The Feeling of Creativity

"Should" Have Known

Many of us suffer from the idea that we’re supposed to know certain things by the time we reach a particular age. Whether you’re navigating how to fit in at a job, how to communicate with your partner when you’re frustrated, or how to take care of your own wellbeing, it’s easy to feel a sense of deficiency when you have to relearn the same lessons over and over. But what if the whole point of our lives is the constant flow between growing and falling, clarity and mess? Tune in as we explore where our ideas of what we “should” have known come from, and how to reframe our struggles not as failures, but as the very place where learning - and even beauty - happens. 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 Psychic, The Spy, and The Illusion of the Jackpot

In moments of uncertainty, it's all too easy to look outside of ourselves for answers. Whether that's consulting fifteen different people each time we make a decision or reaching for information about the future that we don't actually need to know right now, we send a signal back to ourselves: outsourced opinions are somehow more accurate than our own. This dynamic played out for Rebecca through a recent dream, exposing the hidden costs of relying on an external authority instead of trusting our inner roadmap. Where in your life are you outsourcing your truth? 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 Somatic Code

Living into the fullness and beauty of who we are is more than designing new rules for how we show up in the world. We can change how we work, who we spend time with, or what we consume, but if we’re still exhausting ourselves, there is something deeper  - more ancient - on offer. The Somatic Code is a way of orienting ourselves to whatever situation we find ourselves in by asking: What does it feel like to be me in this moment? Who am I underneath urgency, hypervigilance, and the fear of being found out? Tune in as Rebecca explores the wisdom the body holds about truth, creativity, and liberation - and how to navigate what gets in the way of their expression. 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.

Linger in Curiosity

Suffering is the cost of our unventilated stories and the actions we take when curiosity isn't present.  When interpersonal friction arises, it's easy to assume the issue belongs to the other person's unexplored shadow. We look outward to diagnose or fix the "problem," skipping the internal inquiry entirely. But what if our discomfort is an invitation for greater curiosity? What if what we are calling a problem contains a truth we don't want to hear? Sparked by a listener's email about a real conflict she was sitting with, Rebecca offers a reframe for how to stay with discomfort when friction arises, notice what learnings are yours to receive, and access grace to release what isn't yours to hold. 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.

Softened by the Fire

Walking the earth offers no shortage of challenges. Evenwhen our rational minds understand that a certain amount of turbulence is a natural part of being alive, our bodies and nervous systems may still feel depleted when we encounter everyday struggles. Feeling exhausted after a day filled with ordinary strain,Rebecca reflects on a different way of meeting the friction - one that doesn't require us to brace or hide to stay whole. Rather than fighting to keep every potential chaos out, what if we could learn to loosen around our edges into a softer way of being?   Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & MapumbaCilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together inBeauty - 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 makinga 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.