Mad Practice

Today JD & Col feel Empathy!

Our two friends both start off feeling pretty overwhelmed by… everything. They work to show empathy towards each other, then towards themselves, then explore empathy in it’s greater sense (and it is pretty great, isn’t it?)

They approach the limits of their empathy and disentangle ideas of self-martyrdom, hero complexes, clocking when the tank is empty, and the difference between understanding and excusing.

They mention the 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking and JD mentions the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 

As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

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Today JD & Col take a good long look at Fear.

They try and tweeze out the difference between fear and danger, and how both can produce body shock for JD and what they do to stay grounded. From body shock they move to Collective Shock (what a trip).

JD reads an original piece of writing “Before It Was A Dog” and mentions the amazing book “The Body Is Not An Apology” by Sonia Renee Taylor.

And Col opens the Christmas present he was/is going to send JD, The Care Manifesto.

As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

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Welcome to Mad Practice, where we're shoring up our sanity skills for  these crazy times. JD and Col, two unlikely, almost sane friends keep it less than real as they grapple with staying steady in a wobbly world. Here's a peek at our first 10 episodes!

Welcome to Mad Practice, where we're shoring up our sanity skills for  these crazy times. JD and Col, two unlikely, almost sane friends keep it less than real as they grapple with staying steady in a wobbly world. Listen every Monday, wherever you find your podcasts!

Good Grief! Today JD & Col take a deep look at Grief.

JD and Col discuss the importance of recognizing the small-wins in community activism, even when our bodies are still in battle modes.

They chat about the “Ring Theory” of grief and how circles of care emanate out from the centre of where that grief lives hardest, and the practice of “Comfort In, Dump Out”.

As with any elegant theory like this they complicate the idea a bit and ask what to do when there’s grief and need all around us and we’re all living in somewhere between 4 and 20 rings at different depths at any given moment.

They talk about Grief as a thing you feel and Grieving as a thing you do, and a bit of the complicated history of how proper grieving time is determined in psychology.

As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

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Today JD & Col delight in each other as they dive into, well, Delight!

Col wonders what effect the collective touch deficit we’ve experienced this year will have on us all. JD finds delight in the notion that we’re all living in a dream, which admittedly freaks others out.

They chat about the role of surprise in delight, how it acts as a punctuation mark kind of emotion, and how to reclaim delight if it’s been pathologized as mania in the past.

Finally JD and Col share books that have provided them delighted them this year like Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman and Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

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Today JD & Col laugh and cry through a chat about Sadness.

JD coins the term “feathery-nest-ship” describing the safety net friendship offers.

JD talks about picking up John Rauston Saul’s Voltaire’s Bastards in an otherwise sad psych ward library. Col mentions the Universal Vulnerable Subject, a beautiful idea from Martha Fineman, and how the myth of universal rationale actors can’t handle the complexity of our time.

They also reference The Body Is Not An Apology.

While they’re busting myths they do away with sadness being deemed unproductive and indulgent.

Col’s been trying, unsuccessfully, to cry lately. The closest he’s got so far has been listening to Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me.

As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

In Episode 2 JD & Col take a deep dive into the elusive and potent emotion of the day: Doubt

Tangents include: JD is thinking about mysticisms, spurred on by this 10% Happier interview with Martine Batchelor

Col’s upset about the history of COVID outbreaks in the meat packing industry in Alberta, which this great CBC article outlines

Also JD mentions that there are 86 billion neurons in the brain, which is pretty close to correct!

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On the first episode of Mad Practice hosts JD Derbyshire & Col Cseke take a deep dive into the emotion of the day: Anger!

Tangents include: Angry vs Mad - JD introduces the reclaimed term Mad; Mad Pride, Mad Practice, Madness in all its glory and complexity.

The hosts lean heavily on this Medium article by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions

They chat about Co-Evolution Through Friendship introduced by adrienne marie brown in Emergent Strategy and Mia Mingus’ Accountability Framework

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