Hello everybody.
Speaker AWelcome back to another episode Today with us I today we have with us a actually very special guest.
Speaker AHer name is Fairy Kelly.
Speaker AThat's what she goes by.
Speaker AAnd I absolutely love that.
Speaker AShe is a mystic bridge between world's birth worker, flame keeper and founder of the Wild Way Apotha Ferry in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Speaker AShe's a two time international best selling author and a co creatrix of the revered fairy hair artistry that has swept the world.
Speaker AShe spent over 20 years guiding women through birth embodiment, ritual, beau, beauty and soul sparkle.
Speaker AWelcome Kelly.
Speaker BHi Tammy.
Speaker BThank you so much.
Speaker ASo doesn't that sound fun?
Speaker AWhen somebody else reads your bio, you're like, wow, wow.
Speaker ATouch me, right?
Speaker ASo I'm just going to jump right in, but I'm going to let you explain, explain some of this stuff because the listeners out there, you've probably never heard of some of these terms like world's birth worker or flame keeper.
Speaker ASo tell us a little bit about you, how you got started in your work and what lights you up, girl.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BSo we only have a small window of time and there I, I'm a palette like so many of us are.
Speaker BAnd I really, I feel like my work began at birth.
Speaker BLike seriously, you know, it just had shape shifted so much through my life from starting from being abandoned in a very traumatic way and then adopted within the family, but kind of passed around within toddler years and then finally landing in New Jersey around the age of three and a half.
Speaker BSo like the, the nervous system was totally haywired at that time, you know, and I can only go off of what a lot of people tell me and then, you know, my own inner reality.
Speaker BBut nobody could, they, they couldn't understand my speaking.
Speaker BI didn't really know how to eat correctly.
Speaker BThere were all of these things that they had to put me into therapy for like as soon as they got me.
Speaker BAnd so really the, the work that I have created and manifested and brought into the world is as a direct result of all of this work that my body, being soul mind has had to go through since this incantation has happened.
Speaker BBecause then once those people got me, you know, the trauma didn't end, right?
Speaker BAnd more trauma ensued.
Speaker BAnd so that unfolded itself in a whole different kind of a package during my teens and my 20s.
Speaker BAnd so I would say probably the birth of my first child, Kaya is what propelled me because I just, you know, your mom, you look back at those little blue eyes and everything changes.
Speaker BSo that sent me along the path of birth.
Speaker AWork.
Speaker BIt sent me along the path of my own inner healing.
Speaker BBecause you can't do birth work without having a very, very clear mirror in front of your face to all of your own woundings.
Speaker BYou can't show up in service without having to look at those patterns.
Speaker BSo that's all developed because every single time I went out into the world and saw anything, it was to heal myself.
Speaker BAnd it was, how can I understand more?
Speaker BHow can I understand better?
Speaker BAnd then how can I repair?
Speaker BAnd what are the different ways that I could do that within my own capabilities, you know, not looking outside of myself.
Speaker BSo now I have this beautiful life, and I'm almost 46, which is, like, right over that.
Speaker BThat, like, you know, that damn midlife hump everybody talks about.
Speaker BAnd it's so true.
Speaker BIt is so transformational.
Speaker BBut I'm getting to enjoy this view now, you know?
Speaker APerfect.
Speaker ASo talk about the.
Speaker ASome of the things that you did.
Speaker ALike, you talk about finding it in yourself.
Speaker AAnd I always tell people that you can't.
Speaker AYou got to stop looking to the outside.
Speaker AYou got to stop looking for people, other people to make you happy, other things to make you happy.
Speaker AAnd you have to find that true happiness.
Speaker AAnd like you said, soul search and figure it out yourself.
Speaker ABut what are some things within your capabilities?
Speaker ADid you do.
Speaker ADid you do yoga?
Speaker ADid you journal?
Speaker ALike, what are some things that helped you really pull some of this stuff out and heal it?
Speaker BI knew you were gonna ask that.
Speaker BI was thinking about it this morning, so I was like, you know, that one's gonna come.
Speaker BSo from everything
Speaker Ato.
Speaker BI think it all started with I questioned everyone and everything around me.
Speaker BI never trusted anyone.
Speaker BThe only person that I really had to trust was myself.
Speaker BSo no matter what came at me, I was always having to put it through a different kind of internal filter because I didn't have a mother ring.
Speaker BLike, I. I didn't have that kind of mother ring that also teaches you how to take care of yourself.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BSo it began with the questioning, which with children, always starts with food and then your clothing and then what you're like, literally what you're consuming.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BSo right from the beginning, I was like, why are we eating this?
Speaker BI'm gonna look into this.
Speaker BAnd then I'd look into it and be like, so do you know?
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd it was like, I kind of felt for a long time that, like, I had to save everyone because I was, quote, unquote saved.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BSo I looked around me, and it was like, what.
Speaker BWhat is causing so Much suffering and how can I fix it?
Speaker BAnd so, like, looking at myself and how can I fix it?
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BAnd then that always starts with what you're put of you.
Speaker BSo it always started with food, and then it was like, what I was doing with my body.
Speaker BAnd then I was able to recognize the patterns of some of my family members and the feast or famine or the diets and how I didn't want to live that way, you know?
Speaker BAnd when I went to college, I discovered Rachel Ray, and I taught myself how to cook because my father was the cook, and he was amazing, but he didn't get to cook a lot, you know, so we got more like mashed potatoes from a box and like, canned things and.
Speaker BBut grateful for it.
Speaker BBut I didn't know fresh food.
Speaker BAnd so she was talking about fresh herbs, and I was shocked.
Speaker BI was like, what do you mean, they come fresh?
Speaker BWhat is this?
Speaker BWe had the same spices in our kitchen since my parents have gotten married, and they got married when they were 17 and 20 something.
Speaker BSo, like, really old spices, you know?
Speaker BSo it blew my mind away.
Speaker BAnd then I just started to cook more, and then I started to feel better, and then I started to move more.
Speaker BI could not wait until I could remove myself from where I was planted.
Speaker BAnd the moment that I was going to be able to do that in a safe capacity with the people who were my guardians, I. I took the reins and I was out as soon as I could be.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker AHow old were you?
Speaker BEighteen.
Speaker AEighteen, okay.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker BAnd then from that moment on, it was like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker BI. I never.
Speaker BThere were.
Speaker BThere may have been moments in crisis that I needed to come home, but I was always forging, I was always challenging.
Speaker BI was never accepting of complacency.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BOf what society's roles said.
Speaker BAnd, you know, I've gone through so many different realms of therapy, and right now, EMDR is like my godsend.
Speaker BAnd like, my therapist says, she's like, you are so much fun to work with because you've done so much that it's clicking so fast, you know, like, sometimes it's like.
Speaker BIt's like rewiring is happening before I even get there, before I even have the electrodes in my hand.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd for anybody listening, my goodness, if you are stuck in a pattern, if you are stuck and you know, you know better, but you can't pull yourself out of it.
Speaker BLook into emdr, specifically with the electrodes.
Speaker BI tried the, you know, virtual.
Speaker BThe eye movement.
Speaker BI'm a feeling being like, I have to do Everything somatically.
Speaker BSo I need those buzzers of in my hands.
Speaker BSo anyway, then that led to me going to college and then sewing my wild oats back where I was abandoned and repeating the patterns.
Speaker BOh, that was a fun little, like, full cycle there.
Speaker BRepeating the patterns of the people that my DNA was comfortable, you know, composed of.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BI became an addict.
Speaker BI fell into a very scary, scary world because there were always whispers that I was going to wind up just like them.
Speaker BSo to me, I figured, well, why don't.
Speaker BWhy don't we go chat out?
Speaker BLet's see if it's that bad.
Speaker AI mean.
Speaker AYeah, if everybody says you're gonna do it anyway, you might as well give it a shot.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker BExactly.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BSo I did, and it was awful.
Speaker BAnd I basically ended up finding, like, my almost version of my biological father out there, and I married him, and then I brought him back here.
Speaker BYou were at the wedding.
Speaker AI was just gonna say, I remember that wedding.
Speaker AAnd I always said, this is how I want my daughter to get married.
Speaker AI don't think you were even wearing shoes, and you had this flowy white dress, and it was like.
Speaker AIt was the most beautiful thing.
Speaker AAnd I remember I didn't really talk about it at that time because everybody, you know, it was just something different.
Speaker ABut I would tell my friends, like, my really true closest friends, I would be like, you guys don't get it.
Speaker ALike, this is how I want my daughters to be.
Speaker AThis is what I want it to be.
Speaker AI want it to just be wildflowers.
Speaker AAnd if you met my daughter, Jesse, you met her when she was itty bitty.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AYou know, but she's living in Colorado right now on six and a half acres of land, off the grid, with solar panels and a camper.
Speaker AAnd this is gonna visit.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AIt, like, you were, like, the epitome of her and.
Speaker AOr she of you or whatever.
Speaker AAnd I kind of joke all the time, but I remember that wedding.
Speaker AAnd I was like, this is so.
Speaker ALike, it was the most earthy thing I had ever done.
Speaker AAnd I was like, this is amazing.
Speaker AAnd I couldn't even.
Speaker ALike, it was you.
Speaker AWell, you know, your family, you could.
Speaker AI couldn't even say anything because I'm like, okay, this is really cool.
Speaker BBut everybody was like, what?
Speaker BIn the actual.
Speaker BYou know what?
Speaker BWe are standing out here in the rain.
Speaker BYou are barefoot.
Speaker BLike, everybody was like, put shoes on.
Speaker BAnd I'm like, I have to be connected to the earth.
Speaker BYou don't understand.
Speaker AOh, that was.
Speaker BI fought for so much for that.
Speaker AIt was great.
Speaker AIt was great.
Speaker ASo, yes, I was at your wedding with.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd, yeah, and I met, you know, I met your husband at the time and everything.
Speaker AAnd it's just.
Speaker AI mean, that is one of the cycles of life, you know, it's like you got there and.
Speaker AAnd based on what you were doing, it made absolutely 100 perfect sense.
Speaker ANow, knowing what I do and knowing all this stuff as to why you were attracted to him.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AFlat out, yep.
Speaker BAnd then I was like, oh, I might.
Speaker BI could save him.
Speaker BI can save him.
Speaker BAnd he was.
Speaker BAnd he is such a beautiful man.
Speaker BIt's just.
Speaker BThere's too much there, you know, that I can no longer take on the weight of, and I did for so long.
Speaker BAnd it was one of my biggest.
Speaker BStill is one of my biggest lessons.
Speaker BMy God, the guilt of divorce is foreign.
Speaker BIt's no fun.
Speaker BIt's no fun.
Speaker BBut, you know, that just leads to deeper layers of healing and deeper relation, ship mirroring and all of it.
Speaker BSo I'm grateful.
Speaker BAnd I have two of the most beautiful children and they're my portal babies.
Speaker BKaia was born on 111104 and Cora with a K is 111 12.
Speaker BSo that's why I call them my port babies, the Elevens.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BOh, my goodness.
Speaker BAnd, you know, just being so attracted to all of the things that I didn't have answers for, I didn't have a birth story.
Speaker BI was obsessed with, with birth.
Speaker BAfter giving birth to my first child, knowing it could be better because I was in the hospital and, like, totally aware that I wasn't being cared for the way that I needed to be cared for, but I couldn't articulate that.
Speaker BAnd then when I was done with it, I went head in and, you know, as deep as I could possibly go and served in that realm for a really long time.
Speaker BAnd it was.
Speaker BI don't even have words for it.
Speaker BIt was.
Speaker BIt was transformational, transmutational, all of the things.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AI can only imagine.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AEspecially when you don't have that birth story, like you said, and you.
Speaker AYou don't understand it.
Speaker AYou've never seen it.
Speaker ASo how many.
Speaker AHow many times did you get to watch?
Speaker AI mean, the other people go through that and just how.
Speaker AHow cool, actually.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd people used to always say to me, you know, like, oh, my gosh, it must be so amazing to see a baby be born in the world over and over and over again.
Speaker BAnd I would say, well, yeah, you know, that's.
Speaker BThat's a thought.
Speaker BBut I was never watching.
Speaker BLike, yeah, I'd glance and I'd see when we would have crowning, but what I was doing was focused on the mother.
Speaker BI was always eyes to the mother.
Speaker BAnd in a birth room, when the baby's head first pops out, it's like everything's on that baby.
Speaker BSo much is on that baby.
Speaker BSometimes people forget that there's a vessel delivering the baby, you know, and so when the baby was born, so, like, the entire room goes to that baby.
Speaker BBut I would be locked in with the mother because there's this.
Speaker BYou.
Speaker BIt's almost like a light.
Speaker BAnd it would go like.
Speaker BAnd you would see this almost like.
Speaker BLike a light nearly burst behind our eyes.
Speaker BAnd the only thing that I could describe that is.
Speaker BIs the birth of the mother.
Speaker BAnd it didn't.
Speaker BIt didn't matter if it was that mom's first, second, third, fifth, eighth, whatever it was, it happened every single time.
Speaker AThat's so cool.
Speaker AAnd I've never, ever heard that.
Speaker ASo that is super cool.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd it's.
Speaker BAnd that alone is, I think, how, or I know, how I was able to start healing that mother wound, just repairing it from the core as deep as I could go.
Speaker BAnd so I would always bring it back to the earth as well, you know?
Speaker ARight, right.
Speaker AAnd just think about that moment when that baby is taken out of that mother.
Speaker AI mean, literally, you're, like, separating that DNA.
Speaker AI mean, that's.
Speaker AI mean, energetically.
Speaker AThat's crazy anyway, to think about, so I can only imagine what's going on.
Speaker AAnd you're right.
Speaker ANobody does focus on the mom, you know, it's like, baby, baby, baby.
Speaker AI never really thought about that side of it.
Speaker AAnd that's.
Speaker AThat is beautiful, actually.
Speaker AThat's pretty cool.
Speaker BThanks.
Speaker BYeah, I didn't.
Speaker BI didn't make it up.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BIt's a thing.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BI'll.
Speaker BI'll never forget how.
Speaker BBecause I could talk about birth forever.
Speaker BIt was 2020, and I was at an ashram in New York in upstate New York, and it was New Year's Eve, so it was before the world stopped.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BAnd I thought I was gonna lose my mind because it was like my third or it was my second holiday season as a fairy doing fairy work, which I'll eventually get to.
Speaker BAnd I didn't stop working for ever.
Speaker BI didn't have a.
Speaker BDays off, nothing.
Speaker BAnd it was just go, go, go.
Speaker BAnd I knew if I didn't retreat somewhere that.
Speaker AThat
Speaker BI didn't know.
Speaker BI just.
Speaker BI wasn't taking care of myself, right?
Speaker BSo I arranged to go to this ashram in upstate New York, literally leaving an event the day before New Year's Eve, the 30th, and it was snowing, and I had a Prius, and I was in Allentown doing fairy hair until 10 o' clock at night.
Speaker BAnd I somehow got there.
Speaker BWhen I got there, the monks were like, how did you get here?
Speaker BAnd I'm like, angels, act out angels, you know?
Speaker BAnd a woman who was there, who actually ended up inviting me was a woman that I was a doula for.
Speaker BAnd she had this victorious V back.
Speaker BIt was just epic, just epic.
Speaker BAnd we became really good friends and we.
Speaker BShe invites me to this ashram because I had shared with her the state in which my spirit was in my body and so curious about Ayurveda.
Speaker BAnd I had only dabbled in it in myself, never professionally.
Speaker BI said yes.
Speaker BAnd so I was already arriving late by like a day or two.
Speaker BAnd we get there and it was the most beautiful experience I had ever had.
Speaker BAnd it was moments before the 2020 bell struck.
Speaker BAnd we were in our little room and we had just left.
Speaker BThere were like major beautiful spiritual leaders from all over the world just jamming whatever instrument that they actually, like, play.
Speaker BAnd it was like transcendent.
Speaker BThat's the only word for it.
Speaker BAnd we had to go back to our room for something.
Speaker BAnd it was as if we went into a channeled place and she was having an experience that I had to hold her through and almost doula her through.
Speaker BAnd I heard a whisper in my ear, and it was source.
Speaker BAnd it said, you are no longer meant to.
Speaker BTo help birth the babies, you must help birth the women to themselves.
Speaker BAnd in the moment that was happening with that woman, it was similar.
Speaker BThat's what she was having a moment of, right?
Speaker BAnd so I understood that the shift was occurring, and it was hard to put down the dueling, but I understood that I was being called to something a little bit bigger.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker ASo talk about.
Speaker AYeah, something different.
Speaker AI mean, and when you're called, you're called.
Speaker AYou don't.
Speaker AYou don't deny that.
Speaker AYou don't ignore that.
Speaker AI mean, it is what it is.
Speaker AYou know what I mean?
Speaker ASo talk about what you do now.
Speaker AWhat does that look like?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo another thing that changed for me very big and deeply in 2020, because we all have that chapter.
Speaker BWe all have that incineration, right?
Speaker BThat big shift, whether it came before or after, during.
Speaker BSo I speak about it in Believe beyond, and I Could no longer operate through serving.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BSo my MO had turned into my worthiness is a contract, is contractual as long as I am showing up to serve whoever is in front of me, Right.
Speaker BWhatever I am in relationship with.
Speaker BAnd I couldn't do that anymore.
Speaker BI literally couldn't go to birth.
Speaker BI couldn't touch people.
Speaker BI was doing massage therapy for over 20 years, energy therapy, fairy hair.
Speaker BLike, I wasn't allowed to do anything outside of.
Speaker BTake care of me and my kids, you know.
Speaker BAnd so that is when I found fire, and that is when I found silk.
Speaker BAnd so someday I'll be able to tell all the nuances of the story because it's so beautiful and serendipitous.
Speaker BBut one day I. I will.
Speaker BAnd basically found this wild troop of women, and I followed them and became initiated into being a flame keeper, which is basically bringing you into the lost element of fire and holding it and understanding what it is.
Speaker BBecause we're elemental beings.
Speaker BYou know, meditation is the mind, yoga is the body and the mind.
Speaker BThey say, you know, then there's this spirit and then there's all of these things.
Speaker BBut we very rarely work with fire.
Speaker BWe're taught to fear it from the very beginning.
Speaker BAnd I also had suffered a.
Speaker BAlmost fourth degree.
Speaker BIt was like deeper than third degree burn by falling into a fire pit.
Speaker AI was just gonna say you've got a pretty tight connection with fire, because I remember when you were in the hospital from that.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AI remember them talking about your bandage changing.
Speaker AAnd I was like, oh, bless her heart.
Speaker ABless her heart.
Speaker AI can imagine.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AOh, my God, I remember that.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AI said that to someone the other day.
Speaker ALike, I was talking to whether it was Greg or whether it was somebody.
Speaker AAnd I was like, you don't remember that story?
Speaker AAnd they're like, no.
Speaker AI'm like, how could you forget that?
Speaker ALike, that was horrible.
Speaker BOh, thanks, Tammy.
Speaker AI remember it.
Speaker AI was like, I think about it all the time.
Speaker ALike, the long hair you had, like, really long.
Speaker AI don't know how long your hair is now, but your hair was really long, like down to your butt, right?
Speaker AIt was, yeah, yeah, it was super, super long.
Speaker AAnd I remember thinking, oh, my God, that saved her life.
Speaker ABecause I don't know.
Speaker AI don't remember the whole details of it, but anyway, I do remember.
Speaker AI know when you just said that, when I read that, it was funny, the Flame Keeper, I was like, okay, there's the water, you know, and that's a big thing.
Speaker AAnd there's fire.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, there's got to be a reason somehow be reconnected without having a fear of the fire.
Speaker AThat.
Speaker BYeah, exactly.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd then I wasn't trusted with fire.
Speaker BAnd we lived in a 600 year old house that had three fireplaces, like it was our main source of heat.
Speaker BAnd then we would have fire pits outside almost every single day because we lived in the woods.
Speaker BSo then, not being trusted with it, I was being told I couldn't trust myself.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BYou know, and I was like, something's wrong.
Speaker BLike, this is not right.
Speaker BI don't like the way this is sitting.
Speaker BAnd I had always been drawn to people.
Speaker BLike at festivals when I would see them with fire, I would just like leave whoever.
Speaker BI was like a magnet, you know, Even though I had been burned, even though I went through the excruciating pain of nerves having to like rebuild themselves and I couldn't shower for almost 12 weeks, I wasn't allowed to change my own bandages.
Speaker BI couldn't work.
Speaker BLike, there were so many things.
Speaker BBut when I was finally able to have separation from my husband because, you know, he was the one who was fearful that something could happen again, that's when source just kind of dropped Kiki and Gia in my lap.
Speaker BAnd they were absolutely enchanting.
Speaker BAnd they were putting on a retreat in Costa Rica.
Speaker BAnd I was like, I'm coming.
Speaker BAnd then she's like, who are you?
Speaker BI've never even heard of you.
Speaker BAnd I'm like, this is who I am.
Speaker BAnd she's like, okay, well, how about we have a retreat in Chicago, in Illinois before we do the Costa Rica one?
Speaker BHow about you come try that out before you go international, Right?
Speaker BSo I did.
Speaker BAnd there's a whole nother branch to the story because the day that I reached out to her and said, I have to do this, I'm signing up.
Speaker BThe very next day I met my now partner and.
Speaker BAnd that partner was doing fire in my town, spinning fire, what I just signed up for.
Speaker BAnd this is a tiny ass town.
Speaker BDo you know it?
Speaker BFrench town.
Speaker BAnd like, yeah, it's like a dot.
Speaker BSo I was like, what is.
Speaker BI want to meet somebody with fire.
Speaker BHow do I not know this?
Speaker BYou know?
Speaker BAnd then boom, it was.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BBut that's always been the way for me.
Speaker BAnd I think that that is.
Speaker BThat is why I keep showing up even after my, like, quietude, my.
Speaker BMy sabbaticals, because I feel like I've had a little bit of a sabbatical from serving in the ways that most people are used to.
Speaker BMe showing up in.
Speaker BBut then I have to show up again, right?
Speaker BAnd it's like, we have to do this because people look in and they say, how are you living this magical life that you created on your own accord?
Speaker BAnd I'm saying, because it's all the little choices of choosing your heart's desire.
Speaker BAnd if you don't know what your heart's desire is, babe, then freaking tune in and figure it out.
Speaker BAnd if you don't know how to tune in, then you start.
Speaker BStart with your body and your breath and you start with the sun.
Speaker BLike, what are the most basic freaking things?
Speaker BAnd you start there, and then it works outward.
Speaker BIt can't go from here.
Speaker BHere, you know, And.
Speaker BAnd that's probably the gift of being motherless, you know, is that I had to be my mother, so I had to follow what felt good, not what
Speaker Awas taught what was told to you.
Speaker AYes, absolutely.
Speaker AI love it.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BThat was a big, like.
Speaker ALike mic drop.
Speaker ABam.
Speaker AOh, that's great.
Speaker AThat's great.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo now I dance with fire.
Speaker BMy partner is literally like a master.
Speaker BHe's been doing it for 25 years.
Speaker BBut my son, stubborn ways and my old ways.
Speaker BBecause here's a little.
Speaker BI don't know if we're allowed to do this, but there's a book called the Queen's Code by Alison Armstrong.
Speaker BLiterally, game changer.
Speaker BCompletely and utterly rewired me in understanding men.
Speaker BI laid down my sword.
Speaker BI am no longer emasculating them.
Speaker BI am no longer on the I hate men team.
Speaker BAnd that's huge coming from me.
Speaker BI've endured a lot of different kinds of traumas from men that I both trusted and didn't know and did know in my life.
Speaker BSo, you know, I was really comfortable being like a Lilith Fair freaking feminist, Hardcore all the way.
Speaker BLet's burn them down.
Speaker BWe don't need any of them for a really long time.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BAnd that my.
Speaker BMy relationship that I'm in right now and that book, it has.
Speaker BWhat has completely and utterly changed the game for me.
Speaker BSo I keep telling every woman that I possibly know.
Speaker AWill.
Speaker BWill.
Speaker BWill say, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker BBecause it's.
Speaker BIt's beyond.
Speaker BSo get that.
Speaker BAnd where did I go?
Speaker BI. I veered.
Speaker AOh, you're fine.
Speaker AYou're fine.
Speaker AYou were.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AI don't know how that came up.
Speaker BI know, right?
Speaker BBecause I was talking about men, my relationship.
Speaker BOh, right.
Speaker BSo Johnny.
Speaker BSo he.
Speaker BOf course we weren't going to this retreat.
Speaker BI wasn't going to this retreat in Illinois for Quite some time.
Speaker BAnd he want.
Speaker BHe was.
Speaker BHe was like, oh, you want to do this?
Speaker BHere, look, let me put in your hands.
Speaker BAnd I was like, you're a man.
Speaker BI can't have you put it in my hands.
Speaker BAnd he's like, what?
Speaker BAnd I'm like, I cannot have you put this in my hands.
Speaker BI'm sorry.
Speaker BIt has to come from a woman.
Speaker BAnd so I waited for three months, and then we went, and then I wasn't gonna bring them, and then the last minute, I brought them, and it was transformational for everybody.
Speaker BAnd then I didn't bring him to Costa Rica.
Speaker BThen the next year, I brought my daughter, my youngest daughter, Cora, and she was 10 years old, and now she is 14.
Speaker BAnd that girl has four years under her belt.
Speaker BShe has trained with some of the world's most amazing fire dancers in St. Croix in Chicago.
Speaker BThey're her fire aunties now.
Speaker BWhen she got her period and became a woman, they all flew out here from Michigan and Chicago and Florida and fairy sisters.
Speaker BAnd we all came together to welcome our beautiful girl into the tribe.
Speaker BAnd that alone was so healing because every single woman, even my midwife, was there who caught Cora.
Speaker BOf course, my mom didn't come.
Speaker BSo it was like every single woman said, I'm here for you, but I'm also here for me, because I didn't get this right.
Speaker BAnd this is so amazing, you know, so that's like another facet to the work.
Speaker BAnd she's such a beautiful girl.
Speaker BAnd people are always asking me, you know, because I was told when I blew out the candles on my cake at my 13th birthday, the devil entered my body, and then that was it.
Speaker BAnd I was awful from that point on.
Speaker BAnd so I always held this belief, which I inadvertently did pass on to my children, that teenagers are just awful, evil, evil.
Speaker BThey're evil, they're awful, they're evil, and they should just go away.
Speaker BAnd you have to deal with it and, like, the jokes, because I, I, I have sometimes over a hundred women in my chair in a week.
Speaker BAnd we get close.
Speaker BYou know, people.
Speaker BPeople share.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd the consensus was, even with the elders, was I drank a lot.
Speaker BI drank a lot during that time.
Speaker BI'm also sober, so, you know, it's like, well, that's not gonna work for me here.
Speaker BAnd she is defying all of that, you know?
Speaker BAnd so a lot of mothers will say to me, like, sometimes they'll look at me and they'll be like, you're so lucky.
Speaker BAnd there's a little bit of of jealousy or envy or resentment in their.
Speaker BAnd I've.
Speaker BI've.
Speaker BI've had my own journey with my oldest child, and it was fractured and it was hard, and I had to learn my own ways in which I ensued trauma, right?
Speaker BAnd still growing from that now.
Speaker BBut the way that Cora is showing up in the world is because I have shared her with the world and said, help me, help me with this one, you know, because we can't do it alone.
Speaker BAnd we need a tribe and we need our women.
Speaker BAnd so my, my real life goal, like, when people are like, you have your hands in so many different pots, you know, and, like, what is it?
Speaker BLike, what is it?
Speaker BBecause it's so hard to understand, which is why I opened the apothecary.
Speaker BAnd I've been mobile for so long, and I've been traveling for so long.
Speaker BAnd I did have studios over the past 20 years, but they were just one on one, and I was only doing one on one work.
Speaker BSo it was a really big leap jumping in and opening up the apothecary.
Speaker BAnd so the apothecary houses all the ways in which I have served throughout my lifetime.
Speaker BAnd it is a portal.
Speaker BAnd now that I just am starting our third year, we do fairy hair there.
Speaker BIt's a headquarters for Fairy Hair Mystery School.
Speaker BIt is an apothecary, which means it's also like an apothecary.
Speaker BThere's herbs, and there's everything that our mother Earth has given to us to help us heal.
Speaker BIt is a place that transports you as soon as you walk in.
Speaker BBecause my imagination has been one of the greatest tools in my healing.
Speaker BAnd I believe it's because I've had to, you know, develop it throughout my lifetime in ways of survival that have turned into thriving.
Speaker BAnd so, you know, when people walk in the door, they say there's sound healing there, there's women's circles there, There's a wish workshop.
Speaker BYou have to step into the fairy ring, and then you get to create your own little wish vial.
Speaker BAnd you, you go into this ceiling sanctum, and then you seal it with flame and wax.
Speaker BAnd you get to drink a little cup of pixie potion tea out of a real glass, you know, so it's like all of the elements are there for you to remember who you are elementally, at the core of who you are.
Speaker BAnd so now, you know, people will come in and they're just like, did you create this?
Speaker BAnd as much as my ego wants to be like, yes, I did.
Speaker BI really didn't because it stripped me apart.
Speaker BThe building of it, the leaping into it, challenged every single new program that I had given to myself.
Speaker BIt completely and utterly obliterated me.
Speaker BI went back to drinking.
Speaker BI stopped taking care of myself.
Speaker BI was pushing everybody away in my life, and I caught my snap, and I just kept showing up and sitting in.
Speaker BI. I painted it green.
Speaker BAnd then it was like I. I couldn't continue, right?
Speaker BI couldn't keep going because I was lying to myself all over again, right?
Speaker BAnd then I had so much shame because it's like, holy, you've been here so many times.
Speaker BAnd how embarrassing, right?
Speaker BLike, it happens to everybody.
Speaker BYou're not.
Speaker BYou're not that magical that you're not devoid of human failure and falter, right?
Speaker BAnd so I just sat in that green shop and I basically had, like, conversations with God, like, how the fuck do you want me to show up now?
Speaker BSorry, but, like, you know, if you're telling me that every way in which I've known I can no longer do, then how is it supposed to be?
Speaker BAnd what I thought I was gonna build?
Speaker BOh, you told me in all of the ways with big red tape that I wasn't gonna be allowed to do it.
Speaker BSo how the hell am I supposed to do that now that I leaped in and I have every single last ounce of my money and my.
Speaker BMy resources and my energy in this space.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker BAnd I had ideas of how I thought it was supposed to look, and I was trying to control it and doing that, and it was so awful that things would just.
Speaker BLike, the shelves would just fall off the wall.
Speaker BLike, not this way.
Speaker BHow about you try again?
Speaker BAre you going to listen now?
Speaker BYou know, so when I finally listened, and I finally listened was when I stopped drinking and I stopped telling everybody I was too busy and being like, I could just do everything myself, right?
Speaker BPicked myself back up and I sat in there with my tea and I said, show me.
Speaker BAnd it literally showed me.
Speaker BAnd now when people walk in and their breath is taken away, or they tell me that they're feeling something and they don't understand it, or they ask if they could come into the fairy room, or they get fairy hair, or, you know, we give two free strands and we're in New Hope.
Speaker BSo New Hope is like a huge tourist town.
Speaker BAnd we are right before you walk over the bridge, you know, the bridge that walks into Lambertville.
Speaker BSo, like, on the weekends, it's hundreds of people that walk in there.
Speaker BIt's wild beyond my imagination.
Speaker BAnd for the first year, I literally Hid.
Speaker BI couldn't open the door.
Speaker BI couldn't open the door.
Speaker BI would have panic attacks.
Speaker BIt was awful.
Speaker BSo it was just like having to come back into myself again and.
Speaker BAnd that relearning and now the ignition of sharing, because people are like, wait, but how have you done this?
Speaker BAnd I'm like, well, it's.
Speaker BWait, you're right.
Speaker BHow have I done this?
Speaker AOh, right.
Speaker AAll right.
Speaker AOh, my gosh.
Speaker AThat's crazy.
Speaker AThat's awesome.
Speaker AThat's beautiful.
Speaker BIt's always that desire.
Speaker BIt's always following what lights you up.
Speaker BLike you said in the beginning, what lights you up.
Speaker BWell, we could be here forever.
Speaker AYeah, exactly.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker AOh, I'll have to have you back on again.
Speaker AAnd we'll have to pick another like.
Speaker ALike, focus niche and just go for it.
Speaker ABecause, like, literally, I could talk to you forever.
Speaker ABut you've got your shop.
Speaker AWe're gonna put the address and the link and everything.
Speaker ABut tell people.
Speaker AThis has been so much fun.
Speaker ABut tell people if they want to reach out to you, want to talk to you, want to ask you questions, where do they reach you?
Speaker AHow do they get to you?
Speaker BThe best way would be through email, which is wildfire, fairy hair, gmail.com.
Speaker Balso, my Instagram, you know, I have to check that.
Speaker BI have really healthy boundaries with it.
Speaker BI don't scroll, but I do check my messages.
Speaker AYou're funny.
Speaker AYou're funny.
Speaker AI was gonna say we could do a whole hour on boundaries.
Speaker AEvery.
Speaker AEvery topic you brought up and mentioned.
Speaker AThis has been so much fun, Kelly, Give.
Speaker AAnd I've.
Speaker AI've literally.
Speaker AI don't even know how long I've known you.
Speaker AWe weren't in touch and everything, but, I mean, I'm gonna definitely keep in better touch.
Speaker AYou're absolutely adorable.
Speaker AGive the listeners your big picture.
Speaker AWord of advice.
Speaker AI've taken out six or seven or a hundred things that you've said today where I can pick, and I could probably pick any one of the things you said.
Speaker ABut what would be your biggest piece of advice for women, men, whoever is listening?
Speaker BI'd have to say, go hug a tree.
Speaker BThat's as simple as it can be.
Speaker BI don't care if it's freaking snowing.
Speaker BI don't care if it's cold.
Speaker BI want you to go find a tree, and I want you to hug it.
Speaker BAnd I want you to do nothing but feel the air on your face and the breath in your lungs and know that you have every single thing inside of you to make your dreams come true.
Speaker AAbsolutely love it.
Speaker AAbsolutely love it.
Speaker AThank you so much, Kelly, for coming on.
Speaker AI really appreciate it.
Speaker BYeah, I love you, too.
Speaker BThank you.
Speaker AOh, my gosh.
Speaker AAnd for everybody else out there listening, you heard it.
Speaker AGo hug a tree, silly.
Speaker AIt's the same thing when people say go.
Speaker AYou know when you're in New Jersey and people say take off your shoes and go walk in the grass and people are like, it's cold.
Speaker AWho gives a crap?
Speaker AWho doesn't gives a rat's butt?
Speaker ALike it doesn't matter.
Speaker AGet outside, get in nature.
Speaker AYep, that's.
Speaker AI mean, that's the biggest connection you can get to anything in the world.
Speaker AYour God, your universe, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker ABut go for it.
Speaker BThere's your root.
Speaker ASo thank you so much again, and I will see you all back next week.