Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

Hey friends, happy almost new moon in libra! I have a really wonderful episode with my friend Fay for you today, which I think is perfect if you want to dream about the changing seasons and reconnect with plants. Here is what we talked about:  + The creative process of Fay's book + Intimacy with the changing seasons  + Understanding cycles and applying them to our own lives to take pressure off ourselves + Grounding practices out in nature + Working with found objects + What we can learn from plants Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Herbalist, Reiki Master and a Plant Spirit Guide who is the author of Plants that Speak Souls that Sing: transform you life with the spirit of plants. Following a beautiful awakening to the spirit of plants while running a flower farm, Fay's work helps clients open their own intuition to the forces of nature, meet plant spirit guides and restore their sacred relationship with the Earth to feel confident and connected on their path. Applying Shamanic techniques, the alchemy of nature and spirit inspired guidance to nourish your soul, Fay can help you remember your magic, release old patterns of shame and grief, reawaken ancient wisdom within you and reclaim your power to become fully aligned with the truth of who you are. Fay offers healing, workshops and programs across the UK, online and from her home in Scotland. Fay's website: www.fayjohnstone.com Facebook Page Fay Johnstone: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210530382797771/ Facebook group Plant spirit People: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210530382797771/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey dreambabes, since it's officially the witchy season some of you have asked about tarot decks I use and love. It's a great time to fall in love with a new magical tool, so I wanted to share some tips for those who are on the lookout.  This is a very short episode, a minisode if you will, and there will be more of these with practical advice coming your way soon!  Here are the decks and the shop I mentioned:  Little Red Tarot Shop - http://littleredtarot.com The Next World Tarot deck - https://cristyroad.bigcartel.com/category/next-world-tarot Fountain Tarot deck - http://www.fountaintarot.com/ The Divina deck - https://www.spirit-speak.com/ The Wild Unknown deck - https://www.thewildunknown.com/ The Anima Mundi deck - http://www.thecreepingmoon.com/tarot.html ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Friends, this is such a wonderful and special episode - in fact, it's a grumpisode! I have long admired Sarah Chappell's wonderful sense of humour and her ability to embrace the whole range of human emotions, which is exactly what we did for this episode. We grumped away about stuff that bothers us, got a bit snarky and let it all out - in the hope that you might feel less alone. We felt a bit shy in the end and felt a gentle urge to say that we are also happy, grateful people sometimes, which was really interesting and, in my humble opinion, shows that we all need more permission to grump sometimes. So if you needed a permission slip, this is it!  Here is what we talked about: - Embracing the whole range of human emotions - Being grumpy about having no one as a sickness back up when you are working for yourself - Being grumpy about diet culture - Being grumpy about social media changing all the time and loosing "exposure"  - Being grumpy about all the hard work we have to put in before creative work becomes sustainable  - Life being hard but amazing - Wanting a stable, not overpriced forever home - Our favorite self-care practices for grumpy times -"Work/Life Balance", scaling a small business and trying to not constantly work  Sarah M. Chappell is an intuitive counselor and herbalist based in Asheville, North Carolina specializing in addiction and mental health. She draws on her study of tarot, flower and stone essences, herbal medicine, and reiki to help clients unravel their stories, create lasting shifts, and heal themselves. Sarah is the host of So You Wanna Be A Witch, the podcast for soul-centered entrepreneurs and the people who love them. You can find Sarah on the internet at sarahmchappell.com, and follow her on Instagram http://instagram.com/sarahmchappell,  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healyourselfwithsarahmchappell/ and Pinterest https://www.pinterest.de/sarahmchappell/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey dreambabes, I am incredibly honoured to bring you an episode with the wonderful Desiree Cervantes today! We first met online a few years ago and started to have really good chats about magic, cultural appropriation and identity this summer. Desiree is incredibly kind yet fierce, grounded, curious and magical and I am super happy she said yes to recording one of our conversations. This is some of what we talked about:  - Magic as a way to self-soothe - Coming out later in life - Cultural appropriation in spiritual communities - Working with ancestral traditions  - Chaos magic and dealing with the unexpected  - Shedding the idea that our worth as a person is defined by how desirable we are to men Desiree Cervantes is a shaman, intuitive healer and witch.  An indigenous femme, modern medicine woman and mother of two.  She is passionate about wild spirituality, radical honesty and creativity as a tools for spiritual healing. Desiree helps wild-hearted souls connect with and reclaim their personal magic through intuitive counselling, clairvoyant readings, practical magic and mediumship. Connect with her on Instagram @spiritfireshaman and visit www.spiritfireshaman.com. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Happy new moon in Leo, witches!  Thanks so much for your patience, I feel it was worth it as today's episode is with Tess, the City Witch who is an absolute dream babe who makes incredible zines and offers beautiful tarot magic. I recently had an emergency reading with them, which was super helpful, and I read the zine I have from them often.  I hope our conversations gives you some joy and maybe a sense of not being alone in your weird and wonderful witchcraft, at least that's how I felt after talking to Tess. Here is what we dreamed about:  - Working with willow to process grief  - How Tess was introduced to magic - Being disillusioned by binary based approaches to magic - Witchcraft on tumblr and sharing radical ideas through social media - Hexing your local rapist  - Using your phone charger for magic - Working with the hermit card - Generosity and abundance in our communities  tess is a collective tarot reader, city witch, and zinester based in Ottawa, Canada.  they are a cancer sun and moon, aries rising.  they studied history and political science at the University of Ottawa and are an alum of lindsay mack's wild soul tarot teachings.  influenced by anarchist studies on gendered labour and bodily autonomy, tess approaches tarot as a spiralic, revolutionary tool to assist the collective. https://thecitywitch.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/cityxwitch/ https://www.patreon.com/citywitch/ :: About me and the Daydreaming Wolves podcast :: My name is Yarrow I am a queer writer, body worker, plant lover and ritual facilitator. My podcast and the community I’ve built around it is meant to support soft folks in reclaiming embodiment, creative expression, a connection to nature and everyday magic. On Daydreaming Wolves you’ll find a mix of deep dive conversations with beautiful people who are exploring things that feel good in their own way and solo episodes in which I am sharing how to guides and magical food for thought with you. If you like the podcast you might also like my Wild Embodiment membership - it’s a beautiful community on Mighty Networks that meets every month for soulful check ins, rituals and embodied writing. Everyone receives a monthly package filled with herbal recipes and video guides, play lists, journaling prompts, meditations, self-massage and writing practices as well as seasonal ritual ideas. You can learn more here: http://www.daydreamingwolves.com/the-magic-of-embodiment-program/ and you’re welcome to become a Patron to support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves I also run a web design, tech support and small business mentoring studio over here: https://yarrowdigital.com/

Hey daydreamers,  I am really sorry for the delay with this episode - the last few weeks were a bit intense and hectic and I really missed podcasting! I think the wait was totally worth it though because I interviewed my friend Janelle Hardy, who was an absolutely dream to talk to! Here are some of the things we shared about:  - Weaving story telling, body work and visual art into transformative healing  - Personal Mythmaking as a tool for insight and empowerment  - Her group program and how she helps people write their own memoir with ease through looking at myths and fairy tales - Podcasting as a way to build community and have meaningful conversations  - What embodiment means to Janelle (her words really touched me!) - How we can unlearn body hate and restrictive movement patterns - Emotional body awareness  Janelle Hardy is a healer, single mother and artist. Her work is driven by the belief that when we tap into the power of our creativity, our bodies and our vibrancy, we gain vitality, courage and strength. We reclaim our wholeness and sense of purpose and identity. She works with women who long to feel like enough, and know it's possible. She combines 12+ years as a hands-on bodyworker with a background in Anthropology, Dance and the visual arts to offer one-on-one sessions as well as leading private healing retreats and The Art of Personal Mythmaking (a transformational memoir-writing course that facilitates healing, growth and joy.) Here is Janelle's website: https://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - a transformational memoir-writing course: http://www.janellehardy.com/personal-mythmaking/ Here is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/ Her 100 days of What's Underneath paintings hashtag on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100daysofwhatsunderneathpaintings/?hl=en ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

I am still riding the summer solstice waves and am super happy to bring you another podcast episode with the beautiful Natalie Ross of Dream Freedom Beauty. Natalie and I had a really cool conversations about the following stuff of magical interest: - DIY Media and feeling less alone - The story behind the Dream Freedom Beauty podcast - Coming up against resistance as an entrepreneur - Overcoming self-doubt and being ok with imperfection - Working with privilege, being ok with being wrong and being called in - Embracing weirdness Natalie Ross produces two podcasts (Dream Freedom Beauty and Self Care Club) that help empaths, intuitives, and healers untangle themselves from childhood conditioning that made them feel like they weren't worthy or enough as they are. Natalie has a fierce passion for connecting with the non-human inhabitants of Earth. Through the communities that have grown around her podcasts, she's recently discovered that humans can be pretty cool, too. Dream Freedom Beauty podcast www.dreamfreedombeauty.com Self Care Club podcast - listen + learn about the online gatherings - www.selfcareclub.net Connect on Instagram: @DreamFreedomBeauty - https://www.instagram.com/dreamfreedombeauty/ @SelfCareClubbb - https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubbb/ Grow Beautiful - @GrowBeautiful on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/growbeautiful Staring at Plants - another predecessor to Dream Freedom Beauty website: http://www.staringatplants.com Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrwAsFyqj95c9qiZC2DViNw/videos?disable_polymer=1 ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey loved ones, I am super proud to send another episode with the beautiful Jordyn Schwersky of mysticsister.net your way! It`s been a wonderful conversation about the following magical stuff: Working with tricky soil How Jordyn got into magic and the tarot through her mum Travelling with small tarot decks Healing skin problems with DIY herbalism Self-care for entrepreneurs Support for anxiety and depression Why regular tarot readings feels SO GOOD Jordyn Schwersky is an herbalist, tarot reader, writer, intuitive, and general witchy person. She founded Mystic Sister with the intent to offer tarot readings, herbal medicine, and a community where similarly minded people can reclaim their ancestral knowledge, open their hearts, and become whole. You can find out more at her website, https://www.mysticsister.net/. You can also contribute to her Patreon (in exchange for some pretty awesome goodies at https://www.patreon.com/mysticsister and follow her @mysticsister__ on Instagram. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Happy full moon, dreambabes! I have some exciting news to share and also wanted to record a solo episode on free resources for when you are struggling, craving some shifts or just feel a bit stuck. There have been some really cool conversations about keeping magic + healing accessible (because really, if its not accessible to poor people, its not radical but also how do we as facilitators pay bills? So many questions!) lately and I wanted to share some stuff that has really helped me, especially at times when I was super limited on both time and money. Tune in to hear me talk about:  + How after months of soul searching I finally got lots clearer on my focus for Daydreaming Wolves and why I stayed up till 1am to redesign the whole site  + How I would love to invite you to think about how much structure and commitment you need around magic and self-care + What free resources I am super excited about at the moment + How I made space for nourishing input by decluttering newsletters and social media spaces  + How I find it 100% okay to check people`s free stuff out even if you are not in a position to buy anything  + Why just dancing to one song is making a huge difference for me right now and how I want to explore embodiment even more Here are some resources I talked about/wish I would have mentioned:  + Books I am currently loving are Embody by Connie Sobczak as well as Body Positive Power by Meghan Jayne Crabbe + My free everyday magic course: https://online-awesomeness-school1.teachable.com/p/free-ritual-magic-course + Holly Lowery`s work around eating disorder recovery and her podcast Well + Weird: https://www.hollylowery.com/well-and-weird/ (also great freebie to check out!)  + The Food Psych podcast by Christy Harrison: https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/ + The Herbal Academy`s blog on herbalism full of recipes: https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/ + Lindsay Mack`s podcast with lots of free tarot teachings: https://www.lindsaymack.com/podcast ...I hope there is something in there for you!  ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Dreambabes, I am so honoured to send this beautiful conversation to you through the magic of Soundcloud and the internet!  The other day I received a reading from my guest Chanelle that left me feeling truly seen, more confident and empowered to untie some knots I had been playing with for years. I love her take on everyday magic and the way she works with plants, sounds and essences. Here is what we talked about:  Seeking magic out as a child The morning as a sweet altar space for the rest of the day Re-enchanting ordinary life The magic of experimental sound collage  Falling in love with flower essences  Choosing a tarot card for the year Chanelle A. Bergeron is a flower essence practitioner & an intuitive herbalist who weaves her knowledge of midwifery, astrology, tarot, & mysticism into her healing practice. When she is not in the apothecary, you will find her making improvised & atmospheric sound-collage music under the name of mille, dreaming of the water, and writing poems. She currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her brilliant partner, Minori Sanchiz-Fung. You can find more about her offerings online at: www.moonbymoonapothecary.com instagram: @moonbymoonapothecary email: moonbymoonapothecary@gmail.com bandcamp: mille.bandcamp.com Minori’s website: www.minorisanchizfung.com My dear friend Emma Scully who I mentioned in our interview: Instagram: @justherbals ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Sweet friends, I cannot imagine a more suitable episode to share with you on the Scorpio full moon!  My conversation with Jennifer was deep, beautiful and full of gems about the following:  - Supporting survivors with breathwork, body based writing workshops and herbalism - Working through grief and trauma while nurturing resilience - The creative process behind the anthology Queering Sexual Violence and why its so important to make support for survivors more inclusive  - The power of being truly witnessed - Psychedelic experiences and how they can completely alter the way we understand our lives - Working with poison medicine  Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing.  A queer and trans affirming, trauma-informed herbalist and Breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her own practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She facilitates writing and Breathwork workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, veterans hospitals, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and at colleges and universities. She is the editor of Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016, https://queeringsexualviolence.com/), lectures across the country, and has had writing published in places like OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire with new publications forthcoming. She is also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at http://ofthebody.net/.  ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Happy new moon in Taurus, dream babes! Thanks to our beautiful Patreons there is another episode to enjoy already!   This time I spoke to astrologer, tarot reader and writer the Firebrand Witch. It`s been a touching, honest, beautiful and giggly conversation about all of these beautiful things:   - Navigating the magical world as a non-binary person - Reclaiming the word witch - Doing magic at college - Astrology as an intuitive art that heals through creating narrative - Creative morning practices - Tarot as a reflective tool for survivors - Patreon as a way to support independent makers - Navigating the start of a new business - I dentifying with tarot cards The Firebrand Witch is an astrologer, tarot reader, idea synthesizer and writer who is on a daily dash to make meaning of society and human beings through the magic of the planets and the cards. They are a mad agender cyborg witch with a heart of flames committed to supporting humans through their underworld journeys as they (re)discover their magic, meaning, and passion for being. They write weekly horoscopes and occasional reflections on healing and transforming over at thefirebrandwitch.com. To learn more: http://thefirebrandwitch.com/about/ To book a reading:  http://thefirebrandwitch.com/tarot-reading-store/ Instagram: @thefirebrandwitch  Facebook: fb.com/thefirebrandwitch Twitter: @firebrandwitch Patreon: http://patreon.com/thefirebrandwitch ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey friends, how is everyone doing and feeling?  I have a beautiful episode with my friend and dream babe Amy Kuretsky to share - honestly, this one is wonderful and covers such a broad range of topics plus very many giggles! Here is what we talked about:  - Amy`s story with chronic illness and how she got into herbalism, acupuncture, breathwork and the tarot - Feeling healthy both in our bodies and our businesses and how that is deeply related - How we can learn from plants - How we try to stay connected to nature in winter  - Why we think its important to ask plants for permission - How we are trying to make our work accessible through sliding scales and online offerings and still want to honour our own time and energy at the same time - Why we love tarot as a tool to express what we can`t quiet say yet Amy Kuretsky is a wellness coach for mind, body, and business. As a creative entrepreneur herself, she doesn’t think that you have to choose between your health and your hustle. Her work is focused on helping female-identified and non-binary business owners heal what needs healing - whether that’s their anxiety and limiting beliefs one day or their business model the next.  When she’s not coaching creative business owners she’s running a busy Chinese medicine clinic in Minneapolis, leading wellness retreats around the country, and getting woo-wooAF. Here are some links you might want to check out:  Amy`s website: https://www.amykuretsky.com/ Amy`s instagram: http://instagram.com/amykuretsky Amy`s monthly breathwork offering: https://www.amykuretsky.com/monthly-medicine/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Friends, we made it to 10k listens, can you imagine?! Thank you so much! In this episode I just want to send you a really big thank you, tell you a bit more about my story and share some new things that I am currently working on. Tune in to hear about how I started out in web design, how Daydreaming Wolves came to be, what I wish I had known sooner and what I am wishing for in my fourth year. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday, dream babes! ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

For this episode I got to interview Otter Lieffe who wrote and self-published the incredible book of speculative fiction called Margins and Murmurations about struggle, sex work and time travel. As you know I think DIY media and representation are super important topics, so it was amazing to talk to her about the creative process and how healing it can be to imagine a different future for marginalised folks. We also talked about reframing PTSD, visibility, creating dignified working conditions for ourselves, community funding and the radical bodywork network. You can support Otter`s work and receive access to wonderful extras through her Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/otterlieffe Otter is a working class, femme, trans woman, in and out of Brussels and Berlin where she runs a trans and queer-focused holistic clinic called Safer Healing (https://saferhealing.org/). Margins and Murmurations (https://otterlieffe.com/marginsandmurmurations/) is her first novel. She has been involved in grassroots activism for over a decade, in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America and has at various times found herself involved in queer community organising, land reclamation, language teaching in migrant worker communities, playing samba in demonstrations and being too tired to get up the next day. She speaks between 3 and 5 languages and rarely sits still long enough to watch the seasons change. Written by a trans woman and sex worker, Margins and Murmurations puts gender, queerness and femininity at the centre of its twisting narrative. In this sensitive exploration of exclusion, Otter Lieffe calls us to renew our struggles against oppression and to proudly reclaim the margins that so many of us call home.   Margins and Murmurations “This is the story of Ash, a trans woman and healer living in a corner of Europe controlled by a militarized state. Amidst the economic crash of the 2020s, this land, once a hub of diversity, saw the rise of a state-imposed monoculture of gender, sexuality, ability and race. Those that didn’t fit, known as the divergents, were imprisoned, expelled or worse. Ash and her best friend Pinar long ago escaped the City, left behind their days of fighting State oppression, and are eking out a calmer life in the forest, ravaged by the effects of climate change. One day, Jason, a resistance fighter, arrives abruptly into their life, reigniting personal and political drives and they find themselves drawn back into the fight. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒