The Smokey One, with Madia Smith (Part 1)

The 12th season of The Skeptical Shaman podcast is here and it's all about our collective and individual Villain Eras: a unique moment in time in which we all have permission to embrace our alter egos, pursue our goals, and allow others to paint us as the villains in their stories...if that's what they need to get through the day;) In this episode, host Rachel White (of TOTEM Readings) is joined by friend of the show Madia Smith (of ORNIS) to talk about her Villain Era Alter Ego: The Smokey One. The Smokey One shows up for Madia when she's "done", acting as a personification of the absence of energy, snuffing out the spark that was once there and propelling her to move on despite tremendous guilt felt by her non-shadow self.  Madia shares how she's learned to make friends with The Smokey One, understanding that this Alter Ego emerges when she's actually already learned what she needed to from a project, effort, or former hyper-fixation, even if the project, deliverable or output itself isn't quite done yet. In this way, The Smokey One isn't out to get Madia or feed self-destructive tendencies; rather, it shows up to get her out of the Sunk Cost Fallacy that trips so many of us up! Rachel's LINKS: TOTEM Readings Website: https://www.totemreadings.com TOTEM Readings Substack: https://totemrach.substack.com Rachel's Other Links: https://linktr.ee/totemrach Please support the Sponsors of The Skeptical Shaman Podcast: Buy The Business of Woo book HERE: https://a.co/d/0g7EFJmM TOTEM + PUCK HCKY Merch Drop: https://puckhcky.com/collections/totem The TOTEM Flower Essence Deck: https://a.co/d/gw16LsG The TOTEM Flower Essences: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TotemReadingsATX TOTEM Spiritual Transformation Coaching: https://www.totemreadings.com/coaching TOTEM Business of Woo Mentoring: https://www.totemreadings.com/business-of-woo Madia's LINKS:  ORNIS on Substack: https://substack.com/@ornis Please note: The views and opinions expressed on The Skeptical Shaman do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, protected class, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. And remember: sticks and stones may break our bones, but words—or discussions of religious or spiritual topics-- will never hurt us.