Ecstatic Life

Creativity, Grief & Healing: Art, Unschooling & Spiritual Practice with Jocelyn Bates

In this episode of the Ecstatic Life Podcast, host Nicole Goff sits down with Jocelyn Bates, a multidisciplinary soul artist, Akashic Wisdom Keeper, and guide through grief, creativity, and spiritual transformation.

Jocelyn shares her powerful journey through the arts, expressive arts therapy, embodiment, and spiritual practice—and how creativity became both her medicine and her message. From painting, dance, theater, and storytelling to yoga nidra, Human Design, and the Akashic Records, Jocelyn’s work bridges the spiritual and physical, the emotional and the creative.

A central theme of this conversation is grief as a portal. After losing both of her parents in close succession, Jocelyn found herself navigating profound loss—and unexpected transformation. Through practices like Yoga Nidra and Akashic Records work, she accessed deep healing, reclaimed her creativity, and discovered how grief can open doorways to multidimensional healing, ancestral repair, and soul remembrance.

We also explore:

• Creativity as a spiritual and somatic healing practice

• Soul Art and emotional alchemy

• The body as a conduit between worlds

• Feeling safe in the body as a foundation for healing

• Unschooling and homeschooling as creative, soul-led practices

• Storytelling, the divine feminine, and embodied wisdom

• Navigating the Akashic Records to heal past lives and ancestral wounds

Jocelyn speaks beautifully about how creative expression—through movement, visual art, voice, and imagination—allows us to access our inner wisdom and move through life’s transitions with more grace and depth.

This episode is an invitation to soften, feel, create, and remember: your emotions are intelligent, your creativity is sacred, and your body is a living bridge between the seen and unseen.

Connect with Jocelyn: https://www.jocelynbates.net/ 

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What portals of transformation are you moving through right now? What creative practices are calling to support you? Share your reflections in the comments—we’d love to hear from you.

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Natural Solutions for Mental Health 2: Motherhood, Anxiety and Postpartum Depression

In this episode of The Ecstatic Life Podcast, I’m joined again by Shellbe Cucuel for part two of our conversation on natural solutions for mental and emotional well-being in motherhood—especially during the tender postpartum season.

We dive into the lived reality of new motherhood: the anxiety that creeps in, the nervous system overload, the quiet depletion that so many women normalize and silently endure. Shellbe shares her personal journey navigating stress and anxiety as a mother, and together we explore grounded, practical supports that actually work—hydration, electrolytes, nourishment, and the radical importance of feeding the mother.

This conversation is deeply nervous-system focused. We talk about why regulation matters more than willpower, how micro-moments of rest throughout the day can create real shifts, and why postpartum anxiety isn’t a personal failure—it’s a signal asking for care.

We also walk through a real client story involving postpartum anxiety, offering insight into what support can look like when a woman is truly seen, nourished, and held—physically, emotionally, and relationally.

This episode is an invitation to soften. To slow down. To stop pathologizing what is often a completely understandable response to depletion and isolation. And to remember that self-care isn’t extra—it’s foundational.

If you’re a mother feeling anxious, wired, foggy, or stretched thin… this conversation is for you.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

• Natural supports for postpartum anxiety

• Nervous system regulation in motherhood

• Hydration, electrolytes, and nutrition as mental health tools

• Why “mini-breaks” matter more than you think

• A real-life postpartum anxiety case study

• Reclaiming self-care as a necessity, not a luxury

Connect with Shellbe:

https://www.instagram.com/vital.roots.coaching/ 

https://www.youtube.com/@VitalRootsHolisticLifeCoaching

Join Shellbe and I inside of my Patreon $5/month club! https://www.patreon.com/c/NicoleGoffSpeaks 

From Survival to Soul: Healing Through Sound, Energy & Journaling with Maria Voorhees-Reincke

In this episode of The Ecstatic Life Podcast, I’m joined by Maria Voorhees-Reincke—intuitive energy healer, certified sound healing practitioner, and Reiki Master—whose work is devoted to guiding women out of survival mode and back into their soul.

After leaving an abusive relationship at just 22 with two young daughters, Maria began a profound healing journey that led her beyond talk therapy and into the transformative worlds of energy work, sound healing, and intuitive journaling. What started as survival slowly became self-trust, self-worth, and deep inner safety.

Now, through her business MVR Healing, Maria creates sacred spaces—both in person and online—where women can gently release trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect to their intuition and wholeness.

In this conversation, we explore:
• Maria’s personal healing journey and what truly helped her reclaim herself
• The power of sound healing and energy work for nervous system regulation
• Journaling as a tool for emotional release, clarity, and self-connection
• Energetic boundaries, grounding, and learning to feel safe in your body
• Why healing is not one-size-fits-all—and how to trust your own path

Maria also shares her free resource, “The First Steps to Healing: A Soul Guide to Reclaiming Your Life,” a beautiful starting point for women ready to begin their healing journey through simple, powerful journaling practices.

If you’ve been living in survival mode, holding it all together while quietly longing for peace, softness, and self-worth—this episode is for you.

✨ Connect with Maria:
Website: www.mvrhealing.com
Instagram: @mvrhealing
Facebook: MVR Healing

Before you move on with your day, take a moment to let this episode settle.
Feel your breath. Feel your body. Let whatever stirred soften and land.

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How Self-Care Restores Desire, Intimacy & Connection in Marriage

Self-care has been sold to women as indulgence, luxury, or something we earn after everything else is done.

But what if self-care is actually the foundation of desire, intimacy, and connection in marriage?

In this episode, we explore how tending to your nervous system and honoring your own needs directly impacts your relationship. Because when a woman is depleted, love feels heavy. And when she is regulated, nourished, and alive inside herself… intimacy finally has somewhere safe to land.

Inside this episode, we cover:

• Why self-care is not indulgence, but self-respect
  
  
• How chronic over-giving leads to burnout, resentment, and disconnection
  
  
• The role of nervous system regulation in restoring patience, presence, and desire
  
  
• Why regulation is only the baseline—and what comes after safety
  
  
• How boundaries around “me time” shift marriage dynamics
  
  
• Why a full cup makes you magnetic again—inside and in your relationship
  
  

This isn’t about fixing your partner or forcing intimacy when you don’t feel it.

It’s about coming back home to your body, filling yourself up first, and allowing love to flow naturally again.

✨ If this resonates, I invite you to go deeper inside REVIVE, my feminine reclamation coaching program for women ready to regulate their nervous systems, reconnect with their bodies, and reignite desire, intimacy, and devotion—starting with themselves. Join one of my coaching containers here -> https://www.nicolegoffspeaks.com/case-study-invite

Check out this episode for a deeper dive into nervous system healing and feminine energy: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-t9uyz-18b5842 

Why Homeschooling Is Rewriting Education as We Know It with Cheryl Daley

In this episode of the Ecstatic Life Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Daley for a grounded, honest, and surprisingly joyful conversation about what happens when families reclaim education.

Cheryl is a former 16-year government employee who followed the great 2020 plot twist straight into homeschooling—and never looked back. What began as a pandemic pivot became a full-bodied awakening into flexible learning, child-led curiosity, and education that actually fits real human lives. She shares the truth about the challenges and the magic, along with how her journey led her to write a children’s book on emergency preparedness and an eBook shaped by interviews with over 120 homeschooling families on The Homeschool How To Podcast.

Together, we unpack the big questions—socialization (spoiler: it’s not the problem people think it is), different homeschooling styles, agendas behind our public school system, and why experiential education changes everything.

I also weave in my own perspective as a two-decade homeschooling mama—homeschooling five children, running a thriving community co-op, and carrying the lived experience of being homeschooled myself. This isn’t theory for me. It’s lineage. It’s legacy. It’s watching children come alive when learning isn’t forced into boxes it was never meant to fit.

This episode is for the parents quietly questioning the system, craving more freedom, more connection, and more trust—in their children and themselves. If you’ve ever felt the nudge that education could be more alive, more humane, more ecstatic… this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

Connect with Cheryl:

Her website & publications: https://cheryldaley.com/

Her podcast: https://thehomeschoolhowto.com/

My interview on The Homeschool How To Podcast: https://thehomeschoolhowto.com/143-i-was-homeschooled-tried-public-school-then-homeschooled-my-5-kids-heres-what-i-learned/

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Gratitude & Manifestation: A Course on Creating a New Paradigm

In this final between seasons bonus episode, I’m opening the curtain and inviting you behind the scenes with a module from my latest group coaching course on Manifestation & Gratitude — the kind that actually changes your life, not just your mindset.

I share how manifestation, for me, is a full-bodied practice: aligning your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, and daily actions with your higher power and your deeper purpose. We talk about shifting out of scarcity, urgency, and proving… and into presence, gratitude, and embodied trust.

Inside this episode, I walk you through how I use journaling, scripting, visualization, and embodiment to live in the frequency of the dream fulfilled — being grateful as if it’s already here, while taking grounded, aligned steps in the present. I also share pieces of my own journey and how this work has supported not just my goals, but my relationships, my motherhood, and my sense of self.

We close with a glimpse into one of our family rituals — using an oracle deck to map the year ahead — as a reminder that intention-setting doesn’t have to be rigid or heavy. It gets to be sacred. It gets to be playful. Here's my affiliate link if you want to start this tradition, too: https://amzn.to/3N2DZlt

If you’re ready to stop waiting for the future and start embodying it, this episode is for you. And, if you're ready to really quantum leap, join my next group coaching course: https://www.nicolegoffspeaks.com/workshop-signup-page 

Raising Sovereign Children: A Christmas Eve Conversation with My Daughter

In this special Christmas Eve mini episode of The Ecstatic Life Podcast, I’m joined by one of my favorite humans on the planet — my 11-year-old daughter, Kora McKinzie, fresh off the launch of her very own cookie baking business, Kora’s Kookies.

Together, we cozy up for a heartwarming, real-life conversation about what it looks like to grow up curious, capable, and wildly self-led. Kora shares how she started her baking business, including her love for both classic treats and alternative goodies like paleo cookies, and what it’s like balancing entrepreneurship with everyday responsibilities.

We also chat about homeschooling, our relaxed and intuitive approach to learning, spiritual practices, caring for animals, and the rhythms of family life. And because it’s Christmas Eve, we sprinkle in a little holiday magic — reminiscing about old traditions, welcoming new ones, and savoring the sweetness of the season.

This episode is a beautiful glimpse into raising sovereign children, nurturing creativity, and allowing kids to follow what lights them up — all while learning responsibility, devotion, and joy.

Pour yourself something warm, settle in, and enjoy this festive, feel-good conversation. From our family to yours — happy holidays. 💗🎄🍪

What is Feminine Reclamation: Nicole Goff on the Fearless Motherhood Podcast

In this special episode of Ecstatic Life, I’m sharing a powerful conversation from my appearance on the Fearless Motherhood Podcast — one that dives straight into the heart of feminine reclamation, burnout recovery, and coming home to yourself.

As a mother of five, I open up about the season where resentment, exhaustion, and self-abandonment nearly swallowed me whole… and how healing my nervous system, reclaiming my passions, and rebuilding meaningful connection completely transformed my life. That awakening became the catalyst for my coaching work, my sisterhood circles, and the birth of this podcast.

This episode is a reminder that motherhood doesn’t have to mean martyrdom — and that joy, desire, and devotion to yourself are not luxuries, but necessities. If you’re craving deeper embodiment, real connection, and permission to choose yourself again, this one is for you.

I also share ways you can step into this work more deeply — through my sisterhood circles and by supporting Ecstatic Life on Patreon, where I offer bonus content and behind-the-scenes magic. https://www.patreon.com/c/NicoleGoffSpeaks/membership 

Pour yourself a cup of something warm, settle into your body, and let this conversation remind you what’s possible when you choose yourself.

Check out the Fearless Motherhood Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-747pj-128f561