Ep #59 | Embracing Your Feminine Superpower: Healing Through Community with Maraya Brown and Missy Rae
This is my first dual interview, joining me are two fabulous guests, Maraya Brown and Missy Rae founders of Beyond The Red Tent. I have been working for many years in creating awareness and supporting women in celebrating our superpower that consists in having our menstrual cycles and an incredible endocrine system.
Beyond The Red Tent was inspired by the book The Red Tent, that I read in my early 20s and which definitely influenced the work that I do today. There is a lack of deep connection in today’s society, of sharing our experiences and stories to support each other and to pass on to future generations.
Beyond the Red Tent is a community that has the certainty that every woman deserves to feel safe, valued, vibrant and loved, through access to education and mentorship in an inclusive community, one that is created for women by women.
These are the main topics talked about in this awesome episode:
- How Beyond The Red Tent began.
- Offering a space for women to be courageous and vulnerable.
- Beyond The Red Tent. is an inclusive, in person and online healing circle, that educates, inspires and empowers women to live their best lives.
- How Maraya and Missy choose the experts who fit into their holistic education mission.
- Strict guidelines in the group in order to create a safe space.
- Maraya and Missy talk about witnessing those a-ha moments that transform women’s lives.
- There are options to post anonymously in their facebook group.
- The future for Beyond The Red Tent: upcoming yearly retreats.
- What can a woman get from Beyond The Red Tent that she may not already be getting from her current connections?
- What Maraya and Missy want to achieve through Beyond The Red Tent.
- You are perfect exactly being who you are.
- Prioritize self care: filling your own cup must be the first thing.
- A way to simplify your life sometimes is to just say “no”.
I hope you were inspired by this special episode and encouraged to feel that you are enough, you are perfect in your own unique way. Remember that community heals, you are not alone! Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!
You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast
Can’t wait to meet you in person on Saturday, November 23rd in New Market at the Natural Health Expo’s 1st annual event, 11 am to 4 pm, over 60 vendors will be there! You can’t miss this opportunity!
Learn more about Maraya Brown and Missy Rae:
Beyond The Red Tent Facebook Community
Beyond The Red Tent on Instagram
Email Maraya and Missy at beyondtheredtent@gmail.com
Maraya Brown
Maraya is a Yale Trained CNM, MSN with her undergraduate in marketing (1999). Her first career was in the corporate world with P&G, living in L.A. In 2003, she embarked on a 1-year solo around-the-world trip and then started Grad School at Yale. She has taught at the Chinese Medicine College on the Big Island of Hawaii (lived there for 8 years) and is in the process of getting her certification through the Institute of Functional Medicine. She runs the women’s health at a local functional medicine family practice. She has facilitated women’s circles for 12 years. She is also Reiki certified, has gone through Peruvian shamanic practice training and has attended births all over the world (West Africa, Central America, Haiti). She married a man who proposed on their first date (January 2007) and they have 3 children together (all home birth babies), ages 6, 4 and 1. She was raised by multiple parents, multiple marriages/divorces and multiple religions (Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Rajneesh).
Missy Rae
As a mother of 5 Missy’s experience is one of “mom street cred”. She dropped out of high-school, married at 18 and had 3 children by the time she was 23. After almost 15 years of marriage, she parted ways with her high school sweetheart and went on a quest for personal development over the next few years that included diving deep into yoga, aromatherapy, tarot cards, and meditation. Missy is a self-taught photographer and has been published in National Geographic. She worked as a birth doula with teenage mothers in a hospital setting for two years and attended home births as a midwifery apprentice. Missy holds an aromatherapy certification and has extensive self taught knowledge around health, nutrition, and cooking. After remarrying and having two more children Missy grew her YouTube channel with her babywearing and lifestyle videos and was an ambassador for a well known UK babywearing company. She also has the current perspective of raising multicultural children.
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Quotes:
“Many women go through their journeys alone.”
“Women are craving for community and answers to their questions.”
“History is also her-story, a gift for future generations for women to come.”
“Women tend to sit back and don ́t talk.”
“You are perfect how you are, you are enough exactly being who you are.”
“All your answers lie within you, trust your intuition.”
“Noone has the best solution for me than me.”
Additional Information About Jenn:
Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium and Juice Plus.
Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.