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03/13/24 • 65 min
In this MUM episode, joy witch Justine Anweiler reflects on her close and emotional relationship with her late grandmother, who was the person that always saw her for who she truly was. She shares the witnessing of her grandmother’s double rebirth.
About Justine Anweiler:
Justine is a joy witch, originally from Mohkinstsis, commonly referred to as Calgary, AB Canada – and the founder of The Witchen. Her purpose lies in softening human connection by deepening our relationship with Mother Earth. Most recently, she does this by sharing cultural stories about traditional food and its unique mythology.
Link with Justine:
- The Witchen: The Witchen specializes in oral, visual, written, and digital storytelling. Justine works with expansive entrepreneurs who hold the vision to build a better future.
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
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If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
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02/07/24 • 20 min
“The presence of grief means that we need space, and our need for space means we need to honor our rest. We need to honor these natural cycles. And that is a key piece of our personal liberation effort.”
Welcome back to Season Two of MUM. We ended Season One early in response to the genocide occurring in Gaza.
As we return for this second season, MUM creator and host Ellen Wong reflects on the relationship between personal and collective liberation.
If liberation is being in right relationship with all that is and honoring the natural cycles that govern our bodies and world, then celebrating death and embracing grief must be part of our liberation efforts.
How are you focusing your energy and gifts in service of our collective liberation?
Ellen’s note – the documentary she mentions in the episode is called “Trees and Other Entanglements” and the story she tells is of Carolyn Finney, Ph.D., author and environmentalist.
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10/25/23 • 63 min
“What I've learned through this work is that I can allow the emotion, the energy, to be in motion. And when I make space for that, it goes away. Even grief. Grief can take longer. There's no time frame here, but it is what it is. But if I can soften and allow that wave to come over me and I give space for it to show up, to reach the peak of the experience and to discharge, I can function much better in the world because I'm not spending so much energy trying not to feel the emotion or not to feel the feeling.”
Kimberly is the visionary Founder and CEO behind Somagetics, a trailblazing company dedicated to enlightening individuals about the profound impact of trauma and providing accessible tools for healing.
With an illustrious career spanning over three decades, Kimberly has worn many hats, including that of a functional nutrition practitioner, a skilled bodyworker, and a compassionate home birth midwife. Through her extensive experience with thousands of clients, she made a pivotal revelation: unaddressed trauma, held within the body, often lies at the core of various health challenges. This epiphany led to a transformation in her approach.
Kimberly is passionate about sacred transformation. In this conversation, she shares her work with terminally ill cancer patients in their dying process and birth midwifery early in her career. These experiences led her to co-create Somagetics, “a trauma-informed, body-based energetic technique that transforms defensive patterns and enables physical and emotional healing.”
In this episode, Kimberly shares, “What excites me now is the possibility of sacred transformations that can happen between birth and death. Currently, my focus is supporting people to transform old, limiting defensive trauma patterns so they can access their true divine essence. We can learn to identify the trauma patterns but identify with our eternal essential self. And that is the place where we create the life of our dreams.”
Learn more about Kimberly Ward at www.somagetics.net
Follow her on IG @somagetics_
Watch and Stay tuned in on YouTube at Somagetics
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
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Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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10/04/23 • 73 min
“This particular residency was a thematic one, and the theme was titled Meeting for Teas. So it drew artists curators and thinkers from all over. We all had this time and space to sit with Tea independently, sit with Tea communally, and talk about tea in all the different ways, including decolonizing as an aspect of tea and tea culture. And I couldn't stop crying the first two weeks when I was there, and I didn't even really know what I was crying about. To a certain degree, I kind of did, because the day that I received news that I've been accepted was the same day my Nai Nai passed away.”
Mimi Young, née Lin, is a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, Tea devotée, writer, and the founder of Ceremonie. Mimi’s work lies at the intersection of animacy and re-animation, intuition and creativity, using symbolic interpretation and ancient Chinese wisdom practices to commune with the Unseen and invite new possibilities during times of uncertainty and change.
In this podcast episode, Mimi shares excerpts from her limited edition artist's book, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain.
“Created during the 5-week thematic residency, Meeting For Teas, held at the Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, located on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain, this collection of poems and illustrations of grey-scaled cyanotypes (sun prints) is both prayer and journey through light, shadow, and verse, giving honour to the painful and healing moments of locating oneself over and over again, with Tea, the departed, and the more-than-human.”
She also has an upcoming sliding scale 6-week transformational writing series titled UGLY WORDS.
Learn more about Mimi Young at https://shopceremonie.com/
Follow her on IG @shopceremonie
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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09/27/23 • 76 min
“As someone even on the journey, and I know there are many people who may hear this transmission who really feel like this aligns with them, but there's a piece that I have around knowing Jaxon. His essence, his frequency, and his beautiful soul are always present there, no matter what his physical experience is going to be. And that I know, whatever direction we go, whatever decision my sister and my brother-in-law make about what's best for their families is the right path. And we're on Jaxon's path.”
Samantha Williams (she/her) is a Reiki Master and Certified Channel with a profound calling to provide companionship and advocacy to both special needs children and their families, inspired by her personal journey with her nephew. As a compassionate witness and guide, she integrates energy healing and spiritual mentorship–supported by rituals for physical, emotional, and spiritual self-care–to nurture both the individuals and the family unit and foster compassionate communication through a network of support that creates space to celebrate each child’s unique gifts and journey.
In this podcast episode, Sam shares about her family’s grief surrounding her three-year-old nephew Jaxon’s impending hemispherectomy and the journey she has been on while supporting her sister Morgan and brother-in-law Ben through Jaxon’s developmental challenges.
This was a heartfelt and timely conversation centered around compassionate support while navigating complex emotions and decisions as a family. And Sam shares an important key piece – that it truly takes a constellation of care to be able to support everyone involved and to honor the needs and the breaking points of each individual.
Learn more about Samantha Williams at Involutionhealing.com
Follow her on IG @involutionhealing
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans are available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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09/20/23 • 60 min
“Grief can come in all forms of different emotions and expressions. And so we express it in the community, right? You can do it by yourself, but I think it's cool to do it with a friend or in the community because then you witness each other. And that's the ancestral way we're supposed to grieve together and not get freaked out about me screaming and losing my... if you're weeping and screaming, people are coming like, oh, get your s**t together.”
Gris Alves is a Mindfulness Teacher, Thanatologist, Integrated Recovery and Healing Guide, Earth Based Ceremonialist and Trauma-Informed 500HR RYT Yoga Teacher; Host of The Tales of Recovery bi-lingual podcast, and currently training in Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Therapy Process. She has been leading humans in spiritual, health, and addiction recovery programs for over 27 years. Helping others process trauma, embody and ritualize grief, deconstruct and release limiting beliefs that stem from the social conditioning and programming that hinder our integrated well-being.
In this episode, Gris shares her personal journey in walking with her mother through the end of her life. Even as someone who had formally studied death and grief, she shares that the experience of companioning her mother through this portal was still challenging and also heartbreakingly beautiful.
Learn more about Gris Alves at grisalves.com.
Follow them on IG @grisalves and @talesofrecovery
Your support matters!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review it.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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09/06/23 • 59 min
"What does it mean to live uninhibited, especially knowing that your time is coming to an end? I held space for people who are my own age. I held space for people who were older than me. Numerous diagnosis also like Alzheimer's and dementia. And it really made me slow down and learn to be present. I would show up in these spaces. I'd be going into people's homes, I'd be going into skilled nursing facilities. And each experience was like its own container. And again, death is part of that container."
Stacey Schultz (they/she) is a board certified massage therapist and Rosen Method Bodyworker who has had experiences working with people at their end of life in hospice. And through her life journey, she has come to be an outspoken advocate for those who have experienced religious/spiritual harm.
In this conversation, we discuss the challenges of having religious upbringings, the process of questioning our beliefs, and healing from religious trauma. Stacey shares about her journey in leaving the religious community and discovering who she really is, and how that journey is now woven into her healing practice.
Learn more about Stacey at staceylschultz.com.
Follow Stacey on Instagram @stacey.l.schultz.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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08/22/23 • 1 min
Death is a vital part of life. It marks the end of every day and season. It’s present in every exhale and goodbye. It guides you through all your life transitions.
Death initiates you into change – the only constant in life. Without it, there would be no growth, no new chapters, no expansion, no transformation.
Each of us are the heroes in our own journeys. We face our fears as we walk into these death portals, shedding old skins, and re-emerge anew. We do this many times in a lifetime. Our stories hold deep wisdom and offer healing.
I’m Ellen Wong – I’m a storyteller and entheogenic death companion. I walk daily with brave souls through death and rebirth.
I invite you to enter this portal of discovery with me. And together, let’s break our fearful silence and uplift our stories of death and grief , so that we can all be inspired to live our lives, LOUD.
Welcome to Mum.
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Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about private Death/Rebirth mentorship and medicine journey programs.
Join the Medicine Membership to attend a virutal medicine ceremony and integration circle each month, as well as access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by host Ellen Wong.
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04/10/24 • 68 min
In this MUM episode, deathworker Hope De La Mora shares the profound impact of the deaths in Hope's life starting at a young age, the deep grief experienced when we lose our animal soul companions, and how talismans can keep the energy of our loved ones close with us.
Content Warning: We discuss suicidality which may be triggering for some individuals. Please exercise conscious discernment when listening.
About Hope De La Mora:
Hope De La Mora (founder of Hope Ascendant) is a Metaphysical Minister, Ritualist, Death Liberationist, Talisman Maker, and Quantum Healer deploying self-channeled healing and attunement modalities.
Hope grew up in a dynamic way where multiple inputs and cultures informed Hope’s growth and abilities (from both an epigenetic and experiential perspective). This ultimately led Hope to the study of cultural anthropology and history, which continues to inform Hope’s work for both the living and the dying.
Hope and death became friends at a very early age through the untimely (and in some cases intentional) deaths of friends and close family. Between 2010 and 2013, Hope would become the caregiver and death doula for both of Hope’s Grandparents who were like parents to Hope and the primary force cultivating Hope’s development.
However, it was not until the 2020’s that Hope would begin listening to the whispers of this calling to deathwork, finally becoming formally trained through INELDA in 2023, just as Hope was companioning Edward, Hope’s 19 year old non-human guardian + familiar along his walk to the death portal.
Hope’s heartwork is in service to both the living and the dying ~ for the living, the subtle art of unlocking one’s innate metaphysical wisdom + stepping onto one’s path of gnosis, and for the dying, the rituals and sacred memorial objects that provide comfort to the living and a sacred space for the dying. Hope’s service is not just limited to humans, either.
Finally, Hope has a deep calling to expand awareness + advocacy for death and dying praxis in vulnerable populations, such as the incarcerated and the undomiciled, as well as begin conversations on how we may better companion and serve neurodivergent individuals in the process of death, dying, and grief.
Link with Hope:
Instagram: @hope_ascendant
Instagram: @traditionsindeath
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.
Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.
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03/20/24 • 57 min
In this MUM episode, harm reductionist and sex & intimacy coach Cara Kelsey shares their practice of deviancy and its connection to deathwork.
About Cara Kelsey:
Cara Kelsey is a mixed ethnicity, white, polyamorous, trans queer from the desert (O'odham Land) and the bay area (Ohlone Land). They are a harm reductionist, deathwalker, sex and creative relationship coach and somatic bodyworker. They are co-founder and resident deviant of Peace Out Loud, a community project and muti-generational, muti-cultural trans and Black led collective. They co-create spaces for grief, shame, rage, sex and joy and hold containers for unknowing and deep curiousity. They are committed to following Black and Indigenous leadership and answering calls to action and service. All of this work is possible and sustainable through a sacred and substantial grief practice. All of this work is done in an endless pursuit to put their ego to rest.
Link with Cara:
- Siren and Deathling
- Deviance as Holy: a subversive storytelling project told through art and media that is not only focused on, but wholly devoted to, deviance.
- Peace Out Loud
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
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FAQ
How many episodes does MUM have?
MUM currently has 37 episodes available.
What topics does MUM cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts and Philosophy.
What is the most popular episode on MUM?
The episode title 'Devotion to Deviance' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on MUM?
The average episode length on MUM is 63 minutes.
How often are episodes of MUM released?
Episodes of MUM are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of MUM?
The first episode of MUM was released on Aug 22, 2023.
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