What if your shadow holds the keys to deeper healing and connection?

Mary Mueller Shutan, author and spiritual teacher, joins Lisa to explore animism, shamanism, and shadow work as pathways into embodiment and wholeness. They discuss how disconnection in our culture fuels spiritual sickness, how reconnecting with the natural world restores balance, and why shadow work reveals the unconscious patterns shaping our lives. Through stories and practices, Mary brings clarity to working with archetypes, emotions, and the nervous system.

This conversation invites you to embrace both light and shadow, reclaim your innate wisdom, and live more fully in the present moment. True transformation begins not with escape, but with deep connection to yourself, your body, and the world around you.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• shadow work
• animism
• shamanism
• spiritual awakening
• divine feminine
• archetypes and myths
• nervous system healing
• spiritual disconnection and reconnection
• feminine spirituality

Connect with Mary Mueller Shutan:

https://maryshutan.com/

Books: https://maryshutan.com/books-2/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maryshutan/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MaryShutan

Connect with Lisa:

Substack: This Enchanted Life - https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Program: Enlivened: An Archetypal Life Lab - https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/getenlivened

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin - https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie.rankin/

Website: lisamarierankin.com - https://www.lisamarierankin.com/

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Life will bring fire, but it can also be the spark of transformation.

Spiritual teacher and retreat leader Britt B Steele shares her powerful story of facing breast cancer, navigating menopause, and embracing the fires of life as opportunities for growth and healing. Through Ayurveda, yoga, plant medicine, and community, she reveals how women can cultivate resilience, intuition, and radical responsibility to transform challenge into initiation.

This inspiring conversation is a reminder that divinity lives within us, and that gratitude, embodied wisdom, and supportive sisterhood can guide us through even the darkest nights of the soul into a life of radiant empowerment.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• walking through the fire
• feminine strength and wisdom
• spiritual teacher and leader
• yoga retreats in Mexico
• Ayurveda and Pitta fire element
• breast cancer journey and healing

Connect with Britt B Steele:

https://brittbsteele.com/

https://www.instagram.com/brittbsteele/

Connect with Lisa:

Substack: This Enchanted Life - https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Program: Enlivened: An Archetypal Life Lab - https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/getenlivened

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin - https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie.rankin/

Website: lisamarierankin.com - https://www.lisamarierankin.com/

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Your deepest desires already hold the key to transformation when your inner king and queen work together.

Through myth, fairy tales, Jungian psychology, and Romantasy, Lisa reveals how the anima and animus, the inner feminine and masculine, shape our lives. She explores the symbolic map of archetypes, showing how discipline, boundaries, and imagination weave into the sacred union of your inner king and queen. With stories from A Court of Thorns and Roses and wisdom from Jung and Marion Woodman, she illustrates how these energies create balance, protection, and fulfillment.

This conversation invites you to honor your desires while building the structures to bring them to life. When your king and queen unite, you reclaim your sovereignty, embody sacred feminine wisdom, and live mythically.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Jungian psychology

archetypal power

anima and animus

inner king and queen

sacred union

divine feminine

feminine and masculine energy

Romantasy books

Connect with Lisa:

Substack: This Enchanted Life - https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Program: Enlivened: An Archetypal Life Lab - https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/getenlivened

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin - https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie.rankin/

Website: lisamarierankin.com - https://www.lisamarierankin.com/

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