Joy over Happiness / Collective Responsibility + Individual Healing / Getting Triggered / Aligning with Destiny + the Earth’s Dream

Rachelle Knowles and Mary Grace float through building relationships with integrity; the connection between creativity and resilience; introversion and sensitivity; the necessity of tenderness and non-hierarchical leadership; and interacting with the invisible and the erotic.

In this episode, I talk about your deep alignment -- what is it, why it's important and the power in your alignment for the world.

This episode brings us to the Winter Solstice and the "Great Conjunction" with Saturn + Jupiter in Aquarius. This aspect initiates a new era, a new epoch and a new element. I speak about my hopes for this world, the opportunities it can create as well as what the new world is calling us to.

Today, Mimi Young talks about the concept of “wu” in Chinese culture and its likely implications in our concept of “woo” or “woo-woo.” We also get into some things that we’ve been observing with wellness culture -- the chief of which is the problem with approaching spirituality and spiritual practices from a “fast-food” perspective. We discuss how to relate with grace and respect to practices that are not directly a part of our biological lineage and the braiding that’s inviting us to remember older ways of being in connection to the place where we are and the land that we’re on.

In today's episode, Andréa Ranae Johnson, founder of Whole Self Liberation, joins me to talk about centering relationship in our movement towards liberation. We also talk about divesting from the narrative of activism as suffering and why it's important to motivate ourselves beyond simply not causing harm.

In this episode, I discuss the Sun's ingress into Libra and Mercury's into the sign of Scorpio. I also talk about illness or wounds as a daimon that wants to lead us onto a healing journey and how that may be different from simply a "fixing" journey.

This special episode is second (and final) look back over the first year of the podcast; and we're bringing you clips and highlights from both guest conversations and solo episodes. My hope is that long-time listeners will get a refreshing review and that newcomers will get a digestive summary of where we've been.

In this special episode, we're bringing you the best of this inaugural year of the home.body podcast. My hope is that long-time listeners will get a refreshing review and that newcomers will get a digestive summary of where we've been. You can find the links to the original episodes in the notes below; and I hope you'll go back and listen to your heart's desire.

In this episode, we talk about eclipses through the lens of Hellenistic astrology. What are they? What do they mean? Are they auspicious? Can we do magic on eclipses? All of that + more inside this episode with Michael J Morris.

Dance as a form of cultural activism

• How birth trauma activated the urgency of self care work + advocacy

• Why self care is revolutionary and political

• The role of community in addressing one’s self care needs

In this episode, acupuncturist Chiara Galimberti shares about the challenges, values and dreams of healing justice within healthcare practices. She talks about the systemic ways she sees dis-ease showing up and approaching wellness with the goal of reducing harm.