Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers - Ep. #231: We’re Back! Reclamation Rituals, Healing Around Compulsory Heterosexuality, Coming Out, Shifting Identity + More

Ep. #231: We’re Back! Reclamation Rituals, Healing Around Compulsory Heterosexuality, Coming Out, Shifting Identity + More

09/06/21 • 45 min

Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

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.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks.

Previous Episode

Ep. #230: Being in Your Wholeness, Trauma Healing & Creating Spaciousness with Stevie Leigh

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.

Next Episode

Ep. #232: Getting Back Into Your Body, Deconstructing Catholicism & Living Uncaged with Phuong-Thao Nguyen

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