Episode 134: Shannon Claire - Trapped by Faith

07/06/22 • 64 min

This episode was very emotional for me and brought up many memories of my past experience with abuse. I am deeply moved by Shannon’s work and look forward to her upcoming documentary about domestic and emotional abuse called Trapped By Faith.

Abuse in any situation is devastating, but marital abuse has its own elements of crazy-making. Combine this with confusing messages from your faith and it can be soul-crushing. Unfortunately, these messages are still commonplace, and even if your marriage is erosive and dangerous - religious dogma and church doctrine may keep you from leaving a situation that’s not healthy for you or your children.

Emotional abuse is one of the hardest things for most women to identify, especially if the abuse resembles how you were raised and you mistook it for normal or for love.

In this episode, we aim to discuss Shannon’s reason for making this film and to support other women in identifying toxic and abusive situations in their marriage and faith.

How Shannon’s past shaped the way she works with women
Learn some of the signs to know if you’re in an abusive marriage
Hear about how Shannon was able to find the courage to leave
Shannon talks about her business while being in an abusive marriage and how her business flourished after leaving
You have the power within you to do ANYTHING you put your mind to and are more powerful and capable than you realize
There is NEVER a good reason to stay in an abusive relationship, and there is always a way out

Shannon Claire helps entrepreneurial women become unforgettable so they can build a thriving business and life they love without sacrifice.

As a multi-passionate and seasoned entrepreneur of over 16 years, she is a sought-after international brand photographer, a mentor, and
coach for entrepreneurial women transitioning to their next level of success.

Shannon is a mom to 3 teens and a toddler and is soon-to-be-married. She is a beach lover, conversation starter, and eternal optimist.

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Emotional abuse is one of the hardest things for most women to identify, especially if the abuse resembles how you were raised and you mistook it for normal or for love.

In this episode, we aim to discuss Shannon’s reason for making this film and to support other women in identifying toxic and abusive situations in their marriage and faith.

How Shannon’s past shaped the way she works with women
Learn some of the signs to know if you’re in an abusive marriage
Hear about how Shannon was able to find the courage to leave
Shannon talks about her business while being in an abusive marriage and how her business flourished after leaving
You have the power within you to do ANYTHING you put your mind to and are more powerful and capable than you realize
There is NEVER a good reason to stay in an abusive relationship, and there is always a way out

Shannon Claire helps entrepreneurial women become unforgettable so they can build a thriving business and life they love without sacrifice.

Shannon is a mom to 3 teens and a toddler and is soon-to-be-married. She is a beach lover, conversation starter, and eternal optimist.

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Episode 133: Monette Chilson: Womanspirit Reclamation

I am thrilled to have my dear friend and colleague, Monette Chilson, back to talk about her new teaching platform WomanSpirit Reclamation and the power of circling with women to unlearn what we’ve been taught about the feminine.

An excavator of sacred feminine lineage, Monette Chilson founded WomanSpirit Reclamation to support women in navigating their awakening from patriarchal indoctrination through online courses and community.

She has written and spoken about the divine feminine for the past decade, authoring Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga and My Name is Lilith, in addition to editing Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves and developing its companion curriculum. Monette’s work has been featured in national magazines including Yoga Journal and Integral Yoga Magazine and the anthologies Yoga Wisdom and Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak.

Monette and I speak about why our inner wisdom—personified by Sophia—is essential for maintaining our centeredness when the world around us has gone mad—AND becoming conscious about our spiritual evolution without judging or shaming.

Why was WomanSpirit Reclamation created?
Why is representation so important for women?
How Monette’s spiritual evolution impacted her work.
Learn how Monette guides women to self-sovereignty.
How has her spiritual life evolved since launching WomanSpirit.
How can women from any religion, faith, or non-faith benefit from this work?
Everyone has access to Sophia—their own inner wisdom. It is not reserved for hermits or monks.
We are all mystics!

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Episode 135: Sarah Durham Wilson - Maiden to Mother: The Archetypal Journey to the Mature Feminine

This past year I completed my 8-month rites of passage teacher training with Sarah Durham Wilson. It’s by far one of the most provocative and potent trainings I’ve ever done. It helped me truly understand the core wounds of women conditioned by patriarchy and how to assist women in healing those wounds.

In this episode, I have the honor of introducing you to my teacher and her work and celebrating with her the publication of her first book with Sounds True: Maiden To Mother, Unlocking our Archetypical Journey into The Mature Feminine.

When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity.

With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother. This powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force exists within all of us.

Becoming the Mother is every woman’s birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as children, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now.

Sarah teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” to keep us distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our mature, feminine fullness.

Through personal stories, rituals, teachings, and practices, Sarah helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its false, constricting standards for the feminine so that we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson, “but where it really begins.”

In this episode, Sarah and I talk about:

Sarah’s diagnosis and her more recent understanding of how being undiagnosed has impacted her in her work.
Sarah losing her Mother to Cancer when she was still a teen and how her Mother’s life and death shaped her work and healing.
Activism as a potent medicine for what the world needs now, how she’s helping to dismantle racism through her work, and being a faithful ally to black, brown, and indigenous women, and the connection to the colonization and capitalistic trance of patriarchy.
White feminism and white fragility and how they are related to “The Wounded Maiden” archetype.
Why Climate Justice and Racial Justice are Married.
Inner misogyny, its impact, and how it becomes internalized in both men and women.
Making the rites of passage journey to the mature and why this is the work for all of us at this time.

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