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What if the forest could translate psychology into plain language you can feel in your body? We sit down with clinical psychologist and author Mark Langenfeld to unpack Wisdom from the Woods, a pocket-sized devotional designed to guide a year of growth through practical nature metaphors, guided imagery, and mindful practice. From juggling as whole-brain therapy for dyslexia to moonlit walks that dissolve labels, Mark shows how storm clouds, willow trunks, and flower buds can teach forgiveness, patience, and grounded resilience without a single clinical buzzword.

We explore how to balance two modes of attention—hawk vision for planning and owl focus for execution—so you anticipate challenges without getting blindsided or burned out. Mark’s story of an owl’s tragic tunnel vision becomes a memorable reminder to shift perspective on purpose. He also opens the book’s structure: 52 stand-alone chapters with a subject index that lets you jump straight to anxiety, assertiveness, habit change, mindfulness, relationships, or visualization. Each chapter offers clear imagery, accessible exercises, and the kind of field-ready wisdom you can carry on a hike and apply the same day.

Beyond ideas, the conversation lands in service. Mark donates 100% of his author royalties to student nutrition at Northwood Technical College because learning starts with a full stomach. That choice fits the book’s ethos: wisdom should feed people. If you’re craving mental health tools that are practical, poetic, and portable, this episode will give you strategies you can try on your next walk—breathe like a storm that passes, stand like a willow that bends, and remove the old thorns that still catch on your sleeve.

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Mark Langenfeld is the author of Wisdom from the Woods, published by Llewellyn Worldwide. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Alliant International University in Fresno, CA. He teaches psychology and sociology at Northwood Technical College in Superior, WI. Before teaching, he worked as a therapist for several years. Additionally, he presents workshops at conferences on various topics dealing with improving psychological well-being. His hobbies include juggling, hiking, gardening, meditation, rock collecting, fishing, and doing random acts of kindness.

My book, Wisdom from the Woods, is the culmination of a lifetime of observations, writing, and reflection on the natural world. The stories in my book are very relatable to the average person.

100% of the author's royalties are donated to the students' Nutrition Assistance Program through the Northwood Technical College Foundation.

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What if your hardest seasons were not punishments, but precise lessons nudging you toward a truer life? We sit down with Ahaleaiah (Tracy Nichols)—acupuncturist, herbalist, and spiritual teacher—to explore the Akashic Records, past-life memory, and the surprising freedom that comes from releasing regret. Guided for decades by the ascended master Ashlem through the late Reverend Bob Copeland’s trance sessions, Ahaleaiah shares how specific readings validated private moments she never told anyone, then mapped the patterns she needed to transform.

We unpack how karma functions more like energetic momentum than doom, why patterns repeat until we learn, and how unconditional love begins with fierce self respect. Ahaleaiah’s new book, Lessons from Above, is part memoir, part field guide: a candid account of real mistakes, complicated relationships, and the step-by-step work of integrating spiritual insight into daily life. No lofty jargon—just grounded practices you can use today, from meditation and intuitive channeling to sound healing, crystals, and esoteric acupuncture. The goal isn’t to tell you what to do; it’s to help you hear your own soul clearly enough to choose.

You’ll hear vivid stories of past-life resonance that illuminate present-day purpose, a reframe of oneness that cuts through the illusion of separation, and a compassionate stance she calls impersonal love—respecting every person as a spark of the divine, even when they challenge you. If you’ve felt stuck in cycles of self blame, if deja vu trails your relationships, or if you’re simply ready to see your story with kinder eyes, this conversation offers practical light for the path.

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Change can feel chaotic until you have language for it. We sit down with astrologer and author Narayana Montúfar to decode 2026 as a year that anchors a wider shift that started in 2020—out of heavy earth patterns and into an era defined by air and fire: ideas, networks, learning, and bold beginnings. Instead of fortune-telling, we focus on practical astrology you can use, the kind that grounds you in timing, choice, and embodied ritual.

We start with the Moon—your inner wiring for safety, sleep, nourishment, and love—and why knowing your Moon sign can transform how you care for yourself. Then we reframe Saturn. Forget the fear: Saturn is the great builder, showing up in seven-year checkpoints and the famed Saturn return to help you craft the life that lasts. Nadiana’s “Written in Your Stars” maps cycles for Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and beyond, and her free calculator pinpoints peaks and endings so you can plan with precision. We also explore her celestial art—birth chart paintings that turn your placements into color and motion—and her Luminous Year 2026, a living calendar with rituals, meditations, mantras, and journal prompts that keep astrology in your body, not just on your feed.

The key is elemental alignment. Ask how you relate to air (mind, language, learning) and fire (will, initiation, spirit). If your brain feels passive, learn something new. If your fire is low, move and create; if it’s too hot, pace it with reflection. Two simple tools guide the year: find the house Aquarius rules in your chart to see where power returns, and treat Mercury retrogrades in water as emotional rewrites rather than glitches.

If you’re ready to swap anxiety for agency, this conversation gives you the map and the mindset. Listen, share with a friend who needs a compass for 2026, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next. If this episode helped, leave a quick review—it helps more seekers find their timing.

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Narayana Montúfar is a writer, astrologer, Akashic Records practitioner, visual artist, and the author of Moon Signs: Unlock Your Inner Luminary Power & Written in Your Stars: Use Your Saturn Return, Pluto Square, and Other Planetary Cycles to Become Your Best Self. Narayana thrives on maintaining a sacred and intimate connection with the sky through her writing, private readings, and abstract painting. She believes the power of the universe is best harnessed when we try to access it within ourselves. Narayana was featured as one of Vogue’s 13 Astrologers to Follow in 2021 and one of Medium.com’s Authority Magazine 2020’s Strong Female Leaders. She was also chosen as one of Destig Magazine’s Top Artists to Collect in 2020 and has appeared in numerous podcasts.

Between 2011 & 2023, Narayana was the Senior Astrologer for Astrology.com & Horoscope.com. She now serves as the in-house astrologer for House of Intuition and currently writes for Forever Conscious and Parade. You can also find her writing and astrological insights in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Well+Good, Refinery29, Women’s Health, PopSugar, Bustle, Brit+Co, The Zoe Report, and more.

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A producer’s eye. A witch’s ear. A survivor’s will. That’s the energy Amy Miranda brings as we trace how she left award-winning media work, named her deepest wounds, and built a living map back to wonder. The conversation centers on her book What We’ve Forgotten, a richly illustrated, interdimensional guide that turns big spiritual ideas into rooms you can actually visit: an Inner Sanctum without gatekeepers, a Library that grounds Hermetic principles, elements, and the clairs, and protective halls that honor timing, truth, and consent.

We talk about how power gets counterfeited by the “uninvited”—patriarchy, colonialism, and extractive capitalism—and what it takes to reclaim the real thing. Amy shares how a soul retrieval reframed her identity as a creator, not a controller, and how lineage work across Filipino, Chinese, Taíno, and Scottish roots helped her name what was stolen and remember what endures. If you’ve ever felt like you “won” the system and still lost yourself, this story offers a different prize: integrity, clarity, and a practical way home.

To demystify the mystical, Amy uses a tech-native analogy: ordinary reality is the front end; non-ordinary reality is the admin panel. Change the backend, shift the experience. That’s how she teaches manifestation, discernment, and iterative healing—debugs, timing, and trust. We also explore choosing love over fear with fierce compassion, why community is a spiritual technology, and how to build a boat together before leaving a sinking ship.

Come for the star at the book’s heart (Sirius), stay for the keys, and leave with language, tools, and courage. If you’re ready to remember who you are and find the others, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more seekers find their map.

Amy is a witch, medium, and Spiritualist who demystifies the mystical. Before being called to service in healing work, Amy spent over twenty years working in media as a globally awarded executive producer and creative. A few years into the launch of her creative company, Lunch, Amy began to follow her personal breadcrumbs and examine her own ten-thousand-foot view. In working through her own healing journey, she finally named her trauma and transmuted poison to medicine in pursuit of justice and change. Amy likes to say it ran in the family until it ran into her.

Her unique background brings a fresh and wonder-filled perspective by shining a new light on the old ways and bringing a new lens and creative perspective to our collective connectedness. Amy conducts creative healing workshops and ceremonies with clients around the world to help remind them how to reclaim their magic and authentic power.

Public Enemy's Chuck D describes her as "relentless" and Sandra Ingerman calls her "a leader for these times."

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A sacred circle, a living fire, and voices that won’t shrink to fit the frame. We brought together Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani and Sherry Shone “That Hoodoo Lady” to talk about hoodoo as it’s actually lived: messy, embodied, ancestor-led, and unapologetically focused on liberation. The truth about where this work comes from, who it’s for, and why it’s still necessary.

We dig into permission and boundaries with care. Everyone can read to learn history and context; reading becomes a bridge to respect and accountability. Practice, though, is not a marketplace. Hoodoo is born from survival and community defense, not from trends. We unpack how to move from ally to accomplice, how to challenge token panels and soft appropriation, and how to listen to the people who carry the line. Along the way, we explore “reverse engineering” sacred language—reclaiming scripture and spells so they serve freedom, not obedience.

You’ll hear practical, grounded magic you can start today. Begin with a glass of water and your honest words; bless it, pour it to the earth, and let the work travel where it’s needed. Pair that with a mirror ritual that names you as a beautiful ancestor, shifting self-talk from scarcity to sovereignty. We connect these practices to therapy, book lists, and community study, because emotional maturity is part of the craft. If your ritual can’t hold grief, racism, and daily safety, it isn’t practice—it’s décor.

Come sit with us. Learn from the women doing the work before writing the books. If this conversation moved you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs strength today, and leave a review to help others find these teachings. Your words matter—speak them. Your water matters—bless it. Your life matters—live it out loud.

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Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani, a native of New Orleans, is a distinguished writer and spirit woman. Her work has been featured in notable publications like The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, Essence Magazine, and Chicken Bones: A Literary Journal. She is the author of several plays, including Crows Feet, Bourbon, and Men of the AmonRa Society, and co-writer/director of Brown Blood Black Womb. She received the Southern Black Theatre Festival’s 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year award for her play, Spring Chickens.

In 2008, Mawiyah earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Beyond her writing, she is a respected educator, an 8th Generation Witch, and a Priestess of OYA in the Yoruba spiritual system, addressed as Iyanifa Faniyi Aboyade Omobola Bomani. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oya N'Soro, an e-zine dedicated to culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality.

Mawiyah currently resides in Louisiana, where she conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, and divinations. She is working on two new projects: a middle-grade series, The Cool Beans Ghost Hunter Society, which features special needs superheroes, and Dead Man Stew, a poetry collection inspired by Tarot. Mawiyah is also the host of the podcast FishHeadsinRedGravy, which celebrates marginalized people in the esoteric and occult world. She is a recipient of the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award and the KAT Artist Residency. Mawiyah is the author of two books published by Llewellyn Worldwide: Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells and Magick an

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What if your hardest times were invitations to remember who you really are? We sit down with Viv, a Nigerian-based creative, tarot reader, and host of “Perspective with Viv,” to explore how intuition, shadow work, and art can turn displacement into belonging. Raised in a devout Muslim family, Viv built a powerful prayer life before a spark around “vibration and frequency” opened a wider field: dream-led tarot, effortless astrology, and creativity as a channel for healing. Her origin story as an artist carries a cinematic twist—an intuitive push to post her composite photography series placing Nigerian street life in Western backdrops sparked viral attention and major media features. The images reveal more than technical skill: they bridge cultures while honoring roots, showing how identity can be both grounded and expansive.

We dig into the tension between organized religion and spirituality, and why going “beyond the box” matters when the work is to face the shadow and choose love over performance. Viv shares candidly about depression during her England years and how it transmuted into poetry, film, and photography. She breaks down the pivotal moment creativity dulled—when art shifted from soul-first to audience-first—and how she reclaimed voice through tarot, podcasting, and daily acts of remembering. Returning to Nigeria brought another test: would she lose her magic to conformity or anchor her home frequency? The answer arrives in synchronicities, aligned relationships, and a layered creative life that feels mundane and magical all at once.

You’ll hear practical guidance to find your frequency: revisit what you loved as a child, engage what lights you up right now, and keep a creative outlet close while you do the necessary shadow work. Viv closes with a collective tarot reading on justice, mindset shifts, and welcoming abundance without self-sabotage. If you’re navigating identity, faith, or creativity, this conversation offers an honest map back to self.

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Viv is a dynamic podcast host, intuitive guide, and Tarot performer, celebrated for her captivating energy and soothing voice. On her podcast, Perspective with Viv, she delves into self-growth, shadow work, and personal transformation, while shining a celebrating the beauty of art, film, and creativity. Viv also offers insightful tarot and astrology readings and brings her magnetic presence to live events with unforgettable performances. Outside of that I’m a creative who doesn’t fit into a box. I’m also Nigerian and I’m based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Ever wish healing felt less like reliving pain and more like coming home to your body? We sit down with writer, yoga therapeutics teacher, and group facilitator Jacqueline Jackson to explore how somatic practices, EMDR-inspired tools, and gentle shadow work help calm the amygdala, restore choice, and make safety feel real again. Jackie’s path runs through journalism, caregiving, cancer survivorship, and decades of yoga teaching, and she brings that lived credibility to a practical “healing menu” anyone can use.

We unpack the science in plain English: what happens when the fire alarm in your brain won’t shut off, why the prefrontal cortex goes offline, and how bilateral stimulation can help the hippocampus file distress into the past. Then we get hands-on with simple, portable tools—orientation, belly breathing, and the butterfly hug—that you can try in a few minutes without dredging up old stories. Along the way, we connect ancient wisdom and modern research: mudras that mirror EMDR’s left-right rhythm, the yoga idea that issues live in the tissues, and the heart center’s reminder that we are unbroken at our core.

Community plays a starring role. From music therapy in clinical settings to singing in a choir to reopen the throat after illness, we show how rhythm and voice move what words can’t. Jackie also introduces the Other Parents Like Me network, a compassionate space for caregivers practicing boundaries, gratitude, and evidence-based communication. The big payoff? Not a new self, but the remembered self—lighter, clearer, and more resourced. If you’ve been wary of the word “trauma,” consider this your permission slip to start with safety, agency, and small daily practices.

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Jacqueline Jackson is a writer, yoga practitioner, and group facilitator with the Other Parents Like Me network. As an experienced, registered yoga teacher, Jackie completed a year-long comprehensive yoga therapy certification and a trauma-informed yoga certification. She is also certified in Somatic-EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Retraining) and trained in the Invitation To Change approach from the Center for Motivational Change. Jackie is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is the author of Holistic Trauma Healing: Strategies to Integrate the Body, Mind, and Spirit and Urge Overkill: A Story of Breaking Free.

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Imagine picking up a beach pebble and realizing it’s not “just a rock,” but a potential ally with history, voice, and agency. That’s the journey we take with author and crystal expert Nicholas Pearson, who brings together geology, folklore, and practical magic to transform how we see stones—from glittering quartz and moonstone to the humble salt on our table. We move beyond buzzwords and trends into clear definitions and meaningful practice: what makes a crystal a mineral, when a rock is more than the sum of its parts, and why understanding structure actually deepens the mystery.

Nicholas shares a refreshing reframing of “precious,” rooted in medieval lapidaries where a stone’s value came from its virtue—its ability to influence protection, healing, or weather—rather than scarcity. That animistic thread runs through tales reaching back to hominid-era quartz offerings and into modern craft you can try today. We unpack the witching stone concept with a standout tour of the hagstone: how erosive forces and even mollusks pierce stone, why hag and hedge share a boundary-born origin, and how a simple hole becomes a literal lens for threshold work, dream protection, and divination.

What makes this conversation so useful is its accessibility. You don’t need to be a witch, pagan, or druid to participate. Nicholas offers archetypal roles instead of prescriptions, so any tradition can adapt the work. We also explore georegional magic—finding power in local stones like flint, chalk, granite, and fossils—supporting ethical practice while deepening a relationship with place. If you’ve ever felt awe at moonstone’s glow, this talk helps you keep that wonder while learning the science that holds it. If you’ve ever doubted that a garden pebble could be magical, you’ll leave with tools to prove yourself wrong.

Ready to blend science with spellcraft and build a practice grounded in both? Listen, subscribe, and share with someone who loves rocks as much as you do. If this episode sparked ideas, leave a review and tell us which stone is calling your name.

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