{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The land, the story, the soul: How to reclaim what was lost - Stephanie MacKay","description":"In this week\u2019s show Lian is joined by Stephanie MacKay. Stephanie is a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong\u2014to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. As founder and director of Fianna Wilderness School, she has spent the past 15+ years guiding rites of passage, seasonal myth circles, and nature-based mentorship rooted in the wilds. Stephanie\u2019s work braids together her Celtic ancestry, years of deep study with Mart\u00edn Prechtel and the Animas Valley Institute, and a fierce love of story as medicine. She is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of ancient European stories. Drawing from the wellspring of these old mythologies, she seeks to uncover the hidden pathways that lead us to our cultural origins\u2014reviving traditions long forgotten and reawakening the deep cultural wisdom carried in our bones. Whether she\u2019s guiding wilderness quests, tending seasonal myth circles, or walking the long road of cultural regeneration, Stephanie\u2019s devotion is to the deep remembering of who we are and how we belong\u2014through mythic threads that call us back into sacred relationship with the world. In this episode, Lian and Stephanie explore the deep, woven threads that bind our personal myths to the land beneath our feet. Together, they journey through the ways in which stories live within us\u2026 ancient seeds waiting for the right conditions to sprout. Stephanie reflects on how her own path led her from disconnection back into a living relationship with land and story, and how myth can offer us both memory and medicine. They explore the longing many of us feel to recover our cultural roots, and how stories act as carriers of ancestral wisdom across time and place. From childhood connections to the land, to the rediscovery of myth as a portal into belonging, they speak of how both land and story hold the potential to restore us to ourselves. Along the way, Lian and Stephanie reflect on myths such as Cinderella and Iron John\u2026 tales often dismissed yet still holding profound keys for our times. At the heart of this conversation is a reverence for the slow, relational work of remembering: tending to the land beneath us, listening for the stories that call us home, and understanding that these are not separate acts\u2026 but parts of the same ancient dance between earth and soul. We\u2019d love to know what YOU think about this week\u2019s show. Let\u2019s carry on the conversation\u2026 please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you\u2019ll learn from this episode: How reconnecting with the origins of our surroundings\u2026 even something as simple as a table or a weaving\u2026 can begin to restore our relationship with land and story. Why stories carry ancestral memory and wisdom, offering us a way back to belonging even when our cultural roots feel severed. How working with myth both psychologically and spiritually invites us into deeper relationship\u2026 with ourselves, with the land, and with the unseen. Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Stephanie\u2019s website Fianna Wilderness School website Join UNIO, the Academy of the Soul: This is for the old souls in this new world\u2026 Discover your kin & unite with your soul\u2019s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https:\/\/www.bemythical.com\/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul\u2019s calling to truly live your myth: https:\/\/www.bemythical.com\/unio Go Deeper: https:\/\/www.bemythical.com\/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). ","author_name":"The Wild Sovereign Soul Show","author_url":"https:\/\/www.bemythical.com\/","html":"