In this final episode of Being: In Practice Season One, Erin and Dani talk all about Being! From recapping parts of this season, to sharing stories of the importance of being to each of the co-hosts, this episode is personal, vulnerable, and also covers many facets of the collective practice of being. This episode contains Erin sharing the story of the death of a family member, and Dani mentions suicidality and mental illness recovery - these stories are shared in trauma-informed ways, but as always, please listen at your discretion. Full of validation, thoughtful dialogue, empowerment, and resources, this episode is a heartfelt exploration on the theme of this podcast - the messy and multidimensional experience of being human.

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In this deep dive, Dani and Erin discuss grief. This episode is very special for many reasons, throughout the season Erin has talked about how grief is one of their favorite feelings, so they had been looking forward to recording this episode with Dani. During the recording, Erin’s grandfather died; he was hit while walking by a drunk driver. Erin found this out right after we got done with recording, their brother had called them during. Erin also edited this episode. 

It was special to discuss grief while this all occurred. Dani and Erin remind listeners that grief is a universal human experience, but it’s depths and nuances often go unexamined. We get into the intricate facets of grief, shedding light on how we process, cope with and understand this misunderstood emotion/experience. 

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In this dynamic conversation, Dani and Erin interview author, artist, and content creator Chuck Copenspire about the collective, and fluid, experience of identity. Chuck shares his wisdom as a creative thinker, as queer trans man, as a parent, as a person who has held many identities in career and otherwise - and is currently going through multiple major life and identity transitions. We dive into so many facets of what it means to both claim certain identities as acts of reclamation in self-discovery, and also accept how they can (and most often do) change throughout our lives. Touching on elements of ego, the survival self, queer identity, spirituality, gender identity, sexual identity, identity in career as entrepreneurs and employees, as parents, as people with mental illness, disabilities, and neurodivergence (with mis-diagnoses and late diagnoses), we also explore how all of these can be fluid. We provide examples, context, and supportive resources for anyone grappling with identity in any form, or for those curious about what it means to embrace, or shift, pieces of identity with trust, self-acceptance, and empowerment.

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How to reach Chuck Copenspire: https://magicalweirdo.com and @magicalwierdochuck 

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Dani and Erin interview Laura Rose, a somatic religious trauma coach and expert on healing from attachment wounding and indoctrination. Whether you have religious trauma or experience in religion or not, this conversation provides valuable resources on the impact of trauma and conditioning on our mental, emotional and physical states of being. Laura explains how trauma is any unresolved experience in your nervous system, no matter if it’s some large experience or small, related to religion or not, trauma is unprocessed experiences that are stuck in our bodies. Trauma is somatic, including religious trauma, and if you've ever wondered where to start in somatic trauma recovery, attachment healing, or nervous system regulation, this episode will provide brilliant insight and guidance for a path forward.

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Dani and Erin have the privilege of interviewing Dr. Devon Price, a social psychologist, author of “Unmasking Autism” and “Laziness Does Not Exist,” professor and specialist on neurodivergence. We dive deep into the nuance and complexities of how neurodivergent folks can both accept the limitations of disability, and embrace the ways it makes us different, while working towards self-advocacy and reshaping a world that actively disables neurodivergent (and all disabled) people. Whether you’re neurodivergent or not, or suspect you might be, this episode is full of wisdom, examples of putting shared tools into practice, and dialogues a brilliant re-imagining for using neurodivergent thinking to create individual lives and community structures outside of current exploitative, capitalistic structures for a radically liberated, accessible world.

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How to reach Dr. Devon Price: https://devonprice.medium.com/

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Burnout, feeling stuck, stress, overwhelm - things so many of us have experienced, yet something so few of us have enough support around. Erin and Dani interview The Bad Therapist™ Felicia Keller Boyle, LMFT, a business coach for therapists who is also a therapist with a private practice where she specializes in co-dependency and substance abuse. Throughout this vulnerable and empowering conversation, Felicia’s expertise, insights, and anecdotes reveal how patterns of codependency can contribute to cycles of burnout.

Whether you’re a therapist, in a helping profession, anyone who could use support around managing stress, overwhelm, over-giving - or just curious to begin learning how to identify and change codependency or symptoms of burnout in your life - this episode helps lay a foundation for moving through these aspects of conditioning to break free of codependent dynamics, start healing from burnout, and begin living a life more true to who you are.

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How to reach Felicia Keller Boyle: https://www.thebadtherapist.coach/

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In our shared human experience, our bodies serve as invaluable tools for self-regulation and emotional awareness.

The human body, as a vessel of sensory experience, offers a profound conduit for connecting with our emotions. Erin, for instance, employs a guiding affirmation—'I acknowledge the safety of feeling _____ within my body'—to facilitate her clients' reconnection with their emotions and physical selves.

Dani eloquently expresses the symbiosis of emotional security and bodily comfort through affirmations like 'My heart finds solace in safety, my body embodies the concept of home,' or 'I am secure and content within the embrace of my body.'

Tears, often considered an emotional stretch, can be seen as a means of emotional catharsis and growth.

Our conversation delves into topics such as queer body dysphoria/morphia, challenges faced by disabled individuals, the complexities of chronic illnesses, and the nuanced realm of disordered eating.

We explore the concept of dissociation, both from and into the body, investigating the ways it impacts our emotional experiences.

A poignant subject we touch upon is the grief associated with a profound shift in self-perception—moving from identifying with one type of body to confronting a different reality, such as the transition from an able-bodied identity to one marked by disability or chronic illness.

We critically examine the misguided notion that unbridled happiness can unilaterally remedy all bodily concerns—a perspective that fails to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of embodiment work.

A core principle emerges: Each of us possesses agency over our bodies, empowered to make choices irrespective of underlying motivations.

Just as our consciousness evolves through various stages, our bodies, too, undergo transformative phases—akin to the natural process of aging—whether augmented by surgical interventions or not.

In this enlightening episode, Erin and Dani interview licensed therapist and retired sex worker Karlee Coffey, LPC, on all things sex, and learning to embrace sex-positive sexuality. * * Content warning: we do talk about sexual abuse and trauma throughout the episode, mainly in talking about support for those who’ve experienced sexual trauma. * * Karlee shares her wise and unique perspective as a massage therapist, former stripper, and currently-practicing therapist on disrupting normative shame-based sex culture to create shame-free, pleasure-centered sex and sexual experiences. We cover many spectrums of sexuality, sexual identities, and ways of engaging with sex, share personal insights around reclaiming sexuality for ourselves, and offer suggestions for anyone interested in deconditioning from harmful sexual norms.

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How to reach Karlee Coffey: https://kcmassageandcounseling.com/

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In this episode Dani and Erin dig into the topic of shame and how it has shown up in both their lives. They also go into Erin's process for relating to some recent shame they experienced in their life related to money and discover that this process has more to do with moving from a dysregluated state to a regulated state. Shame and the negative self-beliefs that come with it are dysregulating; listen in to hear how you can move from shame to regulation.

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- What is shame? I am bad vs. guilt, I did bad. Shame comes from childhood/adult experiences, we aren’t born with shame beliefs. 

-Shame core belief examples: I am not enough, I am bad, I am stupid, I am too much. 

-We can’t really move from believing 'I am not enough,' directly to believing 'I am enough.' It will be much easier to start with accepting that we believe that we’re not enough first, and then move into regulation.

-Trauma-informed work on oneself is NOT invalditing the belief that you are not enough; i.e. saying ‘I am enough' is invalditing to the part of yourself that feels and believes you are not enough. 

-It helped Erin to accept that they believed that they are ‘bad with money,’ because they were able to move into regulation after this…even though they  still don’t necessarily believe they are good with money. 

- The ideal is stepping out of dysregulatng beliefs and experiences, into regulating beliefs and experiences. 

- Remember: you are worthy because you are, you are enough, because you are.

On Episode 4 of Being: In Practice, Erin and Dani interview Melissa Dorman who is an Oregon based top real estate agent and investor at Living Room Realty. The trio discusses how we all have a relationship to money and that our limiting beliefs related to having money, building wealth and even what you might think about people who have millions of dollars might mean for the wealth you are able to access now. They also get into what money is, how to build wealth, and why building and having wealth is good and necessary and a right for all. All marginalized communities/populations deserve more money, so we can re-balance the distribution of wealth.

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