Becoming/Unstuck
Becoming/Unstuck tells the stories of internal paradigm shifts. Unsticking from old paradigms is the work of Becoming, or setting ourselves free. The process of Becoming Unstuck is individual, but universal. Everyone has their own story to tell, and this show is the table around which we gather together to share and listen. Here we illuminate that Becoming Unstuck is both journey and destination, process and result, the way Home and Home itself. These stories help us understand that the process of Becoming Unstuck isn't formulaic. It isn't neat and clean. You can't learn it from a book. You have to be willing to get dirty. This kind of education is embodied. It is dynamic and vibrant and messy. This show isn't one in which we cover up that mess because that mess is life, and what we are here to do is learn to live it.
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This piece is dedicated to the memory of a client of mine who passed a few weeks back. She was a bright light, aiming to be a beacon on the path for other pilgrims. I will dearly miss our work together and our connection.
Without you inhabiting every cell of your unique human offering, there is a hole in the whole and it hurts us all. In order to become who we really are, we have to surface and break the secret agreements we have been handed down about how the world works. This is the way we save ourselves, and each other.
You can find a hard copy of this essay here on my website.
When we make the mistake of believing we live in a static, black-and-white universe we will hit up against a self-imposed glass ceiling. We will not be able to make vertical, second-order change that is called transformation. This kind of change is real, possible, and how the system is built to work, when we take up the charge of getting out of our own way.
This essay was written in January 2022 and you can find a static ...
We have a culture-wide myth that we can "fix" disregulation and that we will know that we are doing a good job at healing when we stop being disregulated. Healing is not about not being disregulated. Healing starts with disregulation, and if we want to keep healing, then we need to learn to love disregulation. You can find a written version of this essay here on my website.
Trauma is not the only thing we pass on to each other. Without each other, we would never be able to heal because we cannot see our chains alone. It only together that we can break free from what binds us.
If we don't understand the rebound phase of growth, we can get a little pummeled by it. This essay explains more about the rebound, so that you can notice it, name it, and get yourself to the other side more quickly and smoothly. You can find a written version of this essay on my website, here.
Sometimes Life moves very slowly, and sometimes it moves far too fast. It forces evolution and transformation when we're not ready. There is an antidote to the resistance. Want to know what it is?
When we let tourists set the cultural imagery for psychedelic medicine, it creates fantastical scenarios -- both dreamy and nightmarish -- that get in the way of our ability to tune into our own experience. You can find a hard copy of this essay on my website here.
Many people who show up at my door believe they have come to train their ability to not get caught. This is an audio version of the essay I wrote conveying why this is the wrong way to understand the work. You can find the written version here on my website.
Cooper describes himself as a "washed up politico", and when I met him, he told me that if he were able to accomplish all the things he dreamed of in this lifetime, he was pretty sure he would not be allowed to die of natural causes. He says all this in a. joking tone, while cracking his knuckles and laughing awkwardly - because we both know there is more truth to that than humor, and that the path still has to be walked....
Charley Wang's name had crossed my path in several different circles before I actually met him. He has been involved in some really intriguing community projects that are pushing the needle on shifting paradigms here in Oakland. Eventually we wound up at a gathering together where I got to learn more about Charley, who says he has spent the last several years "unlearning lots". I couldn't resist a chance to talk...
This week, we revisit and update the story I began to outline in Episode 4: Being the Role Models We Wish We Had. At that point I was deep in a valley I couldn't see out of. A couple months have passed, a lot has changed, and I've finally been able to sit down and consolidate some of the process so it can be shared. Join me for the next chapter of the story and a living example that illustrates how we can become unstuck ...
Shawna Reilly has always been somewhat at the opposite end of me, energetically. As teens we lovingly called her "slow waters" and at a friend's wedding, in our 20s, she responded, "You think too much" when I asked her, "How are we getting home tonight?" For me, that was emblematic of her ability to go with the flow. She just had this easy way of being in the world that was so far out of reach fo...
Content warning for this episode: Sexual Assault
Steph was in a tiny apartment with other people when she recorded, and there is some audio interference that I am not skilled enough to edit out. It's relatively short, and I apologize. The content will make up for it, I promise.
The two times Steph and I have been in person together, we have connected with such heart, around really big concepts. Steph talks a...
Kris Harmelink, I think you'll find, is disarming in the sweetest way with her steady openness and transparency. She has been so committed to thinning the façade between her and the world that at this point, it's almost nonexistent. When you ask Kris a question, she will give you as honest an answer as is possible for her at that moment. I find this a true gift to the world. A lot of problems arise from the dissonance bet...
Dr. Blake Brandes is so good at what he does because he is not afraid to let himself unabashedly love what he loves. That is what guides him. Contrary to new age thought, when you let what you love by your guide, you can wind up in some heartbreaking situations! This is part and parcel of loving what you love, and becoming strong enough to validate that to yourself and to others -- even if the world doesn't.
Lucky for us,...
This week I’ll be answering a question submitted from a listener who has been considering medicine work with me. Working with entheogenic medicine can be a very big leap of faith for folks, considering how different the methodology is from the way we generally treat the healing process. As is often the case when we are heading into the unknown - this listener has questions about what the process is like. Like many of us, they are t...
Magic Nocks is a good friend, an accountability partner, and in deep relationship with the natural world. They didn't turn to plants because they thought it would be a great job, or because they thought they could make a lot of money or because they didn't know what else to do. They did it out of true love - and that is the thing that is just so evident in talking to them.
In this episode, Magic relates how they came to ...
Carissa Singh is a sounding board for me. There aren't many folks at the intersection of mental health, collective liberation, and what I would call spirituality, but has many other names. Carissa is a therapist based in Seattle, and one of my favorite practitioners.
Carissa is also a bridge. She is three-heritages-in-one-body, and had to learn how to navigate being many-things-at-once from childhood. Since 2017, she has had a...
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