A Wild New Work

Navigating this murky late Winter / pre-Spring period requires that we know how to make the best choices we can, given the constraints and circumstances we’re dealing with. Does a seed get stuck in analysis paralysis? Probably not. Does a nesting bird get frozen in indecision about when to lay her eggs? No. We can tap into this free flow of energy and choice that we see modeled around us and remember how to take one right step, then another, and then another.

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Resources mentioned:

Becoming the Dawn: a 4-week Sunrise Series: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork/becoming-the-dawn

Eating Capitalism: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism

Pay What You Can Tarot Readings: https://awildnewwork.com/intuitive-career-readings

Deeper 1:1 Work: https://awildnewwork.com/one-on-one-coaching

We can sense how chaotic, disconnected, and troubled our world is, and many of us feel the need for sturdier skills to help us be with these times. In this conversation with trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch Carmen Spagnola, we explore the poignancy of being alive right now as well as the frameworks and practices that can help us metabolize what’s happening and find the deliciousness that’s available.

About Carmen:

Carmen Spagnola is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef turned trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch. She has hosted The Numinous Podcast since 2014. She's the author of The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year, and founder of The Numinous Network, an online learning and support portal for people healing from trauma through a cross-pollination of somatics, attachment, and nature-based spirituality.

Ways to connect with Carmen:

The Spirited Kitchen: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682686676

www.carmenspagnola.com

www.numinouspodcast.com

Insta: @carmenspagnola

TikTok: @itscarmenspagnola

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Learning how to recognize new growth in your life and make the right type of room for it is an advanced practice. In this in-between time before the Spring Equinox, we explore how to notice and honor the seeds that are alive within us, how to create an environment in which they can grow, and why some of them may not activate in this growing cycle.

To learn more about “Eating Capitalism,” my new workshop on the origins of capitalism that’s starting February 23rd, visit: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism

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Trees hold a special and mythic place in the hearts of humans, and in this conversation with Heather Dorfman, the founder of Rose and Cedar Forest Therapy, we explore these amazing beings and how we can build relationships with them in a thoughtful way.

About Heather Dorfman:

Heather Dorfman, LMSW (she/her) is the founder of Rose and Cedar Forest Therapy. Heather guides groups and individuals in the practice of Forest Therapy; offers Grief Care; provides organizational consulting, training, and retreats; and is also an adjunct professor of social work. In all of these realms, Heather is co-creating a world of justice and liberation for all beings.

To connect with Heather:

-Website: https://www.rosecedarforesttherapy.com/

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roseandcedarforest

To learn more about the upcoming workshop series called “Eating Capitalism,” visit https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism

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Resources Mentioned:

The work of Suzanne Simard: https://suzannesimard.com/

Blood is the red thread that connects all of humanity through time, and there is an intelligence to our circulatory systems that we really need right now. In this episode, I share some surprising insights about blood, the cardiovascular system, and how it mirrors a greater wisdom flowing around us that we can tap into at any time.

To learn more about the upcoming workshop series, Eating Capitalism, visit: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism

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Resources:

An overview of blood in humans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279392/

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George: https://bookshop.org/p/books/nine-pints-a-journey-through-the-money-medicine-and-mysteries-of-blood-rose-george/230422?ean=9781250230683

On coherence and the science of the heart: https://www.heartmath.org/heart-coherence/

On the heart’s electromagnetic field: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/building-the-habit-of-hero/202011/the-hearts-electromagnetic-field-is-your-superpower

Welcome to the first episode in our 2024 Winter Season, where we’re exploring our vast connections. What does it mean that your body is composed of over 50% water? What do you already know about what it means to be hydrated, fierce, fluid, and purifying? Why are things so arid in our culture? This is some of what we explore in today’s episode!

To learn more about the upcoming workshop series on Caliban and the Witch, my 1:1 program, or other offerings, visit https://awildnewwork.com/

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Resources:

About King Tides: https://www.oregonkingtides.net/

King Tides Fact Sheet: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-04/documents/king_tides_factsheet.pdf

Quote by Aurora Levins Morales, from her book “Silt: Prose Poems”: “This is the ceremony of our cells, each one a sip of water, a tiny ocean, a bubble on the bloodstream, inside our skins, beading up on our faces, trickling down our sweaty backs, dripping from our weeping eyes, offerings to the world. Then let the water in you call to the water in me. Let the water in our veins call to the water in the world, one river, one ocean, one rainstorm gathering over the dry places, ready to pour down quenching relief for the thirsty, and we are all of us thirsty.”

If the Autumn is the great dying, and Spring is the great rebirth, what is the Winter? It is the time in-between, after death and before something is born again. In this episode, we explore why this period between the Winter Solstice and the first stirrings of Spring invites us into a great dreaming, where we tend to our inner soil, our deep visions, and trust that new life will come when it’s time.

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To learn more about my book, Winter at Work, visit: https://awildnewwork.com/winteratwork

In this conversation with bard, somatic practitioner, coach, and student of myth Ben Murphy, we explore the mythic imagination, re-villaging, and what it might take to heal the broken kinship ties that so many of us feel in relation to ourselves, our human community, and the land.

To connect with Ben, visit https://www.bend-in-gratitude.com/ or @bend_in_gratitude on Instagram

The School of Mythopoetics: https://www.schoolofmythopoetics.com/

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Resources mentioned on the show:

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

Bill Plotkin

Alchemical Psychologies by James Hillman

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2, on The Emerald Podcast

Nordic Animism by Rune Rasmussen

Sonnet to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke

Our addiction to light is emptying our lives of mystery and renewal, having a devastating impact on our health, and is a root cause of larger ecological collapse. In this interview with writer, poet, and co-founder of The Way of the Rose, Clark Strand, we discuss the impacts of an over-lit existence and how the darkness and the divine feminine can help us find our way in these chaotic times.

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To connect with Clark and his work, visit: https://wayoftherose.org/

To purchase Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel in an Age of Extinction and Collapse, visit: https://indiepubs.com/products/waking-up-to-the-dark/

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To join us for the remaining two weeks of Needing More: a 4-week Pilgrimage into Darkness, visit: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork.com/needingmore

The Crow brings its liquid black color and mystical intelligence into our light-filled days and reminds us how to hold it all right now. In this episode, I share some facts and lore about this incredible creature as well as some ways I think Crow can educate us in this darkening season.

Thank you to those of you who have already supported the show financially! If you’d like to pitch in to make this work sustainable, you can do so at this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman

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For more information about Needing More: a 4-week Pilgrimage into Darkness, click here: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork.com/needingmore

To learn more about working with me 1:1, visit: https://awildnewwork.com/one-on-one-coaching