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The Luminary Woman PodcastPodcast Diary: Magic, Synchronicity, and Trusting Our Belonging to Life.In this episode, Jessica tries out a new style of podcasting where she channels stream-of-consciousness what's alive on her heart, which she is naming her Podcast Diary Entries.
In this episode, she talks about some major life changes + magic that has unfolded in her life, in her perception of herself, and what’s possible for her since her soul retrieval ceremony at the end of June. She shares about how her intuitive/psychic abilities have increased tenfold, how she trusts herself + her belonging to life more than ever before, and how profoundly she's been brought alive by he...
2020-11-0200 minThe Luminary Woman PodcastBecoming Your Own Spiritual Authority with Samantha BurgettIn this episode, Samantha Burgett of Halycon Healer joins me on the podcast to share her story of healing from the trauma of developing psychic gifts as a child while being raised in an extremely conservative Christian family and community. After being consistently told as a child that she being personally attacked by the devil because she was experiencing extrasensory gifts beyond her control, Sam separated from herself in a way that kept her cycling in destructive and dissociative patterns for years. Her journey of returning to herself, accepting her truth, and reclaiming her own spiritual authority is nothing...
2020-09-241h 15The Luminary Woman PodcastGetting Off the Hamster Wheel of Healing: MDMA and the Power of Human Connection with Gita DeviIn this episode, one of my best friends, Jayne Kucharski (Gita Devi), joins me on the podcast to share her life-changing story of participating in a MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study for healing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In this episode, she shares her story of how the sudden loss of her dad catapulted her on a journey of traveling the world alone at age 17, unsuccessfully trying every possible healing modality available to relieve her grief for years. Little did she know, the true connection + support she needed to heal would come through an unlikely opportunity in her own hometown. In the episode...
2020-09-171h 26The Luminary Woman PodcastWhat It ACTUALLY Means To Be A Powerful HealerIn this episode, Jessica shares about the insights and revelations she's had on her journey of reclaiming her full humanity as a healer. She talks about how imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and image management breeds insecurity, perpetuates isolation, and strips us of our true power to serve and impact lives. She also talks how we cannot own our magic without owning our humanity, how human connection is the only thing that truly heals, and how our gifts of imperfection are our most powerful gifts of service to the world.
Additionally, she discusses the radical self-responsibility that comes...
2020-08-261h 35The Luminary Woman PodcastSelf-Love through Story and the Wise Woman Way with Nicole Renee MatthewsIn this episode, Jessica welcomes the first guest to share their story on the Luminary Woman Podcast, Nicole Renee Matthews. Nicole is a mother, partner, herbalist, and apprentice for Susun Weed of the Wise Woman Way — and also happens to be one of Jessica's best friends.
Nicole comes on to share her story as it intersects with lifestyle medicine, story medicine, the embrace of her instinctual nature, and the ongoing remembrance of the Wise Woman Way. At the heart of the conversation is the freedom that awaits us when we stop pathologizing our bodies, our childhoods, ou...
2020-08-1955 minThe Luminary Woman PodcastSoul Retrieval Part 2: Coming Up For AirIn this episode, Jessica shares about bold risk that she took to recover a sense of herself after experiencing her first symptoms of soul loss. She talks about the transformative power of travel to shift the story we're living and reconnect us to unexplored parts of who we are. She also shares about how her difficulty ending unhealthy relationships has reinforced her abandonment story over time and how outsourcing our sense of worth, in any way, is the easiest way to leak our power and expose ourselves to soul loss.
In episode covers:
— The tr...
2020-08-121h 03The Luminary Woman PodcastSoul Retrieval Part 1: Losing Yourself for LoveIn this episode, Jessica begins to share her personal narrative and the journey of what led up to her seeking out a soul retrieval ceremony this summer. She documents the karmic relationship that revealed her patterns of self-abandonment and led to her first experience of soul loss.
This episode covers:
What soul retrieval and how to know if you're in need of it.
The story of what inspired me to get a soul retrieval.
How soul retrieval relates to rewilding and reclaiming our untamed self.
How trauma + conditioning causes soul loss in our lives.
The soul lessons of toxic relationship, t...
2020-08-041h 32The Luminary Woman PodcastThe Luminary Woman is born.Welcome to the Luminary Woman Podcast and thank you for being a part of a community of women telling the raw, extraordinary truth of their lives.
In this episode, Jessica shares about the creative inspiration + blocks that she experienced leading up to this first recording. She talks about how nuanced and complex voice issues can be and how her own wound around her voice has sharpened and propelled her purpose work forward in the world. She shares about how her spirit-daughter Lumi, conceived and lost in 2019, was the inspiration not only for The Luminary Woman podcast, but...
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