10: You're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to spiritual self-help.
Release Date: 01/26/2021
Dead Hearts Club
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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This week, we're talking about the sneaky ways spiritual self-help can convince us that there is a finish line -- and the endless pursuit of something other than what (and where) we are. We're talking about Presence, being with what arises as the ultimate teacher and guide, and the importance of time to integrate after a cycle of healing. Bria shares her ongoing healing with Lyme disease and burnout recovery, and a surprising nuance that showed up for her in her own work with her coach recently.
We're talking about being with emotion vs intellectually processing our feelings, honoring and working with the 3 stages of transition referenced in The Wisdom of Anxiety, and how self-judgement inevitably manifests anxiety. We're getting honest about healing elitism and judgement of people who aren't "doing the work," and what it might mean about our own projections and judgements... of ourselves.
In this episode, we are deep in the curiosity about the difference between willingness and capacity, and which has the power to blow our hearts wide open.
Mentioned this week:
+ Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferrell, and trying to figure out who (or what) is driving the plot of our lives
+ The Wisdom of Anxiety book
+ Charles Eistenstein's article, "The Space Between Stories"
+ Callback to Episode 1 and how the man nicknamed Dragonfly recalibrated Bria's experience of what a "consciousness man" feels like, as well as Episode 7 called This Is Healing
+ The movie Just Friends and The Hero's Journey