
Ep. #196: My Journey with Religious Trauma, Purity Culture & Healing
12/04/20 • 54 min
In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson talks about her journey with religious trauma, purity culture & healing.
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/religious-trauma-minisode
Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available! 110 pages of prompts, reflections, meditations, rituals and somatic exercises to support you in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion.
Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.
Mentioned in this episode: Undercurrent poetry community.
In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson talks about her journey with religious trauma, purity culture & healing.
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/religious-trauma-minisode
Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available! 110 pages of prompts, reflections, meditations, rituals and somatic exercises to support you in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion.
Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.
Mentioned in this episode: Undercurrent poetry community.
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Ep. #195: Nonviolent Communication & Belonging with Dr. Terrie Lewine
Dr. Terrie Lewine is a Philadelphia-based nonviolent communication teacher and facilitator, chiropractor, and owner of Back to Life Urban Sanctuary.
In this episode, Eryn and Dr. Terrie talk about her journey with nonviolent communication, what nonviolent communication is, what violent language is, belonging, communicating our feelings, the function of feelings, getting needs met, what are needs?, empathy in nonviolent communication & how empathy changes how we show up, impact & intention, carceral culture, meaning making & taking responsibility for the meaning we make.
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/terrie-lewine
Access the free Sagittarius season breathwork playlist (+ intro to breathwork video). Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available!
Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.
Connect with Eryn on Instagram.
Check out Dr. Terrie’s website and Instagram
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Ep. #197: Embodying Archetypes & Connecting with Your Power with Davidia Turner
Davidia Turner helps others awaken their innate capacity for deep self healing and empowerment through her work as a Yoga & Embodiment Teacher & Intuitive Tarot Reader & Teacher. In this episode, Eryn and Davidia talk about:
- Her journey of waking up to her power and magic with witchcraft
- Connecting with the power that you do have even when many things are out of your control
- Spiritual bypassing
- Not taking the responsibility of holding space lightly
- Moving through fears of making mistakes to put yourself out there in your work
- Boundaries
- Not knowing
- The Kings of the tarot
- The magic of yin yoga & what the practice means to her
- How yin yoga helps us heal
- Unpacking pain versus discomfort
- Embodying archetypes
- Tarot as invitational and something that’s alive and available to us
- Getting out of your head with the cards!
- The invitations of the Queens
- Evolving the ways we talk to ourselves
- Self-trust
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/davidia-turner
Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available!
Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.
Connect with Davidia on Instagram, her website, through her weekly Zoom yoga classes and solstice workshop.
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