In today’s episode, we speak with ecopsychologist, facilitator, community builder, seeker, Lauren Mangion.  

We speak about how our humanity has allowed us to forget our connection to the natural world when that in fact, we are completely interdependent and how our Western industrial growth society has been shaping us for centuries and the impact that this is having on our lives. We speak about how the role of ecopsychology is committed to healing this rift. 

We explore the importance of our connection to our neighbourhoods, deepening our connection to place, as a solution to our healing and how ecopsychology can offer a deeper glimpse into the paradigm shift that's ultimately needed.  

Our conversations explore the role reciprocity has in what Joanna Macy calls the Great Turning and about flipping the mindset that nature is here for us to one of being in this reciprocal relationship with nature and to continue to deepen those bonds of connection.  That when we’re able to tap into our collective grief for the state of the world, it ultimately does unlock more joy. 

And in the end, we talk about what makes for a good life is the quality of the rich relationship we have in our lives. 

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Resources:

• Joanna Macy "The Work That Reconnects": workthatreconnects.org
• Robin Wall Kimmerer "Braiding Sweetgrass" 
• Tamarack Institute for community development and community building resources: tamarackcommunity.ca
• M. Gomes, A. Kanner, T. Roszak (Eds.). Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, healing the mind

About Lauren:

Lauren has a Master's degree from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in Ecopsychology.  Ecopsychology is defined as the recognition that human health, identity, and sanity are intimately linked to the health of the earth and must include sustainable and mutually enhancing relationships between humans and the nonhuman world.  

When she's not exploring the natural world, Lauren can be found facilitating community development with a Calgary-based non-profit. She also enjoys kundalini yoga, planning and going on adventures around our beautiful country and hanging out with her family.

In today’s episode, we speak with trauma-focused Somatic Sex Coach, facilitator, healer, and embodiment leader Kat Nantz. (https://www.katnantz.com/)

We talk about everything from Kat’s work which is really about slowing down and bringing people back into their bodies and inviting more pleasure, about how boundary work is so radical in shifting our culture and getting off the hamster wheel and questioning whether the mindset of the dominant culture is actually serving us.

Our conversation takes a fascinating turn as we explore how our inability to notice and put words to what we’re somatically experiencing in our bodies, can have an adverse impact on how we’re raising our children. 

And no conversation would be complete with a sex coach until we explored Disruptions With Purpose After Dark and talk about our capacity to have better sex and more enriched sex lives.

And finally, we dive into the world of trauma and our body’s role in helping us renegotiate that wounding.

Kat’s ability to hold the space for trauma and healing, grief and beauty, pleasure and pain is a miracle and I’m so excited for you to hear the genius and the gift that Kat is sharing with the world.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why setting boundaries is so radical 
• What really is self-care
• Raising independent and free-thinking children 
• What does it look like to choose a life filled with pleasure (and not just sexual)
• How trauma can offer us a beautiful opportunity to truly meet ourselves
• When you’re able to notice what is happening in your body, what you think you’re getting upset at, may not actually be the cause of your upset

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Resources

1. Traumahealing.org transforming lives through healing trauma
2. Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nogosaki - An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
3. Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps To Buried Pleasure by Sheri Winston - Join celebrated sexuality teacher Sheri Winston as she integrates ancient wisdom, lost knowledge and modern sexuality information in a sexy, fun, empowering guidebook that illuminates every woman's secret paths to fabulous, orgasmically abundant sex.

Guest Info

Kat Nantz is a somatic pleasure, sex, & relationship coach (https://www.katnantz.com/) who is deeply committed to supporting folks in coming home to their bodies and their capacity to heal & experience a deeper more expansive pleasure. 

Kat teaches folks to advocate for their own pleasure and build resilience, and guide them to deepen their relationship to personal power through developing emotional, sexual and embodied intelligence.

In this episode, we speak with Death Doula, Karry Sawatsky of Modern Death Care who has dedicated her career to supporting people through their dying time. It’s a conversation about reclaiming death and dying, being with grief, the role death can play in us achieving things we previously thought unattainable.  We explore how we can use our grief to be leaders in our community and by having the willingness to give something of ourselves away, we can tap into such a profound and deep part of ourselves. It’s also a practical conversation about having the courage to speak to the people we care about the most about their death so we are as prepared as we can be to have to deal with all the nitty-gritty details that can make dealing with the death of a loved one so challenging. This is a fresh and honest conversation about the only thing we can be 100% sure will happen at the end of our lives and hopefully, give you a little inspiration and courage to take one step closer to walking a life rich with more meaning and more purpose.

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I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Disruptions With Purpose podcast.  All you have to do is go here and submit a question or episode suggestion that could be featured on an upcoming episode.

LINKS:

Community Death Care is an emerging non-profit group, coming together in response to the needs and interests of Canadians who seek to re-engage with dying and deathcare in more meaningful, holistic, and environmentally sustainable ways!

National Home Funeral Alliance is dedicated to increasing access to information related to community-led after-death care. 

Guest Info

Karry Sawatsky is a death doula and the founder of Modern Death Care located in Elora, Ontario.  Karry offers personal support for individuals and families. She offers guidance in planning as well as support leading up to death, at death and after.

Karry came to deathcare through experiencing the deaths of a few close people. She was left with an intuitive sense that there must be another way to do dying, death and bereavement than the current cultural model.

This led her to become a Death Doula and founded Modern Deathcare. She is committed to educating the public about the end-of-life options and alternatives that are available and connecting people with resources. She is dedicated to reclaiming community-centred deathcare whereby families are empowered to enact their own end-of-life care if they choose. 

Karry believes in encouraging cultural re-engagement in dying, death and bereavement and that death planning leads to a meaningful and transformational experience.

We speak with regenerative farmer, Val Steinmann who owns and operates Heartwood Farm and Cidery with her husband Brent and her three adult children. This is a conversation about Val’s journey to developing a deep and reverential co-creative relationship with a small piece of land. Words cannot really describe this place. Its more than a farm and a cider house. It’s a feeling. It’s a deep connection to something more than ourselves, it’s the animals the land and the mutual integral relationship that exists among all of it.   If you ever have the gift of visiting, You’ll often be greeted by baby Kuni-Kuni piglets, large and friendly Clydesdale horses, a herd of cows, and a flock of free-roaming chickens. And at some point, you may find yourself with a glass of their apple cider in your hand.  You’ve arrived.  Our conversation explores so many things.  How Val’s desire for a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible is a driving force for her to imagine a different way of being in a relationship with herself and her land.  

 We explore risk-taking, looking fear in the eye and using it to bring our best selves into the world so the thriving can begin.  It’s a conversation about reciprocity, distributed wisdom, and the value of community in supporting us as we take bold actions. We talk about the importance of trusting our own inner voice and not waiting for permission to bring the things that give us joy and energy to the world. And bravely asking ourselves, what is our inner song to sing?  We explore the beautiful intricacies of natural cycles and looking deep both into nature and into ourselves to find them. In the end, it’s a conversation about recognizing that what gives us joy, what lights us up, actually might be the very thing that is the most trusted guidance.

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Heartwood Farm and Cidery is a regenerative farm with fresh air, good soil, healthy plants and animals, and a lively kitchen table. You're invited to the conversation.

In today’s episode, we speak with entrepreneur,  community convener,  PhD candidate, and social change leader Mary Kate Craig.  We dive into a really fascinating conversation about how holding possibility as a purpose has so much power in shaping our lives.  We explore the role fear has in guiding us closer to our deep knowing, about how the death of a parent was a catalyst to start to reimagine what life could look like and asking ‘is this what I want for my life?’. We explore the importance of community which isn't just about infrastructure and geography but about how holding possibility at the forefront has created a deep sense of belonging and a sense of home for many people in a small community in Southern Ontario.  It’s a powerful conversation and it’s everything you’d expect from a person who sees possibility as a way of life.

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Brave New Home - Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing by Diana Lind.  This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.

From What Is To What If Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins - The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it’s more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.