Remember Why You Are Here

There is a root that stretches back in time. Follow it far enough and you'll reach ancestors for whom you have no names—yet who hold the memories that can heal our world. As autumn thins the veil and asks us to remember what came before, I'm revisiting one of my favorite transmissions: a conversation about the deep ancestors, those who lived long before written history, and who are far more eager to speak with us than we might think.
I recorded this one back when my daughter was still just a little seed in my belly, and I'm returning to it now from inside the painted caves of the Dordogne in Southern France, still working on the very book these ancestors first called me to write seven years ago. In this episode, I share the story of the shamanic journey that changed everything for me, how a DNA test later confirmed what I'd felt in that vision, and how you can begin your own conversation with the deep ones of your lineage this season.
IN THE EPISODE
(00:01) – Meeting the deep ancestors from inside the caves of Southern France
(04:36) – Why fall is the season the veil grows thin
(06:40) – What makes an ancestor a "deep" ancestor
(09:56) – The ancient wisdom that's resurfacing now
(11:02) – The shamanic journey that led her to the caves of Southern France
(13:08) – A DNA test that confirmed the vision
(15:00) – How to start talking to your own deep ancestors
(17:07) – An invitation for this season
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I used to think protection meant sharp teeth and raised shields—the kind of fierce, obvious defense you only reach for when things get extreme. What I didn't understand is that protection is not always about standing your ground. Sometimes it's about creating enough space around yourself that you don't need a shield at all.
This month's intuitive reading was about soul protection after soul retrieval—tending to the parts of ourselves that have recently come home, still tender, still finding their footing. So in this episode, I get specific: what protection spells actually look like for an empath, day to day, and how to create the kind of boundaries you need to flourish. Because we protect what is sacred. What is still growing. What is carrying our hopes, our dreams, our wholeness. And you deserve that kind of protection too.
IN THE EPISODE
(0:00) – Why protection is this month's medicine
(1:27) – What protection actually means for an empath
(3:39) – Creating space to feel
(5:38) – Boundaries as what makes relationship possible
(9:45) – Protection spells: small nos, and choosing not to get activated
(17:40) – Boundaries around your time, attention, and transitions
(22:44) – Turning down the noise: taking away inputs
(25:44) – Embracing "negative" emotions as protection
(29:02) – Carrying a stone, calling in a bigger guide, and other everyday protection tools
(32:09) – Being full of yourself: passion as protection
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What if setting a boundary wasn't about drawing a line in the sand, but about getting clearer on who you actually are? Boundaries are medicine—not just for you, but for every relationship and ecosystem you're part of. And for sensitives and empaths especially, learning to hold them is one of the most profound healing journeys there is.
In this episode, I return to one of my favorite transmissions on boundaries as medicine. I share why this teaching feels especially timely now, as we move through September's energy of integration and protection. And I close with one of my favorite somatic practices for sensitives: an EFT tapping sequence for when guilt comes up around setting a boundary—because it will.
IN THE EPISODE
(0:00) – Why boundaries are September's medicine
(1:20) – Sheltering what's newly come home: boundaries as protection
(3:36) – What boundaries actually are—and why it's not a hard line in the sand
(5:41) – The garden metaphor: knowing what you want to cultivate
(8:35) – Why boundaries are psychedelic
(10:18) – Drawing boundaries with your own thoughts
(11:21) – Working with blackberry as a boundary ally
(13:23) – EFT tapping: a practice for when guilt shows up
(14:54) – Walking through the EFT tapping sequence
(20:37) – Why tapping brings sensitives back into their bodies
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Soul Retrieval Meditation
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September arrives like a portal opening. The veils thin, the inner world grows louder, and something that felt just out of reach begins—quietly, insistently—to come home. This month's reading drew from the deep past: cave paintings tens of thousands of years old, and a creature that carried its gifts in silence, rarely witnessed, rarely understood. What came through felt like a message for exactly this moment.
In this episode, I share this month's card and the ancient tradition it comes from, and drop into a reading about exile, reunion, and the visionary energy that September is opening for all of us.
IN THE EPISODE
(0:00) – Our card for September and the tradition it comes from
(5:38) – Chauvet Cave and the image at the heart of this month's reading
(11:16) – September as a continuation of August's soul retrievals
(13:17) – Welcoming home your exiled parts: what this actually looks like
(16:59) – Eclipse season, endings, and the integration underway
(19:14) – Protecting your energy as the veils thin
(21:32) – The visionary energy of this month: what wants to be seen
(23:25) – Between seasons: an ending and a beginning

The Shaman's Oracle by John Matthews and Will Kinghan
Your Soul's Image intuitive readings
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Your soul is always talking to you. Not in directives or announcements, but in something subtler and stranger and more beautiful: metaphor. The image that keeps appearing in your dreams. The tree you can't stop noticing on your morning walk. The feeling that rushes through you when you see something you can't explain. This is how your wider self communicates—through the language of poetry, comparison, and living symbol.
In this episode, I explore why the soul speaks in metaphor, what that means for the way we receive guidance, and how to start reading the language your own soul has been speaking all along. Including a big announcement: I'm opening my books this fall for one-on-one intuitive readings for the first time in years.
IN THE EPISODE
(0:00) – The soul speaks in metaphor
(4:53) – Why we miss our soul's messages even when they're constant
(5:18) – What metaphor is and why it's the soul's preferred language
(10:39) – How metaphor creates relationship
(14:09) – How I work with metaphor in intuitive readings
(16:21) – How to start speaking your soul's language
(18:08) – Building your own spirit dictionary
(21:39) – How to know it's your soul talking and not your worried mind
(28:24) – Your soul is poetry: the poem of who you are
(30:38) – A big announcement: intuitive readings are opening soon!
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