In this episode of From Within She Rises, Jessie Cae returns to The Woman Who Ends Eras series with a radical re-reading of Demeter  not as a punishing goddess, but as a mirror for the inner world and the collective nervous system.

We’re taught that winter exists because Persephone descends into the underworld.
But the myth actually shows us something far more confronting:

Persephone is the trauma.
Demeter is the unintegrated response.

When Demeter cannot metabolize the grief of her daughter being taken, life itself withdraws. Not as punishment. Not as control. But because an unintegrated nervous system cannot continue to produce as if nothing happened.

This episode explores how unprocessed grief, fear, rage, and violation don’t stay personal — they project outward, shaping our relationships, communities, and collective reality. Jessie breaks down how villain-seeking and savior-seeking are both avoidance strategies that keep us stuck in loops of projection rather than integration.

Through myth, nervous system truth, and lived examples, this conversation reframes the chaos of the world as a reflection of dysregulated systems at scale and offers a grounded, embodied path forward.

Eras don’t end through war.
They end through integration.

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