Full Heart Free Voice Podcast: reading inspiring books, one chapter at a time

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying chapter 7 “Joyous Body: The Wild Flesh”.

In this chapter we learned how to celebrate our bodies, not as a sculpture to be formed into society's standards, but as a wise, knowing, multi-faceted being in their own right. This chapter teaches you how to flip the script on cultural narratives about women's bodies. In today's episode we read letters from listeners who share stories of times they flipped the script on their own body stories.

Resources mentioned in the episode

• 13th by Ava DuVernay
• Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler, MPH
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• ginapuorro.com

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Emma's links:

• Emma's Website
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing

Caitlin's links:

• Caitlin's Website
• Caitlin's Instagram
• Caitlin's Facebook Page

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Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in your life. This month we are studying Chapter 5: “Hunting: When the heart is a lonely hunter”.

In this chapter we learned about the Life-Death-Life Cycle, where you pay attention to what needs to be released from your life and what needs to be invited in.

With today's exercise you'll walk through a guided movement meditation practice to help you flow with your own natural life-death-life cycle. 

• You will set an intention for what wants to be released and what wants to be invited in.
• You will practice yoga postures and breath work to help you work with your intention.

Episode Download 

You can download the PDF of all the steps for this practice, including photos, at wildauthenticity.com/podcast.

Black Lives Matter

The month we would love for you to check out and do Layla F. Saad's workbook, Me and White Supremacy.

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• Find out more about Emma at: https://www.wildauthenticity.com/
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• Find out more about Caitlin and schedule a free consultation at: https://caitlinbosshart.com/
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Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.

This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 7 “Joyous Body: The Wild Flesh”.

Summary:

This chapter focuses on learning how to see your body through a lens of celebration and joy, instead of the body shame many of us were taught in our cultures of origin. It is for those of us who grew up in cultures that defined what a right body was, and where that definition was so narrow only a very few ever fit into it. It is for those of us who have worked tirelessly to try to force our bodies into being the right body, and are now exhausted from this work that never has an end. And it is for those of us who are ready for a new way, who want to move past body shame and into body celebration and joy.

In this episode we discuss:

• How to see the body as a gift
• How to break free from toxic cultural beliefs about the body
• How to experience the body as a spiritual practice

Resources mentioned in the episode

• When We All Vote
• Perimenopause: The Savvy Sister's Guide to Hormone Harmony by Dr. Anna Garrett
• Bare by Susan Hyatt
• Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler, MPH

Full Heart Free Voice links:

• Shop
• Podcast Community
• Instagram
• Monthly Newsletter

Emma's links:

• Emma's Website
• 3 Habits to Calm Your Fear and Get You Writing

Caitlin's links:

• Caitlin's Website
• Caitlin's Instagram
• Caitlin's Facebook Page

**If you loved this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast player!**

Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

This episode is not a replacement for therapy, mental health care, or any medical treatments you may need. You are completely responsible for your health and well-being. You are fully responsible for the decisions and actions you take with regard to your life and affairs. This podcast does not create a coach-client relationship between you and the hosts of the show.