Root to Rise: Owning Your Power & Honoring Your Boundaries from the Ground Up with Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow

Earth advocate, author, PhD and spiritual courage guide, Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow, brings us into transformational grounds in a wonderfully wild, untamed conversation that gives permission to invite the fertile nutrients from Mother Earth back into our bodies and work in sync with Gaia in a defiant act of revolution and reclamation of power. 

Today, Dr. Yu-Juin McMorrow stands, a woman fully in her power as she effortlessly weaves science and spirituality into her emotional being and professional work. The path to her purpose was fraught with challenges that, eight years ago, plunged her into what she defines as a spiritual breakdown. To heal, Dr. Erin returned to nature and answered the call to Bali, which would provide the medicine to rewrite her life's journey from strictly academia to a potent blending with spirituality that would take her where she is today.  

Throughout her life, Dr. Erin has been mentally and physically tested. In today's episode, she opens up for the first time publicly about her personal experience with a national abuse case against a gynecologist. She also bravely shares about an initiation she knew she needed to face that ended up guiding her in alchemizing limiting beliefs around sexuality through an incredibly expansive orgy that gave her the space to connect with sacred sexuality. Plus, the transcendental plant medicine journey that fused her with Mother Earth and was the key to unlocking her throat chakra.

We unearth every aspect of the wild woman, from goddess history, spiritual awakening, and the representation of spirituality in popular culture, to her exploration of deep, sensual waters that dismantled cultural taboos and helped her find the freedom to embody her life’s mission statement: “I own my power. I honor my healthy boundaries.” 

A’ho sister! 

 

The Ceremonial Offering:

Call in the highest good into your space by honoring your body in whatever way you’re called to. Invite yourself back into the body, breathe, and imagine roots flowing from your spine to the fertile soil below as you integrate Dr. Erin’s empowering, grounding mantras. 

 

We talk about:

  • The spiritual breakdown that led her to Bali and transformed her life 

  • The mantra that held such medicine for her it brought her to her knees 

  • The painful consequences of ignoring intuition 

  • Body trauma and relationship healing 

  • What radical responsibility means to her

  • Sacred sexuality, goddess history, and the Earth connection

  • Challenging the representation of spirituality in popular culture 

  • Practices to reconnect with The Earth 

  • A grounding meditation ceremony 

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Guest Bio:

Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow is a certified yoga teacher, craniosacral therapist, and entrepreneur. She holds a PhD in Policy, Planning, and Development from The University of Southern California, and has studied Political and Social Thought at The University of Virginia, served as the Director of Housing Policy with the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, and the Regional Coordinator for several progressive signature-gathering campaigns in California.

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