The Fire Within Us

In this episode we discuss menstruation. We reflect on our evolving relationship to it, including the times where symptomatic menstruation felt challenging. This part of our conversation is for the women that struggle with PMS and PMDD; we see you. We share practices that help us tune into the cycle and meet it with more openness. We offer compassionate practices that help us ease into our bleed. We believe the womb is ultimately a sacred place that holds & releases. It shows us life & death. We hope meeting that with reverence draws people into greater relationship with their womb space.At the heart of this podcast is a belief that healing, growth, and self-discovery are supported through conscious conversation and genuine connection.If this episode sparked something within you and you'd like to reach out, share your experience, ask a question, or even join us on the podcast, we'd love to hear from you.You can connect with us at [email protected] you for being part of The Fire Within Us community.

We return to our last conversation about discernment. We consider its definition and if it’s a cognitive process or body-led process where our intuition speaks, or both. We share how our wounds can inhibit our implementation of discernment - whether it’s good girl conditioning, visibility wounds or another mental program that’s running. Through that we see that self worth is the gateway through these wounds and an access point for establishing discernment. In the second half of the episode, we touch on the mythology of BlueBeard. A vivid story of discernment in action. The Wild Woman archetype is naturally woven in and we exchange ideas of how people might feel her in their own right.  Some resources mentioned include Women who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Sabrina Lynn’s Rewilding for Women. If you feel called to having a conscious conversation with us on air or off, please reach out to us at [email protected] thank you for walking with us.

At the opening of this episode we share and elaborate on our mission statement behind the podcast. We dive deep into why witnessing the small details in ourselves, and others, holds medicine. Self discovery, self worth and self individuation emerge. We talk about how curiosity is a process that can help us better witness these small details, and ways in which listeners can start to work with curiosity. It is a profound relational tool. We also reflect on the psychological concept of a window of tolerance in the context of curiosity, safety and discernment.If you want to get in contact with us please email us at [email protected]

In this first episode, we acknowledge the newness of the podcast and feel into what may emerge for us individually, and for the collective. By acknowledging the unknown when planning this podcast, we fall into a conversation about surrender. What does the word surrender mean, and why do we resist it? We ponder over the concept of choice when experiencing an emotional state; and summarise a two step way in which this might be more accessible for people. As we move to the end of this episode, we discuss feminine energy and what it might mean in our lives to harness her energy in moments of action, emotion, sexuality, expression. This episode weaves the wisdom emerging from the Oracle decks crafted by Alana Fairchild. If this episode stirs something in you, have questions arise or would like to sit in a conscious conversation with us, you can reach us on [email protected]