Welcome To Wise Women Stories

Edwina Murphy-Droomer and Inarra Aryane Griffyn introduce "Wise Women Stories," a deeply personal project rooted in storytelling and spiritual nourishment. They share a deep connection through their shared interests in spiritual growth and storytelling, sparked by their initial interviews years ago. Inarra emphasises the ancient tradition of storytelling as a form of nourishment, drawing parallels to rituals around the winter solstice. For Inarra, this project is deeply personal, stemming from her grandmother's influence and her own spiritual journey.

Their collaboration is driven by a strong desire to create a space where inspirational stories from wise women can support and encourage others, particularly women navigating challenges or entrepreneurial journeys. Inarra recounts her spiritual initiation journey and the influence of mentors, High Priestess, Vivienne Crowley in London. Edwina reflects on pivotal moments in her life, including transformative experiences with a naturopath and raising her children on a flower farm, which empowered her despite initial hardships.

In their podcast series, Edwina and Inarra discuss embracing discomfort and intuition, drawing insights from personal experiences and teachings. They introduce "Women Who Run With The Wolves" and other archetypal stories, aiming to blend ancient wisdom with contemporary experiences. They invite listeners, especially those in their forties and beyond, on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through storytelling and shared wisdom.

The episode concludes with Edwina and Inarra, highlighting the transformative power of life experiences and wisdom. They announce a standalone recording of the story of Vasilisa and encourage listeners to share their podcast to foster deeper connections among women, bidding farewell until the next episode.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and Welcome
• 13:48 Initiation of Intuition
• 31:01 Archetypal Stories for Women

Transcript

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (00:02.129)
Hello, beautiful souls. Edwina Murphy -Drommer is my name and myself and my beautiful, beautiful host, Inara Ariane Griffin, wanna welcome you to this sacred space that is the Wise Women Stories. So this is your invitation to pull up a chair, pour yourself a cup of tea, perhaps curl up your legs, get...

comfy. If you're like me right now in the southern hemisphere, you can grab a little Nana blanket to pull over your knees because that's what I need. And if you're in the northern hemisphere like Inara, maybe you just need a fan and a gentle breeze. So what we are here to do is to start a conversation of sharing just that wise women stories. And we came together

I think it may be six or seven years ago now, which was the first time that I interviewed Inara and fell in love with her and her energy. And I can still remember at that point just leaning in as she started to share her stories because Inara lives in a world that's very, very different and has grown up in a world that's very, very different to mine. And I find it absolutely fascinating. And then I interviewed Inara again just last year.

for another interview series and we've just been hovering in each other's worlds, coaching with the same coach and popping in and out of each other's world on social media. And finally, we have come together collided as the stars have aligned to create this amazing project for you. So perhaps if I hand the mic over for a minute to Inara. Inara.

Maybe if you share for a second, what was your experience of, you know, like what led you to want to do this particular project?

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (02:02.068)
well, you know, this particular project is deep. It's really true to my heart. Storytelling is the most ancient form of entertainment. We humans used to sit around fires thousands, hundreds of thousands of years ago. And storytelling was a thing and particularly to do with very important festivals in the year or cycles or transitions in the year.

They would stay up all night. You've just gone through the winter solstice in Australia. And the ritual for that was to stay up all night long around the Yule fire, around the Yule log, which was a sacred log and tell stories till dawn. And then the cinder or the tinders that came out of that log were then gathered up and sprinkled on the land to become the harvest for the next year.

So there was all of this storytelling going into the wood being this important thing that humans did as a symbol of this is the nourishment and the nutrients that go to create a good harvest. So in our way, I know that as an entrepreneur and I'm a spiritual business coach, I help and guide people through really daring waters. And the thing that women often say is, I don't know if I can take one more step.

Maybe I'll quit here. Maybe I'll let it go. And all it takes is an inspirational story from a wise woman or another sister to help them move one step further and go, it's okay. Like I said to you a moment ago, my grandmother used to say, sit down, have a cup of tea. It's all going to be all right. And just those words are like,

you know, you can just breathe. So that's what wise women's stories means to me. It's deep nourishing place for people to come. Yeah.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (04:09.073)
Yeah. So maybe I feel like that's going to be a really perfect place to start is to pick a moment of transition, a moment of change, that pivotal moment that just jumps in to your mind. What comes to mind?

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (04:25.748)
I would say that again, it's with my grandmother, grandma Ida, who was my mother's mother. And she was my first spiritual teacher. She was always, an unusual woman, artistic, 1920s. but her life was hard, right? She had a hard slog of a life and yet she was a dreamer. She's the one who told me to look up and see the sky.

like all of that. So in one of those moments, I was living with her when I was nine up in Yorkshire by the coast. So it's a seaside village. And in June, the stars and the sky are just extraordinary. And I remember one night I was allowed to stay up late and I walked down to the end of the garden. I looked up at the stars and I had this unbelievable moment of

I don't even know what to describe it. It was absolutely pivotal because I realized I was connected to all there is. And I couldn't describe to her what had happened. It was like an absolute moment of alchemical change in my body. I was different. And when I tried to explain to her, we are all that is, and whatever a nine year old would say about that, we're all connected. She said, there are healers who.

dance naked on the moors in Yorkshire, they heal people with milk. And I felt those are my people. It was like, whatever that meant, it was, there are people who feel this way as well. And that was the beginning of a major part of my spiritual journey.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (06:01.457)
Yeah.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (06:14.641)
So what was the path then from there? What was the path that that took you on?

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (06:22.452)
Well, there was a lot of conventional, you know, experiences in my life. I was taken back to Canada. I lived with my parents in Toronto. They split up. I lived with my mother. There was chaos through the teens. And, but I kept having these deep desires to meet people who would meet me on a spiritual level. And university, I was with somebody who was a fantastic filmmaker. He's made his

his career in films. And so the creativity was fantastic, the imagination, but I felt there was no real spirituality. And so I was like, this needs a decision. So I made a decision. I'm not staying in Canada. I left and went on a trip, which was meant to be a backpacking trip around Europe. And instead I just never went back.

And even though there were great opportunities in Canada, I wanted to meet the healers. I wanted to meet these English, you know, it felt like it was in England or Ireland or Scotland. And so I set out to meet people who were of that ilk, if you like. And so Vivian Crowley, who in her own right is quite a famous high priestess. She was running a course in Covent Garden in London.

which was something like the history of paganism. It was all very, you know, neutral. And I went and I did the course with her and at the end of every teaching, she would do some kind of symbolic ritual act. It would be like, you know, meditating over a candle or little different things that we did where we would charge an object with energy. We would send healing for people. And I, at the end of this course said, I want more of that. Where can I find it? And she said, you.

You can take it further. You would have to ask three times. And what she meant was over time, you need to ask three times to be sure you committed to that path. And so the next time I saw her, I just said, I want to be initiated. I want to be initiated. I want to be initiated. And I didn't even know what it meant. I had no idea.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (08:38.452)
And from that point on, that was the journey of initiation I went through. And I did the first degree, which is where you're very much in a relation to her as mother. She looks after you, she takes care of you. All your needs are taken care of. And you don't need to go any further than that. You would end up being a priest or a priestess at that point. But if you have a calling, which I did, to serve and to teach, then you take the second degree.

It's a much tougher path associated with masculine energy. The feminine is the first degree and you go on a lonesome path and you do some really tough things like vision quests and you name it, lots of study and then you become a high priestess and that's what happened for me. So I'm a high priestess.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (09:31.349)
I feel like there's something really interesting there that comes into my mind and I encourage everybody that's listening to think about times in your life as well. I read in the first book that we're going to be studying with Clarissa Pincola Estes who wrote Women Who Run With The Wolves.

She talks about nourishment for the soul is creativity and the natural world. And I know there was a period in my life when I became very unhealthy from working in nightclubs and being nocturnal and drinking far too much alcohol and living on junk food and all the things. And my mom saw me after a year.

had been living away and came back and she was quite horrified and took me to see a naturopath and it was a pivotal moment in my life because I was sitting in front of this woman who just exuded, is that the word? I can never remember how to say it, but exuded this incredible warmth and vitality and health and she absolutely had that mother energy. When you go to see a naturopath, you sit in front of somebody

for an hour, it's not like going to a doctor when you get five minutes. And she, I felt like she really cared and she listened and you know, it was more about that energy than it was about the herbs and the prescription. But that was a moment, it was like, I want this. And it was that connection, real connection to nature in the, you know, the food and the herbs and.

that way of being as well that just feels like complete nourishment for the soul. So whether it is being by a stream or being in the hills or even, you know, I've got, I can't see it, I've got a salt lab here, but anything like this that just brings the natural world in is nourishment for the soul.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (11:42.516)
Absolutely. And I think, you know, what's, what's really interesting is how we've ended up hovering around each other for years, recognizing something. And I would say I did a piece of work for a book actually, and I had to define what is, what is a great teacher. And I would describe you as a great teacher. And it was this quality of the masculine, which brings forth mastery.

And that's the learning and the training and the doing and all of that. And then I was trying to find a word for Mr. C, right? Because you can't translate it. There's so when you say I've trained under a master, like I have. Like you have with the naturopath. Then you try and find the feminine. There is no word for that. So I was playing with this whole thing about mistress takes it off. Peace. It's suddenly in the other woman.

But when I was sitting with her, I'm like, it's the mysteries. So the feminine is the mysteries and the masculine is the mastery. And when you combine those, you get great teachers. And so there's this moment, like even though that naturopath may never have known her impact on you. And my grandmother was so simple in her...

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (13:03.985)
No, no.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (13:07.988)
way of describing something that she tapped in. And I can't even remember the conversation at age nine, but it was life changing. Like I'm going this way now because of that. And that's that, you know, they are in their own rights. They're masters who are dealing with the mysteries. And then here we are. That's exactly what we're dealing with. The mastery is, is the teaching aspect, but the mysteries is delving into these, this nourishment and.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (13:26.833)
Yeah. Yeah.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (13:38.036)
surrendering to the stories and feeling what you can pull out of them for you to step forward or go one more step, whatever the case may be.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (13:47.793)
Yeah. Yeah. And I think for many people, you know, one of the first topic that we're going to be diving into over the coming episodes is that initiation of intuition. And when you talk about mysteries, this is one of the great mysteries because for most of us, it's not something that we're connected to.

at all through our mothers, unfortunately, and aunts because it's become something that's just is not even spoken about. There's a, you know, there's an element of trust your gut, but what's that? So it is that wise voice within that so many people would perhaps consider as woo woo or something odd or untrue or, but it really is a

connection to that that is going to be pivotal to so much of what we talk about and how we've come to be on the journeys that we're on.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (14:50.452)
Well, I know that we've talked about your life because our lives are so different and yet we feel so connected. But tell us about your four children and how you became that part of your story, because that blows my mind every time I hear it.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (15:09.937)
So I think if I pull out a really pivotal moment in my story, I'm gonna leap much further forward than your nine years and go to 36 years. And it was just a smidge actually before my 36th birthday that my first husband packed a bag and walked away. And we had four children, my oldest was eight and then I had two girls in the middle that were six and four and then I had a five month old baby as well.

So four children, eight and under, and all of a sudden I was a soul care parent. We had a little farm in a place called Ravenswood, which is near Bendigo here in Australia. And I, you know, until that point, I had really not understood responsibility. I understood responsibility on a surface level, but...

the embodiment of responsibility was not something that I had really done until that point. And, you know, I talk about when I left school, I left school with a very healthy dose of not good enough syndrome. Nothing about me from my perspective was good enough. I wasn't smart enough. I wasn't sporty enough. I wasn't musical enough. I wasn't artistic enough. I wasn't pretty enough. I wasn't thin enough. I wasn't likable enough. Like, you know, it was just like this great big stodgy pile of

there. And so to launch myself into the adult world from that place, I, you know, the best way I can describe it is like being on the back foot. And so I looked to everybody else as being the expert in my life. I didn't believe that I could make a great decision for myself. So it's like, you know, what, what do you, what do you think I should do? So any, there was no connection in my mind to

tuning into that inner voice and going, what's my truth? What's right for me? But all of a sudden at 36, with four other children, I learned responsibility in a much bigger way. And when I didn't have anybody to lean on, the power that trickled in was quite amazing. And we spent a year in a

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (17:30.705)
funny little house down by the beach. I packed up our farm and sold that and moved and rented a funny little house down by the beach that had no insulation and the ants came in through every crack. But it was like a therapy year. We could just walk straight across to the beach and we just spent time in the water and time on the beach and time without a farm to run. And after a year, I realized that I'm

my happy place is the country. And so I looked around and somehow bought a flower farm. And that's where I raised my children for the next seven years until I met my now husband. But we had horses and alpacas and chickens and a dog and the four kids that were quite feral as well. They didn't really wear shoes until they started school.

I picked flowers and I was able to be at home with them. And it was, you know, it was a really a beautiful time, but I can remember a magic moment of sitting on, we had this lovely veranda that looked out over the, you know, green rolling hills and flowers. And I love photography, which I know is one of your passions as well. And I can remember sitting there taking photos of my kids playing in the garden in my front garden. I had a hundred.

roses that I used for weddings and things. It was very pretty. I've got photos of it one day, I'll spend some time sharing them. But I remember taking a photo and just looking at these vibrant, healthy, amazing, beautiful children and going, I did this. You know, I create, you know, makes me want to cry even saying it. Like how did this know good at anything?

not good enough at anything person create this. And it was just, it was a moment that I adorned on me that maybe I'm okay. Maybe I'm okay. And we just, yeah, slowly but surely, you know, I built a more and more beautiful life for us from there. So, you know, it was in these terribly.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (19:45.041)
dark and awful moments. I mean, I'm painting a very pretty picture there, but when my first husband walked away, I had a year of intense grief. Intense, like the picture that I'd had in my mind of what a family looks like and what we, you know, what it was all going to be was overnight was gone and the feeling of it's complete.

an utter vulnerability and fear and how the hell am I going to do this? And, you know, every fever with my children, every bill that needed paying, every father's day when there was no father for them to take to school and in like all of every thing that was hard was there as well. And there was a year of grief. It was a death of something that was really, really, really hard.

But out of it came the greatest gift of my life. It gave me strength. It gave me an incredible inner power that I have used to build the life that I have until now in my 50s. And somehow along the way, I became very grateful that I actually went through that.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (21:04.436)
Well, I think that's what these stories will, will speak into these moments of devastation. That's what I mean about, you know, when I've, I've had a very different journey, but in parallel to that moment that you're speaking into, I always thought I would be a mother. It's like, and I'm not a mother, not in that way anyway. And there was this moment of, you know, how we women weave the

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (21:09.809)
Mm. Mm.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (21:18.929)
Mm.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (21:32.756)
the vision of what we think we're going to be. I just had a, it was like a no brainer. Of course I'm going to have children. Of course I'm going to, you know, be in the, the partnership with the two kids and all of that kind of thing. And, at 37, I met a man who had a little two year old boy and I made a very deep commitment to him because of the child.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (21:40.721)
Hmm.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (22:01.428)
It was like, I can't go into this, you know, light, lighthearted. I need to consider this child. And then I met this child and it was instant love affair. Like just, just, you know, incredible. I adored him and he adored me. I used to take him to yoga. I used to, you know, do all these things with him separately. And it was an absolute pleasure. And when three years later, this man left also in a very abrupt way.

Sounds like your man left too in an abrupt way, but this was over breakfast. he announced, well, when I, when I leave, I won't be coming back. And I was like, what? You know, I didn't quite get it at all. And so he said it again, when I leave, I won't be coming back. And, and I, nothing worked. I was just like in this scrambling, you know, the head doesn't work.

But that's exactly what happened. And I was able to see that child once six months later, even though I'd had this complete, you know, step -mom relationship with this child. I adored him. I used to, you know, take him out on my own a lot. And all of a sudden my life crumbled and it came in waves of things like at the same time of realizing that now I was

not going to have children of my own. I tried to do IVF on my own. It was this sort of desperation, like how can I do, how can I have the kids? And which didn't work. And then I even looked into adoption. It went on and on. And there was this point when through the IVF, the hormones that they give you caused me to have a huge cyst in a fallopian tube. And then I had to have my left ovary out and

I was so devastated that the vision that I had for my life was not going to happen. I was so upset all the time that I, the final thing that got me out of it was I just went one day, I can't do this to myself anymore. It was like a mantra. I can't do this to myself anymore. And I would pull myself up and not go into that hole. Like this is what could have been kept pulling myself up and then.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (24:25.844)
I started to create and it was like this unleashing of creation, you know, and we can talk about it another time, but it led me to change from being a photographer to going into property and then leading that I got it valued as a property developer, a portfolio of 10 million. It was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it, but it came out of pain. You know, I thought nothing can be so bad. So why not?

throw everything at something, you know? And I think these are those moments in the stories that people will, they'll look at you and they'll think, how did you get here? This is what people often say. those women have always been successful, you know? And actually, no, you will have tried 10 times and failed. And then there's one thing that you've just gone, you know what, F it.

I can't deal with this anymore. I'm going to put everything into this. And in your case, it was your kids. And in my case, it was creativity and business actually, which I didn't think I knew anything about.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (25:33.937)
Yeah, there's, you know, there I can, you know, as we go forward, there's, there's numerous stories that I can pull out that were just those moments of like, you know, how on earth did I get here? And what on earth am I going to do? And then it's, it's from that place that you build something amazing. And it's interesting, I was having a conversation with a dear friend in the US on the weekend about

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (25:34.036)
Yeah.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (25:42.237)
Hmm.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (26:03.121)
the misery that comes from being really comfortable, which is not something any of us really want to hear, but we can get in this place where we don't, there's nothing that is that urgent push. And so you've kind of got enough money to pay the bills and you've kind of, you've got a nice place to live and you've got some nice friends and works okay, but it's just rolling along and you know, to push yourself into something that's uncomfortable at that point, it's not easy at all.

And so we can just stay there and actually rot. And I've been in that place as well, where you just get to a place where things are comfortable enough that you don't really need to change anything. And that's not where wisdom, more wisdom, a greater depth of wisdom comes from. It's like you've got to stand on the edge of the cliff again to find the wisdom. And so I feel like that's another sort of spot that I...

currently in, you know, my youngest child finished school at the end of last year, which was an extraordinary. I wasn't that this is another whole story again, but I really wasn't prepared for the the feeling of it's not a grief, but it's a feeling of loss. It's a complete change of identity. I've just been like, I am the mother, you know, I'm the mom. That's what I that's the pivotal pillar of

who I've been for over two decades. And all of a sudden, they're all financially independent. They don't need me anymore, really. And so there's another shift of identity that's been happening. And as much as we want to think these things are going to happen in a, well, I'll just do this. It kind of doesn't happen like that. It's a, it's a, it's a blossoming, it's an unfurling, it's like getting to know who this next iteration of us is.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (27:38.964)
Thank you.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (27:59.153)
but with that comes a lot of discomfort. But I know that this is where the wisdom comes from. So the older I get, the more comfortable I get with the discomfort, if that makes sense.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (28:12.148)
Totally. I did a lot of landmark education, 28 courses at one point in communication. It was just amazing one after another, but I do remember there was a pivotal moment. David, you're Australian. I will shout out to you right now. He was a mind blowing leader.

Once he gave me a very interesting way of looking at life. He said, imagine you're standing on the top of a hill and you're looking out to the landscape around you. And you'll see like the little towns and the fields of flowers and these symbolic things of all the good things that have happened for you. People celebrating your friends out there and all of that. And then he said, you want to also have a look at where the swamps are.

where the difficult, you know, the dark trees are. And he said, if you were to put a signpost on all of those kinds of places, it would be the uncomfortable. And most people spend their life focusing on the other, like what's the good things. Hey, you know, this is all happy. This worked. And he said, instead change your focus to wherever there's a signpost of the uncomfortable, go there.

Those are the questions that you never ask. Like, do you really love me? Are you going to stay with me? Those are the things we never ask. Right. any, and ask, like go to those places and ask the questions that you dare not ask and look at the things that you dare not, that you don't want to know about. And when you go and start to live your life like, uncomfortable. Great. I'm going there next. Bring on the uncomfortable.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (29:46.961)
Yeah.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (29:51.217)
Yeah.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (30:01.3)
Then you get breakthrough after breakthrough after breakthrough and everything else becomes even more sort of shiny and glistening because you're willing to go to the depths of it.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (30:13.041)
Yeah, yeah. And I think, well, I know one of those questions to ask is what do I want? Because a lot of us don't want to ask that because it can highlight things that we don't have. And then we think, well, I'll never have that or it's too late for me or that's for somebody else. And so we're amazing at coming up with all the lists of things that we don't want.

but what do I want? And this is obviously is going to segue beautifully into talking about intuition and really trusting that inner guide that is pointing us towards exactly the right path if we can trust it. So we are going to be diving into women who run with the walls. So for those, yeah.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (31:01.004)
I apologize. Sorry to interrupt you. That is my cat trying to get out of the cat flap because he's 17. I think I'm going to get him out. Sorry people.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (31:10.001)
That's all right, go and go, I'll keep talking. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, yeah. No, no, please do. So we're gonna be diving into Women Who Run With The Wolves is our first book. We're not gonna be doing all the stories, but I've pulled out the story of Vasilisa. So for those of you that have this book, I know that it is one of those books that a lot of women.

have bought over the years and it went onto the bookshelf and has got dusty and you've barely looked at it. It is one of those books that often people when they read the introduction, it feels too overwhelming, it feels too much and so it gets shelved. So if that's you, please pull it out and dust it off. Get yourself a copy if you don't have a copy. This book is written.

for women and it is amazing. I describe it as being like the most nourishing, delicious meal you will ever, ever eat. And it can only be eaten in little small nibbles at a time. You can, you to try and sit down and consume the whole thing at once would quite literally make you explode because there's so much in it. So pull it out and over the coming episodes,

and these first episodes of Wise Women's Stories, we're going to be diving into the initiation of intuition. There's nine tasks and they are beautiful. And so this is for anybody that hasn't ever worked out how to really connect with their intuition and to have that relationship and trust in your intuition. And for anybody that feels like they're in a place of transition.

in a place of feeling stuck or I'm not sure what the next chapter is or I just would love to be part of a conversation where that more feeling, I know there's something more, can find roots in your intuition so that the wisdom can come through. So that's what we're diving into first. Inaro, did you want to add a bit to this?

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (33:32.18)
Well, Women Who Run With The Wolves is one of the most archetypal, incredible books for stories for women. And I think what we've got here is we're creating something where we will interweave our own stories into these mythical archetypal stories for women, like nourishment, as you've said, to show how

actually, some of those stories can be the things we'll choose from other books as well. Because I know we've already chosen like the second series is one of my favorite books called Daughters of Copper Woman. And these these lineages of stories that are designed that they could be told 1000 years from now, and they would still have the potency of anything will bring a modern interpretation, obviously, because you know, when we talk about intuition,

we'll go into the moments of when there was incredible insight and intuition that we've had. And for you listener, you will be able to really tap in for yourself thinking, when were those moments when I was redirected? There was a reset, there was a hunch, there was a gut feeling. And that you knew that it was true for you to either step towards something or step away from something.

So that's the first layer that we're looking at, but that is how they're going to work. It's blending the ancient knowledge with completely contemporary experience of it.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (35:08.652)
Yeah, and for, I mean, we'll, we'll dive into all of these questions and ideas and thoughts as we go forward. But I know that, you know, like what the wild woman archetype can feel like something that a lot of women don't really identify with. And if that's you, what I would say is that it is the same as the natural woman, the natural woman archetype. So it is the woman.

without the layers and layers of messaging, without the layers of shoulds and you wear this and behave like that and say this and don't say that. And in like we collect layers and layers and layers of messaging around what it is to be a woman. And this wild woman archetype is talking about the natural woman. It is the woman without all the layers of shoulds.

loaded on top. So we get to start peeling that back and realizing how and why we've made the decisions that we have and the guiding forces that have got us to this point in our lives. It's a magical journey.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (36:17.588)
It sure is. Yeah.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (36:21.041)
It's so fun. So I think that is, yeah, is there, is there anything else that you wanted to bring forward before we wrap up this session in our.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (36:31.7)
No, this is an invitation to you to really dig deep and to allow yourself. I work a lot with leaders and coaches. Edwina tends to work with women who might be retired or mothers or have had a strong motherhood journey. And for both, for all, really for all women, we've talked about the seasons of womanhood, the cycles that we go through.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (36:47.441)
Yeah.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (36:59.252)
This is intended for you to actually step into your transitions powerfully and to have some support. That's what I feel this is. It's like medicine women's support for you to, even if you're like, you really scared or you really, you just can't take something anymore, or you know that you need to change out of corporate or something like that.

This is not in any context where it's like just for mothers or just for corporate women or whatever. It is for women. And the stories that we will bring to you are meant to strengthen you. They will bring up the, the, just like the relief of like, you know, somebody understands and then you can let go. And just like my grandmother says, you have that cup of tea, you have a little conversation and

Everything will be all right. That's, that's what we're about.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (37:57.009)
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, you know, there's, there is a lot of the content within, particularly if I think about the women who run with wolves, that is for every woman. But I feel like what we're doing here is really speaking to women who've been through a few decades of highs and lows. It's not going to be a conversation so much for women, possibly in their twenties and thirties, but you know, heading more into mid forties and beyond that have been.

on journeys long enough that you've collected enough wisdom that you start to really feel the truth in these stories. And it takes life experience in order to have the reflections needed. But then once we have a deeper understanding of it and can relay it through the stories in our own lives, then it becomes wisdom that we can share with the coming generations of younger girls so that they

can bypass some of the harder bits that we've had to do.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (38:59.892)
Yeah. So.

Edwina Murphy-Droomer (39:01.297)
All right, beautiful souls, that is gonna be it from us. There is a standalone recording that you will find of Vasilisa so that if you don't have to go digging for it in other episodes, I'm gonna record that for you and you can listen to that time and again. And as we go through, as Anara and I go through the different, the nine tasks of initiating the intuition.

You can come back and forth and perhaps even re -listen to the story of Basilisa as you deepen your understanding of this work. So that will be there for you as well. But in the meantime, that is it from us. This episode, once again, welcome and thank you so much for being with us. If you feel like this episode is going to support a friend, a sister, an aunt, a mother.

anybody, any of the women in your life, I hope that you will take a moment to share it with them and to invite them into the conversation. Because I feel like when you can take these conversations out of just listening to it by yourself and start to have use them as a form of connection with other women in your lives, it just makes it the whole experience that much richer. So please feel free to share it with those.

that would enjoy it.

Inarra  Aryane Griffyn (40:26.388)
Yeah, and for now, until another time, it's over and out from us.