Season 1, Episode 14: Healing The Witch Wound With Hecate | Somatic Wisdom for Sensitive Nervous Systems | With April Lampert, MA, LPCC

The fear of being “too much” has roots that run deeper than self-doubt. We trace the witch wound from European trials to modern life, where sensitive bodies still calculate the cost of visibility, and where power can feel dangerous to claim. With special guest, April Lampert (she/her), MA, LPCC and fellow somatic therapist and coven sister, we unpack how this inherited pattern shows up as hiding our gifts, shrinking our voices, and bracing for backlash, then map a pathway back to courage with Hecate’s torch lighting the way.

We ground the conversation in the body. Highly sensitive people process more, feel more, and get overwhelmed faster, which makes the witch wound louder in a hyperconnected world. We explore intergenerational trauma, chronic illness, and endometriosis as complex expressions of systems that carried too much for too long. Instead of chasing perfect regulation, we practice “regulated enough”: micro-pauses, breath breaks, sensory resets, titrated news, water rituals, and music that smooths the nervous system’s edges. April shares her cauldron metaphor as a living boundary, a vessel that holds what we can’t or shouldn’t carry alone.

History and myth both matter, but so does community. If the wound was seeded through isolation and betrayal, healing requires trusted witnesses who celebrate power instead of fearing it. We talk coven as a container for shared holding, and Hecate as guide at the crossroads where an old identity dies and the priestess steps forward. With Venus–Pluto and Sun–Pluto amplifying transformation, we ask: what part of you is ready to be seen, and what support will make it safe enough to emerge?

If this conversation stirs something true, come closer. Subscribe for more priestess wisdom, share this with a friend who needs the reminder, and leave a review so others can find the medicine. Then tell us: what small act of visibility are you claiming next?

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Season 1, Episode 12: What the Body Remembers | Chronic Illness, Trauma & Movement as Medicine

Your body remembers everything—every trauma, every initiation, every unprocessed emotion. It stores these in your tissues, your nervous system, your cells. And it's been trying to tell you something.

In this episode, Casey explores the science of somatics and what happens when we actually listen to what the body knows:

• How implicit memory stores trauma in tissues, muscles, fascia, and the nervous system
• Psychoneuroimmunology: the connection between chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and immune system breakdown
• Intergenerational trauma carried through DNA and epigenetics
• Casey's journey with chronic illness from childhood: migraines at age 8, fibromyalgia at 13, hypothyroidism, PCOS, endometriosis
• Pain Reprocessing Therapy and neuroplastic pain—how the brain can unlearn chronic pain
• Why the body sometimes holds weight as protection, not failure
• Holistic healing: plant medicine, energy work, nervous system regulation, rest as medicine
• Movement as prayer: ecstatic dance, walking in nature, play in community
• What Casey's hands taught her after the fall: resilience, receiving, and the wisdom of scars

This isn't a "I healed myself through positive thinking" story. This is an "I learned to listen to my body and give it what it actually needs" story.

Includes a somatic practice for having a conversation with your body.

Mini astrology report: New Moon in Capricorn (Sunday) asks what structures—including how you inhabit your body—need to be rebuilt. Venus moves into Aquarius (Saturday), inviting unconventional approaches to embodiment and beauty.

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#12 Creative Practice as Priestess Work

Creativity isn't just self-expression. It's soul work. It's alchemy. It's how we make the invisible visible.

In this episode, I explore creativity as a spiritual channel—how art-making processes grief and trauma, how different parts of yourself can create through you, and why creative energy is sexual life force (Shakti). I share my lifelong relationship with art, my intergenerational creative lineage, and what happened when I let my teenage part paint whatever she wanted (spoiler: she became friends with my Lilith energy).

This episode debuts new intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne—a lifelong musician now stepping more fully into his creative calling. Let us know what you think in the episode poll!

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What we cover:

• The astrology transit of the week: Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn (creative desire meets action)
• My creative journey across mediums: visual art, poetry, dance, color as language
• Creativity as alchemy: externalizing grief, trauma, and complex emotions into form
• Creativity as channel: inviting parts of yourself and goddess energies to create through you
• Shakti and Medusa: creativity as sexual life force and reclaiming power
• The artist wound: dismantling capitalism's belief that art is only valuable if it makes money
• The vulnerability of being seen: fear, judgment, and the "too much" lie
• Fall and winter as creative seasons: the underworld priestess creating in darkness

Plus: A closing creative practice to let something move through you right now.

If you're an artist, a healer, someone who creates from your depths—this episode is for you. Your creativity is sacred. Your fullness is not too much. Your art matters whether anyone buys it or not.

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This podcast offers spiritual and psychological education and priestess wisdom. This is not therapy, counseling, or mental health treatment.

Intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne: [Spotify link]