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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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12:41

Practicing Surrender Empowers Others to Heal in Their...

Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul,... ·

2023/07/04

We live in such a “fix me” culture, often looking outside ourselves for the answers — or offering our answers to our friends and family members when they’re experiencing pain.But to truly support our own healing and the healing of others, we have to surrender to these painful moments and move through the process in our own time in our own way.Here, Alison shares the complexities of practicing surrender as a way to empower others and yourself and the importance of having support and healing

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11:10

Submission vs. Surrender

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2023/06/27

What's the difference between submission and surrender?Both of these terms hold the essence of letting go, but there’s a fine line between the two of them.Surrender can be an embodied state that supports our ability to create our desires and experience life as it is, while submission can be where we fall into the false idea that “it is what it is.”In this episode, Alison shares the nuances between these two energies to support you in spotting where you might be surrendering versus where you might be

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10:48

Navigating Betrayal Without Losing Your Truth

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2023/06/20

Alison delves into the painful experience of betrayal in love and how we can step into our own healing and move past the betrayal.Drawing from her own experience, she explores the shame, anger, and upset that arises when our beliefs about love and trust are shattered, and how it feels like everything we thought was true has been taken away.She offers perspectives for how we can navigate and accept betrayal without attaching it to our self-worth or harboring resentment toward the person who betrayed

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41:08

Midwifing Each Other to Presence: The Breakthrough...

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2023/06/13

In April, Alison created an experimental offering in which she invited a few of her existing clients to participate in, called Elevate. During this experience, Alison facilitated the group through Toad medicine work, which is a psychedelic, paired with intense breathwork.Two of the participants, Alyssa and Francesca, share their experience working with the medicine and the container. They share the transformation they’ve received that’s still very much unfolding for them, including relieving

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45:44

Trusting Yourself and Unearthing Your Wildness as a ...

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2023/06/06

Julie McIntyre, author and Earth Ceremonialist, shares how by developing a personal relationship with our bodies and trusting their wisdom, we can navigate life with more authenticity — which she describes as a wildness that embraces the sacredness of all life forms.Julie takes us on a personal journey, at the age of 10 when she discovered a magical place in a corner of her family’s farm where a massive old cottonwood tree stood. This became her refuge, a space to escape the chaos and connect with

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18:25

How to Build a Sacred Sexuality Practice to Cultivate...

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2023/05/30

Sacred sexuality is the difference between getting your steps in and enjoying a walk in nature.It's broadening our experience of sexuality to include all of us, giving ourselves permission to be truly and deeply who we are in all our forms, in all areas, cultivating a deeper connection to ourselves, others, and the world.Tune in to hear Alison’s personal experience with sacred sexuality and tips for how you might consider approaching this type of practice in your life to stoke your life force, and

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13:29

How Self-Expression Can Unlock the Energy Needed to...

Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul,... ·

2023/05/23

When our sexual energy is blocked, it can be challenging to create what we want in the world — whether that’s to create a thriving business or simply how we want to engage with our family in a healthy way.Freedom of expression is a practice that can unlock this energy that’s needed to create the life you desire in all aspects of your life.Here Alison shares how she needed to reclaim her self-expression and how you can find ways to express your own as a way of connecting with your sexual energy.“It’s

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38:06

My Sexual Healing Journey and How It Became the...

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2023/05/16

Alison shares her sexual healing journey and personal stories of sexuality, intimacy, and love that highlight just how interconnected our sexual energy is to all aspects of our lives.Tune in to this vulnerable and heartfelt episode to discover the power of being present, embracing your sexuality, and the importance of inner marriage, where we hold and love ourselves fully, before seeking a partnership with others.“Sexuality and love is so much a part of everything that happens in our lives. If we

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13:00

Why You Have a Lack of Desire in Your Relationship

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2023/05/09

Challenges in the area of desire tend to call us towards interpersonal dynamics. We think it is a relationship problem. I believe this is a misdirection of attention. Experiencing a lack of desire in your relationship isn’t necessarily a sign that there’s something “wrong” with your relationship.All sexual desire starts with you, even when you’re in a partnership.Feeling a lack of desire towards your partner is a sign that your own sexual energy needs tending to, and in this episode, Alison shares

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16:11

Expanding the Definition of Orgasm Beyond The Genitals

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2023/05/02

In our society, we tend to conflate genital sex and orgasm with sexuality in general.But genital orgasm is only part of the definition of orgasm. We all get to have orgasms all the time. Every breath is a reach toward satisfaction, a peak, and a release.This episode encourages you to expand your definition of orgasm to see how embodying sexual energy in your life can support you in cultivating your desires and creating in the world.“Of course, we want genital orgasm, but let's start with orgasm

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40:05

Connecting to the Love that Creates Inner Richness...

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2023/04/25

How can we not only become okay with suffering but welcome it, love it, and appreciate it?That’s the question that unfolds in this episode with Heather Vesey, a Wisdom Mentor.Through this emotional and profound conversation, you’ll receive a beautiful call to cultivate your relationship with the Divine and with love itself.Alison has been supported through Heather’s Wisdom Mentorship since the summer of 2022 and invited Heather to share this wisdom with you in this episode.“What is your way of

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10:41

What Type of Healing or Therapy is Right for You?

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2023/04/18

There are so many healing practices and therapy modalities that can support you with on your healing journey, so how do you choose what type of healing and therapy is right for you? In this episode, Alison shares both her perspective from her personal experience as well as research that highlights the most important consideration when choosing who to work with and why it matters so much on your healing journey.This insight will help you tune into your own intuition to guide you toward who and what

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29:26

The Third Stage of Healing

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2023/04/11

This is a follow-up to episode 16, “The Two Stages of Healing.” If you haven’t already tuned into that episode, start there and then come back to this episode.This episode is filled with insight that will shape your understanding and open your mind on the deep work that needs to happen to change our state of being in the world.Here, Alison explores what the third stage of healing is, how you can identify where you’re at in different areas of your life as a way to expand your awareness of what’s

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23:39

What Does It Look Like to Thrive in all 5 Aspects of...

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2023/04/04

What does it look like to thrive in all five aspects of your health —physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and sexual?This episode is intended to serve as a North Star on your healing journey. Alison shares a few of the most important qualities we’re working toward embodying in order to thrive in each of these aspects.Sharing what a healthy state of each of these five aspects might look and feel like gives you an understanding of where you are currently with each and where you may desire to focus

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22:35

Anxiety is the Tension Between Our True and False Self

Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul,... ·

2023/03/28

Anxiety is a multi-layered phenomenon. It’s also overdetermined — many different experiences and combinations of experiences can be labeled anxiety.One aspect of anxiety is the relationship between how we are living our life and our true feelings.This could look like trying to keep a parent or employer happy or being in a relationship that isn't working for you.Living in this state of nonalignment in one or more areas of your life can provoke anxiety. The anxiety sits on top of the true feelings

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29:59

Working with Triggers to Heal Trauma and Shift into...

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2023/03/21

Last year, I flew to Hawaii to attend a retreat with Eckhart Tolle.The entire time, I kept getting these signs that I was out of the zone of tolerance. I was triggered again and again in major ways that I hadn’t experienced in years, despite turning to my tools and practices to bring myself back to presence.I’m sharing my experience with you here so you can witness the value of recognizing your triggers and facing them head-on, even when it can be incredibly uncomfortable.I share how my practices

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14:32

Leaning Into What’s “Juicy” to Make Life Easier

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2023/03/14

Building our capacity for juice and pleasure is a central part of healing.It breaks apart the conditioning that life is hard, that we have to push, and that we have to obey.None of those things are juicy.When we’re leaning into what’s juicy, we’re ultimately moving towards a life of overflow that comes from touching the heart of love and life force energy.In this episode, I’m sharing what juicy is, why it’s such a prominent aspect of my work and how we change, and how you can find the juice in your

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14:35

How Somatic Healing Works With Psilocybin

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2023/03/07

Somatic healing supports you in releasing imprints, patterns, and memories that have been stored in your body.Oftentimes, these are memories that we may not even be aware of but are influencing how we’re showing up in the world.Here I’m sharing how somatic healing works with psilocybin so you can better understand how you can meet the medicine to accelerate the healing process of this stored trauma in our bodies in service of your intention.“This is how somatic healing works. It's allowing ourselves

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40:45

18: The Breakthrough with Alyssa: I'm Safe. I'm...

Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul,... ·

2023/02/28

When Alyssa started working with me, she had been on anxiety medication for a year and knew that while it was a supportive tool to get her through a challenging year, it was a bandaid and she wanted a solution.She described it like she was in a tsunami of emotion that she couldn’t swim away from any long: “Who am I? Where am I? Why is life like this? I can't manage.”Throughout her year of intentional work with herself and the medicine, she stepped into a grounded, whole, and in safer physical,

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17:34

17: Working with Psychedelics to Heal Your Trauma

Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul,... ·

2023/02/21

What keeps us from being present is the inability to experience the present fully. We experience the present when we feel emotions, experience physical sensations and are aware of what is happening.When we are unable to be present we are in a traumatic reaction — a separation from our life force energy.When we’re holding trauma, we can’t see that within ourselves.Sacred medicine, along with other healing practices, supports us to see, feel, and embody what we weren’t able to before and thus to heal

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