A Nymph, the Crazy Lady in the Attic, and a Control Freak Walk into a Bar: Charming the Shadow Self with Zaeli Kane
Zaeli Kane is a woman of many talents. She is a folk epidemiologist, a writer, a comedian, a hypnotherapist and the proprietor of She Shed. We had such a deep, fun, and wide-ranging conversation. In this episode, we discuss:
Spirituality as responsibility and joy
Wearing lots of sweaters
Personification of our shadow selves (a nymph, a crazy lady in the attic, and a mean control-freak)
Releasing shame and charming the shadow self
Balancing being multi-passionate amidst the pressure to “pick a lane”
Growing up Mormon, the weight of a name, and the trauma of disavowing parts of ourselves
Intellectual knowing vs bodily understanding
The process of hypnosis and self-hypnosis
Understanding the power of images and thoughts to drive our subconscious
Making healing fun and pleasurable
Motherhood, spirituality, and writing your way back to a new sanity
Why therapy is awesome
The invitation to look at yourself as nature
Tuning into the consciousness of plants
“Everyone’s got something to take care of. There are talents to take care of, there are tendernesses that we have, and there are wounds. So that’s what we do with our attention.”
“I want people to understand their imagination as their immune system.”