Rooted In Light

What does it mean to work with plant medicines as actual medicine - not spiritual bypassing, not escape, but deep healing work? In this episode, I sit down with medicine woman Haley Lamberth to talk about Iboga, Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, and Kambo - powerful medicines used for addiction recovery, trauma healing, and profound transformation.Haley shares how her path as an endurance athlete prepared her for the physical and spiritual ordeal of ceremony, why she's drawn to medicines that "hit like a truck," and what it looks like to hold space with reverence for lineage, earth, and ancestors. We explore the masculine and feminine qualities of different medicines - Ibogaine's unbending sternness versus Ayahuasca's nurturing presence - and why honoring both energies matters in healing work.This conversation gets real about the discomfort of transformation, the importance of sustainability in medicine work, and how childhood connections to rocks and trees can become a lifelong path of communion with the sacred. Drawing from her mixed heritage including Ojibwa roots, Haley speaks about why honoring the earth isn't just practice for her - it's obvious, foundational.If you've ever been curious about plant medicine or wondered how the divine feminine and masculine show up in ceremony, this episode is for you.For links and resources, please visit: https://www.tuesdayrivera.com/podcast.html

What if the systems change work we've been doing has been missing something essential? What if the sacred feminine isn't just related to systems thinking - what if it is the same work, calling us by different names?In this conversation, Tuesday sits down with educator and systems change leader, Daniela Papi-Thornton, to explore the territory where strategic thinking meets spiritual wisdom. Daniela has taught at institutions like Yale and Oxford, but she's done hiding the sacred dimensions of transformation work - and in this episode, she shares what happened when she stopped contorting herself to fit into conventional professional spaces.

What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't actually lack of safety - but your refusal to feel safe? In this solo episode, Tuesday gets real about how chronic unsafety has become a habit, a badge of honor, a defense mechanism against our own transformation. She explores the three doorways where risking safety changes everything: when you begin something new, when you claim what's already true, and when you allow necessary endings. This isn't about denying real danger or bypassing actual threats - it's about choosing internal sovereignty even in the midst of precariousness. If you've been waiting to feel safe before you start, before you claim your truth, before you let go - this episode will challenge you: What becomes possible when you risk feeling safe right now?For links and resources, please visit: https://www.tuesdayrivera.com/podcast.html

You already have spiritual authority - you just need to stop apologizing for it. In this solo episode, Tuesday gets real about what blocks us from claiming our gifts and why women's stories hold the key to our liberation. Through the story of Leaping Deer, Tuesday reveals how spiritual authority isn't something you earn through perfection - it's something you claim through courage. This episode cuts through the seeking, the qualifying, the waiting for permission. Your spiritual gifts are needed now. If you've been hiding your truth, dimming your knowing, or waiting to be "ready enough" - this is your invitation to leap. Your communion with the sacred serves everyone. Don't hold back.For links and resources, please visit: https://www.tuesdayrivera.com/podcast.html

Sommer Sibilly-Brown knows what it means to choose ancient wisdom over cultural conditioning. In this episode of Rooted in Light, we explore how unlearning becomes a sacred practice - and why trusting spirit over society rewrites the rules you live by.Sommer shares her journey into Ifá tradition, the power of divination with the Orishas, and what happens when you stop apologizing for your spiritual truth. She opens up about being led into practices she didn't understand, requiring profound trust and spiritual courage to follow where spirit was guiding.If you're ready to claim sacred traditions that call to your soul - regardless of what society says you're "allowed" to practice - this conversation will remind you: your communion with the sacred serves everyone. Don't hold back.

In this episode of Rooted in Light, Tuesday and G. Christo dive deep into the psyche of the Conscious Devouring Mother, unpacking the raw power of women’s rage and the role it plays in healing. They explore the magic of visualization as a tool for transformation, while confronting the shadows of intergenerational trauma. From fierce to nurturing, the conversation flows through the duality of goddess energies—embodied by Sekhmet and Hathor—and how they show up in motherhood and self-reclamation. For links and resources, please visit: https://www.tuesdayrivera.com/podcast.html