The Divine Feminist

Putting boundaries on our time and energy is one of the most important things we can do to care for and respect ourselves. But in a world that so regularly tells us we should be caregivers whose worth is judged by their productivity and by how exhausted they are at the end of a week, the whole subject can be tough. From stepping back from the constant busy-ness for long enough to discern what our...

Once something heard only in the most spiritual of conversations, those from all walks of life are increasingly realising the importance of grounding themselves and their energies. In a world so full of noise and mistruth, it's never been easier for us to be distracted, caught up in anxiety or thrown off course, making it more important than ever to root ourselves deep into the Earth, the pre...

Happy New Year from the Divine Feminist! As we move into a new year, not to mention a new Aquarian age, Ceryn discusses the importance of pausing to re-connect and consider the intentions that will help us to move forward. She then discusses the idea of self-reconnection; reconnecting with your whole self over and above the boxes this world of ours may or may not have put you in. From there, we de...

After a little break, the Divine Feminist is back for a whole new chapter! And as we approach the end of the calendar year and the Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn, when better to talk about the endings and beginnings that we encounter along our journeys. Pondering those subjects leads Ceryn to talk about her own experience of beginnings and endings, and to share why she believes both...

What does the word power conjure up for you? For so many of us it's something that the chosen few have access to; the prize offered to those who won the lottery of privilege or checked off the qualities on a list that immediately gives them permission to control others around them. But who says that's the case? And what if that were to change? From presidents to witchcraft and superheroe...

The world likes to tell us our fears are bad.    It likes to tell us they're unnecessary and evil and more than likely need to be vanquished like some sort of beasts that are actively working to keep us from our full potential. But what if that's not the case?    Lately I've come to believe that our fears have been given a pretty bad rap; that in fact maybe they're the gatekeep...

At the start of each episode I ask "how are you? How are you really?" This week with my hand on my own heart the answer came through plain and simple: "Exhausted." I'd like to tell you I listened first time around, but as you'll hear, that wasn't quite the case. Let's talk about why that is; about why so many of us have a problem with stopping, pausing and g...

It may be the only place we can truly call home for the whole of our stay here on Earth, but how many of us feel completely connected to our bodies? The societies we live in are so keen to disconnect us from those bodies, to encourage hatred of them and division because of them that you could be forgiven for forgetting how it felt to feel truly at home in your physical self. Yet this process of re...

Do you trust yourself? Every part of yourself? We live in a society that's all too keen to detatch us from the wisdom within us, and in doing so to leave us thoroughly distrusting from ourselves. But that's a dangerous place to be. Not only because we find it ever more challenging to hear and listen to what's truly right for us, but also because it leaves us constantly searching out...

We humans are ever-moving, ever-changing beings; something we all embrace more of as we adopt the more cyclical, feminine approach to life. But how do we mark the phases that comprise those changes? Looking specifically at the feminine archetypes that each woman is said to embody throughout her life, this episode talks about the challenges that occur if we fail to pause and take stock of the phase...

We've talked a lot about this thing called Divine Feminism. But about now you may well be asking: "So what?" In this episode we go back to the fundamentals of Divine Feminism, and why each of us - and our society and world - so desperately need that reconnection and rebalancing.  Covering off everything from the oppression we know and gate, to leadership, community and community, Ce...

We can't talk about feminism - including Divine Feminism - without talking about activism. But in a world beseiged by Insta photos of quirky protest signs, and people promising to change the world with offers of love and light, what does that word even mean? And where does it begin? Join Ceryn for a discussion on the subject of activism, and on how we take our inner change out to make a diffe...

Published at a time when many parts of the world begin to see shoots of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, this week's episode of The Divine Feminist delves into the time between times and world between worlds that many of us seem to find ourselves in. Sharing a little of her own lockdown journey, Ceryn speaks of the experiences many of us have had during this time of sheltering in place, a...

Anyone else finding that this period of lockdown has encouraged a host of deep healing and even deeper thinking? With that in mind, a year after the birth of the Divine Feminist podcast it turns out that this idea of divine feminism is ready to explain itself a little more deeply to the world... So grab a cuppa and let's get philosophical! Our world right now is determined to separate us; to...

Following on from last month's discussion on re-membering ourselves in times of trauma, Ceryn chats about trauma, safety and being a multi-faceted human with fellow therapist Jane Claire Bradley.    Jane is the integral counselling therapist behind Rebel Therapy and is also a writer, performer and creator and host of the monthly spoken word nights That's What She Said in her home town of...

We find ourselves in strange and uncertain times. And while it would be lovely to talk about something else, frankly that just doesn't seem possible... which makes this week's episode something of an interesting one. We start by talking about trauma - the subject Ceryn had planned for this week's episode ahead of our upcoming conversation with Jane Claire Bradley of Rebel Therapies....

Continuing this month's theme of creativity, in this episode Ceryn speaks to artist and creative businesswoman Hazel Mead. Well-known on and offline for her work around a host of important but all-too-often ignored subjects such as period poverty, sex positivity, mental health and post-partum bodies, Hazel's work is both beautiful and powerful, pulling no punches as it looks to break the...

When was the last time you did something creative? So often, we leave creative expression behind in childhood because we're "not good enough", it's "a waste of time" or any number of other reasons. And when people ask if we're creative, we laugh awkwardly and tell them that we were never that good at art. But what if everything we've been told about creativi...

Following last episode's deep dive into the relationships we have with ourselves, Ceryn welcomes Self Love Coach Nira Lall to the Divine Feminist. Join the pair as they dive past the cliches and the misunderstandings to look at what this idea of "self love" really means for us and the ways in which we treat ourselves, and at how this can impact our relationships with other people as...

We talk so much about the relationships we have with other people, but what about the relationship with that person you spend every moment of your life with? In this episode, Ceryn talks about a Self Love that goes deeper than the idea of bubble baths and Instagram quotes and shares her experience of living a consciously single life. What does it really mean - for you and the other people in your...

Welcome to the final episode of the Divine Feminist for 2019, and the subject of this one is over to you…  Fresh from a holiday break, the Divine Feminist is here to welcome you into the new year. Whether 2020 is the year of the seer, a year of many many retrogrades or something else entirely, it's a new chapter for all of us... and for the podcast. Ceryn shares her thoughts on change and gro...

Welcome to the final episode of the Divine Feminist for 2019, and the subject of this one is over to you…  In this week’s podcast, Ceryn answers a variety of listener questions, sharing some of her favourite books and podcasts, as well as insights on the idea of staying safe over the holidays, ritualising New Year and the science vs spiritualist alongside others. Listen in for more insights and ge...

It's time to talk about transformation. With the winter months well and truly settling in here in the Northern hemisphere I've been thinking a lot about the healing, growth and change that can come when we allow ourselves to surrender to the cocoon-like energy of those months... And about transformation in general. It's something this linear world of us has led us to become so scare...

Join Ceryn in conversation with Meggan Watterson, Feminist Theologian and Author of multiple books, including the transformational Mary Magdalene Revealed. Ceryn and Meggan discuss the subject of Mary's gospel and all it has to offer us, while also talking about it's impact on Meggan's work and the wider world. Together they discuss the idea of union with the self - all parts of the...

A sacred life. What does it truly mean? As Ceryn prepares to welcome Author and Theologian Meggan Watterson to the Divine Feminist, she dives into the topic by sharing her own journal into all things spiritual so far this life. From the cold churches of her childhood to the meditating mean girls she met in new age circles and the complex how to books which scared her off from being the witch she&a...