Virtuish

On episode 7, we take a break from discussing conspirituality and share personal stories and insights about spending time with family during the holidays. We explore the ways in which we have found peace in our relationships (particularly, with our parents), through trauma and grief and the vulnerabilities of being seen by those who know us best (and, sometimes, don’t know us at all).

As always, these conversations are ongoing & we'd love you to be a part of them.

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Connect with us on Instagram @virtuish_ // @kelseyfurlong_ // @ashleygracehudson

For show notes: https://virtuish.substack.com/p/07-family-grief-and-love-at-the-holidays

On Episode 06, Kelsey & Ashley examine the rise of the life coaching industry - in particular, during the pandemic. They discuss the MLM-like structure of mounting costs and courses and the fine line between investing in yourself versus being pressured into financial instability.

They question what makes someone feel entitled to guide others in an industry that is totally unregulated, with no set code of ethics and no accountability - and how this relates to the "colonizer mindset."

This is not to say there aren't great and respectable coaches and programs that are immensely helpful. This episode is hoping to inspire  discernment when identifying healthy boundaries, financial ethics and grounded guidance in the life coaching industry.

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Show notes: http://kelseyfurlong.substack.com // Connect with Kelsey Furlong @virtuish_ & Ashley Allen @ashleygracehudson

Find the Guardian article referenced here.

Show notes: https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/06-the-rise-of-the-life-coach

Episode 05’s conversation is with our friend Kaysie Markwardt. In 2017, Kaysie, who is a yoga teacher and reiki  practitioner, started a program teaching yoga nidra to inmates at two California prisons, Folsom Prison and CSP Sac. She shares with us intimate details of her life story and how working through her own trauma led to a path of healing through breathwork, yoga nidra, and reiki.

We discuss the ethics of practices that bring you into presence and acceptance rather than methods that promote escapism - and how that relates to the "conspirituality" we're seeing in 2020/2021. We close out by discussing our frustrations with the "BLM conspiracy" argument and she lays out some hard data on race statistics in the prison population.

For the state-by-state data from The Sentencing Project @thesentencingproject - click here.

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Show notes: https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/05-the-concept-of-presence

In Episode 04, we respond to a listener's question about forgiveness. Over the pandemic, so many of us have watched our world and communities shift. What happens when our ideologies and values change from those around us - or vice versa? How do we forgive ourselves for going down paths we now see as destructive? How do we offer forgiveness to those that misled us? We talk about finding objectivity, compassion and acceptance and letting the grief process take as long as it takes. As always, these conversations are ongoing & we'd love you to be a part of them.

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Show notes: https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/04-the-concept-of-forgiveness

In episode 3, Kelsey, Ashley and their friend Jane Almirall explore another conversation about ethical spirituality, with a focus on reading tarot/receiving tarot readings (and other divination tools), plus our common themes of learning discernment, nurturing nuance (both/and) within ourselves, and paying attention to the commodification of community and how it affects our relationships with ourselves and others. Jane is an artist and a tarot reader with a pragmatic approach to being in the role of a guide for other humans. Even if tarot isn’t your drug of choice, the conversation is easy, relevant and grounded. As always, these conversations are ongoing & we'd love you to be a part of them.

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Show notes: https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/03-ethical-spirituality-pt-2-responsible-b83

In episode 2, Ashley and Kelsey explore the concept of 5D and the common threads between new age fixation on "The Great Awakening", ascension, and any other brand of fear-based, doomsday-prepping religion. Spoiler: The threads are the same no matter how you try to spin it. xo

As always, these conversations are ongoing & we'd love you to be a part of them.

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Show notes: https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/02-5d-rhetoric-is-rapture-rhetoric

In this episode, Ashley & Kelsey are exploring the concept of ethical spirituality, what it means and how we can truly honor ourselves and those around us in our pursuits to nurture the human spirit.

We recorded this episode on August 5th, 2021. I hope everyone who listens will engage with highest respect, no matter their own experience- positive or negative- with guru jagat or any other teacher. Thank you for listening.

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Show notes are available at https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/01-ethical-spirituality

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This episode is an unofficial, incomplete and messy as hell introduction to the concept of Virtuish. Kelsey and Ashley Allen discuss their experience with spirituality, politics and the insecurity-driving American system over the last year.

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Show notes are available at https://kelseyfurlong.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-avoiding-the-mess

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Originally recorded March 2021, Grace Havnaer and Kelsey share a conversation about how white imagined supremacy permeates conscious communities in covert ways. We discuss virtue signaling, learning to be OK with being wrong, equal energy exchange, authenticity as a requirement for intimacy/connection, and how we can be doing better in the pursuit of social justice as healing. this conversation was a major inspiration for the concept of Virtuish. Connect with Grace: @gracehavnaer

Kelsey & her best friend Sarah tell stories about moving into the unknown, breaking through fear, changing their minds a lot and letting life take us where it wants to. Originally recorded and published May 3, 2020; this is one of my favorite conversations I've ever recorded.