36. Dear Straight People: a storytelling invitation.

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LET'S GET METAPHYSICAL

Sam Cross

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This is the podcast formerly known as "Mental Health is Metaphysical." Have you ever wondered why 3D society is such a gongshow? Why everyone in the West is burned out, and stressed, and yearning for "purpose"? Sam has, too. She built a "burnout life", then ran screaming. Eventually, she stopped to ask questions, and found out the "truth" is much stranger (and better) than she expected: we're souls in human bodies. The Universe has our back, and we can learn to work with our own magic. The physical reality we see is *not* all there is. Let's go beyond -- let's get METAphysical.

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36. Dear Straight People: a storytelling invitation.

LET'S GET METAPHYSICAL

33 minutes 19 seconds

5 months ago

36. Dear Straight People: a storytelling invitation.

Dear Straight People: it's Pride month. Most people who live under the ever-expanding LGBTQ umbrella know what that means to them.

But what does it mean to you? What if Pride is an invitation to a deeper level of humanity? What if it means something to all of us?

This is an invitation to listen to stories this Pride month, and to tell your story, too. Every single human has been "othered" in some way. Our portal to compassion (for ourselves, and for each other) is through the medium of storytelling, and COMEDY.

In this epsiode, I talk about:

My own story: coming out as a lesbian in the flaming cultural dumpster of the early 2000s
How representation shapes our sense of possibility, and why that's life-changing
The heteronormative pressure on women to be mothers as the path to "love," observing and navigating that as a childfree-by-choice lesbian
The quiet ways patriarchy conditions all of us to feel othered, including men (but we're not supposed to notice)
Why storytelling is the key to both personal and collective healing, ESPECIALLY COMEDY!!!

Check out these BRILLIANT comedians:

Jerrod Carmichael ("Don't Be Gay")

Fortune Feimster ("Crushing It")

Hannah Gadsby ("Nanette")

Sam Jay, Sabrina Jalees

Mike Birbiglia, Will Ferrell ("Will & Harper")

HAVE A WONDERFUL, COLOURFUL, VERY GAY MONTH! 🏳‍🌈