1 hr 5 min
Ep 16. When All That's Left is Love (w/ Dr. Christen Scott) Wild Sacred Journey Podcast
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- Alternative Health
What's left when all else melts away? When you find yourself at a threshold; in the middle of an initiation; grappling with the things you would never have consciously chosen? In a moment or many when you’re stripped of your accomplishments, or people you love, or the things you thought you knew?
Who are you then? And what really matters?
One of my first spiritual teachers and long-time friend, Dr. Christen Scott aka the Yoga Shrink, has been on a journey of unlearning ‘doing and accomplishing from a place of inadequacy’ to find deeper presence and acceptance her whole life. From getting the doctorate, to running marathons, to a thriving clinical psychology practice, she has always gone for it. And then a new devotion to the practice of yoga started showing her another, more love-centered and body-centered, possibility.
Not one to do anything with half her heart, Christen and her husband Preston went all in on living, teaching, leading, and serving from the principle that there is Love or there is Fear - and they choose Love. This episode is the story of how her understanding of Love has been tested and deepened in the year and change since Preston’s unexpected and sudden death the day after Thanksgiving 2021.
Through laughter and tears, you’ll hear us explore:
how the wilderness of bereavement makes it impossible to go along with the aspects of society that run counter to full humanity and aliveness;
sacred and ancestral approaches to grief and loss;
how Christen learned to tend her grief and some ways we, as a society, could support grief better;
the inquiry - what if loss, although challenging, isn’t a wound or a problem? What if we are, in fact, perfectly designed for it?… and more
Having spent the last year+ with my own primary and secondary grief in the wake of Preston's transition, this episode feels particularly poignant. If you’re watching this episode, you’ll see how much of it I spend with tears in my eyes. And yet, somehow, this is not a sad or heavy episode - it’s a deeply loving and reparative one.
Gather with us? Celebrate life with us? Sit in the full expression of humanity, including the commonality of loss, with us?
I hope you will.
The world needs us heart-broken-open, fully alive, and available for more Love.
You can find Christen here: https://www.yogashrinks.com/
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What's left when all else melts away? When you find yourself at a threshold; in the middle of an initiation; grappling with the things you would never have consciously chosen? In a moment or many when you’re stripped of your accomplishments, or people you love, or the things you thought you knew?
Who are you then? And what really matters?
One of my first spiritual teachers and long-time friend, Dr. Christen Scott aka the Yoga Shrink, has been on a journey of unlearning ‘doing and accomplishing from a place of inadequacy’ to find deeper presence and acceptance her whole life. From getting the doctorate, to running marathons, to a thriving clinical psychology practice, she has always gone for it. And then a new devotion to the practice of yoga started showing her another, more love-centered and body-centered, possibility.
Not one to do anything with half her heart, Christen and her husband Preston went all in on living, teaching, leading, and serving from the principle that there is Love or there is Fear - and they choose Love. This episode is the story of how her understanding of Love has been tested and deepened in the year and change since Preston’s unexpected and sudden death the day after Thanksgiving 2021.
Through laughter and tears, you’ll hear us explore:
how the wilderness of bereavement makes it impossible to go along with the aspects of society that run counter to full humanity and aliveness;
sacred and ancestral approaches to grief and loss;
how Christen learned to tend her grief and some ways we, as a society, could support grief better;
the inquiry - what if loss, although challenging, isn’t a wound or a problem? What if we are, in fact, perfectly designed for it?… and more
Having spent the last year+ with my own primary and secondary grief in the wake of Preston's transition, this episode feels particularly poignant. If you’re watching this episode, you’ll see how much of it I spend with tears in my eyes. And yet, somehow, this is not a sad or heavy episode - it’s a deeply loving and reparative one.
Gather with us? Celebrate life with us? Sit in the full expression of humanity, including the commonality of loss, with us?
I hope you will.
The world needs us heart-broken-open, fully alive, and available for more Love.
You can find Christen here: https://www.yogashrinks.com/
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kate-powell-wsjp/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kate-powell-wsjp/support
1 hr 5 min