Scott Jeffrey is an author and is the founder of CEOsage, a transformational leadership agency and resource for self-actualizing individuals. Scott is a voice of wisdom in several fields and one of those is Shadow Work. You can read Scott’s guide on Shadow work HERE. In today’s conversation we hear Scott’s wisdom around why we hide and why we create unhealthy mechanisms to protect ourself. What it means to start waking up and want to face one’s shadows. What to do when one is confronted with their shadow in the tense moment. And for the Newbie how to intiate and step into doing shadow Work.

RESOURCES:

A Definitive Guide to Jungian Shadow Work: How to Get to Know and Integrate Your Dark Side

HuffPost article on Shadow Work – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shadow-work-the-beauty-of_b_9440912

Website dedicated to Shadow Work – https://lonerwolf.com/shadow-work-demons/

Welcome to Shadow Work – https://shadowwork.com/

Another shadow Work Guide – https://individualogist.com/shadow-work

Jared Clavin belonged to a religious system where alcohol was forbidden. Then Jared discovered his system didn’t have all the answers. As he begin questioning his faith he in turn had to question all the things his faith told him were good and were bad including alcohol. Once Jared stepped away from the faith of his Childhood he was now free to experiment for the first time with alcohol and to as an adult navigate and figure out this scary thing. We talk today about Jared’s written blog post on his journey titled “My First Year with Alcohol“. ‘Jared tells us about his good experiences, his bad experiences, what a hangover feels like, what alcohol does as a social lubricant, and how he managed discovering what he liked and what he didn’t and how to do this thing in a healthy and responsible way.

RESOURCES:

https://medium.com/@jaredclavin/my-first-year-with-alcohol-11281cabd5ef

Casual Drinking, Problem Drinking & Alcoholism

How to Drink Responsibly and Enjoy Alcohol

How to drink responsibly

How to Drink Responsibly at That Party and Still Have Fun

How to Get Past the College Phase and Drink Alcohol Like an Adult

Mekael and Bill discuss Body Image today. How different Genders perceive their bodies, what things we humans feel shame over, and How we can be healthier in how we treat others and ourselves.

RESOURCES:

Body Image: Not Just About Your Body: Jessi Kneeland: TED

Battling Our Bodies: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Body Images

Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report

It’s Not Just Girls. Boys Struggle With Body Image, Too

Defining the new male ideal

Women’s Ideal Body Types Throughout History

Building self-esteem

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Mekael and Bill discuss three things today. First they review some of their thoughts from last weeks conversation with River about ethical non-monogamy. Second Bill discusses some recent Shadow work including a sound bite from the hit TV show Criminal Minds. Lastly Bill and Mekael discuss Kinks and Fetishes including Bills discovery and sharing of how own kink.

RESOURCES:

MindHunter TV Show

Criminal Minds TV Show

101 KINKY THINGS – AN EXTENSIVE LIST OF KINKS AND FETISHES

Dacryphilia (Crying kink/Fetish)

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Mekael and Bill sit down with River who chooses along with her primary partner to live in the space of Non-Monogamy.  Today we talk about what that looks like in terms of how someone approaches this lifestyle.  How someone begins conversations about this part of themselves.  How someone initiates conversations around the pro and cons of monogamy and the pros and cons of non-monogamy.

RESOURCES:

Three Steps to Opening Your Marriage: A New Permissive Monogamy – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/three-steps-to-opening-yo_b_9170688

How to Save Your Marriage With Ethical Non-Monogamy – https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/open-marriages-consensual-non-monogamy-therapists/

Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage? – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/magazine/is-an-open-marriage-a-happier-marriage.html

9 Things to Know About Having a Successful Open Relationship – https://www.thecut.com/article/open-relationship-how-to-guide.html

The Most Skipped Step When Opening a Relationship – https://medium.com/@PolyamorySchool/the-most-skipped-step-when-opening-a-relationship-f1f67abbbd49

How To Tell Your Partner You Want An Open Relationship – https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-21544/how-to-tell-your-partner-you-want-an-open-relationship.html

How to Have a Happy Open Marriage – https://www.brides.com/story/how-to-have-a-happy-open-marriage

9 people in open marriages reveal what their relationships are actually like – https://www.insider.com/what-being-in-open-marriage-relationship-sex-is-like-reddit-2018-5

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RESOURCES:
http://wendijensen.com/

The Healing Questions Guide

Wendi’s Story

Why a Couples Therapist Says ‘Emotional Fluency’ Is Crucial for a Relationship

Why a couples therapist says “emotional fluency” is important for a healthy relationship

Emotions As a Second Language – Or Should They Be Our First?

What is spiral Dynamics

How to Use Spiral Dynamics for Psychological and Leadership Development

What is Spiral Dynamics and Why Have I Become So Interested in It?

Enneagram – Explore the Personality Types

Enneagram Personality Test

What is Tapping Therapy

Tapping Therapy

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Mekael and Bill sit down with Personal Adventure Guide, Jennifer Saunders. Jennifer shares with us her passion for life and her love of adventure and love of humanity. Jennifer has given a TED Talk, developed her own Adventure Coach Program, hosts her own podcast. We discuss awakening, accepting and appreciating diversity, leaving and deconstructing systems, and seeing life as an adventure.

RESOURCES:

TheJenniferSaunders.com
Jennifer’s Email
Jennifer Saunders TED Talk
Living Courageously Exposed Podcast

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Today Bill and Mekael sit down with Author Spencer Wright regarding his book “How to think”. The discussion revolves around how we humans can be more rational with the beliefs we hold. We discuss at length the feasibility of completely shedding Ego and yet the merits of shedding some portions of ego in order to have the critical thinking skills necessary to shed false absurd beliefs when those beliefs make benefit us emotionally and are central to our identity.

Resources:

“How To Think” by: Spencer Wright

“Understanding the Tao Te Ching” by: Spencer Wright

Critical Thinking

6 Critical Thinking Skills You Need to Master Now

Can I Learn to Think More Rationally?

A User’s Guide to Rational Thinking

Rational Thinking as a Process

How to Train Yourself to Be a More Rational Thinker

Why Rational Thinking Is Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

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Today Mekael and Bill talk about what has gone on over the last month.  The passing of a loved one, what they and their lovers are reading, the saving of a baby and essentially just catching the listeners up after a month of chaos.  They also spend a few minutes to talk about entering the drinking culture as a 40 year old adult.

Resources:
Sex At Dawn

Bill Rescuing a baby and it making National News

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Today Bill records an episode on his own giving Mekael a break. Bill had been in Ohio for two weeks sitting by the bedside of his mother who was in the final stage of her battle with Cancer. Today’s episode revolves around Bill’s confronting the death of his mom along with dealing with how we in this country handle the dying, Euthanasia, and if we are doing the best things to relieve suffering.