In this latest episode of "Returning Home: The Podcast," Elise returns to discuss the juxtaposition between having a powerful human brain and a very fragile human body. She discusses the difficulties she and her clients face in having to be both an animal and a computer all at once. In this episode, Elise tells some anecdotes about her life, and also poses big questions that feel almost too big to answer. You are invited to participate in this conversation by leaving a comment, or find Elise on social media and pose some questions of your own!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to this episode:
- Hear about common struggles in the therapy room.
- Feel a sense of connectedness to the conundrum of being a human with big dreams while also having to live with the restraints of a body.
- Broaden your thinking around common humanity.
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Episode Highlights
[02:45] A topic that comes up in the therapy room.
- Balancing having a really powerful human mind inside of a fragile animal body.
- Elise finds that she and a lot of her clients are deep thinkers who have answers to big problems but other people don't get it.
[04:02] Common Humanity and Self Compassion
- Being a deep thinker and feeler can be overwhelming and lonesome
- Sometimes it feels like we're the black sheep sticking out from everyone in our lives
- Thread of common humanity is helpful when we think on a bigger global scale and the interconnectedness with others across the world.
[06:30] Finding Community Where You Are
- Finding people who are likeminded so you don't feel so alone in your approach
[07:03] Writing a novel!
- This concept of "blood and guts and starstuff" came to me in a creative writing class
- I took a class that uses prompts called "Life in 10 Minutes" to help jumpstart the writing process
- We had to read what we wrote out loud to the class!
- Writing helps me to metabolize what is in the ethereal realm into the 3D on the page.
[09:09] Bringing Art into The World
- Having a human brain makes art possible
- All invention is only possible with the power of the human brain
- Getting feedback on our work can be really scary!
- We need feedback to improve our ideas
[10:36] The conundrum of Blood + Guts + Star Stuff
- Humans are an oxy moron of needing to deal with the mundane and the magical
- Looking around and seeing the concepts and stories the human mind can take us
- Reconcile feelings and thoughts
- In the therapy room, clients recognize that logically they understand one thing about a situation and feel something completely different about it
- We can't think our way out of trauma which is maddening
[12:42] The body isn't wrong, but the mind isn't always wrong either
- The mind can sometime work against our body to make meaning
- When our body feels a certain way, our mind can write an untrue story about it
- People are many parts- we don't have to judge it, it just is
[15:30] Human Capacity to Make Things We Need
- Evolution of ideas across the years
- I tell a story about how I was thinking about this in high school while walking on the board walk
- Were humans always capable of making the things we have?
- Technology evolves so fast in the modern day
- It feels like a huge question to answer
[17:59] A world full of people who have healed their trauma
- I think unhealed trauma is why we have war, power struggles and suffering
- I talked about the novel I want to write
- What if we lived in a world where everyone could live out their true potential?
[20:56] Closing Thoughts
- If you have something to add, find me on social media and start the conversation with me there.
- I have interviews lined up with Richmond practitioners, so stay tuned
- If there is anything you want to hear about from me on the podcast? Let me know!
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