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Body Wisdom Rising

Alyssa Stefanson


Body Wisdom Rising is a podcast for people navigating deep change — awakenings, identity shifts, healing, and the sense that the old ways of living no longer work.


We’re living in a time of collective disillusionment and awakening. Many are being asked to slow down, feel more, and re-orient their lives — often without support from systems that were never designed for this kind of transformation.


This podcast offers a grounded way to make sense of these experiences by reconnecting to the body as teacher, the Earth as stabilizer, ancestral wisdom as context, and spiritual support rooted in lived experience.


I’m Alyssa Stefanson, Somatic and Ancestral Healing Guide, and host of Body Wisdom Rising. Each episode weaves together somatic healing, nervous system regulation, ancestral remembrance, and earth-based wisdom to support personal and collective healing.


We speak honestly about initiation, death-and-rebirth cycles, trauma, addiction, disconnection, and what becomes possible when familiar identities fall away and something deeper begins to emerge.


If you’re navigating change and looking for a grounded, embodied way to understand what’s happening — you’re in the right place.


Body Wisdom Rising — where remembering becomes medicine.


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  • Monday · 35 min

    In Between Chapters: Surviving Eclipse Season

    Send us Fan Mail Eclipse season feels strange because we’re crossing a threshold where one story is ending while another is already beginning, and your body often registers the shift before your mind can explain it. We break down what eclipses actually are, why the North Node and South Node matter, and how to track real-life endings and openings without spiralling into fear. • why eclipse season can feel foggy, emotional, and physically intense • what a solar eclipse and lunar eclipse are in simple terms • how the North Node and South Node describe growth versus the familiar • what a South Node eclipse in Leo can complete around identity, attention, and performance • what the Aquarius Leo nodal cycle asks of us around community, belonging, and contribution • how Pisces Virgo themes show up as control versus surrender, structure versus flow • how to use your birth chart, degrees, houses, and aspects to see what you’ll feel most • what conjunctions, oppositions, and squares to an eclipse can bring up • practical ways to move through eclipse season with discernment, rest, and journaling • past eclipse cycles to review so you can spot repeating patterns and turning points It would mean the world to me if you just take a quick moment to leave a review. All the information for the calling is in the show notes. We start September 3rd. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • August 5 · 57 min

    Trauma, Psychedelics & the Path to Real Transformation With Dr. Jesse Hanson

    Send us Fan Mail Big realizations are easy to chase. Lasting transformation is harder, quieter, and way more embodied. Alyssa sits down with Dr. Jesse Hanson, PhD psychologist and somatic healer, to unpack why so many people have powerful insights, breathwork highs, or psychedelic experiences, then land back in the same loops a few weeks later. We trace the difference to bihemispheric healing: weaving clear left-brain understanding with right-brain somatic experience so your nervous system, posture, breath, and relationships actually change. We dig into what “safe space” really means, and why energetic safety is not enough without relational safety. Jesse shares how preparation, trauma education, and clinical frameworks like EMDR-informed approaches, parts work, attachment patterns, and nervous system regulation can prevent people from feeling broken when old material rises. Alyssa adds the lived reality of trauma residue surfacing in a well-held container, and how co-regulation and asking for help can become the moment where the body finally learns something new. You also hear a grounded map for trauma reprocessing and integration, including why corrective experiences matter, why the work is the work whether or not plant sacraments are involved, and how language like “you are the medicine” can bring your power back home. Jesse closes by sharing new offerings, including the Wisdom Collective for men and a practitioner-focused training around trauma reprocessing mastery, plus details on our co-hosted Costa Rica retreat (January 17 to 23). If this conversation sparks something in you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What would change if you trusted your body to lead? Connect with Dr. Jesse Hanson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessehansonphd/ Hanson Healing: https://www.hansonhealing.com/ MentalHealth.com: https://www.mentalhealth.com/ The Wisdom Collective: https://thewisdomcollective.vibepreview.com Awaken Experience Costa Rica: https://www.awakenexperiencecostarica.com Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • July 21 · 29 min

    The Rare Planetary Alignment Everyone's Talking About: What It Means For Your Awakening

    Send us Fan Mail A rare planetary alignment is peaking, timelines feel like they’re shifting, and a lot of people are wondering whether we’re heading for another 2020-style crisis or something entirely different. I slow the noise down and walk through what’s actually being discussed, including the work of French astrologer André Barbault and why long-term planetary cycles often line up with major collective turning points. For me, the headline isn’t fear. It’s a collective choice point, a moment where conditions may be getting more supportive for growth, innovation, and conscious evolution, depending on how we respond. From there, I bring it back to the part we can actually influence: the conditions inside our own lives. Awakening is a natural unfolding, but we can create an environment that supports it. I share the practices that helped me integrate healing in a grounded way, especially somatic healing and nervous system regulation, plus the role of ceremony as a container for grief, endings, and rites of passage. When we stop overriding the body, we get clearer about what’s true, what’s conditioning, and what needs to change. We also explore evolutionary astrology as a practical tool for separating your soul blueprint from the endless “shoulds” pushed by culture. I share an example from my own chart, and then reframe manifestation as conscious co-creation with God or the divine: not forcing outcomes from ego, but becoming so aligned that your life starts reflecting your integrity. If you’ve been feeling the pull to step into your next chapter, I also share why I created my nine-month container, The Calling, and what it looks like to be supported through deep transformation. If this lands, subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next, share it with someone who’s in a transition, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What choice are you being asked to make right now? Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • July 3 · 1 hr 16 min

    Making Sense Of Spiritual Awakening: Maps for the Journey Within

    Send us Fan Mail Alyssa shares the three frameworks that gave her language for her spiritual awakening and helped her stay grounded through uncertainty, intensity, and real-life responsibilities. She keeps returning to one test of the path: does our spirituality make us more embodied, humble, and accountable. • why language and frameworks reduce fear and isolation during awakening • awakening as an ongoing relationship shaped by daily choices and integration • Stan Grof’s spiritual emergency lens and the role of discernment • somatic work and nervous system support as the bridge from insight to change • common forms of spiritual emergency, from kundalini symptoms to peak experiences • psychic opening and intuition, including how urgency can signal fear or trauma • past life material and the question of healing over certainty • channeling and guidance measured by responsibility, not spectacle • near-death experiences and the challenge of returning to ordinary life • Carl Jung on persona, shadow work, projection, and individuation • Rudolf Steiner on the middle path between fantasy and reductionism • spiritual inflation and why humility is non-negotiable on this path And before we begin, if you're someone who listens regularly to this podcast and you have not had a chance to leave a rating or a review yet, would you please take just a minute to do that? So if you've been feeling called toward this work, you can find all the details through the link in the show notes. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • June 12 · 51 min

    Meeting Wetiko: Projection, Possession, and Consciousness

    Send us Fan Mail We explore Wetiko as a collective mind virus and how it hides in projection, separation, and the parts of us we refuse to see. We connect Jungian shadow work, addiction as spiritual hunger, and the way awareness and embodiment help us reclaim life force and choose a different path. • defining wetiko through Paul Levy’s lens as a collective psycho-spiritual blindness • noticing transmission through projection, othering, scapegoating, and moral certainty • linking addiction and compulsive behaviour to disconnection and spiritual hunger • reclaiming creative energy by bringing shadow material into awareness • distinguishing judgement from discernment and staying protected through being • naming spiritual superiority, victim-perpetrator dynamics, and groupthink traps • understanding awakening as descent, not bypassing, with will and somatic healing • using triggers as information, including envy, resentment, fear, and reactivity • unpacking polarization, ideological possession, and consumer culture as wetiko fuel • practising the antidote through humility, curiosity, community, and conscious choice Reach out to me on Instagram. Let me know what you want to hear more of. And if you haven't already, please take a quick moment to leave a review as really helps this podcast grow and reach more people. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • May 24 · 45 min

    The Trickster Archetype , Disillusionment and The Second Awakening

    Send us Fan Mail Certainty is intoxicating, especially after a big awakening. Then the rug pulls out: a trusted teacher gets exposed, a “destined” relationship reveals its shadow, or a movement you thought was truth starts acting like the very system it resisted. I’m Alyssa, and I’m naming the force behind that pattern: the trickster archetype, the boundary crosser known as Hermes, Loki, and Ichtomi, who shows up wherever we’ve become unconscious, inflated, or rigid. I walk through Carl Jung’s framing of the trickster as the psyche’s self-correcting mechanism and why it’s rising so loudly right now in spiritual communities, wellness and ascension spaces, conspiracy frameworks, and even UFO disclosure narratives. We talk about how counterculture can quietly become groupthink, how pedestals get built and then pulled apart, and why that collapse can feel like betrayal even when it’s also a call back to humility and truth. From there, we get practical: what to do when your nervous system wants to grab a new ideology, why “switching sides” doesn’t solve the deeper pattern, and how holding paradox becomes the doorway to the second awakening. We explore shadow work, projection, attachment, and somatic healing as essential tools for real discernment, not paranoia. If you’re ready to stop outsourcing authority and start living from embodied clarity, press play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • May 9 · 1 hr 8 min

    The Three Spiritual Tests You Must Pass Right Before You Uplevel

    Send us Fan Mail Right before things finally open, life can feel like it is doing the exact opposite of what you asked for. That is not “bad luck” or the universe punishing you, it can be your psyche applying pressure to expose what still needs to be integrated so you can actually hold the upgrade you say you want. We explore three major tests that often arrive before a breakthrough on the spiritual awakening and individuation path, inspired by Jungian psychology and grounded in embodiment. We start with shadow confrontation and the golden shadow, how triggers, projections, envy, and even the inability to receive compliments can reveal the parts of you that were exiled for safety. From there we move into the tension of opposites, where you cannot stay identified with only one pole like strong or good or spiritual, and you learn to sustain the tension long enough for something new and more whole to emerge. Then we get honest about synchronicity. Real meaningful coincidence tends to be weighted and humbling, and it asks something of you. False synchronicity inflates the ego and feeds specialness, confirmation bias, and spiritual narcissism. I share practical tools that bring it all into daily life: a shadow inventory practice, somatic integration in the body, active imagination, and simple dreamwork that builds a real relationship with the unconscious over time. If you are ready for depth, not fluff, press play, share this with a friend on the path, and leave a review so more people can find Body Wisdom Rising. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • April 25 · 32 min

    A New 7 Year Cycle Has Begun— Uranus Enters Gemini

    Send us Fan Mail The pace is speeding up, and you can feel it in your mind, your body, and the collective field. Uranus has entered Gemini, kicking off a long, intense cycle of accelerated communication, rapid technological change, and truth moving faster than many of us can integrate. I share why this transit matters, how it differs from the slower friction of Uranus in Taurus, and why “lightning meeting lightning” can feel exhilarating one moment and unsettling the next. I also unpack the difference between predictive astrology and evolutionary astrology. Rather than treating transits like fixed fate, we explore them as invitations for soul evolution and free will. The same disruption can crack you open or overwhelm you, depending on your resourcing, your inner work, and your ability to stay grounded. With Uranus in Gemini, discernment becomes non-negotiable, especially as AI and algorithms make it easier than ever to sound credible without being embodied or true. From there, we get practical. I talk about the nervous system as the ultimate technology for this era and how dysregulation can drive reactivity, avoidance, people pleasing, freeze, collapse, and the expand-then-crash cycle. You’ll get journal prompts to help you slow down, return to your body, and set an intention for the next seven years as a living ceremony. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who feels the acceleration, and leave a review so more people can find Body Wisdom Rising. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • April 10 · 23 min

    The Threshold: Jung, Spiritual Emergency, and the Rising Feminine

    Send us Fan Mail We’re moving through a collective threshold where old identities fall away fast, and what looks like loss can be the start of real alignment. We name the cycles behind this moment and ground it in nervous system regulation, shadow work, and the full-spectrum feminine that knows how to dismantle what’s dead and build what’s true. • cyclical time across traditions and why transitions feel like fire • Kali Yuga, Fourth Turning, and the sense of collective acceleration • nervous system capacity as the limiter on visibility, love, leadership, and change • somatic healing and attachment patterns shaping what feels safe to receive • Jung’s individuation and shadow work speeding up in collective crisis • becoming a container who can hold uncertainty without collapsing • Grof’s spiritual emergency and why support beats suppression • regulation as what makes sustained awakening possible • reclaiming the feminine as creation and sacred destruction • three integration anchors: name what is dying, tend your nervous system, find your people • reflection questions to deepen grief, power, and community I have a very small favor to ask you if you are enjoying these episodes, if you are receiving value from them, if you could just take a quick moment to leave a review as it really helps the podcast grow and reach more people. If something in you said yes while you were listening today, if you felt recognized somewhere in this conversation, come to the masterclass on May 20th, because this is the work that we are going to be doing together, not just intellectually, but in your body where change actually lives. So you can find the link in the show notes, and hopefully I will see you there. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • March 31 · 18 min

    Relationship Realignment: The Truth About Twin Flames, Soulmates, Karmics & Spiritual Illusions

    Send us Fan Mail We question the soulmate and twin flame labels that keep people stuck in longing, fantasy, and unhealthy attachment. We bring the focus back to nervous system wisdom, conscious partnership, and practical rituals that help us choose safety, self trust, and aligned love. • relationship realignment during spiritual awakening and times of change • how soulmate and twin flame language gets distorted online • discernment when a connection becomes an energy leak • why intensity and synchronicity do not guarantee alignment • attachment patterns as nervous system responses and ancestral inheritance • what divine union looks like in practice: safety, truth, reciprocity • somatic check in prompts for self abandonment and overgiving • a simple full moon ritual to pull energy back to self • healing attachment wounds through friendships, family, and solitude • grief, anger, and ritual after karmic or abusive relationships • letting go of the victim story and choosing co-creation going forward If it resonated with you, please let me know. You can reach out to me on Instagram. And if you aren't already, make sure that you get on my email list. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • March 24 · 23 min

    The Recalibration Phase: Why Your Life Reorganizes Itself Right Before A Major Upgrade

    Send us Fan Mail We feel a collective shift where more light brings more clarity and more shadow to integrate, and that can make life feel chaotic before it feels calm. I share what helps me move from forcing to trusting, especially when relationships, work, and identity start reorganizing around a new level of consciousness. • sensing the current energetic shift and what it asks of us • integrating big experiences with embodiment and nervous system support • why more light can surface more shadow collectively and personally • navigating relationships that feel different after deep healing • when your job or business stops feeling meaningful • taking small steps toward your soul blueprint without drastic leaps • building community so the path feels less isolating • using somatic work to meet fear, visibility, and expansion • David R Hawkins on force versus power and how abundance flows • understanding the reorganization phase as recalibration not punishment if you aren't on my email list yet, you can go to the show notes and get on there Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • March 6 · 14 min

    The Prophecies of Our Time: Why 2025-2027 Is a Turning Point for Humanity

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Body Wisdom Rising, Alyssa Stefanson explores the deeper shifts happening both personally and collectively as humanity moves through a period many traditions describe as a turning point. Drawing from ancient prophecies, astrology, and modern consciousness teachings, Alyssa reflects on why so many spiritual teachers are speaking about the window between 2025 and 2027 as a time of global transformation. She explores themes including: • The Eagle and Condor prophecy and the reunion of mind and heart • Why many traditions describe this time as a crossroads for humanity • Richard Rudd’s idea of 2026 as the “closing door” of an old cycle • The role of spiritual awakening in times of collective change • Why nervous system regulation and community will be essential moving forward • The importance of ancestral healing and reconnection to the Earth Alyssa also shares reflections from her recent time in Costa Rica and discusses why many people right now are feeling called to step into deeper purpose and service. This episode is an invitation to reflect on a powerful question: What role do you want to play in shaping the future that is emerging? Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • February 12 · 31 min

    Walking the Eclipse Portal: 5 Ways to Work With the Shift

    Send us Fan Mail A Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse in Aquarius. A Virgo Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse. Neptune and Saturn meeting at 0° Aries. The Lunar New Year ushering in the Fire Horse. This is not random intensity. It is structural initiation. In this episode, I break down what these transits actually mean and how they connect to larger nodal cycles, past eclipse timelines (2008, 2017–2018), and the broader Pluto-in-Aquarius era. Then I share five embodied ways to work with this portal: • Slow down to speed up • Create physical and energetic space • Practice identity-level embodiment • Work consciously with your personal transits • Anchor change through ritual This is not about prediction. It is about participation. Acceleration requires containment. Fire requires structure. And initiation requires presence. If you’re feeling intensity personally or collectively, this episode will help you orient, ground, and move forward consciously. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • January 31 · 39 min

    How A Near-Death Spiral Became A Spiritual Awakening And A Path To Service

    Send us Fan Mail Alyssa shares her story of recovery, healing, and coming back into the body — from early addiction and violence, through sobriety, somatic repair, and spiritual integration. She speaks openly about a teenage descent into substance use, relationships shaped by trauma, and the moment that interrupted the cycle and opened a different path. From there, Alyssa reflects on the role of 12-step recovery, the slow rebuilding of self-worth, and the realization that healing is not about fixing the self, but learning to relate to it differently. The episode weaves Jungian shadow work, ancestral healing, and somatic practices that support the nervous system in completing what survival once interrupted. Alyssa shares how community, ceremony, and earth-honouring rituals helped repair the isolation trauma creates, and how breathwork became a bridge back into safety, agency, and embodiment. She also speaks to the reclamation of anger — not as danger, but as a clean boundary and source of truth — and how this restored confidence, direction, and the ability to build a practice rooted in service rather than performance. Throughout the conversation, Alyssa explores the why beneath each tool: somatics for stress completion, ancestral work for inherited patterns, and breath as a way to soften the mind’s grip and return to the body. This episode offers grounded reflections and practical insights for anyone navigating trauma recovery, sobriety, and spiritual growth without bypassing the body. If this resonates, consider subscribing, sharing with someone who may need it, or leaving a review — it helps these conversations reach those they’re meant for. What part of this journey speaks to your own? Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • January 26 · 16 min

    Neptune in Aries: The Birth of a New Dream & the Call to the Spiritual Warrior

    Send us Fan Mail We explore Neptune’s move into Aries and why it marks a long shift from dreamy surrender to embodied action. We outline the light and shadow of the spiritual warrior, who feels this most, and how to act with courage without feeding chaos. • rooted spirituality meets practical embodiment • Neptune leaves Pisces and enters Aries • action, initiation and the noble warrior archetype • light and shadow of urgency, saviour stories, reactivity • historical context and slow ignition of outer planets • April momentum and why discernment matters • who is most impacted and how to read your chart • holding fire without burnout or polarization • sovereignty, attention as energy, and building over battling • clear call to live values with integrity and courage If that calls to you, you can find more information in the show notes Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • January 21 · 33 min

    Spiritual Awakening Vs. Soul Initiation

    Send us Fan Mail The stories we tell about awakening often skip the hard parts. We’re sold fireworks and constant signs, then left alone when the ground drops out. This conversation offers a grounded map: why the first opening can feel destabilizing, how to move from ego awakening to soul initiation, and the practices that turn insight into embodied change. Alyssa shares a candid personal story of rupture, addiction, and the early flood of synchronicities that eventually gave way to a steadier path of depth. From there, she unpacks core frameworks that make the process navigable. Carl Jung’s individuation reminds us that awareness isn’t maturity; shadow work is the ethical act of welcoming disowned parts so we can respond rather than react. Bill Plotkin’s lens clarifies the difference between expansion that excites and initiation that humbles, where belonging to body and earth replaces the chase for peak states. David Hawkins reframes emotion as gateway: grief, fear, and anger surface not to derail you but to be felt and released through presence. You’ll also get a simple, repeatable somatic practice to move emotion without story, plus practical supports for the dark night of the soul when meaning feels far away. We explore how grief dissolves rigid identities, softens the heart, and creates the space where purpose finds you. Expect fewer hacks and more honesty: less spectacle, more substance; less striving, more listening. If you’re ready to trade hype for wholeness and root your awakening in daily life, this is your invitation to slow down, feel deeply, and let the work mature you. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a real map, and leave a five-star review so these conversations reach more people. Your reflections matter—what part of your awakening is asking for integration right now? Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • January 6 · 38 min

    Spiritual Discernment in a Time of Awakening & Great Change

    Send us Fan Mail Awakening doesn’t always feel expansive. Often, it feels disorienting — like heightened sensitivity without a clear center. In this episode, we explore spiritual discernment during times of awakening and transition. How to tell the difference between intuition and overwhelm, truth and projection, expansion and avoidance. We look at why the last years have felt foggy for so many people, and what’s changing as we move into a new cycle that asks for less abstraction and more embodiment — spirituality that can actually be lived, not just understood. You’ll hear a grounded, plain-language exploration of Neptune moving from Pisces into Aries, and what this shift asks of us: clarity, responsibility, and action that the nervous system can truly hold. We also draw on Rudolf Steiner’s insights around balance — noticing when we drift into spiritual inflation on one side, or rigid control on the other — and how the body often knows the correction before the mind does. This episode connects discernment to attachment patterns and boundaries, helping you sense when you’re leaving yourself, outsourcing authority, or armouring — and how to come back gently, without shame. You’ll leave with: • body cues for clarity • simple questions for grounding • practical ways to stay centered during awakening • a steadier relationship with your own sensitivity This is an invitation into mature spirituality — rooted, honest, and embodied. If this supports you, consider following the show, sharing it with someone deep in their process, or leaving a review so these conversations can reach the people who need them. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • Dec 23, 2025 · 38 min

    The Healing Power of Sound Frequencies and Sacred Landscapes with Gabriel Logan Braun

    Send us Fan Mail Sound you can feel changes how you heal. Alyssa sat down with sound healer and world musician Gabriel Logan Braun to explore Sonic Womb, a fully improvised journey that blends voice, handpan, Ngoni, didgeridoo, harmonium, crystal bowls, and live looping to regulate the nervous system and restore a felt sense of safety. Gabriel shares his path from a teenage dark night to bhakti-inspired practice, mentorship, and a decade of offering trauma-sensitive sound therapy in recovery centres, retreat spaces, and beyond. Together, they map the science and the soul: how slower rhythms and low frequencies support a shift from sympathetic arousal into parasympathetic ease; why alpha and theta brainwaves invite calm focus and liminal rest; and how vagus nerve activation, mindful breath, and gentle vibration reshape our stress response. We also dig into somatic release—those twitches, shivers, and waves of emotion that signal the body is completing what it once had to hold—and the role of safe containers in allowing that process to unfold. We pair heat with rest through Primal Fire, Gabriel’s movement framework that stokes Agni with Qigong, dynamic breath work, primal locomotion, and freeform dance, then lands in Sonic Womb for integration. And we travel to Sedona’s red rock country, where ancient iron-rich formations and year-round creeks offer a natural amplifier for presence and ritual. If you’re curious to experience Gabriel’s work, start with the Sonic Womb album, the Wildfire EP, or his new hip-hop track Breaking Through the Static—and, if you feel called, explore our intimate April retreat in Sedona, where Gabriel will co-facilitate with live sound journeys. If this conversation resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs nervous system support, and leave a five-star review so more people can find these tools. Ready to join us in Sedona or want to know if it’s a fit? Book a call through the show notes and let’s connect. Gabriel's IG: @gabrielloganbraun Gabriel's Music: https://gabrielloganbraun.bandcamp.com https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkeQ0YJnXpBXmljVL-6Nh1g https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KQuIR2Js4Nx9vTM7NBU7J?si=UESxxAfCTO6BzJkE6h4W8g Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • Dec 15, 2025 · 19 min

    Why the Winter Solstice Is the Most Powerful Manifestation Portal and How to Work with the 13 Sacred Nights

    Send us Fan Mail Darkness isn’t a void to outrun; it’s the womb of everything new. As the winter solstice brings the longest night, we explore how this pause in nature invites a profound reset of body, mind, and spirit. We trace the roots of solstice traditions across cultures, why rituals like Yule fires and evergreens endure, and how later institutions rewired us to fear stillness. Through a grounded, nervous system lens, we transform vague “manifestation” into something practical: building capacity so what we call in can actually be held and sustained. We spend time in the magic dark, that threshold where old identities soften and new forms gather strength before they’re visible. The 13 sacred nights become a gentle rhythm for integration rather than a productivity sprint. You’ll learn why fatigue and heightened emotion at year’s end are signals, not flaws; how intuitive whispers get drowned by overstimulation; and why practices like singing, crafting, and baking regulate the system and return scattered energy to the body. We also reclaim the quiet power of thirteen—aligned with lunar cycles, water, and tides—as a compass for cyclical living. To make this real, I share a step-by-step solstice ritual you can begin right away: prepare from December 21 to 24, use a single beeswax candle after sundown, journal what your body reveals, track dreams and synchronicities, and tend a living altar with cedar, dried orange, and cinnamon. At the close of the 13 nights, simmer your herbs and offer the steam, the scent, and the water to your home or the earth as a way of marking completion and welcoming what’s next. If you’re ready to pause, integrate, and let the year ahead emerge from presence—not pressure—this conversation will meet you where you are. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs permission to rest, and leave a five-star review so more listeners can find these grounded tools. Join me on Instagram at Wild Feminine Rise to follow along as we move through the sacred nights together. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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  • Dec 2, 2025 · 43 min

    Timeline Jumping: Collapse Old Timelines and Open Portals to New Ones

    Send us Fan Mail Transformation rarely fails for lack of effort; it stalls when our internal baseline stays the same. Alyssa takes you inside the real mechanics of a timeline shift—how identity, nervous system patterns, and ancestral loyalties quietly script your choices—and shows why mindset alone keeps you looping familiar results. We explore how somatic practices teach your body new safety, how lineage work dissolves invisible contracts to stay small, and how community provides the co‑regulation that turns insight into durable change. You’ll hear a candid look at collapse, chaos, and the awkward in‑between where the old self no longer fits and the new one isn’t stable yet. Instead of forcing outcomes, we lean into pattern interrupts, embodied rituals, and environment design—retreats, land‑based ceremony, and group containers—that interrupt routine, widen capacity, and make clarity actionable. Along the way, we map the early signs of a real shift: lower tolerance for misalignment, cleaner decisions, deeper conversations, and opportunities that the old identity couldn’t hold. If you’re noticing tests—familiar jobs, past partners, soothing habits—this conversation reframes them as thresholds. You don’t need permission from family to heal family patterns; you need practices that update your emotional baseline and a circle that reflects your becoming. By the end, you’ll have a practical lens for choosing growth over comfort, regulating through uncertainty, and anchoring a future that matches who you’re becoming rather than who you’ve been. Ready to step onto a new path with support? Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who’s in the liminal, and leave a 5‑star review to help these conversations reach the people who need them most. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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