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WytchyWays
by Jacqueline Freeman
Like so many of us, I'd pushed away, minimized, or forgotten many of the senses and relationships with other-than-humans I'd fostered as a child. I tried really hard to please my family, to fit in at school, then work. But I never succeeded. As an adult that's now working to rekindle the intuitive understandings and deep relationship with the world around us that are our birthright as humans, I recognize that being cast out was a blessing that enabled me to follow my own path. I'm a certified LifeCycle Celebrant, and a certified Master Practitioner of the MBTI, living in Phoenix with my partner Jason and two kitties Monkey & Miss Piggy.
Episodes
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Grounding meditation Be the Tree
Grounding meditation learns from Tree how to ground and establish boundaries around our personal space
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Baba Yaga and Good Counsel
In the wake of the November full moon, known as Baba Yaga's Feastday, we discuss the necessity of Good Counsel in navigating turbulent times and what it looks like when it comes.
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017 Wytches vs Warriors
A decades’ long musing about the beginnings of patriarchy is given new musings after reading the chapter on Hags vs Heroes in Max Daschau’s book. What role did hero epics play in the wiping out women’s power needed to establish the patriarchy? www.mywytchyways.com
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016 Serpent Mound + Natl Underground Railroad Museum
A call to Memphis cuts the Ohio portion of the journey short, but I am able to make it to my 2 biggest priorities, the Serpent Mound in Ohio, which is known as aligning with the solstice sunset, but further research has shown to also track the full 18 year lunar cycle, as well as be a pregnancy...
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015 Creepers, No room at the Inn, and Van Invaders
More #vanlife chronicles of a creeper on the campground and trying to find another spot close to dark near Lake Erie on a weekend with a jazz festival happening, and what happens when I do finally find a place to land. www.mywytchyways.com
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Vanlife + Crappy History = Bad Day
A #vanlifesucks day gets worse when I walk into the Seneca Falls Visitor Center as a way to take my mind off of all the technical difficulties I’d had all day. Early history of the Seneca Falls area makes a bad day worse as I learn about early interaction with the native residents, and the…
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013 Decolonize Gender: You're Not Crazy
Patriarchy has long called women crazy as a means to silence them and get them to doubt their own intuitive wisdom. Fear of being seen as --or even actually going--crazy inhibits many women from connecting with their ancestors. www.mywytchyways.com
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012 Incomplete Revolution of Values
Hartford County’s progressive history, including providing refuge for the Mendi people from the Amistad as they awaited trial, has its own gaps and has certainly shifted in the present. How does a place that was so forward thinking move into such conservatism? www.mywytchyways.com
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Plimouth Plantation
A visit to Plimoth Plantation, the living history museum outside of Plymouth, MA brings shocking interactions with the impeccably trained actors in the English Settlement and forces me to stretch my heart open wider to hold on to their humanity in the face of the impact of the Plimoth settlement....
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010 Reclaiming Traditions and the Land
Rich conversation with decolonialist and teacher Sara Jolena of Sequoia Samanvaya about moving into a space of ReMembering our place within nature and the line of those that came before and those that will come after and what is required of us Here and Now to work through our history and move...
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009 Finding the Forgotten Dead
The stories of the struggles of reclamation and the joys of reconnecting with traditional tribal ways shared at Healing Turtle Island lead me to reflect on my own shamanic process of reconnecting with the Forgotten Dead of European tribes first hit by Viking raids, then further impacted by Roman...
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008 Decolonize Gender
Healing Turtle Island, a 21-year cycle of rituals dreamed into reality by Sherri Mitchell, focused in 2019 on Healing from Colonialism. The first day of ritual centered on colonialism’s impact on gender roles and how they relate with one another. www.mywytchyways.com
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007 Colonialism + Bad Theology = Feeling Like an Outsider
Visiting the Friends Ancient Burial Grounds in Pennsylvania and attending the Chester Quaker meeting outside Philadelphia lead to a discussion on inclusion and the feeling of being an outsider- which seems like such a universal human emotion, but upon further reflection, is more likely the result...
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006 The Swamp of My Anger
From the Quaker Ancient Burial Ground in London Grove Township, Pennsylvania, I’m processing the anger left still grinding from my visit through Virginia and an ancestor that owned slaves as well as the Jamestown Settlement and the summer of the first shipment of slaves as well as the Tobacco...
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005 Twisted Lion Written in Stone
Recorded in Franklin County, North Carolina at the ordination site of my oldest known ancestor on my Father’s Fathers line, I wrestle with the welcoming I feel from the land and the anger I feel about the exploitive and abusive energy I feel on the line. The worn gravestones made me realize that...
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004 Staying on the Plantation
Recorded at the Redcliffe Plantation in South Carolina, where many of the slaves reportedly stayed on as freedmen and sharecroppers until the 1970s. Their decision to stay on is usually seen as evidence of how much the plantation system met their needs and worked for them, but I believe it was…
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003 Remembering the Forgotten
Recorded in Mobile, AL at the Old Plateau Cemetery near Africatown in the north side of the Mobile Bay. Survivors of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to come to America, are buried there. I also visited the St. Michael’s Churchyard on the Faunsdale Plantation in Faunsdale, Alabama....
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002 Redwood Roots
Recorded in the Redwoods National Park spring of 2019 during a #vanlife trial run. While meditating in the ancient forest, a family cluster of redwoods invite me to tap in. Second segment is a visualization to tap into our own root systems and experience the support that is there.
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How This Got Started
Recorded in Austin, TX at the beginning of my Ancestral Borderlands Truth & Reconciliation Tour, this episode traces some of the yarns woven into the present moment as an introduction to the podcast www.mywytchyways.com www.patreon.com/wytchyways
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Holy Women's Work
With guest Kaden Sheffield, we discuss the spiritual practices couched in traditional women's work, the feminine side of spirituality and religion, and the way text vs image impacts how we see the world.
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My Sh-t is My Superpower
Jacqueline and guest Jaena Moynihan meet on the New Moon opening Eclipsepacolypse 2018 to talk about shifting patterns, making their way through the dark, and realizing that what we thought as shameful weaknesses are actually the place with the greatest potential for connection.
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37 - The Tricky Thing About Consent
It seems simple that a man shouldn’t make sexual advances without a woman’s consent, yet we live in a culture that often sends men the opposite message. In the midst of the MeToo and Time’s Up movements, we examine what we can do to make the world a safer place for all people when it comes to sex.
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36 - Doing Right by the Ancestors & Ourselves
With the spiritual realm being particularly close to us this time of year, we explore how we can honor our ancestors in the present. We also discuss Spiritual Bypassing - a shadow way of using spiritual concepts to avoid facing hard realities. We end with practical advice on how to know what you...
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35 - Woke up MAD this morning
“Anger wants a place to land,” so how do we work with that without hurting ourselves or others? In this episode, Jacqueline and Sara both woke up angry, and talk about working through anger in a productive way.
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34 - Shadows and triggers and emotions, OH MY!
Growth - personally, professionally, and culturally - requires facing difficult emotions and having tough conversations. On the other side is truth, peace, and upleveling your life. Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode: Amy Schumer video...
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33 - Monster in Our Midst
The recent White Supremacist rally in Virginia has sparked a national conversation about how to push back the tidal wave of hatred that has been washing over the country of late. How do we work to transform the hatred we see around us without becoming monsters ourselves? Discussion on honoring…
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Living with Lions at the Watering Hole
We dive into an article about the bardo, the void between death and rebirth, that is a part of the natural cycle of change that we experience repeatedly throughout life, and discuss what can come out of that place of letting go in order to experience rebirth. Here are links to the authors and...
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Start Playing Small
We often assume that big change comes from large organizations and charismatic leaders, but in this episode we discuss how powerful change most often starts with small communities comprised of individuals leading themselves - and how you can be one of them, no matter how big or small your...
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Awareness and its Opposite
Guest Randa Hamwi uses the oldest Arabic lexicon and a concordance of the Qur’an to come to some really profound understandings of what it means to be Human. In a time of closing things down and drawing sides, Ms. Hamwi’s work opens up, expands and connects. Her upcoming book focuses on what she...
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Inaugurate Your Life
How can you harness your energy on Inauguration Day towards something good, even when you're not feeling good about where the new leadership is taking us? We discuss ways to usher in a new age of powerful intentions and actions in your life regardless - or perhaps because of - what's going on...
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Inaugurate Your Life
How can you harness your energy on Inauguration Day towards something good, even when you're not feeling good about where the new leadership is taking us? We discuss ways to usher in a new age of powerful intentions and actions in your life regardless - or perhaps because of - what's going on...
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New Year Same Ol Same Ol
What do you do when you're uncertain about what goals you want to set for the new year? Especially during tumultuous times, a new approach on how to envision a new year may be necessary.
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25 Nature Of Reality
We take a deep look at the nature of reality, our perceptions of what is real, what’s really going on under the surface, and how our understanding of quantum physics must change the way we think about brain science and what is real. Then we explore the topic of how evolution in the 21st century…
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24 Agency Vs Punishment Final
Telling the story of the First Woman leading the Dine' people to the 3rd World leads to a discussion on agency versus punishment and how we face the changes we see before us since the election.
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Ep 23 Bullies On The Playground
Special guest Kathleen Gramzay's recent trip to Greece leads to a discussion on multi-dimensional experiences, emotional release and transformation, and how we can use that to flip the script on the bullies on the playgrounds of our lives.
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Ep 22 Walking With the Ancestors
Recorded on Dia de los Muertos, artist and writer Paige Sullivan guest hosts a conversation about releasing ancestor angst and its relationship to creative process.
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21- #YesAllWomen
Join us for a community sharing ritual to break the silence and shame required to maintain rape culture's prevalence in our society. This episode is a template to hold a sharing circle in your own community to provide space for women to share their sexual assault stories in empathetic community...
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20 - Clearing Our Mental Closets
What’s blocking you from creating your art or simply living a more tranquil and fulfilling life? We discuss strategies for clearing out the physical, mental, and emotional clutter that is keeping your life small.
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19 - Water Is Life
Women are the water bearers, and healing our relationship with our bodies and our monthly cycles deepens our intuition and creativity. Here are the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode: Dakota Access Pipeline The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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18 - Hurry Up and Slow Down
What does time urgency and reverse discrimination have to do with white supremacy? And how is the ego driving the ship? Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode: Master of None TV show is available on Netflix
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17 - Walking Through the Gender Medicine Wheel
We explore the healthy and toxic aspects of the masculine and feminine principles through the Gender Medicine Wheel and discuss the nature of the Divine Masculine. Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode: The Gender Medicine Wheel was developed by Jose Luis & Lena...
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16 - Talking Rider to Rider
16 - Talking Rider to Rider http://www.mediafire.com/download/g484j4eqqxkfddf/KitchenTableAlchemy016.mp3 We talk with guest Carolina Krawarik-Graham on how to have difficult conversations around race and equality, as well as how to confront the unconscious biases hiding in our own minds. Here are...
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15 - Powering Down the Predator
We welcome our first musician guest Kristin Center as we discuss how to handle those predatory types in our lives who seek to tear down the weak, the sacred, and the beautiful. Plus, Jacqueline fills us in on her summer Stonehenge sabbatical. Tune in for lots of laughs and a bit of powerful music!
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14 - The Truth About Happily Ever After
Is happily ever after really possible or just a pipe dream? Or is it our either/or mentality that’s getting in the way? Can we have a big impact in the world? Tune in to discover strategies to “have it all” without burning out or selling out. Authors and resources we discussed in this episode:...
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13 - The Mother of All Episodes
Leaving behind survival mode and stepping into trust can be difficult when life has given us plenty of reasons not to trust. Mother’s Day is a time for celebration for some, and for others it is a reminder of what we’ve lost or never had.
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12 - Is Your Creativity Homeless?
You wouldn’t think that the topics of creativity and homelessness would go together, and neither did we, until we sat down and talked about them back-to-back. We discuss how creativity is an essential human need, and why most people don’t get enough of it. Then we address the sticky issue of how…
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11 - Death, Life, and Drama
Dealing with death is not easy, but we all have to do it at some point, so we talk about what we most need to know to help others - or ourselves - through the darkness. Then we follow up on our conversation about the drama triangle and talk about how to get out whenever we get caught up in it....
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10 - The Call’s Coming from Inside the House
Flipping the drama triangle and exploring The Five Attachments – Let’s step into our next stage of evolution as individuals in order to create the future we want (not the one we think we’re stuck with). Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode: Drama triangle...
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9 - What To Do About The Donald
In this episode, we take on the elephant in the room - Donald Trump. How is he reflecting what we’re all doing, as individuals and as a culture? How is our desire for control and certainty enslaving us? And what can each of us do about it?
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8 - Power Play and Gaming Trust
In this episode, we discuss how to be powerful without being a jerk, and how having more lighthearted fun can lead to a seriously happier life experience.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Like so many of us, I'd pushed away, minimized, or forgotten many of the senses and relationships with other-than-humans I'd fostered as a child. I tried really hard to please my family, to fit in at school, then work. But I never succeeded. As an adult that's now working to rekindle the intuitive understandings and deep relationship with the world around us that are our birthright as humans, I recognize that being cast out was a blessing that enabled me to follow my own path. I'm a certified LifeCycle Celebrant, and a certified Master Practitioner of the MBTI, living in Phoenix with my partner Jason and two kitties Monkey & Miss Piggy.
HOSTED BY
Jacqueline Freeman
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