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Bex Mui, MEd, she/her, is a biracial, first generation, queer, lesbian advocate and equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of spirituality and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-centered spiritual playspace where she shares affirmations for the queer and trans community. In this episode, Eryn and Bex talk about: Bex’s journey with religion, queerness, and spirituality Allowing ourselves to have expansive “yes and” spirituality after/beyond dogmatic religion Taking what we’ve been harmed by and shaping them into something that serves Reframing what ritual is and can be Why Bex felt so called to create House of Our Queer Queering spirituality Reframing Jesus and reframing femmes and femininity in the bible Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/bex-mui  Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, officially out everywhere! Join the waitlist to get upd

Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms.  In this episode, Eryn and Edgar talk about: Edgar’s journey with creativity, spirituality, and healing The doorway that “confusing” art opens Existing in states that aren’t as valued by capitalism Bridging western medicine and other ways of healing and bodies of wisdom Staying connected with the dreamworld ( a love letter to dream witches) Divination witchery! Practicing tactical magic in the moment you need it Trusting what you receive in divination Reminding yourself of the support of the universe and ancestors Imagining and creating ancestor connection The power and magic of imagination Divination & art practice The interconnected cycles of creativity Vulnerability as a fertile space Feeding our wholeness especially when there is such pressure to constantly be creating Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/edg

Euphemia, (they/them) is a somatic and pleasure coach, facilitator, and author. In this episode, Eryn and Euphemia talk about: Moving towards more aliveness The deep why behind somatics with a pleasure focus for Euphemia Ancestors & pleasure Cultivating other choices and ways of being besides the “fast” default Slow pleasure! Exploring your pleasure dial Spirituality in mundanity Connecting down to draw up Connecting with the body & pleasure even when there’s trauma and chronic pain Cultivating pleasure and embodiment practices to support us in moments when we feel less resourced and have less capacity Savoring practices What the book writing process taught them about creativity, the body, and pleasure Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/euphemia-russell Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, officially out everywhere! Donate $20+ to Octavia’s GoFundMe & then email me your mailing address to get a free copy. Giveaway details here & GoFundMe link here! Conne

Liliana (she/her) is a first generation Xicana Indigena, cosmic channel, psychic medium and artist.  In this episode, Eryn and Liliana talk about: Liliana’s journey with spirituality and healing How Reiki connected her to her intuition and helped her open her psychic channel Tarot as part of her journey Discerning a gut feeling from your ego How Liliana recommends folks start to connect with spirit and understand what spirit is for them Being both connected to spirit and grounded in the Earth The art of letting go of what you can’t control Cultivating the ability to hold a whole range of feelings Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/liliana-perez  Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Donate $20+ to Octavia’s GoFundMe & then email me your mailing address to get a free copy. Giveaway details here & GoFundMe link here! Connect with Liliana on her website and Instagram.

Lauren (she/her) supports creative individuals with artistic blocks or wounds move through those barriers and into their authentic flow. In this episode, Eryn and Lauren talk about: Lauren’s journey with art, creativity, and spirituality Working through artistic wounds Taking the pressure off of making art Why we get blocked from feeling blocked from getting messy, creative and curious Making art under capitalism Feeding our creativity Creating an art practice that supports your mental health and connection to self and intuition ‘ Her big feelings coloring book Unlearning toxic new-age beliefs How affirmations can be supportive without being spiritual bypass-y Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lauren-schwind Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Join the waitlist to get updated when HOLY is back! Connect with Lauren on her website and Instagram. Support the Big Feelings Coloring Book on Kickstarter!

Raina LaGrand (she/her) is a somatic therapist and coach providing trauma-informed and liberation-oriented care to help anxious and sensitive people embody confidence and cultivate secure relationships. In this episode, Eryn and Raina talk about: Raina’s journey Liberation through joy, play, pleasure, and movement Centering choice Living honestly and authentically Finding a balance with our feelings when we value feelings so much & also don’t want to get stuck in them Developing discernment Reparenting our parts Not making creativity a to-do list item Building confidence in security in relationship Big and small ways to be honest about who we are Digging into the work of relationships with other people who want to do that, too Allowing ourselves change and fluidity Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/raina-lagrand  Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag. Connect

Hannon (they/them) is a white nonbinary queer creative and care worker. They are a facilitator of introspective space, a former residency creator, and currently steward their bathing project, Tender Tank, drawing baths in conversation with bather’s internal tides. In this episode, Hannon and Eryn explore: Hannon’s journey with healing and coming to care work Reclaiming care work and feminized labor What home means to them and how connection to ancestors is part of that The spaciousness and freedom of queerness Offering space for self-inquiry through the tender tank project Being in right relationship with all that’s around you Their connection to spirituality What does it mean to worship? Releasing control The lifelong project of relationships Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/hannon Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and join their email list to be the first to know when moon sign is released late May! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag. Connect wi

Sophia (she/her) is a Channeler, Explorer of The Akasha, and Conduit. Hailing from a family of root-workers, she operates as a conduit for frequencies that bridge you to your soul's remembering and connecting you to the wholeness of your Supreme Self. In this episode, Eryn and Sophia talk about: How Sophia’s spiritual journey and life has unfolded and changed over the pandemic Accepting your weird magic Finding acceptance and grace Being more of yourself Hyper individuality and accepting help Libra/Aries polarity Communicating with angels Learning the language of her guides The healing modality she channeled over the past few years to help us attune to trust Spirituality as just part of life Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sophia-hornyak  Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and join their email list to be the first to know when moon sign is released for regular orders late May! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag. Connect with Sophia on her website,

Onyi Love (she/her) is a healing artist and priestess, and the founder of the company and brand ONYI LOVE. In this episode, Eryn and Onyi talk about: Onyi’s journey with spirituality and healing How Onyi views life and spirituality Lessons Onyi learned on her recent trip in France Listening to the universe Integrating and reflecting out your healing work into the world Grounding in your peace Opportunities to practice what we’ve been learning Resting and finding balance with yourself Tapping into ancestral traditions that connect you with peace Learning how to be in silence Not appreciating the subtle because we think our experiences have to be extreme Being a reflection of the version of earth you desire Using our reflections in other people to break through our own stuff Stepping into your courage Listening to your body Life as play Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/onyi-love  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now thr

Brittany Carmona-Holt (she/her), aka The Birth Witch, is a full spec­trum doula, facilitator for a community-based doula training program, birth assistant to a community based midwife, Tarot reader, poet, reproductive justice advocate, amateur herbalist, and author of the book Tarot For Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks coming out this June. In this episode, Eryn and Brittany talk about: Brittany’s journey to birthmark Her ego check around her own birth experience Her poetry Letting our creativity flow in seasons Tarot for pregnancy and how tarot can support pregnancy Ace through 10 as the pregnancy journey Contributing to the conversation without knowing everything Postpartum time & showing up for folks postpartum Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/brittany-the-birth-witch  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th! Connect with Brittany on her Instagram and website. Buy her book, Tarot for Pregnancy: A Compa

Tune into this episode for a collective tarot reading for the spring just after the spring equinox. We explore themes of desire, power, binary thinking, and more. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

Ari Felix (they/them) is a counseling astrologer, writer, poet, and bruje providing emoceanal support for apocalypse. In this episode, Eryn and Ari talk about: Ari’s journey with astrology and healing Seeing everything as god Their religious background as the bones of their spirituality Ari’s words for folks who have rejected the religion they grew up with and want to cultivate connection to spirituality that is true to them Developing spiritual sovereignty Not replacing dogma with another dogma Applying critical thinking with your whole mind-body to everything The power and point of storytelling and myth Shedding orientation towards the destination Truth and certainty, truth as mutable Why Jupiter and Saturn need each other Learning about alignment through being misaligned Blog for this episode: http://www.living-open.com/blog/ari-felix  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th! Connect with Ari on their website and Instagram.

Sanyu Estelle (she/her) is a Claircognizant Soothsayer also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins and word culture. In this episode, Eryn and Sanyu talk about: What Sanyu has been learning, experiencing, and healing through during the pandemic The best defense as opening up Living amidst everything we that’s beyond our control Creating reality with our imaginations Dynamic neutrality Choice as a spectrum Quantum energetic tools like biocompassing Choosing to be the selves we most prefer The Hierophant’s journey Acting the way you want to feel Our 2022 lovers year! Creating a self-loving relationship Dreaming as support for being your authentic self Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sanyu-estelle  Register for Breathwork for Care on March 1st. Check out the Religious Trauma workbook. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Connect with Sanyu on her website and Instagram. Email her at sanyu@sanyuestelle.com. Listen to Sanyu’s first interview on the Living Open podcast: Drea

Laura Mae Northrup (she/her), MFT is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her first book Radical Healership is a spiritually-informed, anticapitalist guide for healing practitioners who seek to build a values-driven healing practice. And it's out today!  In this episode, Eryn and Laura talk about: Her journey writing her new book Emotions & book writing! Surrendering & letting emerge Overshaping our experiences Living in complexity Grappling with money (and charging money!) within capitalism The degradation of spirituality and healing The history of taking away people’s access to healing and spirituality as an intentional strategy of domination and disempowerment How psychedelics and entheogens help us heal sexual trauma Trauma as a spiritual wound The need to experience so much joy and beauty as people in care roles Right sized-ness How you sustain the path as a facilitator of healing work ENTER THE BOOK GIVEAWAY ON INSTAGRAM. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/

Eli is a gender doula - supporting folx as they question, explore, and transition their gender. In this episode, Eryn and Eli talk about: Eli’s journey with sexuality, gender, and spirituality “Is it my gender or sexuality, or is this just my trauma?” Queerness as a dream outside of the realm of our existence as kids His work as a gender doula Tarot’s role in his gender journey What Eli wants to tell people who are on a gender journey of some kind Why Eli thinks everyone should go on a gender journey Fluidity and changeability around identity and labels Labels & how they can constrain us Holding our own complications & other people’s complications, too Transness and queerness as vectors of spirituality and connection to nature, land, and community Different timelines for queer and trans people Tarot as support for gender exploration Grief as part of gender and sexuality journeys Ritual in gender journeys Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eli-lawliet  Register for Breathwork for Care on

Anabel Khoo (she/they) is a psychotherapist, facilitator, interdisciplinary artist, and writer dedicated to cultivating holistic collective healing and social justice. They are also a queer, non-binary, diasporic Chinese person, and their lived experience has moved them to help other marginalized people to process intergenerational pain and to fully embody one’s power and worth. In this episode, Anabel and Eryn talk about: Anabel’s journey with healing and somatics Coming to believe something through experiencing it in your body Creativity & the body How their interest in ceremony, ritual, and spirituality came about The importance of ceremony and ritual Doing ritual only when you feel moved to do ritual Somatics & collective liberation & collective healing Embodying body and mind at the same time The uncomfortable middle ground in healing Practicing being with what is totally intolerable Fear of stepping into painful places Working through the shame of being where we’re at Blog for this episode

Tara is a biracial non-binary Japanese Mystic who leans deeply into the wisdom of elemental magick and metaphor to connect. In this episode, Eryn and Tara talk about: The invitation of the Lovers for our collective Lovers year! Tara’s experience with their cards of the year of 2021 “Cringe” tarot cards The different energies of death and tower cards The too much archetype Structure that creates ease and flexibility  Capricorn and Aquarius season energies Unpacking our why’s Haiku creative magic! Words and prayers as spells Creative expression, spirituality & dreams Healing with dreams Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/tara-burke  Stay tuned for Eryn’s poetry collection, moon sign, out this spring! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and the Religious Trauma meditation album. Connect with Tara on Patreon, Instagram, TikTok, and their website. Check out my first conversation with Tara: Ep. #214 Dreamscapes with Tara Burke and Sanyu Estelle.

Alissa (she/her) of Akasha Apothecary is a folk herbalist and facilitator. In this episode, Alissa and Eryn discuss: Alissa's journey with plants, healing & spirituality What the land is like by her right now Death, complete upheaval and ripping away all that is untrue Resisting death & gripping to untrue stories Life/death/rebirth cycles Opening to ancestral layers of loss Embodiment practices for staying with yourself Cultivating self trust How to know if you’re abandoning yourself The willow tree, compassion, and rage Cultivating safety in yourself to feel rage Integrating spiritual experiences Letting contradiction live within people Staying curious and open Polarized thinking as a fight or flight response Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/alissa-akasha-apothecary  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Learn more about + apply for HOLY, a 7-week reclamation circle and support group for ex-religious folks to create community and heal from the impacts of dogmatic religion together. Connect

Danica Boyce (she/her) is a pagan educator and coach, guiding folks to shed limitation and imperialism by reconnecting with pagan abundance, animism & folklore. She specializes in religious history, folk song, and the energetics of holding epic, love-filled visions for humankind and the earth. In this episode, Eryn and Danica explore: Danica’s journey with paganism and folklore Shame around the life-sustaining magic of imagination and play What it was like spiritually in Europe before Christian colonization Expanding our thinking beyond purity of European nation-states when it comes to our ancestry Connecting with European folk culture Abundance and scarcity in cultural practices Innovating within cultural practices Europeans displaces from their lands carrying the model of theft and control to America Long lineages of loss of culture Grief & belonging Holding other people in gentleness The flattening of death in Christian culture Capitalism, exchange, and trade Cultivating an abundance mindset in a

In this episode, your host Eryn shares some of their learnings from 2021 around healing & spirituality. Enjoy! Email Eryn to be added to the waitlist for the winter round of HOLY: eryn@living-open.com  Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and Religious Trauma meditation album.