Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers - Ep. # 253: Gender Journeys & Tarot as Support for Gender Exploration with the Gender Doula Eli Lawliet

Ep. # 253: Gender Journeys & Tarot as Support for Gender Exploration with the Gender Doula Eli Lawliet

02/14/22 • 56 min

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Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Eli is a gender doula - supporting folx as they question, explore, and transition their gender. In this episode, Eryn and Eli talk about:

Eli’s journey with sexuality, gender, and spirituality
“Is it my gender or sexuality, or is this just my trauma?”
Queerness as a dream outside of the realm of our existence as kids
His work as a gender doula
Tarot’s role in his gender journey
What Eli wants to tell people who are on a gender journey of some kind
Why Eli thinks everyone should go on a gender journey
Fluidity and changeability around identity and labels
Labels & how they can constrain us
Holding our own complications & other people’s complications, too
Transness and queerness as vectors of spirituality and connection to nature, land, and community
Different timelines for queer and trans people
Tarot as support for gender exploration
Grief as part of gender and sexuality journeys
Ritual in gender journeys

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eli-lawliet

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Eli is a gender doula - supporting folx as they question, explore, and transition their gender. In this episode, Eryn and Eli talk about:

Eli’s journey with sexuality, gender, and spirituality
“Is it my gender or sexuality, or is this just my trauma?”
Queerness as a dream outside of the realm of our existence as kids
His work as a gender doula
Tarot’s role in his gender journey
What Eli wants to tell people who are on a gender journey of some kind
Why Eli thinks everyone should go on a gender journey
Fluidity and changeability around identity and labels
Labels & how they can constrain us
Holding our own complications & other people’s complications, too
Transness and queerness as vectors of spirituality and connection to nature, land, and community
Different timelines for queer and trans people
Tarot as support for gender exploration
Grief as part of gender and sexuality journeys
Ritual in gender journeys

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eli-lawliet

Connect with Eli on his website, Instagram, and TikTok. Sign up for his newsletter.

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Ep. #252: Ceremony & Healing Through Somatics with Anabel Khoo

Anabel Khoo (she/they) is a psychotherapist, facilitator, interdisciplinary artist, and writer dedicated to cultivating holistic collective healing and social justice. They are also a queer, non-binary, diasporic Chinese person, and their lived experience has moved them to help other marginalized people to process intergenerational pain and to fully embody one’s power and worth.

In this episode, Anabel and Eryn talk about:

Anabel’s journey with healing and somatics
Coming to believe something through experiencing it in your body
Creativity & the body
How their interest in ceremony, ritual, and spirituality came about
The importance of ceremony and ritual
Doing ritual only when you feel moved to do ritual
Somatics & collective liberation & collective healing
Embodying body and mind at the same time
The uncomfortable middle ground in healing
Practicing being with what is totally intolerable
Fear of stepping into painful places
Working through the shame of being where we’re at

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/anabel-khoo

Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and the Religious Trauma meditation album. Read Eryn's poem, breakfast poem, in orangepeel mag.

Connect with Anabel on Instagram and their website.

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Ep. #254: Living in Complexity & Facilitating Healing Work under Capitalism with Laura Mae Northrup

Laura Mae Northrup (she/her), MFT is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her first book Radical Healership is a spiritually-informed, anticapitalist guide for healing practitioners who seek to build a values-driven healing practice. And it's out today!

In this episode, Eryn and Laura talk about:

Her journey writing her new book
Emotions & book writing!
Surrendering & letting emerge
Overshaping our experiences
Living in complexity
Grappling with money (and charging money!) within capitalism
The degradation of spirituality and healing
The history of taking away people’s access to healing and spirituality as an intentional strategy of domination and disempowerment
How psychedelics and entheogens help us heal sexual trauma
Trauma as a spiritual wound
The need to experience so much joy and beauty as people in care roles
Right sized-ness
How you sustain the path as a facilitator of healing work

ENTER THE BOOK GIVEAWAY ON INSTAGRAM.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/laura-mae-northrup

You can learn more about her work here: www.lauramaenorthrup.com. Follow her on Instagram, check out her podcast, and buy the book wherever you buy books (especially from your local small bookstore!).