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The Nurture Pod

Virginia Edwards

A podcast that questions our current culture"s consensus reality and opens a space to dream something new into being. Iris Sullivan Daire (artist, writer, teacher) and Ginger Edwards (mindset coach, owner of North Fork 53 retreat center) host from their small rural communities on the Oregon coast. They move from playful conversations to deep dives into how life could be on planet Earth if we allowed ourselves to dream into a new way of relating to ourselves and with each other rooted in the magic of

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83:49

Episode 24: Wit, Knowing and Ken- 3 ways to unpack...

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2024/11/12

Send us a textIn this post election episode Iris and Ginger discuss the national election results in 3 different ways. In a culture dominated by the mind they include the heart and gut into the process to understand the place we have newly arrived at in America. Wit: the mental understanding of the results. Ideas, perceptions, thoughts and judgements. Knowing: the somatic experience of the heart and body. How our heart understands what is happening in the world and our e...

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Episode 23: The Red Roots of Samhain

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2024/10/30

Send us a textIn this episode Iris and Ginger talk red roots, the color of blood, power, sexuality, Queen Madder root and the portal between this world and the next. In the Celtic lands this time of year was known as Samhain (aka Halloween) when the veils between the seen and unseen energies were thin. Protection charms and bonfires to ward off harm, illness, the oncoming winter darkness mixed over time with honoring ancestors and the dead. With an major election looming and so...

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Episode 22: Full Moon in Aries. How fast are you...

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2024/10/18

Send us a textOn this episode of the Nurture Pod Iris and Ginger dive into the owners manual for the body- ody-ody. Just because the culture has a speedometer that goes up to 180mph doesn't mean our bodies can or should try to go that fast. What are the dash lights that we ignore on our way to physical and emotional breakdowns? When do we pull over and let our engine cool down and when do we limp it down the road? We drive this analogy all over the place! Come along for the rid...

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Episode 21: Becoming Ancestors

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2024/09/28

Send us a textIn this third and final episode of grief conversations with therapist and retreat leader Joshua Lowe, we talk about what it means to live in a culture without connection to ancestors. Ancestral grief is the 5th gate in Francis Weller's book "The Wild Edge of Sorrow". Here's where we grieve the loss of connection not to our personal family line but also to cultural traditions around honoring and receiving wisdom from ancestors.Also unpacked is why it's important for a...

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Episode 20: Mapping the Personal and Collective...

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2024/09/20

Send us a textIn this episode Iris and Ginger talk once again with therapist and grief ritual leader Joshua Lowe about the different ways that grief shows up personally and collectively in the culture. How can we create lasting change if we aren't willing to let go of the past? How do we let go of the past unless we willing to grieve it?Click here to sign up for the Oregon Coast Community Grief Ritual happening from 10/11-10/13Special shout out to Francis Weller author of the Wild Edge of Sor...

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Episode 19: The wild edges of grief and community

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2024/09/13

Send us a textIn this episode Iris and Ginger welcome their very first Nurture Pod Guest! Therapist, grief tender, community ritual leader (and Ginger's cousin) Joshua Lowe joins the pod to talk about this misunderstood emotion and the role it plays in our lives and culture. On October 11-13th Joshua Lowe will be coming to Nehalem to co-facilitate a weekend community grief ritual with Ginger and other community members at the White Clover Grange. Why would anyone want to spend ...

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Episode 18: Relax, it's just a dream.

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2024/08/26

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the nature of reality and the concept of dream time. One hemisphere of our brain is tuned into the mystical, non linear world of connection and creativity with the ability to see reality in a very different way than the other side of our brain. Western Industrialized Culture could be just a massive dream projection of a part of brain that is obsessed with control and safety. What if reality as you know it is a dream that the left side of ...

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Episode 17: Full Moon in Aquarius. Ball Jars of...

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2024/08/19

Recorded the eve of the full blue moon in Aquarius! The astrology of this moment can't be put in a jar and saved for later. It's happening right now. In this episode Iris and Ginger check in on the vibes as we are bathed in the light of a rather sticky, squared up retrograde opposition between the collective (Aquarius moon) vs the personal (Leo sun). What does it mean to be self sufficient? Is it just another myth of individualism?A way to avoid building communities that would ...

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Episode 16: Trash and Talismans

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2024/08/07

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the idea and practice of working with the material realm.How and why we imbue the objects around us with meaning. Is there such a thing as sacred outside of our own minds and beliefs? Do things mass produced in China become talismans if we fill them with intention or is the magic in the handcraft and time we put into it. What matters when it comes to matter - and why does it matter to us?To find more about classes and courses Iris is offe...

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Episode 15: Finding Sacred Ground.

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2024/07/24

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the ways that we come back to ground. The different ways of understanding how the body restores and draws power from our connection to nature. What we perceive as real/important in the dominant culture is designed to make us feel overwhelmed and pulled in many directions at once. Nurture Culture is rooted in the Earth and our ability to connect to what is alive and present in the moment. To find more about classes and courses Iris is...

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Episode 14: The Summer Apple Drop: Knowing what to...

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2024/07/11

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss how nature uses the heat of mid July to sort out what seeds will ripen for the fall harvest. This is often a moment when we realize that not all our spring plans are going to make it this year. Call it a sense of overwhelm or despair or maybe even relief... but some apples must drop in order for the tree to be healthy. Some plants won't survive a summer heat wave and others will. Not because they are "better" but maybe they just had the luck of gro...

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Episode 13: The Fifth Sacred Thing and the Power of...

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2024/06/28

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss The Fifth Sacred Thing - a novel by Starhawk of two potential futures that play out in California. The book gives a glimpse into the power of writing a future that inspires rather than the apocalyptic wasteland that's shown so often in the media.A key part of nuture culture is the ability to understand what seeds we are planting for future generations and how we want that future to look. Calling all positive futurists! Give us a comment if yo...

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Episode 12: Summer Solstice Full Moon. Illuminating...

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2024/06/21

In this episode of the Nurture Pod, Iris and Ginger discuss this Summer Solstice /Full Moon in Capricorn moment and what it is revealing to us about how and where we place our energy. This is the halfway point of the year. From this point on we are working with waning solar energy leading towards the Winter Solstice in December. Nature is at it's peak bloom and yet not everything will make it to set seed in the fall. There is a natural weeding and wilting of things over the mon...

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Episode 11: Cat memes, Opium and Mycelium- social...

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2024/06/12

Social media is always changing, evolving and learning from us just as we laugh, numb out and learn from it. It wasn't always this hard or easy to connect back before the turn of the century. Nature teaches us about what vast interconnected networking is for but are our monkey brains able to go there? Maybe AI will sort it out for us. Send more cat memes!To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and...

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Episode 10. Community of ONE or ONE Community?

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2024/06/06

In this episode Iris and Ginger talk about community. What is it? Who gets to create it? Why do some groups feel like community and others don't? Can we have a Nurture Culture without a community? What are the wounds we try to heal with Community and what wounds does it create? So many interesting questions to discuss and spoiler alert- there's not really any clear answers. Listen in and tell us what you think!To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.drea...

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Episode 9. Cleaning up and Letting Go

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2024/05/31

In this episode Iris and Ginger talk about cleaning up their lives (and art studio and barn) and the relationship we have to stuff. Do our things nurture us or drag us down? When is the right time to let it all go and start over? Materialism vs. Consumerism and what that means for us as a culture and in community. To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and courses visit:https://www.northfor...

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Episode 8: Figuring it out

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2024/05/17

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the cultural trope of "figuring it out" while also sleeping through the northern lights. To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and courses visit:https://www.northfork53.com/Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music!Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

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Episode 7: New Moon In Taurus- What we value and how...

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2024/05/08

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the idea of value. Who creates it, how do we recognize it and why is it important to understand how it operates in the culture. How do we create value for ourselves and others that supports our ability to pay the bills and also builds nurture culture? If you are a creative/entrepreneur this one is for you!To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and courses v...

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Beltane Shame Shifters

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2024/05/01

Happy Beltane 2024! The gate to summer is open and the Earth is in full bloom. In this episode Iris and Ginger dig into the master emotion of shame. If we want to create a culture of nurturing we need to understand how this emotion works in the body and how it's been misunderstood and manipulated for centuries by culture, religion, families and capitalism. To understand shame is to understand and unlock pleasure and connection. As we become shame shifters- we regain access to the part of us

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Episode 5. Rest, Recovery and the Rise of Festival...

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2024/04/25

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