The Goddess & The Medicine Woman

Introduction Welcome back to another episode of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast with Melissa McHugh & Sydney Decker. Today's episode dives deep into exploring our relationship with our bodies and the healing journey, featuring discussions on Somatic Breathwork and ancestral healing. Exploring Somatic Breathwork & Ancestral Healing Melissa shares her profound experience wit...

In this episode of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast, hosts Melissa McHugh and Sydney Decker engage in a profound discussion with special guest Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph. D., exploring the multifaceted realms of psychedelics, consciousness, and human transformation. Main Discussion Points: Introduction to Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph. D. Dr. Khamsehzadeh's diverse academic background and his...

Welcome to Episode 71 of the Goddess and the Medicine Woman Podcast! In this episode, we delve into the profound topic of our relationship with our inner child. Join us as we explore how to reconnect with and nurture this vital aspect of ourselves, unlocking greater capacity for self-love, healing, and empathy. Key Discussion Points: Rediscovering Our Inner Child: How do we reconnect with our inne...

In Episode 70 of The Goddess and the Medicine Woman Podcast, hosts Melissa McHugh and Sydney Decker engage in a profound conversation with Edit B Kiss. As a holistic mentor, success habit coach, #1 best-selling author, humanitarian award winner, and international speaker, Edit shares her transformative journey from a 15-year career as a petroleum engineer to becoming a full-time coach. Delving int...

In Episode 69 of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast, our hosts delve into an empowering conversation with the remarkable Matt Priess. A former Marine, host of The Fit Veteran Podcast, High Performance Health Coach, and a dedicated advocate for veteran well-being, Matt shares his journey of helping fellow vets reclaim their health, step off medications, and lead their families towards a f...

Welcome back to Season 3 of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast ! In this episode, hosts Sydney & Melissa embark on a poignant journey, exploring their personal experiences with grief and loss. Exploring Grief: Sydney & Melissa open up about the challenges of dealing with the death of a family member. The hosts share their individual perspectives on grief and how it has shaped the...

In the last episode of Season 2, Melissa & Sydney bring you the gift of Paul Quinton. Paul is a Spirit Channel, and one of thier favorite people of all time. Paul is the creator of the Alignment Modality. This modality takes you on a journey of discovery. Moving through emotion and the shadow. Bringing you into alignment with the universe, the planet and your higher self. Teaching you what it...

In Episode 66 Melissa & Sydney talk to podcast host and men's coach Brent Dowlen about his podcast The Fallible Man and what it means to him. How it began when he was asked by the women in his life to translate what men were talking about and feeling. They talk about men and relationships and what women can do to help a man on his journey. Discussing how women help by being in their femini...

Episode 65 starts with a quote by Margaret Atwood. Melissa and Sydney discuss what the quote means to them and get into a deep discussion about how women can feel as though they are being watched all of the time and how, even when there is no actual man in the vacinity, women take on their own voyeuristic point of view on the inside and how there seems to be a sexual watcher whether or not a man i...

Melissa & Sydney begin with a song and discuss how they have been feeling during the full moon energy and the heaviness they both have been moving through. Talking about finding our inner peace and going within to get quiet. Unplugging from the world and sitting with ourselves while looking into what we truly want. They talk about living in the "Old World" vs. the "New World&quo...

Troy Hadeed was born in Trinidad, wrote his first letter to the editor at 10, has taught yoga internationally for over 15 years, and has founded several successful businesses, including a hemp store, a waste oil recycling business and a yoga studio. He has walked coast-to-coast across central America, navigated the world on a ship, spent prolonged periods in silence, and is continuously seeking to...

Melissa and Sydney start this one out with breathwork and a meditation. Using the breath as an anchor into the present moment. Realizing that they needed to center and drop down into the heart. Sydney talks about wanting to get quiet and Melissa shares her feelings about watching where we are putting our energy. Noticing that we need to take care of ourselves and that it is not up to us to save ot...

In Episode 61 Melissa & Sydney talk about becoming embodied and how to do that via self-care. They discuss the healing work they did together in Pittsburgh and Melissa talks about her journey right now and what that looks like. Asking herself if she is coming from a place of fear. Sydney discusses how our collective mental and emotional bodies are being deconstructed and broken down and how un...

Jessica Karels is a Tarot reader, psychic and energy healer who helps people cut through the hustle of life so that they can handle life's curveballs. She runs The Mystic Geek, where she uses a mix of magical and mundane techniques to provide transformational coaching. She also hosts The Spiritual AF Sunday podcast, where she explores topics that receive only superficial coverage in social med...

In this deep dive of an episode Melissa & Sydney talk about the new energy on the planet and how it's becoming very hard to hide in the shadows now. The truth is coming out and the light is shining on it all. They discuss how uncomfortable it is right now as the systems are being shaken up and how it is causing the dirt to rise to the top. They talk about how easy it is to give away our po...

Warning! Explicit Material This is a long one because there was so much to talk about! Hannah Spanke is back! And in case you haven't listened to Episode 24 yet, Hannah is a Clinical Sexologist, Intuitive Life Coach & A Tantra & Empowerment Expert. She will wake your soul up like a spiritual espresso! In this episode Hannah takes you on a journey into her life since she was last on the...

In this episode Melissa & Sydney have a rock & roll conversation with Clementine Moss. Clementine is the founder and drummer of Zepparella, with a busy solo career as a singer and songwriter. Her book, "From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer" uses her music career as metaphor for contemplative practice. Clem moved to New York City with a c...

Vitaly Cugulsky is a writer and explorer who is attempting to break traditional stereotypes about masculinity. Throughout many challenges of his life and very intense spiritual seeking, Vitaly came to the realization that what he was actually seeking was not some miraculous healing or enlightenment, but fulfillment of his masculine core energy. He realized how abusive and often backwards the tradi...

Suzanne Anderson is the founder of The Mysterial Woman, a psychologist, author, coach, leadership consultant and transformational teacher. Her pioneering work in guiding others to awaken their full Feminine and Masculine strengths combines insights and practices from ancient wisdom, depth psychology and modern neuroscience. Suzanne wisely guides women to awaken to the next level of conciousness an...

In Episode 54 Melissa & Sydney sing a song and talk about their one year anniversary. How when they first started out they had to decide to dedicate themselves to the process and how it has helped them both in so many ways. They talk about their amazing guests and how these beautiful humans have touched them in their lives in so many ways and how they want to show up for themselves, their gues...

In this episode Melissa and Sydney have a very interesting conversation with Michelle DeKeyser. Michelle is a wife and mom of three kids who participated in various mom groups, ran a few, even joined some book clubs, but envisioned something different. She found herself looking around, still wondering what it was that She liked to do that didn't involve the kid's activities. As she worked...

In this episode Melissa and Sydney discuss getting triggered by family obligations and Melissa talks about how she has to watch herself when she is in a management position at work. How she listens to the voices and thoughts in her head and how this has changed for her. How she can notice the old patterns and the tapes that play. She talks about moving through it all by looking at it, sitting with...

Sydney and Melissa dive into a conversation about financial abundance. How our money, and lack or abundance of it, represents our worth. That instead of a representation of an energy exchange it has turned into something else. More of a judgement of being good enough in our society. They notice how the major system holds some of us back from having experiences that bring us joy. How the rules are...

In this very special 50th episode Melissa & Sydney interview Divine Channel Catherine O'Connor. Catherine is a Divine Channeler, scribe of infinite knowledge, and divinator of Divine Love Magic. With her guides she co-creates nourishing spaces and evolutionary programs to activate soul alignment and Divine embodiment processes. She works with beings of light to gently awaken deep heart des...

In Episode 49 Sydney and Melissa dive into the astrological aspects of what we are feeling right now. How we are opening up to the heart space and noticing our patterns and the emotions that follow us. How we must bring awareness to those feelings. Melissa talks about her experience during a power outage and how her body has been asking her to rest, but that it took an injury to get her to sit dow...