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Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul, governance

Alison Crosthwait

The Aliveness Podcast explores how we live, love, and think in a changing world. Every weekday brings Session Notes from The World’s Therapist - a fictional series about the inner life of our time. Each week I share an essay and a conversation with someone else who is thoughtfully exploring how we live. Dry humour lives here. Marion Woodman coded. The problems of our time are complex. Developing the inner capacity to withstand confusion and conflict in service of connection and growth is central

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06:25

As Within, So Without: The Politics of Projection and...

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2025/10/08

We project our anger onto those in power as if they were our parents constraining our freedom and failing us at every turn. In this short episode, I explore the emotional work of democracy: learning to see our leaders as human, to move from complaint to contribution, from projection to participation.SUBSCRIBE TO EROS FOR LIFE ON SUBSTACKTo receive daily emails go to the Eros for Life publication settings and subscribe to the "Eros for Life - Daily" Section.

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32:03

Platform by Platform: A soul-based tech audit. How I...

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2025/10/07

This episode asks: how do we stay human inside each of the social media platforms?I trace the ways some of the platforms undermine my values: from Meta and its documented harms, to TikTok’s dopamine machine, to Substack’s conflicted role in the attention economy. I bring in Shoshana Zuboff’s theory of surveillance capitalism, the story of Cambridge Analytica, teen suicides linked to Instagram, and a chilling case of a man’s fatal entanglement with a Meta AI.This is an episode about radical ethics

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13:30

Beauty in a Burning World: Taylor Swift and What the...

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2025/10/06

Beauty in a Burning World: Taylor Swift and What the Showgirl Can’t EscapeA close look at Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl through the lens of archetype, fame, and feminine power. I explore why this album lands as both dissonant and revealing in a world on fire, and what it reveals about how women carry collective desire and projection.I unpack the Ophelia archetype and how Taylor’s “saved by love” narrative mirrors an ancient pattern that still shapes women’s lives. I speak about compassion

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31:27

Ketamine, Milf, Love, and Enough For All: A Personal...

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2025/10/03

A candid return at fifty, where I share addiction recovery, the cost of visibility, and a fresh public voice that braids soul, money, tech, and civic life.I came back to the mic after two years, newly fifty and fiercely alive. This episode opens with a simple claim: love can be rational, love can lead, love can think clearly without letting the mind run the show.I walk you through the realities of ketamine recovery, the stigma that trails addiction, and the relief of real healing. I name the risks

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26:17

The Unexpected Completion Of My Life's Purpose

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2024/02/14

Since My Summer As A MILF was published I have been engaged in deep medicine and accompanying inner work and life has surprised me with a deep experience of intimacy that is both everything I have longed for and has also stirred some of my deepest pain. In this episode I talk about the recent experience that felt like the completion of all that has driven me forward and how it has changed how I relate to my work and my life and the ongoing challenge of opening to love without making another person

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45:37

My Summer As A MILF: Sexual Liberation For...

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2023/12/07

I dated younger men this summer and my experience was life-changing. Join me for a spicy and expansive conversation abut what happens when we follow desire and how important it is that each of us does this in our own way.Read the article. Read more about sexual healing. Join my email list.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTHSign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR

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18:21

My Sexual Healing Journey Part II

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2023/10/31

This is an update to Episode 29 - life has evolved and here we are! A personal context for my current work on sexuality. —JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTHSign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpandis a three monthalchemicalprogram to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life.InExpandyou will

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16:19

The Importance Of Sexuality

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2023/10/17

My recent Ayahuasca ceremonies prompted me to think and write more deeply about sexuality. Here is the result. More to come.Questions for reflection:What would your life look like if you were sexually free?What do you most desire?What does satisfaction mean to you?What enlivens your body?What are you creating? What do you want to create?What do you long for?What does it look like for you to let go into the orgasmic nature of life?—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL

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10:13

I have lost sight of the shore

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2023/10/03

"In order to discover a new land we have to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - André GideI sound much more composed in this episode than I feel. Thanks for being along for the ride.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTHSign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpandis a three monthalchemicalprogram to transform

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33:48

Sex Has the Potential to Solve All the World's Problems

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2023/09/19

aka Increasing Life Force Sexual Energy Through Targeted Inner WorkThis is a version of the talk I gave at the High Desert Human Design Conference in September 2023.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTHSign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpandis a three monthalchemicalprogram to transform your current experience into a new

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53:34

The Wounded Healer with Alison James

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2023/09/12

Have you every wanted to hear how therapists talk behind the scenes? In this conversation two therapists talk about attachment styles, burn out, how much we care about our clients and so much more.Alison is a dear colleague, friend and former client and she brings her unique medicine to this conversation - she has a way of articulating inner work that is sensitive, nuanced and at the same time crystal clear.Alison James Bio:I hold a BAH from Queen’s University and an MA from Dalhousie University,

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11:09

Working With that One Sticky Problem

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2023/09/05

Often we have one area - a trigger, a relationship, money, purpose - and we put a lot of energy into figuring it out and fixing it. In this episode I outline how moment to moment tracking with another person (trained practitioners are great for this) allows you to titrate your nervous system experience and change the pattern in real time. The solution to all problems lies in our connection to ourselves - our bodies, emotions, minds and spirits - what it is to be us.Medicine work supports and

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45:42

The Alchemy Of Inner Work with Lorie Dechar

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2023/08/29

Lorie Dechar is an Acupuncturist, Author, Alchemical Healer, Mentor and Artisan of Transformation. Lorie and I talk about "the myth, the math and... something else...." - it's one of the best descriptions of inner work I've heard and Lorie drops it in the first few minutes.Join her Inner Sensing Intensive September 30/October 1 Read her book with Benjamin Fox, The Alchemy of Inner Work Join her community - A New Possibility - and learn more about her work on her website: Follow her on Instagram

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39:19

"We are all problematic." Talking about Barbie with...

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2023/08/22

Lisa and I talk about collective change and what the release of Barbie may or may not represent. It's a fun and fiery conversation!!Follow Lisa on Instagram at @brnnlisaListen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms.https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTHSign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the

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01:05:36

Exploring the Map of Your Uniqueness Using Human...

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2023/08/15

John Cole, a human design guide, joins Alison to discuss their personal experiences with Human Design, highlighting its ability to unveil our own individual uniqueness, the interplay between nature and nurture, the significance of initiations and transitions, and the transformative process of deconditioning in aligning with one's true self.“There's a transformative process going on as a society, and it's leading to a world where, I think, there will be lot more individual emphasis, meaning that

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10:32

How Can the Mind Evolve?

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2023/08/08

“That’s not how to do it.”This is a recurring theme in our society. We absorb these ideas about “right” and “wrong” and how things should be from childhood through adulthood.The mind can still hold onto these narratives even when we’ve unraveled them again and again. This is why we have four other aspects of our self — physical, emotional, spiritual and sexual — that we can tap into to support our mind in evolving, even when it’s wound so tightly.“The way that we construct our lives is a reflection

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32:26

Shifting into New Perspectives and Possibilities with...

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2023/08/01

When Tamara began working with Alison, she had tight expectations for herself.She raveled herself in how things are, how they should be, and the roles she held, like mom and professional.Her experience opened her perspective and possibilities to life and how it can be different than the way she was living. That gave her permission to put down some of the judgments and expectations she held and cultivated deeper empathy for herself and others.“All of these experiences, all of these different things

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59:09

Connecting with Your Dharma and Opening Your Heart in...

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2023/07/25

True freedom comes from letting go of grasping and opening our hearts.But those two things can be so challenging for us to embody in our modern world.Alison and guest, Stephen Cope, best-selling author and scholar, delve into the relationship between the Eastern contemplative traditions and Western depth psychology and how connecting the two can support you in navigating the modern world.Stephen shares the experiences and insights that he’s gained studying these ideas that have shaped his books,

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12:45

How to Build Capacity to Surrender

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2023/07/18

Surrender is a daily devotion.It unlocks our energy and creates a ripple effect of a positive change in ourselves.But surrender can be one of the most challenging things we can do because it requires that we face our pain.In this episode, Alison shares her recent work with a local medicine man in a ceremony to show how we have to build our capacity to surrender, and how often times, it’s by looking directly at our pain that we’re able to transform.“We need to feel what we could not feel at the time

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12:03

Moving Our Minds and Bodies into an Unraveled State...

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2023/07/11

Society ravels us all so tightly.We’re raveled in the “shoulds” and what’s “right.” We are raveled in the judgments of others, the definition of success, and the expectations others put on us. This raveling puts us into patterns that keep us stuck — out of alignment with our life force energy. To allow life to flow, we must unravel. “Often our intentions are about business, money, health, life, love. They're raveled intentions, but the answer and satisfaction are in the unraveling.”—Listen to Juicy

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