Throughout this season of Matriarchal Medicine, we’ve talked a lot about community — sisterhood, collaboration, and the village so many women are longing for as mothers and entrepreneurs.

But in this finale, Audrey goes to the place most conversations avoid: the underbelly of the village.

The subtle sabotage.

The quiet competition.

The relationships that smile on the surface but can’t actually hold your expansion.

This episode is a grounded, honest exploration of the shadow side of sisterhood — why not everyone in your circle wants you to win, how this pattern traces back through history and the witch hunts, and what it asks of us now as women reclaiming matriarchal leadership.

Rather than blaming or bypassing, Audrey invites radical responsibility: to look at where we’ve stayed small to belong, where we’ve tolerated relationships that drain us, and how we begin choosing community that can celebrate us out loud.

This is not a call to isolation it’s a call to discernment, integrity, and embodied belonging.

• Why community can feel painful even when everyone is “doing the work”
• The nervous-system cost of expanding in spaces that can’t truly hold you
• Subtle sabotage, comparison, and polite withdrawal — and how to name them without gaslighting yourself
• How historical trauma fractured women’s trust in one another
• The unconscious payoff of staying small or tolerated
• Why resentment is a signal, not a moral failure
• What mature, matriarchal sisterhood actually requires
• How to build community rooted in reciprocity, honesty, and safety, not fantasy

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The village we’re longing for isn’t behind us.

It has to be built — slowly, consciously, woman by woman.

In this conversation, Audrey sits down with one of the most requested women in her community: Victoria Goyre, a woman whose entire life has been marked by initiations — birth, death, motherhood, shamanic apprenticeship, Western medicine, scar tissue remediation, and two years of GAPS that cracked open the doors to her intuition and lineage.

Victoria shares the raw and unfiltered story of becoming a mother at sixteen and hiding her pregnancy for six months…

the night her mother found out…

the health scare that forced her into a decision she never felt ready for…

and the moment she realized she wanted to live.

That initiation carried her into 25 years of nursing — pediatric oncology, ICU, ER, bone setting, watching children cross over, learning to communicate with the unseen, and becoming a medicine woman “in captivity,” as she puts it.

And then her life split open again: through postpartum, through spontaneous healing, through Stream scar tissue work, and through GAPS — the new initiation that rewired her physiology, her intuition, her boundaries, and her motherhood.

This episode is a masterclass in slow growth, sacred self-belonging, lineage repair, and creating a business that honors the seasons of a woman’s body.

Her first initiation at sixteen and the moment she chose life.

Bone-setting, ICU ethics, oncology patients, and intuitive encounters she tried to shut down.

Her first scar tissue remediation appointment with Ellen — and the spontaneous healing that followed.

Rebuilding her physiology from infant → toddler → maiden → mother, reliving stored memories, and reclaiming intuition.

Why she refuses to sprint and is designing a life she can sustain for decades.

Her three core truths discovered “at the bottom of the soup bowl.”

Why she keeps openings in her schedule and refuses the bro-marketing “scale fast” culture.

GAPS as the medicine that shifted her son’s reading, attention, emotional regulation, and confidence.

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A story like this isn’t linear — it’s a spiral, and Victoria shows exactly what it looks like to walk the spiral with devotion, slowness, and a deep reverence for the body as the first teacher.

In this intimate sister-to-sister episode, Audrey and her sister Cortney revisit the unconventional childhood that shaped them — spending half their lives in a remote fly-in lodge deep in the Canadian wilderness.

They talk about what that upbringing gave them: resourcefulness, work ethic, entrepreneurial instinct, and the ability to create something out of nothing.

And what it cost them: dysregulation, pressure, unpredictability, and the emotional labor of growing up inside a family business.

Together they reflect on how those early patterns show up in their motherhood, their businesses, their nervous systems, and the way they now choose to raise their own children with more presence and gentleness than they ever received.

This episode is both nostalgic and revealing — a story of breaking generational patterns, honoring what served, releasing what didn’t, and learning to mother in a way that heals the girl you used to be.

✨ Growing up in the middle of nowhere

Lessons from lodge life, isolation, and working from childhood.

✨ What the wild imprinted in us

Resourcefulness, problem-solving, improvisation — and chronic dysregulation.

✨ Parents as entrepreneurs

What we absorbed by watching our parents run businesses: the good, the messy, and the “we’re not repeating that.”

✨ From survival to choice

How adult nervous system work changed the way we create, mother, and lead.

✨ Doing motherhood differently

Breaking urgency culture, choosing presence, protecting home as sacred, and raising kids who don’t have to earn belonging.

✨ How our childhood shaped our businesses

ADHD tendencies, grit, creativity, and our ability to build unconventional work that supports our families.

About Cortney:

Cortney is a stay-at-home mom of two and the owner of two small businesses that reflect both her creativity and her love for community. She owns The TÜK Boutique, a custom gift boutique where she laser engraves and designs personalized pieces ranging from earrings to Christmas ornaments and everything in between. She is also the owner of Cortney’s Pawperty, a warm and trusted home-based doggy daycare and boarding service. Balancing motherhood with entrepreneurship, Cortney has built a life centered on family, passion, and the joy of creating meaningful connections, whether through a handcrafted gift or caring for someone’s four-legged family member.

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