Episode 7 – Self-love Special Part 1 with Collaborator Liz Cruz

Writing Alchemy Episode 7 Summary

This episode departs from the usual Writing Alchemy format to focus on the topic of self-love in a workshop-style collaboration between Fay Onyx and Liz Cruz that explores barriers to self-love and self-love practices as experienced by people living at the intersections of oppression. For this episode they are joined by Tobi Hill-Meyer, who reads her erotic story, “Self Reflection,” which explores the themes of self-love and self-talk in a rather surprising way.

Story: “Self Reflection” by Tobi Hill-Meyer

Collaborator: Coach and consultant Liz Cruz

Photograph of the top portion of an abstract charcoal drawing in swooping curves with feathery edges that together are suggestive of a heart shape.

Show Notes:

Today’s story

Self Reflection: http://handbasketproductions.com/self-reflection/

Exercises

The exercises for today’s story can be found at: http://www.lizcruzconsulting.com/downloads.html

Fay’s Links

You can become my patron on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy

The RSS feed of this podcast is: http://writingalchemy.net/feed/podcast

Being more affected by media messages than we think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect

Challenging negative self-talk: http://psychcentral.com/lib/challenging-negative-self-talk/

NPR story on self-talk: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/10/07/353292408/why-saying-is-believing-the-science-of-self-talk

Scientific research on talking to self in 3rd person and using affirmations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201505/the-voice-reason

Networking for People Who Hate Networking, A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected by Devora Zack: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8267674-networking-for-people-who-hate-networking

Liz’s Links

Liz Cruz Consulting: <a href="http://www.lizcruzcons