Full Heart Free Voice Podcast: reading inspiring books, one chapter at a time

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 12: "Marking Territory: the boundaries of rage and forgiveness”.

In today's episode Caitlin guides us through how to set boundaries.

In the episode you'll learn:

• What boundaries are
• Examples of boundary setting
• How to set energetic boundaries for empaths

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• The Art of Empathy by Karla McLaren

Links to bookshop.org are affiliate links. Full Heart Free Voice Podcast earns a commission on sales made through these links.

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Podcast Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and start writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 12: "Marking Territory: the boundaries of rage and forgiveness”.

Summary:

This chapter is an exploration of anger. It focuses on learning how to use rage as a teacher, and it looks at how forgiveness can be a healing process for when you are stuck in old rage. This episode is for you if you want to learn more about anger and how to work with it. It’s for you if you want to use your anger as a powerful emotion to help you create boundaries and transformation in your life or in the world. It’s also for you if you ever find yourself stuck in old resentment, replaying tapes of grievances, and feeling like this no longer serves you or helps you to develop personally or to create new things.

In this episode we discuss:

• The difference between clean anger and old rage
• How to use anger as a teacher to create boundaries
• How to transform old rage through forgiveness

Resources mentioned in the episode

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
• Outing the Predator, episode 5 of Full Heart Free Voice Podcast
• Resource list for recovering from abusive relationships

Links to bookshop.org are affiliate links. Full Heart Free Voice Podcast earns a commission on sales made through these links.

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and start writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Activation session for your creative process
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Fairy tale music. Keven MacLeod, found on YouTube Studio

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 11 "Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality”..

In today's episode Emma Veritas interviews Gina Puorro about her personal experience with awakening sacred sexuality.

In today's episode you'll learn:

• What a sacred sexual awakening looks like in everyday life
• 3 tips to help you connect to your sexuality and sensuality
• How connecting to your sacred sexuality can fill your heart and free your voice

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• ginapuorro.com
• We are not a virus: Asian American History by the Immigrant History Initiative
• A Different Asian American Timeline 
• Me and White Supremacy 
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Georgia
• One Drop: Shifting the lens on Race by Yaba Blay
• Brene Brown's interview with Yaba Blay on Unlocking Us

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Podcast Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and start writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 11 "Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality”.

Summary:

This chapter focuses on the idea that sacred sexuality is the wild part of us that is fully engaged in our senses, alive, and free. This chapter shows us how to take deep, belly laughs, and how to come back to ourselves through the sacred and the sacrilege in equal measure. This chapter is for those of us who want to learn more about sacred sexuality and how to connect to this part of our wild woman. It’s for those of us who want to enliven our senses and learn to live in a way that is deeply connected to our feelings. And it’s also for those of us who have been taking life a little too seriously and need to remember everything doesn’t need to be so neat and tidy.

In this episode we discuss:

• What roses can teach us about Sacred Sexuality and connecting to our senses
• Our favorite stand up comics and how laughter can set us free
• How Sacred Sexuality and laughter can help in times of grief

Resources mentioned in the episode

• I’m Still Here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Stand Up Comics on Netflix:
  • Ali Wong
  • Elder Millenial
  • Wanda Sykes
  • Michelle Wolf
  • Tiffany Haddish
• Traumaprevention.com 
• Deep Space Nine's Aromantic Love Story by Abigail Dillon

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and start writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Fairy tale music. Keven MacLeod, found on YouTube Studio

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 10 "Clear Water: Nourishing the creative life”.

In today's episode Emma Veritas interviews Caitlin Bosshart about how creating our podcast cover art filled her heart and freed her voice. You will learn:

• The symbolism Caitlin painted into our cover art about the heart and the voice
• Why calling yourself an artist, writer, or other maker can inspire your creativity
• How it can change your life when you share your art with others

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Cops & Robbers on Netflix
• Article: Animated Short 'Cops and Robbers' Packs Powerful Message About Police Brutality

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and start writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 10 "Clear Water: Nourishing the creative life”.

Summary:

This chapter focuses on creativity, teaching us how to flow with our natural cycles of activity and dormancy, and how to clean up all the toxic thoughts and beliefs that can stop us from pursuing our creative dreams. This chapter is for those of us who want to pursue a creative project, who want to paint, draw, dance, write, and make, but who get stopped by self-doubt and limiting beliefs. It’s for those of us who want to clean up our creative flow, and get unstuck, so we can start making things, and it’s for those who want to learn how to create in a way that honors our natural cycles.

In this episode we discuss:

• The behind-the-scenes of our creative process with Full Heart Free Voice Podcast
• How to work through the fear of  creative failure
• How to know what you need for your unique creative process

Resources mentioned in the episode

• Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
• Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers
• Personality Hacker - courses on personality type

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• 3 habits to calm your fear and stop writing
• Emma's website

Caitlin's links:

• Finally start your passion projects
• Multi-passionate coaching
• Wedding coaching
• Weekly multi-passionate PSA

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Fairy tale music. Keven MacLeod, found on YouTube Studio

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

A few years ago we recorded a four part series on the wisdom the bees have to offer us each season. We love how these audios celebrate the life-death-life cycle, which Clarissa Pinkola Estes says is the essence of the Wild Woman. 

With the winter solstice coming in a couple weeks, we want to share our conversation on what the bees have to teach us about the restful energies of winter. 

In this episode you will learn about what honey bees are up to in the winter and the wisdom and inspiration this has to offer us about finding time to rest, cleaning out that which no longer serves us, and honoring your natural cycles.

Resources mentioned in the episode

• The 1619 Project
• How Full Is Your Honeycomb? Free Download
• Caitlin's Blog Post on Winter in the Hive
• Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• Emma's Website
• Download 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing

Caitlin's links:

• Caitlin's Website
• Download Finally Do Your Passion Project(s)
• Caitlin's Instagram

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a story, tool, or practice for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 9 "Homing: Returning to oneself”.

In today's episode Emma Veritas interviews Bev Barnes about how racism can stop you from doing your soul's calling. Bev is a Master Life Coach, Coach Mentor and Coach Instructor. She’s the creator of The Soul’s Calling Roadmap Process & Tools, and The Soul’s Calling Coach & Facilitator Training.  In this episode you will hear:

• Bev's story of getting trapped in a life that wasn’t right for her and how she found her way back to her own soul self and to doing the work of her soul’s calling. 
• Bev talks about her experiences of racism as a black woman born in England and raised in Canada, and how racism stopped her from doing her Soul’s Calling, at first. 
• Bev tells us how she dared to decide to pursue her purpose and do the work that answered the call of her soul.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• The Soul's Calling Academy
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• The Circle Way
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeomo Oluo
• The Crown Act
• 13th by Ava DuVernay
• When We All Vote
• Antiracism Daily
• Rachel Cargle's The Great Unlearn
• action.aclu.org
• Talks to help you understand racism in America
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Podcasts about race issues and antiracism work

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Podcast Shop
• Podcast Instagram

Emma's links:

• Emma's Website
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing (Free Workbook)

Caitlin's links:

• Caitlin's Website
• Caitlin's Instagram
• Finally Start Your Passion Projects (Free Workbook)

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 9 "Homing: Returning to oneself”.

Summary:

This chapter focuses on the initiatory process of coming back to yourself when you feel lost in your life. It shows the process of returning home to your soul and finding fulfillment in your life. This chapter is for those of us who have stayed overlong in a situation. This could be a job, a relationship, a spiritual practice, or maybe just a particular formation or way of being in that situation. It’s for those of us who now feel dried out, lost, or unfulfilled. And it’s for those of us who feel the call to come back to ourselves, that strong pull that comes from inside saying “It’s time.”

In this episode we discuss:

• Why seals are the perfect metaphor for the soul
• How returning to yourself is a critical part of a fulfilling life
• Practices you can do to help you find your true self again

Resources mentioned in the episode

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeomo Oluo
• Finally Start Your Passion Project by Caitlin Bosshart
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing by Emma Veritas

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop (Clarissa Pinkola Estes Audio Classes)
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• Emma's Website
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing

Caitlin's links:

• Caitlin's Website, where you can download "Finally(!) Start Your Passion Project(s)"
• Caitlin's Instagram

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Fairy tale music. Keven MacLeod, found on YouTube Studio

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 8 “Self-Preservation: Identifying leg traps, cages, and poisoned baits”.

In today's episode Emma Veritas interviews Nicole Croizier about how your personality type can help you find the right career. You will learn:

• Why you feel like your soul is dying when you're at work
• Why a traditional corporate job might not be right for you
• How you can leverage your personality type to create a fulfilling career

Resources mentioned in the episode

• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Nicole Croizier's website: lovewhatyoudoagain.com/personality

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Affiliate Shop
• Instagram

Emma's links:

• Emma's website
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing

Caitlin's links:

• caitlinbosshart.com
• Caitlin's Instagram
• Caitlin's Facebook Page

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

Support the show