Episode 84: Everything Left To Remember with Steph Jagger
“Suspending an initiation creates living death.”
-Steph Jagger, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Steph Jagger. Steph is an author, speaker, coach, and world record smasher who happens to dabble in alchemy and energy. Her first book, Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery, was released by Harper Collins in 2017 and details her awe-inspiring journey around the world on skis.Since that journey, Steph’s work has focused on our ability to unlock and access truths – physical and mental truths, deep wordless truths, ancestral truth, as well as archetypal and mythological truth. She is the Chief Intuitive Officer behind coaching and development programs like The Great Big Journey, Read Like a Mother, and Sacred Rebellion, as well as a sought after speaker and facilitator. At her core, Steph is an expert in finding doorways to liminal space, and helping those who dare to enter make their way through to the other side and beyond. Steph's second memoir, Everything Left To Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains, is available for pre-order now and releasing April 26, 2022. In this episode, Madison and Steph speak on maiden/mother dynamics, daughters differentiating yet not devaluing the mother, the death/life/death cycle and how suspending our metaphorical deaths can lead to "living death" and rot, intergenerational wisdom, digesting our past and so, so much more…
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In this episode, we talk about:
The archetypal initiation between maiden to mother
Why a daughter must differentiate herself from her mother, without devaluing her
The valuable role emotions play in "remembering" and reparenting
Steph's belief that we are in a grand forgetting
Mother Nature and how it is rising to help us remember & mother ourselves home
Healthy relational exchange and belonging that isn't transactional or extractional
The role mysticism can play in grief when we don’t bypass our human experience
How suspending initiations can create living death and rot, yet how surrendering brings aliveness
Why blaming previous generations isn’t the answer
How to connect to the evidence of multi-generational wisdom - the very wisdom our mothers and grandmothers had to bury to survive.
The importance of digesting our lives fully so we don’t devour another
Why Steph knows in her bones that everything is going to be okay
