Episode 150: Megan Jo Wilson and Libby Bunten: REMEMBERING OURSELVES ALIVE Through the Values of the Feminine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

I think it's safe to say that entrepreneurs and businesswomen are done with antiquated notions of "business as usual."

In our journeys as successful female entrepreneurs, we are creating new definitions for what it means to "work" and seeking and creating spaces that give us room to be who we are in both/ and our businesses and lives without all of the striving, overwhelm, and exhaustion.

As more women and men awaken to the feminine, we embrace and integrate new modalities, embodiment practices, and tools that enhance our connection to ourselves, each other, and our world.
Instead of living from a place of force, we are living from flow and attuning to the messages of our bodies and souls- leaving plenty of space on our calendars to remember our need to rest, regenerate, dance, and play.

As more of us lean into our intuition and allow ourselves to be guided by our senses, we learn to include and leverage the gifts we used to suppress and hide. We are expressing and exposing what's outrageous about us because invariably- what is outrageous in us is also the animating spirit of our soul- the unique and vital part that remembers that we are alive!

In this episode, Libby and Megan Jo talk about

How each of us starts our day by centering feminine values as we get shit done.
How Megan Jo and Libby became entrepreneurs and how they are leading women to redesign their businesses.
Our new definition of "outrageous" and how it keeps us in a state of creativity.
What is "jiggle therapy," and why loving your thighs will change your life and business!
The difference between clearing emotions and INCLUDING emotions in the boardroom and beyond.
Why the masculine is awesome and the patriarchy sucks for everyone.
Practical ways to extract yourself from the conditioned impulse to "be busy" all the time.
Why we can't continue to separate business from personal.
Why starting your own business is a wonderful roller coaster ride.
Why taking a dance break is a valuable way to express the energy that needs to move.
Why suffering and sacrifice is not a badge of honor and why grind culture deadens us.
Why collaboration is Sexy AF
How to make new rules in business and why women are taking our pleasure to new heights as part of the "business plan."
Why women are no longer manning up.
Why we need to premeditate the magic of taking time off.
Why the tiniest sip of pleasure will always get you through the day.
The pitfalls most women fall into when it comes to business and why we have new radical choices at our fingertips that can change everything.

Special Guests: Libby Bunten and Megan Jo Wilson.

Episode 31: Margaret Klein Salamon - Facing Climate Fears

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:00:00 -0400

Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening and painful truths of the climate emergency and to transform their despair into effective action. She is the founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, which advocates an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. Her book, Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, is a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.

I heard about Margaret through Humanity Rising and reached out for an interview when I heard her talk about the emotional disconnect we humans have in facing the climate crisis. I became deeply curious about the root cause of this and wanted to dive more deeply into revealing the answers.

When I read her book, I was struck by one of the first paragraphs:

“Inside all of us, a battle rages. It’s the battle between knowing and not knowing, between fully facing the truth — emotionally, as well as intellectually — and shrinking from it. We sense we’re in a climate emergency and mass extinction event, but we have a deep-seated psychological instinct to defend against that knowledge. The pain is shouting at us: “Everything is dying!” Somewhere inside, we know that humanity and the natural world are in peril. Indeed, we feel the horrors of civilizational collapse and the sixth mass extinction of species, in our bodies. Our minds attempt to shield us from this pain — we avoid, distract, deny, and numb ourselves. But these defenses work only temporarily: When we fail to process our emotions and mourn our losses, the pain takes on tremendous power. It follows us around like a shadow, and we become increasingly desperate to avoid what we know.”

I often talk about our social training ground and our society’s obsession with avoiding our emotions. I’m struck by the parallels between our stunted ability to process our suppressed emotion and our inability to truly feel what’s happening to our planet.

But I love Margaret’s attitude in this excerpt:

“We — humanity — are putting together a team of heroes to cancel the apocalypse, to protect ourselves and the natural world from catastrophic collapse. You might not realize it, but you are on the roster. Your jersey is sitting in your locker. We need to figure out your position and get you into (emotional) shape. The first step is to show up to practice. We are waiting for you.”

In Facing The Climate Crisis, Margaret also surfaces the teachings of Fromm, who postulated that the only reason people would not rise against the possibility of worldwide nuclear destruction was that they were already experiencing devastating destruction, internally. This validates my deeper knowing around our own unconscious self-loathing - the idea that it is unconscious makes me even more motivated to help us realize that the very symptoms we think are normal are actually not, and are, in fact, unhealthy and very destructive.

There are so many symptoms of self-loathing. The very idea that any of us would not feel a measure of panic and deep grief at the reality we are facing is in itself a testament to how disconnected from our true nature we are. It also shows a deep disconnect from love and respect for ourselves and for others.

Margaret shares the bottom line:

“To solve the climate and ecological emergency, we must transform our destructive economy into a regenerative one, and we must do it at emergency speed. We don’t just need zero emissions in every sector; we need huge carbon drawdown projects that restore ecosystems and the soil. We need permaculture and food localization; we need an end to mass consumerism and endless growth; we need to give back half the Earth to nature to restore biodiversity, and we need to create a society based on protecting and healing humanity and the natural world. This means transforming not only our energy, agricultural, transportation, and industrial systems — it means transforming ourselves”

I would add that the path to transforming ourselves is the path inward to loving ourselves.

Links:

The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Emotions”

Episode 150: Megan Jo Wilson and Libby Bunten: REMEMBERING OURSELVES ALIVE Through the Values of the Feminine

Episode 31: Margaret Klein Salamon - Facing Climate Fears