In Her Image Podcast

Mechelle Wingle, our guest from episode 67 titled The Mother Hunger with Mechelle Wingle, sent us this beautiful meditation to share with you on the podcast. It is the second meditation in a series of four being releasing this month. Enjoy!

This summer we're switching things up for a few weeks and offering you a series of meditations. Each week will feature a different meditation that relates to the Divine Mother, whether through symbol or guided experience. We hope that each meditation will bring you closer to Her and closer to peace and harmony within yourself. We kick off our "summer of meditations" with a Moon Medit...

Ashli Carnicelli and Trina Caudle, curators of the newest book Cherish: The Joy of our Heavenly Mother, join me for a discussion on what inspired the book and the process and joy of compiling it. This book was created with LDS women and men in mind, to help us all put our love into action and demonstrate the broad and holy relationship we can have with our Heavenly Mother. You can order the book n...

Melissa Tshikamba, an illustrator and figurative artist, joins Jess for a conversation about artwork, divinity, and diversity. Melissa's art reflects sacred imagery, the divine feminine, history, African symbols, mythology, cosmology, Mother Nature, and her ancestral heritage. Tshikamba was raised in a mixed race, religious family, which instilled in her a love for the Divine. As a visual and...

Happy Heavenly Mother's Day! Today we give you a reading from the recently published Cherish: The Joy of Our Mother in Heaven, curated by Ashli Carnicelli, Trina Caudle, and McArthur Krishna. Many poets, songwriters, researchers, and church leaders contributed to this book which is available for purchase now on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Cherish-Ashli-Carnicelli/dp/1948218879. We hope you...

*Book Discount Code Below!* Daneen Akers is a writer, producer, and teacher who believes deeply in the power of stories. She grew up in the Seventh Day Adventist faith tradition and along her deconstruction journey heard one verse of a hymn that was flipped to female divine pronouns. She had no idea how powerful it would be in her life to begin to understand the feminine face of God. She is the mo...

Carol Lynn Pearson graces us on the podcast for the second week in a row to read a section from her book The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men. She shares chapter 8, titled "Our Mothers Who Art in Heaven".

After reading the book The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy this year we knew we needed to address this topic and how it relates to the erasure of a Heavenly Mother in the LDS discourse. We were so pleased and lucky to be able to discuss it with the author herself and get her stories and background. We encourage everyone to read this book for themselves either to understand the pain of others or to feel...

Jess talks about some of her own journey, putting into words some of the most difficult parts to describe as she articulates the journey of seeking Heavenly Mother to someone from the outside looking in. She shares her experience with faith, her evolving relationship with Deity, the pain she's experienced, and the joy. She relates why seeking Heavenly Mother has become important for so many.

A beautiful story of redemption through her Heavenly Team by listener and artist Meg Rittmanic. One of Meg's favorite resources about finding Mother in Scripture The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature Watch for more art from Meg on Instagram @sacred.journey.art

In this episode, award-winning writer and English teacher Tyler Chadwick discusses the power of language and the open canon around Heavenly Mother. Walking through his journey of conceptualizing and connecting with The Mother, he describes how he has found Her in poetry. As co-editor of the poetry anthology Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry (Peculiar Pages, 2018), with Dayna Patterson an...

Jill Opdahl shares her experience of overcoming a 20 year battle with depression that involved understanding her true nature through Heavenly Mother. She is currently studying to become a mental health therapist and shares her insights on Mother God through instagram at @thefeminine.divine Partly because the current cannon of scriptures are comprised of the testimonies of men, about a male God, to...

J Kirk Richards is a LDS artist working in oil paints. He has painted over 2,300 works of art in 23 years and his work engages with themes of antiquity, religion, spirituality, equality, and love. His art is featured at Deseret book as well as found in the Girls' and Boys' guides to Heavenly Mother books. Since the beginning of his career as an artist, the feminine divine has been a popula...

Crystal Schultz shares her journey of finding the Mother through meditation, and discusses how she continues to deepen that relationship through her daily practice. She shares that a focus on freeing the soul to be open to truth allows for self-authorship and yoga- or union with God.  Find her on Instagram @crystalmeditates

What can we learn of our divine destiny, and the character of our Heavenly Mother by studying the titles of Prophetess, Priestess, and Queen?  Aspen Moore is a lover of words, and has created an account on Instagram to share her studies of the Divine Feminine in the scriptures, along the schedule of Come, Follow Me.  Her journey to connect with Heavenly Mother started 9 years ago and she...

In this episode, Jess speaks with Luann Purnell, who has had special experiences and a growing connection with Heavenly Mother. Luann shares how she was inspired through artwork and dreams to seek Mother God, and relates how Mother helped her in a vulnerable time. She discusses how finding the female half of God helps people embrace their own identities, and expand in love and understanding for ot...

Samantha Beach is a writer, musician, Clinical Social Worker, Wife, Mother and long time friend of Kate's.  It was a treat to chat with her about the impact that understanding our divine worth will have on our confidence before God and others.  We discussed the idea that no matter where you go, because you are a child of Heavenly Parents, They are always with you.  Divinity is in yo...

Jess and Kate interview Alynne Scirkovich, research extraordinaire on all things Eve and Heavenly Mother. In this conversation, Alynne dives into her discoveries from the scriptures, extra-canonical texts, and personal revelation on the parallels between the women protagonists that begin each portion of the Bible-- Eve in the Old Testament, and Mary in the New. She provides insight into how we can...

In this weeks' episode, Kate interviews Natalie Nazer Cosby, Kira Woodfield Leeper, and Jess Burdette about an event they are putting on in April 2023 centering the Divine Feminine in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. From the group's page: "Our mission is to facilitate finding the common threads of feminine divinity throughout time and culture through sharing traditions, art, conversation, and c...

Marlisa Wootton is a poet and songwriter who felt inspired to compile her favorite works concerning Heavenly Mother and publish a book!  Kate and Marlisa go through some of the contents of the book, hear the songs and the poems and the stories behind them.  Some are new hymns or poems, and some are re-writes of popular LDS songs with more inclusion for our Mother God.  This will be...

Friends and co-editors McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding join the podcast today to introduce their new ebook “In the Image of our Heavenly Parents: A Couple’s Guide to Creating a More Divine Marriage”. The purpose of the book is to create "more vibrant, thriving, equal partnerships", as Bethany puts it. They share the 12 principles included in the guide book that couples can work on thro...

Have you ever noticed the mental gymnastics it takes to constantly translate the written sacred texts to female pronouns? We have, and we're happy to share a resource that will bless your study of the New Testament and finally give that mental gymnast a break. In this episode, Jess and Kate introduce The Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament and why it's such a valuable resource. We read fr...

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In response to some messages from listeners and friends concerning staying "positive and hopeful" rather than angry, Kate invites Jill Freestone for a discussion on emotions, particularly anger and how we can make sense of it.  Jill is a certified life coach whose focus is on helping teens and adults handle anxiety and big emotions. Jill has an incredible heart and capacity for compassion and...

Artist and art show curator Natalie Smith joins Jess for this episode to talk about her experience envisioning, painting, and writing about the Feminine Divine. Her recent art show titled "In Her Image"in Colorado featured various pieces by herself and other artists on symbols of Heavenly Mother. Natalie shares her story of loss, study, and inspiration and a poignant dream she had which led to the...