Psyche Magic

On this spooky-season special edition, I’m joined by my dear friend and theme songstress for this very podcast, Bobbie Allen of Young Summer! We discuss her experience with transcendental meditation as a core part of the “world-building” behind her creative process, including her foray into directing her own music videos. We also delve into our mutual love of David Lynch and delight in a creative, psychological exploration of a couple of our favorite horror movies: The Thing and The Silence of the Lambs.

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Watch some of our favorite scary movies from our Letterboxd list we made for the episode!

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On this episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with Heather Cooper Sellers, a Psychotherapist, writer, and intuitive reader. We discussed her values around maintaining congruency between her Therapist self and her authentic self as a key contributing factor to the longevity of her career in the healing arts. This has also been a catalyst for expanding her work into offering anonymous intuitive readings via her advice column on WhatsApp. We also shared mutual yet distinct experiences of a deepening sense of connection to intuition and creativity during the transition to motherhood. And, of course, we dove into the dream realm, unpacking a Jungian take on those pesky overflowing toilet dreams that so many of us know all too well.

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Find Jordan’s Intro to Jungian Experiential Dreamwork course here!

Sign up for Jordan’s next Jungian Active Imagination Workshop (to find creative inspiration via the subconscious) here!

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On this episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with my dear friend Christina Cone in her home here in East Nashville. I knew she would be the perfect person to talk with about how to maintain one’s creative and artistic identity while simultaneously diving headfirst into motherhood. Christina fronts the band Frances Cone along with her husband, Andy. She also founded Phases, a boutique creative agency for independent artists, earlier this year. She and I spoke about the terror and magic of motherhood, the necessary price we pay to live in community, the journey of healing from religious trauma, dismantling the legacy burden of codependency, and strategies for keeping the creative flame burning all the while.

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For our 50th episode, we have an extra special guest who I was so honored to speak with: musical artist/harpist Mary Lattimore! Mary’s ethereal instrumental music, particularly her 2020 album Silver Ladders, was a cornerstone of my self-care in pregnancy, and I’ve been a massive fan ever since. Mary joined me virtually from her home in Los Angeles to discuss her favorite ways to build and nurture community and sustain inspiration in her artistry, the scoop on her favorite artist residencies, dreaming as a form of processing the nightmare that is the current political climate in the US, lucid dreaming, and oh so much more!

With permission from the artist and her management, this episode includes a snippet from Mary’s forthcoming song, “A Lock of His Hair Under Glass”

This episode touches on the following topics:

The Aces in Tarot (specifically the Ace of Wands)

Sustainable artistic practices

Building an artistic community

The value of practicing various art forms in an unskilled way

Where to find artist residency programs

Artistic inspiration through nature and unfamiliar environments

Animism relating to musical instruments

The arts as political resistance

Dreaming as a way to process our deep emotions

Lucid dreaming

School of Song and their amazing Brian Eno workshop (!!)

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

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I am thrilled to welcome Brooke Lamb to the show: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and self-proclaimed amateur mystic, and co-founder of Abide Counseling and Private Practice Residency here in Nashville. We discuss Brooke’s own journey of healing from religious trauma, coming out as queer, navigating a later-in-life ADHD diagnosis, and the transformative process of advocating for her nonbinary child within her family and society at large. We also discuss her incredible stories around working spiritually and energetically with her ancestors and carrying their torches of activism forward in fighting to dismantle oppressive systems and prioritize capitalist-critical business structures.

Follow Brooke’s work and various projects here! Substack: B.A. Lamb and @therapistbrooke on TikTok

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QUEER + TRANS RESOURCES:

The Trevor Project

GLAAD Resources

PFLAG

HRC LGBTQ+ Youth Support

Trans Lifeline

Oasis Center Nashville

Trans Aid Nashville

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Join us for this virtual workshop Monday 7/14 at 7pm CST via Zoom (the recording will be available after the fact as well!) where we will:

🌱 Explore how Jung discovered and used active imagination to bring unconscious thoughts into awareness for personal growth and creativity

✍️ Utilize different automatic writing techniques to generate ideas and connect with your existing creative skills

🔮 Engage in a creative exercise by dialoguing with a figure from a dream or tarot card for inspiration and guidance in your projects

🤸🏻‍♀️Practice inner child meditation to connect with a favorite childhood art form

This is going to be such a fun evening filled with creative inspiration and flow! I hope you’ll join me and please share with anyone who you think might be interested!

Tickets are available on my website:

https://www.jordanhale.net/workshops

Register with a friend and get 20% off - just email me both of your names at [email protected] to get your promo code

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On this episode, we welcome writer, philosopher, and “introspective detective” AJ Murillo to the show! We discuss her wisdom and perspective gained on psychedelic journeys and explore the subject of her most recent book: the concept of ego death as an aspect of emotional and spiritual healing. We also share some amazing stories about psilocybin guiding us deeper into our intuition, helping both of us to confirm and encourage life decisions around our partner choices and having children.

For more on this subject see episode 17: Psychedelic Therapy with Robert DeSalvo LCSW in our podcast feed!

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On this very special episode, my dear friend Michael McMillian (actor, writer, creator and co-host of The Bigfoot Collector’s Club Podcast) joins me to discuss one of our favorite creators of all time: the late, great David Lynch. We were blessed with a poignant Lynchian message via our tarot pull, discussed Lynch’s appearances in both of our dreams, and our enduring love and reverence for his work and creative philosophies.

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On our latest episode, I interview Becca Neighbor: Astrologer and Singer-Songwriter about making sense of the Natal Chart (aka Birth Chart) in Astrology! Her intuitive method of reading the birth chart highlights key placements illustrating the blessings and challenges inherent in each chart, with the goal of enhancing self-awareness and self-compassion. We also discuss Becca’s journey in navigating her neurodivergent brain, tarot and astrology as shadow work tools, and symbols of the divine feminine in dreams. Enjoy!

Becca’s song featured in the episode is “Losing Grip”

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More on Becca Neighbor:

Twangy, laid-back melodies with a cosmic twist.

Drawing from indie rock, folk, country, and pop influences, Neighbor’s music is a glittery fusion inspired by the Wizard of Oz, her Taurus rising, Nada Surf’s “Blonde on Blonde”, and Patsy Cline on vinyl.

Neighbor’s Nashville yellow brick road led her to tour managing outlaw country artist and “Highway Queen” Nikki Lane, who graciously gave her an acoustic set at the Stagecoach music festival in 2018. A few years later she managed Dualtone record label’s artist curated vinyl subscription service Magnolia Record Club. When the tornado of 2020 kicked off her Saturn return she found herself back in Ohio for a few years to reconnect. In 2022 she made her eventual return to music city with a fresh perspective and a desire to create. Recently she has been helping behind the curtain of the local non-profit Girls Write Nashville, launching her astrology business, and will be releasing new music in fall of 2024!

On this long-anticipated episode, I got to sit down with singer/songwriter Sam Burton to talk about the role that practices like Tarot and Jungian dream work have played in his personal growth and resulting creative endeavors/artistic career. We also discussed the evolution of his method of reading Tarot for others, and the delicate ethical considerations of this vulnerable but powerful work.

Sam’s song featured in the episode is “I Can Go With You”

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More on Sam Burton:

Born and raised outside of Salt Lake City, Sam Burton moved to LA to pursue music. In the last year he toured with Loving and Jose Gonzalez. He recently wrapped up a three-week residency at Los Angeles' Club TeeGee, and will head out on the road with Weyes Blood and Indigo Sparke in the coming months.

To coincide with the news of his signing to Partisan Records, Burton has released the new song “Maria.”

“Maria” was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price) at his Topanga Canyon Studio with some of the best studio players in LA, and perfectly showcases Burton's knack for mining pure Laurel Canyon AM gold. Pastoral string arrangements bloom in the background of Sam’s striking honeyed vocals-like a modern-day Campbell, Orbison, or Nilsson.

Together, Wilson and Burton achieve a sound that doesn’t descend into retro pastiche, but rather becomes an evocative echo, a dream of the past. In scope, the music finds Burton using a far bigger canvas than on his acclaimed 2020 debut I Can Go With You, giving the emotions therein a new sense of urgency and intensity.

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