Liberating Beauty

Incubating Beauty

What if creativity is the thread that leads us back to beauty - and to who we truly are? In this week's episode of the Liberating Beauty Podcast, we continue our mini-series on Creativity and its power to illuminate beauty even after years of its absence. Rebecca is joined by her dear friend Gail Jacob – a beloved pioneer in the field of developmental disabilities and a gifted textile artist – to trace the path creativity carves through the course of one woman's life. From a childhood marked by deprivation, through a career filled with reverence for different ways of being, to the arrival of a daughter who awakened her creative spark, Gail's story holds a question for all of us: what beauty lives within us before we know it's there? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

The Feeling of Creativity

We tend to associate creativity with the forms it takes like painting, music, or dance. But what if creativity - like beauty - is a frequency more than a form? What if creativity is the experience of being ourselves whenever we open to expressing who we truly are?   Today's episode opens a mini-series on the topic of creativity, one of beauty's kindred expressions. Rebecca shares examples of where she notices creativity in ordinary experiences - sometimes in ways she wouldn't have thought of as creative.   In the coming weeks, Rebecca will be joined by guests who will take us deeper into these questions. This series is an unfolding conversation, and you are part of it. Where is creativity expressing itself in your life? How can you nurture and invite your creative spirit in everyday moments? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

This, Too, Is Love

For years, Rebecca moved between beauty, spirituality, and transformation, sensing an underlying coherence she couldn't put into words. Then something clicked: what if beauty is an expression of Love? In this episode, Rebecca explores the animating life force of Love, often in forms we don't immediately recognize. Many wisdom traditions have long recognized that Love is not only what arrives gently. Grief is also Love with nowhere to go. Beauty is Love made visible in a way the body can recognize. Pleasure is Love insisting on aliveness. Transformation is Love refusing to let us stay smaller than what we're becoming. What would it feel like to ask of your pain, your desire, your playfulness: could this, too, be Love? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

Invisible Thresholds

There are passages in life that never make headlines. Some don’t even reach our conscious awareness. There’s no announcement. No ceremony. No room full of witnesses. Sometimes it's an ordinary Tuesday - a quiet threshold crossed, and then you just keep going. In this episode, Rebecca explores invisible thresholds - the quiet, interior passages that the outer culture doesn't often see or honor: The grief that doesn't qualify for bereavement leave. The gratitude for driving yourself safely to an appointment. The freedom from thoughts and fears that once would have sent you reeling. These passages are no less real. No less worthy of witness. Nothing is too small to honor with your attention, your breath and rest. What passage have you been carrying that is ready to be witnessed - if only by you? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

The Rules Are Made Up, Anyway

When the rules we live by start to feel like walls, it's worth asking who built them. Today, Rebecca takes us into an ordinary moment of unraveling - a computer that wouldn't cooperate - and the cascade of self-imposed questioning and expectations that came with it. Join us this week as we explore legitimacy traps - the quiet, exhausting work of proving our worth through rules and structures of our design. What becomes possible when we remember that every rule has an author - and that in many instances - we still hold the pen? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.