Rest and Awaken Podcast Rest and Awaken

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen record a podcast in the community and invite others into the conversation as they celebrate one year of conversations. Explore humans tendency to be scared by difference and how we can learn to notice and maybe even embrace difference without othering. Also discussed white comfort, introverts vs extroverts, and letting ourselves imagine a world of collective liberation.

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about how easy or hard it is to live into one's truth, making room for good things, and inviting love into hard conversations.

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about how being hijacked by fear can get in the way of connection or finding common ground towards liberation. They explore some of the polarization currently and the ways fear is leading to us vs them mentality.

Some highlights:
-what is zionism?
-what is antisemitism?
-rooting for Palestinian safety and liberation while not excluding the need for everyone to feel safe
-how fear shapes so much of our life and gets in the way of liberation
-the power of psychedelics
-how touched Nathalie was by a story that Bryan Stevenson (black civil rights attorney) shared

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about discerning when you feel satisfied in a culture that focuses on not good enough. Also explore when you are not satisfied how do you pivot versus being caught in the binary of all or nothing.

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about the every day ways we police ourselves and each other which can escalate to violence and death. Finding ways to make room for differences rather than fearing difference is a practice.

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen reflect on how race is showing up in their lives and the gift of having cross racial dialogues about race, racism, whiteness and the caste system.