This week Jenny sits down with Vanessa Bennett, LMFT, a licensed depth psychotherapist, author, and facilitator known for her no-nonsense yet compassionate approach to healing. Coauthor of It’s Not Me, It’s You and author of The Motherhood Myth, Vanessa brings her grounding in Jungian and depth-oriented psychology to conversations that help us break patterns and return to our truest selves.

Together, Jenny and Vanessa explore the myths of motherhood and the spiritual journey of embracing all parts of oneself. They speak to the tender balance between creativity and parenting, the courage to let go of perfection, and the grief that naturally weaves itself into the experience of motherhood. The conversation honors both the light and the shadow, revealing how joy and grief are always interconnected.

They also reflect on how societal systems perpetuate shame and disconnection, and how community and conscious dialogue can help dismantle those patterns. This exchange is an invitation to embrace imperfection, find agency in relationships, and continually return home to the self as a lifelong practice.

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I don’t always know what I want.

And maybe that’s okay.

Mothering my children, tending to a thousand unseen corners of life.

And yes—I’m guilty too. I’ve told mothers to “self care.”

Always from a loving intention…

But I know it doesn’t always land that way.

Because telling an overwhelmed mother who doesn’t even know what she needs to “just self care”?

That isn’t care. That’s another quiet demand dressed up as help.

In a world that pulls us in every direction,

it’s so easy to lose ourselves.

So easy to reach for something, doom scrolling, coffee, wine, a new dress

because when we feel consumed by all of life’s demands,

our nervous system will reach for the next best thing,

even if it doesn’t truly serve us in the long run.

Every teacher I’ve had on this path of motherhood has offered me the same powerful truth:

We must be with what is, not with what we wish was happening.

Because being present to what is gives us the most honest, grounded information

about where and how we can choose to grow.

Yes, sometimes loving and lighting our way through can soothe us in the moment.

But if we’re always bypassing what aches at the root,

it stops being medicine and becomes avoidance.

It’s like trying to grow a garden by pouring on more water and light, then blaming the flower when it doesn’t bloom, without ever tending to the soil beneath it.

So to every touched-out mama right now:

You don’t need to know what you want in this moment.

You don’t need to perfect your way through motherhood, shed the weight, or shame yourself for reaching for that drink.

Maybe the gentlest thing you can do right now is simply notice:

“How is this in service to the garden of my heart?”

Because true growth isn’t found in the rush to fix or perfect.

It lives in the brave, quiet choice to be here with what is—breath by breath.

Each inhale, each exhale, another brushstroke on the living canvas of your life.

And when we truly see what’s here, without wishing it away, we remember what it is to be beautifully, tenderly, messily human.

If these words stirred something in you, come find me on Instagram where I share the imperfect, sacred rhythm of this human path.

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What if the questions you’ve been quietly asking… were already being answered?

In this episode of Ritual of Wild, Jenny Jimeno shares a heartfelt conversation with Neale Donald Walsch — modern-day spiritual messenger and bestselling author of the Conversations with God series. What was meant to be a discussion about his book Home with God unfolded into something even more alive: a dialogue about faith, listening, and the sacredness of being human.

Neale’s work has touched millions and redefined how people experience their relationship with the divine. With over 40 books translated into 37 languages, his writing continues to inspire deep reflection and meaningful change.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen in, and reconnect with what truly matters — however that speaks to you.

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Neale Donald Walsch

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The Essential Path: Making the Daring Decision to Be Who You Truly Are

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What if the way you entered the world shaped your entire life?

In this deeply moving conversation, Jenny Jimeno sits down with Jane Hardwicke Collings—grandmother, former homebirth midwife, educator, and founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft—to explore the profound threads that connect our birth, our cycles, and our sense of self as women.

With over 30 years of experience attending births and guiding women through the sacred transitions of menstruation, childbirth, and menopause, Jane shares how our birth imprint influences the way we move through the world—and why reclaiming these rites of passage is a key to healing.

Together, they explore menarche—a girl’s first bleed—as a sacred initiation that shapes her relationship to her body and power. They reflect on how our menstrual cycles mirror the seasons of nature, offering a path to live in deeper alignment with ourselves. And they speak to the importance of honouring the postpartum window as a portal of integration and deep inner knowing.

Jane invites us to release menstrual shame, reconnect with ancestral wisdom, and embrace aging as a return to grace and embodied wisdom. Through tools like cycle charting and mother-daughter preparation work, she encourages us to remember what we already know—that there is power in our blood, our birth stories, and our becoming.

This episode is a call to restore reverence to the sacred passages of a woman’s life—and to change the narrative for the generations to come.

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This week, Jenny sits down with Lenka Lutonska for a soulful conversation about what it really means to succeed as a woman in business. They dive into the idea that the old way of doing things—built on hustle, grind, and outdated masculine energy—just isn’t cutting it anymore. Instead, they explore how aligning with our desires, trusting the journey, and honoring both our ambition and our heart can lead to something much more fulfilling.

Lenka shares her personal path from immigrant to entrepreneur, the lessons she learned from navigating toxic mentorship, and how embracing presence, rest, and spirituality helped her build a business that truly reflects who she is. Together, Jenny and Lenka talk about the real juggle of motherhood and entrepreneurship, why asking for help is a strength, and how being fully present—whether with your kids or your work—can change everything. This conversation is a beautiful reminder that our desires are sacred, our past selves deserve to be honored, and slowing down might just be our greatest superpower.

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Book : Energetic Selling and Marketing: A New Way To Create Extraordinary Growth In Your Business

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In this heartfelt and unscripted episode of Ritual of Wild, Jenny sits down with her partner, Sean Nolan, for a deeply personal and expansive conversation. With no set agenda, they allow the guidance of an oracle card to shape their dialogue—inviting whatever wanted to arise in the space between them.

What unfolds is a tender exploration of love, partnership, parenting, growth, and the sacred messiness of doing life together. Sean shares from his path of supporting men in stepping beyond outdated roles and into their sovereign, emotionally expressed selves—while Jenny reflects on what it means to create, evolve, and stay present within a family system built on consciousness and care.

This episode is a beautiful invitation to witness love in motion, to find reflections of your own journey, and to remember that even in the unpolished moments, something holy is being formed.

Tune in for a raw, real, and heart-centered conversation that honors the wild unfolding of life.

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This week Jenny is sitting down with the incredible Peter Crone to explore what it means to live from the heart, even in the face of grief, uncertainty, and change. Peter Crone is a thought leader in human potential, known for helping people break free from the subconscious beliefs that limit their health, relationships, and performance. Working with everyone from elite athletes to everyday seekers, Peter’s work is rooted in the understanding that true freedom begins in the mind. As a transformational coach, speaker, writer, and Ayurvedic practitioner, he invites us into a deeper recognition of our shared humanity—and the possibility of living from a place of peace, wholeness, and authenticity.

In this conversation Peter opens up about losing both of his parents and how that experience became a gateway to deeper compassion, presence, and understanding. Together, they reflect on the relationship between grief and gratitude, and how vulnerability can become a powerful expression of love. They dive into the nature of manifestation and abundance, the difference between the illusory self and true desire, and the importance of community and emotional honesty on the path of self-discovery. Peter reminds us that life isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering who we already are. This is a conversation for anyone ready to soften, to feel more deeply, and to trust in the wisdom already living within them.

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In this conversation, Jenny Jimeno and David Bedrick explore the deep relationship between emotion, identity, and healing—where the body speaks, the heart remembers, and healing becomes a path of coming home to ourselves. David Bedrick is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies and creator of the UnShaming process. With over 30 years of experience in psychological healing, he’s helped thousands of people around the world free themselves from shame and reconnect with their wholeness. David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change. His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption.

Together, Jenny and David reflect on how pain and chronic symptoms are not just problems to be solved, but messages carrying emotional truth. Rather than rushing to relieve discomfort, David invites us to slow down, listen, and unearth the deeper meaning behind our struggles. They speak to the way Western psychology often separates mind from body, creating a gap that many of us feel but can’t name. Through grief, not knowing, and emotional connection, we begin to mend that divide and return to something more whole. Healing becomes less about fixing and more about feeling—about honoring the unseen parts of ourselves and recognizing the intelligence in our pain.

David offers a different lens on addiction, mental health, and chronic pain—framing them not as individual failings, but as reflections of collective disconnection and cultural pressure. When we unlearn what we’ve been conditioned to believe and allow ourselves to feel fully, a quiet transformation begins. Intimacy deepens, self-understanding expands, and the distance between us begins to close. This conversation is an invitation to return—to our bodies, to our truths, and to a sense of belonging that can only be found through presence, compassion, and courageous inquiry.

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