In this episode, I'm sharing something that has genuinely shaken me to my core this week, in the most beautiful, grounding, world-expanding way. It started with a conversation with my shamanic healer about lineage and gifts and it sent me down a rabbit hole that I am still processing as I sit down to record this.

It turns out I was born in one of the most ancient cities in all of northern Europe. A city founded by the Celts. A place where the veil between worlds has been thin for millennia. A place deeply connected to an ancient healing tradition called Braucherei, one where women who practised it were so often called witches. And as I started pulling on that thread, more threads appeared. Connections to France. To the Cathars. To the sacred feminine. To the land we now call home. Even to my daughter's name.

Layer upon layer, it all started to make sense. The ancient knowing I have always felt but never been able to explain. The memories that live in my body that are not my own. The gifts I have always had but struggled to find the words for. All of it, finally, clicking into place.

In this episode I talk about what it truly means to trace your lineage, not through names and dates, but through energy, memory and land. I share what the concept of a Völva is and why it stopped me in my tracks. I explore Braucherei and why discovering it felt like finally finding the word for something I have been doing my whole life. And I open up about the very real, very vulnerable business decision I made this week, to close a container that no longer felt in integrity with who I am becoming, and why sometimes honouring yourself means making the hard call.

This episode is raw, wide-ranging and honestly a little bit all over the place, because that is exactly where I am right now. My world is being turned upside down and rebuilt from the foundations up and I would not have it any other way.

If you have ever felt like there is a part of you that you just cannot quite reach or a knowing inside you that you cannot explain or a pull toward something you do not yet have the words for, this episode is for you.

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