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The Serpentine PathThe Good, the Bad, + the Ugly of AyahauscaIn today's solo episode I go deep into my beautiful, intense, insane, and highly non-recommended path with the medicine of yagé (aka the Colombian brew of ayahuasca). After sitting in hundreds of ceremonies over the past 4+ years, living in the jungle full-time for 1.5 years, and seeing all sides--the good, the bad, and the ugly--of this medicine, I have quite a few thoughts that I feel can be supportive to those who may be considering walking with this plant at some point in their lives...In this episode I get into:How I first f...2025-07-141h 25The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Family Constellations Meditation with Ashanti CervantesLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE HERE!!!In this extended episode Ashanti shares a beautiful family constellations meditation that supports our capacity to be able to say "YES TO WHAT IS" with difficult moments in our lives. Listen to the full episode over on substackCONNECT WITH ASHANTIWebsiteCONNECT WITH CLAIRE + THE PODCASTMy WebsiteBook a 1:1 ConsultationSubstack: Extended Episodes + WritingInstagram 2025-07-0801 minThe Serpentine PathHealing with Men Through Family Constellations with Ashanti CervantesIn this episode I share my beautiful, life-giving conversation with Ashanti Cervantes. Ashanti is a facilitator of Family Constellations who helps people unravel inherited patterns and return to the truth of who they are. With a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy and a rich background in parts work, relational communication, attachment theory, and masculine/feminine polarity, she brings a deeply attuned approach to healing. Her work is rooted in a practice of presence—allowing what needs to be seen to reveal itself—and the power of love as a transformative force. Ashanti is here to guide others toward...2025-07-081h 27The Serpentine PathBonus Episode: That Time an NYC Bouncer Spiritually Bitchslapped My Soul Back Into AlignmentIn this mini bonus episode I share one of my most insane time traveling, shape shifting, dimension hopping stories from my deep dark days in New York City.Shout out to the cosmic nightclub bouncer who got me back on track! CONNECT WITH CLAIRE + THE PODCASTMy WebsiteBook a 1:1 ConsultationSubstack: Extended Episodes + WritingInstagram2025-07-0225 minThe Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Birth Control, Fertility Journeys, + Reproductive Technologies with Aya Maria MaldonadoLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE HERE!!!In this extended episode with Aya Maria we get into:How birth control impacts our ability to choose a partner that is both biologically and spiritually aligned with usThe biological and psycho-spiritual transformations that have to occur throughout a fertility journey in order to call life forthThe man’s impact on fertility and a woman’s overall womb healthThe use of reproductive technologies to circumvent the deeper lineage work and spiritual healing within a family bloodlineHow we can co-create realities that allow us to move from a place of safety rath...2025-06-2701 minThe Serpentine PathWhat is a Community Midwife? with Aya Maria MaldonadoIn this week's episode I share my conversation with one of my teachers, Aya Maria Maldonado. Aya Maria, mother, professional autonomous midwife, perinatal educator, and artist, is in service to the creative reproductive continuum—supporting people to remember themselves as extensions of raw natural power and as the ultimate authority over their sexual and reproductive health. She offers full-spectrum midwifery care in Tabio, Colombia, 1:1 virtual consults, as well as online and in-person immersions and trainings.In this episode we dive deep into:Orienting to future ancestry as we individuate from our family’s of ori...2025-06-271h 27The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Loving Sexuality + Preconception Preparation with Leo van VeenendaalLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE HERE!In this extended episode, Leo and I get into:What happens when men and women get stuck in their juvenile masculine stage of developmentHow this lack of spiritual development leads into unhealthy and distorted expressions of sexualityThe preconception journey for women and men and all of the energetic clarity that must take place, particularly around sexualitySpirit baby communication + the mountains that spirit babies will move to bring their parents into alignment with their souls missionThe negative impacts of pornography on individuals and couples in a preconception journeyTaking full responsibility for...2025-06-1801 minThe Serpentine PathRestoring the Collective Divine Masculine with Leo van VeenendaalToday I share my conversation with a dear friend and companion on the plant medicine path, Leo van Veenendaal. Leo is an engineer, author of ‘The Iboga Experience’, and student of medicinal plants. He was initiated into Iboga in Gabon and now continues his plant studies in Peru, where he is building a retreat center and off-grid, regenerative farm in the Andes.In this episode we get into:Leo’s decade-long experience walking with various plant medicines of West Africa and the Peruvian Amazon + AndesThe masculine and the feminine in nature and the mas...2025-06-181h 22The Serpentine PathThe Legacy of the European Witch Trials with Rachelle SeligaIn this episode I share my conversation with one of my teachers, Rachelle Seliga.Rachelle is a devoted Mother and Midwife whose work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift - where our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life are honored and centered. Her legacy work is INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, which teaches the global postpartum tradition of "Physiologic Postpartum Care,” the unifying tradition etched into the blood and bone of postpartum women. Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that: The most effective and powerful usage of our respective & collective energy, com...2025-06-101h 32The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Working with Tobacco Medicine with Omar DavidLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE ON SUBSTACK!!In this extended episode Omar and I get into:The power of tobacco medicineThe importance of utilizing discernment when choosing to work with teachers and eldersMaintaining clear thoughts and a calm mind while in a practice of prayerStaying aware of what illusions and fears we are co-creating and magnifying in our own mindsHow do honor our spiritual protectors and work with them consciously and respectfullyEnjoy!CONNECT WITH OMARFacebookInstagramCONNECT...2025-05-2901 minThe Serpentine PathFinding Your Way on the Plant Medicine Path with Omar DavidIn this episode I share my conversation with a dear medicine brother, Omar David. Omar is a land steward who has been walking a plant medicine path for the past 8 years. He has dedicated his life to cultivating a sanctuary on his farm outside of Cali, Colombia in order to rebirth LIFE and bring people together who are committed to living well.In this episode we get into:The cultural shock of living between Colombia and the United States throughout Omar’s young, formative yearsHow the medicine of yage (ayahuasca) helped him heal his addiction with ma...2025-05-291h 23The Serpentine PathBirthing a New Earth with Ama Loryn FujinamiIn today's episode I share my juicy conversation with my dear friend and sister, Ama Loryn Fujinami. Ama is an artist and educator with formal training in couples and family counseling as well as spiritual lineages in Taoism, Tantric Jyotish (Vedic astrology), and Germanic Healing Knowledge. She desires to bring the biological wisdom of our bodies to the forefront so that people can experience truly nourishing relationships and a fruitful life. She uses her practice of astrology to offer a wider perspective of the meaning of human life and our potential to be conscious creators of reality.2025-05-211h 25The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Gender Fluidity, Queer Sexuality, + Realigning with Biological Womanhood with Christina WillisLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE!!In this extended episode with Christina we get into:The various factors that contributed to Christina’s exploration of a sexual and gender queer identity including a violent experience with an ex male partner, the participation in radical leftist spaces online and in-person, and her genuine desire to be a good “ally” to her gay and trans friendsHer process of healing her 12 year long struggle with highly irregular menstrual cyclesHow coming back into a biological understanding of her version of womanhood coincided with her desire to leave her same s...2025-05-1402 minThe Serpentine PathThe Damages of Uninitiated Adult Sexuality with Christina WillisIn today's episode I share my juicy, nuanced, and enlightening conversation with Christina Willis. Christina Willis is an Ancestral Astrologer who uses both the Kemetic and Sidereal zodiacs. Her work centers indigenous African cosmology and astronomy frameworks specifically from the Dogon, Kemetic, and Dagara lineages of west and north Africa, as well as the Jyotish tradition of India. Christina uses astrology to “un-gaslight” the citizens of the earth and confirm that “yes, your mom was really like that!”In this episode we get into:The karmic contract that she took on in this lifetime...2025-05-141h 41The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: The Medicine + Poison of the Femine With Becca LoevyLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE ON SUBSTACKIn this extended episode, Becca and I talk about:Becca’s beautiful experience in a recent women’s ceremony with the medicine of Huachuma, a grandfather spirit from the South American AndesThe immature feminine (yin) nature of gossip, cattiness, and competition amongst women vs the mature feminine (yin) nature of relationship building and community tendingThe legacy of the European witch hunts and the wounds that women still carry, centuries laterThe necessity of integrity, boundaries, and self-interrogation while navigating roles as a...2025-05-0301 minThe Serpentine PathReawakening the Plantcestors with Becca LoevyIn this episode I share my conversation with a dear friend, sister, and fellow plant walker, Becca Loevy. Becca is a seeker and her primarily language is dance. Her desires are rooted in healthy nomadism, conscious community building, and finding pathways back to the land. She currently lives and works at Smokebrush, a community-based arts and agricultural organization in Manitou Springs, CO and together, with her community, weaves animal care, movement practices, and conscious farming into a beautifully woven basket of collective well being.In this episode we get into:The displacement wounds of European...2025-05-031h 07The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Spiritual Consumerism with Kasia StiggelboutLISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE ON SUBSTACKIn this extended episode, Kasia and I discuss:Leaning towards what engages you while forming a new identityNavigating health journeys in the death/birth portalAllowing our spiritual paths + practices to grow and transform in order to meet the versions of ourselves that we are NOWComparing the Bible with Buddhist texts and teachings around knowledge, the mind, and sufferingThe syncretic spiritual interweaving of Catholicism/Christianity and indigenous medicine waysHow spirit babies can reorient our...2025-04-2503 minThe Serpentine PathThe Untapped Potential of the Feminine with Kasia StiggelboutIn today's episode I share my conversation with modern mystic, Kasia Stigglebout. Kasia is the founder of In Flow, a wellness brand helping women reconnect with their feminine rhythm through cyclical living. A former tech leader at Microsoft and TEDxSF, she now bridges ancient wisdom with modern wellness to help women unlock creativity without burnout. She also hosts The Other Way podcast, where she explores unconventional paths in work, health, and spirituality.In this episode we get into:Kasia’s path of leadership within her family lineage as a a first generation immigrant of Eastern European de...2025-04-251h 37The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Yin/Yang vs. Masculine/Feminine vs. Male/FemaleIn this extended episode we talk about how we all experience and embody yin and yang energies and the distortions (aka toxic masculine + feminine) that prevent us from being able to express these energies in a clean and reverent way. Qiddist and I both share about how we realigned with the realities of biological sex after exploring alternative gender identities and dogmatic gender rigidity that exist within some lineages of radical feminism. Qiddist seamlessly interweaves various schools of thought together in order to create spaciousness, play, and liberation in our ways of relating with ourselves...2025-04-0803 minThe Serpentine PathMidwifing Liberation with Qiddist AshéIn this week's episode I am honored to share my conversation with one of my teachers, Qiddist Ashé. Qiddist is a traditional midwife, alchemy educator, teacher of inside-out liberation, and co-founder of The Holy Well (previously known as The Womb Room). With a decade of experience in the world of female health and spiritual formation, she takes a deeply relational approach to facilitating transformation in bodymind, spirit, and the world. Her work is in service to the knowing that women in their aliveness create more liberation in the world.In this episode we get i...2025-04-081h 22The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: Resolving Painful Periods with Past Life Timelines with Nicole GranatiIn this extended episode, Nicole shares about her process in resolving painful periods that landed her in the hospital on multiple occasions. We go deep into the shame around being a bleeding woman, the lack of reverence for our menstrual period, and the past life timeline healing work that can be done in order to find ease in our cycles.LISTEN TO THE FULL EXTENDED EPISODECONNECT WITH NICOLEWebsiteInstagramCONNECT WITH CLAIRE + THE PODCASTMy WebsiteBook a...2025-03-0702 minThe Serpentine PathThe Death Mother Portal of Abortion + Miscarriage with Nicole GranatiOn this week’s episode I welcome a friend, teacher, and fellow art witch/medicine woman, Nicole Granati. Nicole is a spiritual midwife, psychic minister, animal communicator and clairvoyant healer who helps people navigate the great in-betweens—whether that's birth, death, or stepping into a new chapter of life. With one foot in the mystical and the other firmly planted on Earth (probably barefoot), she offers deep care, clear vision, and a little bit of well-timed cackling to those walking the path of transformation.In this episode we get into:The massive death portal of h...2025-03-071h 10The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: All Plants Are "Master" Plants with Ariel RoblesIn this extended episode with Ariel Robles we talk about the hierarchy between “master plant teachers” like ayahuasca, huachuma, psilocybin mushrooms and the gentle, more subtle, but equally impactful herbal allies that we can also carry in our medicine bag.We touch on the sensitivity and heightened state of nervous system receptivity that herbal teachers like chamomile, tulsi, and rose can introduce into our daily practices and how ceremony with the earth can take many different shapes.This conversation left me smiling. Hope you enjoy!LISTEN TO THE EXTENDED EPISODE!2025-02-1302 minThe Serpentine PathInterweaving Western Therapy + Earth-Based Medicine Traditions with Ariel RoblesIn today's episode I share my conversation with a dear friend and medicine sister, Ariel Robles. Ariel is a Holistic Somatic Coach blending psychology, spirituality, and earth-based practices to guide deep transformation. With a background in clinical psychology, she integrates somatics, Source Code, and herbalism to help individuals shift unconscious patterns and embody their fullest potential. Her approach weaves together mind, body, and spirit for profound healing and growth.In our conversation we touch on:Ariel’s upbringing as a first generation immigrant and how she navigated the shock and disconnection of assimilating in White cultureHow co...2025-02-131h 08The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: The Dark Underbelly of Modern Gynecology with Christiana EvaIn this extended episode, Christiana shares her painful but, unfortunately, very common story of gynecological abuse and medical negligence during an unmedicated cervical biopsy and how the abuse echoed through her body for years after the fact in the form of interstitial cystitis.
I also share my own experience of gynecological rape and how it took me years to unravel the deep sense of betrayal that I felt towards a female health care provider that assaulted me within a medical context.
For both Christiana and I, we see the suffering that we've experienced in our...2025-02-0502 minThe Serpentine PathLosing Your Mind + Finding Your Way Home with Christiana EvaOn today’s episode I share my soul soothing conversation with a dear medicine sister, Christiana Eva. Christiana is a healing arts guide and psycho-spiritual integration practitioner, guiding people into deeper relationship with their body, soul, and earth. She is also a musician, student of the plants, and women’s health care practitioner.
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Christiana’s multicultural upbringing and the ancestral stories that she weaves and holds
Her experience of being medicated her entire life and how she transitioned off of pharmaceutical drugs through her connection to nature and the healing arts
H...2025-02-051h 16The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: What Pro-Life + Pro-Choice Are Both Getting Wrong with Allegra PreussIn this extended episode, Allegra and I discuss our shifting feelings and perspectives around abortion rights and how we no longer fully align with either “political” camp. Allegra also shares about a profoundly transformative ceremony that she experienced at the Moon Dance where women were able to honor the life and death of their unborn children.
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B...2025-01-2402 minThe Serpentine PathDancing Along the Medicine Path of Life with Allegra PreussToday, I share my conversation with a dear friend, sister, and fellow mujer medicina, Allegra Preuss. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Allegra studied dance and journalism in NYC, searching for richer ways to merge creativity and service. Back in Miami, she began alchemizing her experiences into offerings like Jellyfish Jam, a movement medicine practice, and The Observation Deck, an oracle card deck. A doula, writer, performance artist, ceremonialist, and educator, she plays the intersection of art and spirituality, exploring the range of feeling and healing.
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Allegra’s eclectic spiritual up...2025-01-241h 21The Serpentine PathExtended Episode: How I Accidentally Got Hired at a Pro-Life Pregnancy CenterIn this exclusive extended episode I talk about how I accidentally got hired at Pro-Life pregnancy center the exact same week that I started my herbal abortion training in order to support pregnancy release outside of the medical system. I share about how illuminating and surprising the dual experience has been and how grateful I am to see all sides of the abortion conversation up close and personal.
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2025-01-1402 minThe Serpentine PathWomb Wisdom Keeping, Birth Work, + Becoming My Own ElderIn this solo episode I share about fully stepping into my community role as a womb wisdom keeper, finally committing to my path as a birth worker (after moving towards it for over for over 13 years!), and deciding to initiate myself into the wise village elder of my lineage that I have been desperately searching for all along.
I go deep into acknowledging and reconciling with the negative impacts that feminism has had on female reproductive health, the weight of breaking the intergenerational curse of womb amnesia, and the martyrdom/saviorism of female health...2025-01-141h 22The Serpentine PathHealing from Dogmatic Veganism + Embracing Animal Foods with Anna del AmorIn this deeply personal and transformative conversation with my dear friend and sister, Anna del Amor, we share about our journeys of healing disordered eating patterns by breaking free from the rigidity of dogmatic veganism and embracing the life-giving vitality of animal foods for thriving female reproductive health.
Reflecting on our time spent in indigenous communities, we discuss how ancestral wisdom and embodied intuition guided us to dissolve our rigidity, come into right relationship with eating meat, and rediscover balance in nourishment. This episode is an invitation to heal the disconnect between body and mind, honor our...2024-12-191h 02The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Receiving Animal Medicine with Anna del AmorIn this extended episode, Anna and I talk about the grounding medicine of animal foods and how important it is to be nourishing our bodies after ceremonial work.
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2024-11-1702 minThe Serpentine Path3 Years of Jungle Life with VincentIn this episode I welcome the first guest to the podcast: Vincent, the man who has walked beside over the past 3 years of jungle life.
Together we talk about how Vincent began his path in the jungle, the process of navigating an indigenous culture as a foreigner, the benefits and dangers of choosing to sit in ceremony with the medicine of yagé (ayahuasca), and what it truly means to call oneself a “healer”.
Vincent is the only other person who has any idea what my life has looked like over t...2024-11-171h 23The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: When I Met the Grim Reaper at the CemeteryIn this extended episode I share one of my favorite Samhain stories from when I visited the cemetery and met the guardian spirit of the dead. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS:THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE2024-10-3102 minThe Serpentine PathHow My Ancestors Cut the Cord of My 5 Year Long Abusive RelationshipOn October 31, 2018, at 22 years old, I accidentally my ancestors for the first time in my life.As someone who did not grow up in a tradition or culture of ancestral reverence, I had no idea how to connect with the people in my lineage who had passed over to the other side. For me, there was no guidebook, no ceremony, no ritual, and no path to follow when it came to contacting the dead and, on a subconscious level, I believed that I had been abandoned by them.However...2024-10-311h 33The Serpentine PathMy Body is the Garden: Coming Home to Myself After Childhood Sexual Abuse (pt. 2)PART TWO
What does the body remember and how does it attempt to communicate to us? How trustworthy are our memories and how sure can we ever be of “the truth”? What impact does childhood sexual abuse have on an individual, a family constellation, a community, and a culture? How do we find our way to peace, trust, acceptance, forgiveness, and love once more?
These are the questions that I have been asking myself over the years in my process of unraveling the layers upon layers of damaging sexual experiences that I have...2024-10-251h 12The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: The Sacredness of SexIn this extended episode I speak about the impact of pornography, casual sex, hook-up culture, and the lack of weight, value, and reverence that we offer to our sexual experiences in our modern culture.CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS:THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE2024-10-2502 minThe Serpentine PathMy Body Is the Garden: Coming Home to Myself After Childhood Sexual Abuse (pt. 1)What does the body remember and how does it attempt to communicate to us? How trustworthy are our memories and how sure can we ever be of “the truth”? What impact does childhood sexual abuse have on an individual, a family constellation, a community, and a culture? How do we find our way to peace, trust, acceptance, forgiveness, and love once more?
These are the questions that I have been asking myself over the years in my process of unraveling the layers upon layers of damaging sexual experiences that I have been through in my l...2024-10-221h 05The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Mother Europe, We're Coming HomeIn this extended episode I talk about the differences that I’ve noticed in how Europeans and White Americans relate to our ancestors. I also share some suggestions for how White people of European descent can begin and/or deeper their relationship with their ancestors and open themselves up to the beautiful, intricate, challenging, and healing complexities of their lineage.
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2024-10-0902 minThe Serpentine PathUnlearning White Shame: Why People of European Descent Need Ancestor WorkFor the majority of my life I had an extremely fractured relationship with my ancestors. As a White American of European descent, I was cloaked in the guilt and shame that came with the reality of knowing that my ancestors had enslaved and committed genocide against entire continents of people. Thus, in my attempt to make things right, I did all that I could to learn about white privilege, white fragility, white woman tears, reparations, land back, wealth redistribution, police and prison abolition, the construction of race, and so on—all the while, distancing myself as much as possible fr...2024-10-091h 32The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Weaving the Medicine of LoveIn this extended episode I share about a few different stories:
How I slowly gained the abuela’s trust with little cups of yogurt
The abuela’s response when I asked her about midwifery and birth
A precious and hilarious memory from one of my favorite days alongside abuelo and abuela
How I received a mochila for my drum and protection bracelet from the abuela just days before she suddenly died
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Abuela María was the purest embodiment of a true medicine woman: a grandmother, an elder, a matriarch of her people. She was sharp. She had ruthless boundaries. Her demeanor w...2024-09-301h 22The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: On the Porch with the AbueloIn this extended episode I share a handful of stories about abuelos life, his work as a médico tradicional, his role as a defender of his territory, and a very special day that we shared together on his porch.
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2024-09-2303 minThe Serpentine PathPadre de todos: In Memory of Abuelo QuerubínI was 25 years old when I first met Abuelo Querubín. It was a hot jungle evening in early March and he was relaxing on his porch, surrounded by his students, companions, and patients. Shyly, I presented him with the offerings that I had brought and did my best to introduce myself in my embarrassingly poor Spanish. What I know now that I did not know then was that this 108 year old man would very quickly become one of the most important people in my life.
Throughout my 27th year I had the life ch...2024-09-231h 23The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Honoring the Ceremony of the MoonIn this extended episode I share about how I prepare and make space for rest and reflection during my monthly bleed as well as what tools I utilize (herbs, moon belt, creams, heating pads, etc) to support a healthy flow. I also offer advice to men who live with and/or are in a romantic relationship with women in order to better understand how they can best support the women in their lives through their bleeding days each month.
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What began as a quest to find answers to my period pains and PMS symptoms eventually evolved into an extensive unraveling of the...2024-09-161h 17The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Getting Curious About the Gender Affirmative Care ModelIn this extended episode I share about the resources that supported me in my gender dissension journey—aka choosing to actively return to identifying with the gender/sex that I was assigned at birth after 7+ years of rejecting womanhood and femaleness.
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THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE2024-09-1006 minThe Serpentine PathReleasing My Attachment to A Non-Binary Identity + Returning to the Medicine of WomanhoodAs a young child, I didn’t fit into the gendered norms that little girls were expected to follow. I hated dress up, couldn’t stand tea parties, and was actively allergic to the color pink. Rather, I preferred spending all of my time outdoors climbing trees, skinning my knees, and playing football with the boys. In comparison to my two younger sisters who engaged in more stereotypically “girly” activities, I constantly felt like I was doing girlhood “wrong” (as if that’s even possible…). Moving into my teen years and early adulthood, the shift into womanhood was profoundly painful and over...2024-09-091h 01The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Birth as an Altered State of ConsciousnessIn this extra episode, I share about birth as an altered state of consciousness
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2024-09-0406 minThe Serpentine PathWomen Carry the Seeds: Healing from the Intergenerational Trauma of Abusive Hospital Births & Uninitiated MotherhoodFor the majority of human history, mothers gave birth in the comfort of their own homes, surrounded by family and community members and the loving hands of those who will be supporting in the raising of the child. However, over the past few generations, this sacred rite of passage has been taken out of the safety and comfort of a familiar family environment and forced into the sterile, hospital setting that medicalizes, warps, and distorts this natural, simple, and straightforward process of birthing and being born.
In this episode, I explore the physical, mental...2024-09-031h 19The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: We Die How We LivedIn this extended episode I share about the differences that I saw in how young children view death in Western society and indigenous jungle communities. I also share about my Grandfather Gary's last words as he passed away.
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2024-08-2806 minThe Serpentine PathMidwifing My Elders Through the Portal of Death (pt. 2)(PART TWO)
My twenty-seventh year of life was marked by the four life-changing deaths of my blood and spiritual elders: my mother’s mother, Marnie, my father’s father, Gary, and my spiritual grandparents, Abuelo Querubin of the Cofan Nation and Abuela Maria of the Murui Nation.
Throughout this year, I accompanied four entirely different experiences of transitioning to the other side of the Great Mystery. In this process, I came to understand how warped and distorted our modern culture’s vision of death is and how deeply this loss has colored the way...2024-08-271h 06The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Death as ChoiceIn this extended episode I share more about the deaths of my grandmother, Marnie, and my teacher, Abuela Maria.
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2024-08-2206 minThe Serpentine PathMidwifing My Elders Through the Portal of Death (pt. 1)(PART ONE)
My twenty-seventh year of life was marked by the four life-changing deaths of my blood and spiritual elders: my mother’s mother, Marnie, my father’s father, Gary, and my spiritual grandparents, Abuelo Querubin of the Cofan Nation and Abuela Maria of the Murui Nation.
Throughout this year, I accompanied four entirely different experiences of transitioning to the other side of the Great Mystery. In this process, I came to understand how warped and distorted our modern culture’s vision of death is and how deeply this loss has colored the way...2024-08-211h 06The Serpentine PathExtended Patreon Episode: Following the Footsteps of the AncestorsIn this episode, I share more about the inspiration behind the podcast, snake medicine, how I received the title song for the podcast and the ethos of the podcast in ceremony, and how I created the cover image for the podcast.
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2024-08-1506 minThe Serpentine PathWelcome to the Serpentine Path of LifeWelcome to The Serpentine Path Podcast where we will be diving into all things related to plant medicine, the birth/death/rebirth cycle, ancestral reconnection, intergenerational healing, womb sovereignty + bodily autonomy, dreamwork, rites of passage/initiations, time travel, shapeshifting, dimension hopping, and the reclamation of our collective earth-based practices—all of which I consider to be portals into altered states of consciousness.
In this introductory episode, I share a little bit about who I am, what my life path has looked like thus far, and what my visions are for this storytelling project.
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