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Story Therapy PodcastGratitudeListeners, this is the final episode of Season 1 of the Story Therapy Podcast. I expect to be back in the late Summer or early Fall of 2022! Please follow @StoryTherapyPodcast on Instagram for updates between now and then.This episode is about looking back and feeling so, so grateful for this experience. Thank you, as always, for being here.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-11-3008 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, The Spider & the FlyThis piece was inspired by a conversation about how my mind works. This metaphor popped out fully formed and I couldn’t help but explore it and further develop it into this piece. I like this piece because it shows the dual nature of my personality and way of thinking… Chaos and order, raw intense experience and vision, I am all of it and they feed each other.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-11-2307 min
Story Therapy PodcastLilly, On IntegrityIn this episode I talk about the journey I’ve been on to understand and embody integrity over the last 10 years. I talk about how there are many layers to it which I’m still coming to understand and discover. There’s honesty, compassion, boundaries, commitment to your word, showing up, knowing yourself, and learning to embrace yourself moment to moment. I’m still trying to live up to integrity and be compassionate with myself through it at the same time.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-11-1636 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Conversation w/Melia, Polyamory & CreativityIn this episode Melia and I talk about her journey into polyamory and how that has opened up her world and deepened her understanding of creativity. We talk about why creativity is important, how it serves not only your love life, not only your relationships, but also your self-understanding and general living.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-11-091h 02
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Haunted HouseI wrote this cute little Halloween poem about how our own minds can become haunted houses full of ghosts and demons and how we can learn to unhaunt our houses. This piece was inspired by an Instagram post by the poet Andrea Gibson.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-11-0207 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Wild, Woman, & MeThis piece was inspired by one of my favorite books, Untamed by Glennon Doyle. It’s about how we’re all socialized to put aside our emotions, instincts, and intuition about what’s right for us in favor of maintaining the status quo/“normalcy”. How sometimes I struggle to even connect with what I want, what I’m feeling, or what I need on the inside because I’m so busy trying to “fix” myself to be what society wants me to be/“normal”. It’s about how all of that sometimes makes me angry and frustrated and sad. And it’s about how I wan...
2021-10-2610 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Conversation w/Lindsey, On Sexuality & Living A Turned On LifeIn this episode I talk to my best friend Lindsey, she is a sex coach and self-love mentor whose passion is teaching women about their anatomy, helping them discover deeper pleasure, and guiding them toward deep self-love and self-knowledge so they can embrace their power and live their truest and most beautiful life.Lindsey and I talk about the language we use to describe female anatomy and the educational Pussy Paint Nights Lindsey hosts. We discuss feminine power and liberation as well as masculine and feminine energy. We talk about the role of self-love, self-knowledge, and all...
2021-10-191h 32
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Sharp EdgesThis piece is about the shift I made from thinking of myself as only sharp edges and ugly things to knowing my softer, lighter side. It's about the strength I've found in that softness. And it's about how that shift opened my eyes to possibilities I couldn't see before. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-10-1208 min
Story Therapy PodcastLilly, On Intentional StoriesIn this episode I explore why stories are so important to me and explain how I grow through intentional storytelling. I look back at the stories about myself and my life and I re-examine and rewrite them through my current beliefs and understanding of the world (not through the eyes of the person I was at the time). Through this process I have found I can clear up shame, fear, and doubt and I replace them with things I value more like curiosity, creativity, and compassion. I lighten my load by choosing with intention and wisdom to tell myself...
2021-10-0545 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, The Blank PageI wrote this piece in April 2021 about 6 months ago. I was sitting there trying to write and struggling to come up with anything to say... I was watching the cursor blink and thinking that it seems so insistent, so questioning. So I asked myself… If the cursor could talk, what would it be asking? This is the poem I came up with!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-09-2805 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Conversation w/Jessie, On Big Magic & Creative Living*SPOILER ALERT: We will talk all things Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert*Welcoming Jessie back for another book conversation! In this episode we talk all about our creativity bible Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and everything that jumped out to us on this reading. We talk about fear and courage, overcoming hard emotions by feeling them. And sharing our current struggles around fear and courage. We talk about how ideas and emotions simply want to be expressed and made manifest. We talk about holding life and especially creativity lightly, not grasping or holding but allowing a little...
2021-09-211h 43
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Dark MagicI wrote this piece in 2018 after reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. My friend Melia and I talked a lot about Gilbert’s magical thinking and came up with a dark/light magic theory related to Gilbert’s cult of artistic suffering. We talked about how we can end up creating suffering because it’s what we’re looking for and how maybe the opposite is possible. This was my attempt at expressing how dark magic (calling in a self-fulfilling prophecy of pain) works... at least how it worked for me at the time.Thank you for being he...
2021-09-1404 min
Story Therapy PodcastLilly, On Identity & Humility*SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t read Paper Towns by John Green, what are you doing? Go read it. However, I do talk in detail about the events of the book in this episode so if you proceed you will find out all the major plot points through the ending. You’ve been warned and this book was published in 2008 so I do not feel guilty if I ruin it for you!*In this episode I get pretty vulnerable as I explore how identity can become a box that limits you, it can become a crutch which prop...
2021-09-0744 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, BecomingI wrote this piece in May 2021 just a few months ago to explore my feelings about my new found confidence and the tinge of arrogance that I had found along with it. I wanted to figure out how to manage the arrogance while letting the confidence bloom.Thank you for being here.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-08-3106 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Conversation w/Jessie, On Energy Work & A Court of Silver Flames*SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't read A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Frost and Starlight, and A Court of Silver Flames all by Sarah J. Maas and you would like to read them spoiler free (which I highly encourage because they are AMAZING!) you may want to skip this episode and come back after reading the series. We reveal pretty much all of the major plot twists.*In this episode of Story Therapy I get together with one of my best friends...
2021-08-241h 18
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Rules for Becoming*TW: Depression and suicidal thoughts.**Note: If you haven't listened to the previous episodes "A Poem, Rules for Surviving the Apocalypse" and “Lilly, On Hope & Trust” you may want to do so now as they’re referred to in this episode.*I just finished this piece this week. It’s an update, in a way, to “Rules for Surviving the Apocalypse”. A new set of rules for a Lilly who has done some growing. This piece is about accountability, self-compassion, and self-love. It’s an attempt to remind myself to keep growing and to give it a rest at th...
2021-08-1728 min
Story Therapy PodcastLilly, On Hope & Trust*Trigger Warning: Depression and Suicidal Thoughts**Note: If you haven't listened to the previous episode "A Poem, Rules for Surviving the Apocalypse" you may want to do so now as it's referred to in this episode.* In "Lilly, On Hope & Trust" I investigate the complicated origins and history of hope in my psyche and deconstruct the word in order to rebuild something else in its place (trust) that works better for who I'm working to become. This exploration touches on hope, expectations, God/Source, religion, literary theory, my relationship with my brother, pathological positivity, my d...
2021-08-1033 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, Rules for Surviving the Apocalypse*Trigger Warning: Depression and suicidal thoughts.*I wrote this poem in 2018 when I was starting to get a handle on my bipolar disorder but it was still a struggle at the time and this poem is the first place I really gave voice to what I was feeling. But, also, this poem is where I started to feel hope and where I took the power over my life and put it back in my own hands. I hope if you're struggling this poem will make you feel seen and maybe even give you a little hope.
2021-08-0316 min
Story Therapy PodcastA Poem, 10 Things I Love About You A Love Letter to MeIn this episode I share the first of my poems with you. This poem was written in 2019 and inspired by "Boomerang Valentine" by Andrea Gibson.Thank you for being here.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-07-2908 min
Story Therapy PodcastIntroducing Story Therapy PodcastWelcome to Story Therapy Podcast! In this episode I set my intentions for the podcast and explain the format. I'm excited to share what I've been creating with you and I can't wait to hear what you think.Thank you for being here.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lilly-leiran/support
2021-07-2904 min