Feed the Feminine The Hungry Feminine

Filmmaker Bobby Bruton joins me for an in-depth exploration of the symbolic and archetypal themes in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.Find more episodes at thehungryfeminine.comBobby Bruton's film library: https://www.youtube.com/@brutbros

If you're looking for somewhere to start or refresh on the archetyal masculine and feminine, this is your episode.

A musing on how easily we may give our authority over to people and institutions that meet certain masculine metrics. And why we should look within to ourselves for that authority instead.

On this episode, dedicated to my mentor and friend Bruce Avery, I share how my personal experiences of grief and the wisdom of poets and psychologists alike have led me to understand the meaning of mourning.
References:
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis - Nancy McWilliams
The Dark Interval - Rainer Maria Rilke
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown - Grief and Finding Meaning
All There is with Anderson Cooper - Grateful for Grief with Stephen Colbert
Refuse in Grief, Megan Divine

Codependency influences us to be responsible for making other people feel better. Success in that area is what can determine a sense of personal value, but this creates suffering. A more objective truth is that we can support each other but the work to quell our upset and evolve is ours alone. And boundaries – a trait of the masculine light – is where that healthy separation begins.

Discussing behavior traits of the feminine shadow and their impact on relationships. When we’re stuck in the feminine shadow, our self-image is usually not great. Because it’s a darker manifestation of feminine light which is about relationship and community, when that healthy manifestation turns dark, it’s still about relationship and community but about us being on the outside of it, feeling disconnected from it, not allowed into it.