*BONUS EPISODE* S06E15 About Misogyny

*BONUS EPISODE* S06E15 About Misogyny

This week on The Tiny Pod on Patreon is all about Misogyny, in honour of the courageous girls in Fordingbridge, the courageous women who survived the violence of the IDF when their flotilla was seized on route to Gaza, and all survivors of male violence. People hear the word Misogyny and immediately get defensive. People think of it in its most extreme form as hatred for all women. But unexamined, internalised misogyny is much broader than that, and it is subtle too. It shows up often unconsciously as distrust of women, contempt, control, fear and dismissal. Women can internalise misogyny too, policing other women, competing with other women, being hyper critical of women's appearance, behaviour, mothering, judging female sexuality more harshly than men’s, and choosing male approval over female solidarity. It is how oppressive systems thrive, when the people being oppressed police themselves and each other. Healing misogyny begins with awareness, because we cannot heal what we refuse to see, and curiosity, opening to exploring what assumptions, beliefs and feelings we have internalised but never examined. Healing for men often looks like allowing grief, grieving the tenderness they never had, childhood wounds, hurt from the mother figure, and examining ideas about masculinity they have inherited. Fear and hatred of women cuts men off from intimacy, connection and the most fulfilling freedom of being truly alive. The truth is we are all equal, regardless of gender, geography, wealth, status, biology or race. Anything that contradicts that truth is false. Fear is a construct of the ego. Love is the truth, and love heals all wounds. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you are interested in listening to more episodes, my weekly podcast can be found on Patreon, link below. 🔗 https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheTinyPod

*BONUS EPISODE* S06E09 About Ceasefire

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Ceasefire. From the Latin word Cessare, meaning to stop, to yield, to give over, a ceasefire is an exhale, a nervous system rest and reset, and it is only when our nervous systems are parasympathetic, at rest, that we are able to see with clarity and a clear head, and negotiate real peace. Ceasefires create space for peace by stopping further harm, pausing active attacks, and giving clarity a moment to settle. It is a step towards armistice and peace, a pause, not permanent resolution but in that pause peace can be found. As without, so within. When we let the word Ceasefire land on hearts, we feel relief, we soften, we put down our weapons of self-criticism, pressure, perfectionism and allow calm to settle. Ceasefire with ourselves is permission to stop fighting with our self, with others, and with the world. It is in allowing ourselves to be as we are, and others to be as they are, and let life keep lifing that we find peace and stop exhausting ourselves fighting against life as it is. The practice of peace is to notice when we have picked the weapons back up, and choose again and again to put them down. It is a continual, committed practice that takes active surrender to life as it is, and commitment to no longer fighting reality. A ceasefire is a conscious interruption of harm, in a system that has become used to conflict, and creates space for something new to emerge. It is not final, but often the first honest step towards lasting peace. When we regulate our nervous systems we naturally, and consciously move away from anything and anyone that does not bring peace. And each time we choose peace, we choose to put the weapons down, we are really choosing ourselves, choosing each other, choosing love and choosing life. True ceasefire is positive, encouraging, hopeful and an invitation into deeper, lasting peace, joy and love. The full episode and weekly podcast can be found on Patreon every Monday. Link below. https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPod

S05E07 About Faith

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Faith. Faith isn't just a feeling, it is a state of being fully sure. Faith is inner fortitude. “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Everything we now see was once unseen: houses, buildings, clothes, cars were all once just faith that they were possible. Faith is not 'I’ll believe it when I see it,' Faith is "I will see it when I believe it. I will see it because I believe it> Faith is not a strategy, it is a frequency, a walk of life, a choice. Faith is not subject to or dependent on external circumstances, faith remains constant. Faith is a choice that strengthens in endurance and comforts in the storms. Faith is connection. I have loved creating podcasts here on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It took a leap of faith to begin the Tiny Pod, and what started as a Tiny Pod, a mustard seed of faith, has grown into a tree. This will be my last episode here on Spotify And Apple Podcasts. This sanctuary is moving to Patreon. I am really excited about this next chapter. Patreon feels safe, secure and intentional, a community where people invest, choose and connect. I value my podcasts and am taking a leap of faith that Patreon will sustain The Tiny Pod. To those who want to, I will see you on the other side on Patreon. To everyone else, I wish you peace, love and faith on your journey. Miranda x

S05E06 About Terror

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Terror. Historically, terror is a tool used by governments for control, distraction away from their atrocities, to instil fear to paralyse any resistance. Terror only survives when we are disconnected - from ourselves, from truth and from each other. The solution is in your nervous system. When we are rooted in ourselves, we cannot be shaken by terror. See you next week, M x

S05E05 About Grief

This week on the Tiny Pod is all About Grief. Grief is found in the everyday, it begins in birth with that first loss of connection from the safety of the womb and compounds throughout childhood with every lost micro connection, trauma, neglect, and moments of rejection and humiliation just for being ourself. We learn early to carry it silently, to adapt, to cope using all the coping mechanisms we can find- denial, avoidance, fantasy, illusion, repression. We get so familiar carrying grief it becomes “normal” and “familiar” in our nervous system. But unfelt grief is heavy, exhausting and impacts us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. When we allow ourselves to feel our grief, to acknowledge our losses and witness our past hurts, we free ourselves from being run by the past. We step into presence, and power. There is so much collective grief in the world now it can feel debilitating if we are still carrying our own unprocessed personal grief. As we heal, we create space and capacity to connect, to love, to act and to experience joy fully, deeply, now. See you next week week, Miranda x