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In this special episode, recorded with a live audience in Los Angles, Nisha and Opulence take the stage to close out Season 2: Grief & Love.  With humor, vulnerability, and plenty of cheese, they explore how food, ancestry, and our lived experiences shape the ways we experience love, grief, and resilience. Tune into hear Nisha and Opulence along with voices from the audience bring in perspectives on caste, layered histories of Indian food, colonial influences, and what it means to grieve recipes and flavors lost to time. This episode offers reflections on grief and love as inseparable forces that call us back into relationship with Earth, each other, and ourselves. 

Recorded with gratitude for everyone who showed up to share space, this episode is both tender and fiery. It's a beautiful closing ritual for the season and an opening to what’s next. What’s ahead: Season 3 will welcome a third voice each week with a new guest joining Nisha and Opulence in each episode. If you’d like to be in conversation, reach out and join the slumber party.

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this episode, Opulence and Nisha talk about their experiences of grief around losing a pet companion. Opulence shares a couple experiences of losing pet companions and how they coped with their grief. Nisha shares about the anticipatory grief that she experiences with thinking about the inevitable death of her two beloved cats. The grief that is experienced around losing a pet is a perfect example of how connected grief is to love. Pets are a source of unconditional love in our lives and the experience of losing them is unlike anything else. Bring your tissues and tune in to this heartwarming episode to hear experiences from a listener about grieving the loss of their pet companions. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this week's episode, Opulence and Nisha chat about one of their shared loves, CHEESE! As much as they both love cheese, Nisha and Opulence have experienced grief around cheese. Nisha shares her experience with being in a relationship with someone who doesn't like cheese and how she didn't know how cheese connects her to others until it wasn't there. Opulence shares about how they have had to let go of cheese because of how it makes them feel physically and the grief that comes with that. Cheese is something that elevates so many dishes and when left out, it's absence is felt! Are you a cheese lover too? Tune in for a conversation about how connection, love and grief can be felt around something as silly as cheese. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this week's episode, Opulence and Nisha chat about power dynamics and how to navigate them in your relationships with empowerment while still existing under systems of oppression, such as capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. They share about their experiences of feeling powerless in relationships and how they were able to reclaim their power through returning to self and setting boundaries. Navigating conflict with someone can be challenging when there is also a power imbalance in your relationship. As practitioners who support others in navigating interpersonal conflict and challenges, Nisha and Opulence share practical wisdom that you can apply to your relationships. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this weeks episode, Opulence and Nisha talk about the people and systems who have told them who they're supposed to be and how they have challenged those constructs so they can live authentically. Opulence shares about their experience navigating the world as a queer, trans, and intersex human and Nisha talks about how writing unleashed her voice after running from her family into marriage and discovering she still wasn't free. If you have ever been told by parents, family members, partners, or strangers on the internet who you should be, then this episode is for you. Tune in for a dose of empowerment to live in your truth. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this week's episode, Opulence shares a difficult story about a family members wedding and the challenges that they face being non-binary and unable to pass as one gender. Opulence dives into how they reconnected with their family and were able to get to a place of feeling loved and accepted by them. They also share the joy that was experienced when Opulence attended their first ever queer wedding. Snuggle up for this vulnerable and heart expanding episode on the challenges and joy of being queer. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this week's episode, Opulence and Nisha talk about their childhood homes and the love and grief that they experienced around home. Together they explore the question, "What is home?"  Nisha shares a story about how her dad taught her how to ride a bike at her first home and the fond memories that were created there, especially in the backyard. Opulence shares about the importance of safety, belonging and community to feeling "at home." They also share about some of the nuances of home for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Grab your favorite stuffy and tune in for a heartwarming conversation on cultivating home wherever you are. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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In this week's episode, Opulence and Nisha talk about coming of age stories and how they're often connected to your Saturn Return. Opulence's Saturn Return occurred around the pandemic in 2020 and they share how it influenced how their experience of coming of age. Nisha and Opulence also chat about the grief that they experienced during the pandemic and what it shifted in their lives. Tune in to receive their embodied wisdom of how challenging and unexpected events can actually become gifts in disguise. 

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Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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Welcome to season 2 of Earthworm Slumber Party! Opulence and Nisha are so excited to be back for another season where we explore big ideas, playfully.  For season 2, we are doing things a little differently. Instead of having a different topic that we focus on each week, each episode this season will be focused on the same theme: Grief and Love. Listen to today's episode to hear why we picked grief and love to be this seasons theme. We discuss what grief and love mean to each of us, our relationship with grief and love, and how you can be involved with the last episode of the season. 

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Have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]

Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.

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This is our LAST episode of the season, and it's all about CHEESE! Nisha tells her story about being a college intern at Kraft Foods. This episode start with us composting some missing grandmother energy and anger. Nisha shares her Kraft Foods dream story which has us talking about subversion and conformity in the context of our South Asian immigrant kid experiences. And, of course, we end with a cheesy invitation for our moms! We hope you eat cheese before, during, or after this episode for the full experience because j'adore fromage!

While this is our last episode of season 1, we have a BONUS episode that will be available to our Ko-fi subscribers, so please support us if you can!

Please support us at https://ko-fi.com/earthwormslumberparty

Have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]

Opulence's Stuff:
Care Plan Creation Guide: https://opulenceabundance.substack.com/p/download-my-free-care-plan-creation
IG: https://www.instagram.com/opulenceabundance

Nisha's Stuff:
7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl

Earthworm Slumber Party is edited and scored by Adrien Garbar and produced by Dalya Guerin.