Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

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! Related episodes: Fostering the Magic Inside of You + Creative Nourishment with Erin Alise Borzak Finding Your Medicine, + Healing and Understanding Patterns through Astrology with Davis Carr

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.

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. Mentioned in this episode: The Bonding Project quiz Polysecure by Jessica Fern Shrimp Teeth's boundaries workbook

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.

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. Register for Erotic Poetry Writing Class. Libra season, baby!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.