Blood Moon Radio

Somatic practitioner, psychedelic guide, and witch Leslie Draffin joins Coraley for a deeply grounded conversation on self-sovereignty, embodiment, and what it means to live in right relationship—with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.In this episode of Blood Moon Radio, we explore the connection between body awareness and healing, the role of the nervous system in reclaiming your voice, and how personal transformation intersects with the current social and political climate. Speaking from Texas, Leslie shares her perspective on what it means to stay present, aware, and engaged during times of uncertainty.This conversation moves through somatic healing, trauma, advocacy, animism, and the belief that nothing is separate—that awareness itself can be a form of medicine.If you’ve been feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsure where your voice fits in, this episode offers a grounded and expansive place to begin again.Topics include:Somatic healing and nervous system regulationSelf-sovereignty and embodimentPsychedelic integration and personal transformationReclaiming your voice and advocacyLiving in right relationship (animism & interconnectedness)Navigating uncertainty and staying presentWays to stay informed or support:Follow creators sharing firsthand experiences and consider supporting organizations doing human rights and equity work, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee. As always, do your own research and choose what aligns for you.

In this episode, host Coraley sits down with Daniel Anderson, a somatic spiritual guide whose work focuses on self-acceptance and striving to make life an experience that is lived, rather than endured. The conversation touches on shadow work, the politics of spirituality and religion, dark nights of the soul, the power of forgiveness and the transformations that happen when we face challenges, experiences and ourselves head-on, rather than circumventing. The conversation wanders through different topics, but the underlying message is the same. Trusting yourself is the key.

Coraley sits down with Blood Moon Radio special guest, Lucy Baldwin to talk about planetary magic, existential kink, shadow work and baneful magic. Lucy is host of Penetrate Radio, a planetary magic practitioner and previous Mystery School Priestess.This 40 minute episode delves into topics like: embodied magic, planetary archetypes, Jungian philosophy, ethical practice and the value of devotion to a greater entity. Want more of Lucy? Join her free Inner Circle membership at www.remolinacoaching.com

In part 2 of Unapologetic Alchemy, Mirey, Avery, and host Coraley, continue to dissect what it means to be called "too much" as a woman. The conversation delves into ways patriarchal and capitalist systems damage both genders, spirituality in modern life, different ways of being, including living with ADHD and whether women called "too much" would be considered too much as a man. The heaviness of the subject is balanced with lighthearted humour, hope and reflection on how far we have come.

In episode one of this two part series, Coraley sits down with Mirey Faema, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and Avery Hubert, University Instructor, to deconstruct the concept of the "too much" woman. How does the messaging of being too much show up in society, professional environments and in interpersonal relationships? This episode delves into some big topics: feminism, harm done by patriarchal systems, privilege, micro-aggressions and the shifting expectations of gender norms - but the undercurrent of the conversation remains the same - perspective shapes how we interact with the world. And perspective has the power to transmute our lived experience and how we show up for others.

Episode two of our three-part mini-series on Canadian witchcraft examines what shaped witchcraft in the aftermath of the witch trials of New France. Rather than disappear, witchcraft went domestic, as it did in other countries where the old ways were forced to hide in plain site. Over time, as attitudes toward non-christian ways of thinking softened, the craft began to weave itself into the mainstream again, with some distinctly Canadian practices, such as Odyssian Wicca, emerging. Canada is also the home of the first Canadian church of witchcraft, The Wiccan Church of Canada, which helped to further push pagan practices out of the realm of hidden familial or cultural belief into accepted, publicly digestible, spiritual systems.

In this special storytelling episode of Blood Moon Radio, we visit the fictional village of Frostmere, where the task of keeping an ancient, magical, lantern alight falls unexpectedly to Mara.

In the sleepy stretch of the season, we enter The Lull Between — a soft pause, a breath, a moment to gather what the first half of the journey has offered. This mid-season recap is part reflection, part grounding, and part reminder that slowing down is also a kind of magic.If you’re moving through your own quiet season, you’ll find something here: clarity, conversation, and a little witch-lit warmth to carry you forward.