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Whose Life Are You Living?
00:47:38
Welcome to the third episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton! This episode was recorded in December 2023.
Questions and themes we explore: What is true for me? What do I desire to create? Who is the authority in our lives? When we abdicate the subjecthood of our own lives, whose life are we living? Where do the "shoulds" come from?
Welcome to the first episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz!
"We can't be in power if we're not growing and changing; and so therefore, the things around us also need to move with us, consciously. That has to be chosen and decided." ~ Laura Gates-Lupton
In this inaugural episode, Laura and Linda take a deep dive into women and the P-word...POWER. Below we have highlighted a few of the key questions and themes that we explore in this conversation...
- What does intuition have to do with claiming our power? And how does one discern intuition from anxiety?
- We have tended to conceive of power through a patriarchal lens. What exactly is this old paradigm of power (and why is it rarely aligned with women's needs and desires) and what is the new paradigm that we are moving towards?
- What is the difference between the mature power of the Wise & Wild Woman versus the "fuck you" energy of the adolescent Rebel (which is VERY alive in our culture currently)?
- How do we define the difference between power over and power to / power with?
- Why is tolerating conflict a key to claiming our mature power and wholeness, and how does this show up in our most intimate relationships?
- How are change and growth intertwined with claiming our power and stepping into true adulthood?
And finally we divine how a world where women are stepping into their power fully would look and feel different from the world that we have today.
We hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it! It is our intention to stir deep thought, welcome emotion, and open up conversation around issues that are important to women becoming uncaged.
We'd love to hear from you! How do you feel about owning your power and how did these themes resonate with you? Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
The Death of Hobbies (or Why Does Everything Have to be Monetized?)
00:47:14
Thank you for tuning into the 4th episode of Woman Uncaged with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! Today we are talking about the death of hobbies. Where have hobbies gone and why do we only seem to have side hustles these days?
In this episode, a few of the questions and themes we explore include:
- What exactly IS a hobby? And how might 5th grade Laura actually be Nostradamus...
- Where have hobbies gone? And how does the pressure to monetize everything affect what we do simply for pleasure?
- How do we preserve the essence of our inner artist in a world that hyper-values productivity?
- What does it mean to be "wasting our time"? How do we determine that for ourselves rather than letting society dictate it for us?
- Why Laura would like to eradicate the term "guilty pleasure" from our lexicon.
- What do hobbies have to do with reclaiming our own rhythm?
- Why starting new hobbies asks us to embrace the messiness of being really bad at something and why that's a good thing!
We'd love to hear from you! What were your hobbies growing up and how do hobbies factor into your life as an adult? Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the second episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in October 2023.
"The uncaged woman is a questioning woman." ~Linda Katz
Questions we explore in this episode: What are the differences between external cages and internal cages? What is the inner cage? Where did we learn these "shoulds" for women? How do we know when we have dismantled the cage? What does it feel like?
We ask you, our listeners, what are the harder cages to break free from? We'd love to hear your answers. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the fifth episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in February 2023.
In this episode Laura shares a story of a difficult travel experience that also had some magic.
We also explore: -instinct injury and trusting our intuition -making meaning. Are we making it up? -coincidence vs. synchronicity -remembering our own capacity
Linda shares her story of overriding her head for her heart.
What do you think? Have you experienced a magical synchronicity? We'd love to hear about it. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the sixth episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we delve into where our power to dream and positively imagine has gone. Some of the questions and topics we explore include:
- How our imaginations have atrophied except in cases of planning for the worst possible outcome? - Is a pessimist the same thing as a realist? - Why are we great in crises, but anxious when things are good? - Where has our capacity for positive imagination gone and what has contributed to its decline? We explore patriarchy, capitalism, vulnerability, conditioning and more! - How women have more barriers to dreaming in a patriarchal society and how that often begins around puberty
Two books we talked about: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
Welcome to the 7th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was recorded in February 2023.
The world suffers when women who have these amazing ideas and thoughts and opinions and expertise shrink, and don't share them, because there is this whole additional pressure on when are we worthy enough to be visible. ~Linda Katz
Things we explore in this episode: Visibility can be hard and normalizing what it's like to put yourself in the spotlight. How can we be visible, and stay in our bodies, when under pressure? The inner experience vs. the way we appear Daring to show up imperfectly and unpolished Where is there space for invisibility?
Kellita Maloof- The Showgirl Shaman at Showgirl Awakening: https://www.showgirlawakening.com/
Watch the Sistermind Roundtable on People Pleasing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RayuqegmkFc
Books we mentioned: The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler On Photography by Susan Sontag In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
How about you? What has your experience of visibility been? Where do you struggle? What makes it easier? We'd love to hear about it. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the 8th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we dive into a topic that we have touched upon briefly in previous episodes: THE WEB.
In this episode, we explore...
- What is the web and why is it so important in the journey towards becoming an uncaged woman?
- Why is interdependence necessary and how does that differ from codependence?
- Needing other people to validate that we are "right" and how that prevents us from finding and walking our own individual path
- Why curiosity and the desire to understand another human being are key to the web
- Why focusing on action and behavior isn't enough to make lasting change
- The web's role in normalizing women's experiences
- Creating and sustaining relationships with roots that go deeper than simply being "alike"
In this episode, Linda also mentioned a boundaries metaphor that she got from her coach Lianne Raymond and brought up the work of witchy healer Larisa Noonan.
Thank you for listening and we'd love to hear from you! Let us know how this conversation resonated with you and if there are other topics that you'd love for us to dive into!
Welcome to the 9th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about Joy.
We explore and discuss: Why is joy scary and vulnerable? Why do we expect the other shoe to drop? What does it mean to steal joy from the present and give it to the future? If... when... then...thinking. What is the joy thermostat? Upper limit problems. How does our propensity to make meaning relate to these limits? How is all of this related to money? How can we increase our capacity for joy?
This beautiful poem by Robert Friend:
The Last Year (after a terminal cancer diagnosis) This is the last year. There will be no other, but heartless nature seemingly relents.
Never has a winter sun spilled so much light, never have so many flowers dared such early bloom.
The air is brilliant, sharp. Never have I taken such long, long breaths.
The book: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
The song we danced to before recording: Tight Pants/Body Rolls by Leslie Hall. Such a fun song!!
How about you? What has your experience of joy been? Where is your thermometer set? Do you want it to be higher? We'd love to hear from you. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the 10th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's conversation, Laura and Linda redefine maturity. Too often, being mature often evokes an image of boring "adulting" and overall fuddy-duddy-ness (yep, we made that word up!). What if maturity was enlivened with emotion and irreverence?
In this episode, we explore:
- What is maturity and why is it ripe for redefinition? - What is emotional maturity? What does it look like and not look like? - Why dogs and other creatures can make amazing teachers on our road to maturation - How do we learn that our feelings are unacceptable? - Feelings that get little space in our culture (such as grief, regret, and remorse) and why they are important to a fully-lived life - Irreverent maturity: What is it and why is it needed?
"Irreverent maturity is walking our own path with delight!" - Linda Katz
Resources:
Dr. Gorden Neufeld: https://neufeldinstitute.org/
Course on five-step model of emotional maturation: https://neufeldinstitute.org/course/neufelds-five-step-model-of-emotional-maturation/
Quotes:
“At 70 years old if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words 'fuck off' much more frequently.” - Helen Mirren
"Wisdom combines experience with knowledge. Experience is lived through the passions of the body; knowledge is learned through the discipline of the mind. Wisdom connects body and spirit in soul." - Marion Woodman + Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames
How about you? What is your relationship like with the word "maturity"? How would you define it for yourself? We'd love to hear from you. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the 11th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about freedom and its role in the uncaged life.
We explore and discuss: -Inner cages vs. Outer cages -Why rebellious energy feels like freedom, but isn't -Why its so hard to simply enjoy ourselves -The many forms of freedom, including defining our own schedules -The role of justifiable excuses vs. permission -The big hurdle of worrying about what others think -Over-responsibility and dropping the reins -The unquestioned assumptions in our lives (and questions that lead to freedom) -The structures that keep us feeling trapped -How to allow freedom now (but if I do, won't the inner rebel take over?) -The role of self-trust -Our fear of our power
The book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling the Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul by our very own Linda Katz
Linda's coaching program: Homecoming: A Return to the Wild Soul Within (you can find out more, here: https://singingbirdcoaching.com/services/homecoming/
How about you? What does freedom feel like for you? Where in your life do you experience freedom? Do you want more? We'd love to hear from you. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the 12th episode of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, Laura and Linda dive into the feminine archetypes that are missing in our patriarchal culture and how that plays into defining ourselves beyond the roles we play for others.
We explore and discuss: - The feminine archetypes that have gone missing, using Toni Wolff's structural forms of the feminine psyche (Mother, Amazon, Companion, Wise Woman) as a jumping off point - Aspects of womanhood are celebrated and those that are denigrated - How to welcome the archetypes or energies in ourselves that are typically not welcomed in the greater culture - What it means, and looks like, to define ourselves beyond the roles that we play for others, such as wife, mother, friend, teacher, etc. (which is harder than it sounds!) - Both Laura and Linda share the first step they would offer a client who is beginning to define herself beyond solely her relationships - Tracking what archetypal energy is emerging and which one(s) might be a bit worn out!
Books Mentioned: - The Moon and The Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine by Nor Hall - The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision about Your Marriage by Kate Anthony
How about you? How can you define yourself beyond the roles that you play? What new archetypal energies are rising and which ones are feeling more tired? We'd love to hear from you. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
The Uncaged Woman and Romantic Relationships with Men
00:50:41
Welcome to the 13th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about how necessary it is to center our own happiness and success, in order to be uncaged, and how difficult that can be in heterosexual relationships.
"What I’m asking women to do is to center their own happiness and center their success in a way that is radical. And probably going to be deeply destabilizing for their relationships.” Lyz Lenz
We explore and discuss: -How do we center our own happiness and our success, in the context of relationships? -What does this mean for our partners? -How do we find freedom in the context of our relationships? -The metaphor of keeping our own candles lit. -How do we create a sense of wholeness for ourselves? -What role does self-defining play? -Why the notion of "stolen moments" and "guilty pleasures" piss us off! -How do we still value relationships and also center our own happiness? -How do we know what we most want and claim that? -How do we split the load (both visible and invisible) with our partners without phrasing it as "asking for help?"
Linda talks about setting up her life in a way that furthers her goals and what she loves. "And the truth is, if your doing so rocks the boat, then you are in somebody else's boat. You're not the captain of your boat." ~Laura Gates-Lupton
Laura tells the story of the time she confused her family with her Mother's Day plans.
How about you? Where do you struggle with this? What have you figured out that works for you? What terms do you use instead of "asking for help?" We'd love to hear from you. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com
Welcome to the 14th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! In this episode we talk about how to cultivate radical self-trust and why that is such a pivotal part of living an uncaged life.
We explore and discuss: - The role that self-trust plays in claiming our own freedom - How patriarchy breeds distrust in ourselves that has us outsourcing our knowing - Being sold someone else's formula for life - How unearthing your own rhythms relates to self-trust - Why hearing our own deepest, most soulful voice clearly is vital (and why coaching can be a powerful aspect of that!) - How our sense of self-trust is eroded, by ourselves or others - Keeping promises to ourselves - THE BEST question to ask to lead us back into our self-knowing and self-trust - The cycle of self-trust and how we can strengthen this muscle with two simple, daily practices
Quotes Mentioned: "Don't talk about being true to myself until you are sure to what voice you are being true." - Marion Woodman from Coming Home to Myself
Questions? Thoughts? Emails us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from you!
Welcome to the 15th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! This episode was inspired by this quote:
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." Margaret Atwood, 1982
We dive into: Why the fears you feel, as a woman, aren't irrational. Why it's so hard to be brave and be seen. Why this isn't an individual issue. What the root of the fear is. What "feel the fear and do it anyway" really means. How can we more fully resource ourselves. Who is allowed to be visible? What are the costs of our fear? Who is worthy of protection? Our thoughts regarding Martha Stewart on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a bikini. How power has been divorced from feelings. How the power women desire looks different, and how to further redefine it. What does power with and power to look like in the workplace? How do we redefine leadership? How do we step into our power? How do we safely increase our visibility? Linda's "code word" story.
We refer to: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers, PhD (sorry, Susan! I misspoke and pronounced your last name as "Jeffries" in this episode. My apologies! ~Laura)
Come see us live at our next Sistermind Roundtable! We will be speaking, along with four other amazing women, on the topic of Visibility for Women in Business. The six of us will each present for 10 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q & A.
This is a free, no-pitch, no-sell event and you will not be added to any other business email list. Please spread the word! We would love to see a world in which women are no longer afraid to be fully visible.
As always, share your thoughts about this episode with us! You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you!
Welcome to the 16th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast with Laura Gates-Lupton and Linda Katz! Today we are diving into women DOING. SO. MUCH.
In this episode, Linda shares why she fell apart when Ursa's dog food order was late (as her husband said, "I don't think this is just about the dog food...") and Laura speaks about feeling proud of herself for cancelling brunch.
Other topics we explore include: - When you're you doing so much and yet it still never feels like enough - Why we need to carve out space to ADD what feels nourishing and exciting - Why time management isn't enough and might actually be problematic in itself! - The fear of letting balls drop - What are the expectations that we put on ourselves and that society puts on us that lead us to a place of burnout? - Why talking about "perennial problems" isn't just complaining and is actually vital - Looking to male models doesn't work (sorry Cal Newport!) - How we need the flexibility to meet what arises and what that has to do with releasing control - Discerning and knowing what matters to us is key to preventing doing too much
We refer to: - This song by Trevor Hall and Emory Hall about letting go of the old story: https://open.spotify.com/track/0yjJg8qTkgYuD2bvt4kKZl?si=15416ee86fca4dc3 - Slow Productivity and Deep Work by Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com/
Come see us live at our next Sistermind Roundtable! We will be speaking, along with four other amazing women, on the topic of Visibility for Women in Business. The six of us will each present for 10 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q & A.
This is a free, no-pitch, no-sell event and you will not be added to any other business email list. Please spread the word! We would love to see a world in which women are no longer afraid to be fully visible.
As always, share your thoughts about this episode with us! You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you!
We talk about: -the struggles we've had as women in business when it comes to promoting ourselves, and why it is that every single time we do, people unsubscribe from our lists. -why it's important that we acknowledge and embrace the fact that, yes, we are in business to make money -how we can all move past the idea that it's virtuous as a women to be self-less -why our circle of care needs to include us and isn't a binary choice -the discomfort of having needs -how we've separated money from the relational -how having models helps and normalizes asking for money -the ways we've been taught to let others reward us, rather than asserting our needs -how we can support other women in business -how important it is to fill our cups in order to face unsubscribes (or other "rejection") -the truth about entrepreneurship (it's not as glamourous as IG might have you believe) -Helen Luke's book: The Way of Woman
Work: Conundrums and Confessions- featuring guest co-host, author Julie Falatko
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In our 18th episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast, Laura welcomes a special guest to the Woman Uncaged Podcast. Julie Falatko is an award-winning, prolific children's author, who also teaches online classes, and writes a fabulous newsletter on Substack called Do The Work.
Julie and I discuss: -what counts as "work" -does work have to be hard and unenjoyable? -why do we feel guilty when we enjoy work? -why do we value the misery of work over the joy? -the question Julie asked herself that has led to her joyful productivity -Julie's writing process and the challenges of writing -how writing takes time, including that Julie's next book Help Wanted: One Rooster took 10 years to be published -Julie's desire that we get off social media and write those great books we're always thinking about writing -how your writing, and your creativity, is not a corporate agenda
We mention these books: Sacred Success by Barbara Stanny Huson Filterworld: HOW ALGORITHMS FLATTENED CULTURE By Kyle Chayka
I also mentioned an article I thought was called "The Blanding of America." I was wrong about that. I confused the article with another I had read in the NY Times called "America, the Bland" and another in the Boston Globe called "The Blanding of America." The actual article I was referring to is called "The Age of Average" by Alex Murrell. It's fascinating and worth the read!
Welcome to episode 19 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we use a topic that has been popping up in several of Laura's coaching sessions recently as a jumping off point to talk about money, relationships, reenvisioning work, and more.
We cover:
- Women in heterosexual marriages where the husband works a full-time job that he feels trapped in and the response is to want his wife to get a job and jump in the trap too
- Different work configurations Laura and Linda have experienced in their relationships, including Sophie's wisdom regarding the split between money and meaning
- What cultural drivers and gender biases could be contributing to husbands' desire for their wives to get back to a traditional "job" (when the finances don't require it)
- How the idea that "more is always better" keeps us trapped and adhering to the status quo
- How the fear of the unknown plays a part in our lives and relationships and how that relates to identity
- The issues around our current model of putting off joy till retirement aka when the work is done
- Redefining the whole darn idea of work and opting out of the matrix!
As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode 20 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!
We discuss: -Is it a midlife crisis or a midlife questioning? -How failing to listen to the deeper questions and the deeper yearnings, may move us into crisis mode or physical symptoms. -How does the male version differ from the female version? -What are the opportunities of this stage? -And what are the questions? -How stuff doesn't make up a life. -The difference of grief as an emotion vs. grief as a story. -Midlife as its own developmental phase. -Looking for role models. -The myth of fixed identity. -How to ride the wave of change. -Bringing some adventure into mature adulthood.
As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode 21 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!
We discuss:
- Linda shares how she has started bringing the energy of work into so many areas of her life (working on ourselves, our bodies, our pets, our kids, our relationships...so much work!) - How a desired end state that we are trying to engineer our way towards can infuse life with that work energy - How work can be addictive even when it leads to burnout and exhaustion - Allowing play to spontaneously emerge from boredom - How the drive to treat everything like work is both an inner cage and outer cage - Wanting others to see us as hard workers - Feeling like our time and money don't belong to us and how that restricts our sense of agency - Our implicit expectations of life when we've been doing everything "right" - Laura shares the Comfy Chair Exercise by Michael Neill and how she used it in her own life - How the energy of work blocks not only play, but also intuition, connection, magic, and synchronicity
Resources Mentioned: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis
As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode 22 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!
We discuss:
- Recent examples of the invisibility of women
- How women's invisibility impacts our physical wellness
- How patriarchy attempts to control women in myriad ways, including the how a bill was blocked that would protect access to contraception
- How certain people's opinions DO matter more depending on the issue
- Women and the medical system (the mystery of menopause, the success of female surgeons, and more!)
- The invisible and unconscious bias against women
- A hidden perk of being invisible to the patriarchal gaze
- The invitation to step into greater assertiveness as we age and why this can be so difficult
- How we are taught to be disempowered
- The stripping away of choice is a stripping away of power
Resources Mentioned: Article by Lyz Lenz: https://lyz.substack.com/p/axis-of-snivel And some actual info on the representation of women's issues in health research funding: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/underfunding-research-female-health-leaves-huge-money-mesk%C3%B3-md-phd/
As always, we'd love it if you would share your thoughts about this episode with us. You can email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to the 23rd episode of Woman Uncaged with Linda Katz and Laura Gates-Lupton
For kids, fun is a priority and their main motivator. So where does that go? Why, as adults, does fun have be slotted into "left over" time? Where did the freedom, that our younger selves thought we'd have as adults, go?
What is worth doing just for you? With no need for a particular outcome?
How does striving for a specific end goal strip our lives of fun?
How do we create fun in our adult lives? What are the conditions that allow for fun and spontaneity?
How do we re-envision adulthood?
Linda mentions Bill Plotkin's book Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche.
While we take a break between this season and the next, we invite you to join us in being flowful! Let's all make more space for fun and please let us know what you did with that space. We would truly love to hear. Email us at womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Thanks for being with us for Season One. We'll be back in a few weeks with Season Two!
How do we cultivate self-belief in the face of unrelenting misogyny?
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in the midst of being bombarded by patriarchal messages like "women shouldn't be allowed to get an education until they've had two babies" and if you're a single woman, you have "no direct stake in the future" of the US, how do we cultivate and maintain our own unwavering self-belief and self-worth?
That's what we dive into in Season 2, Episode 1.
We talk about:
The two types of goals and how we can use one of them to cultivate and strengthen our self-belief.
How we can create conditions in which it's more likely that we're going to arrive at our outcome goals.
Why doing is an important component of mindset work.
How perfectionism gets in the way of creating, and can block us, and how important it is to allow your creations to suck (especially at the beginning).
Linda's recent experimentation with water color painting, and her revelation about enjoying the process.
Ira Glass's video "The Gap." (Google it- it's awesome!)
How identity and self-belief are intertwined.
Bringing relationships from Zoom into the real world, and the challenge of meeting people in real life.
How the unrelenting criticism of women makes all of this harder, and what we see as the antidote.
The Simone Biles documentary on Netflix, and how smiling and laughing impacts performance.
What are your thoughts? How do you nurture your self-belief? Write to us, and tell us! We would truly love to hear. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged Podcast! In today's episode we dive into the topic of relationships and are they as much work as we are led to believe?!
Topics and questions we discuss include...
- What if relationships are not meant to be work, but rather the antidote to it?
- Laura's perspective as a former therapist (where many come to work on their relationships)
- Replacing "working" on our relationships with "cultivating" more joyous relationships, and how those two things feel different
- Tending our relationships and how life's seasons may shift what that looks like
- Finding rest in relationships that are working
- Why do women tend to speak about working on relationships more often than men?
- How do we grow nourishing relationships in our lives?
- Getting out of practice at this whole relationship thing during the pandemic!
- Relationships are inconvenient and perhaps they are supposed to be..
- Getting clear on what really matters to you and how that impacts your relationships
- A lack of community is not your fault, but it is your responsibility
Resources Mentioned:
Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen
Interview with Carol Gilligan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TNciETcalMFKKFETgRjKi?si=cccfb186dc844820
Interview with Niobe Way: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SbfE8m0hJvMm4ODs9KYk0?si=a2e7731a799d4bd6
Learn More About Blue Zones: https://www.bluezones.com/
Sign up for the Sistermind Roundtable here: https://sistermindroundtable.substack.com/. You won't be added to any business lists, and we keep our emails to a minimum.
Welcome to Episode 3, Season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this episode, Linda speaks with artist and coach Karen Light about Why Creativity Matters (beloved co-host Laura was on vacay while this episode was recorded!).
"Relaxation is the best friend of creativity." - Karen Light
Karen and Linda dive into:
- Creativity and how it often overlaps with being multi passionate
- How Karen defines creativity (hint: it includes, but goes beyond, art)
- Why Karen believes every creative act is a revolutionary act
- What do we receive as individuals and collectively from unleashing our creativity
- How we are enlarged through the PROCESS of creating
- The relationship between creativity and agency, and WHY creativity is crucial as we begin to move out of our Good Girl energy
- Why visuals can help us to dismantle our inner cages
- What if we came into the world naturally wanting to be creative and make art, but it is blocked over time
- Why creativity requires a sense of safety and how do we cultivate that for ourselves and others
- How creativity allows us to meet one another as human beings
- Why creativity isn't always "on" and how to recognize that and step back into a more creative space
Where to Find Karen:
Website: HowDoodle.com and make sure to sign up for the newsletter
LinkedIn : Karen Light
Resources Mentioned:
David Whyte quote from Consolations: "What is worthy of a life's dedication does not want to be known by us in ways that diminish its actual sense of presence."
The pressure to choose one area of focus, or one passion, can have a paralyzing effect, and therefore, become part of the patriarchal cage. In this episode we talk about what it means to be multipassionate, and why it's important to embrace your multipassionate self.
We explore: -Why is purpose almost always tied up with what we do for work? -Why is "what do you do?" the predominate question we ask others when we meet them? (and how do you answer that if you're multipassionate) -Linda's experimentation with being an unapologetic Renaissance woman. -What makes something a business vs. a non-business income stream. -How our inner good girl interferes in our getting our need met in barter relationships. -The gentle idea of titration vs. constantly throwing ourselves in the deep end.
What are your thoughts? Are you multi-passionate? How have you made it work for you? Write to us, and tell us! We would love to hear. Email us: womanuncagedpodcast@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode 5, season 2 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! This week's episode was inspired by a song called Healing is Not My Purpose by Toni Jones (available via Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3YjTY55wEzj5PJXexonZPj?si=7b28501a392c49a3 )
"The healing should be in service to living." - Laura
In this episode, we explore: - How our addiction to self-improvement leaves so much joy and life on the table - Why do you think so many of us get stuck in healing and how is it perpetuated in our culture? - How can healing be a distraction? What is it a distraction from, and in what way? - Why it's not enough to talk about what we are shifting, we actually have to embody and experience it - How small talk and inane conversation can be meaningful and connecting - Letting go of needing everything to be a growth experience - Why labels, personality tests, astrology etc. can be terribly constraining of our human experience - The distraction of "why" - Making friends with the continually unfolding journey and how this relates to healing and holding our potential lightly
The other song mentioned was Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls: https://open.spotify.com/track/7rKyITVLEwldhdXIy7P6Vw?si=67d976c78fec40fa
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