A warm look at postpartum care, body symptoms, and the work of healing a family line.
Sister Yaya's return gives Keep Expecting Miracles a quiet, intimate conversation about postpartum care, womb healing, body symptoms, and the family line.
Keep Expecting Miracles
Ilissa McDonald and Jessica Ewing
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Soft spirituality for real-life becoming.
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Keep Expecting Miracles follows Alyssa, Jessica, and a returning guest through reflective conversations on growth, faith, embodiment, and emotional release. The show suits listeners who like spirituality grounded in everyday stories, journaling prompts, parenting reflections, and honest check-ins.
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About Keep Expecting Miracles
Keep Expecting Miracles is a spiritual-growth show shaped by conversation, reflection, and everyday noticing. Alyssa and Jessica appear across episodes as the familiar pair at the center of the room. Their rhythm is loose and responsive. A check-in about spring break, Sunday recording, weather, or feeling emotional can quickly become a doorway into faith, intuition, release, and identity. The show returns often to the idea that growth is not only mental. It lives in bodies, homes, children, ancestors, seasons, rituals, and timing. One reflection episode turns spring into questions about becoming, trusting the current self, and letting enough be enough for the moment. It is practical without becoming clinical. Journaling, voice notes, candles, incense, tea, showers, baths, breathing, and music all appear as ordinary tools for paying attention. Guest episodes widen the frame. With Sister Yaya, the conversation moves through the mother wound, postpartum care, womb healing, family gatherings, great-grandmothers, and the emotions people may carry through their bodies. The show is comfortable with tenderness. It also lets humor stay in the room, as when Mercury Retrograde technical issues, Palo Santo, coughing, and playful talk about purging energy become part of the flow. Parenting brings a different weight. A conversation about rest, achievement, and raising free children considers how pressure, school expectations, and racialized judgment can shape a parent’s fears. The result is not polished self-help. It is more like listening to friends think, laugh, repeat, reconsider, and finally land on a small piece of clarity. Keep Expecting Miracles will fit listeners who want spiritual language tied to lived experience rather than detached advice. Its best moments come when the ordinary becomes meaningful without losing its human texture.
Made for: For listeners drawn to personal growth, intuitive reflection, ancestral healing, mindful parenting, and conversational spirituality. It especially suits people who prefer warm, lived-in dialogue over formal teaching.
What sets it apart: The show blends spiritual reflection with domestic detail: journaling prompts, family stories, body awareness, parenting pressure, seasonal shifts, and casual banter all share the same space. Its intimacy comes from letting the process stay visible.
In their own words
Welcome to Keep Expecting Miracles, the podcast that invites you to trust in the power of flow, transformation, and miracles. Hosted by Ilissa and Jessica, this space is all about exploring life's most unexpected and meaningful shifts from learning to unlearn what no longer serves us, to embracing ease, and letting go so that everything we need can find its way to us. Join us each week as we share stories, insights, and experiences from our own lives and those other who have dared to follow their intuition and trust in the magic of life. Whether you're navigating change, seeking i...
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Alyssa and Jessica make spiritual change tangible through candid conversations about boundaries, family patterns, rest, forgiveness, and healing.
Alyssa and Jessica bring spiritual growth down to the level of choices made at home, in relationships, and under pressure. Their conversations move between forgiveness after betrayal, personal boundaries, rest, parenting, and periods of spiritual change.
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- help forgiving yourself without giving a family member a free pass
- a parenting story that lets the library books wait
personal transformationjournaling and reflectionmother wound healingancestral communicationwomb healingrest and parentingMercury Retrograde and spiritual timingmusic, podcasts, and media as frequency
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Best episodes of Keep Expecting Miracles
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A faith-forward conversation about release, trust, and letting children grow at their own pace.
Keep Expecting Miracles stays centered on transformation, flow, and unlearning, then opens into a small but telling story about a daughter who wanted to go to the library to play rather than read.
A grounded case for self-forgiveness that protects peace without pretending the past disappeared.
This conversation treats forgiveness as a boundary that protects the self, not as a public reset. Alyssa and Jessica move through shame, embarrassment, and the effort of letting go after betrayal without pretending the wound was never there.
A calm, conversational look at truth-telling, boundaries, and emotional release as part of spiritual practice.
Keep Expecting Miracles treats nervous-system care like ordinary maintenance, not a grand fix. Alyssa and Jessica move from doomscrolling and a morning reset into the harder work of telling the truth, setting limits, and letting feelings come out instead of sitting on them.
A holiday conversation that treats Christmas as pressure, not nostalgia.
Alyssa and Jessica steer the conversation toward overindulgence, using Christmas decorating injuries, seasonal respiratory illness, and the spikes in heart attacks and trauma visits around Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day as evidence of how the holidays can…
A candid return to transformation, self-neglect, and the pressure to leave old habits behind before 2026.
Alyssa and Jessica return after a hiatus with a conversation that treats transformation, release, trust, and unlearning as lived practice rather than a slogan.
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Episodes
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Healing Mother Wounds & Manifesting Miracles
Apr 20, 2026·1h 1m - 2
Exploring the Mother Wound with Sistah Yaya
Hidden gemSister Yaya returns to Keep Expecting Miracles after a TikTok reel about her relationship with her mother became the show’s most reposted clip.
Apr 13, 2026·46m·3 clips - 3
Who am I Becoming Reflection
This episode is a reflective mini-pod exploring personal transformation and new beginnings during spring and Aries season, encouraging listeners to ask themselves what they want right now.
Apr 7, 2026·13m - 4
What the World Is Revealing
The hosts introduce a new occasional segment called 'What's Your Frequency?' where they share media recommendations like music, podcasts, or shows.
Mar 30, 2026·1h 14m - 5
Vulnerability in Initiation
The hosts introduce their podcast about transformation and unlearning, then casually discuss their current moods and the spring season.
Mar 23, 2026·48m - 6
Aligning with Mercury Retrograde
The hosts discuss navigating Mercury Retrograde while recording, sharing personal anecdotes about breathing exercises and Palo Santo as they explore themes of transformation and flow.
Mar 16, 2026·1h 4m - 7
Ancestral Communication: How our Ancestors Speak to Us
This episode explores how ancestors communicate with us, focusing on transformation, unlearning old patterns, and embracing faith to experience miracles in life.
Mar 9, 2026·56m - 8
From Menarche to Menopause - The Power of our Blood
This episode explores the significance of menstrual cycles from menarche to menopause, focusing on transformation, flow, and unlearning patterns in women's health.
Mar 2, 2026·1h 17m - 9
Beyond Achievement: Rest, Healing, and Raising Free Children
Hidden gemThe show opens with a check-in.
Feb 23, 2026·56m·3 clips - 10
Embracing Change: Letting Go to Move Forward
Hidden gemAlyssa and Jessica open with some easy banter before settling into a thoughtful conversation about change, forgiveness, and what it actually takes to keep moving.
Feb 16, 2026·1h 2m·4 clips - 11
Energy is Currency: How We Protect Ours
Hidden gemJessica and Alyssa come in relaxed and back in their groove.
Feb 9, 2026·58m·2 clips - 12
The Delusion of the Holidays
Hidden gemAlyssa and Jessica are back after a couple of weeks away, easing into a holiday chat about overindulgence, holiday work, and the sense that Christmas keeps getting bigger, brighter, and more chaotic.
Feb 2, 2026·1h 2m·4 clips - 13
Transformations Unveiled: Spiritual Awakening and Integration
Alyssa and Jessica are back after a much-needed hiatus.
Jan 26, 2026·1h 3m·5 clips - 14
Ancestral River Meditation
Dec 1, 2025·17m - 15
Staying Grounded in a Sensationalized World
Nov 24, 2025·24m - 16
Unveiling Family Secrets in 'Black Candle Women'
Nov 17, 2025·36m - 17
It's Our One Year Anniversary!
Nov 10, 2025·45m - 18
The Spiral Path of Transformation - Embodiment
Nov 3, 2025·1h 20m - 19
The Spiral Path of Transformation - Integration
Oct 27, 2025·53m - 20
The Spiral Path of Transformation - Surrender
Oct 20, 2025·1h 7m - 21
The Spiral Path of Transformation: The Dissolution
Oct 13, 2025·1h 17m - 22
The Spiral Path of Transformation - Awakening
Oct 6, 2025·1h 40m - 23
The Spiral Path of Transformation
Sep 29, 2025·58m - 24
Joy in Shaping the Future Meditation Part 4
Sep 22, 2025·13m - 25
Joy in Community Meditation Part 3
Sep 15, 2025·12m - 26
Joy As Resistance Meditation - Part 2
Sep 8, 2025·11m - 27
Joy As Resistance Meditation
Sep 1, 2025·18m - 28
Re-release: Sacred Shifts: The Art of Nourishing Change
Aug 24, 2025·58m - 29
Re-release: Sinners: Reflections, Roots, and Real Talk
Aug 18, 2025·50m - 30
Re-release: The Embodiment Part 2: What it Means to Do Ancestral Work
Aug 11, 2025·48m - 31
Re-release: The Embodiment: What it Means to do Ancestral Work
Aug 4, 2025·44m - 32
Re-release - Power Starts with Speaking: The Power of Voice
Jul 28, 2025·1h 7m - 33
Re-release: Vulnerability in Motherhood
Jul 21, 2025·1h 11m - 34
Re-release: Life is a Game
Jul 14, 2025·54m - 35
Re-release: Nourishing the Sacred Mind: Feeding the Garden Within
Jul 7, 2025·46m - 36
Re-release: Unlocking the Power of Your Sacred Lineage
Jun 30, 2025·1h 15m - 37
Test
Jun 27, 2025·1m - 38
The Divine Feminine w/ Sara Makeba Daise: Black, Gifted, & Guided
Jun 23, 2025·1h 16m - 39
The Divine Feminine w/ Sanaa Green: Black, Gifted, & Guided
Jun 16, 2025·1h 23m - 40
The Divine Feminine w/ Ama Diya Dannu: Black, Gifted, & Guided
Jun 9, 2025·1h 28m - 41
The Divine Feminine w/ Sistah Yaya: Black, Gifted, & Guided
The hosts discuss Jessica's first in-person herbal workshop where she taught about finding joy through tea rituals, as part of their exploration of transformation and unlearning.
Jun 2, 2025·1h 18m - 42
Sacred Shifts: The Art of Nourishing Change
May 26, 2025·58m - 43
Sinners: Reflections, Roots, and Real Talk
May 19, 2025·50m - 44
Healing the Spirit: Navigating Grief, Joy, and Spiritual Growth
May 12, 2025·51m - 45
Nourishing the Sacred Mind: Feeding the Garden Within
The hosts discuss their Easter weekend experiences and introduce themes of transformation and mindfulness in life.
May 5, 2025·46m - 46
The Art of Nourishing Ourselves: Beyond Caretaking
Apr 28, 2025·52m - 47
What The Little Mermaid Teaches Us About Power, Silence & Speaking Our Truth
Apr 21, 2025·35m - 48
The Season of Becoming: Voice & Belief
Apr 14, 2025·1h 9m - 49
Power Starts with Speaking: The Power of Voice
The hosts discuss returning from a break and reflect on parenting, childcare, and the importance of community for children's development.
Apr 7, 2025·1h 7m - 50
The Embodiment Part 2: What it Means to Do Ancestral Work
Mar 31, 2025·48m - 51
The Embodiment: What it Means to do Ancestral Work
Mar 24, 2025·44m - 52
More than Trauma: Discovering the Power & Gifts of Your Ancestors
Mar 17, 2025·1h 15m - 53
Healing Through the Shadows w/ Sara Makeba Daise
Mar 10, 2025·1h 17m - 54
Unlocking the Power of Your Sacred Lineage
Mar 3, 2025·1h 15m - 55
The Rise of Water in Cinema - A Message We Shouldn't Ignore
Feb 24, 2025·48m - 56
Flowing Through Life: Water, Wisdom & the Power of Yemaya
Feb 17, 2025·33m - 57
Flow Into Healing: Water as a Portal to Transformation and Growth
Feb 10, 2025·57m - 58
Life is a Game
Feb 3, 2025·54m - 59
Defying Gravity and the System
Jan 27, 2025·1h 25m - 60
The Emotional Connection to Food
Jan 20, 2025·57m - 61
Vulnerability in Motherhood
Jan 13, 2025·1h 11m - 62
New Year and the Power of You
Jan 6, 2025·1h 28m - 63
OUR BEAUTY: DEFINED and ACCEPTED
Dec 30, 2024·33m - 64
Reclaiming Astrology: From Fear to Divine Design
Dec 23, 2024·49m - 65
Navigating Life's Challenges to Correct your Course
Dec 16, 2024·1h 7m - 66
Guided by Grace - Career Paths Reimagined
Dec 9, 2024·48m - 67
Creating Harmony: Your Peace can be a Priority Around Family
Dec 2, 2024·1h 6m - 68
Nurturing Your SPIRIT and Embracing the JOY of Self-Celebration
Nov 25, 2024·59m - 69
Communing with Ancestors for Healing
Nov 18, 2024·1h 19m - 70
Self-empowerment is Not Self-worship
Nov 11, 2024·47m