In this episode, I begin by pausing.

Before diving into today’s conversation with my guest, I wanted to hold space for the emotional weight so many of us are carrying right now. This is the first full week of January 2026, and everywhere I turn — with my clients, in my community, and in my own body — I feel the grief, anger, fear, and exhaustion moving through the collective.

I speak honestly about what it’s been like to witness this moment as a former therapist and as someone stepping more fully onto the priestess path. I share why I am moving away from the medicalized lens of diagnosis — not because suffering isn’t real, but because so much of what people are experiencing is a natural response to living in a world that does not support human life, rest, connection, creativity, or safety.

In this reflection, I explore:

1. Why anxiety, depression, burnout, and numbness are often symptoms of systemic failure — not individual brokenness
2. What it means to hold collective grief and rage without collapsing into hopelessness
3. The priestess role of holding duality: honoring the collapse of old structures while still tending the vision of what comes next
4. Why feeling our feelings fully is not indulgent — it’s essential
5. How rage and grief can be alchemized into clarity, courage, and creative power

I talk about the necessity of fierce love — love that is tender and boundaried, compassionate and unwilling to accept what is dehumanizing. I reflect on the fear that comes with imagining an entirely different way of living, and why change will not come all at once, but through sustained courage, heart, and collective imagination.

This episode is also a reminder of why I created this podcast in the first place: to help seed new blueprints for how we live, love, heal, relate to money, steward technology, and care for the earth and one another. The change we are longing for does not come from outside authority — it comes from within us, and then between us.

Toward the end of the episode, I share about my upcoming eight-week beta course Sacred Desire, and why I believe reclaiming desire, pleasure, and embodied truth is deeply radical work in times like these. I speak to how women reconnecting with their desire, boundaries, and inner fire is not escapism — it is world-changing.

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Inside Sacred Desire, we focus on:

1. Reclaiming your relationship to sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure
2. Understanding the barriers that have disconnected you from your desire
3. Healing in community rather than isolation
4. Rising together, supported and witnessed

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