Cycles, Ceremony & Sovereignty: A Conversation About Embracing Aging and Celebrating Feminine Power

Episode Summary:

In this brave and expansive conversation, Adina sits down with Rev. DiAnna Ritola to explore her powerful journey from a life defined by external expectations to one rooted in intuition, embodiment, and spiritual authenticity. Together, they unpack themes of womanhood, self-care, spirituality, aging, and feminine empowerment through all life stages, including menstruation, motherhood, and menopause.

Topics Covered:

• Breaking free from prescribed roles and expectations
• Listening to the body’s signals and reclaiming joy
• Living in integrity with personal truth
• Religious imprints and the path to authentic spirituality
• The value of ritual and ceremony for honoring and celebrating life transitions
• Embracing menopausal wisdom, rage, and transformation
• Reimagining beauty, aging, and feminine identity
• Tapping into ancestral, communal, and natural wisdom

Guest:

DiAnna Ritola
Interfaith Minister • Dianic Wiccan Priestess • Somatic Healer • Spiritual Counselor• Author

Rev. DiAnna Ritola is an Interfaith Minister and a Dianic Wiccan priestess. She is the owner of True North Healing Sanctuary in Worthington, MA. There she hosts retreats and workshops, offers energy and somatic healing practices, virtual and in-person spiritual counseling for trauma, intimate relationships, and sexuality, and rituals to honor life events and passages. She is the author of the book, Mismatched Luggage: Unpacking Your Sexual Baggage for Your Spiritual Journey. DiAnna and her wife, Michele Fitzsimmons, split their time between Worthington and Flushing, Queens, NYC.

True North Healing Sanctuary is a place to find rest, rejuvenation, and spiritual counseling. Offering EMDR, plant medicine journeys, transpersonal counseling, Reiki and Jin Shin Jyutsu energy healing. Focusing on women's full-spectrum health and well-being with an emphasis on sexuality, relationships, and the way all our lives are impacted and informed by our hormonal cycles.

Website: DiAnnaRitola.com

Facebook: Rev. DiAnna Ritola

Instagram: @rev_di

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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