The Science of Magic: How the 13 Sacred Nights Shape Your Visionary Blueprint for the Year Ahead

Today, we’re exploring the intersection of mystery and neuroscience, what Lara J. Day and I call Magic. And when I talk about magic, I don’t mean illusion or fantasy. I mean the felt sense of aliveness that arises when we attune to the unseen layers of reality: synchronicities, symbols, and the subtle ways life communicates with us when we slow down enough to listen.To help us dive into the magic that opens specifically at this time of year, I invited a special guest: Lara J. Day, author of the 13 Sacred Nights Oracle and creator of Neurogenic Qigong. Lara is on a mission to reclaim the hyper-commercialized holidays and return the Soul to the Solstice.In this episode, we explore the 13 Sacred Nights ritual, an ancient winter solstice practice: what it is, how it works, and how its magic can shift the way your brain and nervous system perceive the world. Lara shares 17 years of personal experience with the practice, along with stories of synchronicity, prophetic dreams, animal symbolism, and why this ritual has become one of her greatest teachers in cultivating presence, awe, and deep attunement with the unseen world.If you want a more intentional, soulful way to envision and plant seeds for 2026, you’ll want to listen before December 21st. Lara shares exactly how to prepare, what to expect, and how to work with the energies of each sacred night beginning on December 24th.Inside the Episode:(00:00) How do we define the experience of magic in everyday life?(03:32) Why magic is a natural neurobiological state(05:07) The origins of the 13 Sacred (aka Holy) Nights ritual(09:55) Solstice as the New Moon of the solar year(13:20) Understanding the practice and structure of the 13 Sacred Nights(20:32) Receiving and blueprinting your next year during the Sacred Nights(25:43) Symbolism of animal signs, dreams, and repeated Oracle cards(36:04) What it means to co-create with the future as a creator with agency(41:01) Darkness as a teacher and Sacred Nights as a nervous system reset(47:14) How to live with the practice throughout the year(52:40) Small structural habits to weave the sacred into daily life(56:05) Reclaiming holidays and rituals in modern lifeConnect with Lara J. Day:Lara has a one-year program coming up that kicks off with the Sacred Holy nights practice + a year of accountability and support to watch in community how each of our blueprints unfolds. She also has a beautiful oracle deck called the 13 Sacred Nights.Website: http://www.larajday.comInstagram: @larajdayFacebook: @larajdayTikTok: @larajdayJoin the Revealing Wisdom Collective with Anne-Marie:If this episode awakens something in you, I’d love to support you more deeply with awakening your power to build the life you long to live through the Revealing Wisdom Collective, my new membership devoted to nervous system coherence and power reclamation. We open our weekly sanctuary on January 13, 2026. https://www.revealingwisdom.com/collectiveConnect with Anne-Marie Marron: - If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

In this episode, I take you into the rich terrain that I have been living inside for much of this past year. I speak about how our biology and nervous systems were not designed for the amount of input, data, and stimulation we are attempting to metabolize each day. This often leads many of us to choose behaviors that help numb the overwhelm.It is a smart strategy, but it comes with a cost. Numbing pulls us out of our own lives. It creates distance in our relationships and leaves us with a quiet loneliness beneath our strength, alongside a deeper ache that keeps calling for our attention.This episode is the origin story of the Revealing Wisdom Collective, a weekly sanctuary where we strengthen the nervous system, awaken the deeper self, and let buried wisdom rise.Inside the Collective, we move through one Power Gateway at a time over the course of two full months, following a deliberate rhythm designed to soften the mind, loosen subconscious limiting beliefs, and integrate new truths into the body and bones. Doors for this membership offering opens January 13, 2026 - join anytime and catch up on through recorded sessions.Inside the Episode:• the loneliness that can stay hidden even when we are surrounded by people• why numbing is an innocent biological response, not a personal failing• the cost of living in a world that moves far faster than our nervous systems were designed to handle• how subtle freeze states disconnect us from intuition, aliveness, and self trust• the personal journey that required me to pause, slow down, and radically tend to my own system• how the Revealing Wisdom Collective was born from that deep winter of listeningA look at the Six Power Gateways inside the CollectiveCentering PowerThe power that returns you to your inner axis, the quiet, unwavering ground beneath every emotion, every choice, every storm.Relational PowerThe ability to stay rooted in yourself while meeting another with presence, transparency, and clean energetic boundaries.Self Acceptance PowerThe liberating capacity to stop waging war against yourself and to meet your humanity with tenderness, truth, and self regard.Wild PowerThe sovereign, undomesticated intelligence that dissolves internalized hierarchy, obedience, and shame so your original vitality can rise.Intuitive PowerThe subtle inner channel where truth arrives before thought, the deep knowing that guides you through mystery, timing, and right action.Erotic PowerThe sacred life force that animates your creativity, desire, vitality, and full spectrum expression, not only sexual, but inherently alive.If you have been longing for a place where you do not have to hold everything alone, where your tenderness and your power are both welcome, the Revealing Wisdom Collective was created for you.Join us here → https://www.revealingwisdom.com/collectiveOr stay connected through the Revealing Wisdom NewsletterConnect with Anne-Marie Marron: - If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Today’s guest, Victor Warring, has a quite provocative title - he is an Erotic ReWilder. Which includes his roles as a Somatic Sexuality Educator, mentor, coach and community facilitator. Victor is dedicated to supporting people in reclaiming their erotic sovereignty and removing any self-imposed, internalized or socially imposed obstacles that interfere with the expression of their bodily erotic brilliance.In this episode, we dive into the distinction between erotic and sexual—and why that difference matters.We also explore what it means to rewild after generations of colonization, and how we begin to deconstruct the narratives that have shaped our bodies, our pleasure, and our sense of self.What does it mean to rewild, decolonize, and reclaim our experience of pleasure and intimacy?How do we embody erotic sovereignty—not just in moments of intimacy, but in our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world?Victor shares how sexological bodywork can support this reclamation, the role of conscious pleasure practices, and how we can expand our capacity to experience pleasure—even amidst chaos, collapse, and collective overwhelm.What is Covered:(00:00) Remembering Tory Capron(02:05) Understanding the concept of erotic vs sex(04:02) The meaning of rewilding(09:08) Rewilding and the connection to ancestral selves(13:07) The Impact of colonization on body and sexuality(20:13) Grief, vulnerability, shame and their connection to eros(27:22) How to deal with performance anxiety in sexuality(34:25) Why we need to slow down to reconnect with the erotic(40:05) Navigating pleasure and pleasure practices amidst chaos(46:07) What is erotic sovereignty?(51:38) The role of sexological bodywork in reclaiming erotic sovereignty(56:15) How we can reclaim our erotic nature and erotic power(01:00:06) Why each decolonization experience is different and uniqueResources:- Sign up for the Power Reclamation Newsletter https://revealingwisdom.activehosted.com/f/9- Check out Victor’s upcoming workshops and events: https://www.rewilderos.com/- A powerful film on death from our dear friend Tory Capron - The Mountains Remain, a film by Henna Taylor https://hennataylor.com/work/until-only-the-mountain-remains/- Follow Victor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonobo_man/- Find Victor on Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/bonobo_man/- Also, we referred to this podcast, which is fun if you've not listened: Savage Lovecast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/savage-lovecast/id201376301Connect with Anne-Marie Marron: - If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Today, I want to talk about humanity’s place in the world and making sense of reality in times of tumult and suffering. I’ve had an internal dilemma about how informed to stay about what’s happening in the world. Consuming the news, we undesirably become dervishes of fear from the content oversaturation. Turning away from the content overload, we innocently attempt for self-care, which almost always has a tail of guilt smacking us in the face.So what’s one to do when these two extremes are at play? How do we keep a pulse on reality, while also tending to the impacts of overconsumption on our psyche, emotional states, energy system, and physical body?In today’s episode, I want to offer a few perspectives on rising in a time of crisis, healing humanity’s shared abandonment wound, and shifting from the mindset of scarcity to one of sovereignty. I’ll also reveal what I’ve been cooking for you with my new program, so tune in and let’s riff together on these big topics.What is Covered: (01:00) Humanity's place in a chaotic world(06:29) Reality – what is it and how do we trust our version?(11:11) The five epic cycles of extinction on Planet Earth(16:45) Evolution and the Phenomenon of Horizontal Gene Transfer(23:12) What causes human separation from a biological perspective?(23:30) What is our abandonment disorder? And, what role does it play in reinforcing separation and isolation?(30:35) Feeling unity and connection vs. intellectualizing it(33:07) How we, as nature, regenerate with the right conditions(35:38) Vulnerability - our shared humanity and glue(38:19) What we can learn from mycelium(42:00) How to navigate despair and catalyze love(47:55) What we can do to evolve ourselves and spread wisdom(54:01) Personal practices for connecting with nature and ourselves(58:00) Frederick - a short story by Leo Lionni(​1:03:00) Revealing Wisdom Revolution Membership announcement Resources:- Sign up for the Power Reclamation Newsletter https://revealingwisdom.activehosted.com/f/9- Zach Bush MD http://zachbushmd.com/- Watch Life on Our Planet https://www.netflix.com/rs/title/80213846- Fantastic Fungi https://fantasticfungi.com/pages/the-filmAnne-Marie Marron:- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask - Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/ - If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation - For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Today's guest, Shawna Reininger, with Conscious Enterprise, once sat tall in a 5th Avenue office in NYC as a marketing executive for Tri-Star Pictures. Around the time of her father's unexpected death, she had an awakening, which planted seeds for her to eventually transition into becoming one of the most skilled intuitive business and personal guides I know. She is passionate about teaching individuals how to blend their intuitive intelligence, spiritual wisdom, and pragmatic self to transform themselves into a powerhouse of possibility.We discuss why tapping into the power of intuition is more crucial than ever. We talk about how we can cultivate a deeper relationship with our higher selves, and how our intuition can guide us on a journey of a profound transformation, fulfilment and wellbeing. We also explore the themes of self-connection and love amidst the chaos of the world, the importance of discipline in personal practices and how to navigate resistance on the journey of self-discovery.What is Covered:(00:30) - My experience of working with Shawna(03:28) - How the act of forgiveness propelled my business forward(06:39) - How Conscious Enterprise came about(09:31) - A moment of spiritual awakening for Shawna(12:33) - How Shawna discovered her special intuitive abilities(18:27) - The role of intuition in everyday life(24:31) - Cultivating space for intuition(27:32) - Why connecting to our higher self is so important(34:54) - Embarking on the journey of discipline and spiritual practice(38:15) - How to navigate resistance and inner dialogue(44:13) - The crucial role of intuition in chaotic times(51:55) - The transformative force of love(53:54) - Recognizing numbness and fear in our lives(1:00:30) - Who Shawna works with Resources:- Learn more about Shawna’s work http://www.theconsciousenterprise.comAnne-Marie Marron:- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask - Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/ - If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation - For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion 

My guest today is a dear friend, a sister, poet, mystic and writer Ruth L. Schwartz. She is the author of eight books and founding director of the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, a worldwide organization for lesbians and queer women dedicated to preventing heartbreak, dating wisely and loving well. The Academy provides education and support on conscious lesbian dating, relationships and sexuality, and helps self-identified women learn to be the right partner as well as to find her, so they can have happy, healthy love and fulfilling sex.In this episode, we talk about two different paradigms of healing relational trauma and relational wounds. We discuss our primal need for connection and being in relationships with others, self and life. Through this sincere conversation, Ruth helps us understand the concept of conscious solitude, the Internal Family System model, and what it means to befriend the power of our heart, our energy field and our relationship needs.Episode Chapters:(00:00) - Introduction to Ruth L. Schwartz(02:58) - Two paradigms of healing relational trauma(08:22) - Overcoming the binary view of relationship gains and losses(12:44) - The role of relationships and solitude in healing(16:25) - Relationship dynamics with others, self, and life(21:55) - Discussing the Internal Family System model(24:00) - The theory of Parts in IFS(31:57) - Healing through the relationship with self(38:53) - Conscious solitude framework(43:16) - Coherence and the energetics of the heart(54:22) - Befriending our nervous system(57:24) - About Conscious Girlfriend AcademyResources:- Learn how to prevent heartbreak, date wisely and love well at http://www.consciousgirlfriendacademy.com- Check out our book: Conscious Lesbian Dating & Love: A Guide to Finding the Right Partner & Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams https://www.consciousgirlfriendacademy.com/book- Connect with Ruth L. Schwartz on IG - https://www.instagram.com/consciousgirlfriendacademy/- Find Ruth on FB - www.facebook.com/groups/consciousgirlfriend- HearthMath Institute https://www.heartmath.org/- Robert Falconer - IFS Consultant https://robertfalconer.us/Anne-Marie Marron:- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask - Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/ - If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation - For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion  

At this time of the year, many of us are experiencing a strong, primal need to belong to someone or to something in this world. However, many of us are also experiencing the feelings of isolation, loneliness and being exiled from that same world. So today, I’m compelled to share some thoughts about belonging and isolation, because these topics have been headliners in many of my client conversations over the past months.I’m going to talk about the two types of belonging, the different ways and moments in which we can experience belonging, why our relationships with pets can be such a vital source of the sense of belonging, as well as how to teach our nervous system not to fear solitude, but embrace it as a conscious experience that leads to shifting the quantum field we’re part of.Tune in so we can reflect together on what it means to us to belong beyond fear and addictive chemical drivers, and to find a sweet spot of belonging inside and in the world.  Episode Chapters:(00:00) - Why talking about belonging also means talking about feeling exiled(03:54) - How animals can teach us about deep belonging and unconditional love(08:36) - Fear-based vs. authentic belonging(12:57) - The difficult path of learning to belong from the depth of our soul(18:18) - Is belonging a stable and unshakable state? Or is it more of a moment-to-moment experience?(21:11) -  How seeking external validation can lead to feeling alienated and exiled(23:38) - What it means to belong to our most raw and primal self(26:32) - Commentary on Dr. Joe Dispenza’s talk about the power of conscious solitude(30:46) - The ripple effect of our presence and consciousness on the quantum field(34:03) - What it means to become energetically self-sufficient(39:18) - Questions to reflect on about belonging and cultivating an inner refuge(41:41) - Future offerings and closing poem by John O’Donohue Resources:- Dr. Joe Dispenza: Why Living Alone is Better for Your Soul than Any Relationship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfAw3NXksZE&t=157s- Poetry: Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver, http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mary_oliver/poems/15809#google_vignette- Poetry: Belonging, by John O’Donohue, https://www.johnodonohue.com/ Anne-Marie MarronIf you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie.If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my websites:Find Anne-Marie on InstagramIf you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call hereFor more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Welcome back to The Power of Reclamation Podcast!It’s been two and a half years since I found myself slung deep into another dark night of the soul, which I am gingerly resurrecting from. During this episode, I’ll be sharing some of the highlights, heartbreaks, and victories of this alchemical and harrowing passage.Two key themes to highlight today is how our heart intelligence has the power to heal trauma and shame. And, the second is our capacity to uplevel our nervous system’s capacity to hold complex paradoxes, loss, destruction and heartbreak with more inner stability and confidence.Episode chapters:(02:02) - The core lesson of my dark night of the soul journey(04:05) - Why our nervous system seemingly backfires on us(09:45) - How to recognize fawning as a trauma response mechanism(17:25) - How heartbreak, pain, and grief catalyzed my personal growth(24:31) - What is a nourishment barrier? And how does it impact our ability to receive goodness?(32:38) - A key pivot point in my healing journey that my mentor catalyzed in me(44:23) - The power of our breath's ability to shift our emotional and nervous system states(51:43) - How understanding our attachment styles can be helpful in any relationship(59:44) - The cost of reinforcing a chronically over-activated nervous system (personally and collectively)(01:01:52) - What is a "dark night of the soul" and how do we resurrect from one?(01:08:18) - The experience of midwifing my mom through her death(01:16:53) – A refresher of the Six Power Reclamation GatewaysMy Mentor:  Shawna Reininger, The Conscious Enterprise, https://theconsciousenterprise.com/shawna-reininger-psychic-intuitive-and-coach/Anne-Marie MarronIf you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie.If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my websites:Power reclamation guide and somatic healing: www.anne-mariemarron.comLeadership coach and organizational-culture consultant: www.revealingwisdom.comFind Anne-Marie on InstagramIf you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call hereFor more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Nicola Amadora:  Dr. Nicola Amadora is an international spiritual teacher, psychologist and trauma/Hakomi therapist, speaker, activist and author. For three decades she has worked with thousands of people worldwide. Nicola guides spiritual retreats, sessions and professional trainings. She is passionate about the great turning for our lives and this world. Nicola's Website: www.nicolaamadora.comAnne-Marie MarronIf you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie.If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my websites:Power reclamation guide and somatic healing: www.anne-mariemarron.comLeadership coach and organizational-culture consultant: www.revealingwisdom.comFind Anne-Marie on InstagramIf you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call here

Today, I want to focus on the paradigm of superhuman compulsion. This socially esteemed and normalized way of operating that often requires us to neglect our need for rest, sleep, connection, play and self-care in order to sustain our self-image of being competent, valuable, and responsible.These pressures whisk us away on a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows — one day we feel accomplished, successful, and worthy, and a day later, we collapse into depression, unworthiness and feelings of self-doubt and failure. Episode Notes:Anne-Marie MarronArticle: The Superhuman Compulsion by Anne-Marie Marron, click here. If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie.If you want to learn more about my work you can visit my websites:Power reclamation guide and somatic healing: www.anne-mariemarron.comLeadership coach and organizational-culture consultant: www.revealingwisdom.comFind Anne-Marie on InstagramIf you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call here