SensuAlchemy School Podcast with Kate Leiper

Self-help culture likes to highlight mindset issues, lack of discipline, imposter syndrome as the enemy when it comes to sabotaging your ambitious creative leadership desires. Well… we don’t do shame around here, so in today’s episode Kate explores 3 self-sabotaging patterns that have more to do with cultural indoctrination and less to do with any lack in you as an innovative and capable woman! 

Bringing your soul work - the calling of the inner creatrix - to life is so much more than traditional ideas of success. Learn how to lean into your purpose and make a move towards your most courageous calling while honouring your unique vision and the wisdom of your body.

Kate explores:

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper 

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

Today, Kate delves into the messy, entangled nature of loss. What’s trauma, what’s grief and where do they intersect? In a self-help culture that has commodified “trauma healing” as the sexy, most self-aware thing you can do, she also digs into why we tend to run from really knowing our grief, more than we run from our trauma, and how embodied grief work just might be the most important work you’ve done yet.

Kate explores:

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

Today on the pod, I share with you 5 masks of avoidance that grieving women wear. 

These masks aren’t labels, they’re not personalities, they’re not prescriptive. They’re not here to instill shame and a sense of failure. I’ve pulled these patterns together and given them names, to invite a gateway into curious somatic inquiry.

This is what it is to work with the creative feminine. To play with possibilities through feeling, sensing and seeing, more of who we are and why we show up the way we do.

Here’s what Kate explores:

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

As Creative Feminine Leaders, it’s fundamental that the idea of meeting our grief edges, both individually and together in community; as well as acknowledging our limits when life feels way too much, is understood as pivotal to leading with embodied integrity.

As ambitious (read: over-functioning) women, when a tsunami of grief, overwhelm or struggle hits, how can we stop white-knuckling our way forward in pursuit of how we think it should be, and get honest and transparent about our limits instead?

Today’s episode explores how when we soldier on, past our physical, emotional and psychological limits, we are actually selling ourselves short by losing opportunities for true, deep, connection that can heal not only our own wounds, but make space for our loved ones, peers and communities to see their own potential for healing as well.

Some of the key ideas Kate speaks to are:

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper 

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can als be found on Spotify.

Regardless of whether your leadership extends to a family room, a classroom, a boardroom, or a zoom room; if you’ve traversed your own darkness and befriended the shadows of your grief, your people will find, love and respect you, because of the integrity you bring to the table. 

I’ve got many thoughts around this, so this week’s podcast is essential listening if you want to bring more depth and congruence, open up to greater creative flow, and ultimately feel confident to bring more of YOU to your intimate relationships, mothering, work and leadership.

Some of the key areas Kate speaks to are:

+ The specific support women need to shape their grief into social impact

+ The Fuck It Factor as a force for mobilising feminine leadership

+ Why we can’t trust “high vibe” leaders

+ Embodiment as an artful bridge between sorrow and power

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

In Episode 8 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate illuminates a gaping chasm in the feminist empowerment movement. 

The fact is, we as women can vote, earn good money, own a house… hell we may be a freakin’ CEO of an enormous enterprise, and yet it seems for the vast majority of women - true embodied pleasure and vitality escapes us. 

Despite the strides we’ve made towards equality; fundamentally we still struggle to feel good.

Today on the podcast, Kate gets to the root of some of the challenges you might have when it comes to accessing pleasure.

She breaks down:

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

If I had one wish for all women, it would be that we could see ourselves as more intrinsically powerful.

Women’s relationship to power is riddled with complexity, and in a time in history where the socio-cultural paradigm is being questioned and dismantled at a convincing rate, we need to get real about how we can love, lead and create in ways that support the reinvention of more just and equitable power structures, as opposed to blindly following the status quo.

I’m excited to announce the live 5-week online immersion I’m facilitating from October 6th, called Women, Grief & Power. In this intimate embodiment experience, you’ll journey into the exiled expressions of the feminine and how they’ve impacted your experience of personal power and leadership.

If you work in a leadership, teaching, coaching, or health and wellness capacity, this is an episode you don’t want to miss!

Today’s SensuAlchemy School podcast episode explores:

+ The weird, uncomfortable place that many women (understandably) inhabit when it comes to power - because of how we’ve suffered at the hands of it

+ 3 unrecognised truths that can begin to shift women’s embodied relationship with power in a more healthy, equitable direction

+ Pleasure as a source of power on the path of feminine liberation

+ The essential role of community and connection - holding one another in our grief and witnessing one another in our power

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

When it comes to your relationship to your body, particularly if you happen to own a uterus or identify as a woman, the odds are that your sense of self is infused with a very special kind of toxicity that has lived in the bone marrow of your lineage for many, many generations. 

You might be familiar with the idea of the good girl complex - but have you considered your inner bad girl? Your bad girl body is made up of the exiled expressions of the feminine that you’ve likely banished from your lived experience, due to patriarchal shame and fear.

Paying attention to how the good girl has corrupted the true blueprint of your creative, sensual, erotic expression is key to knowing what you need to do to restore and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been disowned.

Today on the podcast, Kate teases apart:

+ The good girl body and the bad girl body

+ The 4 exiled expressions of the feminine: The Mess, The Bitch, The Slut & The WItch

+ What do we lose and what must we grieve when we disown these expressions?

+ How we can begin to welcome our bad girl body back home

+ I’m teaching a free embodiment class on September 22nd called Bad Girl Body. Sign up here!

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

Patriarchy, in its need to control, dominate, and make logical sense of the abstract and the indefinable, does not feel comfortable with the feminine. 

It identifies the feminine at best as unproductive and pointless, and at worse a disruptive force to be boxed in and quietened, because it goes against the systems and structures that maintain the status quo.

Despite being an inevitable experience of life, grief is also an embodied state we’re taught we need to escape if we want to keep our dignity.

The nature and expression of grief has been culturally disparaged as messy, emotional, unpredictable and chaotic. Seeing a connection here?

Today on the podcast, Kate digs into what happens when we refuse patriarchy’s shaming and why grief is a feminine gateway to your embodied liberation.

It’s a potent reframe when we can understand this connection to be a blessing to unlearning shame and feminine wounding and re-learning personal power and emotional freedom  🙌🏻 

Kate explores:

+ The lineages she draws from in relation to the feminine principle (and the parts she scrutinises)

+ The connection between how the feminine has been shamed and disparaged in our personal and collective lived experience, and how our bodies carry this as loss.

+ How she experiences feminine lifeforce and the similarities between how she experiences grief.

+ The SensuAlchemy philosophy and method as a tool of feminine resistance

+ A new free online class I’ll be teaching on September 22nd called Bad Girl Body that will explore all this and more!

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper 

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

Does it feel like your body is an inconvenience or an ally? A broken vessel that lets you down, or a trusted companion?

Any answers to these questions are valid. Today, you’re invited to sense where there’s some truth waiting to be accessed within the ache of your heart and the brokenness you feel, and how to begin to find it. 

In Episode 4 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate brings 3 pivotal shifts to the table, to support you to move towards trusting the ache of your heart and the knowing of your body, in a culture that wants us to numb or fix ourselves for the benefit of others.

She explores:

+ How we’re accustomed to grief being seen as a problem to “get over” instead of being encouraged and guided to access the ways our deep embodied knowing would have us be with the complexity of the loss.

+ That building the capacity to grieve in ways that can be sourcing and sustaining is a skill that needs to be learned and practice (so there’s no shame if you find this a challenge)

+ The messages that our productivity obsessed culture and insidious self help/self-development arena put out that have us relating to our emotional pain in ways that are self-abandoning and create long term harm.

+ The essential questions: Who benefits when I repress my grief and my desires? Who benefits when I am disconnected to my body?

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.