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A musing on how easily we may give our authority over to people and institutions that meet certain masculine metrics. And why we should look within to ourselves for that authority instead.

What's the value in understanding and observing archetypes without literalizing them? How can these symbols and patterns provide us deeper insight into ourselves and help us #feedthefeminine by embracing our yearning for spirit rather than repressing it through material worship?

On this episode, dedicated to my mentor and friend Bruce Avery, I share how my personal experiences of grief and the wisdom of poets and psychologists alike have led me to understand the meaning of mourning.

References:

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis - Nancy McWilliams

The Dark Interval - Rainer Maria Rilke

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown - Grief and Finding Meaning

All There is with Anderson Cooper - Grateful for Grief with Stephen Colbert

Refuse in Grief, Megan Divine

Codependency influences us to be responsible for making other people feel better. Success in that area is what can determine a sense of personal value, but this creates suffering. A more objective truth is that we can support each other but the work to quell our upset and evolve is ours alone. And boundaries – a trait of the masculine light – is where that healthy separation begins.

Discussing behavior traits of the feminine shadow and their impact on relationships. When we’re stuck in the feminine shadow, our self-image is usually not great. Because it’s a darker manifestation of feminine light which is about relationship and community, when that healthy manifestation turns dark, it’s still about relationship and community but about us being on the outside of it, feeling disconnected from it, not allowed into it.

Let's talk about empathy: highly sensitive empathic attunement, those who have no empathy at all, empathy's impact on co-dependency, empathy through the feminine/masculine framework, and how it can feel impossible to manage empathy in times of global suffering.

References:

Live Lift Love Podcast, Episode 7