12. Life School: Levels of Closeness - Relationship Discernment Practice (Ch. 4, Women Who Run With the Wolves)

This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme. This month we are studying Chapter 4: “The Mate: Union with the Other”.

With this exercise you will combine everything we've learned so far. You'll turn to your intuition to rate a relationship on the scale of Thriving Relationships (Manawee) to Negative Relationships (Bluebeard). Then you'll seek your intuition to determine the level of closeness you intuitively know you want to have with this person.

Episode Download 

You can download the PDF of all the steps for this practice at wildauthenticity.com/podcast.

Other Resources Mentioned

Finding Your Own North Star by Martha BeckHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiGoogle Doc of Resources for Abusive Relationships

Credit

Thank you so much to the work of Martha Beck, and her Life Coach Training, where Caitlin and Emma learned the original practices this work is derived from.

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Attributions

Theme music: A special thank you to these incredible artists, who created the music featured in our podcast: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

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