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Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWhatever Can Die is Beautiful: Transforming Our Fear of Death with Social Psychologist Sheldon SolomonDeath anxiety lurks beneath virtually everything we do. Our capitalistic drive for endless growth, our political polarization, even our addictions to consumption – all stem from our desperate attempts to buffer ourselves against the terror of our finite existence! Dr. Sheldon Solomon, pioneering psychologist behind Terror Management Theory, explains how when death is on our minds (ie, during pandemics, live-streamed g3n0c1de, climate collapse, wars, etc), humans cling more fervently to cultural worldviews and become susceptible to authoritarian leaders promising security. Death denialism explains so much about why/how fascism rises predictably alongside economic inequality and mor...2025-07-031h 05Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiGetting in Hot Water: The Sacred Practice of Rule-BreakingWhat if breaking the rules isn't just about random acts of rebellion, but a sacred, messy practice essential for personal and collective liberation? Let’s explore the nuances of disobedience, how it (and obedience) lives in our bodies, and plunge into why we must regularly practice breaking smaller rules to prepare ourselves for breaking bigger rules when it truly matters–AKA right friggin’ now!From dealing with homophobic lighting™, to reclaiming our attention by fondling plants as our to-do lists (and our collective productivity-shame) try to kill us, small rebellions build our "rule-breaking muscles." As the systems around u...2025-06-1636 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiSwipe Right on Your Eternal Self with Professional Mystic Leah GarzaWhat if we approach dating (and LIFE!) with genuine curiosity rather than the calculated performance and feigned ambivalence? With a commitment to compassionate relating rather than just detached, dehumanizing game-playing? Join Dana and her dear friend Leah Garza—Akashic Records practitioner/teacher, decolonial scholar, and tender menace in the dating world—to unpack how to practice (naive) rebellion in our relationships and create new, much-needed pathways of connection. Leah shares how she’s indestructible (and you are, too!), follows resonance over rules, strives for satisfaction over happiness, and tends to ghosting, disappointment, unmet needs, and more.2025-05-3153 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiAwkward Magic: On Being Transformed by OthersIn this *spell* of an episode, magic, penetration, entanglement, and love emerge as steps toward understanding and willingness to be changed by others (sometimes oh-so awkwardly).We enter with the Buddhist concept of PENETRATION (via some bibliomancy!)—not just observing from a distance, but entering deeply into experiences and relationships to truly understand them—where Dana shares a recent evolutionary discomfort experience with group work that involved Palestine, mentorship, and unexpectedly opened space for profound connection and transformation.Magic and synchronicity can bring you to the observation deck of reality, but one must risk and leap...2025-05-2522 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiInner Work is a Radical Act in Times of Crisis, with my Spiritual Teacher Julia FrodahlThere's room for personal growth in collective liberation—in fact, it's a critical component! Join Dana and her long-time teacher of nearly 13 years, Julia Frodahl, as they lean in and explore where our inner rebels come from, how we can show up for the consciousness revolution, the role of inner work as part of the Great Turning, self-compassion as a practice not a destination, cultivating vision when systems are unraveling, and how the mature rebel is actually the visionary—anchored in deep wisdom while remaining responsive to external realities.Julia Frodahl's next live online group course on natu...2025-05-1750 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWe're Too Busy Fighting Crow's Feet to Fight FascismOur attention is constantly being hijacked by systems training us to see ourselves as problems needing to be fixed. Let’s play with the phenomena of ‘perception drift’ (when you can’t see changes in/on you— grace à Courtney Cox) and ‘change blindness’ (when you can no longer see change around you) to explore how we’re perpetuating coloniality rather than tending to collective issues + why reclaiming our attention and moving beyond pathologizing ourselves is revolutionary.This ep is full of ways to practice expanding your capacity for empathy & connection, resisting anti-intellectualism, tending to your nervous system resilience and re...2025-05-0929 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWands on Wands on Wands: A Tarot Reading for the Collective with Mary Evans of Spirit SpeakWhat sparks of guidance illuminate your path through uncertain times? When chaos swirls around us, where do we turn for direction?This episode takes us on a magical journey down a wishing well (!!) to meet artist and oracle Mary Evans (Spirit Speak), who offers a revelatory tarot reading addressing three vital questions: How can we use our creativity to support ourselves and the collective?What specifically do we, as individuals, need to focus on in uncertainty? And what helps conjure the courage to challenge systems both within and around us?The cards reveal wisdom about pa...2025-05-0246 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiInsecurity at Last: How in Redefining Safety, We Actually Create ItCrybabies, welcome back to the jacuzzi-verse! In episode 2, let's explore the boundaries between security and insecurity, safety and unsafety. You're invited to embrace security as an illusion—a product sold to us, someone else's imagination of a limited version of ourselves, a way to keep us obedient and clinging to comfort—because then we can start to create our own definitions. Life-affirming, collective, nourishing, weird, radically caring, self-trusting, connective, uncomfortable, desirous, resilient, and adaptive! And look, security's weaponization has real consequences for many individuals and communities under threat from people & systems that use safety and security as mecha...2025-04-2721 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiOsiris Dick in a Box: Mature Rebellion in These Times™ with astrologer Diana RoseWelcome back, crybabies! Season 3 is here and we're kicking it off with the brilliant relational astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and educator, Diana Rose (currently residing and thriving on the planet Venus). In episode 1, we explore rebellion as an act of maturing aka radical adulting aka self-trusting in an era of systemic oppression, rising fascism, and huge planetary shifts. Just a few tidbits from our entirely un-casual and truly delightful convo about humaning...• Clinging to control versus cultivating presence and trust in ourselves and life• How the rejection of death drives control-seeking behavior and fascist tende...2025-04-181h 07Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiNavigating the Year-end Paradox with Self-warmth & CuriosityThis is a special solstice, holiday slowdown medicine, between-season, late-stage-capitalism-sucking-your-life-juice-dry, you-might-need-support episode full of practical guidance and self-warmth tips! Baba Ram Dass said, “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Whatever you may or may not be celebrating, this episode explores the importance of acceptance, a few quick energetic/emotional/nervous system grounding & resilience techniques, and the power of warm curiosity to foster understanding and connection with yourself and those in your world.~ resources mentioned ~Free grounding meditation ~ https://bit.ly/grounding-nowBespoke Meditation, a 1:1 coaching session + a perso...2024-12-2321 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiThe Life-changing Art of Falling the F ApartFalling apart is hard work, crybabies. But you know what's even harder? NOT falling apart and using all of your precious energy and attention to hold your sh*t together in some configuration based on someone else's polycrisis-inducing imagination for your life! In the LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 2, we'll be looking at why falling apart is a useful technology for these times, how to recognize it when it's at your door, and how to make friends with it. We wrap with a group fondle (of plants, you dirty bird) with the whole existential team over here at crybaby HQ...2024-10-0834 min
Amina Change Your LifeEp 86: Sustaining Your Activism, Practical Advice from Activist Dana BalickiDana Balicki is a renowned transformational coach and guide, recognized for her expertise in slow down medicine, which integrates inner work and collective action. With a background spanning over a decade as an activist and organizer in anti-occupation and anti-globalization movements, Dana has impacted numerous individuals by facilitating the release of societal programming and fostering subversive curiosity. Her podcast, Crying in My Tea, has garnered acclaim for its profound exploration of the complexities in living an examined life. Dana's extensive experience and insightful perspective uniquely position her to provide valuable insights on sustaining activism without burnout. 2024-09-1025 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiBeloved Disruptionin this penultimate episode of season 2, we explore the essential role of DISRUPTION as a catalyst for inner & outer transformation.from protest movements to your own deepest inner work, let’s open up to disruption as responsibility, as intervention, and as disorientation from cultural conditioning toward a new personal and collective alignment.~show notes~uncommitted movement (@uncommittedmvmt)CODEPINK (@codepinkalert)wonder valley olive oil (welcometowondervalley.com)enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min coaching se...2024-08-2437 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiHow to Live Well with your Angerit's ADVICE DOM time, crybabies. to the dungeon we go! this listener's SUBMISSION is a juicy one because it's about a reoccurring theme in season 2 + a reoccurring theme in HUMANING and just being alive on the planet right now in our "apocalypse era"—how do we live with all the anger!?how do we understand and tend to what's beneath it?is there a way to be with it and not be wholly consumed?can it be a beacon for personal growth?what does a healthy relationship with anger look like?ou...2024-08-1619 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiJust a Little Death *boop* (with a Side of Death Cult)broadcasting straight from the heart of the jacuzzi-verse (in a quantum overlap with the heart of the western imperialist, death-cult empire!), let's talk about death, baby. but death and uncertainty as secret core drivers of our lives via the unconscious decisions we make, the people we gravitate towards, and the ways we feel about ourselves. so, let's take a cosmically unhinged journey through the twisty relationship between death awareness, collective death anxiety, and self-esteem. AND THEN, we'll explore what's on the other side—the hope, the compassion, the binary-dissolving, the power of mutualism! dana also shares about her time in...2024-08-0735 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiA Magical Field Trip to Rage-villeit’s another trip to the magical library for some BIBLIOMANCY divination! let’s explore the transformative power of rage, drawing connections between our big (sometimes scary) feelings and the boundless potential they hold when tended to with curiosity and compassion.as per always, you’re invited to take any divine messages received or needs met and carry them back into your daily lives.~show notes~enter to win a free coaching session ~ when you leave a 5-star rating (only) and a written review, you'll be entered into a monthly drawing for a free 90-min co...2024-07-3018 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiEvery Criticism is a Longingholy jacuzzi, crybabies! what if the criticisms we experience and feel (in our relationships with others, the world, and with ourselves) is actually our deepest longings & needs trying to be known?in this jacuzzi-verse layer, we tend to our inner critics with curiosity and compassion—unlocking a potential for more profound inner-allyship & understanding. we also untangle some tired-ass stories linking self-criticism and being a high performer. byeeeee! and as per yooj, we wrap with a nourishing and simple guided exercise! c’mon down and join the tub club 😭♨️~ shownotes ~dr. kristin neff, self-compas...2024-07-1331 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWhat to do when your dreams don’t (and do) come true?welcome back, ever-evolving souls—it's ADVICE DOM time. to the dungeon we go! today's listener SUBMISSION is a two-fer. TWO Qs, ONE CUP full of As. one question about what to do when you’re trying and not getting what you want + another about what to do when you’re getting everything.believe it or not, there’s a common answer to both.ADVICE DOM's got questions and answers!c'mon down to the cave for some spanky, slappy, advice-giving. BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST LIKE TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO.™️call in and SUBMIT...2024-07-0512 min
Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking158. Mary Schuch: Your Experiment is Your PracticeHow might we approach friendship, art, and spirituality as creative experiments? How do we practice presence in grief? How might we increase our capacity to change our minds and shift our practices?Halfway through this conversation, Mary Schuch casually said something that stopped my heart in its track, "Just because it's not fun, doesn't mean it's not a gift." That's something I've always admired about artist, creative, and astrologer Mary Schuch – her ability to hold wisdom with humor and to serve truth with irreverence.Mary and I recorded this conversation at the tail end of Ju...2024-06-231h 19Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWho's Your Mommy: Support System, Self-warmth, and the Pluriverse!who really belongs in your support system? maybe not everyone who's there right now!! in this episode, we'll peel back layers and layers of your relationship to your relationships, explore what might be holding you in old patterns and feeeeel into support in our own miraculous bodies with some gentle somatic resonance practices! big work, tenderly. we get bewildered, dance with the necessity of self-warmth and true understanding, expand into the pluriverse, and look at how the whole wide world can be your mommy (it'll make more sense-ation when you get to that part). tune in...2024-06-2131 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiUnlocking the Mysteries of Existence with BibliomancyIt's time for season 2's first field trip to the magical library, where we engage in the ancient wisdom of bibliomancy—using texts as tools for divination. join dana, CONNIE the quantum (book) worm, and THE LIBRARIAN as the library serves up another oracular text so we can explore our relationship to cycles of life and death, beauty and tragedy, heartbreak and hope, grief and existence and non-being.Set an intention and make space for the divine to deliver a message and meaning just for you. ~show notes~ etel adnan, the spring flowers own & the...2024-06-1414 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiThe Only Kind of Heart Worth Having is a Broken Onewhat if brokenheartedness wasn’t something to get through, but an honored & trusted guide toward interconnectedness, courage, and grief as catalyst for heartfelt action? in this episode we explore the wild paradox of love and sorrow, and the transformative power of embracing both…love in the time of broken hearts. dana shares her own personal heartbreak stories—including her biggest—plus, some reminder practices for how to slowdown and tune into the tender life experience of grief AKA the risk of living & loving!~show notes~Living by the Word: a collection of essays, Alice Walker (“...2024-06-0723 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiDigital Intimacy: How much honesty is too much?to the dungeon we go! today's listener SUBMISSION is all about navigating honesty, transparency, and intimacy when running an online presence & business. we explore oversharing and vulnerability, authenticity and digital intimacy, and entertaining the possibility that saying the damn thing could get you more of what you want, not less. ADVICE DOM's got questions and answers!c'mon down to the cave for some spanky, slappy, advice-giving. BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST LIKE TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO.™️call in and SUBMIT (your own question) --> 760-820-9070~show notes~enter to w...2024-05-3113 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWonder & Awe: Learn to Flirt with the Worldwonder & awe, the keys to belonging and connection! or at least that's how we see it here at crybaby HQ in the bubbling cauldron center of the jacuzzi-verse! yes, being human is complex. so much so, that we can forget we have agency—even under violence & oppressive systems—to choose how we show up. so let's swan dive into the wondrous nature of existence by opening ourselves to wonder & awe. to flirting with the world BECAUSE SHE ALWAYS FLIRTS BACK. big-point-alert >> when we open ourselves to relationality, we practice unraveling the painful knots of coloniality. so flirting = liber...2024-05-2428 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiIn Our Descending Power Eraaaaaand…we’re back! season 2 of crying in my jacuzzi is upon us, BUT FIRST, we need a warm-up. so let’s start with a little drunk history rendition of the buddha’s enlightenment and ride that all the way to the student encampment movement…along the way, we’ll explore the “immovable spot” of inherent power within ourselves and this collective moment, navigate the middle path between spiritual bypass and extremism, and call in the guidance of descending power. ~show notes~The Buddha's Path (https://www.lionsroar.com/buddha-path-to-awakening/)Bayo Akómoláfé on fugitivity (https://www.bayoakom...2024-05-1534 min
Living The Process with host Shannon TL KearnsCreating New Worlds with Dana BalickiTakeawaysDana Balicki helps people release the cultural program of fast-paced hustling and cultivate their inner intuitive connection.She draws on her background in political activism and organizing to create spaces for people to explore their past, present, and future.Dana's coaching work is action-oriented, helping clients design their lives around what is most important to them.Coaching is different from therapy in that it focuses on action and designing one's life, while therapy is more process-oriented.When starting a new creative project, it's important to check in with...2024-05-0856 min
My Life Is Better With You In ItDana Balicki & Leah Garza: Tits OutRecording this episode with Dana Balicki and Leah Garza brought us from heartfelt depths to silly joy. We're so grateful to call these two terrestrial angels our friends!We got to know them through Leah's amazing courses, which we wholeheartedly recommend that you check out: Living Systems: https://crystalsofaltamira.com/living-systems Akashic Mentorship: https://crystalsofaltamira.com/akashic-mentorship Dana Balicki is a transformational coach, changemaker, modern mystic, and wildly passionate lady boss devoted to helping you remember and become who you really are, not just who you were taught to...2024-02-201h 19
Parenting BreakdownAm I too invested in my kids emotions? (aka - the one where mom feels bad... again!)Welcome to Parenting Breakdown! In this episode, Matt and Rachel discuss their different responses to hearing about hard moments that their kids are having in the world.
Topics explored:
- A listener question about how all-encompassing her own emotions can feel after her daughter tells her about her hard day.
· Rachel discusses how our own triggers can impact our response to our kids and how she works to slow down her reactions.
· Matt talks about how it's hard to sit with uncomfortable feelings, but how it's the key to parenting. Plus patriarchy drops in for a quick cameo. It seems he's b...2024-02-1528 minCrying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiCall Your Energy Back to Yourself: A Guided Meditation for These Timesmessage of support from dana in these complex times: "this is a simple guided meditation/visualization that i've used for years in my own energetic practices, with clients to support their presence, and i'm honored to share this with you. use when you're feeling scattered, overwhelmed, spread-thin, depleted, uncertain, dissociated, or any other time of day you need a dose of slowdown medicine to ground, realign, and reenergize. this one small practice that will support each of us in embracing AND SHAPING our changing world."ceasefire now ♡ end the occupation /// podcast art ~ natalee mill...2023-12-0711 min