Healing + Human Potential
Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
What if reconnecting with ancient wisdom could unlock your personal power + help you live more authentically? In this episode of The Healing & Human Potential Podcast, I talk with Sarah Jenks about the sacred feminine's connection to healing + self-discovery. Sarah shares her journey of rediscovering this ancient energy + explains how it can help us let go of societal conditioning so that we can reclaim our inner strength. We dive into the transformative role of rituals + ceremonies, like connecting with nature and honoring our unique rhythms, to bring clarity and alignment into our lives. We also explore practical steps to balance our masculine + feminine energies, heal intergenerational patterns, and cultivate financial confidence. Sarah shares how reconnecting with the sacred feminine can shift how we see ourselves, create deeper trust, and open the door to authentic self-expression. If you’re ready to explore how this ancient wisdom can support your modern life, tune in for an inspiring and empowering conversation. === EPISODE TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 02:23 - What is the sacred feminine? 08:47 - Historical Erasure of the Sacred Feminine 18:01 - Rebuilding Trust and Internalized Patriarchy 25:02 - Matriarchal Societies and Leadership 32:43 - Practical Steps for Integrating the Sacred Feminine 44:56 - Defining Terms: Goddess, Shaman, and Priestess 49:14 - Healing Intergenerational Trauma 51:19 - Empowerment with Money 54:35 - The Role of Personal Development in Business 1:04:37 - The Power of Ceremony === GUEST LINKS Instagram: @sarahjenks Website: linktr.ee/sjenks === Have you watched our previous episode with Aubrey Marcus? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kzcmMZCDSGU ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
Chapter 1: What is the sacred feminine?
Am I constantly trying to avoid upsetting my male partner? Am I constantly worried about outshining my friends? Any time we are judging ourselves off of what other people are going to think of us,
in a negative way it is almost always grounded in internalized patriarchy i know that trust is a big theme for people and we have a lot of healing work to do around trusting ourselves trusting governments or trusting something outside of ourselves what is some of the work that you have found to be helpful to rebuild that trust
We've been working on this a lot this year, and the thing that we've been doing the most is... Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast, where today we're going to dive into the power of the sacred feminine, how reconnecting with this part of ourselves can lead to deeper self-worth, stronger relationships, and a more authentic life.
We're also going to uncover why the sacred feminine was erased from history and why it and how intergenerational trauma impacts our ability to embrace it, and what practical rituals we can use to reclaim our true power. Our guest today, Sarah Jenks, is a transformational leader and a priestess, and she's going to be sharing actionable steps to live more courageously and authentically.
So if you're ready to challenge societal norms and step into your essence, this episode is for you. Sarah, I'm so happy that you're here. Thanks for having me. Oh my goodness.
It's such a joy.
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Chapter 2: How has the sacred feminine been historically erased?
Yeah. And there's so much I want to dive into in your world. I know a big part of your work is around the sacred feminine. And that wasn't necessarily mainstream growing up or with role models. And so for people that are like, what is the sacred feminine? Why is this important? Talk to us a bit. Let's start there.
Yeah. So most of us, if we grew up with any sort of organized religion, we know the sacred masculine really well. And some of us know the toxic masculine pretty well also. And I was raised in the Christian faith. I come from a very traditional New England background. preppy family.
And what happened for me was I got really interested in spirituality, but it was like Eastern spirituality, transcendental meditation. It still didn't feel feminine, but I didn't even know to look for it really. And what happened for me was I actually was going to therapy and I stumbled into my therapist's living room and she had forgotten to clean up from a ceremony the night before.
And I had this full body cramp. I erupted in goosebumps all over my body. I started to cry. And she just looked at me like, what is happening to her? Because I'm in a polo shirt and pearls and patent leather pumps. You know, I'm in like full normie mode at this point in my life. And I just looked at her and I said, what's happening here? And she said, well, I'll tell you when you're ready.
And I was like, I want in on the secret club big time.
I'm ready now.
And I just remember having this experience of this energy of a mother figure that I couldn't see, but I could feel in the room. And I had this experience of, oh. This is what God is supposed to feel like. This is what I want to feel when I connect with the sacred. This is what I've been looking for on my quest in personal development and in meditation and going to workshops.
I found it in this sacred feminine ceremony. And I wanted to really understand why wasn't everyone doing this? And why did I all of a sudden feel like I couldn't tell anybody what I was doing? So if we think about the sacred masculine, like from a traditional Christian perspective, we have been taught that he's a father God in the sky. And we all have men in our lives.
And if we just think about the most loving grandfather figure, we can sort of feel the sacred masculine figure. feeling. And if we also feel this unconditional love from a grandmother or a mother figure, we can all sort of feel that energy in our bodies, but we didn't grow up knowing that that energy is also divine and it's something we can lean on.
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Chapter 3: What practical steps can we take to integrate the sacred feminine?
And there were people emerging on the planet that wanted to have power over instead of power for all. And one of the places when I was going through history to try to understand where did the The place that I focused a lot of my attention that seemed to really jump out at me glaringly was during the Crusades in the Dark Ages, you know, started around the year 1300, where the Catholic Church came.
decided to take over all of Europe and also spread into Asia and then enslaved people in Africa. And that was actually the same movement that colonized Turtle Island, which we now know as North America and the United States.
So the thing that I realized was when the Crusaders came into a village, the first thing they did was burn the sacred feminine temple and kill the leaders, the spiritual leaders of the community that were mostly women. And this also led to the burning times, which we know is the witch hunts and the witch burnings.
And what they did was they used Christianity and Jesus's supposed word, which most of us now know was not what he meant. to take over large groups of people, to get the masses really fearful for their lives, for their well-being. And anytime we're scared, we look to the person in power.
And I just thought it was so interesting that the tool they used was to erase sacred feminine spirituality in order to take the power away from the people. And so when I learned that, I really asked myself, well, what would happen if we put it back? How could we actually really change the way women saw themselves and saw their own power?
If we just put in this practice because they must have been onto something on some level, if that was the primary thing that they were after.
Yeah. And I think of this, even as you're talking about, like, how do you take over anything or how do you brainwash people? You take away the power, you confuse them and you outsource it. And I think one of the most important things you do is as, and part of what we'll talk about is how to really insource our own authority and our own truth. Yeah.
But before we get there, this happened and it definitely reflects in society. I think there's a lot of women who are afraid to take space to own their voice. What is some of the societal conditioning that you've seen for little girls or how that's how women have adopted this in current times now?
So I love that you use the word brainwashing because I use that phrase and that context a lot to explain to women like what's happening in us. Yeah. And if you take away the metaphor of powerful, sovereign women in religious stories, in talking about folklore around the fire, and you replace it with only a virgin, pious mother and a whore, then
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Chapter 4: How can we heal intergenerational trauma?
Well, when I go back and I look at history before this happened, it's been really fun for me to study what they believe was happening inside of priestess temples, inside of matriarchal societies, where women were leaders. I'm like, tell me all the things.
I know.
Chapter 5: What does empowerment with money look like?
Where they were leaders, where they were the healers, where they were who were coming together in council and making really massive decisions for huge areas of land, both large and small communities. And When we go and look at that in history, we can remember, oh, I'm capable of that.
Because since so much of that history has been deliberately erased from what we know and mostly rewritten to be in the narrative that men have been in charge the whole time, we don't know what's possible for us. So that's why I think it's so important for women to learn about and understand about matriarchal communities and
you know, what it meant to be a magical woman and what it meant to be sovereign, what it meant to be in our wildness. And back on a time when everything was, when we were celebrated for being authentic. And of course it wasn't never, it's never been perfect, you know? And I believe that we can borrow from a lot of these, um,
stories in order to think about, you know, how to give ourselves permission to rock the boat, to color outside the lines, to forge our own path and not just default to what our belief systems are telling us we can do.
I forgot about this until you started talking. So I was raised at 14 in a shamanic circle that my dad was a part of. And I remember learning around the time that I got my period for the first time that that was a really you're more intuitive and it's a sacred time.
And women back in these earth honoring communities would bleed together on rocks, come together to really tune into the intuition of what was best for the community at that time. So tell us if there are any stories like that, that we can start to hear about and open our perspective and come back to a more remembrance.
Yeah. So one story I love talking about is back when we were hunter gatherers, we know this from archaeologists looking at cave drawings where the female shamans of the community would go into deep meditation and the goddess would tell them where the animals were. And they would talk to the animals. They would attune to the animals.
They do a ceremony for the animals and they would send out the hunters and the hunters would know exactly where the herds were. And then of course they would only take what they needed. They would, you know, kill the animals in ceremony. And I just love this team of like divine direction with embodied action and out in the world in order to create thriving for communities.
I mean, this is one of my intentions personally, and then to have that reflected in my team. But I feel like hearing stories like this and how other cultures and other times we've already lived in harmony with nature and utilizing the wisdom of the collective, it does help put that front and center. So it's like, oh, that's possible. And this is some ways that it could look.
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Chapter 6: How can ceremony enhance our personal development?
I used to think that's how governments were when I was a kid. I was like, we would just elect the best teacher, the best doctor, like the best of that be great. And then, you know, there's a lot of upgrades that we are going to make that I'm holding that.
And I think part of what you're doing is retelling these stories that got lost in support of all of us waking up to a more balanced and integrated conscious way of living.
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So I know we all have internalized patriarchy, whether we're aware of it or not. What are some ways that you see that play out so that people can start becoming more aware?
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