✨Join us for this year's New Years Gathering, A Meeting with Dumbledore: https://www.laurawestman.com/new-years-gathering ✨Are you a liability in your dreams?? Are you a hard dreamer or something else? Bay and Laura chat about relationship to dreams and the dream realm. Watch out for Bay's ghost story. For more conversation from Laura about dreaming, check out her recent YouTube convo with Chelsea Cotton here: https://bit.ly/49oF6mE

✨Join us for this year's New Years Gathering, A Meeting with Dumbledore: https://www.laurawestman.com/new-years-gathering  ✨  In this episode of West of Wonderland, Laura and Bay debrief Loch Ness Monstering and being creatures with strangely functioning thyroids. Bay processes autoimmune news and Laura reflects on the journey with hers. PS. The original recording time was 44:44, say whaaaaat! PPS. The podcast Laura discusses is called Monsters Weekly and as of recording this, hasn't aired just yet! PPPS. Where does your glee come through?

Welcome to West of Wonderland, AKA the Official Fan Club for (including, but not limited to): Jonathan Bailey, The Sound of Music, Wicked, Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, The Mirror Visitor, Harry Potter and whatever else you'd like to add to the list. What stories do you return to when times are hard, and why? What inspires you in this day and age? How many chairs would you climb over if you're trying to win the Sound of Music Singalong Prize? Just wondering 👀

Content Warning: Politics, Loss of Parent. ✨ As the dust continues to get kicked up following the US election, Bay and Laura take some time to discuss their support for and solidarity with anyone who is impacted by it — in the future through policy, or in the present due to no longer feeling personal safety. Laura and Bay discuss the ethical practices and boundaries they set in their professional lives when it comes to things like voting, and shed light on white privilege in the coaching community. They also want to say (a) sorry this episode wasn't lighter, but, I mean, what can you do; and (b) this took courage to say in a climate where every view is attacked, not good enough, etc. They hope this inspires you to take strong stands with your values and ethics, and to do good work with your privilege. Also they love you bye 

How do we process the world when the world disappoints us, even horrifies us? Bay and Laura discuss the power of connection, and share a devastatingly lovely poem about loving the self by Elena Menendez Sanchez, shared with permission. Follow Elena online at https://www.instagram.com/elenamenendezsanchez

A Political Science major and an Anthropology major walk into a bar, what do you think they're talking about on the first week of November? Bay and Laura delve into areas of expertise they haven't mined in awhile, discussing the concept of civil religion and other matters. This episode was recorded before November 5.

Bay and Laura take a break from current events (previously recorded) to chat about the Wintering Retreat, a much-needed vacation and other "break from US politics" conversation, including but not limited to: breakthroughs in patience, marshmallow dream year, and the politics of microphones! Hello, survival mechanism city!

Buckle up everyone, because today's episode is filled with hard-hitting questions, like: what's your preferred type of string cheese, and why? What's up with the new ticket offering at the US Disney Parks, and why aren't they just giving it to Laura and Bay for free? How did Netflix and streaming get to be so gosh-darn unwieldy, and what does it have to do with Disney? PS. Join our lovely, not-at-all-filled-with-rants-about-capitalism Wintering Retreat! https://wonderlandandcompany.com/retreat/

Since it's autumn, Bay and Laura turn inward to talk about all the *exciting intricacies of survival mechanism* in the most intimate of spaces: home. Breakthrough work is intimate, and doing it in the home is the most intimate of all - both the physical components of the home, and the intimate components of the self. Laura debriefs changes from Marshmallow Dream year. How do we grow boundaries in places that we love -- not just in places that we want to protect ourselves from?

Who do YOU "be" when people call you obsessively who shouldn't be? Bay and Laura debrief some cool and silly stories — plenty of opportunities to lol about survival mechanisms today on West of Wonderland! Where are you laughing about your survival mechanism this fall? What are you up to next Thursday, are you coming to the West of Wonderland Academy for Magical Coaching? And are you coming to our magical online wintering retreat in November?! www.laurawestman.com/wow-academy