In this *spell* of an episode, magic, penetration, entanglement, and love emerge as steps toward understanding and willingness to be changed by others (sometimes oh-so awkwardly).

We enter with the Buddhist concept of PENETRATION (via some bibliomancy!)—not just observing from a distance, but entering deeply into experiences and relationships to truly understand them—where Dana shares a recent evolutionary discomfort experience with group work that involved Palestine, mentorship, and unexpectedly opened space for profound connection and transformation.

Magic and synchronicity can bring you to the observation deck of reality, but one must risk and leap to get to true understanding. What's on the other side? Let's find out and embrace both the joy and struggle of humaning together!

~ RESOURCES FROM THE JACUZZI-VERSE ~

• Free grounding meditation with Dana (a practice of calling your energy back/nervous system tending/reclaiming your attention) ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
• Rad apothecary alert > milkthistleyuccavalley.com ~ use code jacuzzi15 for a 15% discount
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, to be entered in a monthly drawing for a free coaching session. Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name to enter. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

// sound-editing/design ~ Rose Blakelock, theme song ~ Kat Ottosen, podcast art ~ Natalee Miller///

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There's room for personal growth in collective liberation—in fact, it's a critical component! Join Dana and her long-time teacher of nearly 13 years, Julia Frodahl, as they lean in and explore where our inner rebels come from, how we can show up for the consciousness revolution, the role of inner work as part of the Great Turning, self-compassion as a practice not a destination, cultivating vision when systems are unraveling, and how the mature rebel is actually the visionary—anchored in deep wisdom while remaining responsive to external realities.

Julia Frodahl's next live online group course on nature-based parts work starts May 25th, learn more & sign up (https://bit.ly/julia-group).

You can also connect with Julia on IG @juliafrodahl + through her app (https://www.juliafrodahl.com/app)

• Free grounding meditation with Dana ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
• Get your copy of How Your Story Sets You Free
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-minute coaching session with Dana. Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

// sound-editing/design ~ Rose Blakelock, theme song ~ Kat Ottosen, podcast art ~ Natalee Miller///

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Our attention is constantly being hijacked by systems training us to see ourselves as problems needing to be fixed. Let’s play with the phenomena of ‘perception drift’ (when you can’t see changes in/on you— grace à Courtney Cox) and ‘change blindness’ (when you can no longer see change around you) to explore how we’re perpetuating coloniality rather than tending to collective issues + why reclaiming our attention and moving beyond pathologizing ourselves is revolutionary.

This ep is full of ways to practice expanding your capacity for empathy & connection, resisting anti-intellectualism, tending to your nervous system resilience and reclaiming your attention as the act of graceful rebellion that it is!

~ resources & more ~

• Free grounding meditation ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
• Attention & Will
• All the book recs from this episode
• COMET ☄️CORN 🍿
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching session with dana (value of $388). Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

// sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock, theme song ~ kat ottosen, podcast art ~ natalee miller///

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What sparks of guidance illuminate your path through uncertain times? When chaos swirls around us, where do we turn for direction?

This episode takes us on a magical journey down a wishing well (!!) to meet artist and oracle Mary Evans (Spirit Speak), who offers a revelatory tarot reading addressing three vital questions:

• How can we use our creativity to support ourselves and the collective?
• What specifically do we, as individuals, need to focus on in uncertainty?
• And what helps conjure the courage to challenge systems both within and around us?

The cards reveal wisdom about pacing, perseverance, and the power of wishes. Wands appear repeatedly, signaling the centrality of creative fire to our current moment. We're reminded that finding courage begins in small alignments with our deepest truths, and that acknowledging when we're overwhelmed and need help isn't weakness but wisdom. Through it all runs the thread of "slow down medicine" – the subversive act of attending to unseen realms in a materialistic world.

Mary Evans is a tarot reader, artist, and creator of six self-published tarot and oracle decks. With over a decade of experience, she blends tarot, spirituality, hypnosis, and art to explore the subconscious and navigate change. In this episode, she reads tarot for the collective, offering insight and reflection to help process the times at hand with clarity and resilience. Her work has been recognized by Vogue, Oprah Magazine, and the Whitney Museum.

~ resources & more ~

• Photo of card drawing
• Beautiful Trouble — your troublemaker toolbox for effervescent rebellion!
• Connect with Mary + her most treasured things:
  • www.spirit-speak.com for her decks
  • on IG @m.a.r.y.e.v.a.n.s
  • when you can't find a wishing well IRL
• Bespoke Meditation, soul-guidance tailor-made just for you!
• Free grounding meditation ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching session with dana (value of $388). Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

/// sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock, theme song ~ kat ottosen, podcast art ~ natalee miller///

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Crybabies, welcome back to the jacuzzi-verse! In episode 2, let's explore the boundaries between security and insecurity, safety and unsafety. You're invited to embrace security as an illusion—a product sold to us, someone else's imagination of a limited version of ourselves, a way to keep us obedient and clinging to comfort—because then we can start to create our own definitions. Life-affirming, nourishing, weird, radically caring, self-trusting, connective, uncomfortable, desirous, resilient, and adaptive!

And look, security's weaponization has real consequences for individuals and communities under threat from people & systems that use safety and security as mechanisms for control, which means that dismantling those systems by releasing ourselves from their definitions is more important than ever. Whew!

Hop in, crybabies and let's take a quick spin around the insecurity block and see where we end up!

Please share this episode with friends & community, and subscribe wherever you're listening!

~ RESOURCES ~

• Free guided grounding meditation & get on Dana's weekly email list ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
  
  
• When you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-minute coaching session. Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name — winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month. Subscribing is awesome, too!
  
  
• Weekly live grounding meditations with Dana on IG, Fridays at 10 am PT.
  
  
• milkthistleyuccavalley.com ~ use code jacuzzi15 at checkout!

/// sound-editing/design ~ Rose Blakelock, theme song ~ Kat Ottosen, podcast art ~ Natalee Miller ///

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Welcome back, crybabies! Season 3 is here and we're kicking it off with the brilliant relational astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and educator, Diana Rose (currently residing and thriving on the planet Venus).

In episode 1, we explore rebellion as an act of maturing aka radical adulting aka self-trusting in an era of systemic oppression, rising fascism, and huge planetary shifts. Just a few tidbits from our entirely un-casual and truly delightful convo about humaning...

• Clinging to control versus cultivating presence and trust in ourselves and life
• How the rejection of death drives control-seeking behavior and fascist tendencies
• Becoming a "grown-up" rebel through developing self-trust and accepting reality
• The myth of Isis and Osiris as a metaphor for destruction, reassembly, and transformation
• The importance of developing nervous system resilience to navigate intense times
• How healing increases our ability to be in relation with ourselves and others
• Why evacuating the need to be superior/hierarchy is one of the most rebellious acts possible
• The distinction between rebellion as disruption versus revolution as total transformation

~ resources ~

• Saladpower — get your sucky on!
• Find Diana:
  • ddamascenaa.com
  • ddamascenaa.podia.com/radical-no-bundle (recordings of teachings & lectures, this one will surely be a crybaby fave)
  • patreon.com/ddamascenaa for access to sessions & other content
  • see Diana at LA Astrofest on 4/26-7
• Free grounding meditation ~ bit.ly/grounding-now
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching session with dana (value of $388). Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

/// sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock, theme song ~ kat ottosen, podcast art ~ natalee miller///

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This is a special solstice, holiday slowdown medicine, between-season, late-stage-capitalism-sucking-your-life-juice-dry, you-might-need-support episode full of practical guidance and self-warmth tips!

Baba Ram Dass said, “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Whatever you may or may not be celebrating, this episode explores the importance of acceptance, a few quick energetic/emotional/nervous system grounding & resilience techniques, and the power of warm curiosity to foster understanding and connection with yourself and those in your world.

~ resources mentioned ~

• Free grounding meditation ~ https://bit.ly/grounding-now
• Bespoke Meditation, a 1:1 coaching session + a personalized guided meditation ~ book yours now, https://bit.ly/bespoke-meditation
• Enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching session with dana (value of $388). Email dana@danabalicki.com the review title + your review name. Winner announcements will be made across platforms mid-month.

/// sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock, theme song ~ kat ottosen, podcast art ~ natalee miller///

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Falling apart is hard work, crybabies. But you know what's even harder? NOT falling apart and using all of your precious energy and attention to hold your sh*t together in some configuration based on someone else's polycrisis-inducing imagination for your life! In the LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 2, we'll be looking at why falling apart is a useful technology for these times, how to recognize it when it's at your door, and how to make friends with it. We wrap with a group fondle (of plants, you dirty bird) with the whole existential team over here at crybaby HQ, broadcasting from the center of the jacuzzi-verse. So tune in and let go. We got you. 😭♨️

P.S. The "ai cohost" (part of the pod platform at buzzsprout) suggested "embracing the fall: finding transformation in chaos and jacuzzis" for the title of this episode. Just thought you should at least know that deeply poetic option existed. 🙏🏼

~show notes~

• Living Systems with Leah Garza
• Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome (not Welcoming Uncertainty as is quoted in the episode)
• MONTHLY RAFFLE for a free 90-min coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review (can be short & sweet), you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching session with dana (value of $388). DM (@danablix ig) or email (dana@danabalicki.com) a screenshot of your submission—take it right before you hit submit—along with the review name/title. Once entered, always entered. Winner announcements will be made mid-month.
• Have a question for advice dom? Call in and SUBMIT (your question) --> 760-820-9070

/// sound-editing/design ~ rose blakelock, theme song ~ kat ottosen, podcast art ~ natalee miller ///

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