THE DECENT:I’m Elizabeth Marth — curator of transformational experiences, mentor of the dark feminine. Through Sacred Freedom, my writing,  and my podcast The Illicit Feminine, I walk with women at the Sacred Threshold — the moment when everything familiar begins to unravel, and the fire of the feminine soul begins to rise.

Whether she’s leaving a known life or standing in the ache of uncertainty, I hold space for the tension of the in-between — the sacred pause between no longer and not yet. My work is about witnessing the unraveling that must occur so a woman can return to herself, awaken her creative power, and rise into her next becoming.

Because when a woman devotes herself to her own heart, her own truth, her own soul…
She becomes unstoppable in her desire, her connection, and her creation.

This has been my own life’s path. It is my Soul’s purpose. 

From the beginning, my life was marked by intensity. I was conceived through a love affair and born into an environment of chaos, dysfunction, and emotional enmeshment. Stability came briefly through my grandmother and aunt, and then was taken again when I was moved from California to Illinois five years old. From early childhood, I learned the language of volatile relationships, blurred boundaries, and the cost of connection. 

My relationship with my mother was deeply enmeshed. I did not experience myself as a separate being, but as an extension of her emotional world. I grew up surrounded by mental illness, addiction, rage, and lived trauma. These were not abstract experiences. They shaped my nervous system, my relationships, and my sense of self.

And they became my greatest teachers.

For many years, I survived by abandoning myself. I learned to dissociate, to perform stability, to carry pain quietly. Depression and anxiety lived beneath the surface of what appeared functional. I knew how to endure. I did not yet know how to inhabit myself.

Until I could no longer pretend.

What changed my life was not simply therapy, but the introduction of Shadow Work and the understanding of the psyche as a living system of parts: light and dark, known and disowned. This was the beginning of a twelve-year descent into spiritual, emotional, and embodied truth. A descent that did not soften me. It anchored me.

In 2020, my mother’s death shattered the last illusions I had been holding. I entered another initiation—one that could not be postponed, bypassed, or intellectualized. What emerged from that descent was not a woman seeking guidance, but a woman who had reclaimed her own authority.

That was the birth of Sacred Freedom.