I have dreamed for years of a creative retreat in a little cabin overlooking the sea, where I could write.

Last week it happened. And I made a little solo podcast episode about it.

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My guest today is Jasmine Alicia Carter, menstrual artist, founder of Sacred Woman™, and creator of the Menstrual Art Movement, guides women to reclaim their bodies, cycles, and creative power through menstrual blood as sacred practice.

She is the founder of Sacred Woman™, a renowned brand dedicated to empowering women to embody their authentic feminine nature and live womb-centered, meaningful lives.

Through the Sacred Woman Boutique, Jasmine curates holistic products and sacred pleasure tools designed to nurture women’s health and awaken the sacred sexual expression of the female body. Her unique artistry lies in her menstrual blood artwork, a sacred practice she has shared globally since 2016.

Her work has gone viral, been featured on major media platforms, and sparked the creation of the Menstrual Art Movement—a non-profit uniting thousands of women and bleeders worldwide in reclaiming menstruation as a source of empowerment and healing.

Rooted in ancient spiritual lineages, Jasmine continues to weave motherhood, art, and embodied wisdom into her devotion to women’s healing. She is a wife and mother of two

Website and main social media link:

@jasminealiciacarter

www.sacredwoman.com

We talked about:

The power of menstrual blood

Blood and bones as a way to reconnect us to what is real

Shame and fear that keep us from ourselves

Sharing our work, navigating social media and being seen

Baptisms of fire

The collective hunger for the sacred feminine

Extended Episode

A deeper dive conversation

Trigger warning for a discussion about suicidal ideation at 25-30 mins.

Feeding our demons – the Tibetan tantric practice she uses for navigating deep discomfort.

This was recorded as part of the Burning Woman Conversations – watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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Resources

Burning Woman

Moon Time

Menstruality podcast

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My guest today is Amy Wilding, Board Certified Women’s Hormonal Health Coach, and menstrual rewilding expert, author of Period of Change and Wild & Wise.

Amy is a queer and inclusive feminist with a passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent sovereignty and wisdom, she has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles, and rite-of-passage ceremonies for well over a decade.

She is the founder of Period of Change, a transformative menstrual education programme and rite-of-passage celebration that has supported thousands of girls and their mothers through puberty, menarche, and the reclamation of cycle literacy. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her wife, Aimee, and their four young-adult children. periodofchange.com and @periodofchange

We talked about:

Her new book Period of Change

Pleasure – and teaching our girls about it

Patriarchy’s impact on our bodies and minds

Shifting the culture from within

Moving from force to flow - perimenopause and accepting our difference in energetic capacity

The power of women’s circles

Why language matters

In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members

Generational shifts and sexual soveriegnty

Trans-inclusive language in women’s work

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Join me for my online class Writing with Fire

Resources

Wild & Wise

Period of Change

Gather: a celebration of women’s circles

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy

Burning Woman

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Shiloh Sophia is a painter, poet, and educator who has guided tens of thousands of women worldwide to chosen liberation through Intentional Creativity®.

As legacy-keeper of the 100-year Stardust Lineage, she carries forward teachings passed hand to hand, heart to heart. She's the author of 8 books, architect of 9 certification programs, and a university educator.

Most days you can find her having tea with her muse at Stardust Ranch in Northern California

Www.stardustlineage.com

This was recorded as part of the Burning Woman Conversations – watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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Join me for my online class Writing with Fire

We talked about:

Intentional Creativity

Symbology of the feminine

Sacred feminine ritual creative practice

Her literal baptisms of fire

The Good Girl and creative blocks

Nervous system privilege

In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Shiloh’s work and how to overcome creative blocks

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Jade Chung is a Spiritual Mentor, Somatic Healer, Intuitive, and Art Therapist known for her powerful transformational work. She integrates evidence based bodywork with spiritual ceremony and radical emotional healing to guide individuals through deep inner restructuring and embodied awakening.

She works with heart centred humans who are ready to evolve beyond inherited patterns and outdated paradigms, and step into lives rooted in coherence, love, and lived purpose. She believes the most powerful contribution to collective consciousness begins with a devoted path of individual evolution.

Website: https://www.jadechunghealing.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjadechung/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjadechung

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We talked about:

The healing and integrative power of darkness and silence, and the fire of self-expression.

Unmasking - as individuals and the collective unmasking of patriarchal culture.

The Year of the Fire Horse and what it means.

Our relationship with the Good Girl archetype.

In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Jade’s work and explore Van Gogh’s vision.

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ALisa Starkweather, visionary and facilitator, devoted four decades + to the work of the Sacred Feminine and women’s transformative leadership. She founded in 1998 her women’s mystery school, Priestess Path, the Women’s Belly and Womb conferences, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the global grassroots Red Tent (Temple) Movement and co-founded Women in Power initiations, uplifting the fierce feminine to confront predator energy through Shadow Work. Much of her work was purposefully undocumented for women to meet mystery in her containers, yet her influence is in the roots of much that grew from her devotion and those in her communities who gave immense lifeforce for our palpable rise.

alisastarkweather.com

We talked about:

· Her role in my Burning Woman journey – and dancing naked around the bonfire.

· Women in Power

· Shadow work

· Learning to trust your calling

· Stepping into writing her book.

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Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, she also trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery.

Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.

Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy.

Uma’s passion as a writer and as a teacher is to transmit clarity of awareness, creativity and profound vitality. She identifies these teachings as radical acts of rematriation, rooted in intuitive arts and in yoga tantra, drawing on a variety of yogic traditions to share deeply nourishing and enlivening practices appropriate for contemporary life.

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We talked about:

Life force energy and the death cult of patriarchy

Unlearning being a good girl

The impact of the witch burnings.

The connection between the colonisation of land and our bodies

Reclaiming our intuition

How and why she developed yoga practices that centred female bodies

The importance of understanding that the System isn’t personal

The transformative experience of home birthing her children

How she’s navigating current times creatively

In the Extended Episode from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

- Her baptism of fire: revealing abuse in the yoga community and the repercussions of this.

- Kundalini and its relationship to the Burning Woman archeype

Resources

Burning Woman

Bad Guru podcast

Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.

www.yoganidranetwork.org/

www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli

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Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club.

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The Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future.

A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers.

It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it.

Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime.

About the Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet

'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair

'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun.

He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world.

His work has been translated into forty-two languages.

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