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The Marcella Principle Podcast

Hosted by transformational mentor Marcella Friel, The Marcella Principle podcast offers soulful conversations and honest reflections on choosing inner wisdom over outer conformity and finding spiritual clarity in the creative chaos of worldly transformation. Topics include menopause and midlife awakening, addiction recovery, feminine spirituality, body love, and self-forgiveness. Expect interviews with embodied healers as well as intimate solo episodes drawn from Marcella’s live talks and

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🎙️Create the life you want in the first hour of your day

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2026/01/07

Now that the wave of New Year’s resolutions is on the wane, let’s talk about what really creates sustainable positive change, one day at a time. According to one of his devotees, the late sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi reportedly said, “Well begun is half-done.”In today’s Marcella Principle podcast I break down for you why the first hour of your day determines the direction of your entire life and why, when it comes to new habits, well begun really is half-done.Beyond white-knuckling it with will power,

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🎙️Let there be light

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/12/10

Today I share with you the opening meditation and teaching from my Winter Virtual Retreat, which took place this past Saturday, December 6. The theme of the retreat was “Let There Be Light,” and in the talk I invite you to slow down and unpack that statement as perhaps the most powerful intention of healing that you can invoke for yourself. Because just as light can’t exist without darkness, so it is that a Heroine like you, who is seeking to heal her relationship with her food and her body, can’t

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🎙️Finding peace within the grief

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/10/29

If you are a human walking on this Earth, you have known grief. Maybe grief arrived unbidden after your beloved disappeared … your dream shattered … your body changed … or some part of your identity just … slipped away.In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the dry, descending energy of autumn mirrors the falling leaves and correlates to the lungs, where grief and sorrow often hide as breathlessness, fatigue, or lingering colds.This month’s episode of The Marcella Principle Podcast offers you a warm space

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🎙️ From medical doctor to nettle witch

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/10/01

What happens when an ER doc realizes—as many now do—that the system meant to heal us is profoundly broken? In this episode of The Marcella Principle Podcast, I talk with Amy Walsh—an MD turned wild woman and self-proclaimed nettle witch—as she chronicles her heroine’s exodus from the Western medical paradigm to the deeper forests of holistic healing and plant spirit medicine.Amy shares how her COVID burnout broke her down, then cracked her open to explore the witchy side of her own healing wisdom

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A Prayer for the Girl in the Mirror

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/06/29

You stare in the mirror and think, disgusting. You tug at your clothes, avoid the camera, dread the dressing room. You carry a shame so old it feels, in Carl Jung’s words, like the “swampland of your soul.”But what if that deeply personal shame is actually your tender heart of compassion, waiting to be born?In this first episode of a four-part series on body image and feminine power, let the wild innocence of the Maiden archetype guide you to shed your inherited shame and reawaken the sacredness of

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🎙️The love that goes deeper still

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/06/15

It’s easy to “love yourself” when, say, your wallet is full, or you’re having a great hair day, or life just generally feels like it’s on your side. But what about when the sorrows of personal and collective trauma feel like more than you can handle? Today in The Marcella Principle I share with you why the life-saving practice of self-love might be the most important choice you can make to find a home of inner ballast that weathers every storm.Because the circumstances of our lives that we might

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🎙️ The medicine arrives when you're ready

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/06/01

For all the pain that’s proliferated 24/7 these days, there’s a parallel universe of deep somatic healing flourishing right alongside it. Sometimes that medicine arrives in the form of one practice, one moment, or one question that unlocks a door we didn’t even know was closed. And it often comes just as we’re ready to receive it.In this episode of The Marcella Principle podcast I’m joined by Lulu Agan—surfer, yogini, and host of The Power of Just One, a free masterclass series running now through

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🎙️The wildfire within: restoring a sacred...

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2025/05/18

In this first episode of The Marcella Principle, I explore how you can free yourself from the extremes of acting anger in or acting it out and instead honor the wildfire within by coming into wise relationship with this life-giving energy.It feels fitting that anger is my inaugural topic for this podcast. Because anger, just like this episode, is by its nature rough around the edges.After alligator-wrestling with GarageBand and a dozen other tech gremlins and cussing up a blue streak … after

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🎙️Menopause is the new 20

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2025/02/09

Last fall at my “Becoming Ageless As We Age” retreat, I discovered an unexpected truth:A dozen women, in one powerful moment, confessed that they longed to rekindle their sexuality—whether by igniting passion with their husbands, venturing into solo exploration, or rediscovering intimacy after divorce. If this small gathering was any indication of our collective predicament, then the jury is in: Ladies … we need to talk about sex.Enter Ana Novakovic Odoi, a formidable force of wisdom in the realm of

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🎙️ The Kali Yuga survival guide: finding peace in a...

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/12/22

In this talk from a winter virtual retreat I led with my Women, Food & Forgiveness Academy community, we explored a timely question:How do we un-conform ourselves to the swirling world of illusory appearances and instead transform ourselves by the renewing of our minds?Who do we seek to become in this aeon of collective degeneration prophesied in Hindu cosmology as the Kali Yuga, the darkest hour that precedes the dawn of the new Golden Age?The answer to such cosmic questions lie closer to home than

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52:15

🎙️ Nature eats chaos for breakfast

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2024/12/08

“Shock has value,” says wise woman Josephine Spilka upon contemplating the outer and inner wreckage that mighty Hurricane Helene visited upon her life. After what she thought was a night of heavy rain, Josephine awoke in the early morning of September 27 to what sounded a freight train ripping through her house. When the stately rooted trees on her property began twirling like parasols through the sky and crashed down into a 10-foot-high barricade of tangled wood blocking her driveway, all she could

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22:36

🎙️ Reclaim your soul from election madness

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/11/03

Election tension is running high and is likely to run higher in the coming days. I can’t say this to you strongly enough: Stop squandering your precious life force on people, places, and circumstances you cannot control. Remember: worry is praying for what you don’t want.Instead, turn off the shrieking media … find a quiet spot … put in your earbuds … and let this centuries-old Buddhist meditation on compassion bring you the peace you need to face whatever election outcomes unfold with skillful

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🎙️ Surprise! Love blooms in hard times

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/10/27

If you’re biting your nails and grinding your teeth with election anxiety, step with me out of the madness and into a parallel universe where love comes alive in the specter of death. I initially intended to interview midlife renewal coach Anasuya Basil about the caregiving journey she’d undertaken to support Gary, her ex-partner, through his ordeal with stage 4 cancer. I was curious to hear how Anasuya, a multi-talented wise-woman healer, was taking care of herself while tending to Gary’s

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🎙️ Straddling the worlds

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/09/08

Last month I had the privilege of talking with Erin Reese, host of Truth and Consciousness—one of my favorite podcasts here on Substack—about how planetary movements can give us insight and courage when our personal and collective lives feel overwhelming. Erin describes her work as “straddling the worlds using astrology as a portal for guidance and expression in day-to-day living alongside my truest love of the Advaita [nondual] wisdom teachings.”Erin also read my astrological natal chart (what she

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🎙️ Savor the last slow sips of summer

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/08/20

I recently read a newsletter from a colleague of mine in which she described August as “a funeral for summer.”I used to feel exactly this way, until I began consciously noticing the magic of this “fifth season,” spanning mid-August to late September, when Mother Earth pauses in equipoise before stirring up autumn’s whirlwind activities.Late Summer is the perfect time to resist the back-to-busy juggernaut and simply stop. Pause. Appreciate. Recharge.If you, like my colleague, are already grieving the

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🎙️Doubt occurs halfway through

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/06/23

After endlessly telling yourself, “someday I’m gonna …,” you finally gain traction in building those atomic self-care habits. Saying farewell to gluten and dairy, your belly feels calmer, your joints feel looser, and your clothes fit more comfortably. Getting out of bed and onto your yoga mat first thing in the morning, you step into your day feeling invigorated. But just as real progress appears … your motivation suddenly pitches off a cliff, and you mysteriously can’t be bothered to keep going

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🎙️ Love your body, and she'll love you back

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/06/08

Anxiety, wrinkles, and stiffness: How can the elemental science of Ayurveda help us heal these symptoms of aging using everyday ingredients from our own kitchen?Today I meander through these questions and more with Ayurveda educator Mary Sheila Gonnella of Occidental Nutrition.Listen as Mary Sheila walks us through simple self-loving practices you can begin immediately to calm your soul and hydrate your aging body. This talk is a teaser on our upcoming in-person retreat “Becoming Ageless As We Age,”

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🎙️ When doctors get it wrong

The Marcella Principle Podcast ·

2024/05/19

Today I continue my soft tiptoe into podcast land with belly-health and body-love expert Allison Post. Allison is author of The Gut Wellness Guide: The Power of Breath, Touch, and Awareness to Reduce Stress, Aid Digestion, and Reclaim Whole-Body Health.In 2019 our mutual publisher, North Atlantic Books, arranged an author conversation between Allison and me to celebrate the publication of my book, Tap, Taste, Heal. I reached out to Allison recently to catch up on what’s changed in our world in the

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