In this episode, Vanessa Couto shares her unexpected journey with romance novels and how they helped her with grief and burnout.

We discussed the different layers of healing that this often dismissed genre brings to our own lives and the potential of healing the collective.

Discover the different sub-genres of romance novels and what's compelling with each of them beyond the plot.

You'll leave this episode wanting to pick up a romance novel of your own and experience healing with pleasure beyond the plot.

Some recommended romance books:

1) Emily Henry's Book Lovers

2) S E Wendel's Halfing

3) Callie Hart's Quicksilver

Follow Vanessa:

1) Website: vanessacouto.com

2) IG: @vanessacouto.stories

3) Substack: https://vanessacouto.substack.com/

About Vanessa:

Vanessa Couto guides people through life's thresholds using depth psychology, archetypal astrology, and the wisdom of story. A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, she draws on decades of studying how myth and psyche illuminate transformation.

Through her podcast Romancing the Threshold and her writing on liminality, she explores how we navigate life's passages with curiosity rather than certainty. Her practice emerged from her own journey through multiple thresholds and years of dedicated study in archetypal frameworks. Recently, she's discovered romance novels as unexpected medicine—finding in these dismissed stories precise maps for desire and sovereignty. She hosts For Your Pleasure, a book club excavating romance's archetypal patterns, and is launching intensive programs using the romance arc as transformational curriculum.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Vanessa works with clients navigating their own crossings—those sensing something essential wants to emerge. Her approach honors both the psychological depth and cosmic timing of transformation, meeting each threshold as sacred passage rather than problem to solve. Her own understanding continues to deepen through lived experience, which means she meets clients as a fellow traveler, not someone claiming to have mapped every territory.

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About the host:

Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be unapologetically in full relationship with themselves. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, intuition, self-care, and feminine leadership practices in her work with clients.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

- Email updates: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

- Substack: https://substack.com/@michellewongxo

In episode 166, Michelle interviews guest, Jonathan Hadas Edwards, LAc, on his journey of divination, working with the IChing, acupuncture, and what drew him to Vedic Astrology.

We dive deep into how he started working with divination, how he integrates the IChing with his acupuncture patients, what a good acupuncture session looks like, scents and the sacred.

His Wayfinding offerings, and his work with his wife, in the Heartward Sanctuary www.heartwardsanctuary.org

About Jonathan H Edwards, LAc.

Jonathan H Edwards, LAc. is an acupuncturist, herbalist and perpetual student of wisdom traditions. He holds a Bachelors in Religious Studies (Swarthmore College) and dual Masters in East Asian Medicine (NUNM) and Creative Writing (Warren Wilson College). Originally from New York City, Jonathan lived and studied in India and Nepal on a Fulbright Fellowship in 2008-9. While in Nepal he had a course-altering encounter with last-of-his-lineage Ayurvedic physician Keshab Laal, which inspired him to pursue traditional medicine seriously. Jonathan now lives at Heartward Sanctuary, an animist church org he co-founded with his wife, Julia Hartsell, in the North Carolina piedmont.

Connect w/ Jonathan:

Websites:www.jonathanhadasedwards.com https://www.kalamandala.com/

Substack: seedsfromtheworldtree.substack.com

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Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, Beliefetics (TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

-Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)

-Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)

-Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

- Substack: https://substack.com/@michellewongxo

Welcome back to the Sacred Emergence Podcast! After a 2-year hiatus, Michelle Wong returns with news and updates on her life + what to expect from this podcast moving forward.

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Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, Beliefetics(TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and feminine leadership practices.

Let's Stay Connected!

- Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

- Substack: https://substack.com/@michellewongxo

In this episode, Michelle Wong shares her most recent adventures with healing her nervous system. She touches upon speaking up for herself, being gentle with the inner critic, and doing the uncomfortable work.

Resources mentioned:

1) Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson

2) David Bedbrick on IG - Unshaming

3) Electric: A VIP Breathwork Experience

4) Virtual Group Breathwork: The Electric Self - Sunday, March 31st, 2024

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Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, Beliefetics(TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

-Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)

-Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)

-Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

In this in between season episode, Michelle Wong shares her journey of the spiritual support she received that helped her land her job after months of frustration and searching from being part of the lay off wave that's sweeping across tech companies.

Resources mentioned:

0) I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

1) The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand + Perdita Finn

2) Join me for January's virtual group Breathwork: For the Feminine.

Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, Beliefetics (TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

-Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)

-Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)

-Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

In this episode, Morgan Sachs, creator of The Healing Mind™ app, shares with me her journey of how she shifted from her corporate job to become an energy healer and psychic.

We dove deep into the following topics:

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• How Morgan became an intuitive healer
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• Light language
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• How Morgan developed her psychic abilities
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• How to activate our intuition and strengthen it
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• Why our imagination is powerful
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• Past lives
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• Honoring our creativity
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• Her approach on energetic boundaries
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• Human design: projector energy and leaning into our design
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• The HealingMind App
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Connect with Morgan:

1. Website: www.morgan-sachs.com

2. IG: ⁠https://instagram.com/morgansachs__

3. FB: https://www.facebook.com/thehealingmindapp

Morgan Sachs (sounds like "socks") is a quantum energy healer, psychic and creator of The Healing Mind™ app. With over 15 years of experience with energetics, Morgan helps people manifest what they truly desire in life through healing subconscious energy blocks (both individual and collective) and expanding their unique energetic frequency. The Healing Mind™ app started as a way for her clients to receive energy tune-ups in between sessions but has since rippled outward to serve a wider
audience.

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Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkQueen, is a dreamer, initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible.
She holds space for humans to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design,
Beliefetics(TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and
feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

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• Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)
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• Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)
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And Season 5 is a wrap! Tune into this episode to learn how to stay connected during the 'break', grab any offerings while they're still on sale. And remember to go gentle with yourself.

Resources:

1) SPACIOUS December Holiday Edition

2) Breathwork for Possibilities 12/17/23 at 4pm PT

3) HD Play

4) Join the email community: ⁠http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU⁠

Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible. She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves, unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design, Beliefetics(TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

-Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)

-Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)

-Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU

Feminine Depth Coach, Corinne Micklar Kaye shares her experience of working with Michelle Wong inside the HD Play container. Corinne is also a Human Design teacher + practitioner. Hear first hand on her experience.

We cover:

1) The work Corinne does

2) Where Corinne was before HD Play

3) How HD Play was impactful for her

Resources:

1) HD Play - on sale through Dec 31st, 2023.

2) Corinne's Instagram

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Host: Michelle Wong, #BreathworkGuide, #CourageCatalyst #SpaceHolder is an initiator, visionary, and author of Set Your Own Sail: Fire Your Alarm Clock and Awaken to What's Possible.
She mentors women to be in full relationship with themselves,
unapologetically. She uniquely blends breathwork, Human Design,
Beliefetics(TM), Rapid Relief Technique (TM), intuition + self-care, and
feminine leadership practices.

Download your free: ⁠"I Am Supported" meditation HERE⁠.

Let's Stay Connected!

-Instagram (⁠@michellewong.xo⁠)

-Facebook (⁠http://www.facebook.com/michellewongcatalyst⁠)

-Email community: http://eepurl.com/dLB9qU