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You stopped asking what you want. Somewhere along the way you started asking what's reasonable to want - and there's a reason for that. In this episode, I talk about the part of you that's been running the show so efficiently you've stopped noticing her, what she can and can't do, and how your soul has been leaving a trail back to itself the whole time. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. https://www.rootedmystic.com/newsletter == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/cory-alstad/what-we-know-now

⚡️ When a message keeps finding you, it's usually because some part of you has been waiting for it. In this episode, I'm talking about how this showed up for me - and what I've come to believe it has to do with disconnection from aliveness. I'm not talking about the huge events, but more about the smaller stuff. The kind of things that arrive gradually, as a series of small decisions made from fear rather than love, so ordinary you don't register them as decisions at all. I also talk about how I know when I've lost my own thread - three specific signs that fear has quietly taken more of the wheel than I realized - and what it looked like to make a different choice on a regular Monday morning. The work of coming back to aliveness isn't about confronting fear head-on. It's about rediscovering what's underneath it. Because underneath it, something is still there. Mentioned in this episode: Discover What Your Soul Really Wants workbook + live co-working call - June 28th at 1pm EasternNot listening in real time? The workbook is still available and live calls happen roughly twice a year. Get on the newsletter to hear about the next one first. == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/ilya-kuznetsov/light

Your soul has been leaving you a trail. Small things. Persistent things. The pulls you keep dismissing as impractical, inconvenient, or just not the right time. This episode is about what those breadcrumbs actually are - and what it costs to keep walking past them. One question to carry away. Find everything (including ways to stay in touch) at the Rooted Mystic website. === Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/volo/viriditas

Seven years in, and the cards showed me something I needed to see. Not something new - something I already knew, but had drifted far enough from that I needed it handed back to me. This episode is about the gap between what we say our priorities are and what our days actually show. About the drift that happens not from malice or laziness but from accommodation. 💀 And about what mortality has to do with why any of this matters at all. 🌱 One question to carry away. About ten minutes. That's the medicine. Sign up for (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/night-drift/teal

A life wink isn't a lightning bolt. It's quieter than that - the small, specific moment that makes you stop and feel, even briefly, like something is paying attention. This episode is about two of them that showed up on an ordinary morning when I stepped outside with my dog. A spider. A crow. And what it means to be moving slowly enough to notice. PS - Here are those pictures I mentioned if you’d like to see the tree-in-a-web: Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/peter-lainson/shimmer

There's a version of you that learned very early how to make herself acceptable. She smiles when she's depleted. She says yes when she means no. She absorbs what she should redirect because keeping the peace always seemed more important than keeping herself. This episode is for her - and for you, the one who's starting to notice she's been running the show for a very long time. One ailment. One remedy gestured at. One question to carry away. Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/ra/new-day

What happens when happiness lands - and your body immediately braces against it? This episode is about the flinch. The rock in the stomach. The way an old story of unworthiness can keep you from receiving what's already right in front of you - joy, abundance, goodness in any form. Not a teaching from someone who has this figured out. A dispatch from someone still learning to look up. My 2026 personal curriculum Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/abstract-aprils/memory-awake

Your soul has been leaving you a trail. Not a dramatic one - just small, specific signals. The delight that catches you off guard. The pull toward something before you've had time to think about it. The want you've been quietly apologizing for. This episode is about learning to read those signals - and what happens when you finally stop walking past them. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. == Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/dan-phillipson/drifting-home License code: JLAXALBM7ELPMIOJ

What do you do when nothing is wrong but nothing feels alive either? Not depression, not burnout - something quieter and harder to name.  In this episode we're giving language to the gray season: what it is, why it sets in, and what it might actually be trying to tell you. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. === Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-easton/summit

There's a particular kind of tired that doesn't come from doing too much - it comes from being absent from your own life. This episode names that feeling, and offers a reorientation: not inspiration, not a breakthrough, but tending. Small, quiet, incremental acts of returning to what's been waiting for you. One question to carry away. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. === Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-easton/follow-the-light

A genuine thank you to everyone who has reached out about the podcast and the newsletter - and an honest clarification about who is actually on the other end of this microphone. Not a guru. Not someone who has arrived. Just a person who needs her own medicine as much as anyone, practicing alongside you. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. === Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/oliver-massa/i-should-be-there

When we stop seeing the spaces we move through every day, something in us stops being seen too. This episode is about tending a threshold - the small, unglamorous space between leaving and arriving - and what happened when nine years of invisibility finally got some attention. A quiet piece about liminal spaces, held intention, and what re-emergence can look like when it fits in the palm of your hand. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary. === Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/ian-aisling/campfire License code: UUB8EN40CZS6KLF7

You can be productive, present, and getting things done - and still be completely absent from your own life. This episode is about that distinction. What it actually feels like to be alive in your day versus just moving through it, and why the difference has nothing to do with what you're doing and everything to do with how fully you're there while you're doing it. 🌿 One question to carry away. Five minutes. That's the medicine. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary.

The days are blending. Not because something is wrong, but because something is missing. In this episode, we look at what happens when your home becomes a stage set instead of a living thing. The remedy isn't (necessarily) a declutter. It's a relationship. For the woman who wants to feel like she's actually inside her life again. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary.

The freeze wasn't failure. The stuck period was doing something - and it's okay that it's over now. In this episode, we honor the stillness instead of apologizing for it. What the stuck period was protecting, why it made sense, and what it means that something is finally moving again. For the woman who's tired of judging herself for the quiet seasons. 💌 Sign up for my (free) Field Notes from the Apothecary.