What if the wisdom you have been taught to fear is actually the key to your sovereignty?

In this powerful conversation, Lisa Marie Rankin sits down with Jungian analyst and author Muriel McMahon to explore the living archetype of Baba Yaga and what she represents for women in midlife and beyond. Together, they unpack the crone archetype, feminine authority, sovereignty, shadow work, and the courageous journey toward soul fire. Muriel challenges common narratives about patriarchy, feminism, and spiritual empowerment while offering a deeper Jungian lens on archetypes as energetic forces rather than costumes we put on.

This dialogue invites women to reclaim their wisdom without apology, to honor the sacred tasks of everyday life, and to recognize that true authority comes from within. If you feel the old woman knocking, this conversation will help you understand why and what she is asking of you.

Connect with Muriel McMahon:

https://www.morbidanatomy.org/

https://www.jungarchademy.com/

Baba Yaga’s Wisdom: A Jungian Spiritual Memoir - https://a.co/d/08844RDX

Toward a Sacred End: Jungian Individuation and the Liturgical Cycle - https://a.co/d/09kDnNVr

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Book: The Goddess Solution

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What if desire was not something to suppress, but a sacred force guiding you back to yourself?

This exploration of the lover archetype reveals beauty, pleasure, and sensuality as gateways to spiritual awakening rather than indulgences to outgrow. Through myth, psychology, and goddess wisdom, the lover emerges as a vital life force that fuels creativity, devotion, and embodied presence. Aphrodite, Eros, and Psyche illuminate how longing can initiate transformation, deepen intimacy with life, and reconnect women to their vitality.

When the lover is honored, life regains its shimmer and meaning. Desire becomes devotion, beauty becomes prayer, and embodiment becomes a sacred act of remembrance.

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Book: The Goddess Solution

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What if reality is more malleable than we have been taught, and your consciousness is the key to freedom?

This conversation explores the nature of reality as a dreamlike construct, how consciousness can be influenced through fear, trauma, and constant stimulation, and why imagination is one of the most powerful tools we have for reclaiming personal agency. Together, we unpack concepts like the matrix, mind parasites, loosh energy, and the impact of the modern news cycle on the nervous system, while pointing toward practical ways to protect your consciousness and disengage from energetic manipulation.

By shifting attention inward, cultivating silence, and restoring imagination, a new relationship with reality becomes possible, one rooted in creativity, sovereignty, and conscious choice. This dialogue invites a return to inner authority and a remembrance of what it means to live unbroken in a world designed to fragment attention.

Connect with Sol:

https://substack.com/@solluckman

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Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

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Reconnecting with the natural cycles of the earth restores a deeper sense of balance, belonging, and feminine power that modern life has stripped away.

This conversation explores earth-based spirituality, ancestral reconnection, and intuitive magic through the lens of the Wheel of the Year and the sacred Sabbat of Imbolc. Themes of cyclical living, honoring seasonal rhythms, and reclaiming feminine wisdom are woven together with reflections on the shadow side of self-help culture, spiritual bypassing, and how women have been conditioned to see themselves as perpetually unfinished. The discussion also unpacks the crone archetype, the myths surrounding shadow work, and what it truly means to withdraw consent from patriarchal systems without force or fear.

By grounding spiritual practice in nature, intuition, and ancestral memory, this dialogue invites a return to authenticity, sovereignty, and embodied wisdom that cannot be packaged, fixed, or sold. The path forward is not about becoming someone new, but remembering who you have always been.

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In person retreat: https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/romantasy

Book: The Goddess Solution

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Reclaiming beauty begins when women stop asking for permission and start inhabiting their bodies with devotion, curiosity, and pleasure.

This conversation explores how nature-based boudoir photography becomes a ritual of embodied sovereignty rather than a performance for approval. From unraveling purity culture to reclaiming sensuality, imagination, and play, the discussion weaves together feminine embodiment, beauty beyond youth, and the healing power of being witnessed without judgment.

What emerges is an invitation to choose vitality over perfection and self-indulgence over self-denial. Beauty becomes a living experience rather than an image, reminding women that pleasure, presence, and creative expression are sacred acts of remembrance.

Connect with Wren:

https://wrenmorrow.com

https://instagram.com/_wrenmorrow

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https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/romantasy

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

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Book: The Goddess Solution

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Sacred disobedience has always been the moment when feminine awakening truly begins.

This reflection explores the outlaw archetype through myth, psychology, and lived experience, revealing how women awaken not through obedience but through curiosity, truth, and inner authority. Stories of Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard’s young wife are woven together with Carl Jung’s teachings on individuation and shadow work, reframing the so called good girl conditioning that keeps many women compliant, quiet, and disconnected from their power.

Rather than reckless rebellion, sacred disobedience is shown as discernment and devotion to inner wisdom. When women choose wholeness over approval, they begin the path back to their deepest truth and creative power.

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Meet Your Inner Outlaw in this Active Imagination

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/p/meet-your-inner-outlaw-active-imagination

Learn more about Sacred Disobedience in The Feminine Art of Breaking the Rules

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/p/the-feminine-art-of-breaking-the

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Book: The Goddess Solution

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Healing is not about perfection; it is about remembering who you are beneath the labels, diagnoses, and stories.

Depth psychotherapist Vanessa Bennett joins Lisa Marie Rankin to explore the messy middle between spiritual bypassing and wallowing, why self-obsession can keep us stuck, and how service and community help us rise above our own drama. They unpack anxious attachment and dating culture, the TikTok-driven rise in ADHD self-diagnosis, and how our nervous systems are being hijacked by a world built on dysregulation. Vanessa shares her depth psychology view of the Self with a capital S, explaining why boundaries are sacred micro-moments of self-remembrance, and how her book, "The Motherhood Myth," maps the myths, motherhood, and patriarchy that keep women isolated and ashamed.

This conversation cuts through labels, questions why partnership is so often pursued from wounded places, and reframes healing as a return to inner balance between masculine and feminine. It reminds us that nothing is wrong with us; we are remembering who we are in a world designed to keep us fragmented.

Connect with Vanessa:

https://www.vanessabennett.com/

https://www.instagram.com/vanessasbennett/

Connect with Lisa:

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

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Website: lisamarierankin.com

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As the year turns and a new threshold opens, this reflection invites you into a deeper, more enchanting way of living that goes far beyond goals and resolutions.

Standing in the liminal space between endings and beginnings, Lisa Marie Rankin shares five sacred forces she is weaving into 2026: imagination, beauty, creativity, play, and connection to the divine. Through storytelling, mythic imagery, and soulful wisdom, she explores how these qualities awaken possibility, restore wonder, and help women move out of fixing and into becoming. This is an invitation to let life feel alive again through presence, devotion, and embodied feminine wisdom.

By choosing expansion over self-optimization and devotion over manifestation, a richer relationship with the divine becomes possible. These sacred threads offer a way to step forward with curiosity, creativity, and trust as the next chapter begins.

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Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

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