To Dare Together, with Erin O'Brien

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 7 of my new Spring-Summer series, Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  In today’s episode, we name a hard truth: you can’t hold real space for healing if you are running from your truth.  You can’t be in right-relationship with others if you’re not in right- relationship with yourself.    We unpack my personal cycle of disembodiment as an example of what no...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 6 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  Today’s episode was recorded on the First Quarter Moon in Leo, as Venus moved into Gemini, holding a loving hand out for Uranus to follow.  We explore the transformative power of Uranus as the great cosmic disruptor, and we use this influence to examine how harmful thoughts patterns pe...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 5 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  Today’s episode was recorded amidst the afterglow of the powerful New Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron, the wounded healer, invoking courage to release pain and embrace regeneration.  The core message is that your deepest wound can become your greatest gift when you meet it in right-relat...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 4 of my Spring-Summer series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  Today’s episode was recorded under the Last Quarter Moon in Capricorn amidst Aries season, and we use the energy of balance ~ holding release and rebirth as vital forces for growth to ask a direct question: what structures, habits, and colonial mindsets are ready to be released so they...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 3 of my new series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  Today’s episode was recorded under the Full Moon in Libra amidst Aries season, and we acknowledge this week's outrageous, yet sadly unsurprising news that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about birthright citizenship; in law birthright citizenship is simply defined as automati...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Week 2 of my new series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  Today’s episode occurs during a powerful triple conjunction with Chiron, Eris, and Venus in Aries, while the first quarter moon is in Gemini.  We explore how the energy of this moment pushes honest questions and sacred speech.   Eris represents profound spiritual warrior energy, acting as an age...

Send us Fan Mail I'm back with a focused new Spring series called Embodiment as Sacred Force for Change!  We'll be using the potent New Moon and tomorrow's Spring Equinox to tend to our personal earth, our body, and plant powerful seeds for our future.   Weekly embodiment focused episodes will be aligned with the moon phases from the Spring Equinox until the Summer Solstice.  I will...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is dedicated to all the families who have been brutalized by ICE for far too long, and to the protesters and people in Minnesota who have lost their lives in the fight for justice and collective liberation. This conversation about shame, healing, and accountability feels especially meaningful in moments of profound pain.  Shame is inseparable from the systems of do...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we use this rare double dark moon (micro moon) on December 19th and the days leading up to the Winter Solstice on December 21st as a potent threshold.  Release what’s done. Bless what taught you. Name what you refuse to carry forward. Then claim who you are and what you choose to focus on creating, expanding, and birthing for the year ahead: a practice you’...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we look at the celestial influences of the New Moon in Scorpio, which arrives like a tide at midnight—quiet on the surface, roaring beneath— and this week’s grand water trine turns that tide into a mirror.  With the Sun, Moon, and Mercury all in Scorpio, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer, the chart invites a deep wash of intuition, clarit...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, I have the amazing honor to interview my beloved friend and fellow witch, Susan Rains, who is a part of a sibling coven, Coven of the Mystic Path, based in the Philadelphia and Springfield, PA area.  Susan shares her unique and profound Ancestor practice for working with her recently dead family members and beloveds for deep healing and transformative conn...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we explore a rare run of lunations in the coming months—three supermoons in Aries, Taurus, and Gemini—followed by a micro new moon just before the winter solstice. Each phase offers its own pathway for transformation but ultimately will work best when built on each other: fire that emboldens right action, earth that grounds what we call into being, air that...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode was recorded at the peak of a powerful Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. This is a sacred time where truth is revealed and significant transformation is supported by the cosmos.  This eclipse signals a time to let go of old patterns and behaviors, bringing closure to repeating cycles of intergenerational wounds and wounding that we all internalize from the dominant sy...

Send us Fan Mail Today we explore this rare lunation of the Black Moon, which offers the perfect opportunity to acknowledge what's been buried and transform it into something that can be planted and nourished. What hidden aspects of yourself are waiting to be claimed as seeds of possibility? Join me in this special episode and discover what the darkness has to reveal. Open your eyes, open you...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, I'm recording outside to honor Lughnasadh (Lammas), which is the Gaelic pagan holiday that traditionally honors the first harvest, when communities would gather to celebrate their collective abundance.  It wasn't merely about collecting crops – it was about recognizing how each person's unique contributions sustained the whole community.  Th...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, the Capricorn Full Moon offers us a powerful opportunity to examine the structures we've built and whether they truly serve our highest purpose.  With the sun in Cancer, this exploration of the Cancer-Capricorn axis reveals how these seemingly opposite energies are actually complementary parts of a whole. Cancer represents our emotional foundations—home, f...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode offers Part Two of a guided self-reflection process and explores the cosmic dance between shadow and light as the first quarter moon moves through Libra—the sign of balance, harmony, and justice—we find ourselves standing at the threshold of transformation. This moment invites us to examine what we need to express and what we've been holding back.   Venus...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when we dare to slow down and truly look within? In today’s episode, we move through a guided introspection journey that takes you through a comprehensive self-reflection process that mirrors what I offer in my healing work. We'll explore your social identities, family history, attachment patterns, and relationship to your body and experiences. Each question serv...

Send us Fan Mail I hope you find this blooper collection silly and fun! It's short, so enjoy a break from my long-winded self. 

Send us Fan Mail What happens when we dare to speak our deepest truths? When we step into the fullness of who we are, without editing out the uncomfortable parts? This episode marks a turning point in our journey together as I reveal the intersections of my social identities as a licensed psychotherapist, a queer woman, a mother, and—perhaps most vulnerably—a practicing witch. I explore how these...

Send us Fan Mail The journey toward transformation requires truth-telling— and I will go there with you, because our stories contain powerful magick and sharing them honestly creates pathways for healing and authentic connection.  Join me in daring to face what is hidden, what is vulnerable, knowing that when we keep the truth about our experience hidden, we block the potential for genuine growth,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode where we will be exploring the powerful energies of the dark moon, a liminal time that encompasses both life and death, opening up possibilities for our regeneration journey.  Let's dare together to breathe into the darkness, slow down, and go deep into our experience across the dimensions of intergenerational patterning and social positioning to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this brief introduction to my new podcast, To Dare, Together ~ Truth Seeking in the Depths for Healing, Transformation, and Collective Liberation.  Full episodes to be released on the Dark Moon, Monday May 26, 2025!  I hope you dare to join me then.  Bye for now! Recorded 5/23/25