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Ep. #237: Collaborative Creative Process + Fool’s Leaps with Davis Carr and Erin Alise Borzak Oct 22, 2021

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What a pleasure to have these two wonderful humans back on the podcast, together, as returning guests!

Davis Carr (she/her) is a consulting astrologer and tarot reader. Erin Alise Borzak (she/her) is an illustrator and witch. Together, they created the Hollow Valley Tarot.

In this episode, Eryn, Davis, and Erin talk about:

Their transformations and Fool’s leaps through COVID
The Fool card
What we would tell ourselves before a big Fool’s leap!
Shifting from “shoulds” to authentic goals and desires
Being in creative partnership
Encountering monsters on your path
The process of creating the Hollow Valley Tarot together
Elements and numerology in the Hollow Valley Tarot
Associating the minor arcana cards with the decans of the zodiac
The role of pictorial sigils in the tarot deck
Davis’ 5 line theory for the major arcana
5s as gateways
The tarot as a living art that we all get to evolve the meaning of

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for Breathwork for Ex-Religious and Deconstructing Folks.

Check out the Hollow Valley Tarot on Kickstarter and Instagram!

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Ep. #236: The Three Pillars of Self-Trust, Stepping into Courage, and Not Betraying Yourself with Shohreh Davoodi Oct 11, 2021

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Shohreh Davoodi (she/her) is a self-trust coach, writer, and the host of the Conjuring Up Courage podcast. She's dedicated to helping people move through self-doubt and shame so they can live their lives with intention and step into their motherf*cking magic.

In this episode, Eryn and Shohreh talk about:

Shohreh’s journey over the pandemic including grieving and navigating huge transitions and changes
Feeling fear and finding the courage to do the thing anyway
The three pillars of self-trust
Stepping into courage practices & the risk assessment of courage practices
A reframe around “what if I’m wrong?”
How exploring our own values and needs help us make tough choices
Shohreh’s process of exploring her own values and needs
The magic of the family black sheep
Coming out & dealing with unsupportive family
Not betraying yourself for the benefit of anyone else and anyone else’s values
The bisexual to lesbian pipeline
Finally seeing in color for the first time

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/shohreh-davoodi-2

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for Breathwork for Ex-Religious and Deconstructing Folks.

Check out Shohreh’s first interview on the Living Open podcast. Listen to Shohreh's episode on her podcast, Conjuring Up Courage, on Identity, Divorce, & Coming Out Again.

Follow Shohreh on Instagram and check out the Follow Your Arrow waitlist on her website.

Mentioned in this episode: Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

Ep. #235: Choosing Your Life + Queerness, Polyamory & Kink with Sam of Shrimpteeth Oct 05, 2021

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Shrimp Teeth is a queer, kinky, polyam platform that encourages folks to reclaim and explore their sexuality and relationships. In this episode, Sam (she/they) and Eryn talk about:

Their journey with queerness, poly, & kink
Navigating fluidity and changing identities
Different relationship structures and shifting between them
Attachment & alternative relationship structures
Communication in poly relationships
Working through “shoulds” and frustration with yourself for not fitting into the shoulds
Shifting identities and how we feel about labels!
Getting into kink & healing through kink
Dad things!
How they orient towards pleasure in their life

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/shrimpteeth

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for Breathwork for Ex-Religious and Deconstructing Folks.

Connect with Sam on Patreon and her website.

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Ep. #234: Ex-Catholic Reclamation Magic, Transmuting the Seven Deadly Sins, and Pleasure as Part of the Creative Process with Ex-Catholic Sinfluencer Mary Adelle Walters Sep 28, 2021

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Mary Adelle (she/her) is a creative facilitator, sexuality coach, sensual writer, and hot queer witch. She supports ex-catholic and ex-religious femmes as they reclaim their bodies, sexualities, pleasure, and witchery through creative facilitation and anti-oppressive coaching.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/mary-adelle

In this episode, we talk about:

Mary’s journey with Catholicism and witchery
How Mary’s family relationships have shifted through deconstruction
Reclaiming Jesus
Reclaiming Catholic mysticism & writing spells in her poems
Taking back power from religious institutions
Transmuting the seven deadly sins including lust and gluttony
Claiming queerness and not feeling queer enough
Expressing queerness through creativity
Why Mary feels compelled to write
Being honest in our journaling
Pleasure and sensuality as part of the creative process
Attuning to pleasure
Mary reads the “Nadia and her vibrator” section from her sensual novella Nadia

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Register for Breathwork for Ex-Religious and Deconstructing Folks.

Connect with Mary on her website and Instagram. Get a copy of Nadia in print or ebook.

Ep. #233: Libra Season Medicine + Being a Self-Employed Witch Sep 20, 2021

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Welcome to Libra season! In this episode, your host Eryn does a collective Libra season tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk pleasure, truth, reciprocal relationship + more. Plus, she talks about being a self-employed witch!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/libra-season-medicine-2021

Check out the free class: Attract Your Ideal Customers Without Doing All The Things.

Listen to my interview with business witch Sarah M Chappell: Building a Business that Works for You, Your Values & Your Needs.

Ep. #232: Getting Back Into Your Body, Deconstructing Catholicism & Living Uncaged with Phuong-Thao Nguyen Sep 13, 2021

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Phuong-Thao (she/her) is a Somatic Practitioner, ReBloom Coach and Trauma Educator supporting QTBIWOC & 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in navigating life transitions and moving from a place of survival to thriving & living life on their own terms from a place of deep self trust and connection to their bodies, voices, and aliveness so they can live an uncaged life.

In this episode, Eryn and Phung-Tao discuss:

Phuong-Thao’s healing journey
Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn trauma responses
Shame over our body’s trauma responses
What fills the gap when we don’t understand our lizard brain responses
Seeking safety after trauma
Telling the truth as an act of love
Phuong-Thao’s deconstruction journey
Her journey with self-trust after Catholicism
How Catholicism reinforced that she should disconnect from herself and not trust herself
Feeling like too much & feeling like you’re bad
The pedestal of “goodness”
Shame from church
Moving towards sexual liberation and including yourself in the pleasure equation
The power of choice
How to start connecting with your body

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/phuong-thao-nguyen

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Join the upcoming virtual erotic poetry writing class. Last day to join HOLY - one spot left!

Connect with Phuong-Thao on her website and Instagram. Download her free 30 day observe your yes and no worksheet here.

Ep. #231: We’re Back! Reclamation Rituals, Healing Around Compulsory Heterosexuality, Coming Out, Shifting Identity + More Sep 06, 2021

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The Living Open podcast is back with a solo episode! In this episode, your host Eryn shares about her healing journey this year & talks about reclamation rituals, healing around compulsory heterosexuality, coming out, shifting identity & more.

Apply for HOLY, a 7-week reclamation circle & support group for ex-religious folks who want to create ex-religious community and heal from the impacts of dogmatic religion together (starts Sept 15th).

Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks.

Ep. #230: Being in Your Wholeness, Trauma Healing & Creating Spaciousness with Stevie Leigh Jul 26, 2021

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Stevie Leigh (they/she) is a somatic practitioner, a writer, mystic, and a caretaker in many forms. In service to body autonomy and literacy, they help people find their way back to themselves.

In this episode, Eryn and Stevie talk about:

Stevie’s healing journey and how they came into somatic work
Critical inner voices and parts of ourselves
Slowing down & trauma
Integrating head and body for trauma healing
You are fine just how you are!
Growing around our trauma, not getting rid of it
What is somatics?
Working with somatics and spirituality for trauma healing
Stevie’s journey with queerness
What is the self? What are our selves?
Accessing more expansiveness and curiosity and imagination
Hangups around wellness world meets capitalism
The trauma of capitalism
The empress archetype & pleasure
Growing our awareness of pleasure

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/stevie-leigh

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Register for pleasure magic: a tender embodied journey into deeper pleasure.

Connect with Stevie on their website and Instagram.

Ep. #229: Leo Season Medicine Jul 20, 2021

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Welcome to Leo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Leo season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk authenticity, bravery, telling the truth about ourselves + more.

Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class. Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Check out the Religious Trauma workbook.

My IG live with Sarah Chappell.

Ep. #228: Queer Journey & Shadow Work with Sarah of Shadow Femme Jul 12, 2021

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Sarah (she/her) of Shadow Femme is a practitioner who blends together shadow work, astrology, and human design to help people own their full, authentic selves. She's a biracial queer femme who specifically loves working with cycle breakers and people who are navigating liminal identities.

In this episode, Sarah and Eryn talk about:

Sarah’s journey with shadow work and how she’s gotten to this moment in her life
What is shadow work?
Her journey with queerness & sexuality & gender & shadow work
I share about my journey with queerness too & what that has to do with shadow work and cutting off parts of self
Seeking cis male approval and validation
How she blends shadow work, astrology and human design to work with them all
The process of integrating shadow parts / rejected parts
The purpose of our different parts
Imposter syndrome when it comes to mystical and intuitive practices
I also read a poem about coming out!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sarah-shadow-femme

Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class. Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Sarah on her website and Instagram.

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