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The Underbelly of the Village: Subtle Sabotage & the Sister Wound
Episode 1315th December 2025 • Matriarchal Medicine • Audrey Thorp
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Throughout this season of Matriarchal Medicine, we’ve talked a lot about community — sisterhood, collaboration, and the village so many women are longing for as mothers and entrepreneurs.

But in this finale, Audrey goes to the place most conversations avoid: the underbelly of the village.

The subtle sabotage.

The quiet competition.

The relationships that smile on the surface but can’t actually hold your expansion.

This episode is a grounded, honest exploration of the shadow side of sisterhood — why not everyone in your circle wants you to win, how this pattern traces back through history and the witch hunts, and what it asks of us now as women reclaiming matriarchal leadership.

Rather than blaming or bypassing, Audrey invites radical responsibility: to look at where we’ve stayed small to belong, where we’ve tolerated relationships that drain us, and how we begin choosing community that can celebrate us out loud.

This is not a call to isolation it’s a call to discernment, integrity, and embodied belonging.

In This Episode, We Explore

  • Why community can feel painful even when everyone is “doing the work”
  • The nervous-system cost of expanding in spaces that can’t truly hold you
  • Subtle sabotage, comparison, and polite withdrawal — and how to name them without gaslighting yourself
  • How historical trauma fractured women’s trust in one another
  • The unconscious payoff of staying small or tolerated
  • Why resentment is a signal, not a moral failure
  • What mature, matriarchal sisterhood actually requires
  • How to build community rooted in reciprocity, honesty, and safety, not fantasy

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