Metabolizing Shame: The World is Burning and We are Creating

Nic, Kelsey, and Amalia take advantage of the trust established amongst them to observe and digest their experiences of Shame when it comes to prioritizing their joy, creativity, peace, and satisfaction, even as the World Burns.

This is a raw and powerful conversation offering listeners an opportunity to challenge the black and white narratives that keep them in a disempowered freeze state and to calibrate to new conceptualizations that carry potential for real transformation.

They discuss:

• Shame, Fear & Safety: how shame arises, how fear underlies it, and what conditions and capacities allow it to be metabolized rather than suppressed.
• Reflections on proximity to harm and the shame of being privileged while others suffer
• Creative Integrity in Crisis: staying connected to joy, art, and personal well being “while the world is burning.”
• The contrast between genuine embodied care and the social-media / shame based pressure to perform grief, outrage, or political awareness.
• Attunement vs. Shoulds: distinguishing inner guidance from the mental “should” voices that dictate what one ought to feel or do in the face of violence and oppression
• Self-attuned Creative Living as a political and spiritual act.
• The fear of being exiled and the role of self rejection in the current State of things

🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:

• Nic is a 4/6 Sacral Generator with Probability View
• Kelsey is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor with Power View
• Amalia is a 4/6 Emotional Generator with Personal View

You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.

💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day.

Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo