Episode 51: "Normalising the Abnormal"

Hello my friends and welcome to episode 51 of The Life Right Here podcast - it’s great to be back for a fresh new year in 2024.

This episode is inspired by the reflections and sharing that took place last Friday evening at my Align and Shine workshop - I wanted to share a quote that I used as a point of discussion - in the context of a larger passage shared from the book Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and the quote is this:

Psychically, we become used to the shocks aimed at our wild natures. We adapt to violence against the psyche’s knowing nature. We try to be good while normalising the abnormal. As a result, we lose our power to flee. We lose our power to lobby for the elements of soul and life we find most valuable...’

In this episode we explore powerful ideas and themes contained in this quote and begin to apply them to our own lives. I get pretty fired up so if you want to message me on Insta here or email me here please do - I'd love to hear your perspective - especially if you disagree with me on anything here!! Let's have a respectful debate. I want to normalise women having aging faces rather than support feeling they need to achieve unrealistic beauty standards that keep them feeling they're not enough. We are enough. And the world needs women feeling MORE than enough so that they can bring their powerful presence and light to the world.

There are so many ways our society has come to normalise the abnormal and I've picked a few simple ones that came to mind - of course the unfolding of the tragedy in Gaza for the Palestinian (and Israeli) people is a major example of this. Though many of us oppose it of course and are heartbroken by what's happening the fact remains that it's being allowed to continue while we all look on. There's nothing more abnormal than that.

Thanks for being here. 
See you soon.
Emma x