
Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers Ep. #254: Living in Complexity & Facilitating Healing Work under Capitalism with Laura Mae Northrup
Feb 22, 2022
53:24
Laura Mae Northrup (she/her), MFT is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her first book Radical Healership is a spiritually-informed, anticapitalist guide for healing practitioners who seek to build a values-driven healing practice. And it's out today!
In this episode, Eryn and Laura talk about:
- Her journey writing her new book
- Emotions & book writing!
- Surrendering & letting emerge
- Overshaping our experiences
- Living in complexity
- Grappling with money (and charging money!) within capitalism
- The degradation of spirituality and healing
- The history of taking away people’s access to healing and spirituality as an intentional strategy of domination and disempowerment
- How psychedelics and entheogens help us heal sexual trauma
- Trauma as a spiritual wound
- The need to experience so much joy and beauty as people in care roles
- Right sized-ness
- How you sustain the path as a facilitator of healing work
ENTER THE BOOK GIVEAWAY ON INSTAGRAM.
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/laura-mae-northrup
Register for Breathwork for Care on March 1st. Check out the Religious Trauma workbook. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.
You can learn more about her work here: www.lauramaenorthrup.com. Follow her on Instagram, check out her podcast, and buy the book wherever you buy books (especially from your local small bookstore!).
