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Welcome to the Woman Uncaged Podcast Season 3, Episode 13!

How does nervous system regulation relate to being uncaged? That's what we're talking about today.

We discuss:

• the badge of honor busyness can be
• how a revved up nervous system has come to seem "normal"
• how our push to maximize contributes
• antidotes to stress
• how we each work with our clients who are experiencing stress
• the impact of our severance from nature on our lives
• the importance of grounding and centering
• what we each turn to for ourselves when we're experiencing stress

What about you? How do you de-stress and regulate? We'd love to hear!

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to episode 12 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast.

In this week's episode, we chat about:

- The NBC article about how female bonobo monkeys fend off male aggression that inspired this episode

- How patriarchy persists by keeping women separated from one another

- Why patriarchy has been so darn successful at staying around even though women actually outnumber men

- Internalized misogyny and how that affects our communities

- How we've been set up to compete as women and how that isn't typically mirrored in the animal kingdom

- How our society was set up to ensure women are completely dependent upon men financially

- Why it is important to seek out the work of women

- How to cultivate female connection

- The changes that occur in cultural messaging for girls after we hit puberty

- How we can start to bring forth greater collaboration between women and activating the power of the web

- Questioning the framing of the very article that inspired this episode!

Resources:

- NBC Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/bonobos-form-girl-groups-fend-male-aggression-study-says-rcna202803

- Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and The Blade and Sacred Pleasure (as well as several other books)

- The Web episode of Woman Uncaged: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bDIcom0TMnRaGvFI6uTEl?si=5d9c77a993aa44f0

- How to Decenter Men in Your Life by Zawn Villines on the Liberating Motherhood Substack: https://zawn.substack.com/p/how-to-decenter-men-in-your-life

- Carol Gilligan's book The Birth of Pleasure

- Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to this Season 3 bonus mini-episode of the Woman Uncaged Podcast!

We've all heard this advice often given to women who are moving into new phases of life: "Before you make any major decisions or start dating or take on new obligations, develop a deeper relationship with yourself first. Spend some time focusing on you and pouring into your own life."

But, how does one do that? That's what we're talking about today.

We explore:

- How to get to know ourselves again in this new season of life, including some of our favorite practices to do so

-Why it's important to sit with the emptiness, as least for awhile

-Questions to ask oneself when considering what to do next

-How to experiment with new things

-The risks of not taking this on

-The benefits of getting support

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 11.

We discuss:

What we're missing by not having spaciousness and slowness in our lives.

Our fear of boredom and feelings.

How rushing around impacts our relationships with other humans.

How connection happens in the slowness.

How we introduce slowness in our own lives.

What we stand to gain by introducing more slowness and spaciousness into our lives.

Time scarcity.

The myth of balance that is peddle to women.

How to introduce a slower rhythm.

More savoring; less rushing.

Linda quotes Marion Woodman: "If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding."

Resources:
War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Slow TV movement, including Moose Migration cameras in Sweden

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to episode 10 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! Today we are exploring the costs of our phallic-centric culture, what it means for women, and how we can imagine something different.

We explore:

- How erectile dysfunction meds are being marketed to younger men and why that's an issue

- A european company that is offering a course on menopause and how vastly that differs from American corporations

- How a phallic-centric culture ignores women's needs and experiences

- The impact of the administration's attacks on DEI, including decreased funding for studying women's bodies

- How the psychological map of human development looked ONLY at the development of boys into men, never considering how development into maturity might be different for girls and women

- The importance of women-centered spaces

- Listening to and holding space for differing experiences, and not perpetuating patriarchy by assuming our experience is everyone's experience

- How do we meet this moment where it feels like we are going backwards

- Imagining a sensual, earthy feminine culture and what that brings up for us

Resources Mentioned:

Book: Passionista: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Pleasuring a Man by Ian Kerner (also author of She Comes First)

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 9.

We discuss:
- The Good Girl and the wish for permission (especially when it comes to money)

- When one person in a couple is the primary earner, how that impacts access to money and agency in the relationship

- The systems that condition us to seek permission to meet even our basic needs

- The cost of hierarchies in our relationships

- The cost of our extreme privacy around money

- How our compassion can be exploited without clear boundaries and the permission to say no

- Scarcity mindset and taking ownership

- Cashflow, using our money, and having faith in our ability to create more

- Our comfort with restriction vs. expansion and the impact of perceived control

- The role of self-sacrifice

Resources mentioned:

-Caliban and The Witch (book) by Silvia Federici

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to episode 8 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast! In this week's episode, we dive into belonging, why it can be tricky in our modern times, and how to use it as a verb in our lives.

We explore:

- How do we feel a sense of belonging if we don't see what we value mirrored back to us in the places we are

- Instead of continually searching for where we belong, how do we belong ourselves to where we live?

- Belonging isn't something that just happens, it's something you can actively participate in

- What happens when we feel like wherever we live is temporary

- How volunteering can help you belong where you are and looking for folks in your area who DO care about what you care about

- What does it mean to ACTUALLY live somewhere

- The dance of freedom vs belonging

- How some places just don't suit us and how do we know

- The eroding sense of individual place

- The importance of third places or outside places, especially when we work from home

- Belonging in terms of interpersonal relationships

- The art of saying yes

- Acting like somehow who loves where you live

- Embracing seasonality even in terms of belonging

Resources Mentioned:

Culture Study Substack by Anne Helen Petersen

This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are by Melody Warnick

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-Pa Turner

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/

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Welcome to Woman Uncaged Season 3, Episode 7.

We discuss:
- our definitions of intuition

-how to discern between intuition and anxiety

-what happens when we don't pay attention to our intuition

-times when we've listened to our intuition, even in the face of tremendous pressure not to

-the link between self-trust and intuition

-fear of our own power

-how to cultivate your relationship with your intuition

-Laura's favorite exercise for tapping into inspiration/intuition and a story of what happened once when she used it for herself.

Resources mentioned:

-This is Where you Belong (book) by Melody Warnick
-The Babushkas of Chernobyl (documentary) https://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com/

~Linda's book: Homecoming: One Woman's Story of Dismantling Her Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul ~Laura's Monday Money Missives: https://goodwithmoney.substack.com/