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Emily Prentice is an artist and arts educator living in West Virginia (Calicuas and Massawomeck land). Emily's work focuses on creative play: as resilience, as resistance, as radical joy.  In this episode, Emily and Eryn talk about: Emily’s journey with creativity and art Everyone is an artist and there’s no such thing as bad art How creativity helps us change the world What’s an artist? Dismantling creative binaries and hierarchies Orienting towards process rather than outcome Art as helping us live better Relationships with creativity Magic & art Play as resistance, play as a radical act What is play? How to re(connect) to play Cultivating curiosity The Fool card Bringing magic to the mundane Making art accessible and telling artist stories Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/emily-prentice  Join the Creative Support Membership with Eryn, a group container to help you tap into your innate creative power, cultivate creative bravery, and share your authentic creative work with the world. Ope

Kate Belew is a Brooklyn based Writer, Poet, Witch, Storyteller, and Strategist. In this episode, Eryn and Kate talk about: Kate's journey with poetry and witchcraft Writing as a tool to connect with intuition Poetry as spellwork Poetry as a touchstone, central to the hearth and home Poetry as connection to ancestry Protecting your creative space Rituals around creativity Nature as inspiration The writing process & sharing our writing And Kate shares one of her gorgeous poems! Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/kate-belew  Sign up for the free mini course to deepen your relationship with your creativity. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Connect with Kate on Instagram and her website. Join her newsletter!

Welcome to Aquarius season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Aquarius season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Aquarius season. Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/aquarius-season-medicine-2021 Access your free Aquarius season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Register for the Imbolc Breathwork Ceremony on 2/1. Ordinary Time by Nikki Mayeux and Briana Ladwig. Free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. In this episode, Eryn and Kelly talk about: Having a thriving livelihood while not replicating oppression in our businesses The female lifestyle empowerment brand Not exploiting ourselves in our own businesses Deprogramming the cultural authority voices in our heads Deconditioning ourselves of capitalist instincts Working with our money lineages Common business practices in wellness & coaching that are exploitative and what to do instead Marketing privilege and performing to create and grow a business Creating affordability and accessibility in our work Why doing business is not the same thing as promoting capitalism Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/kelly-diels  Download the free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Register for the Imbolc breathwork ceremony. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Connect with Kelly on her website and Instagram. Explore Flora and her free money a

Abi Robins (they/them) is a trained Enneagram Teacher & Yoga Therapist. In this episode, Eryn and Abi talk about: Their journey with yoga and the enneagram Cultivating resilience to do the work you love What the enneagram is and what it can teach us about ourselves How enneagram can reveal our patterns to us Enneagram as a gateway into shadow work How the enneagram can help us learn compassion How yoga and the enneagram work together to support healing How to find out your enneagram type without taking a quiz Their experience with their type  How you move along the lines in the enneagram Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/abi-robins-enneagram Purchase the Religious Trauma Workbook & join us for the live Religious Trauma Breathwork, Storytelling and Q&A workshop this Thursday at 7 pm EST. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Connect with Abi on their website and Instagram. Pre-order Abi's book, Conscious Enneagram. Mentioned in th

Raven Rose is an herbalist, womb wellness and Kambo practitioner. In her practice, Moon Medicine, she helps people restore menstrual health and wellness with herbs, ancestor work, and Kambo. She offers one-on-one sessions, live and virtual workshops that help people connect with their cycles, herbal allies, ancestral blessings, intuition, and innate healing ability. In this episode, Eryn and Raven talk about: Her journey with dreamwork, herbs, her body and ancestors What religion and spirituality was like in her family growing up How she works with ancestors, including through dreams How she has cultivated a relationship with her ancestors in her dreams & waking world Accessing cyclical wisdom through working with the menstrual cycle The gifts of the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle (often connected to PMS) Rituals around menstruation and all the different phases of the cycle How living cyclically shifts the collective away from patriarchy When your menstrual cycle isn’t “aligned” with the energy of t

In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson shares what Living Open means to her + clips from past episodes where guests answered this question! All to celebrate 200 episodes of Living Open. Guest answers featured: Willow Rising Venessa Rodriguez Yarrow Magdalena Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Terrie Lewine Shakirah Tabourn Amanda Yates Garcia Caro Arevalo Aja Daashuur Diana Rose Dana Balicki Eliza Swann Zaneta Sykes  Support the show & receive supportive monthly self-healing practices on Patreon!  Share what Living Open means to you on Instagram. & celebrate with us by leaving a rating and review on your podcast platform!

Welcome to Capricorn season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Capricorn season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Capricorn season. Access your free Capricorn season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Get your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook. Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Zaneta Sykes (they/them) is a queer sound ritualist, listening educator, tarot reader, and host of the new Art Witch podcast. In this episode, Zaneta and Eryn talk about: Zaneta's journey of healing with sound Healing through grief with art Their connection to community & how they’re healing through community especially as a multiracial person Belonging Creating the medicine you need Their creative process and what it feels like to birth creative projects in the world Deepening confidence in their work Sharing creative work with the world How making their art shifted everything for them Integration through dream space Listening in the dream space / connection to sound in dreaming Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/zaneta-sykes-sound-art-magic  Get your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook! Now available.  Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Check out Zaneta's work on their website, podcast, Instagram, and Patreon. The quote "unused creativity is not benign" mentioned

Davidia Turner helps others awaken their innate capacity for deep self healing and empowerment through her work as a Yoga & Embodiment Teacher & Intuitive Tarot Reader & Teacher. In this episode, Eryn and Davidia talk about: Her journey of waking up to her power and magic with witchcraft Connecting with the power that you do have even when many things are out of your control Spiritual bypassing Not taking the responsibility of holding space lightly Moving through fears of making mistakes to put yourself out there in your work Boundaries Not knowing The Kings of the tarot The magic of yin yoga & what the practice means to her How yin yoga helps us heal Unpacking pain versus discomfort Embodying archetypes Tarot as invitational and something that’s alive and available to us Getting out of your head with the cards! The invitations of the Queens Evolving the ways we talk to ourselves Self-trust Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/davidia-turner  Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook

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 No

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 t

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 med

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

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.