In this fourth solo episode I share the details of the journey that I have been guiding women through for the past decade; it is the journey of moving from the mind into the heart, and living and loving from there. This is a journey that I call SOFTEN.

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"Until and unless we are able to exalt our our inner masculine, we will never be able to birth the fullness of our feminine, the fullness of our Shakti." This Erica Jade quote, along with David Deida's book "The Way of the Superior Man" were the inspiration for my personal journey of softening and opening as love. And my personal journey has inspired the full offering that I share now with my heart work.

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In this episode I share the details of this journey: the pre-requisite of inner masculine exploration and exalting (inspired by Jade's quote) and the three intimate circles of sisterhood that follow which give us the wisdom, the embodiment and the inspiration to soften and to open as the Love that we are.

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I could not be the woman that I am without my own precious teachers, and without the work and words of these teachers as living wisdom for what I practice, embody and teach. I am a forever student on this path of love and devotion.

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If this episode gives you a tingle, you can find all of the details of the SOFTEN Journey on my website here: www.patricia-russo.com, or please feel free to send me an email or comment on this episode: patricia@wholehealedholy.com.

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If you are listening, and you are on the SOFTEN Journey with me, thank you, thank you, thank you for being here with me and for the heart, love, medicine and texture that you bring into each circle and to this journey with me. If this journey has touched you, please comment below and/or share this episode with a sister that you love.

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About your host:

Patricia Russo is a Mystic, Muse and Spiritual Teacher guiding women into their hearts with a journey of Softening. She’s a published poet, a lover of hearts, and a forever student. . Find her work here: www.wholehealedholy.com Find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy. Join her free monthly membership here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co . If you felt a tingle listening to this episode, please leave a comment. If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a 5-star review. And, I would greatly appreciate your help sharing this podcast with other listeners who might enjoy it too. Thank you!

Join me for a tender but important conversation about death and dying, the conscious way. Today I'm joined by Carla, a Death Doula and Midwife who has helped to guide many people on this journey.

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Carla is the owner of A Venerated Death: End of Life. She is an End-of-Life Coach, Death Doula & Midwife, Home Funeral Guide and Funeral Celebrant. Carla received both of her End of Life Coaching & Death Doula certifications through her course work with the Conscious Dying Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Carla also studied under Olivia Bareham from Sacred Crossings in LA, where she was given the wisdom and tools to help advocate and support families wanting to give their loved ones the sacred art of home funerals and after body care. Carla also received her Funeral Celebrant Certificate through her course work with Olivia as well.

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Carla is a volunteer at Denver Hospice where she continues to learn and expand her understanding and experiences working with the dying. This work and the wisdom it holds is and will be a lifelong journey for Carla and she is always continuing to broaden her learning, education, and knowledge in the Death Doula field.

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Carla hosts a monthly Death Discussion and a Parent Loss Grief Circle for individuals like herself that have lost a parent in their 20's and 30's. She is passionate about normalizing the topic of death and dying in everyday conversations. Carla has sat bedside to many people in their final days and her hope is to help her community bring death back to its scared place through her End-of-Life Care Service offerings. Carla meets people within this part of life with a radical presence of non-judgment, support and a bold vulnerability.

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To deepen in with Carla Torres Davis you can find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/carla_thanadoula and here www.instagram.com/a_venerated_death and her work can be found online here: www.avenerateddeath.com . About your host:

Patricia Russo is a Mystic, Muse and Spiritual Teacher guiding women into their hearts with a journey of Softening. She’s a published poet, a lover of hearts, and a forever student. . Find her work here: www.wholehealedholy.com Find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy. Join her free monthly membership here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co . If you felt a tingle listening to this episode, please leave a comment. If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a 5-star review. And, I would greatly appreciate your help sharing this podcast with other listeners who might enjoy it too. Thank you!

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What a beautiful honor it was to host Jasmine for this conversation of the heart. We talk about her spiritual journey and her relationship with sacred blood as a medium for her art, and about the movement for this art that she is single-handedly leading.

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“I dream to experience in this lifetime the manifestation of millions of Gods and Goddesses on Earth.”

. Jasmine Alicia Carter is a Menstrual Artist, Woman Embodiment Mentor, Wife, Mother of 2 and founder of Sacred Woman: a world-class brand devoted to empowering and inspiring women to return to a state of holistic balance, supporting them in embodying their authentic feminine nature to live a healthy, womb-centered and meaningful life.

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Sacred Woman also has an online boutique that offers women's care products and sacred pleasure tools to awaken and celebrate the sacred sexual expression of the female body. Jasmine’s favorite way to share feminine wisdom is drawing with her menstrual blood, a sacred art that she's been spreading across the world since 2016. Her work, which has gone viral all over the world and has been featured on major news platforms, led to the creation of a non-profit organization called Menstrual Art Movement that counts thousands of women and bleeders world-wide who embraced their periods as a source of empowerment and healing.

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To deepen in with Jasmine Alicia Carter you can find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/jasminealiciacarter and here www.instagram.com/menstralartmovement and her work can be found online here: www.sacredwoman.com . About your host:

Patricia Russo is a Mystic, Muse and Spiritual Teacher guiding women into their hearts with a journey of Softening. She’s a published poet, a lover of hearts, and a forever student. . Find her work here: www.wholehealedholy.com Find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy. Join her free monthly membership here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co . If you felt a tingle listening to this episode, please leave a comment. If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a 5-star review. And, I would greatly appreciate your help sharing this podcast with other listeners who might enjoy it too. Thank you!

In this third solo episode of a series of 12 for the year, host Patricia Russo shares her journey as a teacher; here are three personal stories that not many know.

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To deepen in with Patricia you can find her personal Instagram here: www.instagram.com/lavieenrusso and her professional Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy.

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Full offerings and website here: www.wholehealedholy.com

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“Living in a constant state of distraction and noise diminishes your intuitive intelligence. Practice being in silence. Soul-care is the path towards building the sanctuary of love, presence, and leadership within.” . Join me for an episode with Mara Branscombe, a woman who embodies the benefits of ritual as remedy and soul care, she shares her wisdom for bringing the sacred into our every day lives. . Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is the author of “Ritual As Remedy: Embodied Practices For Soul Care” and “Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen: Access Your Power and Creativity Through Sacred Female Archetypes." Mara is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community ceremony since 2000. . An adventurous spirit, Mara has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, trekked across the Himalayas, studied yoga in India, planted trees in Canada’s north, lived off the grid in a remote cabin in the woods, worked as a Waldorf (Steiner School) teacher, and then found her passion for dance and choreography. All the while yoga, meditation, mysticism and ritual have been at the heart of Mara’s journey. Her trainings in the Incan Shaman lineage and the Pagan tradition have greatly inspired her life’s work of earth-based, ceremonial, intentional, and heart-centered living and loving. . Mara currently lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two daughters. . To deepen in with Mara Branscombe you can find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/marabranscombe and her work can be found online here:https://marabranscombe.com/ . About your host:

Patricia Russo is a Mystic, Muse and Spiritual Teacher guiding women into their hearts with a journey of Softening. She’s a published poet, a lover of hearts, and a forever student. . Find her work here: www.wholehealedholy.com Find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy. Join her free monthly membership here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co . If you felt a tingle listening to this episode, please leave a comment. If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a 5-star review. And, I would greatly appreciate your help sharing this podcast with other listeners who might enjoy it too. Thank you!

In this second solo episode of a series of 12 for the year, host Patricia Russo shares poems from her book These Words (published in 2016), as she weaves in the story of love in her life: love as her biggest teacher.

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To deepen in with Patricia you can find her personal Instagram here: www.instagram.com/lavieenrusso and her professional Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy.

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Her work in service to women can be found here: www.patricia-russo.com and her newest website here: www.wholehealedholy.com.

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Her weekly writing on Substack can be found here: wholehealedholy.substack.com and her monthly Soften Sanctuary membership can be found here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co

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If something in this episode gives you a tingle, or you have a question please leave it in the comments below. If you feel inspired to rate the podcast or share this episode in any way your help to reach more listeners is greatly appreciated.

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To connect with Patricia directly: patricia@patricia-russo.com

In this episode, Nikki Weaver, the founder of "On the Inside" shares a powerful memory of witnessing her mother's remarkable ability to alter the energy in a space, and create the potential for deep healing in a second. This memory, and the memory of her mother lives in the work Nikki now does for women in prisons through her project called "On the Inside," that utilizes storytelling, theater and the healing arts.

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Playful. Honest. Curious. Nikki is an innovative creator and passionate communicator, driven by a desire to understand other points of view. She brings a deep sense of listening, curiosity and an open heart to any team she is a part of. She believes in empowering women through connection to our bodies, each other, and our spirits. After losing her mother at the age of ten and moving to Australia ten days later, Nikki began to look for her mother in other women. This body of work stems from her mother’s work of working with incarcerated men in the state of California. Nikki holds a B.F.A. from The Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts and an M.F.A. from George Washington University and The Shakespeare Theatre. Her toolbox is filled with being a yoga teacher, a massage therapist, reiki practitioner, meditator, a mom to two wild girls, and a partner that surprises her every day. She has facilitated circles for ages 4-80-year-olds, offering mindfulness and creativity practices. Nikki loves to stand on her head, running at sunrise (23 marathons to boot!), getting creative with her kids and family, and creating national and international wellness retreats. To be on the inside in circle with women has been the biggest gift of her life. It is where all the walls come down. A co-founder of Portland Playhouse, Nikki is the Founder of On The Inside.

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To deepen in with Nikki Weaver you can find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/nikkiweaver and her project On the Inside can be found here: www.instagram.com/ontheinside2.

To support the project please find it on the web here: www.ontheinside.space

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About your host:

Patricia Russo is a Mystic, Muse and Spiritual Teacher guiding women into their hearts with a journey of Softening. She’s a published poet, a lover of hearts, and a forever student.

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Find her work here: www.patricia-russo.com Find her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy Join her free monthly membership here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co

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If you felt a tingle listening to this episode, please leave a comment. If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a 5-star review. And, I would greatly appreciate your help sharing this podcast with other listeners who might enjoy it too. Thank you!

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In this first solo episode of a series of 12 for the year, host Patricia Russo shares her nearly 53-year journey of evolution; her journey of remembering who she is. From being the first born big sister and young mother to her four sisters, to a life of creating beauty, experiences and work in service to others.

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She shares this first solo episode as a starting point for the other episodes to follow, and in hopes of inspiring listeners to journey into their own remembering and evolution.

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To deepen in with Patricia you can find her personal Instagram here: www.instagram.com/lavieenrusso and her professional Instagram here: www.instagram.com/wholehealedholy.

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Her work in service to women can be found here: www.patricia-russo.com and the newest website mentioned in this episode has been softly launched here: www.wholehealedholy.com.

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Her weekly writing on Substack can be found here: wholehealedholy.substack.com and her monthly Soften Sanctuary membership can be found here: soften-sanctuary.mn.co

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If something in this episode gives you a tingle, or you have a question please leave it in the comments below. If you feel inspired to rate the podcast or share this episode in any way your help to reach more listeners is greatly appreciated.

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To connect with Patricia directly: patricia@patricia-russo.com

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