The Making & Mending Podcast Yarrow Magdelena
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A podcast about creativity, ritual & slow stitching for wellbeing. We talk about making meaning through making, building sustainable practices and our creative dreams for the future.
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#178 Moments that change everything with Chaney Williams
This episode is my first interview with a guest in about eight months and I could not feel more excited & honoured to speak to Chaney Williams. There was so much in this conversation that was a balm to my soul - we talked about life-changing moments and accidents, listening to the whispers of your ancestors and our bodies, quiet spaces to create and dreaming new dreams. I hope you love it as much as I did!
Chaney Williams (she/they) is a full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specifically their poetry and creative non-fiction essays are confessional in nature because they create what they know and what haunts them because it is the way they make sense of the world they exist in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to her ancestors, future descendants, and the collective.
https://chaneywilliams.squarespace.com/
https://chaneywilliams.substack.com/
Stitching Together Community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening,
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#177 Needlework, disability & oral history - an update on my studies
In this episode I'm sharing more about an oral history project I'll be running this year - I want to find out how people with disabilities, like myself, used needlework to explore a sense of place and heritage during lockdown. I'm excited to explore topics like resilience in isolation, material and making vs consumption, connection with family stories and more.
This of course relates to my Stitching Together project, which you can find out more about here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you, as always, for listening!
Love,
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#176 Stitching spells for mental health
Happy new year!
In this episode I'm talking about how I am centring mental health & wellbeing in my creative practice this year - removing barriers, creating space for accessible participation & dreams, finding the sweet spot of gentle accountability and indulging wildly in flow states!
More info about my web design work is here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/
and you can join Stitching Together here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
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#175 How do we find our creative voice?
Perhaps an odd day to publish a new episode, but I thought this might be nice to share today for anyone who also feels a little overwhelmed with the festivities at a time of so much uncertainty and upheaval.
Finding and exploring one's creative voice is something I have been thinking about a lot this year - I explored stripping back the media overwhelm, identifying core messages and symbolism and, as always, unraveling perfectionism.
I hope this episode gives you something interesting to think about too!
Here is more info about the Stitching Together community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Love,
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#174 An invitation to stitch & make with me in 2024
If you're like me, having gentle accountability to slow down & be creative makes it much more likely for you to do things that bring you joy. Maybe you too feel that you need it more than ever.
After a bit of a break I am bringing my Patreon back, because I miss our creative time together and also because I am excited to share my research on radical needlework with you. In this episode I am sharing the new structure for my Patreon/Stitching Together in 2024 - a community space focussed on making, mending, writing & wellbeing.
Learn more here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
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#173 Disability & slow process as devotional practice
In this episode I am talking about what slowness means to me in my practice right now and how I've learned to still appreciate the process when chronic illness and disabilities slow me down. I'm taking a longer view on things, thinking about how slowness makes space for observations and stories to be woven into my work and how stitching and carving supports my wellbeing in so many ways. I'm also asking questions about devotion, the value of time and the beauty of simplicity and simple aesthetics.
I hope that if you've ever felt too slow you'll find comfort in listening!
Here is more info on Stitching Together in 2024: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Love,
Yarrow
Customer Reviews
Wonderful!
Well, this podcast is just a bunch of wonderful women coming together and speaking in such an amazing way... not only is the hosts voice so soothing and comforting, you can really feel how kind and gentle she is through this auditory medium. I am loving it so much. Thank you for doing this work!! ♥️