In the Chrysalis with Rae

In this episode, I’m sharing what unfolded for me over the past month: the unraveling in my business, the war between my people-pleaser and my soul self, and the grief that comes when you begin shedding identities that once kept you safe.I talk about the body as a compass how contraction and expansion became my guide. I share a powerful meditation that took me back to my birth and revealed just how early my peacemaking patterns began. And I open up about the deep grief that comes with letting old versions of yourself die, even when you know you’re choosing truth.This isn’t a highlight reel or a polished “lesson.”It’s an honest reflection from the messy middle of becoming.If you’ve been feeling the tension between keeping the peace and keeping yourself… this one is for you.

This episode is a raw, real-time share from my luteal phase where awareness alone wasn’t enough. I reflect on emotional intensity, shortened patience, and the ways I unconsciously let everything spill onto the people closest to me. Being called in by my husband became a moment of accountability, boundary, and choice. Instead of using my luteal phase as an excuse, I chose to meet it with practice, presence, and embodiment. It’s messy, honest, and an invitation to actually do the work -in your body, not just in your head.

Winter is a season of conception.In this episode, I share the energetics and medicine of winter as a sacred pause. A time to gently thin out the seedlings you’ve sown over the past year and honestly ask: What does my soul truly want to carry forward? Not everything needs to come with us into spring.winter as a womb space one of intention, discernment, and quiet awareness where you get to nourish only what feels aligned, meaningful, and alive in your body.I also offer reflections and a simple practice for tuning into your soul, honoring the sacredness of winter, and using intention and presence to soften seasonal heaviness or winter blues.This is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and trust the quiet work happening beneath the surface.

A little bite size 2025 reflection- just a moment on New Year’s Eve day sharing a few journal entries and Ah-ha moment . This episode is a lil all over the place in my eyes but also it’s not and made sense to me lol I wanted to share some of the insights I was feeling into today. It was a beautiful day to end 2025 so many threads have lead to this moment in time. So much gratitude. Claiming the coming year and all its ment to be for myself and my family. 🙏🏼

Today’s episode is… wow weee Real, raw, and straight from my life- today. Right at the beginning, something triggered me and sent me into what used to be an unconscious loop, straight into my inner child. Instead of spiraling, I caught it. I walk you through the exact awareness I had, what it felt like in my body, and how I worked with it and pivoted.Then I share straight out of my journal… like literally from my soul.It’s a vulnerable,beautiful moment where I speak to my voice, this podcast, and how this whole space has become a portal for my healing, my power, and my remembrance. Acknowledging feeling into some big root wounds. And then at the end I had this download that just CLICKEDLike that subtle, or not so subtle thing you’ve been wrestling with for months, years, maybe even lifetimes suddenly snaps into place and you’re like:“Well, fuck… I get it now.”Not a mind insight- a full-body shift in consciousness.I love when that happens. Absolute magic.witnessing real-time healing, self-awareness, and the way presence can crack you open… this one’s for you.Thank you for listening to my heart.

The inner reckoning for the revival of the soul and soul lead living my bodies, physically emotional mental and spiritual, and energetic, hold it all.As above so below as within so withoutMy bodies are the bridge and awareness is the key. This podcast lands on the week of my birthday for the past few years. My birthday has always felt like like an initiation. I’ve come to that realization, especially after this past week and a half this is all what’s been coming up for me over the past week From my bodies, wisdom speaking to me my dream, life, and multiple confirmations of what is needing to be done. It’s always deeper than the surface level reality that we live in there’s always an energetic a soul piece that is being revived. I cannot ignore what was being put in my face this week from my internal world and my external world, old thought patterns, old habitual patterns career, emotional thought loops that have been keeping me and not letting me expand - sense of self and security - my ego, gripping at whatever it can - parts of me that needed honored loved and no longer dismissed or hated. This week has been a week of deep awareness, contemplation, of confirmations of really being in the thick of it in my internal world. I hope you take what you need from this episode. It was very healing for me to put it out there. It’s not beautiful. It’s not easy a-ha moments, but they definitely are aha moments. So much gratitude 🙏🏼

In this episode, I open up about my evolving relationship with my menstrual cycle how I went from ignoring it, shaming it, or pushing through it… to honoring it with intention, ritual, softness, and actual excitement.I share the small-but-sacred shifts that changed everything:the foods I choose, the way I rest, how I schedule my life, the rituals that bring me back into my body, and the gentle invitations I give myself during each phase.And then, something I never expected:how my husband began to notice my patterns… and how he now holds space for me within them.How honoring myself taught the people I love how to honor me too.At the end of the episode, I pulled the Air card — a message about open-mindedness, curiosity, and learning. One line struck me straight in the heart:“Every beautiful reality begins with a fantasy.”For so many women, the idea of looking forward to their period or having a partner who understands and supports their cycle feels like a fantasy, heck even taking time for themselves … But it’s possible.It’s learnable.You are worth it. And it begins with honoring yourself first. No one can do it for you. This episode is an invitation to remember the wisdom, rhythm, and power already living inside your body… it’s time to build a relationship with your body again and to imagine a new reality where your cycle is something you move with, not against.Links below https://tr.ee/SMEcrmp2dAFunk it wellness 20% off with my code Astrology deck by Lilly Ashwellhttps://www.lilyashwell.com/astrology-deck

First off I’m gonna get this audio figured out sometime lol - but still this share is a good one speaking to what I am shedding and what parts of me am I reclaiming in this phase of life. I talk to motherhood and how it has cracked me open in so many ways- a vulnerable share but something I think needs spoken to. Reclaiming my voice ugh lol any women feels that in their soul. My inner earth child who was a master meditator lolAnd I have a little moment talking about guru mentality, experts I have so much respect for those who guide, and in our own way we all are guides - but this podcast is not “I’m on a pedestal” vibe because I think we all know how that feels lol this is one women to another women figuring it out and holding the light for each-other- hand in hand because only you only I can lead the way for ourselves no one is going to do it for us. Thank you for listening 🙏🏼

This is my first podcast episode. It’s definitely not perfect. It’s definitely not aesthetic. You will hear a rooster crowing, a cat purring and then chewing on my microphone. You’ll hear me making tea picking out my clothes and throwing wood in the fire. I promised myself that this podcast would not be filtered ,so I’m not gonna sit there and analyze and edit. ( I do promise though that I will sit still for majority of these episodes and just talk) but this first episode it had to be like this. I recorded one where I was sitting perfectly still, and everything sounded great and I was expanding on different things that I wanted to talk about, but then idk why I decided to hit record again … and this unfolded and I thought this is the one that needs posted because this is the most real. It’s the most me and that’s what this podcast is about. In The chrysalis With Rae is radical honesty with self its embodiment. It’s the human in union with the energetic/ the spiritual. It’s celebrating its joyfulness. It’s embracing the chaos. It’s softly into motherhood and being a wife. it’s reclaiming of self and remembering who I am and why I’m here. It’s not letting fear limit me any longer . Welcome to In The Chrysalis With Rae embracing the imperfect also knowing the duality - that we are actually perfect.