Part 1 of our season 3 finale features more voices than we've ever presented in the same space. Here, the focus is on our shared points of origin, and how they shaped everything.
Part 1 of our season 3 finale features more voices than we've ever presented in the same space. Here, the focus is on our shared points of origin, and how they shaped everything.
This episode specifically roots us in the sciences of process. A conversation with a molecular biologist invites us to probe deeper… smaller… into our very cells. To find what they have to say about release, surrender, context, and adaptation. In commitment to process, the patterns of evolution emerge — weaving unities within diversities, and teaching us about how our experience changes us.
It’s easy to view our growth as a separate thing from our grief. But as with so many other things, viewing ‘deconstruction & reconstruction’ as some sort of binary isn’t ultimately helpful.
One of the key benefits to embodiment is that it’s substantial by definition. This episode, we continue with a meditation not only on embodiment, but groundedness, real advocacy, and life beyond the limiting narratives and labels placed upon us.
Some of the most resonant stories in our culture are about either finding or coming back to a place where you belong. Home. But the ultimate home to come home to is yourself.
Free of the illusion of the shelters we once saw as protecting us, we discover the true resources that were there all along, however buried, stifled, or censored they may have been.
Reconstruction is complicated. Plenty of the process will take us into the shadows. If we don’t deal with trauma, we will perpetuate the cycle of it, weaponize it, and even develop an unhealthy dependence on it for a new identity, living only from our pain… Reconstruction is so worth it. But it’s tough. It can be frustrating. And it’s hard work.
Many loves might come and go from your life, but you’re kinda stuck with yourself. Partners, friends, even family members… any time there is loss, the dust settles, and there you are. And that being the case, for those of us with some toxic theology and religiosity in our backgrounds, one of the most important things to grasp might be this: You aren’t tarnished. You aren’t hopelessly broken. You aren’t born guilty and somehow cosmically at fault for death and entropy itself. You’re just a person. You delight, you suffer, you survive, and hopefully, you love. A lot.
Whatever it might look like, or however long it takes, each of us needs to reconstruct a pattern of meaning that is all our own.
There’s knowing we need change… and then there’s boldly moving into it. In the process of our Becoming, we take on new space, which gives way to new substance… which is only possible from within that new space.