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Light in the FogThe $300 Blender Episode: Trauma and Money Don’t Mix Pt.2Money is cursed!!! Capitalism kills. But not really. If you don’t handle your money trauma, you end up in the deep end. Money might just be energy like gas or food, and we need to take the charge out of it if we’re ever going to make ends meet. Here’s the layers: epigenetics, how does society work with you, what’s your parents’ situation, and of course past life influences.
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Light in the FogThe $300 Blender Episode: Trauma and Money Don’t Mix Pt.1Money is cursed!!! Capitalism kills. But not really. If you don’t handle your money trauma, you end up in the deep end. Money might just be energy like gas or food, and we need to take the charge out of it if we’re ever going to make ends meet. Here’s the layers: epigenetics, how does society work with you, what’s your parents’ situation, and of course past life influences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-07-1531 min
Light in the FogClearing Clearing Clearing Pt 2Part 2 of Clearing Clearing Clearing when Trai explains how she got out of a two-day panic attack and as always Jenny sums it up elegantly: clear clear clear!
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Light in the FogClearing Clearing Clearing Pt 1Trigger Warning Episode! Things that were hidden will inevitably be revealed and we must address them…. Or we get sick. We get stuck. We make things worse. A genuine conversation between two friends who had heavy winters of depression, illness – I mean, Jenny’s ear tried to kill her! –, and psychic attacks. And we’ve come out the other side to say: There is no better time for releasing energy!! Past Life Karma, Childhood programming, limited beliefs, trauma responses. Jenny and Trai unpack their depression cycles and their solutions for rising above. Especially helpful while we all endure an epically he...2025-07-0726 min
Light in the FogMeat Suit Work Pt.2What is Body Work and why do we care about it? Turns out, we have meat suits and if you ignore them, trouble arises – especially if you are dealing with neodiversity quirks or trauma issues. Our bodies act out in all kinds of ways Jenny and Trai know well, including PTSD and addiction triggers, emotional tsunamis, insomnia, binge eating disorders, and even rage roller blading. But we’ve been working lots of tools to heal our bodies, from physically rewiring our brains to breath work, from medications and psychedelics to chiropractors and meditation,and in this episode we share the...2025-07-0226 min
Light in the FogMeat Suit Work Pt.1What is Body Work and why do we care about it? Turns out, we have meat suits and if you ignore them, trouble arises – especially if you are dealing with neodiversity quirks or trauma issues. Our bodies act out in all kinds of ways Jenny and Trai know well, including PTSD and addiction triggers, emotional tsunamis, insomnia, binge eating disorders, and even rage roller blading. But we’ve been working lots of tools to heal our bodies, from physically rewiring our brains to breath work, from medications and psychedelics to chiropractors and meditation,and in this episode we share the...2025-06-3057 min
Light in the FogGUEST: Genevieve Wild’s MagicMeet the fantastically powerful healer Gen Wild, an old friend of Trai’s! Neuro-monitoring brain anesthetist, trained Herbalist, yoga teacher, magic school graduate – and she sees dead people.Master Manifestor Gen talks about some of the moments of magic that changed the direction of her life including choosing to be a single mother via artificial insemination, delivering to her a magical kid! She’s got so many lessons and tips, including how she unlearned societal programming from an Irish elemental who says don’t take yourself so seriously, Mortals! Oh and Gen gives us a recipe for an infused oil for...2025-06-2555 min
Light in the FogHumor, Horror, and HopeIt’s a new year! Welcome to 2025 – and we were sure done with 2024. Jenny and Trai’s return to recording includes a review of South Park, throwing shade at Seth McFarland, a defense of It’s Always Sunny, and looking at how media reflects what’s happening in society. And if you saw Nosferatu, you know our world is an achievement in horror. But we’re here for the hope, and the healing, and the light work jam. Welcome to Season 2.
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Light in the FogDivine Interventions - Pt. 2Huge healing through the divine. It’s time to talk about our divine connections and interventions! We talk Source, Lilith, Hecate, deity work, Jesus Christ, and the trippy ways where and how they came into our lives. It’s time to talk rituals and plant medicine, getting re-parented on the etheric, respecting those who want to work with you. Interdimensional friendships are real!
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Light in the FogDivine Interventions - Pt. 1Huge healing through the divine. It’s time to talk about our divine connections and interventions! We talk Source, Lilith, Hecate, deity work, Jesus Christ, and the trippy ways where and how they came into our lives. It’s time to talk rituals and plant medicine, getting re-parented on the etheric, respecting those who want to work with you. Interdimensional friendships are real!
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Light in the FogBothering with Boundaries Pt.2What is a healthy relationship to saying no? How is saying no really saying yes – to ourselves!! Your intrepid mental health explorers examine why this is an issue for so many healers and teachers. We’ll dish what 3AM Jenny tortures herself with and what 3AM Trai wants to burn down, how we got to the point of needing to learn the word NO and how we aim to do it in the most mindful way. After all, you’re still going to have to say yes to things you don’t want to, but it’s the mindfulness of the jour...2025-06-1131 min
Light in the FogBothering with Boundaries Pt.1What is a healthy relationship to saying no? How is saying no really saying yes – to ourselves!! Your intrepid mental health explorers examine why this is an issue for so many healers and teachers. We’ll dish what 3AM Jenny tortures herself with and what 3AM Trai wants to burn down, how we got to the point of needing to learn the word NO and how we aim to do it in the most mindful way. After all, you’re still going to have to say yes to things you don’t want to, but it’s the mindfulness of the jour...2025-06-0929 min
Light in the FogLight in the Fog Podcast Season 2 TrailerYou’ve found Light in the Fog Podcast with Jenny and Trai – Season 2 – where we explore the healing spaces of intersectionality.
Jenny is a witchy transgender Gen Z.
Trai is a story channeling psychic medium Gen X.
Both are artists and activists who are steadily clearing out their personal, ancestral, and past life traumas. ()We are very down for the metaphysical and exploring the Not So Vast expanse between generations, and so are our special guests!
If you love to talk ghost stories, goddess interventions, spiritual technologies, movies, neurodiversity, non-binary everythi...2025-06-0504 min
Light in the FogS1. Episode 23: 2024: The Best Worst Year of Our LivesTrigger Warnings, folks. How can you talk about 2024 without being real, sometimes real is really hard. But we’re open to the remedy, and 2024 had plenty of that, too. For the last episode of Season 1, it’s two old friends catching up, throwing some shade, and spilling the tea about what’s been the Best Worst Year of Our Lives! 2025 promises plenty of reasons to continue lighting it up, so we’ll catch you on the flip side for Season 2.
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 22: A Big Ball of Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey StuffTime is a PR stunt! Both Trai and Jenny have time blindness, but for different reasons. Jenny talks how ADHD affects her relationship with time and manifesting, and Trai talks about how her Traumatic Brain Injuries and PTSD pretty much blows up any chance of being friends with time. Then we plate up a healthy second course of simulation theory, the mandela effect and heart placement believe it or not. Come dish with us on our second to last episode of the season.
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 21: Breaking Cords, Contracts, and CursesScience has shown us that energy exists between all forms, and sometimes that energy is positive and sometimes it’s, well. It’s complicated. And it can be old. And yes, it can be problematic. Hence today’s conversation about Cords, Contracts, and Curses. Jenny and Trai give tons of specifics about what these things are, why they exist, and how to get rid of the ones that are interfering with your zen. As Trai says, “This is not complicated. This is confidence.” So come build up some confidence with your Light in the Fog co-hosts.
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 20: We’re Just Collections of Coping MechanismsCoping skills!! Coping mechanisms!! What the heck??! Oh my goodness! Jenny has fallen deep into the coping skills vibes after her trip to the crisis stabilization unit, and you know she and Trai just have to dish it out! We talk about the origin and function of coping, the six types of coping, functional vs maladaptive, and skills versus mechanisms. Then of course we have to make it personal and delve into ourselves and you guessed it, our trauma. Come blow bubbles with us on this hopefully hopeful episode of Light in the Fog!
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 19 : Past Lives, Geese, and the Why: Taking the Charge our of Reincarnation Part 2.Did you know that so many of our current patterns in life started in a past life – and have been repeated many times! Did you know that you can clear those patterns, and solve issues in this life by clearing karma from those post lives? If you think tarot is deep, wait til you get a load of Part 2 of “Taking the Charge out of Reincarnation.” This is a heartfelt, deeply-woo, sometimes spooky exploration into the power of past lives. Listen as Trai the Story Channeler does a live reading for Jenny!
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 18: God, Stingrays, and the WhyThis may well be the ultimate Light in the Fog podcast – in part 1 of God, Stingrays, and the Why, Jenny and Trai discuss the purpose of reincarnation, how and why clearing karma is a good things to do, plato’s cave, media influences – always media influences! – the nature of god and consciousness, and the coolest ways to die -- and how to be good with it. It’s time to take the charge out of your current incarnation! Next week we get to actual past life readings.
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 17: October’s Magical HarvestBoy Howdy, we have been through it! Once again your hosts dig deep: Jenny and Trai talk about hitting potential exit points last month and what the meaning of Harvest this particular year means to them. Samhain is when we look at all the hard work we’ve done for the year so we can accept and receive that work. It’s the witchest holiday on the Witches Wheel – come hear about all the magic we’ve experienced!
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 16: GUEST BJ Segura - Horror EmperadoHello and welcome to a very special guest episode with BJ Segura, a filmmaker and ghost hunter who specializes in horror and the supernatural. I had to take a mental health hiatus this week, but Trai carries the torch in a very special and very spooky conversation about ghosts, horror movies and the powers within us all.
BIO FROM BJ:
I am a filmmaker who specializes in horror shorts and scriptwriting. Every week I co-host 3Haunted Podcast where we talk everything metaphysical, horror and the paranormal. I just joined this podcast last year but they...2025-05-171h 05
Light in the FogS1. Episode 15: Witch Movies are Witchy?So much witchcraft to learn – and reject wholeheartedly – from Hollywood movies! Jenny and Trai revisit three of their favorite rites of passage witch movies: The Craft (the original), Witches of Eastwick, and Eve’s Bayou. What do these movies get spookily right about witchcraft and what ends up patriarchal propaganda? The Light in the Fog hosts go full fangirl, dishing the stories, the themes, and the magic.
Spoilers for all these movies!
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 14: Tides of BipolarBoth Light in the Fog hosts have mental illnesses, but it behaves quite differently, as Jenny explains in the Tides of Bipolar. Jenny is medicine-resistant, type 2 BiPolar, and it’s all about the cycles. Not the moon or seasonal cycles – or at least not in the way you think. Jenny brings the research that explains the circadian pacemaker running the bi-polar show!! Prepare to have your mind blown! Meanwhile, Trai’s PTSD is more of a pattern – triggered more by random emotional shrapnel than a calendar, and we explore that stuff, too. Learn more about your ad...2025-05-1548 min
Light in the FogS1. Episode 13: Trauma Patterns and Roller CoastersFor lucky episode 13, we have An intense episode that deconstructs where our patterns and programming of behavior and coping originated – was it our parents? Their parents? Society in general? Capitalism? Our biochemical make up? Past lives? All of it?? Jenny and Trai discuss how we learned to recognize being activated, how to create space around it, and the beginnings of how to heal. The answer might just be roller coasters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-05-141h 08
Light in the FogS1. Episode 12: GUEST: Ollie’s Full of GhostsOllie’s full of ghosts! Jenny’s friend explains how it all got started with a terrifying middle school encounter with a presence that never went away. They only got closer! And then came the time gapping and returning quite different – new friends, weight loss, and other inexplicable changes that Ollie didn’t make.Time for some rules! Come learn how Ollie’s learned to live with they call the followers.We are putting a trigger warning on this episode for SI and violent content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-05-131h 07Light in the FogS1 Episode 10: Witchcraft 101Ever wanted to jump into magic practice but are unsure where to start? Welcome to this special episode where I lay out the witchcraft basics I’ve learned over my three years of hatch witchery. A simple, easy guide of a few basic things that can apply to all beginner witches, wizards and all sorts of magical beings. So sit back, and get ready to listen because class is in session.
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Light in the FogS1. Episode 9 - Guest Mel Koons Fired Her Spirit Guide, Part 2In part 1 of our interview with Melissa Koons, she left us at a cliffhanger – an angry ghost who was physically accosting her! This encounter taught her to set psychic boundaries. Mentors arrived, and Death moved into her closet, so she knew that a central purpose would center around helping people grieve those passing over. Mel shares her insight into synchronicities, flow, timeline shifts, failure, trust with her guides, where guides come from, and how a 9 to 5 can be helpful to a psychic.
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BIO:Melissa Koons is a w...2025-05-0948 min
Light in the FogS1 Episode 8: Guest Mel Koons Saw Scottish Faefolk, Part 1Our very first guest, and a very special one she is: Melissa Koons, psychic medium, friend of the faefolk, death doula, and catalyst reader who will change your life! In part one of a two part conversation, Mel explains how a group of magical pagans gave her her first community in the least expected place, and learned how to work with, make space for, and hold her own space for ghosts, fae, fairyfolk, and demon dogs. www.magnificentmusings.com
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Light in the FogS1 Episode 7 - The Magic of Sound BathsThe science is in! Sound is one of the most ancient and elemental tools humans have learned to use for healing and to remind themselves of their celestial origins! Jenny shares her first big sound bath trip, and Trai, who’s an old pro, speaks to the meditative qualities, how they clear energy, and are a launch pad for astral travel.
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Light in the FogS1 Episode 6: Movies are Us Talking to UsBibliomancy is more than just foretelling the future based on a random passage pulled from a book. Trai and Jenny discuss the many meanings and messages from beyond that come packaged in the stories we are obsessed with, the movies that changed our lives, and the characters that explained who we are to ourselves And we talk about where those messages came from… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-05-0657 min
Light in the FogS1 Episode. 5: The Trans OneHello! Today we have a very special episode where I put it all on the table and answer the question; just what the heck is a transgender?? This episode is very personal to me and does include talk of suicidal ideation. It is not our intent to upset or trigger anyone, this is just a look into the life and trauma of someone who has changed their gender and all the beautiful and painful moments that come with it. We really hope this episode resonates with all in some way, and we thank you for tuning in. 2025-05-051h 04
Light in the FogSeason 1 Ep 4 - Healing Houses Part 2: Room Portals and RevelationsPortals are abound in Jenny’s spaces, the nature of which is uncertain! Jenny and a squirrel search for answers while Trai confronts the entity head on in the second and final part of Healing Houses.
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Light in the FogSeason 1 Ep 3 - Healing Houses Pt. 1Got ghosts? Jenny sure does, so it’s a two-part How To episode about healing houses and personal energy! In Part 1, the hosts present all the tools they use to keep energetically clear, and Jenny creates her first internal psychic gauge – it’s a squirrel!! There is chicanery afoot which leads to a Part 2 episode when Trai gets psychic on Jenny’s Bathroom Spirit and her magical environs.
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Light in the FogSeason 1 Ep 2 - Rapture PantryIn this episode, Jenny relates the origin story of her synchronistic connections to witchcraft and her first goddess, and how it helps her heal her transgender trauma, and Trai talks about growing up in haunted houses and why not to conduct a séance at 12 years old.
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Light in the FogSeason 1 Pilot - Breaking the CyclesWelcome to Light in the Fog Podcast. For our very first episode, we introduce ourselves: Jenny, the elder Gen z transgender witch who changed the future by claiming her name, and Trai, the Gen Xer who finally embraced all the multi-dimensional stuff she'd been living since she was a kid. We dish the things we're dying to share: neurodiversity, mental health issues, a view beyond the veil, and a wish for a world in which all the things that make us extra and other were embraced. So we made one of our own. Welcome. Learn...2025-05-0147 min
Tales From the Drive-InLight in the Fog PodcastToday, co-host Chakira and I welcome Trai Cartwright and Jenny Mueller from the Light in the Fog Podcast to talk about our personal experiences with the paranormal as well as dive into horror movies on this Halloween special. Music composed by Chanin Russo 2025-03-101h 17