Becoming The Practice

The Myth of Arrival

This week I’m talking with Erika Wright, a codependency counselor, a ceremonial leader, a channel, a musician, and mother.

We get into how she defines codependency, the medicine ceremony that cracked open her own healing, and why she built her whole career around just telling the truth about herself instead of pretending to have it figured out.

We also talk about raising daughters to honor their own truths, the exhausting, hilarious reality of motherhood and the illusive trickster we call satisfaction.

In this episode:

* Her definition of co-dependency and why it’s not a personal failing

* How ceremony that changed everything for her

* Teaching boundaries without apologizing

* Why comfort can be as dangerous as suffering

* How she is becoming the practice instead of chasing arrival

Find her at:

www.ericawright.org | @erikawrighthcd

Alissa Anderson has run Foggy Notion, a beloved indie shop in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond, for fifteen years. What started as a studio space accidentally became a neighborhood institution. Before that, she was touring the world playing cello with musicians you’ve definitely heard of, until she realized that life wasn’t hers to keep.

This conversation is about what it actually looks like to build something on your own terms. We talk about curation as a values practice, the difference between scaling and deepening, what luxury really means when you’ve designed your own life, and why she’s never wanted a second location.

I’ve known Alissa for years. She carries my line at the shop. This was the longer conversation I always wanted to have.

-Mira

foggy-notion.com | @foggynotionsf | Alissa Anderson

Becoming the Practice is a show about what it takes to live, not just believe in, the values that call to us. Host Mira Blackman sits down with artists, healers, organizers, and visionaries who are doing the work in real time: following their intuition, reclaiming what’s theirs & shedding what’s not. These are women building community, lives & businesses that center care over extraction.

These are intimate, wide-ranging conversations about what it actually looks like to let life become the practice, the courage, the doubt, the ancestors, and the messy, beautiful becoming along the way. New episodes drop weekly.

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I am so glad you’re here. Let the practice begin.