As a highly sensitive multipotentialite, Yvonne Kjorlien has many creative interests, passions, and pursuits. She studies scattered and scavenged remains to help increase the recovery rate of human remains in outdoor contexts, enabling law enforcement personnel to close forensic cases and provide closure for families. She is also an author, blogger (The Reluctant Archeologist) and writing coach for those bringing new work into the world.

I was inspired by the multifaceted nature of Yvonne’s personal and professional interests and invited her to join me to explore them in this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast.

This one is for you if you naturally gravitate towards various pursuits and what others might describe as diversions. It can be liberating to hear from people who have connected unexpected dots and forged new pathways based on what brings them to life rather than what socialised stories tell them to do. I hope this conversation will bring you peace, encouragement, and inspiration.

Yvonne and I dug into a whole range of topics, including:

• How to be a multipotentialite (holding a range of interests and pursuits) in a world that wants to put you in a box
• Why labels can be a help and hindrance when making our way in the world
• How subverting labels taps into a primal sense of risk (and can make others uncomfortable)
• What it means to dig and excavate our stories in a healthy and exciting way
• How we might recognise the messages our body is sending in response to opportunities, requests, and stimuli
• The power of asking why (and doing it in a way that opens us up rather than closing us down)

Links

• Follow Yvonne on Instagram
• Yvonne’s Website
• The Reluctant Archaeologist Blog
• Memoirs of a Reluctant Archaeologist (book)

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