89. Dancing With Your Darkness with Sarah Jenks

Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

Emily Fletcher

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4.9 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What if the shadow parts you've been trying to heal, fix, or transcend are actually your greatest source of creative power? 🎉 Enrollment for the 2025 cohort of Ziva Magic is officially OPEN! Step into embodied manifesting, alchemize emotional blocks, and activate your inner magnetism. Join us now → https://makemagic.zivameditation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. In this profound episode of Why Isn't Everyone Doing This?, Emily reunites with her beloved friend Sarah Jenks, ordained priestess, mother, and founder of the 13 Moon Mystery School, for a conversation that will forever change how you relate to your pain, your shadows, and your power. Sarah opens up about her core wound of wanting to be liked and accepted, and how everything in her life—business, marriage, friendships—started crumbling as she approached her priestess ordination. Instead of trying to fix or bypass these patterns, she learned to descend into what we call the "sacred sewer" to meet the parts of herself she thought were unlovable. In This Episode, We Explore: ✨ How to work with internal darkness (micro) and world pain (macro) simultaneously ✨ Why suffering is actually an avoidance of going all the way into the darkness ✨ The revolutionary practice of creating ceremony around your shadows ✨ How to sit with shame and rage until they alchemize into creative power ✨ The suppressed history of Mary Magdalene as Christ's equal and initiator ✨ Why the removal of the Divine Feminine was psychological warfare ✨ How your capacity for darkness directly expands your capacity for joy Sarah demonstrates her process for descending into the depths, feeling everything fully, and allowing the natural alchemy that happens when we stop fighting our feelings and start dancing with them. We explore how this work isn't just personal healing, it's essential preparation for serving the world during these intense times. This conversation bridges ancient feminine wisdom with practical shadow work, showing how the compost of our pain becomes the fertile ground for our greatest gifts. 🔥 Ready to stop running from your shadows and start dancing with them? This episode will show you exactly how to turn your perceived shit into alchemical gold. 🔗 More from Sarah Jenks: ► Website: https://sarahjenks.com/sacredlife ►Sarah's Free Guide: https://sarahjenks.com/sacred-life/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahjenks/ 🔗 More from Emily & Ziva: ► Join Ziva's Embodied Manifesting Course, Ziva Magic: https://makemagic.zivameditation.com ► Commit to a daily meditation practice you love with Ziva Meditation: https://preview.zivameditation.com ► Sign up for the FREE Masterclass: https://learn.zivameditation.com ► Get on Ziva's mailing list: https://whythis.zivameditation.com ► Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: https://whythis.zivameditation.com ► Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zivameditation/ ► Prefer to watch this episode on YouTube? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@ZivaMeditation

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Emily, and I want to say thank you for listening to Why Isn't Everyone
0:04.4	doing this. This is the show where we dive into those taboo transformational conversations
0:09.3	that are designed to help you embody your highest potential. So I want to start today's
0:13.8	episode with a question. Have you ever felt like you're carrying a weight that does not belong to
0:18.7	you? Like there's someone else's heaviness, some old grief,
0:23.5	someone else's shame, some programmed unworthiness that you've tried to ignore, outrun,
0:28.9	or spiritually bypass, hello, I've been there, your way out of. But it seems to keep creeping back in.
0:34.2	So if you've done the therapy, the journaling, but you still feel stuck in the
0:38.7	same patterns of people pleasing, of overworking, of proving and performing, then today's
0:44.9	conversation might just be the mirror that you need but have been avoiding. So my guest is none
0:50.8	other than Sarah Jenks. She's a dear friend, a mother, an ordained priestess,
0:56.6	and one of the most fun, embodied women I know. And today we talk about what it really means
1:03.4	to dance with the darkness, not try and fix it, not bypass it, but to transmute it into power,
1:09.9	into creativity, into soul-level joy. And this is not
1:13.9	just theory. Sarah and I have walked through these fires ourselves. In fact, she was with me for the
1:19.5	launch of Ziba Magic, where we danced with our shadows, quite literally. And in this episode,
1:24.3	we share some of the practices we use that night, like sacred rage,
1:28.7	alchemical movement, emotional release. And you're going to hear what happened behind the scenes
1:33.2	and why these tools aren't just transformative. They're actually necessary, especially for the
1:38.9	intensity that is happening on the planet right now. So before we dive in, I want to say,
1:43.4	thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your time and your attention with me. If before we dive in, I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you
1:44.8	for sharing your time and your attention with me. If you're new here, I want to welcome you to the
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