MY STORY
Sharing stories that surprise and unify people has always been my passion.
Meagan’s Story
For 20+ years I worked creatively across broadcast news, video & film, and publishing in Boston, before pivoting toward education and wellness media through a start-up in Western Mass. I next joined PBS and began a Northampton-based life that was immersed in farm share provisioning, creme de la creme cultural offerings, potlucks, married life, yoga, and women’s circles.
As a staff producer, I spent 12 years working at a fast-paced television station, where I honed my skills as an interviewer and a storyteller. Outside of work, I continued to pursue a variety of healing arts, including homeopathy, qi gong and purified water acquisition. My husband and I were childless, but the proud caretakers of no less than 4 noble cats and dogs.
But then came Egypt.
An unexpected experience in the King’s Chamber set my life on a singular and unforeseen course. Within six months of returning from Egypt, I had stepped away from my career and begun the difficult process of consciously uncoupling from my then-husband.
MY CALLING
My calling now was to create a documentary called The Breast Archives. After nearly 6 years it was finished, and in 2018 was picked up by First Run Features, who continue to represent the title in North America.
Nothing was easy, and I cried a lot.
I sensed from the beginning that The Breast Archives was a bellwether—that the stories women told me were pointing to something much larger. But I wasn’t yet ready to own my own breast story, so I turned outward, questioning the institutions and cultural assumptions my generation had inherited without much thought.
As the film evolved into something closer to memoir, I began looking more deeply at the world that had shaped us: medicine, religion, media, beauty culture, sexuality—and all the messages women had quietly absorbed about their bodies.
It was a project that demanded patience and care. Promoting a high-concept film about our deeply human—and quietly alive—relationship with our breasts became, unexpectedly, an education in cultural anthropology, American style. I began to wonder whether some of what we dismiss, conceal, or simply fail to notice about the human experience might actually be hidden fruit: overlooked sources of meaning capable of expanding our awareness of ourselves.
I started connecting dots—exploring the toroidal field, the ankh, the yoni, and the women leaders and feminine archetypes so often diminished or erased from the historical record. One question opened into another, and before long I found myself tumbling down some surprisingly sticky passages, where shame, power, commerce, sexuality, symbolism, and the female body have been entangled for generations.
Between 2013-18, I immersed myself in a range of transformational field work and curricula, including yoga teacher training, International School of Temple Arts (Level I), Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts (Mastery), and ALysa Starkweather’s Mystery School (2 years). Travel in the Galapagos, Mexico, and England included esoteric pursuits, including Silbury Hill, Teotihuacán and Adam’s Calendar in South Africa.
In 2019, I bid farewell to my beloved Western Mass and relocated to Atlanta, Ga. Warmer weather beckoned, and I had known the terrestrial aromas and birdsong of the Piedmont Plateau since I was a child. The city was also buzzing with film, TV, and sports production, and I was hungry to return to the set and start fresh after my divorce from LJF, and the inscrutable process of completing my film.
Slowly I learned to absorb Atlanta—and eventually to love her. She is a beautifully complicated and gracious city, layered with history, contradiction, creativity and re-invention. It was here that another chapter of my own creative life began to emerge. During the surreal lock-downs I became a portraitist and studio artist, and became immersed in the mythology of ancient Kemet. In 2022 I began offering workshops about the ancient gods & goddesses’ archetypal wisdom.
I also returned to The Breast Archives, creating a Director’s Cut and continuing to follow the deeper cultural questions the film had awakened in me. The project gradually became a portal into an ever-widening investigation into the body, memory, symbolism, sensuality, fascia, and the largely uncharted territory of the breast plateau.
Along the way a handful of experiences with plant medicine added a next-level dimension to that inquiry. I was struck by the many meaningful insights it prompted and gently offered—not as answers, but as invitations to watch, listen and focus on a realm of gently guiding energies. Maternal and benign, the experience of Patcha Mama within the body is extraordinary and unmistakable, and not an experience I would choose to have regularly. It's important work and has taught me to discern ways of knowing myself more deliberately.
Looking back, there is a thread running through all of it. I have spent a lifetime in the pursuit of beauty, creative hospitality, storytelling and education—bringing people together around ideas and experiences that move something within them.
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Meagan Murphy’s Creative History
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STUDIO & FIELD PRODUCTION, EDITORIAL
Editor, “The Breast Archives Director’s Cut,” Deliberate Healing Productions LLC, Atlanta, GA | 2023
Crew, “Civil War,” A24, NY, NY | 2022
Costumer, “The Color Purple,” Black Hall Studios, Atlanta, GA| 2022
Editor, “The Mythic Series: Family Memoirs,” Santa Cruz, CA | 2022
Costumer, SNAP - Willie Lynch,” Swirl Productions, Atlanta, GA | 2022
Costumer, “Home Safe,” Crazy Legs Productions, Atlanta, GA | 2021
Editor, American Paddle Tennis Championships Live Stream, Indian Trail Club, Franklin Lakes, NJ | 2014
Producer/Director, Deliberate Healing Productions LLC Easthampton, MA | 2013-18
Editor, “Serum Run 2020" (Documentary), Hilltown Sled Dogs, Nome, AK | 2020
Producer, “Connecting Point,” WGBY-TV, WGBH Educ. Foundation, Springfield, MA | 2011-2012
Producer, “On the Menu,” WGBY-TV, WGBH Educ. Foundation, Springfield, MA | 2005-2010
Producer, “Together in Song,” WGBY-TV, WGBH Educ. Foundation, Springfield, MA | 2010-2012
Producer, “Making It Here: Teen Style,” WGBY-TV, WGBH Educ. Foundation, Springfield, MA | 2004-2011
Producer, “ZOOM,” WGBY-TV, WGBH Educ. Foundation, Springfield, MA | 2000-2004
Managing Director, Northampton Independent Film Festival, Northampton, MA | 2002-2004
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SPEAKER + HOST, LIVE + WEBINAR
Presenter: “Practical Mysticism… Celebrating Your Union with the Divine” Palm Beach Gardens, FL | 2025
Presenter: “Breast Wisdom: The Secret Language of Courage, Shame and Self Love” Pen Women, Atlanta, GA | 2025
Workshop: “Unleash You Ancient Essence,” Forever and a Day, Woodstock, GA | 2024
Workshop: “Unleash You Ancient Essence,” The Well of Roswell, Atlanta GA | 2023
Keynote and Presentation: “A Night in Egypt,” Heart Soul & Art Gallery, Marietta, GA | 2022
Keynote: “Temples on the Nile,” with Meagan Murphy,” First Georgia Dowsers, Marietta, GA | 2022
Keynote: “How a Trip Through Egypt Yielded a Fresh Perspective,” Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA | 2018
Presenter: “Deciphering Women’s Stories,” Western New England Sociology Conf., Springfield, MA | 2016, 2017
Presenter: “Origins of a Woman’s Psyche” Association for Women & Mythology, Las Vegas, NV | 2018
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Shout Out Atlanta Meet Meagan Murphy
Voyage Atlanta Rising Stars: Meet Meagan Murphy
How Filmmaker Meagan Murphy Is Changing The Conversation Around Women's Breasts - HuffPost
How stripping down taught these women to love their boobs - NYPost
Stream Queen: All Breasts Are the Best - Valley Advocate
This Female Director Explores a Taboo Subject: Breasts - A Woman’s Thing
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Emmy Award Nomination, TheConnecting Point
The Communicator Award of Distinction, Making It Here: Teen Style
Medical Journalism Fellowship, Harvard School of Public Health
Time Inc. Health Education, Freddie Award, Finalist
Grant Recipient, Massachusetts Department of Education, The Ready Go Show