Almost Awakened

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Almost Awakened: 025: Non-Monogamy and Non-Normative Sexuality with River Jan 23, 2020

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Mekael and Bill sit down with River who chooses along with her primary partner to live in the space of Non-Monogamy. Today we talk about what that looks like in terms of how someone approaches this lifestyle. How someone begins conversations about this part of themselves. How someone initiates conversations around the pro and cons of monogamy and the pros and cons of non-monogamy.

RESOURCES:

Three Steps to Opening Your Marriage: A New Permissive Monogamy – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/three-steps-to-opening-yo_b_9170688

How to Save Your Marriage With Ethical Non-Monogamy – https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/open-marriages-consensual-non-monogamy-therapists/

Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage? – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/magazine/is-an-open-marriage-a-happier-marriage.html

9 Things to Know About Having a Successful Open Relationship – https://www.thecut.com/article/open-relationship-how-to-guide.html

The Most Skipped Step When Opening a Relationship – https://medium.com/@PolyamorySchool/the-most-skipped-step-when-opening-a-relationship-f1f67abbbd49

How To Tell Your Partner You Want An Open Relationship – https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-21544/how-to-tell-your-partner-you-want-an-open-relationship.html

How to Have a Happy Open Marriage – https://www.brides.com/story/how-to-have-a-happy-open-marriage

9 people in open marriages reveal what their relationships are actually like – https://www.insider.com/what-being-in-open-marriage-relationship-sex-is-like-reddit-2018-5

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Almost Awakened: 024: Wendi Jensen: Get Curious & The Healing Arts Jan 11, 2020

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Mekael and Bill sit down with Wendi Jensen, author, speaker, life coach, and trainer in the field of human potential and religious recovery. Wendi shares with us her love and knowledge of the Healing Arts. We discuss Emotional Fluency, Spiral Dynamics, The Enneagram & Personality Types, and Tapping as a therapy approach. We touch on vulnerability, curiosity, honest and open approaches, willingness to hurt or upset others, and lots more.

RESOURCES:
http://wendijensen.com/

The Healing Questions Guide

Wendi’s Story

Why a Couples Therapist Says ‘Emotional Fluency’ Is Crucial for a Relationship

Why a couples therapist says “emotional fluency” is important for a healthy relationship

Emotions As a Second Language – Or Should They Be Our First?

What is spiral Dynamics

How to Use Spiral Dynamics for Psychological and Leadership Development

What is Spiral Dynamics and Why Have I Become So Interested in It?

Enneagram – Explore the Personality Types

Enneagram Personality Test

What is Tapping Therapy

Tapping Therapy

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Almost Awakened: 023: Jennifer Saunders – Go Be Great! Jan 04, 2020

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Mekael and Bill sit down with Personal Adventure Guide, Jennifer Saunders. Jennifer shares with us her passion for life and her love of adventure and love of humanity. Jennifer has given a TED Talk, developed her own Adventure Coach Program, hosts her own podcast. We discuss awakening, accepting and appreciating diversity, leaving and deconstructing systems, and seeing life as an adventure.

RESOURCES:
TheJenniferSaunders.com
Jennifer’s Email
Jennifer Saunders TED Talk
Living Courageously Exposed Podcast
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Almost Awakened: 022: Ego and Rational Thinking with Spencer Wright Dec 30, 2019

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Today Bill and Mekael sit down with Author Spencer Wright regarding his book “How to think”. The discussion revolves around how we humans can be more rational with the beliefs we hold. We discuss at length the feasibility of completely shedding Ego and yet the merits of shedding some portions of ego in order to have the critical thinking skills necessary to shed false absurd beliefs when those beliefs make benefit us emotionally and are central to our identity.
Resources:
“How To Think” by: Spencer Wright
“Understanding the Tao Te Ching” by: Spencer Wright
Critical Thinking
6 Critical Thinking Skills You Need to Master Now
Can I Learn to Think More Rationally?
A User’s Guide to Rational Thinking
Rational Thinking as a Process
How to Train Yourself to Be a More Rational Thinker
Why Rational Thinking Is Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
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Almost Awakened: 021: Sex At Dawn and Babies Saved Dec 21, 2019

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Today Mekael and Bill talk about what has gone on over the last month. The passing of a loved one, what they and their lovers are reading, the saving of a baby and essentially just catching the listeners up after a month of chaos. They also spend a few minutes to talk about entering the drinking culture as a 40 year old adult.

Resources:
Sex At Dawn

Bill Rescuing a baby and it making National News

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Almost Awakened: 020: Mom and The Dying Nov 30, 2019

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Today Bill records an episode on his own giving Mekael a break. Bill had been in Ohio for two weeks sitting by the bedside of his mother who was in the final stage of her battle with Cancer. Today’s episode revolves around Bill’s confronting the death of his mom along with dealing with how we in this country handle the dying, Euthanasia, and if we are doing the best things to relieve suffering.

Almost Awakened: 019: Negotiating Sex Responsibly !! Nov 10, 2019

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Almost Awakened: 018: Being Yourself versus Compromising Yourself Nov 05, 2019

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Today we just riff discussing some shadow work we faced this week. Bill’s was his wife’s mechanism of feeling like she took something away from someone and then trying to force the person she feels she hurt into righting the ship for her and then punishing them when they don’t help her right her perceived wrong. For Mekael it was her interaction with a friend who challenged her to stop compromising herself to please others. The conversation traverses across things that should be helpful for all humans to consider and wrestle with. We end revealing that next weeks episode will revolve around SEX and around how humans are navigating this arena and how you balance the need to be yourself in its fullest expression while also not having it lead to hurting others

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Almost Awakened: 017: Ben Brown – Our Brain and the Stories We Tell Oct 26, 2019

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Today we sit down with Ben Brown. He tells us about how he grew up in a high demand fundamentalist religious sect, his deconstruction of that as he left it and moved into another unhealthy world view but one that was more liberal in degree only. How his curiosity and deconstruction of multiple systems gave him the tools and skills to begin diving deep into why we humans do what we do and how once we become aware of it, we now have the ability to disrupt them and change our personal stories and myths into one that are more useful or bring us more happiness.
Resources:
Robert Sapolsky Behave
Lisa Feldman Barrett and Emotions

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