The Making & Mending Rituals Podcast

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#143 Join me for a Creative Summer Portal Jun 15, 2022

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Hey friends, this episode is an invitation to join me for the Summer Creative Portal - a sweet group with weekly creative co-working sessions on Sundays. If you're are an existing Patreon you're already IN and if you're not you can join us for the season ahead, no ongoing commitment. See if it works for you, come practice with us & meet some new folks. The theme for summer is pleasure - I'll read to you about it, offer journaling prompts and hold space for an expansive exploration that trickles down into the most simple daily things. In addition to the weekly sessions we have a space on Mighty Networks you'll be invited to as well

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!//

#142 Psychedelics & radical healership with Laura Mae Northrup Jun 09, 2022

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Hey friends, ah, I am so proud to bring this conversation your way, I truly loved talking to Laura Mae Northrup, whose worked has been important on my journey in lots of different ways. We covered a lot of ground and I hope you'll feel inspired to check her book and podcast out after listening to this. Here is some of what we talked about:

Psychedelic preparation & integration
Looking at trauma through a spiritual lens
Embodying integrity as a healing practitioner within capitalism
Listening to survivors and witnessing each other heal

Laura Mae Northrup, MFT is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her first book Radical Healership (Feb 2022) is a spiritually-informed and anticapitalist guide for healing practitioners who seek to build a values-driven healing practice. She is the host and creator of the podcast Inside Eyes, an audio series about people using entheogens and psychedelics to heal from sexual trauma. Her work focuses on defining sexual violence through a spiritual and politicized lens, mentoring healing practitioners in creating a meaningful path, and supporting the spiritual integrity of our collective humanity. You can learn more about her work here: www.lauramaenorthrup.com

Here is more info about the two summer programs I am offering: https://pinkwellstudio.com/start-a-podcast/ and https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/

Thank you!//

#141 Dreaming butch/femme joy & trans health care with Harry Josephine Giles & Darcy Leigh Jun 02, 2022

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Hi friends, I'm sending a beautiful follow up episode with Darcy Leigh (who was also on #105) and Harry Josephine Giles your way. These two dreams so generously shared about their lives, visions, creative practice and their trans healthcare fundraiser. It's been a joy of a conversation covering much ground and I hope that you'll love it as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:

Running Easter Road Press and self-publishing practices
Activist burn out, riding pandemic waves & rebuilding queer lives
Funding trans health and dreaming radical care
Finding sources of power and magic

Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally. www.harryjosephine.com Darcy Leigh lives half in Edinburgh, half in Brighton (it's complicated). She is very Jewish, very butch, and deep in DIY culture as well as queer history. Darcy also works as a university lecturer where she researches British colonialism and tries to make universities more accessible while also burning them down. https://butcharchive.com/ Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/butchfemmebodyhack More info about the starter website I'm offering for the fundraiser auction: https://pinkwellstudio.com/webdesign/

Thank you!//

#140 Grief, loss & pleasure as portals (solo) May 22, 2022

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Hey friends, it seems like this was a week of many solo episodes (I also talked about embracing upper and lower limits around money over on my business podcast: https://pinkwellstudio.com/2022/05/19/77-embracing-upper-and-lower-limits-around-money/). - in this one I wanted to talk about the darker parts of the last few years and how loss can really become a portal to other, better, sometimes insightful things.

I find this hard to talk about because I don't want to stray into victim blaming or spiritual bypassing, yet there are these things about pain and shock that I think are important to say out loud and that I wish I had known sooner. Overall, and I know I've been talking about this a lot, I wish we'd do more good grieving, because that is where the magic is. That is where we grow and avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. That is also where we really get to know ourselves and each other. This episode comes with a content note for suicide, death, hospitalisation, break ups, sexual assault and disability. I am not talking much about graphic details, but I am naming those things in the hope we can feel less alone in the experience of them. I trust you'll know if now is the time to listen or not.

Thank you for listening to my waffles!

Thank you!//

#139 Plant magic, resilience & the beauty of community with Madeleine Keller May 18, 2022

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Friends! Hello from the other side of this epic eclipse magic. While the dust is settling I wanted to share this beautiful, beautiful conversation I've had with Madeleine Keller, who is such a skilled and thoughtful folk herbalist. I really loved listening to them and I hope you will too. Here is some of what we talked about:

Finding our way back to relationships with plants
Reconnecting with ancestral practices
Building health and resilience in community
Being a village witch

Madeleine is a queer white non-binary zinester and folk herbalist residing on un-ceded Awaswas-speaking Ohlone territory, known to some as California’s Central Coast. They guide folks to connect to the plant world, demystify their bodies, and re-enchant their relationships to land and community. They regularly offer a variety of paid and free workshops intended to support community healing and assist in a couple community health/herbalism projects. They also love to write zines! -

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/madeleinelkeller -

Newsletter: https://gmail.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6532effa674f0a25e3886d2d&id=c6e0d880e0 -

Website: https://madeleinelkeller.com/ -

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeleine.herbalist/

Thank you!//

#138 Queering Intimacy with Jade Mars May 03, 2022

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Hey friends, how has this new moon eclipse magic weekend been treating you? I'm bringing a conversation with my friend Jade Mars your way - you might remember that they've been on episode #10 and so it's been really cool to catch up and see what has changed in our thoughts and ideas over the years. Here is some of what we talked about:

Zine writing, DIY publishing & sharing our voices
Valuing all kinds of intimacy beyond heteronormative norms
Care, affections & closeness with the non-human world
The beauty of neurodivergent perspectives

Jade Mars is a writer, zinester, poet and witch based in Brighton, UK. They are the author of the Scorpio Moon perzine series, editor of Aspects of Uranus: a queer astrology zine, and co-author of the Queering Intimacy workbook zine. Jade is the author of three collections of ecopoetry, and their writing has been published in Zarf #13, A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press, 2020), and Fermenting Feminism (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2017), amongst others. Jade is an experienced workshop facilitator and speaker, and has worked with community groups, universities, and queer & feminist projects throughout the UK.

Jade’s writing explores the magic and ritual of the everyday; the complexities of gender and sexuality; intimacies with the natural world; grief, loss, and growing older; building community in a world of capitalist alienation; and autistic experience in a neurotypical society. They are inspired by science fiction and utopianism, anarcha-feminist thought and praxis, DIY cultures, druidry, folklore and the liminal. Jade co-runs Brighton Feminist Science Fiction Bookclub and is a member of Brighton Zinesters.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/martianletters

https://www.patreon.com/lettersfrommars

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#137 Understanding shame and getting discomfortable with A.J. Bond Apr 20, 2022

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Hey everyone, ah I am so happy to share this conversation, truly. Ever since speaking to A.J. Bond I've been thinking about the ways in which shame shows up in my life and it's been really helpful and potential-gifting to find new ways to un-shame. This is an emotion I think we should all talk about more and I hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:

The wild power of healing shame
Honest communication, boundaries & navigating needs
Developing relational skills with ourselves and each other
Getting uncomfortable for the sake of growth

A.J. Bond is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker, and shame educator. As a gay man and former child actor, A.J. is no stranger to shame. After experiencing a life-changing “shame breakthrough” in therapy several years ago, A.J. dedicated himself to educating others about our “master emotion” through Shame Ed classes and one-on-one coaching. A.J. is certified as a shame-healing practitioner by the Center for Healing Shame in Berkeley and has also trained in Nonviolent Communication and Authentic Relating. A.J. is the host of the podcast Discomfortable, exploring shame and other difficult emotions. Visit www.discomfortable.net for more info.

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#135 Interconnected and nuanced ways of understanding healing with Chase McMurren Mar 30, 2022

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Hey friends, I am getting into a bit of a spring podcasting groove and it's an honour to tell you a bit more about my beautiful guest Chase McMurren. Talking to him gave me so much to think and giggle about as well as a wave of comfort and inspiration. I hope you'll love this conversation as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:

Meeting grief and heart ache with gentleness
Supporting our artist hearts
Caring for our elders
Hot beverage as everyday rituals
Slowing down to real delight

Chase Everett McMurren [he & him & his] is of Michif, Celtic, French and Ukrainian descent. Originally from Southern Alberta on traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory, he’s been living in Tkarón:to | GichiKiiwenging for years | Toronto. His clan is the Turtle and his spirit name is Water Song Medicine Keeper. Chase is a harp-playing, home-visiting physician for long-living elders, and an integrative psychotherapist for artists. He is the Theme Lead for Indigenous Health in the MD Program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Chase is a certified practitioner of Deirdre Fay’s Becoming Safely Embodied (BSE) approach. He serves as an Assessor and Clinical Supervisor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and also provides supervision in the Psychotherapy Training Program offered through the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada (MDPAC). Chase is training as a Nâtawihôwêw* [not-a-way-who-ee-oo], or Medicine Man (*in Michif) and is a senior student of the Hakomi Method. drchase.ca chase@drchase.ca Here’s the Megan Devine grief support video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE Here’s a link to Angela Lansbury singing “Everthing’s Coming Up Roses”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1znyr0QQGE

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#134 Radical love, oxytocin & anarchism with Samantha Zipporah Mar 17, 2022

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Hey friends, ah, what a joy this conversation has been! I know I am always gushing about my guests, but I just really am so lucky. Listening back to my chat with Samantha Zipporah gave me full body giggles and a renewed sense of hope. We covered so many topics that feel more alive and important than ever and I really hope you'll feel some of the radical love listening in too. Here is some of what we talked about:

Reclaiming embodied sovereignty
The relationship between oxytocin & anarchism
Being IN love and creative flow Saying no as a commitment to yes
The magic of fertility, cycles, birth & death

Samantha Zipporah is a fertility, sex, & cycle educator, author, & activist with over 20 years of experience. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through collective healing, liberation, & education. A former birth doula, she provides radical love for navigating the womb continuum & reclaiming ancestral wisdom. Sam’s unique praxis weaves a balance of scientific data & spiritual presence to offer knowledge & embodied wisdom for claiming inner authority in fertility, sex, & cycles. Sam provides vital education for everyone from professionals to preteens and inspires individuals to claim their power through body literacy & sovereignty. To learn more about her books, writing, courses, & mentorships, please visit www.samanthazipporah.com

Thank you!//

Making & creativity as spiritual nourishment (solo) Mar 05, 2022

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Hey friends, what a week! I am sending another solo episode your way, this time exploring making as a spiritual practice. I talk about seeking transcendence, developing an embodied understanding of rhythm & seasons, soothing nervous systems and spiritual sovereignty. You know, the casual stuff! Enjoy

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