We all need a certain level of containment - some boundaries and understandings to help guide us. However, things get sticky when we confuse certainty with containment. And when we (often unconsciously) try to avoid our fear of uncertainty.
Today, I’m joined at the fire by Erik Eging - a PR and Communications specialist, photographer, and no stranger to medicine spaces; as well as a human now supporting this podcast.
He shares his personal story of leaving a “high-demand” religion; what it looked like for him to discover he still needed some sort of spiritual meaning-making system; and how he moved into authorship of that for himself.
Whether you identify with having left a cult or other high-demand community; have concerns about some of the power-over dynamics you see being perpetuated in spiritual and medicine spaces; or have gone through some sort of initiation where your sense of certainty and security was lost and you had to find a new way forward… join us around this fire.
We don’t shy away from things like:
- the erasing and rewriting of our own histories;
- ancestral healing and not wanting to look back at the pain;
- where our spirituality and anti-racism journeys can overlap and inform each other;
- certainty being fragile even though it feels like confidence;
- how do we recognize ‘truth’?;
- the real culprit isn’t the belief system but the lack of room for doubt;
- containment without rigidity;
- cultivating inner authority or authorship over life;
- the wounds of self-betrayal;
- how to recognize cult-like dynamics at play around us (and some of the varied and perhaps unexpected) places they can show up;
- when the Savior complex appears and how to stop taking, giving away, or accepting other’s power;
… and more.
And all of you is welcome here.
You can find Erik:
Instagram - @eging.erik
And if you've come for Erik, I hope you'll stick around for more conversations to access, repair, inspire, and evolve our humanity and serve the wild, tender aliveness of our personal and collective hearts.
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