S1E9: Don't Look Away: Your Pain Does Not Have to Become Suffering

Episode 0 | The Priestess and the Mountain

How does it feel to accomplish something you always hoped (and regularly prayed) you could achieve—yet deep down feared was impossible for you? As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who grew up in extremes of financial instability, the goal of achieving healthy, present, trusting, and abundant relationships to money, sex, and power has felt like the Everest of my life: the mountain peak that I have most wanted to reach, yet feared I never would.  In this intimate “ground zero” episode of a whole new podcast, I explore what it feels like to have returned to entrepreneurship after a two year healing sabbatical with the launch of my new business, WHOLE HOUSE, and how it feels to have so quickly (yet calmly) summited this Mountain in the process—experiencing previously inconceivable levels of financial abundance unattached to intense stress or hard hard work, and the felt safety to lovingly and lusciously renegotiate my relationships to sex and sensuality and my personal power as a result. YUM.  It’s a whole new world from here, and this episode is my love letter to the moment; my spoken intention to birth MYSTIC MONSTRESS MADWOMAN MUSE fully into being in 2025; and my vow to you that whatever impossible-seeming mountain you may have spent a lifetime yearning for and walking towards IS summitable, and when you get there, nothing will ever look, or be, the same again.   So light a candle, pour a glass, and join me for episode zero of MYSTIC MONSTRESS MADWOMAN MUSE, as we ring out the old year and expand our horizons toward the next!  —K. xo Want to work with me? Here’s how you can:  Write your book from scratch in 7 months, in intimate community, with ease inside THE HEROINE COLLECTIVE. We start January 22, 2025. There are just 2 spots left! Book your call here.  [https://calendly.com/katejv/discover] Want to write your book with me in a magic 1:1 portal? You can apply here. [https://form.typeform.com/to/RfbvJc]Book before January 1st to get $1,000 off.  Are you a neurospicy high-performing overextracted creative entrepreneur ready to RELAX deeply into your body, your life, and your business and receive unbelievable new levels of income, ease, and dreamy clients? Join me in HEALER! You can apply here. [https://form.typeform.com/to/w9Ilrn5S]

S1E10 "This Is Enough": Locating and Respecting YOUR Natural Boundaries

Your capacity to take on the news right now is valid. Your mental, physical, and emotional boundaries are your own—no one else's are the same. Yet we tend to feel shame and guilt when it comes to how much we feel we are able to engage (or not) with the general sense of suffering out there in the world. So how do we identify what OUR personal boundaries are for engaging with current global crises? And how do we locate, let alone honour, those boundaries when we've blown right the f*ck past them? Today's episode goes into just this question. We'll honour the importance of bearing witness to others' suffering and global crises while honouring YOUR limits so you're not just (re)traumatizing yourself in the name of being a "good global citizen." We'll discuss how to locate YOUR mental, emotional, and physical boundaries—that is, how to FEEL them when they announce themselves, and what to do so you can honour them. We'll cover how to "reset" when you've gone WAY beyond your boundaries and are living in a near-constant state of nervous system dysregulation/fight-flight response/survival mode (all terms for the same state). We discuss why it's CRUCIAL to honour your boundaries even in the face of self-recrimination and self-judgement, and what to do with those sneaky feelings of guilt and shame that can arise when we choose to take care of ourselves though others are suffering. And so much more. FOR THE REST OF OCTOBER I AM OFFERING HEAVILY DISCOUNTED OR FREE SOMATIC PROCESSING SESSIONS FOR THOSE IN NEED OF MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT DURING THIS TIME. To book, click here: https://my.practicebetter.io/#/64d92cd8550ffc57feff428e/bookings?s=652851a8f869378433c24d57&step=date [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/64d92cd8550ffc57feff428e/bookings?s=652851a8f869378433c24d57&step=date]  or DM me on Instagram/ email me at kate@katejuniper.com [kate@katejuniper.com] to book a free session.  Want to discuss how you can work with me? Book a free discovery call with me here [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/64d92cd8550ffc57feff428e/bookings?step=services]. Follow me on Instagram here. [https://www.instagram.com/sensefeeltransform/] Content Warning: This episode contains reference to warfare and the Israel—Gaza—Hamas conflict. Signs from your body that this content is a “no” for your system right now include but are not limited to: elevated heart rate, squeezing sensation in the stomach and guts, tightness in the throat, sensations of nausea, blurred vision, and sudden sleepiness. IF you experience any such sensations, take three deep breaths in through the nose and follow them down into your tailbone. Hold for three beats and release slowly through the mouth. Go on with your day—and if you still want to listen, give yourself a window of time to reset and make that decision from a consensual place.

S1E9: Don't Look Away: Your Pain Does Not Have to Become Suffering

"All of Western medicine is built on getting rid of pain, which is not the same as healing. Healing is actually the capacity to hold pain." —Dr. Gabor Maté In the wake of this week's Israel—Hamas conflict, I did my best to share some thoughts on the discomfort–pain–suffering continuum, which I believe is crucial to understanding our collective aversion to holding pain—the very capacity Dr. Maté identifies as crucial to healing our individual and collective wounds. Content Warning: This episode contains reference to warfare and the Israel—Gaza—Hamas conflict. Signs from your body that this content is a “no” for your system right now include but are not limited to: elevated heart rate, squeezing sensation in the stomach and guts, tightness in the throat, sensations of nausea, blurred vision, and sudden sleepiness. IF you experience any such sensations, take three deep breaths in through the nose and follow them down into your tailbone. Hold for three beats and release slowly through the mouth. Go on with your day—and if you still want to listen, give yourself a window of time to reset and make that decision from a consensual place.

S1E8 Money, Power, and the Unlikely Gift of Nightmares

WOW! In today’s episode we witness and track the passage of embodied trauma, sorrow, pain, and inherited/socially programmed limiting beliefs from the murky depths of the shadow/subconscious to up into the light of our conscious awareness!  Listen to this exciting episode on the significance of your bad dreams and what incredible gifts they have to offer you when you open to the symbolic language of the soma to find the deep lessons within. Join me in this deep exploration of money, power, shadow, and light. Content Warning: As always, we are dredging the darkness to find the incredible, illuminating light of insight, which in turn leads us into greater liberation! This episode contains reference to assault and suicide. Signs from your body that this content is a “no” for now include but are not limited to: elevated heart rate, squeezing sensation in the stomach and guts, tightness in the throat, sensations of nausea, blurred vision, and sudden sleepiness. IF you experience any such sensations, take three deep breaths in through the nose and follow them down into your tailbone. Hold for three beats and release slowly through the mouth. Go on with your day—and if you still want to listen, give yourself a window of time to reset and make that decision from a consensual place.  Want to discuss how you can work with me? Book a free discovery call with me here [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/64d92cd8550ffc57feff428e/bookings?step=services]. Ready to more deeply heal your money wounds? Sign up for my money mama Kate Northrup’s free workshop series FLOW here.  [https://katenorthrup.com/flow/?orid=357015&opid=153] Curious to read that short story I mention. Reader, beware. Check it out here.  [https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/WhereAreYouGoing.htm] Follow me on Instagram here. [https://www.instagram.com/sensefeeltransform/]

S1E7 “Losing Yourself” is Part of Your Natural Evolution

Breakdowns, crises, disappointments. Bereavements, tragedies, and disillusionments. Burnouts, births, marriages, and life-defining accomplishments.  Why is it that on the other side of a Big Life Event, good or bad, chosen or accidental, we most often feel completely lost—and irrevocably different?  Today’s episode investigates western overculture’s obsession with a certain kind of life trajectory, and how this idea of our life’s “shape” is not only inherently false, but deeply damaging to the psyche. In contrast, ancient and Indigenous cultures that embrace significant milestones and experiences in life as rites of passage experience a great deal less existential angst and mental suffering.  In episode 7 we get into the three stages of a rite of passage, and explore how we can navigate the discomfort and pain that often accompanies these transitional, transformational phases in life, in which we often feel as though we have lost ourselves and all ability to feel clear and/or confident of what we’re doing in life, in a way that lessens our suffering—and actually increases the potential of what we can achieve on the other side of the experience.       Want to discuss how you can work with me? Book a free discovery call with me here [https://my.practicebetter.io/#/64d92cd8550ffc57feff428e/bookings?step=services]. Follow me on Instagram here. [https://www.instagram.com/sensefeeltransform/]