Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson talks about her journey with religious trauma, purity culture & healing.  Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/religious-trauma-minisode  Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available! 110 pages of prompts, reflections, meditations, rituals and somatic exercises to support you in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion. Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Mentioned in this episode: Undercurrent poetry community.

Dr. Terrie Lewine is a Philadelphia-based nonviolent communication teacher and facilitator, chiropractor, and owner of Back to Life Urban Sanctuary. In this episode, Eryn and Dr. Terrie talk about her journey with nonviolent communication, what nonviolent communication is, what violent language is, belonging, communicating our feelings, the function of feelings, getting needs met, what are needs?, empathy in nonviolent communication & how empathy changes how we show up, impact & intention, carceral culture, meaning making & taking responsibility for the meaning we make. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/terrie-lewine  Access the free Sagittarius season breathwork playlist (+ intro to breathwork video). Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available! Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Check out Dr. Terrie’s website and Instagram Mentioned in this episode: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication by Meenadchi (currently out of stock) Too Much? blog by Dr. Terrie

Welcome to Sagittarius season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Sagittarius season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Sagittarius season. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sagittarius-season-medicine  Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available!  Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Access your free Sagittarius season breathwork playlist + short intro to breathwork video.

Gaby Herstik (she/her) is an author, columnist and witch based in Los Angeles. Her practice is rooted in goddess, divine feminine, glamour and sexuality. In this episode, Eryn and Gaby talk about: Her journey with witchcraft  Integrating Jewish practices from her background with witchcraft The role of sexuality and sexual energy in her witchcraft practice Being devoted to Venus through craft, kink, poems, love letters & more What the divine feminine is to her Her practices with goddesses and what she’s learning about love from these goddesses Her relationship with creativity & how magic and ritual are part of her creativity Embodying your magick Self-care during the pandemic Loneliness, and more! Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/gaby-herstik  Breathwork for the Heart is open for registration! Learn more & register here.  Connect with Gaby on her website, Instagram, and Twitter. Check out her books Inner Witch, Bewitching the Elements, and Embody your Magick: A Guided Journal for the Modern Witch.

Blanca Villalobos (she/they) is a freelance cultural worker with roots in the San Gorgonio Pass of Southern California and Jalisco. She is a proud, queer daughter of Mexican immigrants and comes from a long line of dreamers and educators. In this episode, Eryn and Blanca talk about: Her journey with her dreams Experiences beyond what is verified by academic research Her creative expression as intertwined with her dream practice Dreamworld as real, just as real as waking life What she believes dreams are/what dreams are to her Do we have a responsibility to try to understand our dreams? Choosing which dreams to make space for and work Healing dreams & relationship dreams Sex dreams & dreams about crushes Holding space for dreams with people you trust Dreams as trauma work Guidance on understanding what your dreams mean Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/blanca-villalobos  Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Connect with Blanca on Instagram and their website.

Katie Dalebout is a writer and podcaster, and the founder of let it out, a community for sharing *soft stories*, the tender tales that connect us. Her book let it out (Hay House in 2016) is an interactive guide to journaling. She runs a journaling based creative clinic and leads an online workshop for independent podcasters. In this episode, Eryn and Katie talk about her relationship with creativity in this moment, being fed creatively, the power of sharing stories, navigating heartbreak & what heartbreak has been opening up for her, growing through the comfortable things not just the hard things, newness & novelty, patterns of hardening through heartbreak, feeling your feelings as being a more alive way of being, how writing helps process feelings, and not putting all the pressure on ourselves to take action as soon as we know what we need to know. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/katie-dalebout Join Eryn's sliding scale Patreon to access self-healing practices including breathwork meditations, rituals, embodiment practices, spells, practices for working with the moon, meditations, and more. Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Connect with Katie on her website and the Let It Out website for her writing kits, podcast & more.

Welcome to Scorpio season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Scorpio season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Scorpio season. Download your free Scorpio season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Register for the virtual Samhain breathwork ceremony this Sunday. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/scorpio-season-medicine 

KWONYIN is a Korean-American artist, emotional alchemy guide, & teacher of yin. Called the “gentle warrior,” she is a new global voice for the divine feminine awakening. In this episode, Eryn and Kwonyin talk about shadow work, working with shame, unsuppressing yourself, denial, perfectionism, divine feminine energy, anger and the angry feminine, dreams & dreamwork, and Kwonyin leads us in a grounding practice. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/kwonyin  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Register for the Samhain breathwork ceremony. Connect with Kwonyin on Instagram and her website. Check out her new course visibility shame catharsis.

Lex Ritchie (they/them) is the tarot reader and folk magician behind Day’s Eye Tarot. A chronically-ill, neurodivergent, queer mystic, they approach tarot as a radical practice rooted in the hidden-in-plain-sight tradition of cartomancy of the working-class and backcountry kitchens of their ancestors, a skill gained through connection, practice, and cunning. They use tarot as a folk art to help you discover and nurture the root of your own authority to think, act, and create in and for your own life so that you can take the kind of intentional action you need to achieve your dreams.   In this episode, Lex and Eryn talk about: Their journey of coming to work with the tarot and magic How they work with the tarot as folk art Folk magic as a tool for people’s power Tarot as a tool to connect with personal power Court cards & power hierarchies Tarot reflecting lived experience How to work with tarot to make empowering choices Centering yourself in the present moment Connecting with and activating your unique soul magic Creating more powerful spellwork by using your unique magic Honoring the wheel of the year holidays The Swords in the tarot - for Libra season! 3 of swords, 8 of swords Devil card A card they feel like they’re being or embodying at this moment in their life Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lex-ritchie  Mentioned in this episode about Indigenous People's Day: Indigenous Environmental Network Find out whose land you're on @lilnativeboy on Instagram Register for the Samhain Breathwork Ceremony (early bird pricing until 10/23). Download the free Libra Season breathwork playlist. Connect with Lex on their website and Instagram. Register for their free Creating from Chaos training. Check out their Tarot for Action zine.

In this episode, Eryn talks about her healing journey with her sexuality. Sort of in honor of National Coming Out day on Oct 11th, mostly just a coincidence. Content warning: homophobia, biphobia, religious trauma Mentioned in this episode: @ericasmith.sex.ed @jenerous + the Bi Monthly newsletter @nikki.mayeux (scroll back to see the My Queer is Sacred project) @gabalexa @gabriellekassel who I forgot to mention but is a great follow! check out her post that i love on ways to explore your bisexuality. Free Libra season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video.  Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Order your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook. Love notes for ex-religious folks on pleasure. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.