This is a space for those who feel deeply, who have known pain and longing, and are ready to meet the parts of themselves they've kept hidden.
Here, we slow down and listen-to the body, to the earth, and to the dreams that speak in symbols and story. Through shadow work, dreamwork, and the art of inner alchemy, we begin to remember what's been forgotten-your wholeness, your fire, your truth.
I'll share stories and reflections from my own journey of healing and reclamation. Together, we learn to listen to our inner world, follow the wisdom in dreams, and allow what's been buried to become something sacred. When we return to ourselves, we begin to change the world around us.
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode I introduce the concept of the shadow - what it is, how we can start to notice it, and how we can start to work with it.
19 Apr 2026
Learning How to Heal Toxic Shame
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I share with you what toxic shame is, how it developed in my life, and some ways to bring presence to the pain of carrying it.
3 Apr 2026
The Dark Night of The Soul
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I discuss the dark night of the soul - why experience it, and how you can begin healing it.
11 Dec 2025
When Life Looses Meaning: And The Doorway Into Purpose
Send us a text When life feels flat, heavy or meaningless something deeper is calling. In this episode, I share a moment from my own life and talk about how learning to listen to my body helped me move toward what feels alive. I also explore how reconnecting with our purpose can begin bringing meaning back into our lives. A gentle hopeful reminder that feeling lost or depressed isn't the end-it's the beginning of something new.
27 Nov 2025
What is Dreaming?
Send us a text In this episode, I explore what dreaming actually is and how your inner world uses dreams to communicate with you. I talk about the ego, the unconscious, and the deeper intelligence inside of you that responds, guides and moves you toward wholeness.
13 Nov 2025
When Spirit Winks: Synchronicity and the Art of Trusting Your Path
Send us a text In this episode I talk about synchronicity, the way spirit winks at us through meaningful coincidences. I share how I learned to trust these signs, what they've taught me about timing, and how listening to them has guided me toward deeper trust in the unseen.
6 Nov 2025
Some of Life's Lessons
Send us a text A few reflections on the lessons life has taught me so far.
30 Oct 2025
Shedding the Weight of "Not Enough"
Send us a text After last week's conversation about listening to the body, my psyche revealed another layer, the weight I've still been carrying from narcissistic abuse. In this episode, I explore how that heaviness shows up symbolically through dreams- and how releasing the stories of "not enough" helps the body finally let go.
27 Oct 2025
Follow Your Bliss: Listening to the Body's Yes
Send us a text This episode is about the moment I first learned to listen to my body. I share the story of how the sensation of bliss guided me through a life changing decision and what it taught me about trusting my body's wisdom.
13 Oct 2025
My Descent Into The Shadows
Send us a text This episode takes you into the dreams that marked the beginning of my decent where the unhealed masculine showed up through fear, shame and old ancestral survival patterns. Each dream becoming a mirror for the unconscious - exposing what's been buried, silenced, and waiting to transform. This episode moves through shadow, instinct, and the unraveling that begins when we journey towards wholeness.
29 Sept 2025
Learning to Let Love In
Send us a text In this episode, I share dreams that uncovered an old childhood contract...that joy wasn't safe and truth had to be swallowed to stay connected. I talk about how those patterns are shifting, and what It means to begin letting love in through boundaries, anger, and the small moments of joy.
8 Sept 2025
Dreams at the Threshold
Send us a text In this episode, I open up about what it's really been like to start this podcast-the resistance, the shame spirals, and the surprising ways dreams have been guiding me through it all. I share how Carl Jung's vision of the unconscious and the Self has given me a language for trusting the mystery that is always leading me home. And I bring you into one of my own threshold dreams-an image that is challenging me to grow.
21 Aug 2025
Who Stole My Voice
Send us a text For years, I lived without a voice — silenced by abuse, gaslighting, and the fear of being exiled for telling the truth. In this raw and personal episode, I share how my voice was stolen by family dysfunction, narcissistic relationships, and the patriarchal structures that tried to erase me. I talk about growing up in a Mormon home with a narcissistic father, codependent and narcissistic sisters, and the role of the family scapegoat — the one who names the truth and gets punish...
14 Aug 2025
Discernment and the Dream That Set Me Free
Send us a text Sometimes the deepest medicine comes through a “no.” In this episode, I share a raw and recent story about attending a peyote ceremony that felt misaligned — and the dream that gave me the clarity, courage, and boundaries to walk away. You’ll hear how a dream before the ceremony revealed patterns of excusing harm, softening truth, and over-functioning — and how the ceremony itself mirrored those old wounds. We’ll explore the archetype of Bear as protector, the symbolism of sacr...
10 Aug 2025
Numbness, Shame, and the First Step In
Send us a text When I began shadow work, I wasn’t met with clarity or fire — I was met with numbness, and beneath it, shame. In this episode, I share how my first step into the shadows began not with a breakthrough, but with a decision to stop pretending and start listening to my body. We talk about the freeze response, how numbness can live in the body, and why the path to thawing isn’t force, but presence. I share my own journey of joining a sexuality program while feeling broken, the resis...
10 Aug 2025
The Masks We Wear: Unmasking the Shapeshifter
Send us a text We all wear masks—some to survive, some to be loved, some to keep the peace. In this episode, I explore the personal, cultural, and archetypal masks that disconnect us from our truth, and the cost of living behind them. I share a powerful dream of a shapeshifter that revealed my own mask—born from childhood trauma, reinforced by emotional abuse, and sustained by a culture that rewards performance over presence. We’ll explore Jung’s concept of the persona, the shadow side of the...
10 Aug 2025
Into the Shadows: Why I’m Here
Send us a text Welcome to Into the Shadows—a space for those ready to face what’s hidden, reclaim their wild truth, and walk with the power the dark has been guarding. In this first episode, I share the dream that called me to create this podcast, the path that shaped my work, and the experiences that led me here—childhood trauma, spiritual awakenings, plant medicine, trauma-informed training, and nervous system healing. We’ll talk about why the shadows hold so much of our power, what it mean...
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