The Conversations with Cacao Podcast

“Cacao finds you when you’re ready for heart opening.” — Sabine Betchard

In this episode of Conversations with Cacao, Sabine Betchard — cacao facilitator, photographer, artist, and founder of Countryside Campground & Cabins — shares her story of connection with nature, motherhood, and community.

We explore how cacao finds us when we’re ready for heart opening, how creativity becomes ceremony, and how authenticity and play invite us back to our most alive and grounded selves.

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Connect with Sabine Betchard:
🌿 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/countryside.campground/
🏕️ Website: https://countrysidecampgroundandcabins.com/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countrysidecampgroundandcabins/
✨ Igloo 2022 Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZNsvqEhfhC/?hl=en
✨ Igloo 2025 Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEuZJTRx_vy/?hl=en 

#Cacao #CacaoCeremony #ConversationsWithCacao #Motherhood #Photography #Nature #Community #Authenticity #PersonalGrowth #Spirituality #CacaoFacilitator #HeartOpening #Transformation

What if cacao could help you mother yourself, reclaim ancestral wisdom, and move through life with more grace?

In this rich and soulful episode, Christina Montano—mother, healer, and founder of Infinite Mother—shares her sacred journey into conscious birth work, cacao as a heart medicine, and the alchemy of movement. We explore the medicine of motherhood, Andean cosmology, rituals for emotional grounding, and how the Great Mother lives within us all.

This is for the mothers, the midwives of a new world, and anyone navigating the beauty and complexity of being human.

☕ Let this be your warm cup of remembrance.

🌿 Timestamps:
00:00 Grounding & Presence
10:01 Cacao Ceremony: A Heart-Opening Gateway
20:07 Christina’s Journey with Healing & Light
30:07 Meeting the Great Mother
36:54 Energetic Support & Divine Mothering
44:43 Healing the Motherhood Wound
53:38 Conscious Motherhood & Grounded Rituals
01:00:49 Movement as Medicine
01:10:43 Cacao: A Bridge to Inner Wisdom
01:19:50 Andean Cosmology & Personal Connection
01:28:36 The Spirit of Cacao as Global Elixir
01:41:40 Closing Blessings

🌸 Offerings from Christina Montano:
💻 Infinite Mother Holistic Birthing Course
Awaken your journey of conscious birth, postpartum & beyond.
👉 Launch April 24 or June 5
✨ Use code Love22 for $295 off!

🎥 Free Webinar: Awakening the Journey of Birth, Postpartum & Beyond
🗓️ April 17 & May 29
🔗 Watch/Join Here

🌍 Spirit of Cacao Peru Retreat
A 10-day journey of healing & remembrance in the Sacred Valley
🗓️ January 16–25, 2026
👉 Retreat Details

🌞 Free Monthly Online Sunday Cacao Circles (9:00 AM EST)
🗓️ First Sunday of every month (2025)
🔗 Link coming soon!

🌕 Full Moon & New Moon In-Person Cacao Ceremonies in Maine
📍 Follow updates on Instagram: @ChristinaMontanoMaine

💞 Private 1:1 Sessions & Custom Retreats in Maine
🧘 Cacao Healing • Wellness Coaching • Plant Medicine Integration
👉 Contact Christina

🌱 Spirit of Cacao Festival | Blue Hill, Maine
🗓️ August 2, 2025
🔗 Link to follow

🌐 Website: https://www.christinamontano.com
📧 Contact: https://www.christinamontano.com/contact

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In this heartfelt episode of Conversations with Cacao, artist and intuitive healer Shaunda Gabink shares her transformative journey through Long COVID, exploring how cacao ceremonies, creative expression, and ancestral wisdom have been pivotal in her healing process.

We delve into:

The role of cacao in emotional and physical healing

Navigating the challenges of Long COVID with compassion

Embracing creativity and intuition as tools for recovery

Insights from Mayan cosmology and lucid dreaming

The importance of community and storytelling in healing

Whether you're seeking solace, inspiration, or understanding, this episode offers a profound exploration of healing through connection and creativity.

⏳ Chapters
00:00 – Grounding into Presence
09:16 – Cacao Blessing and Intentions
12:54 – Journey with Cacao
18:40 – Creativity and Intuition
22:56 – The Artist of Life
30:48 – Mayan Cosmology and Cacao
33:15 – Tattoo Apprenticeship and Intuition
36:44 – Navigating Grief and Creativity
41:54 – The Cycles of Creativity
44:40 – Understanding Emotions and Healing
51:17 – The Journey Through Long COVID
58:47 – Finding Balance and Healing
01:01:44 – Intentional Creativity and Cacao Rituals
01:04:36 – Claiming Your Healing Journey
01:17:01 – Reprogramming the Body and Mind
01:20:32 – The Journey of Self-Compassion
01:22:17 – Meditation and Emotional Awareness
01:25:23 – The Power of Breath and Emotion
01:27:00 – Creativity and Intuition Unfolding
01:30:11 – Mythology and Personal Transformation
01:36:26 – The Healing Power of Dreams
01:48:13 – Connection and Community Through Cacao

🔗 Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
🧠 Jill Bolte Taylor – My Stroke of Insight (TED Talk)
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=en

📜 Dresden Codex & Mayan Wisdom
https://www.wayeb.org/download/resources/dresden01.pdf
https://chocolateclass.wordpress.com/tag/dresden-codex/

📚 Maya Culture & Spirituality
https://oxomedia.net/
https://thefourpillars.net/
https://www.mayaukux.com/

🧘 Pema Chödrön Foundation
https://pemachodronfoundation.org/

🎙️ Long COVID Podcast
https://www.longcovidpodcast.com/

🌙 Charlie Morley – Lucid Dreaming
https://www.charliemorley.com

📚 Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson Series
📖 Richard Adams – Watership Down

📬 Connect with Shaunda: [email protected]

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Steph shares her journey with cacao, the birth of Sacred Sips, and how this heart-opening plant has helped her—and so many others—heal, soften, and remember the sacred.

💗 Sisterhood
🌹 Divine Feminine & Mary Magdalene
🌿 Safe spaces for healing & connection
🔥 The joy of being human

Drop a 💖 in the comments if you’re tuning in.

00:00 – Centering Into Presence and Breath
08:22 – A Heart-Opening Blessing with Mama Cacao
19:29 – Unconditional Love and the Practice of Self-Compassion
31:16 – Identity, Shadow, and the Journey of Personal Transformation
38:52 – Cacao as a Catalyst for Spiritual Awakening
42:50 – Sacred Sips: Building a Community of Healing Through Cacao
45:32 – Cacao and the Feminine: A Journey into Embodiment and Connection
48:59 – Personal Transformation Through Daily Cacao Ritual
52:28 – Bringing Cacao to New Audiences and Healing New Communities
55:46 – How to Create Safe, Inclusive Spaces for Ceremony
01:00:09 – Balancing the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine
01:05:01 – Disrupting Old Patterns and Living the New Earth Frequency
01:09:33 – Mary Magdalene, Devotion, and Feminine Awakening
01:17:56 – Sisterhood and the Collective Healing of the Sister Wound
01:23:48 – Breaking the Cycle: Healing Generational Feminine Wounds
01:26:46 – Empowering Young Women and Educating Young Men
01:30:08 – Awakening the Divine Masculine Within
01:34:19 – Trusting the Healing Process and Letting Go of Control
01:38:59 – The Power of the Heart and Embodied Leadership
01:44:35 – Cacao’s Mission on Earth and Humanity’s Role
01:46:02 – Remembering the Joy of Being Fully Human
01:52:55 – Closing Cacao Blessings and Integration Practices
01:59:52 – The Heart Behind Sacred Sips Cacao
02:00:30 – Offerings, Community, and Continuing the Journey

 

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As a gift,  I offer you a step by step menstrual rite and invitation to join me in offering our moon-blood (or transfigured wine) to the Earth from the comfort of home. Just click here https://bloodmysteries.pages.ontraport.net/optin  to download your pdf guide and also receive how to collect and store your moon-blood, an offering song and other resources to support your reclamation of your womb & blood as sacred, powerful and wise.

In this rich and soul-stirring episode of Conversations with Cacao, host Alexandra Gabrielle Schooley-Marks welcomes Catalina Rivera-Dois—ceremonialist, healer, and guide of feminine flow—for a profound dialogue on the medicine of cacao and the reclamation of sacred feminine wisdom.

Together, Alex and Catalina explore cacao as a powerful plant ally that opens the heart, connects us to nature, and invites us into deeper ceremony, gratitude, and presence. Catalina shares her personal journey with cacao, the beauty of moon blood rituals, and the transformative power of honoring the earth through offerings and embodied reverence.

This episode moves through the essence of surrender, the balance between divine feminine and masculine energies, and the historical and spiritual weight of the witch wound. Catalina offers reflections on how healing begins with humility, trust, and cultivating deep relationships with the land and plant medicine.

Whether you’re a practitioner of ritual, curious about the feminine mysteries, or longing to feel more grounded and empowered in your spiritual path, this conversation invites you to slow down, listen to the land, and remember your own magic.

🎧 Listen in for:

The sacred power of cacao as heart medicine

Moon blood as a source of feminine strength and wisdom

Healing the witch wound and reclaiming our gifts

Embodied connection to nature through ritual and offering

Navigating cultural respect in plant medicine work

Awakening the land through ceremony and sacred feminine presence

The role of surrender in spiritual transformation

Becoming indigenous to place through devotion and relationship

✨ Key Takeaways:

Cacao creates space for healing, heart connection, and community

Ritual is a portal to reclaim the sacred feminine

Offering moon blood to the earth deepens our bond with nature

The witch wound still shapes how women express their spiritual gifts

Honoring the land and indigenous wisdom is a collective responsibility

Life becomes magical when we live in reverence and reciprocity

🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Setting the Space for Connection
07:45 The Blessing of Cacao
16:49 Catalina's Journey with Cacao
24:57 Connection to the Earth and Nature
30:27 Reclaiming the Power of Moon Blood
38:53 The Divine Feminine and Masculine Balance
44:00 Connecting with Nature's Frequencies
48:01 The Power of Surrender
57:58 Understanding the Witch Wound
01:09:59 Building Relationships with Plant Medicine
01:26:49 Awakening to Nature's Magic
01:29:29 The Power of Offerings
01:30:50 Reconnecting with the Land
01:32:42 The Role of Sacred Women
01:35:00 Cacao as Heart Medicine
01:40:14 Cultural Appropriation and Respect
01:47:40 Becoming Indigenous to the Land
01:55:43 Celebrating Humanity's Connection to Nature

🔍 Keywords:
Cacao, Feminine Flow, Moon Blood, Plant Medicine, Ceremony, Connection to Nature, Divine Feminine, Divine Masculine, Healing, Spirituality, Witch Wound, Cacao Ceremonies, Indigenous Wisdom, Offerings, Sacred Women, Heart Medicine, Cultural Respect, Spiritual Journey, Surrender, Nature Connection, Empowerment