This week, we're talking about joy. Yes. In this world.

Because as one meme so perfectly put it: "Micro joys are how we survive macro grief."

Elizabeth and Elisha dive into what it actually means to orient your life around joy and satisfaction — not as escapism, but as devotion. Not as denial, but as medicine.

Experience the conversation face-to-face—head over to YouTube to watch the episode HERE

Inside this episode:

• Why joy might be more available than ever — if you choose to foreground it

• Beauty as a spiritual practice (and why hiding your love of beauty is a wound)

• The complicated politics of being perceived as beautiful

• Decentering the male gaze without shrinking yourself

• Salsa dancing as liberation (and why not caring if you're rusty is peak freedom)

• The joy of creative expression with zero attachment to outcome"

• The healing power of a full breakdown

• Cold walks, fire energy, wholesome toddlers in snow suits, and laughing until you choke

• Being "properly fucked" as a nervous system reset

• Why satisfaction is the ultimate discernment tool

• Getting fired from "advanced management" of everyone else's projections

• Following your own curriculum instead of fixing everyone else's

There's something radical about choosing satisfaction in a time that wants you braced, inflamed, and perpetually reacting.

There's something healing about letting yourself want what actually feels good.

There's something deeply stabilizing about deciding:

My satisfaction is not selfish. It is alignment.

If you've been over-functioning, over-managing, over-explaining, or trying to stay ahead of everyone else's projections, this episode might feel like a long exhale.

We're not bypassing the darkness.

We're building capacity for beauty inside it.

Come for the philosophy.

Stay for the spa fountain story.

Leave with permission to follow your own rhythm.

Work with us:

• Follow @mysticalaunties on Instagram

Elizabeth DiAlto

• Connect with Elizabeth
• @elizabethdialto

Elisha Tichelle

• Connect with Elisha
• @elishatichelle_co

We're back from winter break and diving straight into the deep end.

This episode is part sermon, part group chat, part audio spell for staying human. Elizabeth and Elisha get honest about what it means to live — not perform — spiritual maturity when everything feels like too much. They talk about grieving and giggling, Care Bear stares and collective screams, and what it takes to stay open when the world keeps trying to close you.

Experience the conversation face-to-face—head over to YouTube to watch the episode HERE

Inside:

• The paradox of gratitude and devastation

• Why "saying what's true" is the highest vibrational spell

• Law of Attraction burnout and the sacred act of naming reality

• Complaining as catharsis, not collapse

• Fox medicine, trickster energy, and reclaiming shapeshifting

• The soft season: fierce women learning to say "I'm just a baby"

• What happens when you stop trying to timeline your way out of the mystery"

Plus: Elisha talks about her return to Pennsylvania, Elizabeth shares her evolving appetite for myth and relational cosmology, and both reflect on how creative foolishness is sometimes the most healing thing we have.

If you've been feeling overcooked by the world and under-resourced by the usual "spiritual tools," this one's for you.

🎧 Tune in. Bring tea. Maybe a blanket with ears.

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• Follow @mysticalaunties on Instagram

Elizabeth DiAlto

• Connect with Elizabeth
• @elizabethdialto

Elisha Tichelle

• Connect with Elisha
• @elishatichelle_co

In this deeply nourishing conversation, the Aunties are joined by Michelle Cassandra Johnson— author, grief-tender, activist, and longtime guide in collective healing.

Together, they weave a wide-ranging and intimate dialogue on grief as a sacred practice, the wisdom of honeybees and superorganisms, reimagining leadership beyond ego and hierarchy, and what it means to live, serve, and belong in a fractured world.

This episode touches on ancestral memory, collective responsibility, nervous system truth, and why healing was never meant to be an individual endeavor. Michelle shares insights from her book Wisdom of the Hive, reflections on loss and aging, and an ancient practice called Telling the Bees — a ritual of sharing both sorrow and joy with the more-than-human world.

If you're navigating grief, longing for deeper community, questioning the systems we've inherited, or searching for hope that feels real (not performative), this conversation offers a steady, honest place to land.

Come listen for the bees, stay for the belonging.

Experience the conversation face-to-face—head over to YouTube to watch the episode HERE

Follow Michelle Cassandra Johnson

• Follow Michelle @skillinaction on Instagram
• Michelle's Official Website

Work with us:

• Follow @mysticalaunties on Instagram

Elizabeth DiAlto

• Connect with Elizabeth
• @elizabethdialto

Elisha Tichelle

• Connect with Elisha
• @elishatichelle_co