Divine Woman Amanda Sophia

After years of anticipation, Emer Quintero, my Beloved Soul Sister, and I finally sat down, saddled our microphones, and began speaking our truth about Walking the Modern Priestess Path. This podcast explores our journeys of healing and ascension, balancing these paths with the roles of being moms, women, business owners, and practitioners.
This is a heartfelt conversation about our experiences and visions for the world and specifically the essential work we do. We speak on various topics, flowing freely from reconnecting with our own essence, and how we’ve removed self-judgment, to embracing boundary setting and empathizing with the journeys of others while feeling confident in our own.
Join us as we discuss the realities of being a modern-day priestess, the challenges that might come up, and how we have worked through these to remain authentic to ourselves. The Priestess path isn’t always “sunshine and roses,” and we face a lot of judgment for how we choose to live. We talk about how we perceive ourselves, how we manage the perceptions of others, and how we protect ourselves from caring about others' opinions.
Emer and I also discuss our visions for the new earth, what that means to us, and how the priestess path is much less glamorous and classy, and much more focused on embodiment—the nuts and bolts of your beliefs.
If you’re looking to just sit down, have a cuppa, and listen to our chat about inner guidance, intuition, and learning to truly listen to that inner voice, then this is the episode for you. We touch on powerful areas of our lives, like our children, our roles as mothers, our businesses, how we manage our triggers without reacting, and how we maintain the sacred in our daily routines.
Tune in for future episodes where we'll dive deeper into these topics and more, sharing our insights and experiences on this transformative yet challenging path of a modern priestess.
 
Emer Quintero is multidimensional conduit for Source. 
She is a gridworker, light language channel & sound alchemist dedicated to assisting humanity in rediscovering their innate gifts & attune to their inner guidance.  
Emer has spent over 20 years refining her unique energy healing modality, primarily focusing on womb wellness, trauma release, and activation.
She is passionate about guiding men and women using embodiment practices and sound to connect with their bodies and voices which she feels are key to helping them unlock their unique soul gifts. 
Emer hosts and facilitates retreats and workshops worldwide along with 1:1 guidance & energy work both online & in person. 
Connect with Emer:
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In our new podcast mini-series “Retreat Reflections”, I speak with a group of Goddesses that went to Greece with me. As they share their stories and experiences, we expand on our ascension journeys, both individually and as a collective.

In May of 2024, we embarked on an Ascension Journey Retreat to Greece with a group of wonderful, powerful, and amazing women. We traveled to Athens and Santorini and spent days soaking in the magic of the sites, the rituals, and the ceremonies together. I invited some of these beautiful women from the Ascension Retreat to speak about their experiences.

It was an honor to gather with these Goddesses and hear how they each experienced this retreat uniquely and how they worked on their inner landscapes. In this episode, each of these women explains their experiences in the ascension practices, in circle with other supportive women, and how their vulnerability combined with inner sovereignty empowered them.

We discussed what was special to them, what we did on the retreat, and how each of them integrated these practices afterward. The integration process is so important and it’s beautiful to hear that each person has had similar experiences and then had their own unique way of processing it.

If you listen to this episode and you feel called to this work, you are meant to step into the sacred container of these retreats. We gather in places of ancient wisdom and modern awakening, combining the ancient with the present. 
I see women, who were once persecuted for such transformative work, burnt at the stake, now come together to celebrate each other. We collectively activate our inner light, stepping into the radiant, sensual, and sovereign beings we were always meant to be. If this is calling you, then please take a look at our upcoming retreats to activate it within your being as these women did!

In this episode, Lara Eisenberg shares intimate details and advice about confronting ancestral fears & redefining your identity, guided by her unique experiences of healing her ancestral wounds. She immersed herself in the inner work necessary and found a beautiful light of remembrance throughout her journey. This is a powerful message and inspiration to all those who struggle to connect with their heritage or ancestors.

The essence of this episode invites you to stand within your power, working through ancestral traumas, pain, and suffering to emerge from a place of courage. Lara has been a friend and soul-sister of mine for over 15 years and I’ve had the absolute privilege to witness her growth, awakenings, and empowerment process.

Throughout our chat, Lara shares deeply intimate memories, experiences, and realizations about her Jewish heritage and lineage, working through experiences of antisemitism and how that has impacted her and her family. She explains how for most of her life she lived in fear, guilt, and in the shadow of her heritage due to so many comments and experiences that inevitably made her feel small in her Jewish identity. Until she started healing these wounds in such a profound way and started accepting her identity and working through the experiences and memories of her family.

There is a sense of fear that isn’t easily extinguished when so much pain is inflicted, and it is a conscious choice to walk towards your fears. She describes her next step in ancestral healing as “getting close and intimate with your fears. In this next step, Lara embarked on a pilgrimage to Poland, she toured the concentration camps, and the gas chambers and she felt the heaviness of tragedy immensely. Through this process, she describes it as incomprehensible, to hold the emotions and energies of everyone who went through those walls, through the trauma and death that still lingers.

“How could this happen to my people?”

She describes how difficult it was to hold space there, and how the grief alone felt exhausting and overwhelming. This pilgrimage set aside such a beautiful journey for Lara that she connected not only with her Jewish identity but also with the brave women in her lineage who fought, escaped, and worked so hard to remain strong within the movement. While working through the painful parts of her lineage, Lara now describes herself as filled with pride instead of shame.

Now she lives a life connected to a proud Jewish identity, only because she decided to work through her fear and shame, allowing her to unfold a new celebration within her ancestry. She shares advice, rituals, and practices that can help anyone who wants to connect with their ancestors, and heritage, and heal wounds they may discover along the way. This episode is a dose of empowerment, and I encourage you to listen to it knowing that there is always a way to step out of fear, into confidence, out of shame, and into the light!
 
Lara Eisenberg is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, Yoga Therapist, and Sexuality and Embodiment Coach. She holds dual master's degrees in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University. She has extensive experience and education in stress management, trauma touch skills, earth-based spirituality; restoring sexual vitality, self-love, and awakening the feminine. 
Lara is the author of the "Trauma Resolution for the Empowered, Awakened Female: Mind/Body Practices for Emotional, Spiritual and Physical Balance" and the CD "Relaxation, Peace and Restoration." 
Lara has been working in the field of mindfulness, therapy, spiritual and somatic healing for over 22 years.  She owns Body Mind Wellness—a virtual somatic psychotherapy and coaching practice helping women to restore the natural harmony that exists between mind, body, and spirit, by deepening their connection to Gaia (the earth’s spirit) and the language of the body. She believes

Join me in this episode as we discuss the Priestess Path and how sacred the homecoming of self is with Elaine Doyle who underwent a drastic lifestyle change to bring her life into Divine balance. 
A chance encounter during the Bealtaine season brought Elaine and I together, and I’m so grateful that we met because our paths of self-discovery and more importantly, self-re-discovery in becoming a priestess and following the path of a priestess have such similar energies. I resonate with so much of what Elaine shares in this episode.
Do you resonate with the Path of a Priestess? 
Does it feel overwhelming when you think of changing your lifestyle, changing your perspective and profoundly healing from within? 
Are you tired of a stressful career and an imbalance in your life? 
It can be overwhelming, and Elaine shares how when something in your life is misaligned in your life, it becomes a progress of stimulation toward the sacred. When you choose to step into your authenticity and walk in the path of a Priestess, your own unique journey, you are essentially signing up for a journey of coming home to your true self. A continued journey of remembrance of self, and this journey is not easy. But, when you’re on this path of a priestess, pilgrimage, you come face to face with parts of yourself, your shadow self, that you may have lost or forgotten about. Remembering your true self will activate levels of your soul that you have hidden, forgotten about, or suppressed.
In this episode, Elaine and I share how we were drawn to this path of the Priestess, and how we faced many challenges and blockages to eventually emerge in our own Divine truth. The answers of your soul reveal themselves as you follow this path, as you unveil the parts of yourself that may lay dormant, and when you’re ready they will activate within you. 
Do you feel like you don’t know who you are? 
We have all been there, and this episode will make you feel at home in the confusion! Sometimes, not knowing who you are, or why you are called to do what you feel so deeply within yourself, is the best place to be. Because once you open yourself up to this vulnerability, you open yourself up to the possibility of the Priestess Path, which leads to divine timing, trusting yourself, ancestral healing, listening to your womb, and listening to your body, mind, and spirit. Your spirit already knows what it needs, and when you enter the path of a Priestess, and you welcome spirit to lead you, you will find the authenticity and remembrance you’ve longed for. 
If you are still figuring out your path of figuring out who you are and where you’re meant to be, you’re not alone. That is why Elaine and I have come together to speak about our journeys of remembrance and how we can share that light and wisdom with others. We are still continuing to grow, learn, and open ourselves up more and more to channel the energy and power of Source. 
Listen to this episode to hear the real-life experience of the Priestess path, and how you can incorporate balance, healing, and sacredness into your everyday practices.
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Elaine is a qualified life coach, CBT therapist, social worker, and energy healer and is currently walking the path of the priestess. Elaine has worked with thousands of people from all over the world both one-on-one and in groups to help them come home to themselves, to their hearts, and to help them remember their divinity.
Elaine is passionate about connecting people back to the ancient indigenous ways of Ireland as a way to receive the codes of wisdom needed to birth this new earth. 

INSTAGRAM: elaine_doyle_

Welcome to another episode where we discuss parenting reprogramming through healing. Today, I have the privilege of sitting down with Eli Harwood; the Attachment Nerd, a remarkable individual who speaks on different attachment styles and how to form secure attachments. 
Eli's story began in a family marked by trauma, a history that propelled her into a profound personal transformation. At the tender age of nine, Eli witnessed her mother's decision to change her lifestyle, sparking a realization in Eli about the dramatic impact such a shift could have. Recognizing the need for change in her own life and in the lives of others, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery. She pursued her master's degree, delving into the intricate world of attachment theory, becoming captivated by the nuances of human connections and patterns.
In this episode, we explore the various attachment styles that define how we function as human beings. From the primal instinct of survival to the intricate dynamics of early bonds. Eli unpacks how comfort intertwines with our vulnerability, shaping our responses to the world around us. Crucially, she emphasizes the pivotal role caregivers play in our emotional development. 
Our responses in life are deeply influenced by our caregivers' emotional regulation and their attachment styles. Eli sheds light on how these coping mechanisms are passed down through generations, forming the basis of our own attachment styles. Eli speaks on how important it is to have a space to feel seen, safe, secure, and regulated. When we don’t experience these spaces in our childhoods, there may be negative side effects that we can pass on to our children.

Eli passionately explains the importance of creating spaces where individuals can feel seen, safe, secure, and regulated. She highlights the profound impact these environments, or the lack thereof, have on our childhoods and then our adulthood. When these nurturing spaces are absent, negative effects can flow through generations, and it is vitally important to break these cycles both individually and collectively.

You can expect to be enlightened about the power of understanding attachment styles in the context of parenting. Eli emphasizes the possibility of reparenting ourselves by examining our attachment styles and their origins by looking at the patterns woven throughout our lives, patterns that can be unraveled through introspection and inner work. Throughout this entire episode she inspires hope, showing us that with dedication and self-reflection, we can shift, change, and transform these patterns, ultimately fostering healthier relationships with ourselves and others.
But that's not all – Eli has an exciting announcement to share. Her upcoming book, "Securely Attached: Transform Your Attachment Patterns into Loving, Lasting Romantic Relationships," is a wealth of information and insights, offering practical tips and tricks to shift our attachment styles while healing the wounds left behind. This book isn't just for individuals seeking personal growth; it is also a valuable resource for therapists, coaches, and anyone passionate about fostering healing and transformation from within.
Grab a cuppa, get comfy, and be ready for a powerful conversation that delves into the heart of attachment theory, parenting, and the incredible capacity we all possess to rewrite the narratives of our lives. Stay tuned for Eli Harwood's wisdom, guiding us toward a more secure and fulfilling emotional future.

Join us for this magical episode as I sit down with Jen Murphy, a true guardian of Celtic traditions who speaks on her journey of embodiment and the Celtic Wheel. Jen's journey into the world of Irish folklore and mythology began with her storyteller grandmother, who regaled her with captivating tales of ancient Ireland. This early fascination with Irish traditions set the stage for her remarkable academic and spiritual journey that you wouldn’t want to miss!
With a degree in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies and anthropology, Jen delved deep into the study of systems of oppression, forging her path towards teaching practices and learning how to adapt ancient traditions for the modern day. After the birth of her first son, she experienced a profound transformation, guided by the energy of the Goddess and Queen Maeve, among other powerful archetypes. Jen describes this journey as a trail of breadcrumbs leading her to her present purpose.
Today, Jen runs a Celtic Embodiment School where she imparts her wisdom and knowledge to others. In this episode, she shares her profound connection with the Calliach during the Autumn Equinox, highlighting the immense power of these energies during this sacred time of year when we slowly descend into the darkness. 
Listen in as Jen reveals the daily practices she teaches women, helping them awaken their feminine and masculine energies while inviting supportive archetypes to hold space with them. These practices not only foster personal growth but also enable a profound connection with the spirit.
Intrigued by the Selkies and the Celtic Wheel? Join us as Jen takes us on a journey through these mystical realms, tales, and her personal experiences, offering insights into the ancient practices and wisdom she recommends. Discover how she seamlessly incorporates her academic skills and spiritual work to connect with archetypes, cultures, and traditions from around the world while empowering women to incorporate these rituals into their everyday lives. 
Don't miss this episode as we explore the magic of the Autumn Equinox and the Celtic Wheel with Jen Murphy, a true guide to the hidden depths of Celtic spirituality and tradition.