In this conversation, Catherine Quiring speaks with Dorcas Chang-Tozun about her work in social innovation, the importance of empathy, and the various ways sensitive individuals can engage in justice work. They discuss the unique challenges faced by highly sensitive people in activism and the need for compassion in a divided world. Dorcas emphasizes the significance of relational activism and the power of small, meaningful interactions in fostering understanding and connection. The conversation concludes with a focus on finding joy and community amidst challenges.
Resources:
Connect with Nancy: Website - Books - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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Catherine Quiring explores the concept of emotional medicine, emphasizing the importance of care, love, and compassion in today's world. She discusses various forms of healing, including breath, dance, rest, curiosity, and grief, as essential tools for navigating life's challenges. Catherine reflects on personal experiences and insights, highlighting the significance of boundaries, voice, and belonging in the healing process. Ultimately, she connects these themes to a broader understanding of our existence, emphasizing our connection to the cosmos and the transformative power of life.
In this episode, Catherine Quiring speaks with Andrew Lang about navigating political overwhelm and the importance of community action. They discuss the role of curiosity and compassion in conversations, the challenges faced by therapists during crises, and the significance of collective support in resisting fascism. The conversation also touches on the pressures of activism, the need for balance, and the qualities essential for wellbeing. They provide resources for engaging with legislative representatives and emphasize the importance of community in creating meaningful change.
Connect with Andrew: Website - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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Summary:
In this conversation, Andrew Lang shares the concept of 'Gentle Change' and how it relates to activism in today's political climate. He emphasizes the importance of community, personal growth, and the need for a gentle yet fierce commitment to social change. The discussion between Catherine and Andrew covers various aspects of activism, including the distinction between waves and points of activism, the significance of focusing on one issue at a time, and the role of parenting in fostering activism in children. They also introduce Andrew's Gentle Change Starter Kit, which provides exercises to help individuals identify their passions and take meaningful action.
Resources:
Gentle Change Collective
Connect with Andrew: Website - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In this conversation, Catherine Quiring speaks with Jenny McGrath, a licensed mental health counselor and researcher on purity culture. They explore the impact of purity culture on women's identities, the healing power of movement, and the connection to nature. Jenny shares her journey of deconstructing her faith and understanding the historical roots of Christian nationalism. The discussion emphasizes the importance of community, liberation, and the need for a deeper connection to our bodies and the world around us. In this conversation, they explore the complexities of cultural identity, the challenges of safety in connection, and the need for revolutionary change in the face of capitalism. Jenny reflects on her personal journey through purity culture and missionary work, the ethical implications of NGOs, and the contradictions within Christian nationalism. The discussion also delves into the importance of reconnecting with ancestral spirituality and the transformative power of embodied healing.
Resources
Sensuous Knowledge by Mina Salami
Our Green Heart: the Soul and Science of Forests by by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Earth Path by Starhawk
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church by Tina Schermer Sellers
Elaine Pagels
Constantine’s Sword by James Carroll
adrienne marie brown
Prentiss Hemphill
Anatomy of a Missionary by Jenny McGrath (to be published)
Consent/Control Matrix by Catherine Quiring
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemborg
Lessons for Organizing by Ricardo Levins Morales
Feroze Manji
Taking America Back for God
Connect with Jenny: Website - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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S3E13
In this enlightening conversation, Catherine Quiring speaks with retired therapist, Nancy Hagman, LMHC about her exploration of the Divine Feminine. They delve into the significance of the labyrinth as a symbol of transformation, the cycles of nature, and the influence of goddess archetypes. The discussion emphasizes the importance of community, the power of circles, and the need to reconnect with the earth. They share valuable resources and insights for those interested in exploring these themes further.
Resources:
Kate Northrup - Do Less
Starhawk - several books
Sue Monk Kidd - The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
Christena Cleveland - God is a Black Woman
Elizabeth Lesser - Cassandra Speaks
Audre Lorde - The Power of the Erotic
Katherine Maillard - Medicine Woman Oracle Cards
Connect with Nancy: Nancy is working on her new website. I will enter it here when it’s available.
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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Bask in poems to inspire and care for your soul. Catherine reads poems from her books I AM: Poems for Expansion and Renewal and Awakening Wonder: Embracing Kinship with all of Life. You can find both of these books for sale on Amazon. (links below). Please comment and let us know what resonated with you the most. 💛
Resources
I AM: Poems for Expansion and Renewal
Awakening Wonder: Embracing Kinship with all of Life
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram - Books
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S3E10
Dr. Alice Nichols, an autistic clinical psychologist, shares her expertise on autistic burnout, its cycles, and the importance of self-compassion and community support in recovery. The discussion delves into the nuances of navigating stress, the role of neurodiversity, and practical strategies for creating sustainable living environments. Dr. Nichols emphasizes the significance of connection and compassion in managing the challenges faced by autistic individuals, while also addressing the differences between autistic and ADHD experiences.
Resources
Banish Burnout (aff link)
Connect with Dr. Alice: Website - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In this conversation, Dr. Alice Nicholls discusses the shame often associated with neurodivergent needs. She emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and understanding one's own needs while navigating societal expectations. Our discussion delves into the power of connection and compassion in healing. We also touch on what to do with the question, “how are you?”
Resources
Connect with Dr. Alice: Website - Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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Episode: S3E7
Title: Inner Stillness with Max Komes
Description
In my conversation with Max Komes, Licensed Mental Health Counselor Registered Intern, we discuss how various Eastern practices can inform our personal growth inside and outside of psychotherapy. Max shares the three different ways of being with our thoughts: reflection, contemplation, and meditation, and how each is helpful. Max also teaches us about different layers of human existence, known as koshas. We explore the wound of disconnection we all experience, and we explore creative ways to heal, reconnect, and foster healthy interconnection and community.
Resources
Living Resistance by Kaitlin B. Curtice
Connect with Max: Website - Instagram - Substack
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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Episode: S3E6
Intuitive Wisdom with Asia Suler
Description
In my conversation with writer, healer, and Earth intuitive Asia Suler, we explore her book Mirrors in the Earth and her journey of motherhood as a sensitive person. Asia shares some of her primary connections to the more-than-human world. We discuss astrology, shamanism, ancestral healing, and dance. Asia gives a few hints about an upcoming book and her new podcast! Asia gives us permission to give our attention back to ourselves and care for ourselves.
Resources
Mirrors in the Earth by Asia Suler
Mothering Depth - Asia’s Substack
Remember Why You Are Here - Asia’s Podcast
Quotes
“Longing for our caregivers to embody the divine mother and father is entirely natural. But it’s also unrealistic…If you can see your parents as regular-sized human beings, with all their beauty and imperfections, you can support your own healing, relieve them from godlike expectations, and move toward a more healthy, reciprocal, and realistic relationship.”
- Daniel Foor, p.123-124 Ancestral Medicine
Connect with Asia: Website - Instagram - Substack - Podcast
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In my conversation with Jenna Richardson, a full-time psychotherapist and part-time witch, we discuss the blending of practical life and spirituality. We discuss astrology, archetypes, seasons & cycles, writing, shamanism, blending Eastern and Western philosophies and the indigenous and the contemporary, and how Jenna’s recently been centered around art, nature, and magic.
Resources
Connect with Jenna: Website - Instagram
19:48: Jenna reads a piece of their writing
Connect with Catherine:Website -Substack -Instagram
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S3E4
Deep Knowing with Tammy Chow
In my conversation with Tammy Chow, a somatic-experiencing and attachment-repatterning practitioner, we discuss Tammy’s healing journey and practice, their ‘awakening the wild woman’ program, the 5 channels of knowing, the role of archetypes in healing, and more.
Resources
Connect with Tammy:Website -Instagram
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In my conversation with Caryn Berley, an Enneagram coach, we discuss the power of the Enneagram on your journey to healing. We delve into the basics of the Enneagram types, triads, and centers of intelligence, somatic work, and integrating the enneagram into your healing journey.
About Today’s Guest:
Caryn Berley is an Enneagram teacher, coach, and healer who holds hope, inspires insight, and wields wisdom in service of your inner knowing. She believes in the power of welcoming, exploring, and embracing the inherent intelligence of all parts of ourselves.
Through deep relationship, compassionate curiosity, and the framework of the Enneagram, Caryn honors, nurtures, and gently guides her clients through the process of encountering their shadows, being with the tension of life’s paradoxes, and becoming responsive stewards of the ever-emerging present.
Caryn holds a Masters in Social Work and is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher, Somatic Enneagram™ Facilitator, and Awaken Your Life Master Coach. She co-hosts the Enneagram Typecast and The Somatic Enneagram Podcast.
You can learn more about Caryn and her work and find free Enneagram resources at carynberley.com/links
Resources:
Upcoming enneagram workshop co-hosted by Catherine and Caryn
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In this conversation with Lindsey, a trauma educator and nervous system coach, we discuss her journey from a background of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity and complex trauma to becoming an advocate for authenticity and self-expression. We touch on complex PTSD, neurodivergence, autism, and the importance of living authentically.
Want to join me for a neurodiversity workshop?
MONDAY, JANUARY 27
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm CT (9:30-11am PT/12:30-2pm ET)
Location: Zoom
Join me to explore your flavor of neurodiversity in a fun, playful way. Uncover new layers of self-understanding, self-expression, and self-care. You leave this workshop with a workbook full of how your neurodiversity shows up for you. This workbook is for your own self-reflection and self-care. It is also to share with loved ones, if you’ve been looking for a way to explain your neurodiversity to them. Participants will get a free pdf of the workbook. Or you can get an advance copy in my shop or on Amazon: Define Your Neurodivergence Workbook.
>>>get your ticket<<<
Related Resources
Trusting Yourself After Leaving Evangelical Subculture with Catherine Quiring
A Field Guide to Earthlings (aff link)
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In this conversation with Megan, a life coach for autistic, ADHD, auDHD, and neurocurious individuals, we discuss her journey of discovering her autistic and ADHD identities and explore the topic of neurodivergence as a whole. We touch on self-diagnosis and professional diagnosis, the identities included under the term neurodivergent, executive dysfunction, self-sovereignty, and neurodivergent communities.
As mentioned in the episode, I’m hosting a Neurodiversity Workshop on Monday, January 27 from 11:30am CT to 1:00pm CT via Zoom. You can find all of the details below!
Neurodivergent workshop hosted by Catherine
MONDAY, JANUARY 27
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm CT (9:30-11am PT/12:30-2pm ET)
Location: Zoom
Join me to explore your flavor of neurodiversity in a fun, playful way. Uncover new layers of self-understanding, self-expression, and self-care. You leave this workshop with a workbook full of how your neurodiversity shows up for you. This workbook is for your own self-reflection and self-care. It is also to share with loved ones, if you’ve been looking for a way to explain your neurodiversity to them. Participants will get a free pdf of the workbook. Or you can get an advance copy in my shop or on Amazon: Define Your Neurodivergence Workbook.
Related Resources
Samantha Craft’s unofficial females with autism checklist (mentioned by Megan)
I Think I Might Be Autistic by Cynthia Kim (mentioned by Megan)
Autism and ADHD Discovery Binders (mentioned by Megan)
The Neurodivergent Clubhouse (mentioned by Megan)
Connect with Catherine: Website - Substack - Instagram
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In my conversation with Mehgan Cash, a Pensacola pet sitter, we discuss her experiences with anxiety, self-advocacy, and how learning about the Enneagram changed her life.
Connect with Catherine
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Online dating can sometimes feel demoralizing and overwhelming. In my conversation with Amanda Quinby, an online dating strategist with a PhD in clinical psychology. we discuss how you can transform it into one of playful empowerment. We discuss Amanda’s personal journey with online dating, the importance of self-compassion and authenticity, navigating intense connections and red flags, and expressing needs and wants and setting boundaries around those.
More About Amanda
Her passion is wanting to help women transform the online dating process in a way where they not only meet people who are really good fit for them, but they also feel good about themselves and feel like they’re seen and heard rather than feeling like they have to shrink themselves.
• Get her free red flags checklist
• Website: playfullyempowered.com
• Instagram: @playfullyempowered
Connect with Catherine
• Substack
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There are complexities and emotional challenges when deconstructing faith and navigating friendships. In my conversation with Katherine Spearing, a spiritual abuse and religious trauma recovery specialist, and author, we delve into personal experiences and insights on maintaining self-worth within evolving belief systems, addressing spiritual abuse, and the journey towards healthier, more mutually-respectful relationships.
Related Resources
• Consent/Closeness Matrix (mentioned by Catherine)
• Acupressure Rings and Bracelets (mentioned by Katherine. Catherine now has some and uses them regularly, as well as shares them with clients during sessions.)
Connect with Katherine Spearing:
• Check out Katherine’s website: katherinespearing.com
• Connect with Katherine on Instagram: @katherinespearing
Connect with Catherine Quiring:
• Substack
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Survivors hold so much wisdom for their own recovery process. When empowered to make their own choices and trust their own intuitive guidance, their healing process really opens up. But, building an empowered, healthy relationship with yourself as a trauma survivor can be really hard.
In this continuation of my conversation with Sara Aird, a complex trauma survivor, educator, and advocate, we discuss how to learn to take care of yourself, the day-to-day nitty gritty of meeting your needs, how healthy behaviors can feel like threats to complex trauma survivors
finding wholeness and a sense of self, and the most effective, ongoing, far-reaching, long-term effective tool in healing complex trauma – curiosity.
More about Sara:
Sara is a complex trauma survivor, educator, and advocate. Through her Instagram platform @survivorwise, she shares resources and tools for trauma recovery in the context of her own healing story. Using her background in biology, education, writing, and trauma training, she breaks down complex trauma recovery into accessible and relatable packets of information offered in her Survivor Wise workbooks and courses. She has over five years of experience working and volunteering in the nonprofit sector with organizations dedicated to the prevention and healing of sexual abuse and other trauma. She is Level 1 NARM Informed Professional and has training in Internal Family Systems and Somatic Attachment. She brings her professional and lived experience into her Survivor Wise resources, where she empowers survivors to become the experts on their healing process. Her personal research and lived experience give Sara a compassionate perspective on the psychological and neurobiological impact of trauma, which makes her a valuable advocate for complex trauma recovery and survivors.
Related resources:
• Befriending the Body (mentioned by Sara)
Connect with Sara
• Website: saraaird.com
• Instagram: @survivorwise
Connect with Catherine
• Empathic Changemakers Community
• Substack
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