<![CDATA[Kitchen Table Alchemy - Podcast Episodes]]>

<![CDATA[Kitchen Table Alchemy - Podcast Episodes]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:47:05 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[039 Holy Women's Work]]>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:10:54 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/039-holiness-of-womens-work

With guest Kaden Sheffield, we discuss the spiritual practices couched in traditional women's work, the feminine side of spirituality and religion, and the way text vs image impacts how we see the world.

Listen to the episode here.

Works referenced in this episode:
Max Dashu 's book Witches and Pagans; Women in European Folk Religion 700 -1100

The Big Bang, The Buddha, and The Baby Boom by Wes "Scoop" Nisker

The Alphabet Vs The Goddess by Leonard Shlain

Randa Hamwi's work on the process of Iqra

Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus

]]><![CDATA[038 My Sh-t is My Superpower]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:31:39 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/038-my-sh-t-is-my-superpower

Jacqueline and guest Jaena Moynihan meet on the New Moon opening Eclipsepacolypse 2018 to talk about shifting patterns, making their way through the dark, and realizing that what we thought as shameful weaknesses are actually the place with the greatest potential for connection.

Listen to the episode here
Referenced in this episode:
Astrobutterfly description of the new moon in Cancer and accompanying partial solar eclipse

Shift Network Shamanism Global Summit

]]><![CDATA[37-The Tricky Thing About Consent]]>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 01:00:36 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/37-the-tricky-thing-about-consent

It seems simple that a man shouldn’t make sexual advances without a woman’s consent, yet we live in a culture that often sends men the opposite message. In the midst of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, we examine what we can do to make the world a safer place for all people when it comes to sex.

David Wong's "7 Reasons Why So Many Guys Don't Understand Consent" digs deeper into why consent can be so difficult to understand, regardless of the simplicity of the Consent is like Tea video.

Jacqueline & Sara reference Peggy Orenstein's book Schoolgirls as they're unpacking Wong's article and how girls can't really say "No" until they're fully able to say "Yes".

That leads them to the conclusion that the base of the issues around consent have to do with shame around sex in general for women in particular. Judith Plaskow, in The Coming of Lilith, shares a rewrite of Leviticus 18 that addresses the need to have conversations about sex and boundaries around sex, but in a positive way that promotes health rather than protects predators.

Listen to the episode here-- but read the David Wong piece first. Seriously. Do it.

]]><![CDATA[36- Doing Right by the Ancestors]]>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:35:14 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/36-doing-right-by-the-ancestors

With the spiritual realm being particularly close to us this time of year, we explore how we can honor our ancestors in the present. We also discuss Spiritual Bypassing - a shadow way of using spiritual concepts to avoid facing hard realities. We end with practical advice on how to know what you have responsibility to change and what to trust to spirit. Listen here

In this episode we mention:
When Spiritual Bypassing Meets Racism Meets Gaslighting

Mozart in the Jungle

Dr. Phil on Stephen Colbert

See Also:
This is What Tradition Looks Like

An Evening with the Ancestors

]]><![CDATA[35 Woke UP M A D: Working with Anger]]>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:05:33 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/35-woke-up-m-a-d-working-with-anger

“Anger wants a place to land”, so how do we work with that without hurting ourself or others? In this episode, Jacqueline and Sara both woke up angry, and talk about working through anger in a productive way. Listen here.

]]><![CDATA[Shadows and triggers and emotions, OH MY!]]>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:19:57 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/shadows-and-triggers-and-emotions-oh-my

Growth - personally, professionally, and culturally - requires facing difficult emotions and having tough conversations. On the other side is truth, peace, and up-leveling your life. Listen here.

Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:
Amy Schumer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlvDV3mpZw
Tina Fey video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvpXZxXWZU
Louis CK video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTXHFcgK-c

]]><![CDATA[Monsters in our Midst]]>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:10:18 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/monsters-in-our-midst

The recent White Supremacist rally in Virginia has sparked a national conversation about how to push back the tidal wave of hatred that has been washing over the country of late. How do we work to transform the hatred we see around us without becoming monsters ourselves? Listen here

Discussion on honoring Yes & No, see Don Ruiz Jr’s book The Five Attachments

]]><![CDATA[32 - Living with Lions at the Watering Hole]]>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:59:16 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/32-living-with-lions-at-the-watering-hole

We dive into an article about the bardo, the void between death and rebirth, that is a part of the natural cycle of change that we experience repeatedly throughout life, and discuss what can come out of that place of letting go in order to experience rebirth. Listen here.

Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:

The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo
https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/

Pema Chodron

Katie Haverly http://www.katiehaverly.com/

]]><![CDATA[Start Playing Small]]>Sat, 20 May 2017 20:12:46 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/start-playing-small

We often assume that big change comes from large organizations and charismatic leaders, but in this episode we discuss how powerful change most often starts with small communities comprised of individuals leading themselves - and how you can be one of them, no matter how big or small your aspirations.

Listen in here.

Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:

Why We Need New Ways of Thinking
Anne With An E
Meetup.com
Marketing for Hippies

]]><![CDATA[Awareness and its Opposite]]>Sat, 06 May 2017 21:23:50 GMThttps://www.kitchentablealchemy.com/podcast-episodes/awareness-and-its-opposite

Guest Randa Hamwi uses the oldest Arabic lexicon and a concordance of the Qur’an to come to some really profound understandings of what it means to be Human. In a time of closing things down and drawing sides, Ms. Hamwi’s work opens up, expands and connects. Her upcoming book focuses on what she calls “The IQRA Challenge,” which gives a process to move through information and use it to serve Creation. Listen here

Here are links to the authors and resources we mentioned in this episode:

IQRA: The Challenge
Randa Hamwi’s website
Marianne Williamson on Divine Compensation
Bee Season movie
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

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