WytchyWays

WytchyWays

By Jacqueline FreemanSociety & Culture
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WytchyWays episodes

  • My Sh-t is My Superpower
    Jacqueline and guest Jaena Moynihan meet on the New Moon opening Eclipsepacolypse 2018 to talk about shifting patterns, making their way through the dark, and realizing that what we thought as shameful weaknesses are actually the place with the greatest potential for connection.
    42 min
  • 37 - The Tricky Thing About Consent
    It seems simple that a man shouldn’t make sexual advances without a woman’s consent, yet we live in a culture that often sends men the opposite message. In the midst of the MeToo and Time’s Up movements, we examine what we can do to make the world a safer place for all people when it comes to sex.
    54 min
  • 36 - Doing Right by the Ancestors & Ourselves
    With the spiritual realm being particularly close to us this time of year, we explore how we can honor our ancestors in the present. We also discuss Spiritual Bypassing - a shadow way of using spiritual concepts to avoid facing hard realities. We end with practical advice on how to know what you have a responsibility to change and what to trust to spirit.
    1 hr 19 min
  • 35 - Woke up MAD this morning
    “Anger wants a place to land,” so how do we work with that without hurting ourselves or others? In this episode, Jacqueline and Sara both woke up angry, and talk about working through anger in a productive way.
    1 hr 3 min
  • 34 - Shadows and triggers and emotions, OH MY!
    Growth - personally, professionally, and culturally - requires facing difficult emotions and having tough conversations. On the other side is truth, peace, and upleveling your life.
    Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:
    Amy Schumer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlvDV3mpZw
    Tina Fey video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvpXZxXWZU
    Louis CK video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTXHFcgK-c
    1 hr 13 min
  • 33 - Monster in Our Midst
    The recent White Supremacist rally in Virginia has sparked a national conversation about how to push back the tidal wave of hatred that has been washing over the country of late. How do we work to transform the hatred we see around us without becoming monsters ourselves?
    Discussion on honoring Yes & No
    Don Ruiz Jr’s book The Five Attachments
    Netflix documentaries: The Mask You Live In and Erasing Hate
    54 min
  • Living with Lions at the Watering Hole
    We dive into an article about the bardo, the void between death and rebirth, that is a part of the natural cycle of change that we experience repeatedly throughout life, and discuss what can come out of that place of letting go in order to experience rebirth.
    Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:
    The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo
    https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/
    Pema Chodron
    Katie Haverly
    1 hr 6 min
  • Start Playing Small
    We often assume that big change comes from large organizations and charismatic leaders, but in this episode we discuss how powerful change most often starts with small communities comprised of individuals leading themselves - and how you can be one of them, no matter how big or small your aspirations.
    Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:
    Why We Need New Ways of Thinking
    https://www.mindful.org/why-we-need-new-ways-of-thinking/
    Anne With An E
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5421602/
    Meetup.com
    https://www.meetup.com/
    Marketing for Hippies
    http://marketingforhippies.com/?s=playing+small+is+bullshit
    1 hr 9 min
  • Awareness and its Opposite
    Guest Randa Hamwi uses the oldest Arabic lexicon and a concordance of the Qur’an to come to some really profound understandings of what it means to be Human. In a time of closing things down and drawing sides, Ms. Hamwi’s work opens up, expands and connects. Her upcoming book focuses on what she calls “The IQRA Challenge,” which gives a process to move through information and use it to serve Creation.
    56 min
  • Inaugurate Your Life
    How can you harness your energy on Inauguration Day towards something good, even when you're not feeling good about where the new leadership is taking us? We discuss ways to usher in a new age of powerful intentions and actions in your life regardless - or perhaps because of - what's going on externally. Plus, some simple tips on how to interpret your dreams!
    1 hr

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Like so many of us, I'd pushed away, minimized, or forgotten many of the senses and relationships with other-than-humans I'd fostered as a child. I tried really hard to please my family, to fit in at…