SEASON 1
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Pilot Episode: Breaking the Cycles
Welcome to Light in the Fog Podcast. For our very first episode, we introduce ourselves: Jenny, the elder Gen z transgender witch who changed the future by claiming her name, and Trai, the Gen Xer who finally embraced all the multi-dimensional stuff she’d been living since she was a kid. We dish the things we’re dying to share: neurodiversity, mental health issues, a view beyond the veil, and a wish for a world in which all the things that make us extra and other were embraced. So we made one of our own. Welcome.
Episode 2: Rapture Party
In this episode, Jenny relates the origin story of her synchronistic connections to witchcraft and her first goddess, and how it helps her heal her transgender trauma, and Trai talks about growing up in haunted houses and why not to conduct a séance at 12 years old.
Episode 3: Healing Houses Part 1
Got ghosts? Jenny sure does, so it’s a two-part How To episode about healing houses and personal energy! In Part 1, the hosts present all the tools they use to keep energetically clear, and Jenny creates her first internal psychic gauge – it’s a squirrel!! There is chicanery afoot which leads to a Part 2 episode when Trai gets psychic on Jenny’s Bathroom Spirit and her magical environs.
Episode 4: Healing Houses Part 2
Portals are abound in Jenny’s spaces, the nature of which is uncertain! Jenny and a squirrel search for answers while Trai confronts the entity head on in the second and final part of Healing Houses.
Jenny puts it all on the table and answers the question: just what the heck is a transgender?? This is a look into the life and trauma of someone who has changed their gender and all the beautiful and painful moments that come with it. Please note, we are issuing a TRIGGER WARNING on this episode.
Episode 6: Movies are Us Talking to Us
Bibliomancy is more than just foretelling the future based on a random passage pulled from a book. Trai and Jenny discuss the many meanings and messages from beyond that come packaged in the stories we are obsessed with, the movies that changed our lives, and the characters that explained who we are to ourselves And we talk about where those messages came from…
Episode 7: The Magic of Sound Baths
The science is in! Sound is one of the most ancient and elemental tools humans have learned to use for healing and to remind themselves of their celestial origins! Jenny shares her first big sound bath trip, and Trai, who’s an old pro, speaks to the meditative qualities, how they clear energy, and are a launch pad for astral travel
Episode 8: Guest Mel Koons Saw Scottish Faefolk
Our very first guest, and a very special one she is: Melissa Koons, psychic medium, friend of the faefolk, death doula, and catalyst reader who will change your life! In part one of a two part conversation, Mel explains how a group of magical pagans gave her her first community in the least expected place, and learned how to work with, make space for, and hold her own space for ghosts, fae, fairyfolk, and demon dogs. Mel can be found at magnificentmusings.com
Episode 9: Guest Mel Koons Fired her Spirit Guides
In part 1 of our interview with Melissa Koons, she left us at a cliffhanger – an angry ghost who was physically accosting her! This encounter taught her to set psychic boundaries. Mentors arrived, and Death moved into her closet, so she knew that a central purpose would center around helping people grieve those passing over. Mel shares her insight into synchronicities, flow, timeline shifts, failure, trust with her guides, where guides come from, and how a 9 to 5 can be helpful to a psychic. Mel can be found at www.magnificentmusings.com.
Ever wanted to jump into magic practice but are unsure where to start? Welcome to this special episode where I lay out the witchcraft basics I’ve learned over my three years of hatch witchery. A simple, easy guide of a few basic things that can apply to all beginner witches, wizards and all sorts of magical beings. So sit back, and get ready to listen because class is in session.
Episode 11: The Depression Episode
Depression is one of the trickiest and most universal subject matters in these modern times. It’s been a major part of both Trai and Jenny’s lives, as well as the lives of our families and friends. In this episode, we speak frankly about how it’s affected our time on this plane of existence and what we hope for our futures, despite being wired for despair. Added points for the look at the generational impacts and approaches to melancholy management. (This episode is just our audio and will not have any video. It was that “kind of day” when we recorded!)
Episode 13: Trauma Patterns and Roller Coasters
Episode 13 is an incricate and intense episode that deconstructs where our patterns and programming of behavior and coping originated – was it our parents? Their parents? Society in general? Capitalism? Our biochemical make up? Past lives? All of it?? Jenny and Trai discuss how we learned to recognize being activated, how to create space around it, and the beginnings of how to heal. The answer might just be roller coasters.
Both Light in the Fog hosts have mental illnesses, but it behaves quite differently, as Jenny explains in the Tides of Bipolar. Jenny is medicine-resistant, type 2 BiPolar, and it’s all about the cycles. Not the moon or seasonal cycles – or at least not in the way you think. Jenny brings the research that explains the circadian pacemaker running the bi-polar show!! Prepare to have your mind blown! Meanwhile, Trai’s PTSD is more of a pattern – triggered more by random emotional shrapnel than a calendar, and we explore that stuff, too.
Episode 15: Witch Movies are Witchy
So much witchcraft to learn – and reject wholeheartedly – from Hollywood movies! Jenny and Trai revisit three of their favorite rites of passage witch movies: The Craft (the original), Witches of Eastwick, and Eve’s Bayou. What do these movies get spookily right about witchcraft and what ends up patriarchal propaganda? The Light in the Fog hosts go full fangirl, dishing the stories, the themes, and the magic.
Spoilers for all these movies!
Episode 16: GUEST BJ Segura: Horror Emperado
Our very special guest this week is BJ Segura, a filmmaker and ghost hunter who specializes in horror and the supernatural. He’s also the kind of guy who astral travels in his dreams and hangs out with bald eagles that have messages to pass on. Jenny had to take a mental health hiatus this week, but Trai carried the torch in a very special and very spooky conversation about ghosts, horror movies, and the powers within us all.
BJ’s got two fab podcasts of his own: 3Haunted and Tales From the Drive-In
Episode 17: October’s Magical Harvest
Boy Howdy, we have been through it! Once again your hosts dig deep: Jenny and Trai talk about hitting potential exit points last month and what the meaning of Harvest this particular year means to them. Samhain is when we look at all the hard work we’ve done for the year so we can accept and receive that work. It’s the witchest holiday on the Witches Wheel – come hear about all the magic we’ve experienced!
Episode 18: God, Stingrays, and the Why
This may well be the penultimate Light in the Fog podcast – in part 1 of God, Stingrays, and the Why, Jenny and Trai discuss the purpose of reincarnation, how and why clearing karma is a good things to do, Plato’s cave, media influences – always media influences! – the nature of god and consciousness, and the coolest ways to die — and how to be good with it. It’s time to take the charge out of your current incarnation! Next week we get to actual past life readings…
Episode 19: Past Lives, Geese, and the Why
Did you know that so many of our current patterns in life started in a past life – and have been repeated many times! Did you know that you can clear those patterns, and solve issues in this life by clearing karma from those post lives? If you think tarot is deep, wait til you get a load of Part 2 of “Taking the Charge out of Reincarnation.” This is a heartfelt, deeply-woo, sometimes spooky exploration into the power of past lives. Listen as Trai the Story Channeler does a live reading for Jenny!
Episode 20: We’re just a Collection of Coping Mechanisms
Coping skills!! Coping mechanisms!! What the heck??! Oh my goodness! Jenny has fallen deep into the coping skills vibes after her trip to the crisis stabilization unit, and you know she and Trai just have to dish it out! We talk about the origin and function of coping, the six types of coping, functional vs maladaptive, and skills versus mechanisms. Then of course we have to make it personal and delve into ourselves and you guessed it, our trauma. Come blow bubbles with us on this hopefully hopeful episode of Light in the Fog!
Episode 21: Breaking Cords, Contracts, and Curses
Science has shown us that energy exists between all forms, and sometimes that energy is positive and sometimes it’s, well. It’s complicated. And it can be old. And yes, it can be problematic. Hence today’s conversation about Cords, Contracts, and Curses. Jenny and Trai give tons of specifics about what these things are, why they exist, and how to get rid of the ones that are interfering with your zen. As Trai says, “This is not complicated. This is confidence.” So come build up some confidence with your Light in the Fog co-hosts.
Episode 22: Big Ball of Wibbly, Wobbly, Timey Wimey Stuff
Time is a PR stunt! Both Trai and Jenny have time blindness, but for different reasons. Jenny talks how ADHD affects her relationship with time and manifesting, and Trai talks about how her Traumatic Brain Injuries and PTSD pretty much blows up any chance of being friends with time. Then we plate up a healthy second course of simulation theory, the mandela effect and heart placement believe it or not. Come dish with us on our second to last episode of the season.
Episode 23: The Best Worst Year of Our Lives!
Trigger Warnings, folks. How can you talk about 2024 without being real, sometimes real is really hard. But we’re open to the remedy, and 2024 had plenty of that, too. For the last episode of Season 1, it’s two old friends catching up, throwing some shade, and spilling the tea about what’s been the Best Worst Year of Our Lives! 2025 promises plenty of reasons to continue lighting it up, so we’ll catch you on the flip side for Season 2.