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Into Our Own HandsIntroducing: Real Live Human TherapistIntroducing my new show: REAL LIVE HUMAN THERAPIST with Gretchen Winterkorn! Find it wherever you listen to podcasts! I’m Gretchen Winterkorn, Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience and real live human being with 41 years of struggle. Welcome to my anti-advice column podcast where I share my own personal struggles and how I work with them every week. My intention with this podcast is to: Heal the myth of the split between mentally healthy and mentally ill people Reduce shame in seeking mental health support by sharing my mental health challenges as a...2023-04-0702 minInto Our Own HandsOPEN PIT FIRING WILD CLAY: Desperate making with Emily BrownawellHow an urgent need to make can lead to simple, accessible tools and methods. Open pit fire the wild clay you harvested and processed with us earlier in the Season - if you don't have land, use a trashcan! Can your earthenware make the transition to becoming ceramic? Emily shares her artistic process and methods as a ceramic artist. This is Part 3 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay (Ep 2), processing wild clay (Ep 11) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3). About...2023-01-2058 min
Empath's AlchemyFollowing The ScentUntangling what we're wired to do, from what we'd love to do. Gretchen Winterkorn- Psychotherapist - Artist + Flower-Farmer Website: https://gretchenwinterkorn.com/ Newsletter: birdess.com Podcast: Into Our Own Hands https://open.spotify.com/show/0BAHATDroKxBICP8vJafMm Journeys Hypnosis with Susanne Dubrouillet Morais Website: https://www.journeyshypnosis.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/journeyshypnosis Susan Arrendell - Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Website: http://susanarrendell.com/ 2023-01-2048 minInto Our Own HandsPROCESSING WILD CLAY: How we relate to clay with Andrew SartoriusWhat clay are you from? Process the wild clay you harvested alongside us in Episode 2 with Andrew Sartorius at the Oki Doki studio. Turn a bucket of land chunks into a beautiful, silky, moldable clay. Exploring different relationships to clay bodies. Andrew shares what it takes to live and work as a full-time artist and the legacy of making passed down from his parents. This is Part 2 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3...2022-12-161h 21Into Our Own HandsINTENTIONAL COMMUNITY FARMING & TINY HOUSE LIVING: Sharing life with Beth Romaker and Spencer CrawfordMeet the strangers-turned-landmates we are experimenting with in intentional community farming. Beth and Spencer towed a tiny house onto our farmland in September of this year in exchange for labor on our farm. How to trust and flow with a life shift that like that, keeping a "what if" mind during the whole process. Imagine transitioning your life into a tiny house and moving it around nomadically. Beth and Spencer share their love and wisdom of biodiversity, the merits of native plants, how to think about invasive species (including humans) and ways you can show up to an intentional rela...2022-11-2553 minInto Our Own HandsEp 9 FORAGING FOR FREEDOM: Co-creating with plants and master herbalist Dina FalconiMake friends with wild plants so you feel at home and a little more powerful everywhere you go. Foraging as a path to slowing down, being present, and getting into a long term relationship with nature. Let nature teach you how to be messy and beautiful at the same time. Dina invites you into her rich, textured and alive relationship with life through herbs and wild foods. About Dina: Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching class...2022-10-141h 05Into Our Own HandsMAKING A HOME: Historic Preservation with Kate WoodHow to deeply have a relationship with your home, your time and your place in history. How honoring those who came before us helps us have gratitude for our contemporary lives. Confronting the uncomfortable as well as the beauty in history. The healing power of getting invested and interested in what we are doing creatively, whether we use our hands or not. About Kate: Kate Wood grew up criss-crossing the country with her educator parents and two brothers in her family’s Volkswagen Bus, visiting house museums, battlefields, Main Streets, and wildlife sanctuaries. Today she is an...2022-09-091h 01Into Our Own HandsEp 7 PERMISSION TO BE ALIVE: Acupuncture and The Needle with Margret HalliseyWork with your hands to move energy - no needles required. Artists as Healers - healing with needles and through creative relationships. Listen to Gretchen get needled for her Mother Hunger by Margaret and relax deeply into the interview. About Margaret: Margaret Hallisey has been a licensed practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine since April 2004. Her initial practice began in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her second office in Columbia County, close to Hudson, NY, was opened in October, 2012. She is board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She earned her...2022-08-191h 00Into Our Own HandsEp 6 GARDENING AS RITUAL: Transmute pain and call in your desiresListen to Gretchen’s solo episode recorded naked in the recent heat wave. Learn to live more in the symbolic. Accept that pain is between you and what you want and that big change happens over time. Let Mother Earth hold your burdens and plants and flowers help you direct what you want your way. About Gretchen: Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist, Flower farmer, and fellow human being working through the muck of life with her family and on her farm BIRDESS in the Hudson Valley of NY. She share her experience with this in her Podcas...2022-07-2929 minInto Our Own HandsEp 5 TWIST ENERGY: Spinning & Weaving with Margot BeckerSpin wool roving into yarn with a diy drop spindle. Spinning offers access to easy repairs. Weaving grounds you to the present moment, where you can only look so far forward and accepting mistakes is necessary. The hunger we go to our phones with and how making may provide more satiation. Your consumption is your first clue to your unique making pathways. About Margot: Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Her work explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Through tactile proces...2022-07-081h 12
Into Our Own HandsEp 4 FINDING YOUR RHYTHM: Making with Meaghan WitriGround yourself in daily rhythms which we can create through making and simple easy rituals with our time. Connect to the rhythm of the natural cycles of sun/moon, breath and animal activity wherever you are. Finger-knit with yarn – easy, accessible, and calming. How to balance out how technology impacts our lives. About Meaghan: Meaghan has worked with parents and families in a variety of capacities for over fifteen years, including as an early childhood and parent-child educator and consultant. Her work and approach is steeped in a holistic under...2022-06-171h 04
Into Our Own HandsMAKING & MENTAL HEALTH: Making our way towards wellbeing in the collective with Melanie FalickHow can making help you tap into your own need to be in charge of your survival? Why does making increase our empathy for others and how is it essential for our collective wellbeing? What do you need to be able to ditch your life so you can follow your creative dreams? In this episode, learn how to make the paper box that was a lightbulb moment for Melanie on her creative path. About Melanie: Melanie Falick is an independent writer, editor, and creative director—and a lifelong maker. She is th...2022-05-271h 00
Into Our Own HandsHARVESTING WILD CLAY: How to ground yourself to the earth with Andrew SartoriusLearn about how to harvest wild clay wherever you are – in the country, city or suburbs. Understand how wild clay ties us to the past of the place we harvest from – both of the earth, the industry and the humans who lived there. How Wild Clay can help us have more grace for our own “organic material” and how to work with ourselves. This is Part 1 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay (Season finale and Part 3). About Andrew: Andr...2022-05-2747 min
Into Our Own HandsMAKING WITH YOUR HANDS: A path to feeling more responsible for your own lifeFrom a kid's blanket fort in an old barn, Psychotherapist and Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn invites you to join her in finding the "Maker" in you that can take your life into your own hands. Think you aren't a Maker – someone who creates with their hands? Gretchen will challenge that belief. For thousands of years, humans have created their whole lives - their homes, food, clothes, and children - by their own hands. Tapping into this powerful lineage of using our hands has helped her improve her own life and inspired her to start this podcast. ...2022-05-2729 min
Into Our Own HandsIntroducing Into Our Own HandsWelcome to the Into Our Own Hands Podcast. Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist and Flower Farmer residing in the Hudson Valley of New York. Gretchen believes using our hands creatively is essential to our mental health. Our hands - our personal tools for survival for millennia - are no longer something we engage in in adult life. Reconnecting to our hands, handwork and the process of making can help us reconnect to feeling responsible for our own lives. Join Gretchen as she shares more about her journey to making more by hand and taking more r...2022-05-1302 min
The Neurodivergent ProfessorKEW The Are vs Should Interview Series: Gretchen WinterkornIf you are interested in therapy and coaching. Either for yourself, someone you love, or just because you think it's cool. Gretchen Winterkorn is a wonderful person for you to meet, and you can check out her short video below.I am very lucky to see some cool people doing these KEW interviews, and I really enjoyed listening TO and talking WITH Gretchen. Relevant to the Are vs Should Problem, Gretchen and her family just simplified their lives in a huge way, moving from NYC to a flower farm in upstate NY. Pretty major life s...2022-01-061h 02