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The Numinous Podcast
Hosted by Carmen Spagnola · EN
The Numinous Podcast is a show about intuition, spirituality and the mystery of life. The host, Carmen Spagnola, is an intersectional witch and clinical hypnotherapist who has smart, soulful conversations with interesting people. The lineup is diverse, the topics are eclectic, and the people are down-to-earth (mostly).
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TNP323 {Dispatch: June 17, 2022} Contact Nutrition is the Glue
2w ago00:20:22Tap to summarizeStorytime! This one is about how I won a trip to Greece through Contact Nutrition. I was a wine rep trying to sell relatively expensive bottom shelf wine to Greek restaurants that did not want this wine. Here's what made the difference. Join us for a mellow summer of Contact Nutrition in The Numinous Network! Thanks in advance for pre-ordering my next book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)
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TNP322 {Dispatch: June 10, 2026} What Are You Willing to Do Under Capitalism that Preserves Your Dignity and Your Joy?
3w ago00:12:22Tap to summarizeA little more "Common Sense for Collapse Times" for you today with something I learned after my business was washed away in the Great Recession of 2008 and I experienced bankruptcy and some deep, deep shame. I'm talking about navigating capitalism and managing terror and desperation - somehow in 12 minutes I manage to make myself both laugh and cry, while also feeding the horses and sharing, like, 3 different stories and multiple partial tangential thoughts with you. It's an authentic hang-out session. 😅 Come hang out with us in The Numinous Network for some gentle care and deep connection, as well as some entrepreneurial support!
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TNP321 Mothers of Magic with Perdita Finn
3w ago01:01:41Tap to summarizeI'm so honoured to welcome back to the podcast, one of my favourite conversations partners ever, Perdita Finn! Perdita is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains. She is on Facebook and Instagram and writes a popular Substack, Take Back the Magic. Her website is takebackthemagic.com Buy Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of our Ancestors from your favourite bookseller now! Referenced in this episode: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, by Lucy Cooke ✨ Join us for more like this in The Numinous Network
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TNP320 {Dispatch: June 7, 2026} Common Sense for Collapse Times: 10 Rules to Live By
3w ago00:22:19Tap to summarize10 Rules to Live By (for Collapse or Any Other Time) This episode features the best bangers of cowboy logic, farm wisdom, and collapse tips that are getting us through some tough months here on Faulder Farm on Syilx Territory. Pre-order my book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype) 🙏🏻 Thanks in advance! 🙏🏻 Join us for collapse support in The Numinous Network
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TNP319 Moss, Molt, Murmur with Nadine Nakagawa
May 2700:52:20Tap to summarizeToday's guest, Nadine Nakagawa, is an organizer, activist, intersectional feminist, clinical counsellor, and two-term city councillor. She is also the co-founder of Feminist Campaign School which supports underrepresented people to run for and serve in elected office. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, Moss, Molt, Murmur: Contemplations on Nature, which is now available for pre-order from 9th House Press! This conversation was recorded over a month ago and we were still using the working title "Imaginal Discs” which is just one of the essays in this little book. I say “essays” but they’re not exactly essays… It’s more like a compendium of prose poems and musings and tiny immersions into an animist, anticapitalist, interconnected world. I know this book will resonate with activists, environmentalists, animists, artists, pagans, witches, people developing secure attachment with beings and places of the natural world. It’s a book for people trying to find their way out of the narrative of a white capitalist imperialist patriarchal overculture. It's for those people who are looking for the exit by entering into communion with the natural world. And when you hear more from Nadine today, I think you’ll see why I think this book is going to be wildly popular when it arrives. Referenced in this episode: Kai Cheng Thom Indiginews Eden Fineday Follow Nadine on Instagram Pre-order now from 9th House Press ⭐️ Check out the Power Reader Bundle ⭐️ Join us in The Numinous Network
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TNP318 Farm Stand News with Marianne Unger
May 2200:45:27Tap to summarizeIf you are in the mood for something soothing, cozy, wholesome, and heartwarming, this episode is for you. If you are craving some quality time with a neighbour who is grounded, good-hearted, generous and genuinely curious about you and life in general, this episode is for you. If you need a comfort listen, this episode is for you. And so is the forthcoming book from today's guest, Marianne Unger. It's called Farm Stand News: Letters to the Neighbourhood and it's now available for pre-order from 9th House Press. It's about neighbourliness, baking, gardening, place-making, heritage and chosen family, the gift economy, and turning capitalist colonialism on its head. And most of all, it's about love. *** Check out the Power Reader Bundle! Join us in The Numinous Network to participate in more conversations like this.
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TNP317 Literature, Hip Hop and Healing with Dionne Grayman
May 1501:00:00Tap to summarizeAuthor and educator, Dionne Grayman, is here to talk about her new book, I Call My Own Name: A Homegirl's Lyrical Memoir of Hip-Hop, Healing and Holy Reclamation, now available for pre-order from 9th House Press. In the 90s, Dionne was just 20 years old and pregnant when her baby's father was killed. Now in her late 50s, Dionne recounts how literature and music helped her "remember herself whole", her whole story, with herself as lead not victim. With a warm voice and engaging storytelling, Dionne rewrites the story of how this MC saved her own life. Pre-order I Call My Own Name from 9th House Press Best Savings: the Power Reader Bundle More show notes with links to all of Dionne's references and recommendations coming soon! Check out my next book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype) Join us in The Numinous Network
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TNP316 Matrescence in a Time of Ecological Crisis with Dr.Allie Davis
May 900:57:56Tap to summarizeNew from 9th House Press: Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis, by Dr.Allison Claire Davis, explores the question, What happens when a woman becomes a mother during the slow emergency of our ecological crisis? Matrescence is the developmental transition of becoming a mother. As far as I can find, this is the first book published that focuses exclusively on the unique psychoemotional context of becoming a mother during a time of climate crisis. Dr.Allie Davis is a licensed therapist, researcher, and educator who coined the term maternal ecodistress. Her research has been published in journals including Ecopsychology and Women’s Studies International. She teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute, directs the Maternal Ecopsychology Certification program for clinicians and birth workers, serves as associate editor of the Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change, and runs Southwest Perinatal Counseling. Mother Juniper draws on the juniper’s pioneer species carework as a developmental framework for supporting the Earth-Self that awakens in matrescence. It is grounded in attachment theory, ecopsychology, feminist theory, and depth psychology. Throughout the book, Davis holds Indigenous ways of knowing and Western science in relationship with each other and reframes maternal climate distress as accurate perception rather than pathology. Along with a developmental framework for moving through ecological crisis, Mother Juniper supports mothers in building earned secure attachment to Earth during matrescence. Therapists and healthcare providers will also benefit from this book as gives clinicians language and a framework for the ecological dimensions of maternal care. ⭐️ Buy the book ⭐️ www.dralliedavis.com Follow Allie on Instagram TikTok Learn more about 9th House Press Come join us in The Numinous Network
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TNP315 Strategies to Address Caregiver Burnout with Carmen Spagnola
May 801:28:44Tap to summarizeProduction Note: I used a different recording program than usual without any background noise dampening so you get to hear the summer storm roll in, my dog, Mona slurping her water, my movements as I shuffle stuff on my desk, etc...So real! So high def! So intimate and interactive! Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide and brief non-specific mention of sexual assault, overall a bummer of a topic but I try to keep it moving along fairly briskly and we end with some good coping strategies. On this Mother's Day weekend, I'm taking about some grief-y things and some tough things, and also some funny things and some empowering things. If you're a caregiver nearing the end of her rope, this is for you. International Crisis Lines Quality of Life assessment: https://qli.uic.edu/ Professional Quality of Life Scale (Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vzvQVeakBzCbjDCaypwZ_dEy3vHs-37K/view?usp=drive_link https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide https://sprc.org/about-suicide/suicide-data/suicide-by-age/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3603326/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2791161 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7292717/ https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/12/e032391.full.pdf https://www.explorationpub.com/Journals/ei/Article/1003241 Come join us in The Numinous Network for some structured social interaction! 💖
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TNP314 The 14 Grandmothers and The Friendship Bench with Dr.Dixon Chibanda
May 701:04:34Tap to summarizeIf you've enjoyed discourse on this podcast about the barefoot doctor approach, community-based and culturally-relevant mental health initiatives and disability justice, as well as how ritual and spiritual literacy helps weave a stronger collective nervous system and increases community resilience, then you need to read, The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dr.Dixon Chibanda. It's about a mental health program of elder lay counsellors who deliver mental health support from neighbourhood park benches, and the 100+ published studies on its efficacy in measurable improvements to individual patients and public health. Dr.Dixon Chibanda is a medical doctor, a practicing psychiatrist, and a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also director of the African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI). His TEDx Talk about the Friendship Bench has over 3 million views. Referenced in this episode The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution FriendshipBench.org Friendship Bench-in-a-Box Dixon's socials and podcasts: Instagram and FriendshipBenchGlobal Insta Facebook Twitter YouTube/Podcast TikTok LinkedIn Join us in The Numinous Network for some Contact Nutrition Sign up for my newsletter to be notified when pre-orders open for my next book: How to Connect: Build Deep Connection and a Strong Bond Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)
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