Episode Summary:

Here we discuss our pivotal point in human history and how we must stop ‘banishing’: parts of ourselves, parts of others, and whole selves and others.  In this episode we explore how we need to expand, expand, expand so that we can ‘hold it all’ to enlarge our perspective to end violence and punishment in favor of loving boundaries and wisdom.  We discuss the nuanced differences of still holding people and ourselves accountable with rehabilitation and healing vs total exclusion in an attempt to change patterns and even create a better future and thus a better history.

Listen for these insights:

• How when we feel the need to banish we can pattern interrupt and open instead of contract and defend

• When a small ‘prayer’ can help 

• Why we need to stop contracting and defending

• The necessity of self-trust

• Why expansion allows us to also extend our vision and perspective

• Vulnerability and its role 

• How control and vulnerability cannot exist at the same time

• The of asking the deeper questions and getting curious about our own thoughts feelings and triggers

• What is required to heal

• What happens if we don’t heal

• History and its repetitions…how we tend to save things for later

• How can we meet the beast in the eye and not turn away

• What allows us to switch from banishing to exploring