Damsel Detox

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Podcast by Spring Sage

Damsel Detox

Once upon a time, you were handed a script. Be nice. Be chosen. Be quiet. Be saved. But deep down, you’ve always known: you were meant for more. More truth. More depth. More freedom. Damsel Detox is a podcast for those who are tired of shrinking to fit a story that was never theirs— and are ready to reclaim their power, rewrite the narrative, and live from the inside out. Every 7 weeks, we explore a well-known fairytale through a transformational lens— unpacking the metaphors, subconscious patterns, and emotional truths hidden in the stories we’ve been living. These aren’t just conversations. They’re invitations to remember who you are— and choose who you’re becoming. If you’ve ever felt like you were too much, not enough, or trapped in a life that doesn’t feel like your own—this space was made for you. Season 2 begins June 24 with Beauty & the Beast—a journey through identity, self-rescue, and the boundaries that set you free. For deeper support, integration tools, and live coaching, explore the Damsel Detox Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com. Because the real magic? It was always yours. The tools shared are designed for personal insight and self-discovery — not medical or psychological treatment.
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13 June 2025

Gretel's Return

⚠️Disclaimer & Content Warning:

This episode is intended for educational and empowerment purposes only and does not substitute for therapy or medical care. The views expressed are those of the hosts, shared through the lens of archetype, story, and lived experience.

This episode explores themes of abandonment, childhood trauma, starvation, survival, and psychological patterning. While explored through myth and metaphor, listener discretion is advised — especially if you’re feeling tender, overwhelmed, or vulnerable. We encourage you to listen in a grounded, supportive space and pause anytime you need.

🔍 Episode Synopsis:

What happens after the detox? In this season finale, Spring shares Gretel’s final monologue — a sacred reclaiming of self-trust, sovereignty, and personal power. Through story, metaphor, and reflection, this episode explores what it means to stop waiting for rescue and start walking with your own fire. No saviors. Only catalysts. And the pen in your hand.

📖 Fairytale Source:

Today’s episode features reflections from both the 1812 and 1857 versions of Hansel & Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm, a public domain story.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

You’re listening to Damsel Detox, part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation. For more information on Saging the Mind, visit www.sagingthemind.com

🎵 Musical Magic: “March of the Gnomes” by Jon Björk and Fay in the Mist by Magnus Ludvigsson licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/damseldetox

Instagram: @sagingthemind or @damseldetoxpodcast

Step inside The Damsel Detox Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com. Doors reopen June 21. For access to guided meditations, group coaching, exclusives, bonuses, and a private circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

🗝 Ready to go deeper?

Explore 1:1 hypnosis and subconscious story alchemy with Spring Sage at Saging the Mind: www.sagingthemind.com

Because your story deserves sacred support—

and the next chapter begins now.

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27 May 2025

Push Comes to Shove: Gretel’s Moment of Power

⚠️Disclaimer & Content Warning:

This episode is intended for educational and empowerment purposes only and does not substitute for therapy or medical care. The views expressed are those of the hosts, shared through the lens of archetype, story, and lived experience.

This episode explores themes of abandonment, childhood trauma, starvation, survival, and psychological patterning. While explored through myth and metaphor, listener discretion is advised — especially if you’re feeling tender, overwhelmed, or vulnerable. We encourage you to listen in a grounded, supportive space and pause anytime you need.

🔍 Episode Synopsis:

Once upon a time, survival meant staying small, quiet, and obedient. But not for Gretel. Not anymore.

In this chapter of our Hansel & Gretel arc, Spring and Elissa return to the oven — not as a place of fear, but as a sacred symbol of transformation, choice, and feminine fire. What does it really mean to “push the witch into the oven”? What shadows are burned away — and what strength is born from the flames?

Together, we unravel:

  • The misunderstood power of feminine energy (hint: it’s not weakness)
  • How imbalance in the masculine energy can lead to control, burnout, or avoidance
  • Why Gretel’s transformation is a metaphor for reclaiming your inner agency
  • The symbolic meaning of the oven, the duck, and crossing emotional rivers
  • Plus: story-coded reflections on people-pleasing, community breakdowns, and how reclaiming your voice can feel like a rebirth

They also pull back the curtain on their two very different healing modalities — hypnotherapy and subconscious reprogramming versus shamanic energy work— and how these tools are used in 1:1 coaching, Storybook Regression, Shamanic Healing and inside the Damsel Detox Inner Kingdom and Vault Membership Whether you’re craving a solo journey or a community quest, this episode shows how each path can lead to your own sacred sovereignty.

✨ The next episode? We coach Gretel — live.

Don’t miss this powerful integration moment as the story meets the subconscious.

📖 Fairytale Source:

Today’s episode features reflections from both the 1812 and 1857 versions of Hansel & Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm, a public domain story.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

You’re listening to Damsel Detox, part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation. For more information on Saging the Mind, visit www.sagingthemind.com

🎵 Musical Magic: “March of the Gnomes” by Jon Björk licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Step inside The Damsel Detox Inner Kingdom & Vault at www.damseldetox.com

Access guided meditations, group coaching, exclusives, bonuses, and a private circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

🗝 Ready to go deeper?

Explore 1:1 hypnosis and subconscious story alchemy with Spring at Saging the Mind: www.sagingthemind.com

For personalized shamanic healing sessions, soul retrieval, or energy clearing, connect with Elissa directly at touchofsoul11@gmail.com

Because your story deserves sacred support—

and the next chapter begins now.

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20 May 2025

The Witch, the Womb & the Wound

⚠️Disclaimer & Content Warning:

This episode is intended for educational and empowerment purposes only and does not substitute for therapy or medical care. The views expressed are those of the hosts and guest, shared through the lens of archetype, story, and lived experience.

This episode contains symbolic and personal discussion of the Mother Wound, including emotional abandonment, grief, generational trauma, estrangement, childhood loss, birth trauma, and survival patterns. While explored through myth and metaphor, listener discretion is advised — especially if you’re feeling tender, overwhelmed, or vulnerable. We encourage you to listen in a grounded, supportive space and pause anytime you need.

🔍 Episode Synopsis:

What if the oven wasn’t just a trap—but a metaphor for the womb?

In this deep-dive episode of Damsel Detox: Awakening the Hero, hosts Spring Sage and Elissa Schwarz welcome guest Cosmic Kat, a UK-based coach and professional witch who specializes in healing the mother wound—especially in neurodivergent women.

Together, they explore the archetypes woven into Hansel & Gretel, decode survival patterns shaped by abandonment, enmeshment, and ancestral echoes, and examine how the “candy houses” in our lives can reflect unhealed wounds. Through story, laughter, and symbolic insight, they discuss how the witch, the womb, and even the oven hold keys to deep feminine empowerment and emotional reclamation.

Whether your wound is absence, loss, codependency, or emotional disconnect, this episode invites you to be the hero of your own story—one breadcrumb at a time.

📖 Fairytale Source:

Today’s episode features reflections from both the 1812 and 1857 versions of Hansel & Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm, a public domain story.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

You’re listening to Damsel Detox, part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation.

🎵 Musical Magic: “March of the Gnomes” by Jon Björk licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Step inside The Damsel Detox Vault and Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com to access guided meditations, workshops, story-based coaching, and a circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

👤 Guest Info:

Cosmic Kat

🌍 Location: Nottingham, England

💫 Roles: Coach, Tarot Reader, Sound Healer, Crystal Worker, Professional Witch

🌀 Specialty: Healing the Mother Wound with spiritual, mystical, and neurodivergent-friendly practices

📲 Instagram: @cosmickatspirit_11

🌐 Website: www.cosmickatspirit.com

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13 May 2025

Candy-Coated Cages: Seeing Through the Illusion of Safety

⚠️ Disclaimer & Content Warning:

This episode is intended for educational and empowerment purposes only and does not substitute for therapy or medical care. The views expressed are those of the hosts and are offered through the lens of story, archetype, and metaphor.

This episode includes symbolic discussion of child abandonment, survival trauma, food addiction, codependency, distorted feminine energy, and historical references to famine and cannibalism. While explored through a mythic and subconscious lens, listener discretion is advised, especially for sensitive or vulnerable moments.

🗺️ Synopsis:

Candy-Coated Cages: Seeing Through the Illusion of Safety

In Part 2 of our Hansel & Gretel series, Spring and Elissa peel back the sugar-frosted layers of the candy house to expose what’s really inside: soul cages, survival patterns, and the illusion of comfort.

We explore the witch as the shadow mother, Hansel as the caged masculine, and the subtle ways codependency, people-pleasing, and ancestral wounding keep us trapped in sweet-looking structures that starve us from the inside.

This isn’t just a tale of breadcrumbs and bonbons—it’s a map for anyone who’s ever stayed too long in something that looked good on the outside but quietly consumed them from within.

📖 Fairytale Source:

Today’s episode features reflections from both the 1812 and 1857 versions of Hansel & Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm, a public domain story.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

You’re listening to Damsel Detox, part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation.

🎵 Musical Magic: “March of the Gnomes” by Jon Björk licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Step inside The Damsel Detox Vault and Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com to access guided meditations, workshops, story-based coaching, and a circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

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06 May 2025

Hansel & Gretel: Into the Woods, Into the Shadows

⚠️ Disclaimer & Content Warning:

This episode is intended for educational and empowerment purposes only and does not substitute for therapy or medical care. The views expressed are those of the hosts and are offered through the lens of story, archetype, and metaphor.

This episode includes symbolic discussion of child abandonment, famine, survival trauma, and historical references to cannibalism. While explored through a mythic and subconscious lens, listener discretion is advised, especially for sensitive or vulnerable moments.

📖 Fairytale Source:

Today’s episode features a symbolic retelling of Hansel & Gretel, a public domain story. Our references are drawn from both the 1812 and 1857 versions published by the Brothers Grimm.

🗺️ Episode Title & Synopsis:

Into the Shadows: Surviving the Forest in Hansel & Gretel

Step into the forest with Spring and Elissa as they unpack the raw, unfiltered lessons of Hansel & Gretel. From questionable parenting decisions to breadcrumb trails that lead nowhere, this episode explores the balance of masculine and feminine energy, survival instincts, subconscious forests, and how real transformation often begins where safety ends. With metaphors, myth, and a sprinkle of hot tamales, this isn’t your childhood fairytale—it’s an initiation.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

You’re listening to Damsel Detox, part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation.

🎵 Musical Magic: “March of the Gnomes” by Jon Björk and “My Sleeping Giant” by DEX 1200, licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Step inside The Damsel Detox Vault and Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com to access guided meditations, workshops, story-based coaching, and a circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

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02 May 2025

Snow White's Ending Isn’t Happily Ever After — It’s Self-Awareness

In this final Snow White episode, Spring and Elissa reflect on the symbolic journey we’ve taken—from poisoned apples and inner dwarves to shattered mirrors and reclaimed sovereignty.

What if awakening isn’t a rescue... but a return?

In this episode, you’ll meet your inner dwarves as parts of your subconscious, understand the mirror not as judgment but as truth, and reframe your story through clarity, compassion, and mythic insight.

It’s not the end—it’s the beginning of the story you were meant to tell.

🎵 Musical Magic: "March of the Gnomes" by Jon Björk, licensed through Epidemic Sound.

🧚‍♀️ A Note from the Realm:

Damsel Detox is part of Saging the Mind—a sacred space for subconscious work, symbolic storytelling, and self-led transformation.

⚖️ Disclaimer:

Damsel Detox and Saging the Mind offer coaching, mythic frameworks, and symbolic tools for self-awareness and personal growth.

This content is not a substitute for professional mental health care. We do not diagnose, treat, or offer therapy.

All fairytale references, including those inspired by public domain works and well-known adaptations such as Disney, are used for educational, metaphorical, and transformational purposes under fair use. No affiliation or endorsement by Disney or any copyright holders is implied.

🗝️ Remember: You are the guide of your experience, and your pace is sacred.

✨ Continue the journey:

Step inside The Damsel Detox Vault and Inner Kingdom at www.damseldetox.com to access guided meditations, workshops, story-based coaching, and a circle of fellow seekers rewriting their stories in real time.

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