The Cosmic Shift: On our relationship w/planets & stars
The Bold as Love Podcast
Friends, this is the first episode for a new podcast called Tending the Roots, which is adjacent to what lives here. It reflects the conversations and explorations of the Rooted Global Village. We attempt to bridge the personal and collective in our reach towards healing (wholeness) and personal and collective liberation. We also have an exciting summer project we'd like to invite you to join! I grew up looking into the night sky and the heavens above me. Without concepts that defined the movement of planets and stars, or the mathematics to describe them, I would orient my head...
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Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part 4: Cycles of Fire: Imagination and our Maps
The Bold as Love Podcast
On our own, the desire born from the challenges we’ve faced can be a powerfully transformative force in our lives. Our personal embrace of the Soulful Chainbreaker becomes a cultural force when we gather together, commune, share stories, and support each other to commit to and sustain the journey. We do not disrupt and re/orient within a vacuum, other beings dedicated to this process become our co-conspirators and co-creators of new experiences and new future(s). Rooted in the experience of our non-separation we might find greater access to our creative life energy...
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Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part. 3: The Spirit and Science of Change Work
The Bold as Love Podcast
Many experiences of trauma/oppression reveal where we’ve failed to belong authentically. The ways in which, as we navigate our social worlds, we come up against blocks and barriers to birthright dignity, authenticity, acceptance and belonging. That is, where we disappoint and fail to conform to the expectations of dominant cultural narratives. This rejection dampens our inner spark, disorients our desire, and erects borders and checkpoints in our interior world that prevents the wild rambling and roving that is our birthright and is necessary for wellbeing. This non-belonging is...
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Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part 2: Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear
The Bold as Love Podcast
Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear The Chainbreaker as archetype invites critical questioning and reclaiming. We are invited to consider disappointing our families of origin, and the cultural influences at large by rejecting narratives and dictates that reproduce harms.It’s risky, even, for those most marginalized in these narratives. Yet in this risk we open to a vital rebirth: the opportunity to access desire long hidden or dampened by chains and obstacles. If we imagine our inner and outer worlds as a map; not one shaped by imposed borders but...
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Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part I: Who is the Soulful Chainbreaker?
The Bold as Love Podcast
Transmuting Intergenerational Trauma Through The Creative Principles of Fire This is a story about what it means to be the one who steps out of line. The one willing to be the weak link in the chain. The one willing to disrupt and disobey; to embrace disruption as a portal and disappoint some of the expectations held for us (and the people associated with them) in the service of another future. And how a shift in imagination turns our deviance into a dedication to life, love, and liberation. This requires courage, fierce love and a fire (in the belly) that sustains...
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Rooted - It takes a village to shape our lives and world anew.
The Bold as Love Podcast
Today I have something precious and beautiful to share with you. It’s a shared learning community called Rooted - A Global Village, Healing the Human Family, and Co-Imagining New Ways of Being. In a popular article for the Financial Times, Indian novelist Arundahti Roy, wrote about the time we’re in as a portal, she says: "Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next." What happens at that crossroads of experience for us matter, and I...
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Coronavirus, Chaos & Radical Change
The Bold as Love Podcast
There's a lot happening in the world right now, and in this episode I want to explore some interesting and emergent threads related to the spread of a virus we're collectively experiencing as a threat. While this episode is relevant to the spread of this virus and some of the dysfunctions it exposes, it's relevant as well to all our moments of crises, the dysfunction they reveal, the chaos they introduce, and the potent opportunity those moments present to take pause, reorient, and make moves in a new direction. Chaos is often where we birth new perspectives and...
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The Critical Missing Link in Our Healing and Well-Being
The Bold as Love Podcast
Events that can lead to trauma, especially in childhood, can impact upon mental and physical health outcomes across our lifetimes. Trauma is a loaded word often reserved for severe abuse, neglect and violence, but trauma touches all our lives in some way and to varying degrees (it touches us or those we love, or the culture around us) and we need to understand how. Understanding the link between what causes us to suffer today and trauma in our histories is a CRITICAL missing piece to so many of our mental and physical health conditions - like syndromes, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain...
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Cultivating Resilience: A Conversation with Dr. Rick Hanson
The Bold as Love Podcast
Rick Hanson PhD is a psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling author who talks about the factors that contribute to our experiences of well-being and resilience, and, importantly, the how part of how that happens. He’s an important name in the mindfulness world, and Rick loves to talk about the neurological underpinnings of the practices we do and the changes to our life experience they can make. His approach is down to earth and practical. And beyond that, there’s a kindness, generosity and wisdom he embodies that can’t help but be felt - even thousands of miles away and via...
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Birth's Hidden Legacy w/Annie Brook: How our earliest experiences shape us & our kids
The Bold as Love Podcast
Have you ever wondered about how a child's birth story (or your own birth story) might relate to later experiences in life and behaviors? In today's episode, I talk with the wonderful Annie Brook (author and therapist) on what she calls "Birth's Hidden Legacy". Annie is a therapist who works with families and children (and people of all ages) to repair some of the earliest imprints of trauma they experienced, often at the time of birth. She also touches on some of the important developmental experiences infants need at the beginning of life that shape subsequent experience...
info_outlineThis episode is all about the way we relate to ourselves as the first relationship that matters most and the first relationship to determine how we relate to others. The question is: how "at home" do you feel in your own skin, and how much trust do you find in relationship to yourself? The truth is, due to the traumatic stress we continue to live with and all that is left unmetabolized in us - many of us have come to embody an attitude of harshness, criticism and judgment towards the things we don't like about ourselves. But we stand little hope of positive change when - through our acts of self-aggression and self-betrayal - we continue to embody feelings of "not safe". We can change this, and our self-awareness & embodiment practices are one powerful way to do this.
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