Feed the Feminine Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Hungry Feminine
A podcast dedicated to reviving archetypal feminine qualities in a masculine-dominated culture. Hosted by a psychotherapist and writer on a mission to share stories and insights that can nourish the feminine while also repairing what's been damaged in its longstanding cultural repression. Each episode addresses new ways to observe the archetypes present in how we eat, express, and relate and what we can do to find meaning and reach balance.
Filmmaker Bobby Bruton joins me for an in-depth exploration of the symbolic and archetypal themes in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.* Find more episodes at thehungryfeminine.com * Bobby Bruton's film library: https://www.youtube.com/@brutbros
If you're looking for somewhere to start or refresh on the archetyal masculine and feminine, this is your episode.
A musing on how easily we may give our authority over to people and institutions that meet certain masculine metrics. And why we should look within to ourselves for that authority instead.
On this episode, dedicated to my mentor and friend Bruce Avery, I share how my personal experiences of grief and the wisdom of poets and psychologists alike have led me to understand the meaning of mourning.
References:
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis - Nancy McWilliams
The Dark Interval - Rainer Maria Rilke
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown - Grief and Finding Meaning
All There is with Anderson Cooper - Grateful for Grief with Stephen Colbert
Refuse in Grief, Megan Divine
Codependency influences us to be responsible for making other people feel better. Success in that area is what can determine a sense of personal value, but this creates suffering. A more objective truth is that we can support each other but the work to quell our upset and evolve is ours alone. And boundaries – a trait of the masculine light – is where that healthy separation begins.
Discussing behavior traits of the feminine shadow and their impact on relationships. When we’re stuck in the feminine shadow, our self-image is usually not great. Because it’s a darker manifestation of feminine light which is about relationship and community, when that healthy manifestation turns dark, it’s still about relationship and community but about us being on the outside of it, feeling disconnected from it, not allowed into it.
Let's talk about empathy: highly sensitive empathic attunement, those who have no empathy at all, empathy's impact on co-dependency, empathy through the feminine/masculine framework, and how it can feel impossible to manage empathy in times of global suffering.
Credits:
Live Lift Love Podcast, Episode 7: https://www.galtsconditioning.com/podcast/live-lift-love-podcast
A masculine-dominated culture is asked to stop hustling and stay home instead? As the world asks for feminine traits to take the lead in uncertain, community-focused times, those obedient to the masculine face fear and anxiety about a new way of being.
Let's talk about it.
This episode I'm paying tribute to legendary sports broadcaster and WRHU mentor Ed Ingles who passed away this week. I discuss how his mentorship helped me overcome my own self-imposed silence and get me on the path to self-discovery, self-expression, and self-healing, as well as the patient, nurturing ways this broadcasting legend empowered college students to follow their dreams.
Credits:
Live Lift Love Podcast, Episode 7: https://www.galtsconditioning.com/podcast/live-lift-love-podcast
88.7FM WRHU's Ed Ingles Interview with Chris Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFYmDyy3wuA
Why it can be helpful to understand food through the lens of addiction, how relational wounding and sexual repression may influence our food relationships, and why consciousness and shadow integration may help satisfy our hunger.
On this episode I share an essay I wrote about the spiraling maze out of depression and into self-compassion.
Originally published 10/14/2019
Different therapists take different approaches to therapy. I explore how some approaches are inherently rooted in masculine qualities while others in feminine. Why does this matter? Is there a right time for these certain interventions? How can these different approaches be used in service to balance?
Originally published 9/30/2019
People experiencing oppression are not generating illness from within, they're being poisoned from the outside and then punished for how they respond to that poison. If we, as therapists, don't let that part of the conversation into the room, we're going to pathologize the wrong part of the equation, we're going to make our client the "Identified Patient," and we're going to perpetuate their oppression.
Originally published 9/14/2019
How can understanding our individual reactions to the collective's repressed feminine help us understand our own hopelessness?
Originally published 8/26/2019
With the masculine justifyingly dominant in military environments, how can civilians utilize feminine qualities to support veterans who are struggling after service at an alarming rate?
Originally published 8/19/2019
What is moral injury and why are oppressive systems working so hard to convince us we're just "burned out" instead?
Originally published 8/11/2019
Viewing food as a metaphor, we may see dis-ordered eating patterns as an attempt to revive the repressed feminine. Plus how to ensure your implicit weight bias isn't harming someone you care for.
Originally published 8/4/2019
Drawing from wiser minds, including Marion Woodman's concept of the "illusory totality" of binge eating, I explore what unconscious functions are served when we use food to deprive or deluge ourselves.
Originally published 7/21/2019
On this debut episode I share my own personal experiences with disordered eating and discuss the overall mission and philosophy of The Hungry Feminine.
Originally published 7/7/2019