The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine

Dr. Tiffany McBride
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The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine is a space for remembering what you’ve always known. Hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride — Shamanic Doctor, Licensed Clinical Therapist, and bestselling author — this podcast blends psychotherapy, shamanic practice, and mystical wisdom to guide you back into your body, your intuition, and your wholeness. We explore the dark and divine feminine not as gendered forces, but as the energy of knowing that lives in every soul. The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine is a teaching podcast for soul-led women ready to explore intuition, healing, shadow work, empowerment, and sacred wisdom. Every month, we move through: >Teaching Modules from Mystic Muse Mystery Circle + Mystery School >A Goddess Story >A Deeper Dive Into Dark and Light Feminine Teachings  >2 Amazing Guests Bringing In Powerful Conversations 

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  1. 4d ago

    Episode 11: Wild Love I The Power of Name

    Send us Fan Mail Wild Love I: The Power of Name Manawee, Bluebeard Energy, and Being Known Without Losing Yourself How do we love and be loved without losing ourselves? Welcome to The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine, a podcast for soul-led women exploring intuition, healing, shadow work, empowerment, and sacred wisdom. I’m Dr. Tiffany McBride, and in this episode we begin Wild Love, a two-part series: two old stories across two episodes, and one question underneath both. Drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Women Who Run With the Wolves, I tell the story of Manawee, a young man, a scruffy little dog, and two sisters whose true names he can’t guess. Then we take it apart: the two sides inside every woman, the difference between Bluebeard energy and Manawee energy, and why a name carries so much power. Both energies can show up in a partner, a friend, a family member, or in your own head. And if you’re a man listening, I have a message for you, because this story is about what it takes to be close to a woman’s full nature, not just her surface. We bring the story into the age of the swipe. We talk about love bombing (“nutmeg on the wind”), how to tell real interest from a bomb, and why the way someone responds when you say “I’d like to take it slower” tells you almost everything. We also talk about what to do if you’re the one who falls fast and loud. I also share my own two names, Dr. Tiffany McBride and Madeline “Maddie” Hatter, and some of my experience with Bluebeard and Manawee energy. Six ways to learn someone’s name (written with partners in mind, and good for anyone who loves anyone): Notice what’s easy to see and what isn’t.Keep returning after getting it wrong.Get close enough to actually listen.Resist the tempting distractions.Protect what you learn.Say the name back to them.Five ways to teach your names: Name your own two selves out loud, even just to yourself first.Offer the deeper answer, not just the polite one.Let your wild side be witnessed on purpose.Notice who stays curious.Keep returning.We close with a long guided meditation, The Two Names, followed by journaling prompts and something to do this week. Content note: this episode discusses love bombing and controlling relationships and mentions the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233). The guided meditation is not for listening while driving. This is part of our season of wild-woman stories. Wild Love is a two-part series, and Wild Love II arrives in Episode 13, where we meet a woman at the bottom of the sea, a fisherman who runs, and a dance with death itself. If this episode stayed with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. In this episode A new series, Wild Love: how do we love and be loved without losing ourselves?A message for the men listeningThe story of Manawee, the scruffy dog, and the two sistersThe two sides inside every woman, and the stick that snaps vs. the bundle that doesn’tTiffany’s two names: Dr. Tiffany McBride and Maddelynn HatterBluebeard energy vs. Manawee energy: in partners, friends, family, and your own headThe power of name: earned, plural, and a gift you controlDating in the age of the swipe, love bombing, and “apps can be a door, a door isn’t the road”Real interest vs. a bomb: consistency, curiosity, and how they respond to “slower”What to do if you’re the one who falls fast and loudSix ways to learn someone’s name, and five ways to teach yours (they work for friends and family too)Estés’s two questions: “What do you want?” and “What does your deeper self desire?”A long guided meditation: meeting your two selves, the dog, and your two namesReflection prompts What were the two names that arose for you in the meditation?Where have I asked a partner, a friend, or myself to guess at who I am, rather than teaching them my deeper name?Where have I let a distraction (my own bone, nutmeg, or fish) pull me away from something important I’m meant to carry home?Have I encountered Bluebeard energy or Manawee energy recently, in someone else or in myself?Something to do this week: Notice one relationship (a partner, a friend, or yourself) where you’ve been letting the other person guess at who you are. If it feels safe, offer one true, specific piece of your deeper name. Show Notes — Links & Highlights 📖 Mentioned in this episode: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés → https://a.co/d/0dJgvJjA 📖 The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 💛 Support: National Domestic Violence Hotline → 1-800-799-7233 (anytime) 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr 💛 If this episode stayed with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it, and leave a rating or review. Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  2. Oct 24

    Episode 10: The Design of You: Human Design, Intuition & Authentic Alignment with Kelly Myerson

    Send us Fan Mail The Design of You: Human Design, Intuition & Authentic Alignment with Kelly Myerson  What if the way you make decisions, spend your energy, and burn out was never a flaw, and was simply your design?  In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride welcomes Kelly Myerson, an occupational therapist, human design mentor, and transformational guide who helps people understand themselves through the lens of energy, intuition, and authentic living. For years Kelly supported children with complex medical needs, and that experience gave her a rare bridge between evidence-based healthcare and the practical wisdom of human design. Tiffany also had Kelly break down a little of her own chart, so this conversation is part geek-out, part reunion.  They begin with how Kelly first found human design, and with how she grasped onto being a manifesting generator before she really understood her chart. From there they walk through the four types, why strategy and authority matter more than the label, and what it feels like when you’re in or out of alignment: satisfaction and frustration, success and bitterness, peace and anger. Kelly explains “functional burnout,” where you keep showing up and masking that you’re fine, and why saying yes in the moment can leave you depleted.  Kelly also shares how her training in sensory integration and the nervous system (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) connects to human design, and how your chart can point to where a core wound becomes a core talent. Together they talk about open centers and absorbing other people’s emotions, the profile lines (Kelly’s 1/3 and Tiffany’s 4/6), and why deconstructing everything that isn’t you is the shadow work that leads to freedom. They also bust common myths: you are not “just” your type, your chart is not fixed, and you don’t have to choose between human design and astrology, tarot, or the Akashic records.  The conversation closes with how human design and intuition meet, a first step for skeptics, and Kelly’s reminder that you don’t need to feel overwhelmed. You start with your strategy and authority, and there are people here to help.  In this episode:  Kelly’s story: from a Facebook rabbit hole in 2019 to guiding others through their chartsThe four types (generators, manifestors, projectors, and reflectors) and the manifesting generatorWhy strategy and authority are the first place to start, no matter whatAlignment indicators: frustration, bitterness, anger, peace, and why they aren’t “good” or “bad” feelingsFunctional burnout, and why “just because you can do doesn’t mean you should do”Deciding from the body, not the head: sacral yes and no vs. emotional authority and waiting for the waveOpen centers, conditioning, and how to tell what’s yours from what you’ve absorbed from othersThe nervous system, fight/flight/freeze/fawn, and people-pleasing as conditioningCore wound to core talent: how your chart can turn what you were told was wrong into your giftDeconstruction as shadow work, and why being “too much” is right for the people who resonateProfile lines, and how a 1/3 and a 4/6 move through the world differentlyWhat human design is and where it comes from: your energetic blueprint, the nine centers, gates, and channelsMyths: living and breathing your type, thinking your chart is fixed, and having to choose one systemTransits, and borrowing someone else’s energy in a team, a family, or a friendshipHuman design and intuition: how knowing your design is a way back to your inner knowingKelly’s closing message:  “Isn't this amazing? And am I not such a perfect design as I am?" Show Notes: How to Find Your Human Design  New to human design? Here’s where to start, based on what Kelly shares in this episode.  Gather your birth details. Your chart is based on your date, time, and place of birth. Find your birth time if you can, since it matters.Generate your chart. Run your design on Kelly’s website to get your chart as a PDF. Or book a session with Kelly, and she’ll run it for you and send a link to an interactive chart. You can click on each part of it to see a plain-language explanation.Find your type. There are four: generators (which include manifesting generators), manifestors, projectors, and reflectors. Kelly’s advice is not to spend too long here. Your type is a starting point, not a box.Learn your strategy and authority. This is the most important step. Your strategy is how you’re designed to engage with life, and your authority is how you make decisions. Kelly says that if you take one thing from this episode, this is it.Experiment. Notice your alignment indicators (for example satisfaction vs. frustration, or peace vs. anger). Before your next big yes, try pausing to listen to your body.Ask for help. Book Kelly’s free 30-minute session, where she’ll look at your chart with you and explain what she sees. It’s no pressure, and as she says, “This is not dogma. It’s not religion.”Show Notes: Guest Links & Highlights 🌟 Guest: Kelly Myerson, occupational therapist, human design mentor, and transformational guide 🌐 Website / run your free chart → https://kelly-myerson-humandesign.bodygraph.cc/ 📅 Book a free 30-minute session →  https://calendly.com/kellymyerson/building-the-bridge-conversation 🎧 Bridges and Beacons Podcast (formerly the Mystic Nerd Squad Podcast) → https://thebridgesandbeaconspodcast.buzzsprout.com/ ✍️ Kelly on Substack → https://substack.com/@mysticnerdmusings 💼 Kelly on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-myerson-b6217843/ 📖 Mentioned in this episode  Parenting the Child You Have by April Porter → https://a.co/d/07BJq5uJRa Uru Hu (founder of Human Design) and Dr. Karen Curry Parker (Quantum Human Design) Ra Uru Hu (founder) The Definitive Book of Human Design: The Science of Differentiation, by Ra Uru Hu and Lynda Bunnell. This is his main book, and the one most people mean when they say “Ra’s book.”  Dr. Karen Curry Parker (Quantum Human Design) Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are, revised and updated edition. This is her best-known and most beginner-friendly book.  → https://a.co/d/0dmqlCBp Dr. Karen Curry Parker:  The Encyclopedia of Quantum Human Design  →  https://a.co/d/0igJTeUDA Modern Guide to Human Design: How to Read Your Chart and Align With Your Life’s True Purpose by Rachel Lieberman → https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Guide-Human-Design-Purpose/dp/1423664027🎧 Bridges and Beacons Podcast (formerly the Mystic Nerd Squad Podcast) →  https://thebridgesandbeaconspodcast.buzzsprout.com/ 🎙 Dr. Tiffany on Kelly’s podcast, talking about The Alchemy of Intuition → https://youtu.be/mxhsOLPsvqw?si=WLYN07XeVQQjVss8 The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr   💛 If this episode stayed with you, share it with a woman who needs to hear it, and leave a rating or review.   Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  3. Oct 18

    Episode 9: The Doll That Knows

    Send us Fan Mail The Doll That Knows: Vasilisa and the Nine Tasks of Feeding Your Intuition  You already have intuition. This episode is about learning to trust it, feed it, and let it lead. A girl's mother is dying. She leaves her daughter no money, advice, or plan, only a small doll and one instruction: keep her close, feed her when you're in trouble, and she will help you. Then the girl is sent alone into the dark forest to fetch fire from the most feared woman in Russian folklore. On The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine, Dr. Tiffany McBride tells the whole story of Vasilisa and Baba Yaga, drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves. Then she goes back through it in nine tasks, because the tale is built like an initiation, one step at a time. After each task she leaves you with a question to pause on. She also shares her own answers, including her mother, her stepfather's voice, and the places she's still stepping out of hiding. You'll learn why intuition is a whole constellation of senses, why being sweet and accommodating doesn't protect us, how to stand in front of raw power without running, and what it means to keep consulting your inner fire instead of only in a crisis. The episode closes with a guided meditation, three journal prompts, and a simple practice for the week. This is episode 4 in our season of wild-woman stories, after the Wild Woman, La Loba, and Bluebeard. Show notes The nine tasks, with the question for each Letting the too-good mother die. Where are you still waiting for permission from a too-careful inner voice?Meeting the stepmother and facing your shadow. Who or what tells you your gifts don't belong, and how do you respond now?Navigating in the dark and feeding the doll. Who taught you that your gut could be trusted, and how much do you consult your inner doll before you decide?Facing the wild hag without fleeing. What powerful, uncomfortable thing have you wanted to run from? What if you stood your ground?Serving the wild mother: washing, sweeping, cooking. Where is your house cluttered, and where has your creative fire gone cold?Separating this from that. Where do you need finer discrimination right now, and where do you practice sorting (a garden, a journal, a quiet moment)?Asking the mysteries. Is your season black (the unknown), red (sacrifice), or white (a fresh start)? What is your work here?Receiving the fire. What would it look like to consult your inner fire continually, not just in crisis? Whose legacy of knowing are you carrying?Recasting the shadow. What are you actually hungry for, underneath what's on display?Practices from this episode Guided meditation: Feeding the Doll (about 3 minutes; don't listen while driving)Three journal prompts: what showed up in your hand or pocket, what you heard from your doll, and what you're actually hungry forThis week: carry a small object as your doll (a stone, a ring, a button, a worry stone), pause and ask it when you're uncertain, and let the one task that landed hardest keep working on youKey ideas Intuition is quick sight, inner hearing, inner sensing, and inner knowing. It strengthens with use and weakens with neglect."I had a feeling and I didn't listen" is the sound of an unfed doll.The word witch traces back to roots meaning wit and wisdom. Baba Yaga is untamed, not evil.If your meditation images don't make sense, look up their spiritual meaning and begin learning to talk to your intuition.📖 Mentioned in this episode Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés: https://a.co/d/0dJgvJjAThe Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice: https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy🔮 Work with Dr. Tiffany Website: www.themysticmuse.orgOnline class ($11): www.themysticmuse.org/onlineclassesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr💛 If this episode stayed with you, share it with a woman who needs to hear it, and leave a rating or review. It helps other women find the show.  Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  4. Oct 10

    Episode 8: There's a Prophecy for You: Grief, Frequency & Leading from Your Soul's Calling with Carolini Arco

    Send us Fan Mail There's a Prophecy for You: Grief, Frequency & Leading from Your Soul's Calling with Caroline Arco  What if the thing that breaks you open is the same thing that brings your power home?  In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride (aka Maddie) welcomes Caroline Arco, a writer, speaker, and mentor who has guided more than 4,000 people across multiple countries through mentorship and transformational experiences. Caroline contributed a chapter to Tiffany's book, The Alchemy of Intuition, and she's also been Tiffany's mentor since February, so this conversation is personal.  They begin in rural Brazil, with a blank form and a question a 15-year-old couldn't answer, and follow the thread to a theater classroom in a slum school, where a group of children cracked Caroline's world wide open. From there we move through frequency and the intelligence of the energetic body, the story behind the mantra "I am an energetic match for financial miracles," and what separates leadership guided by consciousness from leadership guided by ego.  Caroline also shares, with remarkable honesty, how three years of profound loss became one of her greatest teachers. She explains why grief is a portal rather than something to survive, and how it brought her power back home. The conversation closes with how to find a mentor who is actually right for you, and a closing message for any woman who feels the pull of awakening but is afraid of what it will ask of her.  Content note: this episode includes discussion of grief, death, and pregnancy loss.  In this episode:  Caroline's story: the blank form at 15 and what not knowing taught herWalking into a slum school theater classroom, and understanding privilege and humanity for the first timeWhy theater and psychodrama are "self-development on steroids"How to recognize the glimpse of your soul's calling by going back to your inner child as a teacherFrequency: why the mind is the tool, but consciousness leadsThe story behind "I am an energetic match for financial miracles" and the idea that money is an expanderMoving out of victim consciousness and into ownership of your lifeSensitivity vs. fragility, and why spiritual awakening needs emotional resilienceConsciousness-led leadership vs. ego-led leadership (and why people-pleasing is a form of ego)Grief as a portal, and why witnesses matter more than fixersManifestation as stewardship rather than personal desireHow to choose a mentor: what to look for and what to ask before you commitCaroline's closing message: choose which fear you're willing to takeShow Notes — Reflection Prompts From This Episode Inner Child as Teacher: Instead of going back to your inner child to heal her, go back to her as the embodiment of your higher self. What have you always felt good doing? What threads were present in your childhood that have always felt natural to you?Frequency Check-In: How does expansion feel in your body? How does contraction feel? How does "this is right for me" feel, not think?Victim Consciousness Audit: Where am I still finding myself as a victim, consciously or unconsciously? What could I choose differently?Choosing Your Mentor: What style works for me (challenged, loved, or both)? How does my body respond in this person's presence?Caroline's Closing Question: Both options carry fear, so which fear am I willing to take?Show Notes — Guest Links & Highlights   🌟 Guest: Caroline Arco — writer, speaker, and mentor at the intersection of leadership, psychology, and spirituality; 4,000+ people guided across multiple countries 🌐 Website → http://www.arcoteachings.com  🔮 The Arcosphere — Caroline's monthly membership with weekly meditations, community, and a library of 11-day journeys → https://thearcosphere.com/the-arcosphere  🪄 The Channeler — Caroline's training academy for developing spiritual gifts and becoming an ethical healer → https://arcoteachings.com/channeler  📸 Caroline on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/arcoteachings/ 📘 Caroline on Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/caroline.arco/  💛 Grief resources: Caroline offered to share low-cost grief support resources for listeners → → https://youtu.be/dzOvi0Aa2EA?si=AIuGNf89SgqzcrGy → https://youtu.be/inUkNZe5H3k?si=iPaO20CAvMMb7nXP → https://www.davidkesslertraining.com/  📖 The Alchemy of Intuition (includes Caroline's chapter, There's a Prophecy for You: This Is How to Meet It) → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr   Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  5. Oct 3

    Episode 7: The Dark Feminine - Hekate

    Send us Fan Mail Episode 7: The Dark Goddess — Naming the Dark Feminine and Meeting Hekate at the Crossroads  What if the parts of yourself you've been taught to fear — your rage, your ambition, your no — aren't the parts that need to be fixed, but the parts that were never broken in the first place?  In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride opens a new series exploring the dark and light feminine, starting by reclaiming what "dark" actually means: not evil, not villainy, but the untamed, assertive, boundary-setting side of a woman's nature — her anger, her ambition, her sensuality, her refusal to shrink. Tiffany walks through why this work isn't about becoming dangerous, but about integration and wholeness: having access to both softness and fire.  The episode moves into reflection, live exercises, and a guided visualization to meet Hekate — goddess of the crossroads, the underworld, and the dark moon — who doesn't rescue you from your decisions, but hands you the torch to see the road yourself.  In this episode:  What the dark feminine actually means (and what it doesn't)Why this work is about wholeness, not choosing a sideThe difference between shadow and shameTwo reflection questions on where your intensity first got labeled a problemAn intention-setting exercise and a personal ritual with a candleWho Hekate is: her mythology, symbols, and why she was later recast as a "scary witch"A guided visualization: Standing at the CrossroadsThe Dark Moon Clarity PracticeShow Notes — Exercises in This Episode Reflection Question 1: Where did you first learn that your intensity was a problem? (Find the actual moment, the actual sentence, if you can.)Reflection Question 2: What's one word people have used to shame you that you'd like to reclaim? (e.g. bossy, too much, dramatic, intense)Journaling Prompt: What drew you to this episode right now? Is there a specific pattern you're hoping to shift?Intention Sentence Exercise: Write a short, memorable sentence (e.g. "I no longer shrink to be palatable") and place it somewhere you'll see it daily — not in a journal that closes and stays closed.Candle Ritual: Light a dedicated candle, speak your own name aloud, and name one shadow quality you're ready to stop running from. Prompt: What have I been told is too dark, too fierce, too much about me?Follow-up Prompt: What am I ready to face? (Notice which answer makes your chest tighten — that's often the true one.)Guided Visualization: Standing at the Crossroads with HecateDark Moon Clarity Practice — two prompts: Where am I standing at a crossroads?What does Hekate's torch illuminate that I've been afraid to see?Closing Ritual: Name one thing you're asking Hekate to protect (a decision, your peace, a relationship) — say it out loud to your candle or your room.Show Notes — Links & Highlights   🕯️ Hekate Goddess Box — $22 A ritual set for your own crossroads: spell candle (fire), spell jar (earth), meditation & writing prompts (air), Hekate protection spray (water), a key, and an original art piece (spirit) — Tiffany's own version of Hekate. → https://www.themysticmuse.org/product-page/hekate-goddess-bundle 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📖 The Alchemy of Intuition → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  6. Sep 25

    Episode 6: Remember Your Roots: Ancestry, Plant Medicine, & Trusting Your Heart with Christine Falcon-Daigle

    Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the most radical thing a woman can do is walk away from the thing that looks like safety. In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride sits down with her sister-friend Christine Falcon-Daigle: award-winning filmmaker, author, poet, women's circle facilitator, and founder of Transformity Collective. It's the one-year anniversary of their pilgrimage to Ireland, and what unfolds is one of the most vulnerable conversations on the podcast so far. Christine traces the threads of her lineage. Her father was raised believing he was Danish, until a DNA test revealed an Irish lineage he never knew about. Her mother's line runs through Spain and Mexico, and she was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She names the wounds she has walked through: the mother and sister wounds, growing up in an alcoholic home, getting sober at 19, a divorce, and a pandemic-era collapse of panic attacks and night terrors that forced her to stop. She also names what met her there: gardens, guided plant medicine, breathwork, healing writing circles, and the land itself. Then she tells the story of leaving her long-time career at the Hoffman Institute, and why it wasn't a logical decision. It was an inner knowing. If you've been staying somewhere safe while a quiet voice keeps asking you to leave, this one is for you. Content note: This episode includes conversation about addiction and recovery, trauma, panic, grief, and psychedelic plant medicine. In This Episode     •    How a DNA test revealed the Irish ancestry on Christine's father’s side, which he never knew he had, and what it stirred up about the grandmother wound     •    Healing the mother wound and the sister wound through friendship, sisterhood, and the land of Ireland     •    Horticultural therapy: her father's garden, the "window" she found in the dirt, and how following the breadcrumbs led her to healing gardens     •    Her path with plant medicine: growing up in an alcoholic home, getting sober at 19, and her first guided psilocybin journey in 2019, an online course she did with the School of Conscious Medicine     •    Why the plants we need seem to grow where we live: nettle, yarrow, and a hippie uncle's first lessons in plant consciousness     •    Religious trauma, the witch burnings in Edinburgh, Mary Magdalene, and the rebirth of the dark and divine feminine     •    What the pandemic broke open, and how a spiritual memoir writing group brought her back to herself     •    Leaving Hoffman: the "sacred contract," a full-circle return to Santa Sabina, and stepping away on June 30     •    Becoming a crone, a cailleach, and what has to die for the wise woman era to begin     •    Christine's advice: "There's no one coming," plus self-forgiveness, baby steps, and gratitude as a practice Show Notes: Things to Highlight  •     Guest: Christine Falcon-Daigle → https://www.christinefalcondaigle.com/  •    Transformanity Collective → https://www.instagram.com/transformanity/  •     Françoise Bourzat & the School of Conscious Medicine — the program Christine studied with to deepen her understanding of guided plant medicine work → francoisebourzat.com (https://francoisebourzat.com/) •    Christine's chapter: Remember Your Roots: Deepening Relationships with Plant Medicine, in The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy •    🔗 Callback: Tiffany's earlier episodes on what happened to the feminine (the witch persecutions), plus her interview with Dr. Ariana Platten on religious trauma → Episode 2 & 3 📚 Books mentioned: •    How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan •    Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg •    Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson •    The Key to Immortality: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku  •     Miss-Adventures Guide to Ultimate Empowerment for Women: Harness Your Power and Thrive in Every Area of Your Life by Stephanie Bailey — a co-authored book Christine mentions writing together with Tiffany → https://a.co/d/0hLNK91e •    Shaman Heart: Turning Pain Into Passion and Purpose by Stephanie Urbina Jones — the book that led to the Mexico trip where Tiffany and Christine met → https://a.co/d/03J9ngXN About Christine Christine Falcon-Daigle is an award-winning filmmaker, author, poet, women's circle facilitator, and registered Baptiste Power Yoga instructor. She holds an MFA in writing and consciousness and a certificate in horticultural therapy, and she has designed and installed labyrinths, gardens, and healing programs for diverse populations. Raised Roman Catholic as the daughter of a military veteran with Midwestern roots, Christine has spent years uncovering a lineage far wider than the one she was handed. A DNA test revealed Irish ancestry through her father's mother, whom she never met. Her mother's side traces to Spain and to Mexico. Christine sees herself as a bridge between old world and new, and that understanding fuels her work on the mother wound, the sister wound, and healing through land and story. After more than a decade at the Hoffman Institute, where she led enrollment and supported adults through personal transformation, Christine founded Transformanity Collective in 2022 to bring together healing arts professionals across the San Francisco Bay Area into collaboration. She is a contributing author in The Alchemy of Intuition and has co-authored books with Tiffany, Stephanie Urbina Jones, Laura DiFranco, and Stephanie Bailey. 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → themysticmuse.org📖 The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → a.co/d/0bFLxPoy📸 Instagram → instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83📘 Facebook → facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5RmSupport the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  7. Sep 19

    Episode 5: The Predator

    Send us Fan Mail There's an old story about a woman handed a ring of keys to every room in her new husband's castle — except one. One small door. One small key. And a single instruction: don't. In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride sits with the fairy tale of Bluebeard, drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés' Women Who Run With the Wolves, not as a story about a murderous husband, but as one of the oldest, most exact descriptions of what it feels like when your own instinct tries to warn you — and how easily we're trained to override it anyway. Tiffany breaks down what Bluebeard actually represents symbolically (hint: it's the inner critic, the "predator" part of the psyche that keeps our sexuality, intuition, and worth locked away), why the blood on the key can never be scrubbed clean once you've truly seen something, and Estés' four key questions for recognizing your own locked doors. The episode closes with a guided meditation to reconnect with the felt sense of instinct in the body. In this episode: The story of Bluebeard, and why it's really about instinct — not a warning about menWhat the "predator" represents in parts work / Internal Family Systems termsWhy the blood on the key can't be washed off once you've truly seen the truthEstés' four key questions: What stands behind?What is not as it appears?What do I know deep in myself that I wish I didn't know?What in me has been killed or lies dying?The symbolism of the sisters, brothers, the bones, and the key itselfHow to dismantle the inner predator instead of just fighting itA guided meditation to reconnect with instinct in the bodyShow Notes — Things to Highlight 🐺 Online Class Recording ($11) → https://www.themysticmuse.org/onlineclasses 🧠 IFS (Internal Family Systems) Meditation — mentioned in this episode to help you connect with your own inner parts → https://youtu.be/7o4jcSpu2HY?si=4Jk1mdIVtMuwiu6k 📝 IFS Worksheet — a map to help decipher what each of your inner parts might represent → https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCLtbQrP-bJifLML4KmbgjnrmrdRUpOe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105814169425981432334&rtpof=true&sd=true 🔗 Callback: this episode references La Loba (The Bone Collector) — Episode 4  📖 Book reference: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (the Bluebeard chapter) → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J6SN6LW?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_0JSEC7BYTPKCTVSC50VF&bestFormat=true 💭 The Four Key Questions from this episode: What stands behind?What is not as it appears?What do I know deep in myself that I wish I didn't know?What in me has been killed or lies dying?✅ Bluebeard Check-In Worksheet — the four key questions from this episode, to sit with on your own → https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZil5JB7GISB7baZj3OTAEbda3FwRSSTCWWo4mh07tE/edit?usp=sharing ✨ Pull-quote: "If you've been living a half-dead life, the honest answers to these questions are very likely to come back with blood on them." Coming up next episode: Christine Falcon-Daigle, on plant medicine, ancestry, and leaving a stable career to trust her intuition as a full-time writer. 🌙 Website / 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📖 The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice book → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  8. Sep 14

    Episode 4: The Bone Collector

    Send us Fan Mail La Loba and the Art of Gathering What's Been Left for Dead  "Buried is not the same as dead. Bone is not soft tissue. It doesn't decompose the way flesh does." What if nothing you've lost is actually gone? In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride shares the story of La Loba — the old woman of the desert from Clarissa Pinkola Estés' Women Who Run with Wolves — who spends her life gathering bones that everyone else has left for dead, singing over them until they rise again. This teaching, born out of Tiffany's live women's circle, is an invitation to notice the dreams, versions of yourself, and pieces of your own instinctual nature that haven't disappeared — only gone quiet, buried under years of practicality, grief, and expectation. Tiffany speaks candidly about her own buried bones, walks through what it actually feels like to carry a dream you stopped mentioning, and closes with a guided meditation to help you meet your own "bone woman" and receive a message on your healing path. In this episode: The story of La Loba and what the bones symbolize in Estés' workWhy "buried" is not the same as "dead" or "gone"What it actually feels like to carry a dream, version of yourself, or grief you've never namedTiffany's own buried bone: her forgotten dream of a music careerReflection questions to help you identify your own buried bonesA full guided meditation: a mountain walk, a wise being, and a fire where you release and receiveWhy singing — not just thinking — is what brings the bones back to life 🔥 Go deeper: Embodying the Intuitive Self: Collecting the Pieces of the Psyche → https://www.tiffany-mcbride.org/embodyingtheintuitiveselfseries 🐺 Mystery Circle Class Recording (1st Chapter) ($11) → https://www.themysticmuse.org/onlineclasses 📖 Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés → https://a.co/d/0dJgvJjA  📖 Book: The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 🌙 Website / Book 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops, Circles → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  9. Sep 8

    Episode 3: Sacred Menopause, Sovereignty & Ceremony with Reverend Dr. Ahriana Platten

    Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride sits down with Reverend Dr. Ahriana Platten — a human potential coach who has spent over three decades gathering with elders from more than 250 tribes and traditions across five continents, and the author of Sacred Menopause: A Woman's Guide to Sovereignty and Rites and Rituals.  Ahriana and Tiffany dive into menopause not as decline, but as an initiation — a rite of passage into sovereignty, wisdom, and embodied power. They talk about the cultural and medical lies women have been told about this transition, why ceremony works when willpower alone doesn't, and how the ancient myth of the Descent of Inanna maps directly onto the menopausal journey.  In this episode:  Ahriana's journey gathering wisdom from 250+ tribes and traditionsWhy menopause is a rite of sovereignty, not declineThe four stages of the alchemical process: black moon, white moon, red moon, medicine moonThe myth of the Descent of Inanna and what it teaches about shedding old identitiesWhy ceremony creates change that talk therapy and willpower can'tSimple, doable entry points into ritual (yes, even brushing your teeth)A look inside Ahriana's Sacred Menopause app and communityShow Notes — Links  🧭 Sacred Menopause App → sacredmenopauseapp.com  🌍 A Soulful World → asoulfullworld.com  📖 Sacred Menopause: A Woman's Guide to Sovereignty  → https://a.co/d/07GBUXDS 👨‍👩‍👧 Ahriana’s husband, Mark Platten — helping men through menopause → https://youtube.com/@menmidlifemenopause?si=kapVXJ1R4Jt8cJJU 🌙 Your website → https://www.themysticmuse.org  📖 The Alchemy of Intuition → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy  📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/  📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr  Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  10. Sep 4

    Episode 2: The Wild Woman

    Send us Fan Mail We are not going on without her any longer. In this episode, Dr. Tiffany McBride introduces the Wild Woman — the instinctual, whole, un-domesticated part of every woman that gets buried under performance, smallness, and "should." Drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés' Women Who Run with Wolves, Tiffany explores what it means to reclaim this nature, why she goes underground in the first place, and how to call her back. In this episode: What the Wild Woman actually is (and isn't) — natural, not recklessThe traits healthy wolves and healthy women share: keen sensing, boundaries, devotion, roaming instinctA brief history of how institutions and the witch trials severed women from instinctual, embodied knowingWhat it looks like when a woman loses touch with her Wild Woman — and why it rarely announces itself as a crisisWhy fairy tales and old stories carry psychological "instructions" for reclaiming herA guided visualization to feel this nature, not just think about itA simple practice to try this week: observing nature and dancing alone, unwitnessedComing up next episode: sacred menopause, sovereignty, and ceremony with Reverend Dr. Ahriana Platten. 🐺 Mystery Circle Class Recording (1st Chapter) ($11) → https://www.themysticmuse.org/onlineclasses 📖 Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés → https://a.co/d/0dJgvJjA  📖 Book: The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 🌙 Website / Book 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops, Circles → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

  11. Aug 29

    Episode 1: The Key Within

    Send us Fan Mail What if everything you've been looking for is already inside you? In this first episode of The Alchemy of Intuition, host Dr. Tiffany McBride — shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist with 20+ years of experience — introduces herself and the heart of this podcast: intuition, healing, shamanic work, and sacred feminine wisdom. Tiffany shares her personal path out of a lifetime rooted in seminary training and ministry work into the divine feminine, and the healing journey that followed. She then walks through a meditation and vision in which Mother Mary hands her a key to "the kingdom" — sparking a reinterpretation of the Genesis story of Eve, the Akashic records, and what it might really mean to reclaim the divine feminine as an energy that belongs to everyone, not just women. In this episode: Dr. Tiffany's journey from seminary and ministry to shamanic and clinical healing workThe vision of Mother Mary and "the key to the kingdom"A reframe of Eve, the Garden of Eden, and the "forbidden knowledge" storyWhat the Akashic records are and how they relate to inner knowingWhy the divine feminine is an energy available to every soul, regardless of genderWhat's coming next: the Wild Woman and reconnecting with intuition 📖 Book: The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice → https://a.co/d/0bFLxPoy 🌙 Website / Book 1:1 Sessions, Classes, Workshops, Circles → https://www.themysticmuse.org 📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/witchycrowwmn83/ 📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/share/1cXFLPC5Rm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Support the show The Alchemy of Intuition is hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride, shamanic doctor, healing arts minister, and licensed clinical therapist. Learn more about 1:1 sessions, classes, and workshops at www.themysticmuse.org. Grab a copy of The Alchemy of Intuition: Embodied Practices to Access Your Inner Voice at this Amazon link. Follow along on Instagram and Facebook for more.

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The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine is a space for remembering what you’ve always known. Hosted by Dr. Tiffany McBride — Shamanic Doctor, Licensed Clinical Therapist, and bestselling author — this podcast blends psychotherapy, shamanic practice, and mystical wisdom to guide you back into your body, your intuition, and your wholeness. We explore the dark and divine feminine not as gendered forces, but as the energy of knowing that lives in every soul. The Alchemy of Intuition: Rebirthing the Dark and Divine Feminine is a teaching podcast for soul-led women ready to explore intuition, healing, shadow work, empowerment, and sacred wisdom. Every month, we move through: >Teaching Modules from Mystic Muse Mystery Circle + Mystery School >A Goddess Story >A Deeper Dive Into Dark and Light Feminine Teachings  >2 Amazing Guests Bringing In Powerful Conversations 

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