Housemates for Life

Life is full of uncertainties, even more so in a plural life. In this episode we discuss in which areas uncertainty impacts us, from a young age to adulthood - on a societal and personal level. And we also talk about our ability to cope with and tolerate uncertainty when moving through daily life.

We warmly welcome our guests The Everlifes, who share with us their experiences as polyplural system, and what being many means to them when it comes to in-system communication and the challenges of finding the right "language" among yourselves between sub-systems.

The Everlife's offer resources and peer support for neurodivergent people in UK! Please check out there website: https://neurodivergent.uk/

And find more creative content from The Everlife's here: https://everlife.family/

Rather spontaneously, we decided to talk about momentum. What is momentum? How does it affect us as plural systems? And how can we build and maintain momentum, to do the things we need to, and those we love?

What's it like to be plural? And what's it like to be many in one body? In this two-part episode we explore selves-concepts from an embodied perspective and how we navigate the intersection between our plural experiences and the fact that we interact with a society through our bodies.

CW:

trans- and pluralphobia (11:25-23:00),

physical pain and medical health care system (25:00-37:40)

Research paper "It's just a body":

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S246874992300042X

What's it like to be plural? And what's it like to be many in one body? In this two-part episode we explore selves-concepts from an embodied perspective and how we navigate the intersection between our plural experiences and the fact that we interact with a society through our bodies.

Art, storytelling and media shape our culture and vice versa. In this episode we explore how engagement with various art forms influence our selves-perception and how it may help us navigate plural life. We also discuss examples of harmful and helpful representation of plurality in media and what we personally look out for in the future.

CW: mention of trauma (nothing specific)

Dæmonism is a practice in which a dæmian finds their "dæmon", usually an animal-like form, and builds a strong bond with this part of themself. Originally inspired by the books "His Dark Materials" written by Philip Pullman, a whole community has been growing for over 20 years around the concept of dæmonism. Our guests Fred and his dæmon Aza shed light on this plural-adjacent practice and share their unique perspectives as both dæmian/dæmon and plural system.

CW:

- use of the terms "daemon", "daemonism" (although they don't relate to any religious concepts, only the pronunciation is similar)

- brief mention of harm/death at 5:30-5:45

Further links and resources:

The Daemon Forum: https://daemonpage.com/forum/

The Daemon Forum Discord: https://discord.com/invite/eQv6UPhyDA

The Daemon Page: https://daemonpage.com/start.php

Daemonism 101: https://daemonism.wixsite.com/daemonism101

Fred&Aza's Daemonism Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/daemians-n-daemons

Understanding your own reality is especially important for plurals, and often not very easy. We will briefly discuss various meanings of the term "reality" from our plural perspectives, common struggles we experience regarding our internal and external reality, and share what has been helping us to better navigate those.

TW: derealisation, unreality

This year's Plural Positivity World Conference is around the corner, 17-19 May.

Like every year, hundreds of plurals gather at the virtual conference, listen to exciting talks, and get in touch with other plurals at the virtual meetup tables.

Chat with us at PPWC!

We will be at the conference with our own booth. Meet us there and have a chat with us live at the event. Ask your questions and bring in your& ideas for topics that we should cover in our podcast series Housemates for Life.

We look forward to meeting y'all at the conference!

https://powertotheplurals.com/pluralpositivityworldconference2024/

Identity and selves-concepts play a fundamental role in a plural life. In this two-part episode we discuss various notions of the "Self" and share our unique experiences as plurals and individual system members.

CW: religious terms, reference to religious concepts at 12:00-13:25