The Spiritual Feminist

Grab a chai tea and dive into the transformative journey of rewilding and spiritual femininity. Discover how reconnecting with nature can empower women and honor ancient spiritual traditions. The importance of storytelling emerges, revealing its power to reshape cultural narratives. Listen as the intersection of feminism and sustainability unfolds, drawing parallels between the struggles women face and those of Mother Earth. Finally, explore a unique workshop opportunity to deepen your connection to the natural world and your true self.

Anika Poole is a 35-year-old woman from Germany who now lives and photographs in Portland, US. A while back she reached out to me with the idea to have her story on the podcast and I wholeheartedly said yes. I immediately felt such a courageous, wild-woman energy from her and was eager to learn more about her journey in mental health and reclaiming her own truth. 

 In this episode, we talk about Anika’s experiences with psychosis, the labels of bipolar disorder and PTSD and (postpartum) depression. She opens up so bravely and authentically about her mental health issues throughout her life, including the time during her two pregnancies and experiencing motherhood. We explore the topic of being seen as ‘crazy’, especially as a woman, and how looking at our (collective) past can bring healing. We talk about the concept of diagnosis, why those labels are necessary but sometimes also restricting and how we can then fall into the trap of pleasing our therapists instead of healing ourselves. 

 Through her story and beautiful sharings, Anika invites us to sit with the fear we can feel, to listen to its messages and to empower ourselves from within. 

 ~ Find Anika on Instagram, @anika_poole_photography 

 ~ If you are dealing with or suffering from mental health issues and this episode triggered something in you, make sure to reach out to someone you trust or call the mental health hotline in your area. ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

Now more than ever, I am so grateful for sisterhood and this sacred community we find ourselves and each other in - which is why I felt very called to offer my online journey ‘Facilitate Online Magic’ again, which guides you on the journey to host your own virtual womxn’s circles. In this episode, I reflect on sisterhood and the wounds that surround that in our society. I talk about what sisterhood has meant to me in the past and how I feel into it now. 

 We carry deep wounds rooted in history, which teach us to mistrust other women and to see one another as competition. How can we move away from that? How can we make sure we don’t forget to empower one another in the process of empowering ourselves? Helping someone else shine their light won’t dim yours - quite the contrary! Only by us being able to rise together can we truly raise the collective vibration. 

 It was in womxn’s circles and facilitating them I was able to truly start my healing journey with sisterhood. It’s allowed me to deepen my own self development & spiritual journey, make authentic connections, take up more space and inspire others to do the same. 

 ~ Curious? I am rolling out Facilitate Online Magic again mid-October 2020 - read more about it and sign up for a call. 

 ~ Want to join in on the fun and experience it for yourself? I host monthly womxn circles in my membership Root to Rise - check out the webpage for all the details. ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

I am so happy to have Julia on the podcast again. In episode 25, we explored the basics of Ayurveda and how we can use that for our own empowerment. Today, we are diving deep into how to use Ayurvedic tools for the transition into autumn. 

 We talk about quarantine and the opposites that brought this to our system. Have you been indoors but sending your mind’s eye outwards still? It’s time to turn inwards - truly! As Julia mentions, one of the pillars of Ayurveda is that like increases like & opposite balances. We’re moving into autumn season which is linked to the vata dosha. This means the elements of ether and air & the principle of movement and communication. 

 This points to key pointes such as cold, dry, light, rough, quick and invites you to feel into wetness, stability, warmth, heaviness. This will make sure you find balance and rooting and give you more intention in your day-to-day. 

In this episode, we go into simple shifts you can apply to your diet and lifestyle to live a more Ayurvedic lifestyle as you’re moving into the autumnal period. 

 ~ Listen to episode 25 with Julia on the basic of Ayurveda
 ~ Find her on Instagram (@ayurveda_by_julia) & check out her website. Her blog has really useful articles on the basics of Ayurveda.  ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Come and join the Root to Rise membership! This is a sacred space for us all to explore our spirituality, femininity and self-empowerment. Read more about it & sign up now! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

Alice Boydell is an intuitive tattoo alchemist - how incredible does that sound?! This conversation is as fun and insightful as you may be hoping it is. I dive deep with Alice on moving from watching the Little Mermaid, to studying to become a marine biologist, to finding herself in a community where she poked her first tattoo. That experience was the catalyst to not just a more creative life, but her path as an intuitive tattoo artist. 

We talk about her mission to give people a spiritual tattoo experience and inspire others to live more creative lives. Alice talks about a couple of tattoo experiences she’s had which show the interconnectedness and spirituality of this work.
We also dive very deep into intuition, the ‘oneness’ of us all and why we even have missions in the first place. We reflect on being an intuitive soul with a business and reclaiming how work should look like. It was so incredibly inspiring to talk to Alice about her life experiences, her vision on creativity and the passion for her work. I hope you feel encouraged to tune into your creativity and perhaps even feel into what it means to get a tattoo … ;) 

 ~ Find Alice on her Instagram (@w0nderwagon) and her website. ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Come and join the Root to Rise membership! This is a sacred space for us all to explore our spirituality, femininity and self-empowerment. Read more about it & sign up now! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

In this unedited episode, I talk about my mental health journey and the anxiety I am currently dealing with. To me, mental health has always been very connected to my spiritual growth and self empowerment and I will always try to add to that narrative in the spiritual community. We’re not here to bypass, we’re here to move through & heal! 

 About 4 weeks ago I moved house and I now find myself in an unfamiliar city which I have to get to know amidst a pandemic and social distancing. This has been a feast for my anxiety, panic tendencies and agoraphobia - and by what I’ve read from your messages on this topic, you have been dealing with your mental health on and off a lot too the past few months. I think for me it’s everything together - being tired from moving, stepping into entrepreneurship, new surroundings, and a pandemic I’m confronted with more now I don’t live in the countryside anymore. 

 I also touch on what it means to be an empath or HSP and how that can affect you in this pandemic. Truly, we are all surviving & thriving in our own ways at the moment. Can we let that all be there? Can we meet ourselves in our deep dark shadows which we thought, *sigh*, we healed already, as well as give ourselves the sometimes-much-needed kick-up-the-bum to deal with it all and accelerate our healing? 

 What are your thoughts on this? Are you surviving? Thriving? Both? (probably!) 
Please reach out and let me know. I’d love to hear from you x ~ If you’d like more of these intuitively channelled messages, sign up for the Root to Rise membership. This is a sacred space for us all to explore our spirituality, femininity and self-empowerment. Read more about it & sign up now for a special founding members price!  ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

This is the first time I'm recording solo in my new home and I couldn't be happier about it! It feel great to feel into the expansion this move brought with it as I'm talking about rooting down, exploring all sides of ourselves and feeling into female spirituality (only my favourite topic ever!).  So, in this episode, I explore the question I get asked A LOT: how do I start out with spirituality? And I probably don't answer it how some of you hope I will, simply because there is no quick fix, no easy 5 step guide or rulebook to follow.  Personally, I think that's the whole empowerment process this spiritual journey will bring you in. YOU get to decide what speaks to you, what sparks something in you, what makes you feel into YOUR spirituality. It gets to be fun and experimental and explorative. It gets to be the most personal, selfish (!) thing you have ever done and I am all here for it.  Quite literally too - as in this episode I announce my brand new offering, going live the 1st of September: the Root to Rise Membership! This membership includes a monthly exclusive podcast and virtual women's circle, a workbook filled with rituals and spiritual inspiration, a sacred online community of likeminded sisters and so. much. more. !!  Head on over to my website thespiritualfem.com to read more about it, download your FREE Rooting Within meditation and get ready to sign up for the founding members price of €33 on the 1st of September - which will be your monthly personal investment for as long as you stay a member.  I can't wait to hold space for you there. Get ready to root down and rise up!   ~ Get your free Rooting Within meditation here  ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

For today’s podcast, I (virtually) sat down with Moika, founder of platform Ike Uwa, meaning the healing power of nature. Moika is a self love advocate and spaceholder, combining her passion for self care with her knowledge on the female cycle. 

 In this episode, we talk about the importance of making self care our number one priority! We discuss how you can align yourself with your female cycle more and how that invites a more conscious and intentional way of living too. We discuss hustle culture, self care amidst a global pandemic and BLM-conversations. Throughout this conversation, Moika moves us from a disconnected, overwhelmed state to a place of recognition, grounding and inspiration. 

To connect to our cycles is to connect to the seasons of the earth - and there’s a whole lot of empowerment in that! 

 ~ Find Moika on Instagram (@ike_uwa) and her website. ~ This episode is sponsored by the Rising Woman Remedy. Order it here!
 ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

How can we fully embrace change? How can we honour all versions (past, present, future) of ourselves whilst also feeling into flow? 
In this podcast episode, I share with you the changes I’m currently feeling into (hello new house!) and how I try to navigate them as authentically as I can. I reflect on the idea of manifestation and surrender and how I’ve been feeling into a deeper meaning of those things. I share the fears coming up around this new step and the HUGE sign I received that showed me I can trust this new step of my life! 
I recorded this episode before I got the keys to my new apartment and - as I’m typing this I’m deep into the moving process - I am SO happy I did. I love how podcasts are snapshots of your life in that moment and this episode is no exception. 

 So how can be embrace change and all versions of ourselves? Through reflection, embodiment and self love! And those are ALL things I will hold space for you in during our online retreat on 22-23 August. I themed this retreat FLOW because I think to FLOW in life is to live an empowered life, on your own terms, with a deeply rooted trust that you’re held and supported in the learning process. 

 Sign up for the retreat here - and check out Instagram for the giveaway to win your spot too! You can join from anywhere in the world! Send me an email or DM if you have any other questions :) ~ This episode is sponsored by the Rising Woman Remedy. Order it here!
 ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.

I virtually met Nicola McGregor of the platform Sunday Sage about a year ago around a time when both of us were miserable in our 9-5 jobs and yearning for change. Fast forward a year and here we are, both building our business rooted in spirituality and empowerment and creating a life on our own terms! We connected on a deep level back then, both knowing life had so much more in store for us, and we have been able to be a support system for each other in those changing times in the past year. 

I am so excited to have had the opportunity to talk to Nicola all about her choices of the past year(s) and how that has resulted in her created a new reality for herself. We discuss the meaning behind Sunday Sage and what influence Reiki has had on Nicola’s journey. We bring in how breaking free from the expected life’s path has been and the influence of social media on this! Nicola also brings in the idea of ‘personal leadership’ in her work and we talk about how we can bring more of that into our feminine, intuition-led lives. 

Grab your favourite cup of tea because this is such a cozy episode in which we talk all about what it means to become an alchemist of your own life. How empowering does that sound right?? 

 ~ Find Nicola on Instagram and check out her offerings on her website. ~ This episode is sponsored by the Rising Woman Remedy. Order it here!
 ~ Don't forget to subscribe! ~ Visit the Spiritual Fem website & join the community on Instagram ~ and let me know what you thought of this episode! I would love to hear from you. ~ Music credits go to www.purple-planet.com. The Spiritual Feminist is an online platform and a safe space for women who'd like to dive deeper into spirituality and female empowerment. This podcast is about exploring a deeper connection within ourselves and with everything around us.