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How to Vote for Your Best Self

4/26/2020

What if relationships could be easier? What if you knew why your teen, your toddler or your partner was “giving you that face?” And what if you knew how to respond in a way that didn’t suck? What if you could build rather than damage your relationships?

Well, this week, we got to talk with a relationship and parenting wizard who has developed a simple system to help us understand ourselves and each other. She explains how, from that foundation of empathy, we can use her basic tools to navigate conflict or misunderstanding to build the connection we all crave. Plus, she helped me figure out how to get the trash to the curb on time.

Our guest, Stasia Rivera, is a family systems, trauma, and addictions therapist/coach with 25 years experience helping people reach their peaks. Her practice is a unique combination of applied neuroscience, systems thinking, and common sense. She and her team recently recognized that families and young people are experiencing new challenges during this pandemic. They pivoted their whole business model to respond to these needs and are launching a range of accessible and affordable classes and resources. Check them out at IUGOConnect.org

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Psych Theory Trading Cards

James Clear - Habit Theory
Alfie Kohn - Punished by Rewards
Peter Levine - Trauma and Healing
Attachment Theory
Polyvagal Theory

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How to Bear the Weight of the World: Global Respect & Love with Olivia Lee

4/19/2020

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What’s it like to work in the Arctic while riding out the pandemic in Arizona? What’s it like to meet this challenge with a giant heart, a brilliant brain, and a 4-year-old?
International researcher, advocate for women in science, mom, and authentic human, Olivia Lee joins us on this week’s podcast to talk through the challenges of conducting climate research during a pandemic, being separated from family overseas, and coping with the weight of feeling like it’s never enough. I’m not a brilliant scientist, but I’m guessing those are things we can all relate to. Listen on to hear how Olivia’s deep empathy and respect drive her work and keep her going in difficult times.

SHOW NOTES
Books, Podcasts & Poems

Brene Brown Interviews Dr. Mark Brackett
Permission to Feel by Dr. Brackett
[Oh Sweet Spontaneous] poem by e. e. cummings

Organizations

Increasing our capacity for the “unpleasant” feelings is one of the main goals we have here at RocketFeather. If we can be with those difficult feelings and over time, stop judging ourselves for having them, we are well on our way to being responsive humans rather than reactive ones. That means we can be there for each other instead of just worrying about ourselves.

So thank you all for hanging in here with us as we grow in empathy and resilience and love. Olivia Lee is such a great model for this kind of strength and we feel so privileged to talk with her and count her as a friend.
We hope this healing conversation will continue in the RocketFeather Community Lab, so reach out with your questions and answers and let’s help each other through this time - let’s do that and more. Let’s help each other redefine who we get to be on the other end of it. What are you leaving behind and what are you bringing with you? We want to know.

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How to Cut Yourself Some Slack During the F-ing Pandemic

4/12/2020

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The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Brene Brown Interviewing Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

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Are you already carrying enough metaphorical baggage and second-hand trauma as you sit in your house? Do you find yourself adding to the load with self-recriminations, overly ambitious to-do lists, or a litany of “shoulds?”

Hang out with us today as we chat with someone who knows what it’s like to have high standards… and who is recognizing that maybe she’s using those standards to beat herself up. And maybe it’s time to stop.

Our guest this week is Ida Woll, the owner of our favorite local frame shop and gallery, The Frame & I. She grew up here in Prescott and calls herself a near-native. She bought The Frame & I in 1998 after working there for 3 years and has used her role as a member of the downtown business community to support the arts and non-profits with true commitment. She raises framing to an art form because she, herself, is a life-long artist, and she is passionate about turning people’s sacred objects into real treasures.

Ida is a great guest for all of those reasons and because she has a powerful capacity for self-reflection, vulnerability and humor. We laughed more on this pod than almost any of the others. And we cried, together, a bit too. We hope and trust that this emotional expression is what you’re here for.

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Of Parents and Pandemics: How to Thrive in a Multigenerational Household

4/5/2020

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Are you an adult person living with your parents? Are you looking at having to move in with your adult kids? Humans lived several generations all together for the vast majority of our history. But that is no longer the norm. Now, there is a sense of failure and frustration, a feeling of lack of freedom and autonomy that comes with parents and their adult children living together, but does it have to be that way? We think not.

In this episode, we tackle the question of how to live more peacefully with family. Whether you are riding out the pandemic under the same roof, or are separated by many miles, getting along with family can be challenging. The relationships we, as children, had with our parents hang around like ghosts, haunting our present interactions, but Charles and Kelly have a framework for thinking about these relationships differently and suggestions for developing a practice that increases capacity for being together in a new way. Join us as we address a listener question and take a deep dive into the kind of personal work that can bring joy back into stressful relationships in stressful times.

SHOW NOTES

Dead Again [1991] starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Robin Williams
William Glasser’s Choice Theory: 5 Basic Needs
Performance Rock Climbing [1993] by Dale Goddard, Udo Neumann
The National Domestic Violence Hotline/Text Channel

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How to Vote for Your Best Self

How to Bear the Weight of the World: Global Respect & Love with Olivia Lee

How to Cut Yourself Some Slack During the F-ing Pandemic

Of Parents and Pandemics: How to Thrive in a Multigenerational Household

Charles & Kelly

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