The Numinous Podcast

Grab a hanky because I am living close to the waterworks lately, folks! 😭 I was not able to keep it together through this interview and that tracks completely because I don’t actually believe in trying to suppress emotions and I don’t mind crying in the middle of an interview at all. Especially because it’s not everyday you know your guest is going to hold you in such deep care and dignity. My guest today is the ...

Mara Glatzel is an intuitive coach, teacher, podcast host + the author of Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs + Reclaim Your Sovereignty and she's inviting you to a slumber party for burnt out baddies (eldest daughters/sisters/girls).

Take Mara's Needs Quiz! (Fun and informative!)

Mara teaches eldest sisters, people pleasers, and chronic overfunctioners (her absolute favourite people) how to take up SPACE, deeply tend to the...

(Content note: Adult language; also brief, non-specific mention of sexual assault.)

🎉It's Colette Baron-Reid Day*!🎉 Sixty eight years ago, she began a life journey that has seen her rise to the height of publishing success as a bestselling author and oracle deck creator. Today, she is coming full circle in more ways than one: it's her solar return, it's her new album's debut, and it's a puzzle piece slotting into place that had b...

WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE. WE WILL NOT STOP ADVOCATING FOR UPDATED INFORMATION, GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, AND A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF FIRST LINE TREATMENT TO CURRENT MOST PROMISING PRACTICES IN MENOPAUSAL SUPPORT. 

Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them/Mx.) is an author, educator, and certified menopause doula and coach specializing in gender-affirming menopause care. As Founder and CEO of Genderqueer Futures LLC,...

Content Warning: pet death. Also, Dispatch episodes feature the background noise of me doing chores around the farm which may cause aggravation for folks with sensory processing sensitivities. Please look for a transcription within your podcast player.

This is the story of how Mona was promised to me in return for not leaving my husband.

This is the story of Mona's trauma recovery.

This is t...

Let's go on a farm tour and talk business! Today I am choring, checking the horses' water, the kunekune pigs' water, and saying hi to the chickens, then on to the fields to harvest wheat and barley to dry for wheat weaving kits this fall.

I'm sharing quite transparently about my income, my debt, my marketing and my foundational business philosophies.

I do want to note:

- As with all dispatch episodes, the background noises may not ...

Storytime! This one is about how I won a trip to Greece through Contact Nutrition. I was a wine rep trying to sell relatively expensive bottom shelf wine to Greek restaurants that did not want this wine. Here's what made the difference.

Join us for a mellow summer of Contact Nutrition in The Numinous Network!

Thanks in advance for pre-ordering my next book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nut...

A little more "Common Sense for Collapse Times" for you today with something I learned after my business was washed away in the Great Recession of 2008 and I experienced bankruptcy and some deep, deep shame.

I'm talking about navigating capitalism and managing terror and desperation - somehow in 12 minutes I manage to make myself both laugh and cry, while also feeding the horses and sharing, like, 3 different stories and multiple p...

I'm so honoured to welcome back to the podcast, one of my favourite conversations partners ever, Perdita Finn!

Perdita is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teach...

This episode features the best bangers of cowboy logic, farm wisdom, and collapse tips that are getting us through some tough months here on Faulder Farm on Syilx Territory.

Pre-order my book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)

🙏🏻 Thanks in advance! 🙏🏻

Join us for col...

Today's guest, Nadine Nakagawa, is an organizer, activist, intersectional feminist, clinical counsellor, and two-term city councillor. She is also the co-founder of Feminist Campaign School which supports underrepresented people to run for and serve in elected office. 

She is also the author of the forthcoming book, Moss, Molt, Murmur: Contemplations on Nature, which is now available for pre-order from 9th House Press!

This c...

If you are in the mood for something soothing, cozy, wholesome, and heartwarming, this episode is for you. If you are craving some quality time with a neighbour who is grounded, good-hearted, generous and genuinely curious about you and life in general, this episode is for you. If you need a comfort listen, this episode is for you.

And so is the forthcoming book from today's guest, Marianne Unger. It's called Farm Stand News: Lette...

Author and educator, Dionne Grayman, is here to talk about her new book, I Call My Own Name: A Homegirl's Lyrical Memoir of Hip-Hop, Healing and Holy Reclamation, now available for pre-order from 9th House Press.

In the 90s, Dionne was just 20 years old and pregnant when her baby's father was killed. Now in her late 50s, Dionne recounts how literature and music helped her "remember herself whole", her whole story, with herself as l...

New from 9th House Press: Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis, by Dr.Allison Claire Davis, explores the question, What happens when a woman becomes a mother during the slow emergency of our ecological crisis?

Matrescence is the developmental transition of becoming a mother. As far as I can find, this is the first book published that focuses exclusively on the unique psychoemotional context of becoming a mother...

Production Note: I used a different recording program than usual without any background noise dampening so you get to hear the summer storm roll in, my dog, Mona slurping her water, my movements as I shuffle stuff on my desk, etc...So real! So high def! So intimate and interactive!

Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide and brief non-specific mention of sexual assault, overall a bummer of a topic but I try to keep it moving along f...

If you've enjoyed discourse on this podcast about the barefoot doctor approach, community-based and culturally-relevant mental health initiatives and disability justice, as well as how ritual and spiritual literacy helps weave a stronger collective nervous system and increases community resilience, then you need to read, The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dr.Dixon Chibanda. It's a...

Welcome to your new hyper-niche comfort listen, my fellow disability nerds! Today we're talking with Dr.Diana Driscoll about some of the recent research on Inflammatory POTS as well as promising treatment approaches.

Diana Driscoll, OD, FAAO received her Doctoral degree from The University of Houston College of Optometry, and began studying idiopathic autonomic dysfunction through the ophthalmic examination of affected patients. He...

Today's episode is part announcement, part request, part inspiration, part call to action – I am delighted to welcome back my dear friend and colleague, Taraneh Erfan, in her role as Editorial Director for 9th House Press. Regular listeners will know that 9th House Press is a worker co-op founded by Taraneh, myself and our colleague, Thérèse Cator, and we are bringing you world-building books that are a response to the questi...