Welcome to the goddess episodes. We begin with Persephone—the maiden who descends to the underworld and becomes Queen of the Dead.

In this episode, Casey reclaims Persephone's myth from the patriarchal telling of innocent victim to the initiatory reading of sovereign queen. You'll discover why the descent wasn't an abduction but an initiation, what dies when the maiden goes down, and what it means to become queen of your own underworld.

You'll explore:

• The myth retold: Why the pomegranate seeds were choice, not trap
• What actually dies in the descent (innocence, control, the old identity)
• How Persephone becomes sovereign through the underworld, not despite it
• The six-month rhythm: honoring descent time and emergence time
• Why you don't descend once—you spiral back to Persephone throughout your life

Casey shares her own Persephone initiations—from her first heartbreak at fifteen to the fall five months ago—and what it means to keep choosing the depths, to keep eating the seeds.

Includes a guided descent meditation to meet Persephone in your own underworld.

If you've ever lost yourself completely, if the earth has opened beneath you, if you've been dragged into grief or rupture—you've met Persephone. This episode teaches you how to become queen.

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This podcast is spiritual teaching, not therapy or medical advice.

Shadow isn't just the "bad" parts of yourself. It's everything you've disowned—including your power, your wildness, your sexuality, and your joy.

In this episode, Casey explores Jungian shadow work and why most people misunderstand what shadow actually is. The work isn't to fix your shadow or transcend it—it's to integrate it and let it make you whole.

You'll discover:

• What shadow actually is (and why it includes your gold, not just your wounds)
• Why "love and light" spirituality bypasses the real work
• How spiritual bypassing keeps you stuck in surface-level healing
• The difference between shadow work and shadow integration
• How shadow changes as you move from maiden to mother
• Why your judgments of others reveal what you've disowned in yourself

Includes a shadow practice to help you recognize what you've been rejecting in yourself.

The goddesses live in the shadow—Persephone rules the underworld, Lilith refuses exile, Medusa's gaze forces you to face what you've hidden. This episode teaches you how to reclaim the parts of yourself that hold your greatest medicine.

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This podcast is spiritual teaching, not therapy or medical advice.

You can't think your way through initiation. Descent work that stays in your head isn't actually descent at all.

In this episode, Casey explores why the body is essential for transformation—and why years of intellectual understanding can leave you completely stuck. Drawing on her MA in Body Psychotherapy, she explains how trauma, grief, and rage live in your tissues, not just your thoughts, and why the goddesses work through embodied experience.

You'll learn:

• Why your body remembers what your mind has tried to forget
• Nervous system basics: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and the state of safety
• How to recognize which goddess lives where in your body
• The difference between embodied spirituality and "spirituality in your head"
• Why you can't rush initiation—the descent happens at the pace your body can hold

Includes a guided embodiment practice to help you listen to what your body has been trying to tell you.

The goddesses aren't abstract concepts—they're forces you feel in your bones, blood, and breath. This episode will teach you how to come home to your body.

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Transcripts & resources: www.the-goddess-coven.com

This podcast is spiritual teaching, not therapy or medical advice.