 

Also, feel free to send me a little voice note if you want to say hi and/or wish to request a topic for the podcast: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Love,

Yarrow

This episode is dedicated to my mum Marina, who passed away suddenly at the end of July. She was incredible - resilient, creative, full of life and hands down the most loving person I know. She taught me how to live a good life full of pleasure and connection even in late stage capitalism. I had 38 years with her and am so proud to call her my mum. 

The wonderful Narinder Bazen joined me for this conversation to talk about grief after sudden death, saying goodbye in the best way we can and staying connected to the present moment in a mammal body while we have one foot on the other side. 

The title of this episode is a nod to one of my favorite books - The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Frances Weller. 

Thank you for listening and sending some love to my mum,

Yarrow

In this episode I'm sharing more about an oral history project I'll be running this year - I want to find out how people with disabilities, like myself, used needlework to explore a sense of place and heritage during lockdown. I'm excited to explore topics like resilience in isolation, material and making vs consumption, connection with family stories and more. 

This of course relates to my Stitching Together project, which you can find out more about here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/

Thank you, as always, for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

This episode is such a heartfelt deep dive into grief, creativity & enchantment with the wonderful Narinder Bazen. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• The space that death awareness inhabits in our lives
• Making simplicity & minimalism our own
• Thresholds & finding a place in the world 
• Meaning making and ritual through hard times

Narinder Bazen is an artist, death midwife, enchanted life guide and death midwifery trainer, living on unceded Penobscot land. (Maine, USA) Her greatest passions include helping to midwife new paradigm death care and grief care and living as a minimalist full of enchantment because of all of the bounty found in nature. When she's not guiding new death midwives, she's spending time painting with watercolors, writing, and playing with her dog Oak.

https://www.narinderbazen.com/

You can sign up for the next Spark session over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Thanks for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am chatting about a few simple ways in which I am staying connected with creativity while my brain is adjusting to the loss of my mum. In short, it's about lowering the bar, being realistic and appreciating a wider net of expression.

I hope it feels helpful!

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am sitting by the river with you to think about the summer ahead. Three different ideas made me feel that approaching it as a season of creative recovery would be a really good idea on so many levels. I am also sharing two practices that might help you get intentional about the next few months in your own way. 

I decided not to start a private podcast in the end, but might do in the future.

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

This episode is a dream come true for my nerdy heart - I had a chance to talk to Dr. Isabella Rosner, whose podcast Sew What? I've been a fan of for years. We talked about how she got into textile histories, her PhD research and work at the Royal School of Needlework, about what textiles can teach us about what it means to be human and making time to create. 

Dr Isabella Rosner is the Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. She recently completed her PhD at King’s College London, researching Quaker women’s needlework, waxwork, and shellwork circa 1650 to 1800. Passionate about schoolgirl samplers and early modern women’s needlework, Isabella hosts the “Sew What?” podcast about historic needlework and those who stitched it. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

https://sewwhatpodcast.com/

Thank you for listening!

Thank you so much to Becky for asking about my quilting & making practice! In this grief journal episode I am talking you through what I love about making small improv quilts, what my practice looks like, how it helps with grief and what I am sewing next.

I'd love it if you want to send me a question too: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Thanks for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

Hey friends,

I'm so excited to be back here with a little series on getting ready for winter, seasonal rituals & living a soft & creative life.

In this first episode you'll hear more about how I inhabit my home and make it a place of easy, playful and accessible creative expression.

You can join my Substack & the Spark sessions I mentioned over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

It's been about three years since shit hit the fan, can you believe it? I wanted to record this little reflection waffle to mark this milestone - tune in to hear me chat about how the pandemic has changed my relationship to home, work, creativity, landscape and people.

Here is the Finding Movement podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/finding-movement-podcast/

The world is a lot, but then what's new? In this episode I wanted to share a few ways in which I am staying grounded this summer, including excellent book selection, gentle rituals and activism that is doable and kind on my nervous system. I hope it's a helpful space for you to think about your own summer and orient towards the pleasure & joy that is available to you.

Here is info about the tech day I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/magic/

Thank you so much for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

I've been such a fan of Christi's work and especially her book Mystical Stitches for ages and so it's a real joy to bring this beautiful interview to you! Here is what we talked about: 

• Finding one's own voice with shapes, colours and composition 
• Rituals and creative process
• Writing books and sharing skills
• The beauty, magic and resilience of textiles

Christi Johnson's personal work combines cosmic visions and botanical beauties, a hypnotic dance of symbols stitched slowly and methodically into fabric. She is the artist behind Mixed Color, a textile studio based in the foothills of the Catskills, NY which provides functional pieces that are thoughtfully made, as well as educating others in creativity and textile arts. Through books, kits, and online courses on embroidery and garment making, Christi guides her students through the skills they need to embrace self expression through handcrafts. She is the author of, Mystical Stitches (Storey Press, 2021), which explores embroidery as a tool for personal empowerment and magical embellishment to bring more meaning into stitches. www.mixedcolor.net

Here is the ethical marketing workshop I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ethical-marketing-workshop/

Thank you so much for listening! 

Love,

Yarrow

Happy spring or autumn to you, dear listener! This episode is a really wonderful one to help us dive into a new season - I spoke to Phelicia of Queen and Crow about such wonderful things like:

• Being called to be tender in all we do 
• Letting flowers hold us through periods of grief 
• Being polyamorous with the plant world
• Finding small everyday rituals and resisting the ways capitalism wants to sell things back to us

I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Phelicia Okon Magnusson is a queer black herbalist and flower essence practitioner based on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Her work centers folks of color who are affirming their wholeness by healing inter-generational trauma, moving though narratives of shame, reclaiming pleasure practices, exploring sexuality and returning to their intuition and resilience in the face of ongoing oppression. Phelicia's work is open to everyone and is an embodied exploration of building reciprocal relationships with land and plants to tend healing and facilitate transformation and acceptance. 

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenandcrow/

Website: https://www.queenandcrow.com/

email: phelicia@queenandcrow.com

Tiffany, the tarot led, plant inspired embodiment coach Phelicia mentioned:  https://www.lovechildbotanix.com/ 

Thank you for listening!

My first ever podcast episode! This is me chatting about my story, how I started my web design business and then Daydreaming Wolves, how I dropped out of uni three times before finally graduating and how I came to love plants so much. There are also some thoughts on the politics of healing, ethical tarot readings and accessibility. Enjoy! 

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!//

It`s been such a joy to interview my friend Amelia Bayes for this episode - we talked about relationships, sex ed, communication and uhm...gardening gloves. Amelia is a sex and relationship coach as well as a wonderful counsellor. Find them at http://www.vixencoaching.com/ (where you can sign up for their free resource library) and https://www.ameliabayescounselling.com/ 

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!//

I am extremely proud and excited to share this latest episode with you! I met Melanie St. Ours about a year and a half ago when I did a course on ancestral healing that she co-taught and looking back now I think that really was the gateway that got me into herbalism. This is a really beautiful interview in which she shared her perspective on chronic illnesses, asking for help, working with trauma and herbalism. Enjoy and check out her free Youtube series on the foundations of healing! 

Melanie St. Ours is a clinical herbalist specializing in mental health and women's health. She is the founder of Psyche & Soma LLC. Melanie's diverse training includes certification from the East West School of Herbology's Professional Herbalist Program, an honors degree in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and deep training in Myofascial Release and CranioSacral Therapy. Her approach to healing harnesses the power of imagination and storytelling alongside traditional herbal wisdom and practical health education. This is Melanie`s website: www.psycheandsoma.com And here is her Youtube channel with her free series on the foundations of healing: https://www.youtube.com/user/MelanieStOurs 

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!//

I had so much fun interviewing my friend Jade for this episode! We hung out on their bed and talked about DIY culture, making zines, being a writer and what it means to us to queer intimacy and relationships. I love their workshops and zines and am super excited to share their insights with you <3 Enjoy!

Jade Mars is a writer, musician, workshop facilitator and witch living in Brighton, UK. They are white, autistic and genderqueer, and their work focuses on magic, gender, intimacies and relationships, neurodiversity, DIY culture, and radical politics. Jade writes the perzine Scorpio Moon and runs Queer Arcana distro. They play bass in Twink 182 and synth in TechnoCrone and run Queering Intimacy workshops in collaboration with Emil Thornton.

They can be contacted at jademars@protonmail.com or followed on Instagram @queerarcana. Queer Arcana distro can be found at queerarcana.etsy.com

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I will be super honest here - Sarah had been an instagram crush of mine for a while before I was super brave and emailed her about coming on my show and thank Goddess she said yes! Sarah is super magical yet totally down to earth and has shared lots of gems about her way of reading the tarot, working with plants and letting go of habits that are no longer serving her. We also talked about authentic self-care, living in Asheville and reclaiming the word witch. I also highly recommend checking out her blog (all links below) and signing up for her self-care checklist. Enjoy! 

Sarah M. Chappell is a transformational healer based outside of Asheville, North Carolina. She intuitively blends tarot, flower and stone essences, and herbal remedies to empower women to heal themselves. Her personal journey of healing depression and addiction has led her to believe that we each have the ability to create our own wellbeing, and that with tools and support we can unravel, shift, and heal our stories of suffering. sarahmchappell.com 

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You babes are in for such a treat with this interview! I recently started Ren`s two year apprenticeship and absolutely love her undogmatic, enchanting, practical and flexible approach. We talked about her background, talking to plants and ancestors, working with the body and spiritual hygiene - it was a really beautiful chat and I am so excited to share it with you! 

Ren Zatopek is a traditional spiritworker. Spiritwork is the art of communicating with the seen and unseen identities, ideas, and spirits of life, then working with them to create meaningful change, or to restore their capacity for change. Ren has worked full-time for over a decade in Los Angeles as a community spiritworker. Ren is a graduate of the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, a student of Rita and Griffin Ced and Orion Foxwood, an initiate of the Ced Tradition of Heretical Witchcraft and of Raven's Cry Grove, Ár nDraíocht Féin, and an apprentice with the House of Brigh. In 2016 Ren closed her private practice and began building an 8-year online program and community for free spirits all over the world with an interest in learning a non-dogmatic, flexible method of spiritwork that is accessible and useful to anyone regardless of cultural identity or lack of identity. Learn more about spiritwork and enroll in a free 2-month introductory program: https://www.renzatopek.com

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Hey friends, this episode is really, really beautiful - especially if you are into the tarot. Lindsay Mack has been such an inspiration to me as she has a really unique way of working with the cards in healing and creative ways. I got to ask her about self-care practices, plant friends, making wild career moves and healing from trauma and PTSD.  Lindsay shared her view on soul cards, how her astrological houses have helped her better understand her experience, how she started her journey as a tarot reader after a major crisis, what eucalyptus means to her and why she wants to connect to the plants of her ancestry. We also talked about healing trauma as a present moment process around something that happened in the past, what our relationship to the word witch is and our perspective on generosity and unconventional online marketing.  A little side note - the sound quality unfortunately is a little lower than usual in this episode as I had some tech issues, I hope you still enjoy it!  

More about Lindsay:  Lindsay Mack is a Brooklyn based intuitive counselor, holistic healer, tarot reader, and the founder of Wild Soul Healing, and Tarot for the Wild Soul. She offers and facilitates Intuitive Soul Readings, Intuitive and Spiritual Coaching, Mentorship, and Tarot Trainings for those who desire to heal, evolve and live fully on their true soul path.  She is the creator of Soul Tarot, a way of interpreting, understanding and intentionally utilizing the Tarot as wild medicine for our soul's evolution. Soul Tarot is a fusion of channeled wisdom from her guides, her 22 years of experience reading and studying Tarot, and her own healing journey through abuse and PTSD.  Lindsay`s website: www.lindsaymack.com Her instagram account:  https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulhealing/ Her Tarot for the Wild Soul course that we talked about:  https://www.lindsaymack.com/tarotforthewildsoul 

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I know I always say this, but this interview was really special and feels so beautifully well timed for the season of ancestral connection! Langston Kahn is a shamanic practitioner based in New York who helps his clients with emotional clearing and building a connection to their ancestors. In this episode we talked about the concept of Inner Relationship Focussing, podcasting as an oral tradition, healing intergenerational patterns and connecting with ancestors, working with altars, self-care and our visions for collective healing. Enjoy!  

This is the blog post Langston mentioned: http://www.occupy-your-heart.com/blog/how-to-start-shamanic-journeying This is the class on healing triggers we talked about: http://www.occupy-your-heart.com/online-classes.html You can also find Langston on instagram and Facebook! 

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Happy full moon in Taurus you beautiful being!  My celebratory gift is a beautiful interview with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener who creates the Many Moon workbooks that have had a big impact on my life and my understanding of time and seasons. We talked about writing for our past and future selves, being a teenage witch, living in moon time, the creative and self-publishing process of the Many Moon workbooks and nurturing consistency in our magical practices. Enjoy! 

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is a creative living in Los Angeles, CA. She designs, art directs and consults with small businesses, non-profits, and large companies around the USA. Sarah has run her feminist apparel company Modern Women for 10 years and her designs are carried in stores in Canada, the UK, and the United States. A student of the Tarot since 2004, Sarah has been reading Tarot cards professionally for the past 5 years. Sarah has taught classes on metaphysical subjects such as Moonbeaming, the Tarot, and Intuition for the past 4 years around the United States and Canada. She is the creator of the Many Moons Workbooks.  View Sarah's design site here: http://sarahgottesdiener.com/ View Sarah's spiritual musings here: https://visualmagic.info/ Book a Tarot session with Sarah here: https://visualmagic.info/contact/ 

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This episode is really close to my heart and extra special. Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide whose work I have followed with joy and excitement for a long while. I believe with every cell of my being that her work is needed now more than ever and I am excited to share a bit of her with you! Tune in to hear about our visions for collective sexual healing and trauma resolution, what we can do when old trauma resurfaces, the tenderness of starting over and doing intimacy differently and why we feel it can help to think of trauma as a bad spell. We also had a chat about the similarities between consent in sex and consent in marketing, how we can create fair exchanges and why somatic approaches to healing are so important. 

Content note: We talked about family stuff, sexual trauma and violence, but there are no graphic elements. I highly recommend checking Rachael`s kickstarter for her upcoming book Sex after Trauma out at bit.ly/sexaftertraumabook - there are amazing treats and you`ll be supporting work that is so needed in the world. Join Rachael on Instagram for a 30-day free course called The Reclamation :: Opening the Doorway to Delicious Sex After Trauma. instagram.com/rachaelmaddox and visit her website RachaelMaddox.com to sign up for the free video series we`ve mentioned. 

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Hey friends, this time its just me - tune in to hear about how I am celebrating the winter solstice and NYE, what my business and life highlights for the year were and what I am hoping for in 2018. I am also sharing some ideas for small tarot rituals as well as herbal self-care and I am letting you know how you can receive Monthly Magic as well as regular tarot support from me in 2018 through my Patreon which you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves But most importantly: thank you so so much for your ongoing love and support, I feel super lucky to have you in my life and I can`t wait to see what magic we can create together in 2018! 

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Hey friends, I am so sorry for the slightly delayed full moon podcast episode! This one is super sweet and yet really powerful - Asali has shared a ton of beautiful insights about her own tarot, magic, creative and plant practices and how they saved her life. I received tarot readings from her during some interesting turning points in my life and really, really loved her fierce yet gentle guidance. We also talked about the tarot deck reviews Asali is doing, why she cares so much about community and representation and how she came to create tea blends that reflect some of the major arcana cards. Enjoy! 

Asali is a Black queer femme community healer and earthworker writing (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/blog/), practicing (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/tarot/), and creating (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/shop) at Asali Earthwork. Her healing work is rooted in using self-care as a means to disrupt systems of oppression and prioritize care for her community. 

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For this beautiful new moon I have the honour of sending an interview with Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka $Money Witch$ your way! We talked about how she became a money witch, how she developed a powerful relationship with physical cash, how she formed a worker´s cooperative with fellow sex workers and how she managed to rebuild her financial and professional life after a divorce and an eviction. Jessie also shared some really beautiful and insightful thoughts on survival in late stage capitalism and how money can contribute to liberation in really tangible, practical and efficient ways.  

Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka $Money Witch$, is an Intuitive Financial Coach, bookkeeper, and tax preparer bringing Capitalism-Critical Business Lady Swag to clients in the Bay Area and via Skype. You can find more information on her work at www.healyourfinances.com and on Instagram @money.witch. Jessie also has a Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9QueTgSbQOxd5eBwGkR5g) and is offering a business basics course for not so basic business babes here: https://www.healyourfinances.com/businessbabes.html 

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Hey friends, happy almost blue moon to you! I have a really special episode for you to celebrate this magical moon - Vanessa Sage came back on the show (listen to the first episode with her, #9, if you haven`t already) to talk about intuitive tarot magic and finding confidence, inspiration and comfort through the cards. We had a chat about finding the right deck, making little rituals out of readings, giving yourself permission to approach the cards with unwashed hair and uncertain questions, trusting your intuitive interpretations and finding your own voice as a reader. 

Vanessa Sage’s work focuses on self-compassion, inner-bravery, and discovering the mystery in our everyday lives. She offers spiritual and business mentorship, Priestess training, and tarot readings to help you enchant your everyday, bring your imagination to life, and listen to your wild soul’s calling! She has a PhD in cultural anthropology, and spent many years studying Buddhism, pilgrimage, and alternative spirituality as an anthropologist of religion. You can find her at http://vanessasage.com/

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Happy slightly belated new moon, you dreambabes! I hope the eclipse season is treating you well, that you are being showered in beautiful insights and that healing feels like softly floating down a river on a stable and supportive leaf (idk where that came from, I had a lot of rose tea this morning).  I feel super excited to bring you this gem of a conversation - it`s is a beautiful deep-dive into ideas, challenges and dreams around sharing, solidarity and engaging with money in sustainable, healthier ways. We also talked about the seduction of quick cash in the online business world, what it can mean to have social capital and access to resources and how the internet isn`t as democratic as we may think it is. I have worked with Sophie personally and feel that my life is so much richer with her in it - I can feel why she is so passionate about her work and I really value her perspectives.  

Sophie Macklin is a queer femme witch, anti-capitalist abundance coach, and feminist priestess in love with the magic of valuing and care. She works with people on thriving within and despite capitalism as we all work to dismantle systemic oppression. She believes the current system for resource distribution is drastically unfair, and relies on the exploitation of land and people. She is interested in creating something different.  Sophie is passionate about women and queers getting paid for their work, mutual aid, and all of us getting imaginative about new economies and new ways of being.  You can find Sophie`s website here:  http://www.feministabundance.com/ And this is her instagram:  http://instagram.com/sophieamacklin 

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For this episode I got to interview Otter Lieffe who wrote and self-published the incredible book of speculative fiction called Margins and Murmurations about struggle, sex work and time travel. As you know I think DIY media and representation are super important topics, so it was amazing to talk to her about the creative process and how healing it can be to imagine a different future for marginalised folks. We also talked about reframing PTSD, visibility, creating dignified working conditions for ourselves, community funding and the radical bodywork network. You can support Otter`s work and receive access to wonderful extras through her Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/otterlieffe Otter is a working class, femme, trans woman, in and out of Brussels and Berlin where she runs a trans and queer-focused holistic clinic called Safer Healing (https://saferhealing.org/). 

Margins and Murmurations (https://otterlieffe.com/marginsandmurmurations/) is her first novel. She has been involved in grassroots activism for over a decade, in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America and has at various times found herself involved in queer community organising, land reclamation, language teaching in migrant worker communities, playing samba in demonstrations and being too tired to get up the next day. She speaks between 3 and 5 languages and rarely sits still long enough to watch the seasons change. Written by a trans woman and sex worker, Margins and Murmurations puts gender, queerness and femininity at the centre of its twisting narrative. In this sensitive exploration of exclusion, Otter Lieffe calls us to renew our struggles against oppression and to proudly reclaim the margins that so many of us call home.   Margins and Murmurations “This is the story of Ash, a trans woman and healer living in a corner of Europe controlled by a militarized state. Amidst the economic crash of the 2020s, this land, once a hub of diversity, saw the rise of a state-imposed monoculture of gender, sexuality, ability and race. Those that didn’t fit, known as the divergents, were imprisoned, expelled or worse. Ash and her best friend Pinar long ago escaped the City, left behind their days of fighting State oppression, and are eking out a calmer life in the forest, ravaged by the effects of climate change. One day, Jason, a resistance fighter, arrives abruptly into their life, reigniting personal and political drives and they find themselves drawn back into the fight. 

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Friends, we made it to 10k listens, can you imagine?! Thank you so much! In this episode I just want to send you a really big thank you, tell you a bit more about my story and share some new things that I am currently working on. Tune in to hear about how I started out in web design, how Daydreaming Wolves came to be, what I wish I had known sooner and what I am wishing for in my fourth year. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday, dream babes! 

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Hey friends, how is everyone doing and feeling?  I have a beautiful episode with my friend and dream babe Amy Kuretsky to share - honestly, this one is wonderful and covers such a broad range of topics plus very many giggles! Here is what we talked about:  

• - Amy`s story with chronic illness and how she got into herbalism, acupuncture, breathwork and the tarot 
• - Feeling healthy both in our bodies and our businesses and how that is deeply related 
• - How we can learn from plants 
• - How we try to stay connected to nature in winter  
• - Why we think its important to ask plants for permission 
• - How we are trying to make our work accessible through sliding scales and online offerings and still want to honour our own time and energy at the same time 
• - Why we love tarot as a tool to express what we can`t quiet say yet 

Amy Kuretsky is a wellness coach for mind, body, and business. As a creative entrepreneur herself, she doesn’t think that you have to choose between your health and your hustle. Her work is focused on helping female-identified and non-binary business owners heal what needs healing - whether that’s their anxiety and limiting beliefs one day or their business model the next.  When she’s not coaching creative business owners she’s running a busy Chinese medicine clinic in Minneapolis, leading wellness retreats around the country, and getting woo-wooAF. Here are some links you might want to check out:  Amy`s website: https://www.amykuretsky.com/ 

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Happy new moon in Taurus, dream babes! Thanks to our beautiful Patreons there is another episode to enjoy already!   This time I spoke to astrologer, tarot reader and writer the Firebrand Witch. It`s been a touching, honest, beautiful and giggly conversation about all of these beautiful things:   

• - Navigating the magical world as a non-binary person 
• - Reclaiming the word witch
• - Doing magic at college 
• - Astrology as an intuitive art that heals through creating narrative 
• - Creative morning practices 
• - Tarot as a reflective tool for survivors 
• - Patreon as a way to support independent makers 
• - Navigating the start of a new business 
• - Identifying with tarot cards 

The Firebrand Witch is an astrologer, tarot reader, idea synthesizer and writer who is on a daily dash to make meaning of society and human beings through the magic of the planets and the cards. They are a mad agender cyborg witch with a heart of flames committed to supporting humans through their underworld journeys as they (re)discover their magic, meaning, and passion for being. They write weekly horoscopes and occasional reflections on healing and transforming over at thefirebrandwitch.com. To learn more: http://thefirebrandwitch.com/about/ To book a reading:  http://thefirebrandwitch.com/tarot-reading-store/ Instagram: @thefirebrandwitch  Facebook: fb.com/thefirebrandwitch Twitter: @firebrandwitch Patreon: http://patreon.com/thefirebrandwitch

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Sweet friends, I cannot imagine a more suitable episode to share with you on the Scorpio full moon!  My conversation with Jennifer was deep, beautiful and full of gems about the following:  

• - Supporting survivors with breathwork, body based writing workshops and herbalism 
• - Working through grief and trauma while nurturing resilience 
• - The creative process behind the anthology Queering Sexual Violence and why its so important to make support for survivors more inclusive  
• - The power of being truly witnessed 
• - Psychedelic experiences and how they can completely alter the way we understand our lives 
• - Working with poison medicine  

Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing.  A queer and trans affirming, trauma-informed herbalist and Breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her own practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She facilitates writing and Breathwork workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, veterans hospitals, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and at colleges and universities. She is the editor of Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016, https://queeringsexualviolence.com/), lectures across the country, and has had writing published in places like OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire with new publications forthcoming. She is also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at http://ofthebody.net/.

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Dreambabes, I am so honoured to send this beautiful conversation to you through the magic of Soundcloud and the internet!  The other day I received a reading from my guest Chanelle that left me feeling truly seen, more confident and empowered to untie some knots I had been playing with for years. I love her take on everyday magic and the way she works with plants, sounds and essences. Here is what we talked about:  

• Seeking magic out as a child 
• The morning as a sweet altar space for the rest of the day 
• Re-enchanting ordinary life 
• The magic of experimental sound collage  
• Falling in love with flower essences  
• Choosing a tarot card for the year 

Chanelle A. Bergeron is a flower essence practitioner & an intuitive herbalist who weaves her knowledge of midwifery, astrology, tarot, & mysticism into her healing practice. When she is not in the apothecary, you will find her making improvised & atmospheric sound-collage music under the name of mille, dreaming of the water, and writing poems. She currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her brilliant partner, Minori Sanchiz-Fung. You can find more about her offerings online at: www.moonbymoonapothecary.com instagram: @moonbymoonapothecary email: moonbymoonapothecary@gmail.com bandcamp: mille.bandcamp.com Minori’s website: www.minorisanchizfung.com My dear friend Emma Scully who I mentioned in our interview: Instagram: @justherbals 

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Happy full moon, dreambabes! I have some exciting news to share and also wanted to record a solo episode on free resources for when you are struggling, craving some shifts or just feel a bit stuck. There have been some really cool conversations about keeping magic + healing accessible (because really, if its not accessible to poor people, its not radical but also how do we as facilitators pay bills? So many questions!) lately and I wanted to share some stuff that has really helped me, especially at times when I was super limited on both time and money. Tune in to hear me talk about:  

• + How after months of soul searching I finally got lots clearer on my focus for Daydreaming Wolves and why I stayed up till 1am to redesign the whole site  + How I would love to invite you to think about how much structure and commitment you need around magic and self-care 
• + What free resources I am super excited about at the moment 
• + How I made space for nourishing input by decluttering newsletters and social media spaces  
• + How I find it 100% okay to check people`s free stuff out even if you are not in a position to buy anything  
• + Why just dancing to one song is making a huge difference for me right now and how I want to explore embodiment even more 

Here are some resources I talked about/wish I would have mentioned:  

+ Books I am currently loving are Embody by Connie Sobczak as well as Body Positive Power by Meghan Jayne Crabbe + My free everyday magic course: https://online-awesomeness-school1.teachable.com/p/free-ritual-magic-course + Holly Lowery`s work around eating disorder recovery and her podcast Well + Weird: https://www.hollylowery.com/well-and-weird/ (also great freebie to check out!)  + The Food Psych podcast by Christy Harrison: https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/ + The Herbal Academy`s blog on herbalism full of recipes: https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/ + Lindsay Mack`s podcast with lots of free tarot teachings: https://www.lindsaymack.com/podcast ...I hope there is something in there for you!  

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Hey loved ones, I am super proud to send another episode with the beautiful Jordyn Schwersky of mysticsister.net your way! It`s been a wonderful conversation about the following magical stuff: 

• Working with tricky soil 
• How Jordyn got into magic and the tarot through her mum 
• Travelling with small tarot decks 
• Healing skin problems with DIY herbalism 
• Self-care for entrepreneurs 
• Support for anxiety and depression 
• Why regular tarot readings feels SO GOOD 

Jordyn Schwersky is an herbalist, tarot reader, writer, intuitive, and general witchy person. She founded Mystic Sister with the intent to offer tarot readings, herbal medicine, and a community where similarly minded people can reclaim their ancestral knowledge, open their hearts, and become whole. You can find out more at her website, https://www.mysticsister.net/. You can also contribute to her Patreon (in exchange for some pretty awesome goodies at https://www.patreon.com/mysticsister  and follow her @mysticsister__ on Instagram. 

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I am still riding the summer solstice waves and am super happy to bring you another podcast episode with the beautiful Natalie Ross of Dream Freedom Beauty. Natalie and I had a really cool conversations about the following stuff of magical interest: 

• - DIY Media and feeling less alone 
• - The story behind the Dream Freedom Beauty podcast 
• - Coming up against resistance as an entrepreneur 
• - Overcoming self-doubt and being ok with imperfection 
• - Working with privilege, being ok with being wrong and being called in 
• - Embracing weirdness 

Natalie Ross produces two podcasts (Dream Freedom Beauty and Self Care Club) that help empaths, intuitives, and healers untangle themselves from childhood conditioning that made them feel like they weren't worthy or enough as they are. Natalie has a fierce passion for connecting with the non-human inhabitants of Earth. Through the communities that have grown around her podcasts, she's recently discovered that humans can be pretty cool, too. Dream Freedom Beauty podcast www.dreamfreedombeauty.com Self Care Club podcast - listen + learn about the online gatherings - www.selfcareclub.net Connect on Instagram: @DreamFreedomBeauty - https://www.instagram.com/dreamfreedombeauty/ @SelfCareClubbb - https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubbb/ Grow Beautiful - @GrowBeautiful on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/growbeautiful Staring at Plants - another predecessor to Dream Freedom Beauty website: http://www.staringatplants.com 

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Hey daydreamers,  I am really sorry for the delay with this episode - the last few weeks were a bit intense and hectic and I really missed podcasting! I think the wait was totally worth it though because I interviewed my friend Janelle Hardy, who was an absolutely dream to talk to! Here are some of the things we shared about:  

• - Weaving story telling, body work and visual art into transformative healing  
• - Personal Mythmaking as a tool for insight and empowerment  
• - Her group program and how she helps people write their own memoir with ease through looking at myths and fairy tales 
• - Podcasting as a way to build community and have meaningful conversations  
• - What embodiment means to Janelle (her words really touched me!) 
• - How we can unlearn body hate and restrictive movement patterns 
• - Emotional body awareness  

Janelle Hardy is a healer, single mother and artist. Her work is driven by the belief that when we tap into the power of our creativity, our bodies and our vibrancy, we gain vitality, courage and strength. We reclaim our wholeness and sense of purpose and identity. She works with women who long to feel like enough, and know it's possible. She combines 12+ years as a hands-on bodyworker with a background in Anthropology, Dance and the visual arts to offer one-on-one sessions as well as leading private healing retreats and The Art of Personal Mythmaking (a transformational memoir-writing course that facilitates healing, growth and joy.) Here is Janelle's website: https://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - a transformational memoir-writing course: http://www.janellehardy.com/personal-mythmaking/ 

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Happy new moon in Leo, witches!  Thanks so much for your patience, I feel it was worth it as today's episode is with Tess, the City Witch who is an absolute dream babe who makes incredible zines and offers beautiful tarot magic. I recently had an emergency reading with them, which was super helpful, and I read the zine I have from them often.  I hope our conversations gives you some joy and maybe a sense of not being alone in your weird and wonderful witchcraft, at least that's how I felt after talking to Tess. Here is what we dreamed about:  

• - Working with willow to process grief  
• - How Tess was introduced to magic 
• - Being disillusioned by binary based approaches to magic 
• - Witchcraft on tumblr and sharing radical ideas through social media 
• - Hexing your local rapist  - Using your phone charger for magic 
• - Working with the hermit card 
• - Generosity and abundance in our communities  

tess is a collective tarot reader, city witch, and zinester based in Ottawa, Canada.  they are a cancer sun and moon, aries rising.  they studied history and political science at the University of Ottawa and are an alum of lindsay mack's wild soul tarot teachings.  influenced by anarchist studies on gendered labour and bodily autonomy, tess approaches tarot as a spiralic, revolutionary tool to assist the collective. https://thecitywitch.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/cityxwitch/ https://www.patreon.com/citywitch/ 

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Hey dreambabes, I am incredibly honoured to bring you an episode with the wonderful Desiree Cervantes today! We first met online a few years ago and started to have really good chats about magic, cultural appropriation and identity this summer. Desiree is incredibly kind yet fierce, grounded, curious and magical and I am super happy she said yes to recording one of our conversations. This is some of what we talked about:  

• - Magic as a way to self-soothe 
• - Coming out later in life
• - Cultural appropriation in spiritual communities 
• - Working with ancestral traditions  
• - Chaos magic and dealing with the unexpected  
• - Shedding the idea that our worth as a person is defined by how desirable we are to men 

Desiree Cervantes is a shaman, intuitive healer and witch.  An indigenous femme, modern medicine woman and mother of two.  She is passionate about wild spirituality, radical honesty and creativity as a tools for spiritual healing. Desiree helps wild-hearted souls connect with and reclaim their personal magic through intuitive counselling, clairvoyant readings, practical magic and mediumship. Connect with her on Instagram @spiritfireshaman and visit www.spiritfireshaman.com. 

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Friends, this is such a wonderful and special episode - in fact, it's a grumpisode! I have long admired Sarah Chappell's wonderful sense of humour and her ability to embrace the whole range of human emotions, which is exactly what we did for this episode. We grumped away about stuff that bothers us, got a bit snarky and let it all out - in the hope that you might feel less alone. We felt a bit shy in the end and felt a gentle urge to say that we are also happy, grateful people sometimes, which was really interesting and, in my humble opinion, shows that we all need more permission to grump sometimes. So if you needed a permission slip, this is it!  Here is what we talked about: 

• - Embracing the whole range of human emotions 
• - Being grumpy about having no one as a sickness back up when you are working for yourself 
• - Being grumpy about diet culture - Being grumpy about social media changing all the time and loosing "exposure"  
• - Being grumpy about all the hard work we have to put in before creative work becomes sustainable  
• - Life being hard but amazing 
• - Wanting a stable, not overpriced forever home 
•  Our favorite self-care practices for grumpy times 
• -"Work/Life Balance", scaling a small business and trying to not constantly work  

Sarah M. Chappell is an intuitive counselor and herbalist based in Asheville, North Carolina specializing in addiction and mental health. She draws on her study of tarot, flower and stone essences, herbal medicine, and reiki to help clients unravel their stories, create lasting shifts, and heal themselves. Sarah is the host of So You Wanna Be A Witch, the podcast for soul-centered entrepreneurs and the people who love them. You can find Sarah on the internet at sarahmchappell.com, and follow her on Instagram http://instagram.com/sarahmchappell,  

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Hey dreambabes, since it's officially the witchy season some of you have asked about tarot decks I use and love. It's a great time to fall in love with a new magical tool, so I wanted to share some tips for those who are on the lookout.  This is a very short episode, a minisode if you will, and there will be more of these with practical advice coming your way soon!  Here are the decks and the shop I mentioned:  Little Red Tarot Shop - http://littleredtarot.com The Next World Tarot deck - https://cristyroad.bigcartel.com/category/next-world-tarot Fountain Tarot deck - http://www.fountaintarot.com/ The Divina deck - https://www.spirit-speak.com/ The Wild Unknown deck - https://www.thewildunknown.com/ The Anima Mundi deck - http://www.thecreepingmoon.com/tarot.html 

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Hey friends, happy almost new moon in libra! I have a really wonderful episode with my friend Fay for you today, which I think is perfect if you want to dream about the changing seasons and reconnect with plants. Here is what we talked about:  

• + The creative process of Fay's book 
• + Intimacy with the changing seasons  
• + Understanding cycles and applying them to our own lives to take pressure off ourselves 
• + Grounding practices out in nature 
• + Working with found objects 
• + What we can learn from plants 

Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Herbalist, Reiki Master and a Plant Spirit Guide who is the author of Plants that Speak Souls that Sing: transform you life with the spirit of plants. Following a beautiful awakening to the spirit of plants while running a flower farm, Fay's work helps clients open their own intuition to the forces of nature, meet plant spirit guides and restore their sacred relationship with the Earth to feel confident and connected on their path. Applying Shamanic techniques, the alchemy of nature and spirit inspired guidance to nourish your soul, Fay can help you remember your magic, release old patterns of shame and grief, reawaken ancient wisdom within you and reclaim your power to become fully aligned with the truth of who you are. Fay offers healing, workshops and programs across the UK, online and from her home in Scotland. Fay's website: www.fayjohnstone.com 

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Hey friends, this is a sweet and simple episode in which I share my favorite tips for tarot beginners. Mainly its a pep talk for when you feel shy about approaching your deck! 

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Hey beautiful beings, you might have noticed that I am now able to be a bit more consistent with the podcast, which is amazing and mainly due to the increase in Patreon supporters - thank you so much!!! For this episode I have interviewed another instagram crush that I had a beautiful tarot reading with myself - Krystal of Power Femme Tarot! Here is what we talked about: 

• - Finding a unique way of reading for ourselves and others 
• - Tarot as an anti-gaslighting tool 
• - Learning to trust ourselves again 
• - Bringing a fierce queer, feminist and political lens to the tarot 
• - Tarot magic for sacred sexuality 

Krystal also talked about her friend Nick of https://queerofcups.com/ who is queer_of_cups on instagram and made a note after the recording: "The only thing I’d say differently is omit the term “stalker card.” Since my convo with Yarrow, @pinewoodtarot shared an IG story about how this term glamorizes and trivializes assault. As someone who unabashedly brings a queer feminist anti-racist justice-centered lens to my Tarot practice, I’m profoundly grateful to be called in so pointedly and compassionately by @pinewoodtarot. Thank you for the wakeup call!" Krystal is a New Orleans-based queer femme witch, priestess of the Morrigan, crafter of sacred tools, and professional tarot reader and teacher. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies and her academic nature has led her to study tarot rigorously and joyfully since the age of 15. Krystal's lifelong personal and professorial commitment to feminism, queer politics, and social justice also shapes her approach to tarot. For Krystal, tarot bridges intuition and intellect as well as the spiritual and the political. Krystal uses tarot to crack open space for empowerment, individual and collective healing, and social change. Website: powerfemmetarot.com IG: @powerfemmetarot Patreon: patreon.com/powerfemmetarot 

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Hey beautiful beings, this question comes up a lot: How do we make space for self-care and ritual and magic if everything is falling apart and feels super hard? I don't have a perfect answer, but I gathered some ideas and questions for you in the hope that they feel comforting! Listen to me share about my morning and bed time routines as well as my love for self-massages and the wild art of infusing small things with big intentions.  In this episode I mentioned the free tarot for beginners workshop I am running on the 18th of November, you can sign up here: https://yarrowdigital.com/free-webinars/ 

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Hey friends, Fridays are now Daydreaming Wolves podcast days, hurray! Today I am sharing a movement + journaling audio workshop from the Magic of Embodiment program with you - people in the program really loved it and so I thought you might too. I will be sharing bits from the program on here occasionally because I love making things more accessible and want to offer you a peak behind the scenes.  You might want to listen to this at home rather than on public transport or in the car, but all you need is pen and paper. I am sharing some very gentle movement practices you can do sitting or lying down and then there will be some journaling prompts to dive into. Enjoy! 

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Happy belated new moon in Scorpio, wonderful beings! I am bringing you a really beautiful, inspiring episode with my friend Elinor Predota. I think you will love this one if you are into story telling, the interconnectedness of spirituality and politics and alternative ways of building a business! Amongst many other things we spoke about the following: 

• - Understanding interconnectedness 
• - Ancestral story telling 
• - Engaging with our (white folks) history of violence and colonialism 
• - Transforming guilt and shame into something more actionable 
• - Listening to the landscape 
• - Building a business against and beyond capitalism to create spaces of justice 

Elinor supports people who long to make action for social justice an everyday part of their life and work, but who feel stuck, confused, or overwhelmed, to build their inner resources of resilience, awareness of self, society and environment, and confidence. Elinor offers one to one, group and DIY programmes which are grounded in a long and wide-ranging background in activism, community development, spiritual counselling, ritual work, storytelling, and facilitation of learning. Elinor’s work is rooted in the magic of creativity, of relating across difference, and of becoming alive to all that is present, within and without us, here and now. This is Elinor's website: https://elinorpredota.com/ Elinor's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elinorpredota This is the Bespoken Bones podcast we mentioned: http://bespokenbones.com/

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Hey dream babes, thank you so much for your patience with this episode - I think it was totally worth it! I am sending you my conversation with Miel Rose, which was really wonderful and had both giggles and depth. Here is what we talked about:  

• - Yearning for intimacy with the landscape  
• - Eclectic magic 
• - Lemonbalm and Mugwort as allies
• - Sharing between plant and human bodies
• - How magic supports folks who live with experiences of isolation, chronic illness and suicidal ideation 
• - Receiving support in building authentic devotional practices 
• - Staying embodied in this time and place  
• Miel's beautiful year long class 

Miel Rose is a rural, working class femme raised by hippies in the wilds of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.  She is a textile artist, medicine maker, magic skills teacher, and an intuitive guidance giver who believes in her effectiveness as a wounded healer.  She was raised with a strong anti-capitalist/anti-consumer ethic, which is to say that she believes in cultivating reciprocal relationships with the world around us vs. seeing the world as inert matter for our consumption. She believes in an intersectional view of systemic oppression, which is to say that she believes we are living within the death throes of a soul eating civilization whose main expressions are rape culture, colonization and genocide, white supremacy, hatred for queerness and gender variance, life destroying class disparity, and general ecocide, all of which are interlocking tentacles of the same beast. She believes that it is impossible to survive in this system without accruing some form of trauma, that personal traumatic happenings are related to systemic oppression, and that a “culture” that is based on systemic oppression is traumatizing in and of itself. She believes in centering trauma in magical work, and that committing to the process of  healing our trauma is a magical act, one that ripples out through time and space. Miel's website: Mielrose.com instagram: @flameandhoneycomb Etsy: etsy.com/shop/flameandhoneycomb

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Hey wonderful listeners, I am a bit sleepy this week, so I will keep it soft and simple: I am sending a solo minisode on herbal oils and self-massage your way, because these are practices that are really supporting me right now. Cannot tell you how grateful I am to the plants all around me! Listen to hear about:  

• - How I infuse oils at home 
• - What plans I love using  
• - How I am using oils straight or turn them into a balm 
• - My thoughts about essential oils
• - My favorite self-massage practices 
• - The magic of affirmation labels  

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Loved listeners, this is my last episode for 2018 and I am so so happy to end with such a beautiful, honest and inspiring conversation. Danette was my writing coach many moons ago and her love and wisdom is still with me all the time! She is incredibly funny and wise and has taught me so much about life, writing and loving myself.  Here is what we talked about:  

• - How Danette got married to herself on a beach 17 years ago 
• - Creating new traditions that are authentic and real 
• - Getting clear on what we really want to do with our lives  
• -Sustaining commitment to ourselves and our creativity in the long run 
• - Why we love podcasting so much 
• - Making awkward art 

Danette Relic has been married to herself for almost 18 years and it has been by far the hottest and most profound relationship in her life. She is a personal life coach, artist +  writer, based online at Radical Creative Sanctuary and at home in Toronto. Her mission is to help people transform their relationships with themselves. All of her work centers around self love - healing, dreaming, loving and creating from the core of who we are in a new, radical way.  Heartbreak has been her favourite method of learning the importance of self love in her own life. After many spectacular lessons, Danette began writing her first book, Crash Bloom: the 7 Houses of Heartbreak, a creatively empowering guide to heal from a breakup without skipping over the beauty of your own emotions. The book is in the final stages but you can get a quick map of the 7 Houses of Heartbreak when you sign up for her newsletter.  Danette loves to work with individuals who are ready to say yes to falling in love with themselves + their one precious life - even if it scares them. Her most popular coaching program, Radical Self Engagement creates space for her clients to ask what might happen if they treated themselves like someone they truly love - and develop the beliefs and practices to cultivate that change.  Radical Creative Sanctuary: http://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/ You can listen on her website: http://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/podcasts/   

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Hey folks, thanks so much for your patience while I had a creative hibernation break! I really missed podcasting and am SO glad to be back. In this episode I am talking about: - What I've been up to and how I started a whole new community - What self-care practices I love in January - The rituals I create around my card for the year and which one I chose - Things that feel good and inspiring and exciting right now - How I try to avoid getting sucked into January self-improvement 

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Hey folks, thank you so much for your patience with this episode, I have really missed podcasting! This time I was really excited to speak to Sarah Eliza Kelly who is a beautiful artist of many disciplines and who facilitates the Artist's Way groups. I think this episode is for you if you are feeling a little creatively stuck and want to try something new. Here is what we talked about: 

• - Loving many different creative expressions 
• - Our experience of the book the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron 
• - Movement, embodiment and unstimulated rest 
• - Wanting a container and a commitment to feel free within 
• - Morning pages and taking yourself on artist dates 

Sarah Elisa Kelly is a visual artist, papermaker, dancer and published poet who has been exploring her own relationship to creativity and facilitating creative workshops for over ten years. She is a Movement Medicine apprentice teacher and is currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art. She is passionate about embodiment, radical rest, slow time and interconnectivity, and holds spaces that are affirmative and honest with an emphasis on permission and trust.  Sarah also offers a 13 week online support group for the Artist's Way starting March 3rd that I will be part of and we would love to have you join us too! The price is 30 - 100 GBP sliding scale and you can find out more here: https://www.subscribepage.com/theartistsway Here is Sarah's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_medicinebox/ https://www.mymedicinebox.org/ http://www.sarahelizakelly.co.uk/   

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Friends, I can't tell you how grateful I feel to bring you the 50th episode of Daydreaming Wolves just in time for the spring equinox and the full moon in Libra.  Damn, it's honestly been so beautiful to have all these conversations with like minded people, to explore and dream together and to build community with you all. I feel you, even if it's just through the screen.  In this anniversary episode I am talking about my rituals and dreams around the spring equinox (low energy spring cleaning, deeper tarot readings, flower essences, planting seeds and shaking winter off!), about practices for tough times and starting small and about finding faith and inner authority. I'm also reading from Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, which is a book I think you might love too!  

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Hey friends, it feels so good to be back! This Friday I am sharing a beautiful conversation with my friend Manisha Tare who is an incredible mentor, guide and healing professional. I love her thoughts and approaches to emotional healing and the many many things she is putting out there to help us come home to our bodies and be present with what is unfolding in our lives. Tune in to hear more about:  

• - Injuries as an invitation to pause and explore our experiences  
• - Being in a body and making it a home 
• - Living with chronic pain  
• - Transitioning into work that is sustainable and aligned with who we are  
• - Practices for grounding in times of transition  

Manisha Tare serves an intuitive guide, healer & mentor for highly sensitive and empathic people who are on a journey back home to themselves. Through a combination of energetic, intuitive and somatic approaches, she guides her clients to connect to their inner knowing in order to heal & clear old emotional trauma at its core. Through their work together, her clients feel more grounded, have greater clarity and confidence in who they are, can ask for what they need, trust their decisions more, and direct their lives with increased inner trust. She works with clients virtually all over the world. To learn more about her background, approach, & philosophy, visit manishatare.com   Free Gift -- Using Your Body as  Compass https://www.subscribepage.com/bodyasacompass Consultation call to learn more about working together https://www.subscribepage.com/emotionalclarityassessment IG: @manishatare 

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Hey friends, I am sending another mini episode with some thoughts about magic for the full moon and the healing power of ceremony and ritual your way. I recently completed the first part of my celebrant training and am excited to explore and experience more rituals - especially self-marriages, friendship commitment ceremonies, re-namings and all kinds of transitions! If you feel you want to mark an important milestone in your life in some way and you need support for that, please hit me up!  In the episode I also talked about the things I love doing on the full moon, how you can create your own rituals and how important it is that we are making space for grieve to stay emotionally engaged with climate justice (and all kinds of other things we believe in!).  

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Hey folks, this is a little solo episode with some ideas and inspiration for your Beltane celebrations. I am sharing a tarot spread I will be doing, ways in which I am exploring pleasure of my own understanding in May, some ritual ideas and I am reading some beautiful words on flower essences by Dori Midnight as well as a few lines from adrienne maree brown's book Pleasure Activism for your delight!  

Here are the questions for the tarot spread:  What does being in full bloom mean to me right now? What does my body need to be in full bloom? What does my mind need to be in full bloom? What does my spirit need to be in full bloom? Here is Dori Midnight's instagram love: https://www.instagram.com/dorimidnight/ This is where you can find adrienne maree brown's book: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Here is the Healing Justice podcast episode about flower essences with Dori Midnight that I mentioned: https://healingjustice.podbean.com/e/28-practice-essences-for-everybody-making-your-own-medicine-with-dori-midnight/ 

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Hey folks, I am delighted to bring you another interview episode with the wonderful Jade of Milk and Honey Herbs! As you know I adore talking to plant people who are finding radical and nourishing ways to support themselves and their communities! Here is what Jade and I dreamed and giggled about:  

• - What a herbalist's workday can look like 
• - Discovering plants as allies for our health and wellbeing 
• - Connecting with different bioregions  
• - How we can give back to our environments  
• - Simple herbal selfcare strategies 
• - Running a community clinic 
• - Teaching and building community through Patreon 

Jade Alicandro Mace weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 10 and 6 year-old daughters, partner, tender of chickens and cats and new puppy, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. In 2012 she co-founded the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, dedicated to affordable herbal care, and also maintains a long-distance clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, in unceded Nipmuk territory. Website- https://www.milkandhoneyherbs.com/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/milkandhoneyherbs/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/milkandhoneyherbs/ Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/milkandhoneyherbs 

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Hey sweet friends, I am so excited to bring you another beautiful conversation on this sunny last Friday of May!  I spoke to the beautiful, magical Dorothee of MoonTent about all this good stuff:  

• - Adorning ourselves with flowers 
• - Running a product based business 
• - Developing a cyclical relationship with our bodies 
• - Moon magic  
• - Building community beyond social media 

Dorothée Sophie Royal is an artist, writer, medicine maker, and mother. She is the founder of MoonTent, a media platform dedicated to wisdom from the heart of the feminine. She is the host of #moonwisepodcast which features monthly lunar forecasts and interviews with women of power. She was selected in 2018 as one of fifty women for #50WomenCan Change the World in Media and Entertainment.  Born in Germany and raised in the U.S. and abroad, Dorothée has a deep love for the natural world and an appreciation for cross-cultural healing. After completing a degree at the University of Chicago and working in the film and nonprofit worlds, she found herself longing for a more holistic approach to life and went on to become a student of herbal medicine, nutrition and earth-honoring wisdom traditions. She is wildly grateful to her elders and teachers, her family and the mountains, rivers, trees and flowers that inspire her. http://www.moontent.co/ https://www.instagram.com/moontentco/ 

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Happy Solstice, sweet ones!  I hope you get a chance to celebrate the longest or shortest day of the year in a way that connects you to the magic of cyclical living and everyday ceremony.  It feels so special to bring you a really beautiful interview with my former mentor Nancy Antenucci today - I adore her book, received so much great guidance from her and am always excited to read her newsletters. Here is what we talked and laughed about:  

• - Being a creative advocate  
• - Speaking with our bodies and getting out of our heads 
• - Tarot as a big mansion with a room for each card 
• - What it can mean to be psychic  
• - Writing to stay sane 

Nancy Antenucci of Between The Worlds LLC (www.betweenworlds.us) is an innovator whose creative take on tarot, and how it can be woven into a variety of other work, including movement, performance art, and deep ritual, makes her a highly sought-after teacher and presenter around the country and internationally.  She is the author of “Psychic Tarot – Using Your Natural Abilities to Read the Cards”.  She founded Twin Cities Tarot Collective which produces the North Star Tarot conference, an innovative monthly Meetup and training for readers. She is currently branching into creative strategizing for start ups and mid sized businesses as well as creating multi-media videos bringing the divine into the everyday. She is a faculty member of the Arcana Company in Chengdu, China.  

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Hey folks, happy Friday! Glad to be bringing you another tarot related episode - June seems to be a month of refreshing and re-inventing my practice, so I hope you are excited too! This time I spoke with the wonderful Gina of Incandescent Tarot about all these beautiful things:  

• - How Gina became a tarot reader and found the name for her business 
• - Tarot as a creative, fluid, creative art and a tool for self-discovery  
• - Learning to trust our own minds 
• - Disagreeing with the cards and working with archetypes  
• - Tarot maps as a way to navigate big life questions 

Gina Wisotzky is a professional tarot reader, teacher, and intuitive with 18 years experience reading the cards. Her practice centers around cultivating, honoring, and giving voice to each individual's sense of intuition through classes, gatherings, and in-person sessions. Having experienced the power of tarot and intuition-building through many phases of her life, it's her joy to share these tools with others, reintroducing them as innate and accessible to all of us, no matter our backgrounds. She hosts two local meetups - The Durham Tarot Club & Craft Night - and is co-host of the podcast, Open Magic.   Website: incandescenttarot.com Instagram: instagram.com/incdescenttarot Facebook: facebook.com/incandescenttarot Open Magic: openmagicpocast.com ⋒ 

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How to I introduce this episode and my wonderful friend Janelle? Honestly it's been such a joy to talk to and write with her - I can't wait to start her program and work some more with the free resources she is sharing. I guess this episode is much groovier than a normal interview, we are writing and laughing together and you can get pen and paper out and join us! Janelle shares her thoughts about why writing can be such a powerful tool for healing and transformation and she offers us a few really juicy exercises to try out. If you can't write right now you can also totally enjoy this episode on the go and explore what comes up for you in your beautiful mind or on paper later. Enjoy and let us know what you think!  

Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast and the creator/teacher of a 5-month transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. She’s a born and raised Yukoner, a solo mother, who has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 13+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time she’s taught adults out of her living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges. For the past 4+ years she’s integrated all of her expertise, including a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Structural Integration, into supporting people in their creative healing work via the alchemy of transformational memoir-writing. Sign up for the Outline Your Memoir workshop: https://www.janellehardy.com/outline-your-memoir/ Website: http://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - online course: https://www.personalmythmaking.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janellehardybodylove/

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Hey friends, I am sending a really beautiful episode with the wonderful Bri of Tadpole Magic your way! This one I think is particularly cool if the recent eclipses got you curious about astrology, but you're maybe a bit sceptical or not sure where to start.  Here is what we talked about:  

• - Learning from experiences rather than only from books 
• - Making astrology touchable  
• - Why being sceptical is totally okay 
• - The value of archetypes for our relationships, careers and spiritualities 
• - Why we think no one should let the internet tell them who they are  

Bri is a witch, astrologer, writer for their blog, Tadpole Magic, and co-host of the podcast, Open Magic. They want magic, tarot, astrology, and all metaphysical practices to feel usable, to help provide language and perspective to your lived experiences, and to act as a doorway to tapping into your inner wisdom. They recently launched an astrological offering called Learning Your Astrology that is focused specifically on helping you navigate your personal natal chart through 12 weeks of one-on-one sessions and personalized exercises such as meditations, rituals, and spells. Bri deeply values the wisdom that each person holds within themselves and sees astrology as a means for us to recognize it within ourselves. https://www.tadpolemagic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tadpole.magic/ 

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Hey beautiful people,  thank you for making time for another Daydreaming Wolves episode! Today I am sharing my conversation with my wonderful friend and co-masterminder Samantha Wallen about the transformative power of writing, what it means to loose and find home and many other wonderful things. Since I am in Scotland at the moment, kind of in-between worlds and life chapters, this feels very timely! :: A small but also big announcement from me: The DIY Business Collective is now open for enrolment and I am offering early bird pricing till August 10th with lifetime accessing costing $220, you can find out more here: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/ :: Here is some more info about what Sam and I talked about:  

• - How Sam became a writer and why it's so powerful to claim that title 
• - Finding presence, stillness and deep reflection through writing  
• - Enchantment and touching what lives beyond language  
• - Loosing a home, growing new roots and reclaiming a sense of value  
• - The radical potential of writing 

You can sign up for Sam's One Word can set your Free Guide here: https://writeinpower.com/freegift/ Samantha Wallen is a writer, writing and book coach, and poet. She is the Founder of Write In Power, which offers transformative writing workshops, retreats, and private coaching programs. Sam’s mission is to restore the soul of our world, one word at a time. She is a Restorative Writing Mentor who helps you drop your agenda and write what wants to be written so you can restore what is precious inside you, and our world, by using words as a pathway to reach what lives beyond language.  Restorative Writing is memoir-based writing that awakens your voice and heals your spirit. It slows you down and tunes you in to the heartbeat and deep purpose of your life. Restorative Writing deepens our shared conversation of aliveness–the ordinary, the mystical, the brilliant, and the wounded, forgotten, grieved and silenced parts. It brings all of us home to rest on the sacred ground of our shared human story so we can connect to and serve life more fully on and off the page.

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What comes to mind when you are hearing the word embodiment? My thoughts are still changing all the time, it's very much an open exploration to me. This is a solo episode in which I am sharing about my current practices and reflecting a bit on the past year. I am also inviting you to write a zine with me, which I am really excited about! Here is the submission form: https://mrjzmkaz.paperform.co/ When I started my membership program over a year ago I was knee deep in my recovery from a sexual assault and wildly (sometimes desperately) interested in finding ways to reconnect with my body, reclaim joy and sensuality and find peace.  Being in community has helped me so so much and day by day working with plants, journaling and drawing cards has been a source of comfort and pleasure for me. I feel truly grateful for everyone who has joined in. This non-judgemental sense of exploration in a sweet framework with lots of easy to use tools and regular check ins is what feels most supportive and exciting to me in this work, so I am bringing even more of it in.  

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Hey beautiful ones, thank you for joining me for another interview episode! This time I spoke to the wonderful Rosemary Roberts about how incredibly fascinating and complex our bodies are. This is a really great episode for anyone with our without ovaries to listen to - I learned a ton and am feeling excited and encouraged to really pay more attention to my body and its rhythms. Here is what we talked about:  

• - How Rosemary became interested in alternatives after being on the pill for a decade 
• - What body literacy means to her and why it matters so much to make this work more accessible 
• - Body literacy as an important aspect of preparing for an uncertain future 
• - The relationship between permaculture, earth activism and reproductive justice 
• - What a day in her forest school looks like (it made me want to give myself forest school afternoons)  

Rosemary offers full-spectrum education and support for the reproductive continuum as a certified sexual/reproductive health and fertility awareness educator, as well as a childbirth and lactation educator, with a background in sociocultural anthropology, midwifery studies, permaculture and herbalism. She teaches group classes and works one-on-one with clients seeking to increase their body literacy and learn to chart their menstrual cycles to gauge reproductive and hormonal health, to effectively avoid pregnancy, and to increase their chanced of getting pregnant when they want to. She also consults around dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors that affect hormonal health. She is actively involved in reproductive justice support work, and passionate about accessibility and inclusion. She teaches in-person where she lives in Northern California as well as online, and has an upcoming live online class series on body literacy and using fertility awareness to avoid pregnancy. Please visit www.wombsage.com for more information! You can find Rosemary's upcoming classes, for which listeners can get 10% by mentioning Daydreaming Wolves when registering here:  https://www.wombsage.com/classes

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Hey everyone, just a quick, sniffy note from me to say that Embodied Magic has begun, yay! We now have a book club and I brought the sliding scale offer back - tune in to hear more about what members receive each months and how you can join. Love, Yarrow 

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Hey beautiful beings, thank you for listening to another Daydreaming Wolves episode, you are so appreciated!  In this interview I spoke to Marissa of Cyclical Body about body fluency, cyclical self-care and embodiment - as you know all things I am curiously exploring at the moment. I am working with Marissa and am in her membership program, so it feels really exciting to share just a few of the things I am learning from her with you today. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• - Living in deeper harmony with our bodies 
• - Our menstrual cycles as teachers 
• - Finding more inclusive, authentic and open language around our bodies 
• - Learning to really listen and following our stories  
• - Shifting out of seeing our bodies as enemies  
• - Finding gateways of embodied exploration 

Here is what Marissa says about her work:  I offer menstrual cycle education and holistic womb wellness guidance from an earth & body based perspective. My entrance into this work comes through birth work, studying with Whapio of the Matrona and Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions Postpartum. I was led to this path particularly through the ancestral elements of womb work, and at some point fell in love with the menstrual cycle and it’s been my teacher ever since. In the last year I have deepened into pelvic work through studying Holistic Pelvic Care with Tami Kent. I’m endlessly amazed by the wisdom of our bodies and the creative resilience moving through us. I am deeply informed by all the plant friends that have graciously found me on my path, as well as the territories that i’ve been held by – san diego, occupied kumeyaay land and recently lyons, colorado, occupied ute land. You can learn more about her here: https://cyclicalbody.com/ And this is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclicalbody/ 

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Hey beautiful listeners, I am so excited to have arrived back on Fridays being new episode days and also this one is very special - I talked to Eryn Johnson of Living Open about so many things that are currently in my heart. Eryn is wonderful, we giggled a lot and it was super fun to interview her after being on her podcast too. Here is what we talked about:  

• - Cyclical living and connecting with local bioregions 
• - Breathwork and its transformational potential 
• - Relating to our bodies with joy and pleasure 
• - Becoming an entrepreneur and facing business questions 
• - Non-violent communication and healing family patterns  

Eryn Johnson is a breathwork facilitator, tarot reader, and Reiki Master based in Fishtown, Philadelphia. She is also the host of the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers, a storytelling tool here to help facilitate soul expansion. The foundation of her work is energetic and based on the belief that there's nothing wrong with you- we are simply programmed from a young age to forget the truth of who we are. She uses Reiki, tarot, breathwork, and storytelling to bring you back to yourself - back to your power, back to your magic, back to your heart. Back to who you were before everyone told you who and how to be. Find her work at www.living-open.com and @erynj_ on Instagram. 

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Hey wonderful beings, happy Friday - almost new moon - finally Scorpio season!  I hope this finds you well and that my conversation with the wonderful Jennifer Gleeson Blue feels as exciting and insightful to you as it did to me! It was really good to talk and wonder about natural movements, about patterns and how we are holding them in our bodies and about all the ways in which we can expand and grow into being our true selves. Fuck yes! Here is some of what we talked about:  

• - How modern ways of movement are impacting our biology and emotional bodies  
• - The initiation of motherhood  
• - Healing through natural movement  
• - Coming to really honour our bodies and learning about anatomy  
• - Creating trauma sensitive movement spaces  

Jennifer Gleeson Blue guides women to find their freedom, reinitiating their connection to their powerful, majestic and sacred bodies. In her online programs, group coaching, private sessions and workshops, she utilizes a powerful blend of consciousness work and natural movement to unleash the intuitive self while tending very practically to the physical body. She is a certified life coach and a restorative exercise specialist and has logged thousands of hours in the trenches of unravelling her own liberation. She can be found on Instagram, Facebook and at her website, jennifergleesonblue.com.  

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Hey loved ones, this solo episode is pretty much what it says on the tin: an exploration of why I am training as a death doula as an extension of the grief celebrant training I am doing, some thoughts about death, loss and grief and how all this actually makes me feel really happy and grounded right now. I am also sharing a few updates about life in Scotland, about offerings for 2020 and about my communities. Here is more info about the live tarot class I mentioned, its $44 till Dec 1st: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/tarot-as-a-light-in-the-dark-live-class/ If you have any feedback I would SO love to hear from you at hello@yarrowdigital.com and I also voiced a cheeky birthday wish: If you enjoy the podcast please can you leave a review? Thank you so much! 

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Hey everyone, I am happy to send you another episode from cozy, rainy Scotland today. I spoke to Ash Alberg, whose work I had been admiring on instagram for years. Their work is so beautiful, tactile and deeply meaningful and I am so glad I got to spend some time with them to ask them about how it all came to be. Here is what we talked about:  

• - What we can learn from the process of making, loving and sharing clothes 
• - Textiles as an access point to sustainability and community care  
• - Ash's textile practice and the knitty gritty of running a small textile business 
• - Natural dying and fibre shed practices  
• - The magic of plants and Ash's project from field to skin  

ash alberg is a queer femme and fibre witch who seeks to create beautiful and practical items using sustainable methods. equally importantly, they seek to nurture the skills, knowledge, and creativity of fellow fibre witches to achieve their goals. their side project, from field to skin, chronicles their adventures in the canadian fibreshed. after living on the east coast of canada and in the uk, ash now operates out of their home studio in canada’s heartland on treaty one territory with their coven pooch, willow. when not creating new knitwear designs, ash can be found sewing a handmade wardrobe, foraging for natural dyes and bones, and cooking up new herbal remedies with their favourite plant allies. ash can be found on instagram @sunflowerknit and @fromfieldtoskin. you can also find them at ashalberg.com and fromfieldtoskin.com. 

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Hey beloved listeners, I am sorry there has been a little break and I am really excited to be back with another episode in this wild gemini full moon week!  I felt very luck to get to speak to Virginia Rosenberg, whose work I first came across after taking a Qoya class and learning about her role as the resident astrologer. Her approach is so embodied, open, curious and creative and I loved chatting to her about everything from birth charts to Saturn returns!  Here is what we talked about:  

• - Astrology as an intuitive, embodied practice 
• - Slowness and cyclical living  
• - The wisdom of nature 
• - Making a start in our own practices and creating a direct experience with heavenly bodies 

Virginia Rosenberg is an Intuitive Astrologer and Movement Artist for social change. Her passion is natural healing of self and society. Virginia believes that we are made to heal, and that healing is a matter of becoming more conscious of and connected to ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human-Worlds. Astrology and movement are age-old tools for reconnection, and she stewards these disciplines. Since 2010, Virginia has offered thousands of readings for clients worldwide. She teaches astrology, qi gong, and various forms of dance, leading retreats, classes, and workshops. Her writings on astrology, spirituality, and society have gone viral and are used as teaching tools in meditation and study groups. She is Resident Astrologer for Qoya. Her educational background includes post-colonial and women’s/gender studies, cultural anthropology, journalism, documentary filmmaking, Taoist philosophy and internal martial arts, myriad forms of dance, spiritual alchemy, ritual, ceremony, and energy work. Visit Virginia's website at www.virginiarosenberg.com. She offers free New and Full Moon forecasts. You can also follow her on instagram at @virginiarosenberg 

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Hey everyone, happy new year, happy full moon eclipse! May you feel soft and blessed today I am sending a solo episode your way in which I am sharing my new year practices, some tarot ideas and inspiration as well as updates on what I am planning this year.  Here are the questions for the journaling practice I shared:  

• -What am I grateful for to 2019? 
• -What were my major themes? 
• -What do I want more of? 
• -What do I want to clear away before I start a new chapter? 
• And these are the questions for the tarot spread I shared:  
• -What do I need to know about my next steps? 
• -What can ground and support me right now? 
• -What dream wants to be dreamed in 2020? 
• -Which archetype will be my guide? 
• -Which quality can I develop in myself? 

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Hey appreciated listeners, this episode is really close to my heart - I love working with my guest Rebekah Erev and really appreciate all that they do. Rebekah's work is so rich with imagination and reverence for the earth and the human experience and yet also really tangible and accessible. Here is what we talked about:  

• - Making art and ritual accessible to more people 
• - Caring for the earth and our ancestors  
• - The story of how Rebekah created their oracle deck 
• - Embodying the role of a jewish priestess  
• - Celebrancy and holding space for life's milestones 

Rebekah about their work:  I am an ordained kohenet (Hebrew priestess), feminist, queer, artist, intuitive, healer, lover, creativity coach and teacher. I live on the Salish Sea in Olympia, WA., the original village of the Steh-chass people. In my work I collaborate with unseen and seen beings to make art and ritual with the intention to recover and liberate the earth. I offer intuitive readings and workshops to help people manifest their most true expressions, listening to the wisdom of their bodies. I also make objects and create public ritual as performance / ceremony. Here is the Your Most Treasured Commitment course I mentioned in the intro: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/your-most-treasured-commitment Here is Rebekah's website: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/ and this is their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekaherevstudio/

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