Modern Anarchy

Modern Anarchy

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Modern Anarchy episodes

  • 87. Stop Waiting for Others to Validate Your Shine: A New Paradigm of Healing and Spirituality with Eduardo Viezca

    On today's episode, love and relationship coach and psychotherapist, Eduardo Viezca (He/They/King) joins us for a conversation about a new paradigm of healing and spirituality. Together we talk about integrating the transpersonal within western modalities of therapy, following spiritual bread crumbs, and leaning into the beauty of our imperfection.

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung's “Active Imagination”

    The Mestizo perspective

    How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America

    The Wounded Healer as Cultural Archetype

    Jung and the Archetype of the Wounded Healer

    Eliminating Microaggressions: The Next Level of Inclusion | Tiffany Alvoid | TEDxOakland

    Everything you need to know about Reiki

    What is Reiki?

    Qigong: What You Need To Know

    1 hr 2 min
  • 86. Am I Cutting Off My Identity By Only Having Sex with One Person? with Chris K

    On today's episode, Chris K (any pronouns) joins us for a vulnerable conversation about their journey into the liberation of polyamory and unfolding the matrix. Together we talk about the expansiveness of connection, the surrender and trust needed to find security in change, and how our identity shifts through relationships. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    Can’t Help but Fly (feat. Be Steadwell & Luqman Frank)

    1 hr 21 min
  • 85. Embracing Your Sluthood and Geeking Out About Relationship Anarchy with Brian Gibney

    On today's episode, we have surrogate partner and intimacy coach Brian Gibney (He\Him) join us for a conversation all about fully embracing your sluthood through relationship anarchy. Together we talk about reinventing yourself with radical vulnerability, waving your freak flag, and finding security in the gift that you are in your relationships.

    RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : ⁠https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy⁠
    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    The Ethical Slut

    Can You Be Asexual, but Also Enjoy Kink?

    Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life

    Central Relational Paradox

    Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

    Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

    1 hr 13 min
  • 84. Relationship Anarchy: The Romance Myth and Navigating Jealousy with Dean Spade

    On today's episode, writer and activist Dean Spade (He\Him) joins us for a conversation all about liberating our relationships from patriarchal and capitalist understandings of connection. Together we talk about building community outside of the nuclear model, choosing to be uncomfortable in order to live more, and feeling powerless to jealousy. 

    RELATIONSHIP ANARCHY RESEARCH : ⁠https://www.modernanarchypodcast.com/relationshipanarchy⁠
    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    Fireweed Collective

    Dismantling the Romance Myth

    Falling In Love Hits The Brain Like Cocaine Does

    The Brain Looks The Same When We're In Love Or High On Cocaine

    What is the Relationship Escalator?

    Loneliness at epidemic levels in America

    Angela Davis likens abolishing the prison system to end of slavery

    Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

    Between monogamy and polyamory

    Relationship anarchy could be about so much more than the freedom to fuck

    Of relationship anarchy, accessibility and sitting shiva— Part 1: The anarchism of “relationship anarchy

    1 hr 19 min
  • 83. Everyone is Alone Together: Celibacy, People Pleasing, and Self-Love with Ally McDowell

    On today's episode, Ally McDowell (She\Her) opens up vulnerably about her mental health journey and reconnecting with her body. Together we talk about itching the wound in mental spirals, giving people the opportunity to love us, and the beauty of smoking a bowl and stretching it out. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    Grumpy Cat

    Schitt's Creek

    Generational Trauma

    Cannabis for the Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Report of 3 Cases

    “I Use Weed for My ADHD”: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Forum Discussions on Cannabis Use and ADHD

    Maggie Rogers - Back In My Body (Audio)

    1 hr 11 min
  • 82. What Is Tantra? with Yoli Maya Yeh

    On today's episode, we have educator Yoli Maya Yeh (She\Her) join us for a discussion about the indigenous tradition and enlightenment practice of tantra. Together we talk about how the goddess became a tool of the patriarchy, the warped and reductionist notion of tantra under capitalism, and reaching every moment an orgasm. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    1 hr 10 min
  • 81. Masturbation: It's Amazing and I Can't Tell Anyone About It with Jess DeVries

    Activation Warning: Spiritual Trauma

    On today's episode, Jess DeVries (She\Her) shares her powerful journey from shameful masturbation to relationship anarchy liberation and queering love. Together we talk about the ontological shift of leaving religion, the divine intervention of dating a kinky person, losing your virginity twice, and ABCD... Anal. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

    Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith

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    Beloved Coaching

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    'I Kissed Dating Goodbye' author: How and why I've rethought dating and purity culture

    Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion

    How Does Purity Culture Trauma Impact Sexuality?

    What It’s Like Being a Relationship Anarchist

    A Beginner's Guide To Relationship Anarchy: Examples & How To Practice

    1 hr 15 min
  • 80. Are You Carrying Trauma From a Past Life? with Cai Carvalhaes

    On today's episode, PhD candidate Cai Carvalhaes (She\Her) joins us for a conversation all about past life regression. Together we talk about awakening archetypes, fractals and the quantum dimension, and expanding beyond our minds. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

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    Is Hypnotherapy FAKE therapy?

    Researchers Create World's First Quantum Fractals

    The Collective Unconscious – What is It, and Why Should You Care?

    Who is Carl Jung?

    The Archetypes of the Anima and Animus

    Narrative Therapy

    Water Codes: The Science of Health, Consciousness, and Enlightenment

    Sean Carroll - What are Observers?

    Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?

    Fear of a smell can be passed down several generations

    False Memories

    1 hr
  • 79. Think BIG and Scare Yourself with Alycia Levels-Moore

    On today's episode, artist Alycia Levels-Moore (she\her) join us for a conversation all about calling out the seeds of greatness to becoming our highest self. Together we talk about the importance of having a supportive community, letting go of the victim mentality, and how things just show up when you set your intention. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

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    ASL CREATIVE FIRM

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    Understanding Boundaries: What Is Projective Identification?

    Letting Go of Victim Mentality to Heal

    The Power of Setting Intentions


    58 min
  • 78. A Spiritual Direction Session: What is Spirituality? with Mandie McGlynn

    On today's episode, we have spiritual guide Mandie McGlynn (She/Her) join us for a conversation all about finding a safe space to explore what we believe spiritually. Together we talk about how we each have our own sense of what is sacred, the power of the narratives we tell ourselves, and healing from the wounds of spiritual abuse. 

    If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend!

    And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384

    50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/

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    Resources to Learn More:

    Rent the Musical

    earth centered religion

    Predestination in Calvinism

    what is existentialism

    Reversing Roe

    what does numinous mean

    breathe festival

    wild woman archetype

    Tarot therapy: Why some believe the cards can help mental health

    gilead chicago church

    The Healing Power of Sound as Meditation

    Women Who Run with Wolves

    1 hr 22 min

About Modern Anarchy

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Hosted by Dr. Nicole, a queer, non-monogamous clinical psychotherapist, Modern Anarchy is a living exploration of what becomes possible when we liberate our collective pleasure. The show brings together activists, therapists, and researchers from around the world for vulnerable conversations about sex, relationships, and pleasure liberation psychology.

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