Some days, it feels impossible to keep up with the timelines, the pressures and expectations — it all becomes too loud.

And then, someone comes along who reminds you that you are allowed to live many lives in one lifetime — and none of them have to make sense to anyone else but you.

That’s what today’s conversation with multidimensional mami, Mackenzie of @onthematwithmack brings:

a breath of authenticity and honesty, a gut check, and the exact reminder you need if you’ve been questioning your direction, your goodness, your purpose, or the pace of your life.

In this raw and grounded episode, we talk about what it really means to change your mind, pivot, forgive, start over, follow the pull, and trust that your life is allowed to look different every season.

We chat:

• Why living multiple lives is normal (and actually healthy)
• The real reason we fear pivoting, even when it feels right
• How to release the “right timeline” myth and trust your own pace
• What to do when your past identities feel embarrassing or confusing
• The grief, liberation and process of friendship breakups
• How to use curiosity > fear when starting something new
• The power of sacred feminine anger
• How to stay human off and online while being perceived

This episode isn’t just a conversation. It’s a reset — a reminder that you’re allowed to grow, quit, begin again, unravel, bloom, and reinvent without needing to justify any of it.

If you’re in a season of transition, confusion, or reinvention… this one is for you.

Also, if you loved this episode, check out: Shedding, Syncing, Surrendering, Oh My!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - new podcast intro and mackenzie’s intro

01:20 - curiosity over fear

04:30 - resources and risk taking

07:00 - lore of life and multidimensionality

10:10 - dream jobs don’t exist

12:40 - evolving through eras

14:30 - creating peace with uncertain timelines

18:50 - fear based decisions and cycles

22:14 - the impact of perception and being human

26:30 - testament to your self-trust

30:10 - grounding in your sense of self

34:11 - navigating the impact of friendship breakups

37:08 - shining a light on personal strength

40:34 - embracing complex self-compassion

43:20 - sacred feminine anger

45:50 - autoimmune connection to feminine suppression

47:37 - self expression for your soul

50:30 - connecting with your wild woman archetype

52:17 - matriarchal medicine

55:17 - feminine somatic embodiment

57:15 - healing through healthy relationships

#healing #feminineenergy #multidimensonality #personalgrowth #selfcompassion

Today we clean the fogged mirror.
With the beautiful mentor, writer and woman in love with life, Maia Ben, we dig into the exact moment you stop lying to yourself, stop postponing your life, and start keeping the tiny promises that remake your identity. From three years of procrastination to launching a studio in two bed-recorded days — Maia shares the truth of her sobering self-compassion and evolution journey.

This episode is for anyone who’s been waiting for clarity, for permission, or for the “perfect” moment. We talk messy action, inner children (multiples, yes), somatic micro-steps that build cellular self-trust, and how integration — not exile — heals the parts of you that scream the loudest.

Expect raw stories, practical witchy tools, and gentle but fierce truth-telling about momentum, embodiment, and why neutrality + respect > forced self-love.

If you’ve ever felt like an expert at excuses, this one’s your mirror-shattering, mercy-filled wake-up call.

Listen for:

• Her overnight decision that changed everything
• Somatic micro-movements to prove you can keep your word to yourself
• How to give unruly parts of you a department (so they don’t run the whole company)
• Why messy action births clarity, momentum, and self-trust

If this episode lands, leave a review, share it with a friend who’s also been “not ready,” and share with us below, one tiny promise you’ll keep today.

This episode is for anyone still haunted by who they used to be.

For the moments you remember something you said, or didn’t say. Something you did, or didn’t do. The version of yourself who hurt someone, disappeared, froze, lied, coped in messy ways—and the loop of shame that still whispers, “You’re a bad person because of it.”

Today, I want to offer a different perspective: you are not a terrible person for doing things you’re not proud of. You are a human being. A human who’s learning. A human who’s growing. A human who’s at a place where they're ready to lay down the weight of old guilt and are choosing to rewrite the narrative ...

This conversation is a reckoning and a release. We’ll talk about how to shift from self-punishment to self-responsibility.

From shame into sovereignty.

From “I was wrong, so I must be bad” to “I was human, and I’m learning how to love that version of me too.”

I share my own experiences with guilt, ghosting, and how I am learning to see those moments not as the end—but as the beginning of a deeper becoming. We’ll end with one grounded tip and shadow work journal prompt to help you interrupt the self-critical spiral and reclaim your story in real time.

You are not too far gone. You are not irredeemable. You are not a villain in your own life ...

You are the alchemist. ׂ𓈒⋆ ۪