03: Radical healing, the circus and the root of the issue.
Release Date: 12/01/2020
15: Dose of DHC.
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Today with this sweet, short episode, we're giving you just a Dose of DHC: sharing real-time examples from our own lives of how we're doing life the DHC way, in the moment. We're also inviting you to share your own stories of DHC living with us, because ultimately, Dead Hearts Club is about the ways our vulnerability creates connection, when it would be easier to just not do the hard thing, share the tender truth, and be seen in all that raw, unguarded glory.
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14: Soulmates, Love and Attachment.
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In this episode, we’re upending some of the more commonly-accepted definitions of soulmates — especially in the context of a rom-com culture that tells us how soul connections should behave — because sometimes, love for and attachment to those people can really stir the pot in some confusing ways.
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13: The gentle art of revealing our hearts.
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At its core, this episode is about the bedrock Dead Hearts Club was founded on: challenging ourselves to stay so heart open that you kinda feel like you’re gonna die — and doing it in a way that holds impeccable individual (and group) boundaries, taking a sh*t ton of personal responsibility, and allowing ourselves to be held in our unscripted, wildly unpredictable humanity and hearts.
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12: Emotional Sobriety with Jessamyn Turgesen.
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In this episode, we redefine “safety” from a trauma-informed lens, and get raw about how shame occupies the space where our inner agency might otherwise call us forward when we are in deep, primal suffering. We’re talking about how the wisdom of our bodies can communicate what we need to midwife ourselves through the birthing of who we might be beneath our habits of hiding.
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11: The Intuition Episode.
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Intuition is, for many of us, an ephemeral thing. It speaks to us in a language only we understand, and its gifts are the hidden jewels of our lives -- guiding us toward or away from experiences and people that can alter the entire trajectory of our journey.
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10: You're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to spiritual self-help.
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Is it possible to be in a co-dependent relationship with healing? How about a self-destructive relationship with "transformation"? If you sometimes find yourself poking around inside yourself, in search of the next thing to "fix," this episode is for you.
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09: Two girls, two mics, one camel toe.
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As we plan which topics to bring you each week, we do a little something we call Heart Storm: we get together, hash it out, talk for a long-ass time, and a theme emerges. If you’re just tuning in, you might be wondering what DHC means. This week, Bria and I sit down and just hit record — no theme, no topic, just two girls, two mics and (as you’ll discover), one very prominent camel toe.
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08: Cultivating Play.
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In this episode, we’re talking about what bridges we’ve built from self-consciousness into a more open kind of self-expression, how it’s a constantly-evolving process, and how play shows up in our individual lives. This is a thoughtful exploration of how levity and joy might actually be our innate, foundational state of being — and how our inner Wounded Child can help us access our inner Wonder Child — that part of us that is authentic, creative, trusting and spontaneous.
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07: This is Healing
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In this episode, we explore the question: Who Are We Really? How do we touch the core essence of Self without bypassing all the human reality? How do you know which is the most reliable captain for your healing ship at any given time? What version of ourselves are we reaching for as our personal definition of "healing"? Who (or what) in us carries us toward an experience of healing that tells healing is taking root?
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06: Liberating The Light With Human Design
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Andrea Berg is a Leadership Coach, Teacher and Speaker that sparks transformation through Human Design and her 7 Life Elements. She teaches high achievers to become intentional and confident. Andrea says that your ability to follow your inner compass is directly related to how deeply you know yourself.
info_outline"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
These are words from David Foster Wallace, and his speech, This is Water, which came to mind during our conversation with Jenna Guzman-Lowery, a trauma therapist and newly-appointed city council member in my city of Redlands, California.
When Dead Hearts Club was born, Bria and I knew right away that we didn’t want to have a podcast about vulnerability without immediately opening up a conversation about social justice and the explosive polarization so many of us are seeing and experiencing in our current political climate — but this episode isn’t about politics. This is personal — it’s a conversation about liberation, and the surprising, delicate overlay of trauma and access to resources. It’s about how we understand ourselves and what community and deservingness mean, in (and out of) a political and social context.
This conversation is about how we try to find common ground, especially with people we struggle to not just agree with, but find any understanding with at all, especially on topics like race and equality. Jenna is an incredibly gentle guide into profound consideration of what radical healing might actually look like.
Initially, I planned on editing out (as I usually do) the little bit of conversation that always centers us before we start, but this time, I actually think it’s important that, in true DHC-fashion, you get to hear where we begin and the vulnerable nuggets of tentative, tender territory we all sort of slid into together. I also left in the short meditation we did as we began (and I got fancy and added some music for you) so that, as you listen, you, also, can ground into your body, and your heart, and practice whatever your version of love and belonging is, so that you can listen with your whole being.
We hope you love this conversation. It means a lot to us, and is one I think we all need to be having.