Liberation Hertz: Recent Episodes
Felicia Woodard
Liberation Hertz offers space for anyone exploring, deconstructing their faith, or removing programming that no longer serves them. I am no guru. I am however willing to learn in public and share my experiences in an attempt to live a life of ease, fun, and authenticity. I wish the same for you. This is a liberation frequency.
In this episode I share small intentional practice I do at home to clear the atmosphere and have a loving and protective energy.
These small but intentional practices make a huge impact and are an amalgamation of my Texas life, Southern Louisiana heritage, and Candomble spiritual beliefs.
Enjoy!
Yay!!!!! We made it to 25 in 2021!!!!!
This episode is all about dissecting the popular Lesbian Masterdoc.
Regardless of where you fall on the sexuality spectrum, this document allows for women identifying people to reflect on how compulsive heterosexuality plays a part in our lives, decisions, and where we may not even realize it exists.
Thank you for your listens!!!!!
This episode discusses the balance of reception and refusal.
Society has taught us that reception or the act of receiving is a significant attribute of femininity. However, what if there is a balancing act that can take place?
I share my ponderings on refusal, boundary setting, and feminine energy through different perspectives for this episode.
Enjoy!
In this episode I discuss healing and radical self-awareness, and compassion.
The Man Enough Podcast with Alok V. Menon- "The Urgent Need for Compassion"
In his episode I discuss the task of "coming out" to friends and family and approach it as the privilege of being invited in.
People do not have to come out, as it defers to this idea that heteronormativity and heterosexuality is the default in sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and relationships. However, if people choose to come out, let's be soft places for them to land.
Resources:
- Lesbian MasterDoc
- The Man Enough Podcast with Alok Vaid-Menon
- Dr. Angela Davis at Black Queer Town Hall
- Dr. Angela Davis and Women's Liberation
- Dr. Kim Tallbear
- Dr. Kim Tallbear on Moving Beyond Settler Sexualities
For the second part of this episode, I talk about the fallacy of the black welfare queen trope and I share more on labor being exploited to make the United States function.
I also share information on models from other countries and past civilizations that practiced/practice social welfare systems that catch and take care of their citizens as an example to pull from to create change.
Episode Resources:
Article on who really receives government assistance and welfare in the US
Welfare assistance statistics
More on demographics receiving welfare assistance and the history of inequity in the US
In this episode, a synopsis of the Elizabethan Laws is given and how it became the groundwork to current social welfare legislation and common perceptions of those in poverty.
I discuss how we view "the poor", how we tie personal worth to a person's labor output, the value America puts on labor, and the affect it has on contemporary society.
Articles referenced in this episode:
Auctioning off Families
Poor Relief in Early America
HHS Poverty Guidelines
1601 Elizabethan Poor Law
Part 2: Includes older civilization structures of community, current cultures that practice other forms of social welfare, the Welfare Queen stereotype, and criminilzation of the poor.
Deconstruct. Deprogram. Decolonize.
That's the name of the game.
On this story time episode, I share the lessons I've learned, from going to school in an evangelical southern city and going on a mission trip that changed my viewpoints forever.
This episode is a little bit of it all. It is a true stream of consciousness and I share more on Dr. Bruce Lipton's work of the subconscious and the conscious mind.
I share Dr. Lipton's information on us operating 95% in our subconscious and working to deprogram subconscious beliefs. It puts a whole new spin on operating with intention for me.
Resources for Dr. Bruce Lipton:Your Subconscious Brain Can Change Your LifeReprogramming Your Mindhttps://www.brucelipton.com/
This is a bonus episode expanding on Episode 16 Decolonizing the Body.
I have danced for over a decade professionally and along with dance, I have also done gymnastics, cheer, and ran track. I wanted to share a few things I have learned from being a choreographer and dance teacher and highlight the important role we have as dance teachers and movement facilitators of any kind.
Taking our bodies back from the exploitative nature of capitalism is important to me. Being advocates for ourselves is what I discuss in this episode. I share personal events in my life that caused me to shift drastically into a space where I advocate more for my mental and physical health professionally. I share what caused me to really begin deprogramming, unlearning, and moving towards freedom of mind and and body.
TRIGGER WARNING: At the 5:40 mark I begin speaking about miscarriage and child loss. If you would like to skip, you may begin listening again at 8:40.
- Tema Okum article on White Supremacy and how it shows up in the work place here
- Movie Reference: "Sorry to Bother You" -Directed by Boots Riley, on Hulu through HBO Max, Starz, or Showtime
- Book reference: Animal Farm- George Orwell
- Bruce Lipton, Ph.D - website here
- Bruce Lipton Reprogramming the Mind Youtube link here
- Bruce Lipton "The Honey Moon Effect" and "The Biology of Belief"
The 5 Love Languages is very popular book that has been used in couples counseling and therapy sessions, seminars, workshops, and more. The concepts from the book have been popularized and in this episode, I discuss the current re-examination of the 5 languages.
I share my own personal love languages and expound on additional forms that we may or may not be aware of.
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We oftentimes hear of the word trigger, and understandably so as more and more people work on healing themselves, repairing relationships with others and themselves, and reclaiming their lives.
I love it!
This episode focuses on the specific hormones, how they function, and what may seem like the opposite of triggers. I want to focus on things that happen that boost us and take us to a place of glee! Giddiness, excitement, joy, and childlike happiness! Foods, smells, people, and things that give us good memories or simply happy feelings.
Take a deep dive!
Episode resources:
- Netflix Docuseries - "The Story of God" with Morgan Freeman
- Netflix docuseries - "Surviving Death" - Features what people have seen and experienced after they have been considered medically dead.
- This university department researches those that have near death experiences. Featured in the "Surviving Death" Netflix docuseries.
- Very basic information on Candomble here .
- Baha'i Faith general website here.
- Dolores Cannon - YouTube here. Metaphysical and Spiritual musings.
This is episode #1 in my "Story Time with Fe" Series!
I share my personal spiritual background from youth to now in hopes that a "nugget" or gem can be found in my personal journal.
Episode resources:
- Netflix Docuseries - "The Story of God" with Morgan Freeman
- Netflix docuseries - "Surviving Death" - Features what people have seen and experienced after they have been considered medically dead.
- This university department researches those that have near death experiences. Featured in the "Surviving Death" Netflix docuseries.
- Very basic information on Candomble here .
- Baha'i Faith general website here.
This Liberation Hertz episode challenges the "end time", destruction based biblically informed idea of mass harm and disaster being placed on people for the betterment of human kind.
Trigger Warning:
Examples from a variety of different natural disasters are given in this episode and 1 nationally known mass shooting.
Today's topic is on the ***Universal Spiritual Laws.
These laws govern us in the universe as we navigate the earthly realm. While "The Law of Attraction" is most likely the most familiar to people, I dive into others that may be lesser known.***
There are 4 categories so I pull from laws that I find significant in my life. I discuss "The Law of Frequency & Vibration", "The Law of Projection", "The Law of Intention", & more!
If you would like to read and learn more about the USL click here.
If you missed my Shoutout Houston Tx interview last week pertaining to my art, dance, life, and evolution, click here.
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This episode serves as an invitation to deeper pleasure as I scrape the surface of deconstructing guilt and erasure in sex.
- I invite the idea that nomenclature and the naming of certain anatomical parts creates erasure of knowledge, focus during the sexual act, and pleasure.
- I discuss sexual safe spaces for questions and learning.
- I concentrate on opening up to new sensations in our body and basic approaches in releasing the guilt, shame, and taboo around sex, sex questions, and tapping into our desires.
Lastly, I leave listeners with 4 affirmations to use for moving towards understanding exploring our pleasure(s).
Resource:
Dr. Laurie Mintz
This episode deals with the beginning phases of de-conditioning the guilt and shame around pleasure.
Where does the shame come from?
How to rid shame in the subconscious?
How to go towards pleasure in our liberation journeys?
We discuss this and more as well as a journal prompt to start the process in this episode.
This episode holds affirmations to use in anyway you see fit.
There are many methods and steps throughout the journey to healing the Inner Child. Using affirmations is just one.
The act of meditating using affirmations and speaking certain phrases repetitively has been beneficial in my personal rewiring process.
As I share, my hope is encouragement for any and all that may find a gem in this episode.
This episode deals with Reparenting the Inner Child. While there are many methods and steps in this journey, I begin by gently asking the question, "What are your triggers...?" and asking us to think back to what the Inner Children in us need.
Thinking back to the stimulants that bring about certain reactions and behaviors in us is just one of many things that can help us pinpoint certain emotions and thought processes that could be stored in our nervous system, belief patterns, and bodies.
All children (and honestly humans of any age) deserve affirmation, nurturing facilitation, security, stability, warmth, and love. When one or more of these things are missing it leaves a gap in that area that allows us to fill it with what we felt we needed at that time in childhood to survive.
Reparenting takes patience and gentleness with ourselves as we go back and give our Inner Child what they need.
This process includes rewriting old and damaging stories, reprogramming old thought patterns, and deconstructing old beliefs about ourselves, life, and others that may be wired into our subconscious affecting our behaviors, habits, thoughts, and choices today.
This podcast episode is a basic yet gentle beginning to a process that can bring about difficult emotions for some. So as you listen, if you decide to journal and begin this work, or you have already been on this journey and you are continuing, please be kind with yourself on your healing and liberation journeys.
In this episode we get into deconstructing toxic faith culture through a Christian lens.
Some topics include:
- Questioning God & Scripture
- Parenting
- Obedience Culture
- Purity Culture
- World Religions
and more.
Episode resources:
- Decolonizing Traditional Christianity
Jo Luehmann Instagram
https://instagram.com/joluehmann?igshid=h6i8kj183cjo
https://www.ourbibleapp.com/new-blog/jo-luehmann
- Freed Hearts- Nonprofit on a mission to changing the human conversation on love and inclusion and providing safe spaces. They have a network that reaches out to parents, LQBTQ, educators, therapists, and the church.
https://www.freedhearts.org/
- Dr. Stacey Patton - Nationally recognized child advocate and award winning author and journalist of Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America.
sparethekids.com
https://www.amazon.com/Spare-Kids-Whupping-Children-America/dp/0807061042
- Cindy Wang Brandt- Writer, Speaker, and Podcast host of Parenting Forward. Breaking cycles of authoritarian, fear-based parenting.
https://cindywangbrandt.com/parenting-forward/ -
exposechristianschools
Within this hashtag you may find,
- personal accounts
-dialogue on conversion therapy
-articles on Christian universities and courses
-Christian authoritarianism, politics, and more
Journal Prompts:
1. Does your faith allow room for you to evolve?
2. Does your faith allow space for you to truly be free?
3.Does your faith allow space for your children to be free?
4. Does your faith allow space for your children to be affirmed?
5. Are you going into a worship space where your children or anyone you love cannot be affirmed?
What is White Supremacy exactly? And how can we stop perpetuating oppressive practices in our work spaces, homes, and more.
https://www.dismantlingracism.org/
Article by Tema Okun
https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf
In this episode, Felicia covers
- Worship of the Written Word
- Quantity over quality
- Sense of Urgency
- Objectivity
- Power Hoarding
In this episode I share a few resources and tips that assisted in healing my body and mind from workplace stress. I also share affirmations, a mini-guided imagery practice, and journal prompts. Take whatever you need.
Show notes & resources:
https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/
Journal Prompts:1. What signals does your body give you when to are tapped out and tired?
2. What behaviors & habits do you display when you are tired, frustrated, and you have had enough? Where are you? Who are you around? What time is it? Is there a pattern you can catch?
3. What thoughts keep coming back when you feel tired? What thought patterns, memories, & stories come to light when you do not feel restored?
BIPOC deserve rest & restoration. The fast-paced, competitive, production driven, hamster wheel of a matrix can be all consuming, and if we are not intentional, can consume our bodies and more. What is best for our spiritual, mental, emotional, & physical health? Here are the first set of practices you can use to shift.
This podcast is a liberating frequency for shifting paradigms, health, healing, love, fullness, and being whole.