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Curled up in bed, outraged, spinning, crying, despondent, or terrified? Maybe you've felt all of these things in the last few days. This episode doesn't rehash the recent tragedies, but helps guide you from fear and anger to right action. 

Tait and Jenny walk through the steps listed below and also share some creative ways to help. For example, you don't need to throw a huge gala, it could be just 20 friends and neighbors. 

WHAT NOT TO DO:
1) Don't let your fear and anger spin you into an unorganized ball of rage and then show up at non-profit activist meetings trying to change everything. Take a beat.

2) Don't yell at your friends and family or accuse people of not doing enough before you've done an honest assessment of yourself and your actions.

3) Don't ignore your feelings.

4) Don't assume that one big, heroic act on your part is going to fix the problem. It will take a million little acts, sustained over a long period of time.

WHAT TO DO:
1) Let yourself feel the anger, anguish, fear, depression. Go through it fully. Journal, read, rest. Take a few days to go through this, reflect, and recharge. The problems aren't going to go away while you do this. They will still be there when you are calmer and clearer. 

2) Work through the Social Change Ecosystem map and workbook (link at bottom). This will help you identify where you can be of service and help you move out of a paralyzed, overwhelmed state. You can't do everything and you only have so many resources of time, emotional strength, and money. This framework will help you figure out how you can help consistently over a long period of time rather than in one short burst of anger and fear. 

3) When you get to a meeting, honor the work that has been going on for years before you got angry enough to get involved. Listen, learn, and lend your gifts and talents. 

4) Ask yourself what keeps you up at night. This will help guide you to what's deeply felt at your core. If we are going to give our time and energy to helping over a sustained period of time, we have to feel deeply connected to the cause. 

Quotes shared in this episode:
"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." -Seamus Heaney

"Anger is initiatory, not transformative." -Ruth King

Referenced in episode:
Social Change Ecosystem Map https://buildingmovement.org/our-work/movement-building/social-change-ecosystem-map/

Mariame Kaba http://mariamekaba.com/

Closing song: "Here Comes The Sun" Nina Simone

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This episode is about self-advocacy and fierce advocacy for your health. Tait starts out telling her story about a gynecologist trying to prescribe her estrogen without doing proper blood work, claiming she was moving into menopause. After getting another opinion from Dr. Richard Rock, she found out that wasn't the problem at all and she actually had a tumor on her pituitary gland. She explains what would've happened if she hadn't advocated for herself. 

They discuss the difference between advocating on behalf of someone else versus advocating for oneself.  Not everyone is standing up to or questioning doctors and they discuss how you can feel more comfortable doing so. What happens when you're depleted and really sick? 

What does your voice and vocal cords have to do with it? Jenny talks about how to make it easier to share your voice and disrupt the people pleasing status quo. You can take up space and make noise! SING! CHANT! Are you holding things in? Holding things back? This will be good information for you. 

Tait shares her challenges with saying some words and a little on interoception and exteroception and how moving fluidly between the two can be helpful when feeling anxious. 

They also discuss how mindful meditation can lead to apathy and an unhealthy detachment. 

Their funnies include their made up character, Carol Featherington. 

Good For My Mind Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63wYcrA5cXDx3AzWwvZ1ly?si=8c4de9f74c3044fd

Closing song: Sing by Jon Batiste + Tori Kelly

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In this long awaited episode, Jenny and Tait share the pseudo-science and misinformation around colonics, ayahuasca, homeopathy, "adrenal fatigue," drinking your own urine, "detoxing," lemon water, and alkaline water. 

Is ayahuasca a way to instant enlightenment and an "ego death"? Will your life change by taking "adrenal support" supplements? Do we need to "detox"? Will lemon water help us digest and lose weight? What is homeopathy? Tait explains how you shouldn't stop the search after being told you have "adrenal fatigue" by a naturopath since that's not a real medical diagnosis. Adrenal Deficiency is a true diagnosis. 

Their funnies include Tait's Mom's list of Four Life Lessons and the "witchy" video Jenny made for Tait. 

Referenced Dr. Jen Gunter, author of Vagina Bible and Menopause Manifesto

Closing song: Witchy Woman by Eagles

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Listen to this episode with HEADPHONES. 
Grief is one of the most painful of human experiences. We hope this help give your nervous system a little break while you are grieving. This won't make everything better but it will take care of your body and brain so you can continue on breathing and healing. 


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Tait and Jenny share details of their personal stories around their relationship to worth. Tait only existed in the eyes of other people's praise. She also shares how that led to an addiction to alcohol. Jenny felt unworthy of the roof over her head because she felt she didn't measure up to expectations of beauty and fitness she was taught was the most important attribute. That along with being gang raped in seventh grade led to a decades long eating disorder. They share the tools they used, the ones they wish they had, and how their Rebel Human Five Dials approach would've applied to their 20 year old selves. 

Jenny shares the nuts and bolts of how the Five Dials could've worked on her 20 year old self and how it could've updated the operating system that was her brain. They talk through the tools necessary to go from the "mind hell" to feeling ok and connected. 

Five Dials: movement, breath, mantra, eye focus, and non-sleep deep rest.

Who do you spend your time with? They also discuss the effect others can have on your sense of self-worth. 

Their funnies cover Jenny's "hungry dogs hunt best" comment, her practice of acquiring matching outfits for herself and Tait, and Tait's video of her doing her happy scarecrow Hammertime dance. Should they do a photo shoot in their matching outfits? 

Closing Song: Can't Touch This by MC Hammer

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Tait and Jenny discuss the mental health effects of ruminating and procrastinating. Tait tells her latest health challenge story and how the steroids she has to take have put her back into the mental state she experienced in her teens and how that helps her be more compassionate. Jenny shares what it's like when depression visits her and how that also reignites her compassion. Tait experiences what it feels like to try to meditate when feeling her steroid induced anxiety.  She shares how she uses Rebel Human tools to regain control over her physiology, self-concept, and mindset. 

They share their unique ways of procrastinating including starting another branch of their business, doing research, cleaning and more. Jenny talks about the benefits of procrastination and how to get back on track. 

Their funnies cover a new creative project: creative 80s style exercise videos. 

Closing song: Physical by Olivia Newton John

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Tait and Jenny discuss how magic, tarot cards, mystics, psychics, and mediums play into our human psychology. They explain the connections between these "magical" practices and the placebo effect. They share some examples of how "magical" our own powers are as well. 

Tait shares some placebo studies, question the ethics of how placebos are presented, and they agree it's important to live in the mystery, acknowledging that we humans don't understand everything. They also share how to tell if your relationship with the mysterious arts is harmful or not. 

Their funnies cover an update on their weird art film.   

Closing song: Strange Magic by Electric Light Orchestra

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Jenny starts out sharing her covid experience while in quarantine, including her manic hair cutting episode. They move onto goals, the role of tracking, and the neurocircuitry of goal pursuit. Tait shares how she got herself to the top of her field as a dancer at the age of 16 and how a dance class has a built in reward system. She also shares her theory of why she and Jenny didn't need external motivators while in recovery. 

They discuss the neurotransmitters of our goal pursuit circuitry:

• Amygdala (fear, worry)
• Basal ganglia (go/no go)
• Lateral prefrontal cortex (executive functions)
• Dopaminergic (motivation)

 Soft addictions are harder to change than when you are at rock bottom. They discuss using the surprising technique of fear as a motivator, using the dopamine (the motivation molecule) reward system, different kinds of visualizations, the power of eye focus and how that can double the chances that you meet your goal. 

They discuss how tracking can help with awareness, establishing a baseline, identifying problems, and focusing attention. Also, have you chosen the right goal? They discuss how to know if you have a goal that is attainable. 

The funnies: Tait tells the story of her family's tradition of posing with the Easter ham and the "ham van". 

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Starting with how Tait procrastinates, Jenny and Tait then move on to explaining their scaffolded approach to Rebel Human skill acquisition. They explain why some people get frustrated with meditation and feel they can't do it. They explain the difference between Mindfulness Meditation and their foundational skills approach and why Mindfulness Meditation isn't for everyone.

They discuss why they've chosen not to use the word "yoga" or "meditation" in their schools program, how  we can set ourselves up for success when learning these skills, how teens and adults can learn to actually change their "state", and their Level I, II, and III scaffolded approach to teaching. 

Their funnies include Tait's ziplining adventure, Jenny's scorpian bite, their "weird tolerance", and Jenny's idea for an activity she wanted to do on the retreat. 

End song: "Wind Of Change" by Scorpians

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Opening with paradoxes, polarities, and contradiction, then moving onto the findings from our schools program study. Tait and Jenny love hard data! Jenny reads some student testimonials and Tait explains her research process, powerful findings, hierarchical lineal modeling, and running multiple sensitivity analyses to really make sure we are getting the full story from the data. The Rebel Human For Schools program works!

Jenny talks about how impressed she is with Tait's research skills. Their funnies cover how cranky Tait gets when she doesn't feed and water herself, and they share some tips on better sleep.  They update the Tait and Her Stones story and they share a story about their difference in risk tolerance.

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Song Of Myself (1892 version) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version

End song: "It's A Privilege To Pee" from Urinetown

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