What happens when the dark night of the soul isn’t just a chapter… but your whole life?

In this final episode of Mapping the Descent, Amy Ray joins us to share her extraordinary journey from years of addiction and despair to a near-death encounter that awakened her to the Goddess—and to her true self.

Amy shares her experience of being shown a vision of divine feminine love, and her initiation into a new path of purpose, healing, and deep embodiment. What followed was a 10-year spiral of recovery, remembrance, and reclamation.

Together, we explore:

• The underworld experience of addiction and the alchemy of awakening

• Mystical experiences, nervous system healing, and synesthesia

• The return of the Goddess and feminine face of God

• Tantric views of suffering, desire, and the purpose of incarnation

• Why embodiment is the true path of integration

• The importance of rites of passage and the rebirth of sacred ritual

This episode is a rite in itself—a transmission of tenderness, courage, and divine remembrance.

About Amy Ray:

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Connect with Michelle:

Website: www.embodiment-alchemy.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/michellelynnembodiment

Work with Michelle:

Force of Nature 1:1 Coaching for leaders and creatives who want to embody their power to move the world

Resources:

FREE MEDITATION - Embody Your Feminine Wisdom

FREE MINI COURSE - Moon Cycle Magic

The Non-Linear Movement Method Classes - Somatic Practice

The Secret Art of Breast Massage Course

What happens when life brings you to your knees—and you don’t know if you’ll rise again?

In this soul-rich conversation, Dr. Tamsin Astor joins us in the Mapping the Descent series to explore what it means to face real death, cultural death, and identity death... and emerge to tell the tale.

Tamsin shares how her child’s life-threatening medical diagnosis pulled her into the underworld, how Western culture’s discomfort with death shaped her experience, and how she began rebuilding from the ground up with the tools of mindfulness, movement, habit, humor, and spiritual curiosity.

We talk about:

• Why the descent asks us to stop trying to fix ourselves, and what to do instead

• The role and rediscovery of rituals—and our collective loss of them

• Why joy isn’t always a feeling, but a practice

• Navigating trauma, mental health, and dark seasons of life

• The power of community where you can be messy and still be loved

This episode is a balm and a reckoning. A reminder that when everything breaks apart, something ancient remembers how to begin again.

About Dr. Tamsin Astor:

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Connect with Michelle:

Website: www.embodiment-alchemy.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/michellelynnembodiment

Work with Michelle:

Force of Nature 1:1 Coaching for leaders and creatives who want to embody their power to move the world

Resources:

FREE MEDITATION - Embody Your Feminine Wisdom

FREE MINI COURSE - Moon Cycle Magic

The Non-Linear Movement Method Classes - Somatic Practice

The Secret Art of Breast Massage Course

In this soul-stirring installment of Mapping the Descent, women's mentor and facilitator Jen Wyatt joins us to explore the storms that reshape us—and the rituals that help us remember who we truly are. We dive into:

• How a paralyzing anxiety within a relationship became the doorway into an underworld journey

• The mythic thread of Inanna's descent into the underworld, and her resonant message for anyone journeying the darkness

• The visceral experience of surrendering to unraveling

• How letting go—laying down swords and armor—helped her alchemize pain into sovereignty

• The reclaiming of body, spirit, voice, and intimate self-trust born from that crucible

• Why initiation is not punishment—but an invitation to deeper freedom, creativity, and love

If you’re teetering on a threshold—mourning a loss big or small, diving into grief, or blazing new ground without a roadmap—this episode is a light on your path. It offers both mirror and mantra: you’re in the descent for a reason, and you’ll emerge differently… more embodied, more alive, more free.

About Jen Wyatt:

Jen Wyatt is the founder of Wander Free Wellness and a guide for women on the path of wild remembrance. Her work is rooted in ritual, nature, and the mythopoetic—woven with archetype, embodiment, and wild feminine soul. Jen creates sacred spaces that honor descent as a sacred rite of transformation, guiding women to shed old skins, reclaim their creative life force, and return to what is true beneath the noise of conditioning. Through circles, retreats, and ceremonial journeys, she invites women to awaken intuition, aliveness, and authentic expression.

Connect with Jen Wyatt:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/wanderfreewellness

Website: www.wanderfreewellness.com

Connect with Michelle:

Website: www.embodiment-alchemy.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/michellelynnembodiment

Work with Michelle:

Force of Nature 1:1 Coaching for leaders and creatives who want to embody their power to move the world

Resources:

FREE MEDITATION - Embody Your Feminine Wisdom

FREE MINI COURSE - Moon Cycle Magic

The Non-Linear Movement Method Classes - Somatic Practice

The Secret Art of Breast Massage Course