Elisabeth and Merianna talk about waking up to the news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. What is the difference between your rights and impeding on other people's sense of safety? What does the sanctity of life mean? What do you do when you wake up to a reality you don't want to live in?

Links:

• Suicide Prevention Lifeline
• Las Vegas massacre: Gunman Stephen Paddock, amassing small arsenal, kills at least 58 and injures more than 500 - The Washington Post
• What every American needs to know about Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria disaster - Vox
• Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had lost money, been depressed, sheriff says - CBS News
• Wonder and the Gift of Not Knowing Things - The Veritas Forum - The Veritas Forum
• America's unyielding plague of gun violence (opinion) - CNN
• What's the fine line between free speech and harassment? | PoliticalForum.com - Forum for US and Intl Politics
• Assault Weapons | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
• World Communion Sunday Ideas - Global Ministries

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about being called hysterical women and the implications of being wild women. How do you reclaim your identity in a culture that wants to define women? How do you begin the journey of self-identification?

Links:

• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Kindle edition by Christopher Hitchens. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
• You're Not Agnostic, You're An Atheist | HuffPost
• Why Tolerate Conscience?
• Female Hysteria: 7 Crazy Things People Used To Believe About The Ladies' Disease | HuffPost
• "Hysterical" Women Have Been Making Men Nervous Since the 1900s. Kamala Harris Does the Tradition Proud.

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about the power of eclipse energy and how that differs from normal energy. Is there a cosmic impact for the eclipse? What does it mean? What is its impact? What about the people who don't feel the energy, are they missing out?

Links:

• How to Stay Sane During a Solar Eclipse - The New York Times
• Eclipse: Who? What? Where? When? and How? | Total Solar Eclipse 2017
• What's Better Than A Total Eclipse Of The Sun? Check This - Radiolab
• Where the Sun Don't Shine - Radiolab
• Rituals To Sprinkle A Little Magic Into Your Eclipse Experience : NPR

Elisabeth and Merianna are joined by LeAnn Gardner with LeAnn Gardner Counseling and Training. They ask LeAnn about what it means to be authentic and how to make steps towards authenticity. Did she end up where she thought she would be? Where is she headed next? How do we continue in a posture of learning throughout our lives?

Links:

• YouTube
• Type Nine — The Enneagram Institute
• LeAnn Gardner
• SAFE Seminars — LeAnn Gardner
• Frederick Buechner
• Walter Rauschenbusch | American minister | Britannica.com
• Typology: Introducing Typology & the Enneagram
• The RobCast | ROB BELL
• Why You Should Strive to Be a Lifelong Learner
• Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure | TED Talk | TED.com
• Talks full of weird facts about sex | TED Talks
• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability | TED Talk
• Brené Brown: Listening to shame | TED Talk | TED.com
• Privilege Synonyms, Privilege Antonyms | Thesaurus.com
• Take a risk and put your true self out there - CNN
• Fail Your Way To Amazing Things

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about how to tune into the truth that there is more going on than is going on. They talk about the reality of sexism and misogyny and how to exist as a woman within this reality. Can we change our reality? How do we change our reality?

Links:

• 'Submit to your husbands': Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• The Reality That All Women Experience That Men Don’t Know About (#ThisIsHowSexismEnds Series) -
• Redpill | Matrix Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
• Men In Black 3 "Look Right Here" Movie Clip - YouTube
• How Jordan Dinsmore escaped her Richland County kidnapping | The State
• Man killed wife on cruise ship for 'laughing' at him - BBC News

Elisabeth and Merianna discuss the laws of attraction and what it means to stand up for who you are what you believe even in the midst of criticism. Why are we attracted to certain belief systems? Is it sometimes because those beliefs only reinforce what we already believe? How do those beliefs impact how we view work and our current culture?

Links:

• What Is The Law Of Attraction? And How To Use It Effectively
• ministrieslab
• Eugene Peterson reaffirms position on biblical marriage
• Penzeys facing firestorm after owner slams Trump
• The Necessity Of The Millennial Side-Hustle | On Point
• Wealth Inequality in America - YouTube

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about working odd hours, confront diary entries from their childhood, and sitting in the circle of girls. How do you confront your former self in a way that provokes healing and wholeness? What would you say to your former self? What does it mean to be a brave and courageous person?

Links:

• The art of asking | Amanda Palmer - YouTube
• Working nights or odd hours can sap mental function, study finds - LA Times
• 35 Things Only People Who Work Weird Hours Will Understand
• When You Work Odd Hours | Parenting
• How to Forgive Yourself and Move on From the Past | Psychology Today
• How to Be Happy and Heal the Past by Writing a Letter to Your Younger Self | LL Coaching
• The official website of Amanda Fucking Palmer. Yes it is - Amanda Palmer

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about the social shaming that women receive when they wear "inappropriate clothes." Who gets to decide what you can and can't wear? How does commentary on what a woman wears impact victim shaming? What does it mean to be a beautiful woman?

Links:

• The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women: Jessica Valenti: 9781580053143: Amazon.com: Books
• The "Purity Culture" - Love, Joy, Feminism
• How the purity culture made me afraid of men
• 10 Things That Scare Me About the Christian Purity Culture
• 13 Women Who Will Change The Way You View Body Hair and Body Standards
• Josh Weed on Twitter: "(1) I am a gay man who was raised in a heteronormative world. A part of this world I have always been baffled by is "modesty" culture."

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about the hard work of recognizing and identifying triggers for your past self. Confronting this past self is important, but allowing yourself time to heal is just as important. How do you balance both?

Links:

• Amazon.com: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances eBook: Neil Gaiman: Kindle Store
• BIG MAGIC by Elizabeth Gilbert Availble Now!
• Why Self Care Is So Important
• The art and science of very interior design | The Fluent Self
• Why I Use Trigger Warnings - The New York Times
• Trigger warning | Geek Feminism Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
• How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

Elisabeth and Merianna discuss the ways that women can and should protect their intuition in a world that teaches women to doubt their instincts.

Links:

• Friends - Girls and the book "Be Your Own Wind-Keeper" - YouTube
• The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror and the Intuition of Women | Tor.com
• 9 Tips for Honing your Intution | Gaia
• How to sharpen your intuition and make your life better. - mindbodygreen
• 18 Ways To Strengthen Your Intuition - mindbodygreen
• This Comic Perfectly Explains Mental Load that Working Mothers Bear