Navigating the Wild Within: A Journey of Integration

Kelly shares about..

- Writing a best-selling book on creativity and emotional regulation in seven days

- Living within cycles, rhythms, and seasons—from creating to resting

- Helping her dad die

- Finding the pinnacle of self-actualization: Goof

- Letting herself re-explore all of the creative sides she muted in her early youth

- A surprise view into Kelly’s dancer alter ego from her 20s

Show Notes

~20:15 Bill Plotkin and eco-niche : https://www.dailygood.org/story/2766/the-descent-to-soul-an-overview-of-the-terrain-bill-plotkin/

~27:12: Bill Plotkin’s Mandorla: https://www.animas.org/glossary-to-language-of-soul-canyon/

~54:07: Barbara Karnes’ hospice pamphlets https://bkbooks.com/pages/about-barbara

~01:12:05: Francis Weller’s book on grief: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Edge-Sorrow-Rituals-Renewal-ebook/dp/B00RKQ646Q?ref_=ast_author_dp

~01:12:23: Jonny Miller’s TedX talk on the gifts of grief: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonny_miller_the_gifts_of_grief?subtitle=en

~ 01:18:15 Gabor Mate on trauma: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/12/the-trauma-doctor-gabor-mate-on-happiness-hope-and-how-to-heal-our-deepest-wounds

Thoth. Academy Award-winning documentary:

and Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._K._Thoth

Animas Valley Institute: https://www.animas.org/

~2:07:20 Ramana Maharshi’s question of “Who am I?” https://www.davidgodman.org/who-am-i-sri-ramana-maharshis-teachings-on-how-to-realise-the-self/

~02:13:05 Gabrielle Bernstein’s The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith -https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Has-Your-Back-Transform-dp-1401946550/dp/1401946550/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

~02:23:05 Winifred Gallagher’s The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions https://www.amazon.com/Power-Place-Surroundings-Thoughts-Emotions/dp/0061233358/

~02:32:15 Origin of Melatonin: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/science/the-evolution-of-sleep-700-million-years-of-melatonin.html https://archive.is/9c2nJ

02:40:50 Creative Dysregulation https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Dysregulation-Creativity-Chaotic-About-ebook/dp/B0CVBM1JT

~02:46:29: David Whyte’s The Three Marriages https://www.amazon.com/Three-Marriages-Reimagining-Work-Relationship/dp/159448435X

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