• Episode 46 - Getting to Know Healing Through Interconnectedness
    Jul 25 2024

    Get in, Woozers! We're doing a giveaway! Anyone who leaves a review (or has left one already! (thanks!!)) for the show on Apple Podcasts by August 15 will be eligible to win a half-hour reading with Natasha.

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett talk about the power of healing through interconnectedness.

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • We are all interconnected even when it doesn't feel like it
    • You cannot suppress or ignore feelings; they will find a way to be expressed
    • The parts of yourself you like the least have a lot of information for you
    • Accepting aspects of your life without taking blame for things that don't belong to you.
    • Avoiding toxic positivity
    • Rapid healing through connection
    • Being present with the future
    • Recognizing when you are merged with an inner child part
    • Inner child parts are time travelers
    • Feeling emotions deeply while remaining present
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • A new class is coming soon for paid subscribers to Natasha's newsletter. Sign up here.
    • Spots are open for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 45 - Getting to Know Altars with Sarah Maher of Village & Vessel
    Jul 12 2024

    Get in, Woozers! We're doing a giveaway! Anyone who leaves a review (or has left one already! (thanks!!)) for the show on Apple Podcasts by August 15 will be eligible to win a half-hour reading with Natasha.

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett are excited to discuss altars with Sarah Maher, owner of Village & Vessel, an online and brick & mortar metaphysical shop in Oak Park, IL.

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • Natasha's recent depression
    • Working through feelings of shame and perfectionism
    • The importance of an outside perspective
    • The question is already out there. Now listen for the answer.
    • How "just being" is an active state
    • Natasha's encounter with a leprechaun. Yes, a leprechaun
    • Brett's skeptical part freaking out about the existence of leprechauns
    • Looking forward to a time that all people are taught to trust and value their intuition
    • "I am Jewish and whatever dimension I come from." - Natasha
    • What does a world look like where everyone's subjective experience is valid?
    • Recognizing black & white thinking as a sign of a trauma response
    • When you bring something into your home, you are wanting to shift an energy
    • You work with your altar and it works with you
    • You can base your altar on anything: four elements, ancestors, a certain time period, a want
    • Putting your altars to work
    • Altar making workshops at Village & Vessel
    • The necessity of ritual for altar work
    • Spiritual tooth brushing
    • Some ways to set up an altar for manifestation
    • Feeling crystal vibrations for the first time
    • Altars as a bridge between the physical and the spiritual
    • What to do when you're done with a particular altar
    • Don't worry: You're not doing crystals wrong
    • How to reinvigorate an altar you're not connecting with any more
    • A brief discussion of Ariana Madix and her amazing boundaries
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Spots are open again for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Sarah's info:

    • Website: https://www.villageandvessel.com
    • Instagram: @village_and_vessel
    • Tiktok: @villageandvessel

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 44 - Getting to Know an Experience with Angels
    Jun 21 2024

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett discuss his recent unexpectedly powerful connection to angels during an energy reading.

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • Wanna ride bikes?
    • Brett connecting to angels (and specifically Sandalphon)
    • The importance of developing your loving inner adult
    • How a loving inner presence can jumpstart or leap frog the need for knowing what it's helping
    • The startlingly fast results of hypnotism
    • Card draw for the week: guilt (not gilt)
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Spots are open again for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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    25 mins
  • Episode 43 - Getting to Know Auras & More with Eliza Swann
    Jun 7 2024

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to share this wonderful conversation with Eliza Swann, writer, artist, educator, and author of Auras: The Anatomy of the Aura (A Start Here Guide for Beginners).

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • The way the universe gives you what you need
    • Declaring your intention and watching the tests roll in
    • The importance of relational healing
    • Honoring each other's autonomy and seniority
    • The importance of an external perspective
    • Card pull for the week: Home
    • How Eliza's book came about
    • Being raised by her aunt who was a witch
    • Learning auras to talk to plants, animals, etc.
    • Making zines for classes
    • How Eliza's teaching has morphed over the years
    • Finding a new teacher after her aunt's death
    • Learning "woo" stuff in a much more rigid, academic method
    • The different layers of the aura, their importance and their arbitrariness
    • We have so many more than five senses
    • The ordinariness of psychic abilities
    • How you look at the aura is entirely personal and context dependent
    • Your personal cosmology will inform how you connect to the aura
    • How to approach energy reading without making assumptions about the people you're reading
    • Doing this work, is knowing yourself
    • Experimenting and taking notes on your experiments to build knowledge and vocabulary around your own abilities
    • The language of mysticism is heavily centered around vision, but most people don't perceive energy that way.
    • The importance of finding a teacher and some thoughts on how to do it
    • Genius doesn't live in your brain
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Spots are open again for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

    Where to find Eliza:

    • Eliza's website: https://www.elizaswann.com
    • Eliza's instagram: @thecircularserpent
    • Eliza's school, The Golden Dome: https://www.golden-dome.org/
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Minisode 1 - Thoughts I'm Not Sharing on TikTok
    May 16 2024

    Welcome to our first minisode! These will be shorter, solo episodes with host, Natasha Levinger, sharing miscellaneous topics in the self-healing, self-care, and the wider world of "woo"

    In this minisode, Natasha discusses:

    • Feeling a "no" on social media
    • The importance of listening to your intuition
    • Learning how to discern thoughts from pings
    • Your conscious mind is not a good place to make emotional decisions from
    • How shifting your own consciousness will help more than just you
    • How these mini episodes will work
    • Hyper-vigilance and the "What if?"
    • Finding your anchor for self-soothing, even when you're with other people
    • Intuition feels "slower" than messages from a wounded inner child part
    • Doing something vulnerable will awaken your inner critic; not because it's right, but because it's scared
    • Accepting difficult people for who they are in order to help determine your own needs
    • One way to stop merging with inner child parts that are afraid
    • "How am I relating to this experience? How can I support myself?"

    Plus...

    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast (plus intermittent minisodes!) dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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    25 mins
  • Epsiode 42 - Getting to Know Shifting Perspective
    May 10 2024

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are flying solo this time. Join them as they talk about how shifting perspective, zooming out, going higher can help you during difficult emotional times.

    In this episode, they talk about:

    • The danger of compartmentalizing your life
    • Feeding your soul to fuel your efforts
    • The skewing effect of identifying aspects of your life as your self
    • You can regulate yourself, your nervous system even in chaotic circumstances
    • Once again: "Your pace is your peace"
    • Having awareness and respect for your physical and emotional needs
    • Bringing yourself back to center if you've pushed passed your own limits
    • Expanding your viewpoint, zooming out in order to re-center
    • The brain loves to find certainty, but certainty is a lie
    • Card pull for this week: "How Can I Go Higher?"
    • Your soul contains multitudes and is connected to everything in the univere
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 41 - Getting to Know Lenormand with Erika Robinson
    Apr 25 2024

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are thrilled to welcome author Erika Robinson, to talk about her new book, The Language of Lenormand: A Practical Guide for Everyday Divination.

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • How to pronounce Lenormand and where the name came from
    • What is a Lenormand deck and how does it work?
    • How new meanings get added to the cards to account for modern phenomena
    • The relationship between the cards, the reader, and the sitter
    • Time as it relates to Chronos and Chiros
    • Lenormand can be a kind, gentle, direct friend if you learn how to use it
    • There's no such thing as laziness
    • Many things get labeled as laziness
    • "Laziness" always means there is an underlying need not being met
    • The importance of self-compassion for identifying those needs
    • How capitalism and misogyny contribute to messages about "laziness"
    • "Treat yourself like a bear."
    • Card pull: a message from Metatron
    • Metatron sounds like a mech from an 80s anime
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Spots are open again for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

    Where to find Erika:

    • Erika's website
    • Erika's instagram
    • Erika's substack
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    57 mins
  • Episode 40 - Getting to Know Quantum Hypnosis with Lisa Quigley
    Apr 12 2024

    Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are thrilled to welcome back Lisa Quigley, the Glitch Witch, to talk about quantum hypnosis.

    In this episode, they discuss:

    • What is quantum hypnosis?
    • Beta, alpha, and theta brain wave states
    • The truly bananas nature of reality
    • Getting the conscious mind out of the way
    • "Let's just go with weird."
    • How this work can help even if you don't believe in it
    • How quantum hypnosis helps open up pathways on your personal development
    • Why some beliefs are "woo" and others are "normal"
    • How to navigate communication in difficult times
    • A mantra for self-centering during an argument
    • How to tell the difference between being triggered and simply having a reaction to something
    • "How old do I feel right now?"
    • And more!

    Plus...

    • Spots are open again for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
    • Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
    • Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
    • Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available.
    • Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
    • Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

    Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

    Where to find Lisa:

    • Lisa's website
    • Lisa's instagram
    • Lisa's substack
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    1 hr and 3 mins