To Dare Together, Truth Seeking with Erin O'Brien, LPC, Witch
Hello friend! I’m so grateful you’re here. I created this space for you and I to spend some time together. To Dare, Together. To seek the truth in the depths. To Dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal. To Dare to descend and arise, transformed in the never ending cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a more embodied and integrated place. To Dare to join in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our sacred space. I am your host, Erin O'Brien, licensed psychotherapist in practice for over 20 years, intuitive healer, relationship counselor, and dare I say, witch, and if you are willing, your friend. Together we will descend into the mystery, into the exquisite darkness because true liberation starts with healing from the inside out. And it happens when we dare to go there, together. Where are we going, you may ask? Well, we are delving into all the realms of our experience. We will move through our body, heart, mind, soul, spirit, original and chosen family, relationships, communities, cultures, dominant systems in society, intergenerational patterning, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective. Because when we are together, we will seek to know what is true. We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another. So let’s will it together. My offering here will be a combination of solo explorations together, and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, healers, intuitives, activists, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more. This is a place that will weave together the relational, social, and sacred sciences, because oh yes, they are all connected. I want to support our journey of transformation by sharing practices that we can facilitate because ultimately we are our own wisest guide, healer, and teacher. Our body holds so much intelligence if we just slow down enough to listen. When we know how to keep silent and just be, just breathe, just listen, we know how to summon our greatest powers of transformation. We will explore practices that focus on increasing our somatic awareness, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation. We will work with our shadow to illuminate what needs to be alchemized or released. We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life. We will deepen our understanding of intersectionality and how our social location in the world shifts our experiences of power and disembodiment. We will strive to relate with others in ways that are embodied and promote connection, celebrate differentiation, and respectfully move through rupture or conflict so that all beings preserve their dignity. We will conjure the wisdom of our ancestors to strengthen our communal spaces. We will create rituals to attune with the cycles of nature, lunar rhythms, astrology, and the wheel of the year. We will do pathworkings and divination to deepen our relationship to our Higher Self, Spirit Team, Intuition, Magick, Soul’s purpose, and so much more. We are all here on Earth right now. It’s time To Dare to take a stand for healing, transformation, and collective liberation. And the first step starts from within. Let’s take it together. “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown
Episodes
In today's episode we use this rare double dark moon (micro moon) on December 19th and the days leading up to the Winter Solstice on December 21st as a potent threshold. Release what’s done. Bless what taught you. Name what you refuse to carry forward. Then claim who you are and what you choose to focus on creating, expanding, and birthing for the year ahead: a practice you’ll keep, a cause you’ll serve, a truth...
In today's episode, we look at the celestial influences of the New Moon in Scorpio, which arrives like a tide at midnight—quiet on the surface, roaring beneath— and this week’s grand water trine turns that tide into a mirror. With the Sun, Moon, and Mercury all in Scorpio, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer, the chart invites a deep wash of intuition, clarity of heart, memory, and emotional move...
On today's episode, I have the amazing honor to interview my beloved friend and fellow witch, Susan Rains, who is a part of a sibling coven, Coven of the Mystic Path, based in the Philadelphia and Springfield, PA area. Susan shares her unique and profound Ancestor practice for working with her recently dead family members and beloveds for deep healing and transformative connection. She shares several offerings...
In today's episode we explore a rare run of lunations in the coming months—three supermoons in Aries, Taurus, and Gemini—followed by a micro new moon just before the winter solstice. Each phase offers its own pathway for transformation but ultimately will work best when built on each other: fire that emboldens right action, earth that grounds what we call into being, air that clarifies voice and message, and a do...
Today’s episode was recorded at the peak of a powerful Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. This is a sacred time where truth is revealed and significant transformation is supported by the cosmos. This eclipse signals a time to let go of old patterns and behaviors, bringing closure to repeating cycles of intergenerational wounds and wounding that we all internalize from the dominant systems around us. We explore how recon...
Today we explore this rare lunation of the Black Moon, which offers the perfect opportunity to acknowledge what's been buried and transform it into something that can be planted and nourished. What hidden aspects of yourself are waiting to be claimed as seeds of possibility?
Join me in this special episode and discover what the darkness has to reveal. Open your eyes, open your mind, and acknowledge yours...
In today's episode, I'm recording outside to honor Lughnasadh (Lammas), which is the Gaelic pagan holiday that traditionally honors the first harvest, when communities would gather to celebrate their collective abundance. It wasn't merely about collecting crops – it was about recognizing how each person's unique contributions sustained the whole community. They celebrated through games, crafts, p...
In today’s episode, the Capricorn Full Moon offers us a powerful opportunity to examine the structures we've built and whether they truly serve our highest purpose. With the sun in Cancer, this exploration of the Cancer-Capricorn axis reveals how these seemingly opposite energies are actually complementary parts of a whole. Cancer represents our emotional foundations—home, family, nurturance—while Capricorn embo...
Today's episode offers Part Two of a guided self-reflection process and explores the cosmic dance between shadow and light as the first quarter moon moves through Libra—the sign of balance, harmony, and justice—we find ourselves standing at the threshold of transformation. This moment invites us to examine what we need to express and what we've been holding back.
Venus conjuncts Uranus at the last ...
What happens when we dare to slow down and truly look within?
In today’s episode, we move through a guided introspection journey that takes you through a comprehensive self-reflection process that mirrors what I offer in my healing work. We'll explore your social identities, family history, attachment patterns, and relationship to your body and experiences. Each question serves as an invitation to witness yourself...
I hope you find this blooper collection silly and fun! It's short, so enjoy a break from my long-winded self.
What happens when we dare to speak our deepest truths? When we step into the fullness of who we are, without editing out the uncomfortable parts?
This episode marks a turning point in our journey together as I reveal the intersections of my social identities as a licensed psychotherapist, a queer woman, a mother, and—perhaps most vulnerably—a practicing witch. I explore how these parts of myself inform one an...
The journey toward transformation requires truth-telling— and I will go there with you, because our stories contain powerful magick and sharing them honestly creates pathways for healing and authentic connection. Join me in daring to face what is hidden, what is vulnerable, knowing that when we keep the truth about our experience hidden, we block the potential for genuine growth, connection, and the ability to disman...
Welcome to the first episode where we will be exploring the powerful energies of the dark moon, a liminal time that encompasses both life and death, opening up possibilities for our regeneration journey. Let's dare together to breathe into the darkness, slow down, and go deep into our experience across the dimensions of intergenerational patterning and social positioning to listen to the wisdom and power of our ...
Welcome to this brief introduction to my new podcast, To Dare, Together ~ Truth Seeking in the Depths for Healing, Transformation, and Collective Liberation. Full episodes to be released on the Dark Moon, Monday May 26, 2025! I hope you dare to join me then. Bye for now!
Recorded 5/23/25
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