The Seduction of Fear & The Path To Love

Relating to The Unseen With Alexandra Derwen

Alexandra Derwen is a death doula and community educator, poet, pilgrim, keener, and teacher of lament. They are the founder of Sacred Circle Training Co CIC, a global social enterprise offering death and grief doula preparation courses and retreats. Alexandra is the author of three books titled Lost Rites, which track the loss and reclamation of death rites from the individual to the collective and systemic. They live in North Wales, UK, and are a lover of oak trees — their surname, Derwen, meaning "of the Oaks" — which have been their lovers and teachers. Alexandra can be found at www.journeywithdeath.com [http://www.journeywithdeath.com] @journeywithdeath Their books : www.wysewomenpublishing.co.uk [http://www.wysewomenpublishing.co.uk] sacredcirclecic@gmail.com [sacredcirclecic@gmail.com]. You can offer support to the podcast here: Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05 [https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFZTU3RPejJ4TFY3aHVWVTRaZUFNUUpSaDRhZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttQlhKM3NYRjRRY21iVmdSdm9lRnVjMmJhTlR4Qjktb2RwSXc4eS11Z0UxR19vZVlsR3JnaVFxQmNhTjFBbF9KVmdoTmQ2VVlBSXJ3RklJRUNsSXppVDZFazVWTF9VZWtUWkNjOTF5SGJ6eVA5Nm1JZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fbuy.stripe.com%2F14k5m3d6caCH05qeVJ&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog [https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqblVfcVRYaEYxcTRkSjJERUYyZEx2eFV2dVU0QXxBQ3Jtc0tuVWU0U01kQkItRmZHLWhkZDZDU3M5bER4Vkc5a01kR3pTZmxybUozd3JXemVXZEJTcWU1aU1FZXE0eDZQS18xRjV4REZVcEhtYW9pQmtKUEZ0YmdYUzFPV1ZxSnFORWx4MTFwOWRXdWNXMDAyRVZ5VQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fpaypalme%2Fechogiesel&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] Wise: wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw [http://wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw] Our current times demand we face the chaos, loss, and unraveling of our collective stories with honesty and courage. This episode shatters the illusion of safety and explores how embracing uncertainty, grief, and the unseen can lead us into a deeper sense of belonging and resilience. If you’re longing for authentic connection to death, nature, and the transformative powers of lament, this conversation will awaken your soul’s capacity for courage and love. Discover how the thresholds of death and chaos serve as initiations for collective growth. We break down powerful frameworks like collective mourning, the importance of lament in modern society, and the urgent need for new rites of passage in a fragmented world. You’ll uncover: * How childhood connections to the unseen shape our lifelong relationship with death and the sacred * Why the hero’s journey often misses the mark compared to the messy, ongoing chrysalis of real transformation * The crucial difference between safety and comfort—and how embracing discomfort catalyzes authentic healing * The role of sacred lament, keening, and ancestral mourning in restoring collective health * Practical ways to recognize and challenge harmful practices in spiritual spaces while honoring imperfect but necessary growth

The Seduction of Fear & The Path To Love

In this episode, I descend into one of the most intimate and universal forces threading through every human life — fear. Speaking not from the safety of solid ground but from inside the collective free fall of our current moment, I trace the quiet and insidious ways that fear seduces us. From the hypervigilance living in our nervous systems to the stockpiling of resources, the doomscrolling, the transactional relationships, the addiction to comfort and certainty, I name the many faces fear wears in our bodies, our choices, and our culture. I hold this reckoning with a piercing tenderness, reminding us that the systems collapsing around us are simply the outer reflection of the systems we have long carried within us. And yet within this episode is an unwavering belief in love. The most grounded, fierce, and radical force available to us in this time of great unraveling. Love as presence. Love as breath. Love as the conscious choice to stop being ruled by lack, by scarcity, by the endless fuel fear is so willing to provide. To support my work, community and the continuity of this project donate here: Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05 [https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDhuOFRWa2RUMHRHdWE0WXVTZkVCWkY1am5hUXxBQ3Jtc0ttbUpSMFE2a1BFM2t6MkRxNm1rRENXZms4UW9jbXAzVlRPYXlyTE5jZ2JZM0o3TUl4SVl1X0FoVVdOVlo0UHFtWF91RmZhQjBpdzNzRmFhcXBRREp2ZzJ4VS1BQUNxNFFwMk1IVlpCdGY1VjBsZE4zTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fbuy.stripe.com%2F14k5m3d6caCH05qeVJ&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog [https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUtJSi1QT1g5aHF6Y1ZmZ2psNnh2YTRZaHZKQXxBQ3Jtc0ttaTcydmdELThVeENSTGI4QS1lRE5wRE4tUW9BXzdLOUphZzhqVXQxRG5Cay1QMll6N1FybVZkUnhNZmxPTElXRDl0d1dhZnpiellLdWJTemhNempwMVp2YlB0b3VxTGFPZ0FyQ1FWTDY3YkFTZnZVbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fpaypalme%2Fechogiesel&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] Wise: wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw [http://wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw] Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/c/OurEcho [https://www.patreon.com/c/OurEcho] Follow this work at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@_ourecho_ [https://www.youtube.com/@_ourecho_] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_ourecho_/ [https://www.instagram.com/_ourecho_/] Photo for Podcast by Red Raven Photos

Living In A Post Modern Threshold

Alive from the Underworld | Episode 1 Living In A Post Modern Threshold This is not a podcast from the other side. I am not speaking to you from some place of arrival. I am speaking from inside it, from within the chrysalis, where the old form has already dissolved and the new one hasn't yet taken shape. This is what it means to be alive in the underworld. Not dead. Not lost. Alive, which is in some ways the harder thing. To be conscious inside the dissolution. Postmodernity did its necessary work. It dismantled the grand narratives, exposed the machinery behind the curtain, pulled apart the gods we had built from ideology, institution and inherited belief. It told us nothing was fixed, nothing was neutral, everything was constructed. And it was right. But deconstruction is not a destination. It is a demolition. And we are now living in the rubble. That is the particular weight of this moment. Not just personal unravelling. Collective freefall. The chrysalis is not comfortable. It is the place where what you were can no longer sustain you, and what you are becoming has not yet arrived. So this first episode offers no answers but questions. The kind that ask you to stop and look. To feel into what is actually guiding you, persuading you, possibly controlling you, beneath the noise of this fractured, post-everything moment. This series begins here. Alive. Inside the chrysalis. Asking for what wants to be born. To support my work, community and the continuity of this project donate here: Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05 [https://buy.stripe.com/14k5m3d6caCH05]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDhuOFRWa2RUMHRHdWE0WXVTZkVCWkY1am5hUXxBQ3Jtc0ttbUpSMFE2a1BFM2t6MkRxNm1rRENXZms4UW9jbXAzVlRPYXlyTE5jZ2JZM0o3TUl4SVl1X0FoVVdOVlo0UHFtWF91RmZhQjBpdzNzRmFhcXBRREp2ZzJ4VS1BQUNxNFFwMk1IVlpCdGY1VjBsZE4zTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fbuy.stripe.com%2F14k5m3d6caCH05qeVJ&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog [https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/echog]... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUtJSi1QT1g5aHF6Y1ZmZ2psNnh2YTRZaHZKQXxBQ3Jtc0ttaTcydmdELThVeENSTGI4QS1lRE5wRE4tUW9BXzdLOUphZzhqVXQxRG5Cay1QMll6N1FybVZkUnhNZmxPTElXRDl0d1dhZnpiellLdWJTemhNempwMVp2YlB0b3VxTGFPZ0FyQ1FWTDY3YkFTZnZVbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fpaypalme%2Fechogiesel&v=Cz_B9jX0YSA] Wise: wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw [http://wise.com/pay.me/@gieselw] Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/c/OurEcho [https://www.patreon.com/c/OurEcho] Follow this work at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@_ourecho_ [https://www.youtube.com/@_ourecho_] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_ourecho_/ [https://www.instagram.com/_ourecho_/] Photo for Podcast by Red Raven Photos