What happened to the podcast?! Crying, Ketamine, Coronavirus and Cher with Zoe Winther

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“I didn’t even want to let my mind wander, because I was afraid of where it would go.”

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Disclaimer: What we talk about on In My Truth tends to be very raw and can be triggering. Resources for support and help are included at the end of show notes - scroll down for more information.

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Welcome everyone back to this week’s episode of In My Truth.

It has been quite a while between releasing episodes, although I’ve just released a flood of backdated content! It has been a while since I’ve recorded, so it’s really nice to be back on air AND I have the reason why we haven’t been on air with me as our guest today!

My dear friend Zoe Winther and I thought it would be a fun way to get started again. Zoe is the editor and producer of this podcast, and in this episode we’re going to dive in to where she’s been and her truth behind why we put pause on In My Truth.

Zoe Winther is the podcast’s biggest fan, listening to every podcast at least three times during the edit and show notes process. It has been an important step in her personal journey, and the themes it has brought into her life.

Along with being a podcast producer, Zoe is the founder of Pickford Media and a talented writer - although it still feels unnatural for her to introduce herself to the world without the business context.

In fact, one of Zoe’s poems resonated with me so strongly I shared it with my audience last year, and we’ll share it again now:

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I wish that I could stay in this box for you.

And I promise I would

even though it’s the wrong shape for me and

I have to break my bones

and rearrange my organs

just to fit.

I would stay here

and wait for you

and, like all the boys that have come and gone before,

I would set myself alight

just to keep you warm.

I would set these broken parts to

mend in misdirections.

I would live in ashes, bent backwards,

facing the wrong way,

if I knew that every moment could be like the first ones.

If you could acknowledge how misshapen I’d become

and how much pain I lived in

by being with you.

If knowing my discomfort

you might carry around the box I lived in

and gingerly guard me from the world around.

And being too scared to rip the box hinge from hinge

for fear of what I might be when I stretched my limbs again,

you could at least recognise

who I could be, even deformed.

For I know you might not be strong enough

to splinter your own hands

prying it open, but

if you could just open the lid every now and then,

or puncture a window to let in the sun,

I would stay here.

Wishing this box was my shape.

You can find more of Zoe’s writing and subscribe to her newsletter on her website here: www.zoewinther.com/love-notes

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So, let’s go back to why we haven’t recorded for a while and dive in to where Zozo has been!

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“This is so silly but how special would it be to honour my eight year old’s version of a wedding?”

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Join your host Sarah Riegelhuth as she’s joined by Zoe Winther in this episode of In My Truth, as they dive into relationships with the men in their lives, not being seen, and doing the work during COVID-19 isolation.

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“I do this podcast for no other reason than the universe told me to do it.”

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Listen in to the In My Truth podcast as Sarah Riegelhuth and Zoe Winther get deep into the stories around masculinity, what happened when Sarah left Wealth Enhancers and had a breakdown, and all the healing work we’ve done and continue to do.

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“The whole experience showed me that, what’s more important to me in this life is my relationships and my connections with people and the energetic exchange. It doesn’t matter, this business stuff or podcast editing or whatever, what matters is: Are you okay, and I love you, and I’m here when you’re ready."

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Since sharing more of their stories, Sarah and