Experiential Anatomy

Listen in as Joan and Jamie share their parallel experiences of navigating the intricacies of partnership in both their personal and professional lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wrap season three with our pleasure episode as Joan and Jamie encourage us to pursue what feels good–even when the wider culture tends to tell us the opposite! Our hosts discuss what pleasure is, how it differs from enjoyment and indulgence, and describe its necessity for living a generative, healthy life. And listeners get a sneak peek at season four as the ladies workshop ideas for what comes next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan and Jamie reflect on the imaginative possibilities that present themselves when we intentionally create space, come into integrity, and move towards pleasure.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re joined today by psychiatric physician’s assistant, Leighton Morgan, who grew up similar to our hosts in a fundamentalist religion, deconstructed, and found an embodied path. Leighton’s love of humanity drew her to psychiatry, but after the rigors of grad school followed by overtime professional hours, Leighton succumbed to burnout. She shares her journey of meeting Jamie and the somatic work she put into healing herself. Now, Leighton prides herself on working under capacity and having enough downtime to imagine new possibilities for her future–as a practitioner, a partner, a friend, and a connected community member.  To find out more about Leighton’s work at Embrace Wellness Group, check out their website and follow them on Instagram: @embrace_wellness_group. You can email Leighton at leightonmorganpac@gmail.com or contact her via LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/leightonmorgan15/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Jamie and Joan share how the emotional safety of their friendship enables them each to learn and grow despite their differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we get a primer on German New Medicine, its founder, and its core principles as Jamie details the fascinating history of modern medicine and posits several questions for us to contemplate: What are the fruits of modern medicine? What did colonialization and industrialization extinguish from medical practice? And, what might happen if we interact with our bodies as if they are an intelligent, spiritual technology? Join us in exploring this paradigm-shifting framework, built by a doctor who was ahead of his time, and carried into modernity by those who seek holistic health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in for Joan’s review of the new album, Life of a Showgirl, and Jamie’s thoughts on checking in with our bodies and supporting them throughout the various seasons and relationships of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, our hosts are joined by Dr. Roxanne Cooper to discuss a new way to practice medicine. Roxanne shares what led her into family medicine and how, after striving under the old system, she reached burnout. She gives us an intimate look at those years of loss and new beginnings, and the passion she has for ADHD and mental health issues. And Joan and Jamie reflect on their experiences with Roxanne as she journeyed toward embodiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Jamie processes two recent, difficult events, and Joan reflects on the ripple effect that daily practices can have on the broader systems at work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we get a primer on Emergent Strategy as Joan shares an overview of its main principles and how each relates to experiencing our bodies. Our hosts engage in an energetic discussion on fractals, the law of attraction, and the concept that change is the only constant. They discuss several authors, with an emphasis on Adrienne Maree Brown, and extend an invitation to listeners to join in this work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in on this season’s first memosode as Joan and Jamie talk about being in the realm of unpleasant and worrisome imaginative possibilities and learning to recognize our bodies’ invitations to regulate and balance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Season 3 as Joan and Jamie invite us into a new period of pausing, being curious, and imagining all the possibilities that lie ahead. We get to hear about their summer meet-up and what their bodies experienced being together for the first time. We also catch up on where they’ve been this summer and get a sneak peek at upcoming guests and episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in to hear Joan and Jamie’s kids express their ideas of death, while Joan examines truth-telling and Jamie discusses a new identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The death of season two is upon us! But in keeping with the theme of death-rebirth-life, our hosts announce that Season 3 is happening! Join us today for a peek into what's emerging next and a final discussion on death and the afterlife. Jamie and Joan share their former religious beliefs and the impact those ideas had on their bodies. And they each share what heaven has come to mean to them in the here and now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan and Jamie share about dreams, grief, empathy, and the importance of living through all of life’s highs and lows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re joined today by Dr. Hillary McBride for a conversation about grief and its effect on our bodies. Joan and Jamie share a similar journey of leaving religion as Hillary, so the three discuss the grief over losing one’s identity in God. Hillary explains how important and routine it is for humans to change and reshape our ideas of reality, and it is in these repeated moments that we build our resilience and confidence to withstand the grief that accompanies us throughout all of life. To find out more about Hillary and her newest book, Holy Hurt, visit her website and follow her on Instagram @hillaryliannamcbride. For additional reading, check out the book Hillary mentions by Tanya Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real, on Tanya’s website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as our hosts share similar stories of building resilience within their bodies and how cycles of death and rebirth connect to exercise and healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, our hosts dive deeper into the world of healthcare as they discuss how death is viewed, experienced, and processed within the modern-day system. Joan offers insights on how physicians handle conversations about death with their patients and families, and the inherently flawed structure that prevents all bodies involved from thriving. Our hosts describe a vision for the future that they hope will replace the current, unsustainable framework. And we get a sneak peek at Jamie’s coaching, as she facilitates an on-the-spot session with Joan during their Body Check-Ins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in to the sounds of freezing, crunching rain as Joan reflects on the dying systems in healthcare and the new limits her body has set, while Jamie shares her new motivation to run and the importance of trusting our bodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode, Joan and Jamie discuss the death of modernity and its large-scale systems. From mass co-dependence to the need to control others, they discuss the various structures of society that are slowly dying. On the practical level, they recount stories from personal experience of the various changes they see happening within the modern healthcare system. And they circle back to their Season 1 theme that will inspire us toward an embodied future. Be sure to check out the book they referenced, “Hospicing Modernity” by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices