Into Our Own Hands

Introducing: Real Live Human Therapist

Introducing my new show: REAL LIVE HUMAN THERAPIST with Gretchen Winterkorn! Find it wherever you listen to podcasts! I’m Gretchen Winterkorn, Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience and real live human being with 41 years of struggle. Welcome to my anti-advice column podcast where I share my own personal struggles and how I work with them every week. My intention with this podcast is to: * Heal the myth of the split between mentally healthy and mentally ill people * Reduce shame in seeking mental health support by sharing my mental health challenges as a mental health professional * Inspire you with ways to work on/consider your own challenges * Get curious about/question this role of therapist I occupy and all the benefits and challenges associated with it * Follow the show so you will be notified when a new episode goes live.  Learn more about Gretchen via her website www.gretchenwinterkorn.com

Ep 12 OPEN PIT FIRING WILD CLAY: Desperate making with Emily Brownawell

How an urgent need to make can lead to simple, accessible tools and methods.  Open pit fire the wild clay you harvested and processed with us earlier in the Season - if you don't have land, use a trashcan!  Can your earthenware make the transition to becoming ceramic?  Emily shares her artistic process and methods as a ceramic artist.    This is Part 3 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay (Ep 2), processing wild clay (Ep 11) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3).   About Emily:  Emily Brownawell is a New York based ceramic artist. She earned her MFA in Ceramics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grants and fellowships include the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Technical Assistant, Andrah Scholarship, Research and Creative Projects Award, Bolton Scholarship, and the Virginia Fuller Prize.  She has exhibited at the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.   Raised by oceanographers across the street from an intertidal region of Long Island Sound, the marine ecosystem played a powerful role throughout her childhood and continues to inform her practice through visual inspiration and systems of organization. Her work focuses on the physicality of the landscape. In her practice, the ceramic process represents a transformation of natural materials into objects of culture and records of time. Through ceramic sculpture and installation, she explores various relationships between natural and synthetic processes.  www.emilybrownawell.com [http://www.emilybrownawell.com] instagram.com/emilybrownawell/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

Ep 11 PROCESSING WILD CLAY: How we relate to clay with Andrew Sartorius

What clay are you from?  Process the wild clay you harvested alongside us in Episode 2 with Andrew Sartorius at the Oki Doki studio.  Turn a bucket of land chunks into a beautiful, silky, moldable clay.  Exploring different relationships to clay bodies.  Andrew shares what it takes to live and work as a full-time artist and the legacy of making passed down from his parents.    This is Part 2 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3). About Andrew: Andrew Sartorius is the program manager at the Oki Doki studio and a full time wood fire potter living in Germantown NY with his fiancé and fellow ceramic artist Tanya Lee Hamm, and his pup named June. https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/ [https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/] https://www.theokidokistudio.com/ [https://www.theokidokistudio.com/] Connect with Andrew on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/asartoriusceramics/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

Ep 10 INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY FARMING & TINY HOUSE LIVING: Sharing life with Beth Romaker and Spencer Crawford

Meet the strangers-turned-landmates we are experimenting with in intentional community farming.  Beth and Spencer towed a tiny house onto our farmland in September of this year in exchange for labor on our farm.  How to trust and flow with a life shift that like that, keeping a "what if" mind during the whole process.  Imagine transitioning your life into a tiny house and moving it around nomadically.  Beth and Spencer share their love and wisdom of biodiversity, the merits of native plants, how to think about invasive species (including humans) and ways you can show up to an intentional relationship with the natural world.   About Beth & Spencer: Beth Romaker is a woods walker, food grower, tree planter, and homemaker. She has worked in the field of forestry with the nature conservancy, the national parks service, and the forest ecosystem monitoring cooperative doing inventory and monitoring work on long term ecological forest plots as well as forest restoration. She has also worked on various organic farms and most recently, a native tree and wildflower nursery.  Spencer Crawford is a naturalist, forager, and avian field technician with a special focus on grassland breeding birds. Most recently, he worked for the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program studying Saltmarsh Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow demographics for two years. This upcoming spring he will be working on a demography study of the Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler.  Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

Ep 9 FORAGING FOR FREEDOM: Co-creating with plants and master herbalist Dina Falconi

Make friends with wild plants so you feel at home and a little more powerful everywhere you go.   Foraging as a path to slowing down, being present, and getting into a long term relationship with nature.  Let nature teach you how to be messy and beautiful at the same time.  Dina invites you into her rich, textured and alive relationship with life through herbs and wild foods.  About Dina: Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at www.InTheWild.Kitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.  Please check out her website: www.botanicalartspress.com [http://www.botanicalartspress.com]  And there is her full stocked YouTube channel for your educational viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaikA4Vq0S00kNOhm3uPyg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaikA4Vq0S00kNOhm3uPyg?sub_confirmation=1]  IG: https://www.instagram.com/foragingandfeasting/ [https://www.instagram.com/foragingandfeasting/] Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com