Priestess Initiations: The Goddess Coven | Somatic Psychology, Jungian Goddess Archetypes, and Spiritual Education
Priestess Initiations: The Goddess Coven explores goddess archetypes, spiritual growth, shadow work, and somatic psychology through a lens of depth and embodiment. Hosted by Casey Dunne—Priestess of Isis and Lilith & Somatic Psychotherapist, MA in Body Psychotherapy with Jungian training—this podcast bridges teaching psychology frameworks with divine feminine goddess wisdom. Whether you’re exploring astrology through archetypes, Human Design, Akashic Records, tarot and divination, or sacred geometry—or ready to go deeper into embodied shadow work—this is where spiritual curiosity meets grounded transformation. This isn't therapy. It's spiritual education and embodied shadow work for empowered women, witches, healers, and initiates walking the path of transformation through descent, integration, and reclaiming holistic wellbeing. Because the path to collective healing begins with our own descent into wholeness.
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Priestess Initiations: The Goddess Coven | Somatic Psychology, Jungian Goddess Archetypes, and Spiritual Education
#13 What the Body Remembers | Chronic Illness, Trauma & Movement as Medicine
Season 1, Episode 13: What the Body Remembers | Chronic Illness, Trauma & Movement as Medicine
Your body remembers everything—every trauma, every initiation, every unprocessed emotion. It stores these in your tissues, your nervous system, your cells. And it's been trying to tell you something.
In this episode, Casey explores the science of somatics and what happens when we actually listen to what the body knows:
- How implicit memory stores trauma in tissues, muscles, fascia, and the nervous system
- Psychoneuroimmunology: the connection between chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and immune system breakdown
- Intergenerational trauma carried through DNA and epigenetics
- Casey's journey with chronic illness from childhood: migraines at age 8, fibromyalgia at 13, hypothyroidism, PCOS, endometriosis
- Pain Reprocessing Therapy and neuroplastic pain—how the brain can unlearn chronic pain
- Why the body sometimes holds weight as protection, not failure
- Holistic healing: plant medicine, energy work, nervous system regulation, rest as medicine
- Movement as prayer: ecstatic dance, walking in nature, play in community
- What Casey's hands taught her after the fall: resilience, receiving, and the wisdom of scars
This isn't a "I healed myself through positive thinking" story. This is an "I learned to listen to my body and give it what it actually needs" story.
Includes a somatic practice for having a conversation with your body.
Mini astrology report: New Moon in Capricorn (Sunday) asks what structures—including how you inhabit your body—need to be rebuilt. Venus moves into Aquarius (Saturday), inviting unconventional approaches to embodiment and beauty.
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Intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne: [Spotify link]
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