Dark Mirror with Jessicka Anne

Jessicka Anne
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  1. 1d ago

    Let Me Rant At You About Twin Peaks

    I was 13, in a hotel room at 11:30pm, when red curtains and a zigzag floor flickered onto the TV. My sister was asleep. My mum had stepped out. I've been fascinated by that room ever since. This week on Dark Mirror, I'm stepping outside the usual format for a looser, stream-of-consciousness review of my recent rewatch of Twin Peaks. Third watch and still finding new dimensions. If you're studying magick, working with ritual, or simply drawn to the strange, this show offers something rare: a felt experience of liminal states, the kind of thing that's hard to learn from a book. Are you a Twin Peaks fan? Tell me which rabbit hole to go down next, in the comments or message me on social media. -- Content note: abuse, self-harm, trauma and the murder of a young woman. Please look after yourself and skip ahead if you need to. If any of this is close to home, support is available in Australia: Lifeline: 13 11 14 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732 -- Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ -- Takeaways Esoteric and occult symbolism in Twin PeaksExploration of duality and integration of dreams in the series Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Twin Peaks00:50 The Multifaceted Nature of Twin Peaks04:03 The Enigmatic Bob09:37 Mirroring and Duality12:47 The Log Lady and Symbolism17:05 Integration of Dreams21:10 Nuanced Character Depictions27:01 Progressive Depiction of Women

  2. Sep 5

    Stop Beating a Dead Horse - Cody McAuliffe on the Courage to Stay vs. the Courage to Quit

    How do you tell the difference between quitting because it's actually over and quitting because you're scared to find out? Jessicka Anne talks with coach Cody McAuliffe about persistence, quitting, and the razor-thin line between the two. Cody lays out how he's built both a business and a life around walking away the moment his aliveness for something disappears - profitable offers, structures, even relationships and names the shadow riding along with that same instinct: burning things down as an escape from discomfort, not an act of alignment. Jessicka also shares her own experiences, naming how tempting it is to just pick a side and be done with the ambiguity, and the two dig into what actually changes once there's something real to lose. If you've been calling something "not aligned anymore" and you're not fully sure that's true, this conversation is for you. – About Cody: Cody McAuliffe is a keynote speaker and amazon best-selling author. Cody says “I believe that speakers, coaches and leaders are on the forefront of raising humanity’s consciousness at this time.  My part in that is to be responsible, for those responsible for the elevation of the consciousness of humanity.” Over the last almost 2 decades Cody has coached countless TEDx Speakers, NLP trainers, doctors, world champion athletes, federal members of parliament, creators of modalities and hundreds of 6-8 figure coaches.  Cody now works with speakers, coaches and leaders to create lasting change on stages with his world renowned methods. Connect with Cody: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecodymcauliffe/ Contact Cody via Instagram Facebook Personal Page: https://www.facebook.com/cody.mcauliffe/ Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/thecodymcauliffe/ Learn more about Holographics with our FREE guide: www.theholographicmethod.com/guide1  Learn more about selling from stage with our FREE 3 part Stage close: https://thecodymcauliffe.com/optin-3-part-stage-close   – Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ – Grab our 11 targeted questions to alchemise your shadows and reclaim your manifestation power for free here: http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts

  3. Aug 29

    The Cost of Ambition - Berenice Schurmann on Money, Service and the Myth of Selflessness

    What happens when the thing that set you free turns into the exact thing keeping you stuck? Jessicka Anne talks with breathwork trainer and business mentor Berenice Schurmann (Ber) about ambition, burnout, and what it costs to build something in public. Ber shares her experience of the unraveling of her first business - a media sensation, thriving by every external measure, and the strange grief of slowly disappearing under everyone's need for her to keep performing joy she'd stopped feeling. Jessicka digs deeper, asking: who actually started the performance in the first place, and the two unpack what had to be forgiven before Ber could walk away from something successful and build again on her own terms. If you’ve ever kept up appearances long after the spark has left, this conversation is going to ask you to face what’s under it. – About Ber:  Ber turned childhood trauma into a global mission to empower coaches to heal their communities at scale. She works with established coaches and visionaries to use breath as a vehicle to scale down time, energy and effort, while leveling up their authentic expression and amplifying their impact!  Since learning from 40 meditation and breathwork experts worldwide, and building two six-figure businesses, Ber has been featured on Channel 7 News, Destination Happiness, Triple M, as well as various national newspapers, magazines and online media Concrete Playground, Urban Jungle, and MORE.  Ber’s unquenchable thirst for creating a conscious, empowered world through meditation and breathwork has led her to work with global tech companies like CSG, Hewlett Packard, and some of New York’s most successful CEOs. Her Australian clients include the University of Swinburne, University of Queensland, Lorna Jane Australia, Wesley Mission Hospital and more! Over 12 months, she built a national phenomenon, Karmably and founded Soulside Breathwork Facilitator Training for the modern world. She is on a mission to empower everyone she meets to connect with their inner wisdom, harness their power and live the life they were BORN to live! Connect with Ber: Teacher Training: https://go.berenicetan.com/bwft Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berbreathwork/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ber.tan.9 Spotify. https://spoti.fi/3gIa0f7 – Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ – Chapters 00:00 The Roots of Ambition01:11 The Cost of Ambition03:12 Avoiding Toxic Positivity06:07 Journey of Self-Trust and Self-Repair07:21 Evolution of Ambition21:19 Reconciliation of Personal and External Realities32:19 The Unconscious Need for Approval33:32 The Impact of Childhood Conditioning36:26 The Fear of Success and Happiness40:52 The Intersection of Personal Growth and Business Success43:58 Embracing Imperfection and Vulnerability53:29 The Role of Childhood Conditioning in Business58:58 The Fear of Receiving and the Shadow of Perfection

  4. Aug 21

    Vulnerability of Being Seen: Michelle Stark (Aleph Studio) on Brand as Magic + The Many True Selves

    What if finally being understood is scarier than staying misunderstood? Jessicka Anne talks with graphic designer and magick practitioner Michelle Stark about the vulnerability of being truly perceived. Michelle shares how visual language became her way of translating an inner world that words never quite reached. And the strange relief and grief she watches surface in clients the moment they're finally seen. Jessicka takes it further, tracing her own experience of representation and otherness to a harder realisation: that staying misunderstood wasn't just painful, it was protective. A story she'd built to stay safe. As well as what happens when that story starts to unravel. This one's for anyone who's felt unseen for a long time, and is curious what's really on the other side of that. – About Michelle: Michelle is a designer and magickal practitioner behind Aleph Studio. For over a decade, she has been building brand identity and visual storytelling for spiritual and creative entrepreneurs, helping ideas move from invisible to visible without losing their essence.  Design is how she speaks. Magick is how she thinks. Connect with Michelle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.aleph.studio/?hl=en Www.aleph.studio Michelle@aleph.studio    Substack: @creativeconjuring Email list: via www.aleph.studio  The Back Room A private magickal membership for creative ignition and momentum (www.aleph.studio/links ) – Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ – Grab our 11 targeted questions to alchemise your shadows and reclaim your manifestation power for free here: http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts

  5. Aug 14

    The Medicine of Dissociation - Sigourney Belle on Collective Disorientation and the Age We're In

    What do you do when the ground you used to stand on stops holding, & nobody around you has a map either? Jessicka Anne & The Witch Doctor Sigourney Belle talk about collective disorientation - what it feels like to lead, guide, or simply live through a moment nobody fully understands yet. Sigourney names this as a genuine transition, not a personal failing - a shared dark night where the old isn't working & the new hasn't arrived, and she's honest about feeling the intensity of it herself even while holding others through it. Jessicka connects that straight to leadership, pointing out how much is being asked of anyone responsible for other people right now, & how easy it is to mistake having no answer for having failed. If you've been feeling the pressure to perform false certainty for the people who look to you, this conversation offers a more integrative alternative. – About Sigourney: Sigourney Belle - The Witch Doctor  A former physiotherapist turned body theologian, Sigourney Belle has spent over a decade studying Eastern and Esoteric healing practises - Tantra, Vajrayana Buddhism, Shamanism, Daoism, & the ancient arts of death and dying.  Her life’s work lives at the intersection where medicine & the divine meet. Practised in medical thaumaturgy, she understands the body as both anatomical, physiological and sacred text & has trained thousands of practitioners worldwide to read it as both. Sigourney offers Soul Retrieval, Medical Intuitive Sessions, Medical Astrology, Medical Thaumaturgy, Exorcisms and Death Doula work - not as separate services, but as expressions of a single truth: that the body, the psyche, the soul, & the stars are one continuous conversation. Connect with Sigourney:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sigourneybelle/?hl=en Contact Sigourney via Instagram Substack: www.thesoftbodyrevolution.com Websites: www.sigourneybelle.com www.somamystica.com  www.theinstituteofesotericmedicine.com School of Medical Mediumship starting in September Medical astrology training Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ – Grab our 11 targeted questions to alchemise your shadows and reclaim your manifestation power for free here: http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts Chapters 00:00 The Journey to Healing08:05 Dissociation and Mind-Body Dualism16:19 The Shift Away from Elemental Understanding26:57 Astrological Ages and Societal Evolution33:09 The Influence of Technology and AI34:08 The Age of Air and Astrological Influences35:29 Pisces vs. Aquarius: Idealism and Individual Sovereignty38:26 Reintegrating the Mind-Body Split39:30 Somatic Work and Titration45:19 The Ecology of the Body: Epigenetics and Microbiome01:02:20 Transitioning Ages and Collective Experience

  6. Aug 7

    The Trouble with Grief (Solo Episode)

    We've built entire civilisations to keep death at arm's length — clinical language, biohacking, longevity culture. What is it actually costing us to keep winning that fight? In this solo episode, host Jessicka Anne turns Dark Mirror toward our collective relationship with loss — sparked in part by recent losses in the transformation community, and everything that stirred up about how we really process death, or in many cases, don't. She unpacks some of the ways this got wired into us — not just personally, but culturally — including the forces that shaped civilisation itself. And shares some practical takeaways to help you process and evolve your relationship with grief and death. Some of the most profound human experiences are shaped by loss - and if you're in the business of people, experiencing its impacts is inevitable. So if it's something you've been turning away from, this episode is your invitation to turn in. -- Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ -- Chapters 00:00 Collective Western Relationship with Death and Loss01:51 Dysfunctional Relationship with Death and Grief02:59 Navigating Personal Grief and Isolation07:33 The Fear of Death and the Unknown08:16 Conquest vs. Collaboration with Death09:19 The Value of Life and the Pursuit of Immortality10:05 Public Response to Recent Deaths11:27 Meeting Grief and Understanding Emotions18:13 Facing Death as a Practice for Growth22:14 Honouring Interconnectedness and Life27:07 Upcoming Episode Preview

  7. Aug 1

    Empowered Relating: Susie Kim on Easeful Dating and the Myth of "The One"

    What if you've spent years doing the inner work, and you're still stuck in the same relational pattern, just with a different person, or a different team? Jessicka Anne talks with therapist and relationship coach Susie Kim, tracing her own path from six years as a lawyer through a Saturn return that ended a stable, loving relationship almost overnight. The conversation goes after something sharper than dating advice: the way spiritual language (frequency, soulmates, past-life timing) can become a sophisticated way of avoiding a plainer truth. Relating is a skill, and it shows up in how you handle rejection, conflict, and being truly seen, not just who you date.  Jessicka pushes further, naming how the same inability to hold a boundary or hear a "no" without taking it personally plays out in leadership, teams, and even the wider cultural moment. Susie's answer: you can't learn to open until you've practiced closing. If you've built an elaborate story around why your relationships keep going the same way, this one's going to test it. – About Susie Kim: Susie Kim is a dating & relationship coach with a practical & playful approach to love. A qualified therapist with a background in neo tantra, she bridges the tantric path of aliveness with an attachment-based view of love. A former lawyer, Susie believes love isn’t just about luck - they’re a skill - and she helps busy, smart people master them. Her signature program Easeful Dating helps women date with clarity & ease for healthy, committed relationships.  A sought after media voice, Susie has featured on the TODAY Show and in major publications including ABC, Sydney Morning Herald & Women’s Health. Connect with Susie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susiekimlove/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susiekimlove/ Website: www.susiekim.com – Grab our 11 targeted questions to alchemise your shadows and reclaim your manifestation power for free here: http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ -- Chapters 00:00 The Journey to Relating02:18 The Soul Nudge and Unraveling04:14 The Nuance of Soul-Knowings and Fantastical Ideals10:01 The Emotional Realm of Relating11:20 The Mythical Narratives of Love13:01 The Skills of Relating16:25 The Toxicity of Protective Narratives18:45 The Vulnerability of Desire22:40 The Maturity of Desires29:42 The Blueprint for Opening Up30:10 Setting Boundaries in Relationships32:09 The Art of Closing and Opening34:19 Navigating Personal and Political Boundaries35:35 The Role of Neutrality in Communication44:28 Love as a Teacher and Relationship Mastery48:14 Dating as a Growth Journey

  8. Jul 24

    The Death of Democracy? (Solo Episode)

    What happens when the news cycle starts running on the same engine as reality TV? In this solo episode of Dark Mirror, Jessicka Anne unpacks how politics slowly became about entertainment and tribalism, and the toll that's taking on how we think, connect, and lead. She traces how algorithm-fed echo chambers now run on the exact same mechanics as a binge-worthy show: heroes, villains, cliffhangers, a reason to keep refreshing. She looks at what happens when a culture stops debating its politics and starts consuming them, and shares about real clients who had fallen into both conspiracy and self-optimisation rabbit holes, chasing the same certainty from opposite directions, caught in the exact same feedback loop. If you hold space for others, whether that's as a coach, a leader, a parent, a friend, your own rigidity inside these loops becomes the ceiling on how far you can take anyone else. So if you're invested in leading people out of these loops instead of further into them, this one's for you. Grab our 11 targeted questions to alchemise your shadows and reclaim your manifestation power for free here: http://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts Connect with Jessicka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejessicaanne0 Website: https://jessickaanne.com/ Chapters 00:00 The Impact of Politicization on Identity02:16 The Role of Pop Culture in Politics03:41 The Influence of Media Algorithms05:25 The Psychological Impact of Political Engagement09:21 The Impact of Political Engagement on Personal Growth13:21 Navigating Identity Tunnels and Political Ideology19:33 Managing Media Consumption and Its Impact27:25 Civic Engagement and Community Participation

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