#14 - Grit & Gravitas | 7keys: Integrity - Part 1

09/28/21 • 42 min

Integrity is so much more than ‘walking your talk’ in active demonstration of your values. It is integration with ALL that life has to offer. In this episode, we explore integrity as an internal compass and pluralistic embodiment of connection. When we are willing to step outside of our personal identities, we mature emotionally and grow into trans-rational understanding - a worldview that is connective and universally accepting.
Candice shares more personal stories, sharing about some times in her life when stepping into integrity meant risking security and belonging in favor of the gravitas within. This episode will help you reconnect with grittiness, grace, and your very own center of gravity. Explore how to better navigate dissonance and find the answer to the question: Is this a growth edge or a story I can no longer fit inside? Change is humbling and shedding identities can feel wildly unsettling, especially when you choose to express wholeness rather than play a part in a divisive norm. In the end, there is no greater service to the whole of life than an integral way of being. Integrity is an active acceptance that enables you to love (and live) more freely.

CHAPTERS
0:48 - Legless (story)
5:18 - A star is born
10:43 - Integrity vs. identity
16:38 - Campus Payphone (story)
24:00 - Integral theory
32:15 - 2 types of dissonance
33:53 - Let It Stand (story)
35:44 - The empty husk
37:18 - Tragic optimism
Referenced in this episode:

We Can Do Hard Things Podcast, Glennon Doyle
Integral Theory, Ken Wilber
James Hollis, various sources
Article: The Opposite of Toxic Positivity, by Scott Barry Kaufman

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We Can Do Hard Things Podcast, Glennon Doyle
Integral Theory, Ken Wilber
James Hollis, various sources
Article: The Opposite of Toxic Positivity, by Scott Barry Kaufman

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#13 - Love & Limits | 7keys: Sovereignty - Part 2

Love is like gravity; it helps us to keep our feet on our ground as we navigate the topsy turviness of the human condition. Even so, sometimes the ways in which we ‘do love’ inadvertently sabotage wholehearted connection. In Part 2 of the Sovereignty series, Candice invites you to walk with her along the tightrope between love and limits. Patterns of codependency are explored and we gain insight from the work of Joan Halifax, who encourages us to move through the world with a strong back & soft front. Candice shares more intimate personal stories and a game-changing quote from her favorite Game of Thrones character.
This episode delivers some counterintuitive realizations. The more we self-center, the less selfish we become. The more we express our limits, the greater our capacity for loving connection.

CHAPTERS
0:47 - Quicksand (story)
4:11 - Love & Limits
11:26 - More on boundaries
14:45 - San Fran Shell Shock (story)
24:14 - Strong back, soft front
26:05 - Arya Stark
27:59 - The Pushback & the Pendulum
30:37 - Snot-Soaked Tissue (story)
37:09 - Forest as a whole
Referenced in this episode:

Forests Are Wired For Wisdom, Suzanne Simard - OnBeing Podcast

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#15 - Wake Up Call | 7keys: Integrity - Part 2

In the second episode in a two-part series on integrity, Candice tells you about some of the teachers who shaped her passions early on in life, painting a very vivid picture of sex-ed class with her college professor Dr. Dennis Dailey, a trailblazing agent of social change. We illuminate the paradox at the heart of the symbolic self - the fear of being seen and the fear of going unnoticed. What does it take to rise above self-consciousness? True belonging... only thing is, the definition might surprise you.

When we think of social movements, we most often envision massive political uprisings, collective fists raised an allegiance to a cause and fired up organizers with megaphones speaking truth to power. And yet, collective politics is shaped by intrapsychic forces, by how we each internalize and translate our experience of the world through our own unique lens. Candice invites you into a more holistic expression of purpose, using personal stories to illustrate the difference between job, duty, and calling. Rising consciousness (aka ‘wokeness’) is both a personal and social endeavor that raises collective consciousness through perpetual curiosity, applied self-awareness, and shared accountability. Integrity reminds us - the global wake-up call begins within.
CHAPTERS
5:47 - Dr. Dailey (story)
13:08 - Social movements
14:39- The symbolic self
17:45 - Purpose - job, duty, calling
21:12 - Never Satisfied (story)
25:56 - One Of Those People (story)
28:50 - True belonging
29:52 - To the heart of the matter
Referenced in this episode:

Spiral Dynamics, by Christopher C. Cowan and Don Edward Beck
Fear of a Black President, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
We Can Do Hard Things Podcast
Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Live Talk, James Hollis

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The Deeper Pulse with Candice Schutter - #14 - Grit & Gravitas | 7keys: Integrity - Part 1

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Candice Schutter00:00:05.940

Hello, and welcome back to The Deeper Pulse. This is Candice Schutter.

Candice Schutter00:00:10.836

We are coming to the end of our journey through the 7 keys of courageous self-expression. We've only got two keys left. And lemme tell you, today, we're in for the deepest dive yet. Key #6 is integrity, and this is where the rubber meets the road. This episode will drive your thinking in bold new directions. W