Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are

Alison Crosthwait
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Aliveness is living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out — finding the pathway to all that you long for. This podcast is for those who are ready to stop running through the motions, change old patterns you can’t seem to shake, and breakthrough healing plateaus to create a full, juicy life filled with aliveness. Alison Crosthwait, a former licensed psychotherapist and microdosing guide, and her guests explore how we create lasting change and the role that plant medicine plays to accelerate healing. www.alisoncrosthwait.com

  1. 2023-08-29

    The Alchemy Of Inner Work with Lorie Dechar

    Lorie Dechar is an Acupuncturist, Author, Alchemical Healer, Mentor and Artisan of Transformation. Lorie and I talk about "the myth, the math and... something else...." - it's one of the best descriptions of inner work I've heard and Lorie drops it in the first few minutes. Join her Inner Sensing Intensive September 30/October 1 Read her book with Benjamin Fox, The Alchemy of Inner Work Join her community - A New Possibility - and learn more about her work on her website: Follow her on Instagram Listen to Integral Chinese Medicine Conversations — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

    46 min

  2. 2023-08-22

    "We are all problematic." Talking about Barbie with Lisa Brannan

    Lisa and I talk about collective change and what the release of Barbie may or may not represent. It's a fun and fiery conversation!! Follow Lisa on Instagram at @brnnlisa Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

    39 min

  3. 2023-07-25

    Connecting with Your Dharma and Opening Your Heart in Difficult Times with Stephen Cope

    True freedom comes from letting go of grasping and opening our hearts.  But those two things can be so challenging for us to embody in our modern world.  Alison and guest, Stephen Cope, best-selling author and scholar, delve into the relationship between the Eastern contemplative traditions and Western depth psychology and how connecting the two can support you in navigating the modern world. Stephen shares the experiences and insights that he’s gained studying these ideas that have shaped his books, including his most recent, “The Dharma in Difficult Times: Finding Your Calling in Times of Loss, Change, Struggle, and Doubt,” and offers a guide for how to connect with your own wisdom, cultivate compassion and open-heartedness, and connect with your inner gifts to contribute to positive change in the world.  “There are two forms of grasping in the Buddhist tradition. There's reaching, “oh, I want that. I've got to get that goal. I've got to get over there on the other side of the river.” And then protecting what you have.  The real freedom comes in letting go of that grasping, clinging, craving, holding on, and protecting and opening our hearts instead.”  CONNECT WITH STEPHEN  ​​Stephen Cope is a best-selling author and scholar who specializes in the relationship between the Eastern contemplative traditions and Western depth psychology. Among his seminal works in this area are: Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, The Wisdom of Yoga, and The Great Work of Your Life. His most recent work, The Dharma In Difficult Times, the sequel to The Great Work of Your Life shows us the way through our darkest times to our truest calling. Cope helps give readers a roadmap for the journey to their true calling. For almost thirty years, Stephen has been Scholar-in-Residence at the renowned Kripalu Center—the largest center for the study and practice of yoga in the Western world. Kripalu hosts almost 50,000 guests a year in its many yoga, meditation, and personal growth programs. It is located on a sprawling 200 acre estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. — Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic...

    59 min

  4. 2023-07-18

    How to Build Capacity to Surrender

    Surrender is a daily devotion. It unlocks our energy and creates a ripple effect of a positive change in ourselves. But surrender can be one of the most challenging things we can do because it requires that we face our pain.  In this episode, Alison shares her recent work with a local medicine man in a ceremony to show how we have to build our capacity to surrender, and how often times, it’s by looking directly at our pain that we’re able to transform.  “We need to feel what we could not feel at the time. That is why we're in the situation we're in‌ — we're not connected to our life force energy. It’s because of our situations and our experiences that our life force gets stuck and we're not able to flow.”— Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Mentioned in this episode: Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide

    13 min

  5. 2023-07-11

    Moving Our Minds and Bodies into an Unraveled State of Being

    Society ravels us all so tightly. We’re raveled in the “shoulds” and what’s “right.” We are raveled in the judgments of others, the definition of success, and the expectations others put on us. This raveling puts us into patterns that keep us stuck — out of alignment with our life force energy. To allow life to flow, we must unravel. “Often our intentions are about business, money, health, life, love. They're raveled intentions, but the answer and satisfaction are in the unraveling.”— Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Mentioned in this episode: Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide

    12 min

  6. 2023-07-04

    Practicing Surrender Empowers Others to Heal in Their Own Timing

    We live in such a “fix me” culture, often looking outside ourselves for the answers — or offering our answers to our friends and family members when they’re experiencing pain.  But to truly support our own healing and the healing of others, we have to surrender to these painful moments and move through the process in our own time in our own way.  Here, Alison shares the complexities of practicing surrender as a way to empower others and yourself and the importance of having support and healing containers that allow you to look inward and move through your own process. “Surrender empowers other people. It's a way of loving people…It's an inner sense that it’s okay for other people to experience pain in their own timing and that my only job is to be present, whether they're a friend or a client, to what they are experiencing.”  — Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Mentioned in this episode: Sign Up for Alison's Email List

    13 min

  7. 2023-06-27

    Submission vs. Surrender

    What's the difference between submission and surrender? Both of these terms hold the essence of letting go, but there’s a fine line between the two of them. Surrender can be an embodied state that supports our ability to create our desires and experience life as it is, while submission can be where we fall into the false idea that “it is what it is.”  In this episode, Alison shares the nuances between these two energies to support you in spotting where you might be surrendering versus where you might be submitting so you can realign toward surrender. “This is a very natural human longing to surrender to life — to stop trying to take care of what clearly cannot be taken care of. And then there's submission — the following of the rules, the doing what we feel we should do, the “I don't see any other alternatives, so I'll just do this,” and it's a very, very, very fine line.” MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Paper by Emmanuel Ghent, "Masochism, Submission, Surrender: Masochism As a Perversion of Surrender" — Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Mentioned in this episode: Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide

    11 min

  8. 2023-06-20

    Navigating Betrayal Without Losing Your Truth

    Alison delves into the painful experience of betrayal in love and how we can step into our own healing and move past the betrayal.  Drawing from her own experience, she explores the shame, anger, and upset that arises when our beliefs about love and trust are shattered, and how it feels like everything we thought was true has been taken away.  She offers perspectives for how we can navigate and accept betrayal without attaching it to our self-worth or harboring resentment toward the person who betrayed us.  “There is no shame in trusting. There is no shame in opening our hearts. Every single one of us is negotiating how much of ourselves to open and how much to give away. If it turns out that it's not reciprocated, that is not a failure on us. But it is certainly something to learn from.” — Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms. https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/ — JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH  Sign Up for Alison's Email List — HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDE Receive the Transformational Microdosing Guide — APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Expand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.   In Expand you will engage in deep mental, emotional and somatic work in a structured process so that you can fully step into your life in every way you desire. You will also have the opportunity to experience one full microdosing cycle combined with the inner work if you choose.   Learn More and Apply for Expand — CONNECT WITH ALISON  Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

    11 min
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Aliveness is living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out — finding the pathway to all that you long for. This podcast is for those who are ready to stop running through the motions, change old patterns you can’t seem to shake, and breakthrough healing plateaus to create a full, juicy life filled with aliveness. Alison Crosthwait, a former licensed psychotherapist and microdosing guide, and her guests explore how we create lasting change and the role that plant medicine plays to accelerate healing. www.alisoncrosthwait.com

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