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The most disorienting seasons of life often aren’t the endings or the beginnings. They’re the in between. That’s where liminal space lives, and it’s where so many of us either break open into a truer life or try to force ourselves back into the old one.

In this episode, we'll explore:

• defining liminal spaces as the in between where time slows and growth accelerates
• using curiosity and metacognition to track reactions and rewrite old stories
• working with archetypes, parts, and soul contracts to integrate the self
• building energetic boundaries and differentiation to stay connected without shrinking
• naming dissociation patterns and returning to presence in the physical realm
• creating shared reality through collaboration instead of scarcity

Christine Renee sits down with Lacee Gengenbacher to name what liminal spaces actually feel like: time standing still, identity shifting, and the Tower moment where what “worked” stops working. We talk honestly about how expansion can get tangled with a chronically activated nervous system, why calm can feel unsafe after chaos, and how to reframe growth so it doesn’t require pain and suffering to be valid. Along the way, we dig into embodiment, nervous system safety, dissociation, and the practical power of curiosity and metacognition to track what’s really happening when you feel triggered.

We also connect the dots between parts work and spiritual practice, including archetypes, soul contracts, and Internal Family Systems style language. When the ground moves under you, the inner voices get louder, and we share ways to meet those parts with intention instead of judgment. A thread we keep coming back to is connection: you’re only as connected to others as you are to yourself, and energetic boundaries help you stay in your truth without shutting down your light.

We close by sharing what we’re building in community: the Gathering of the Mystics summit in Bozeman, Montana, a three day container designed for safe exploration, real integration, and shared medicine through speakers, workshops, and intentional ritual. If anything in your body perks up while you listen, trust that signal. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s in a threshold season, and leave a review so more people can find the support they’ve been looking for.

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Soul Contracts & Alchemizing Archetypes Online Masterclass starts June 23rd: https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/soul-contracts-archetypes/

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A single trigger can make you feel like you’ve lost all your progress, and then you’re left wondering why the same old story keeps replaying. We’ve learned that the fastest way out isn’t more self-judgment. It’s clearer inner language. When you can name the part of you that’s running the moment, you can stop blending with it and start choosing from a steadier place.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

🌕 Archetypes as mirrors that reveal behavior patterns and trauma responses
🌖 Using roles like mother, daughter, wife as an entry point to archetypal awareness
🌗 The witness and the sacred warrior for boundaries, accountability, and conscious action
🌘 The queen archetype and reclaiming healthy feminine leadership beyond cultural stereotypes
🌑 People pleasing as the prostitute archetype and the move toward priestess aligned service
🌒 Disruptor and destroyer energy as tower moments that clear the path for realignment
🌓 Saboteur patterns, imposter syndrome, and shifting into magician level creation
🌔 Avoiding the wounded rescuer trap and practicing clean support as a practitioner

Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa go deep on embodied archetype work, sharing how archetypes act like a map for patterns, trauma responses, boundaries, and relationship dynamics. You’ll hear how people pleasing can be an integrity leak, how discernment differs from self-sabotage, and how “maturing” an archetype can feel softer and more sustainable than trying to fix yourself. We also touch on the disruptor and destroyer archetypes, why tower moments can be initiations, and how the four bodies (mental, emotional, spiritual, physical) get pulled out of balance when we engage from shadow.

If you’re a healer, empath, or spiritual practitioner, we also name the wounded rescuer trap and what it looks like to hold a clean container without fixing. For anyone craving clarity, purpose, and deep spiritual alignment, we share details on Shantel’s Soul Contracts and Alchemizing Archetypes masterclass starting June 23.

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Your energy field isn’t just “vibes” floating around you. It’s a living system that reflects your boundaries, your self-worth, and the places where you’ve learned to contract for safety. We walk through a grounded, usable way to understand chakras as interlocking energy centers and why one stuck “gear” can ripple into the rest of your life, from survival stress and people pleasing to muted pleasure and creative shutdown.

Christine Rene brings decades of energy healing and Reiki experience into a clear framework: root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown as a practical roadmap for emotional health, physical tension, and spiritual alignment. We also explore the earth star chakra and sun star chakra as powerful connection points, helping you release and ground into Earth energy while also receiving guidance and nourishment from divine intelligence.

Then we connect the dots to Tantra as an embodied method, not a concept: breath, sound, and movement to shift energy through the “inner flute” and restore flow. This is where psychic protection gets real. When unresolved trauma and limiting beliefs create weak spots in the auric field, cords and intrusive energy can hook in more easily. When your toroidal field is strong, you feel steadier, clearer, and harder to knock off center, without bypassing your shadows.

Join us for She Who Rises starting May 26th to activate and energize your field, expand your pleasure, and enliven your psychic protection.

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Sex, spirituality, and “psychic protection” usually get filed into separate boxes. Here at Moon Rising, we don’t. Christine Renee sits down with student and shamanic Reiki practitioner Stacy Saucedo to trace a real learning path: how a simple question (“Why Chakras?”) turns into a deeper relationship with energy, the body, and the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to hide.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

🌕 Letting go of “fixing” energy and practicing self-acceptance
🌖 How She Who Rises grew from intro to tantra into deeper conversation and integration
🌗 Talking about sex as sacred while respecting edges, boundaries, and trauma history
🌘 Psychic protection as strengthened field, grounded releases, and better energetic boundaries
🌑 Chakra education plus polyvagal theory to expand the zone of tolerance🌒 Microcosmic orbit, breath, sound, and movement as daily energy hygiene

We talk candidly about women’s sexuality and tantra as a practice of self-acceptance, not self-fixing. That means making room for the full range of human experience in sacred space: curiosity, joy, embarrassment, grief, anger, and the places where a topic hits an edge. We also unpack why shame and cultural silence can keep the nervous system locked in contraction, and how honest conversation plus somatic tools can start to soften that grip.

From there, we connect the dots between pleasure, boundaries, and energetic safety. Christine shares how breath, sound, and movement strengthen the field, how chakra education becomes practical when it’s embodied, and why polyvagal basics (hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and the zone of tolerance) matter for empaths, healers, and anyone who tends to “carry” others. You’ll also hear concrete energy hygiene ideas, including grounding releases, working with support in the unseen, and the microcosmic orbit as a way to circulate energy through the body.

If you’re looking for women’s tantra training, chakra healing, somatic movement practices, cord attachment awareness, or a grounded approach to psychic protection, this conversation gives you a clear map and a next step. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs stronger boundaries, and leave a review telling us what topic you want us to go deeper on next.

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Coming out later in life can feel like the moment everything finally makes sense, until you realize freedom also brings you face-to-face with the pain you’ve been carrying for decades. I’m joined by Peter Kahn, a Reiki practitioner, reclaiming witch, and Soul Rising graduate, for a candid conversation about growing up bullied, hiding a trans identity for survival, and what it’s like to finally say “I’m not just an ally, I’m a member” out loud.

We dig into Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work and why “there are no bad parts” is more than a nice idea. Peter shares how shifting from fixing himself to holding space for himself softened defensiveness, changed his relationship with work, and made self-worth feel less like homework and more like coming home. We also talk nervous system regulation in everyday life, including how to notice your warning lights before you explode, and why curiosity beats post-mortem analysis every time.

The conversation widens into culture and community: microaggressions, othering, and the responsibility of people who still “code” as the dominant group to show up as real allies. We explore the practice of calling people in instead of calling people out, without giving anyone a pass for harm. Then we bring it back to spiritual healing, with Reiki, shamanism, journeying, guides, power animals, earthing, animism, and the relief of feeling connected to something larger than the isolated self.

If you’re navigating gender identity, rebuilding self-esteem, healing trauma, or searching for grounded spiritual tools that work in real life, this one is for you. Subscribe, share with someone who needs to hear “you’re not broken,” and leave a review so more listeners can find Wisdom Rising.

Connect with Peter here: https://bsky.app/profile/citizenkahn.bsky.social

Books mentioned:

• The Others Within Us by Robert Falconer
• The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine by Sophie Strand

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You can feel it when a spiritual gathering is more than a marketplace. Over Spring Equinox, we Tree Of Life SpiritFest in Bozeman, Montana, and we’re bringing you the heart of what made the day special: real community, real conversation, and practical tools that land in the body, not just the mind. After a quick recap of the event, we shift into a live panel with a beautifully diverse group of practitioners spanning Thai Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, EFT tapping and Biotap, Chakradance, Kundalini Tantra, shadow work, Reiki, vocal alchemy, and intuitive development.

The audience questions take us straight into the places most people are actually living: What’s the difference between grace and love when you’re trying to hold compassion and boundaries at the same time? How do you pick a modality when you’re dealing with long-term trauma, ADHD, hormone shifts, and a deep desire to find your voice? We talk about why the “one true path” idea can add pressure, how discernment works in real life, and why following the next right step often beats trying to get it perfect.

We also explore grounding through stress as nervous system care and spiritual practice together, using breath, ritual, and radical acceptance to move from survival mode back into center. If you’re searching for energy healing, chakra balancing, somatic practices, tantra meditation, or a grounded approach to spiritual development, this conversation offers both perspective and tangible takeaways. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s craving community, and leave a review with your biggest question from the panel.

If you're in Bozeman, MT, please join us for Tree of Life SpiritFest, Summer Solstice Edition, on Saturday, June 20th!

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Suffering can be loud, but it’s often just repetitive, a thought you can’t stop replaying or a body response that keeps reacting like the past is still happening. We sit down and get honest about how we “subscribe” to our own suffering through identity, comparison, and nervous system loops, and what it actually takes to step out of that pattern with radical responsibility. If you’ve ever felt stuck on the struggle bus, this conversation offers a grounded way to name what’s going on and start changing it.

Today we’ll explore:

• Defining suffering as mental loops and stuckness
• Noticing when pain becomes identity and comparison culture reinforces it
• Understanding how the brain and body relive the past through stress chemistry
• Separating mind healing from somatic healing and why both matter
• Using expression and integration to release stored trauma
• Working with the four bodies: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual
• Calling power back through forgiveness, boundaries, and radical responsibility
• Reparenting shadow parts and nurturing the inner bear
• Choosing yin softness or yang strength based on what you need
• Shifting frequency through self-care, community, nature, and being witnessed

We also share why loneliness can show up during growth, how to choose environments that “vibrate up,” and why being witnessed is medicine. If you’re drawn to energy healing, we mention upcoming ways to go deeper, including Reiki Level One training and She Who Rises, a 3-Month Journey of Feminine Awakening, Energy Mastery & Embodied Power focused on chakras, aura, psychic protection, and energetic sovereignty. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

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You don’t need a perfect script to lead powerful ceremony. You need a clear intention, a well-held container, and the skills to guide people through real emotion without leaving them raw or ungrounded. We share a webinar replay that opens the door to what we teach inside our six-week intensive training, The Art of Creating Ceremony, and we make it practical for anyone called to facilitate circles, rituals, or community gatherings.

We talk about why ceremony helps people drop the mask, speak from the heart, and feel truly seen and heard. Then we get specific about what makes facilitation ethical and effective: trauma-informed spaceholding, consent and boundaries, energetic hygiene, psychic protection, and the often-missed step of integration time at the end so participants can ground what moved. We also cover the real-world facilitator mechanics that matter just as much as the mysticism, like timekeeping, managing oversharing, and creating clear sharing prompts that keep a group connected.

From moon circles to elemental rituals, we walk through ceremony styles you can adapt to your own voice: new moon manifestation and full moon release, cacao ceremony as heart-centered plant medicine, Reiki-infused circles, sound baths, shamanic drum circles, and money mindset candle ceremonies including building money bowls with herbs and intention. We also explain how practice and feedback build confidence faster than theory, and how our training structure supports you as you step from student to facilitator.

If you’re ready to create sacred space that’s grounded, safe, and deeply transformational, listen now and then subscribe, share this with a friend who leads circles, and leave a review so more people can find the work.

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