411 The Feminine Frequency “The Year of the Fire Horse: Community, Care, Love and Nonviolence”

Today, Theresa and Jennifer are discussing the Year of the Fire Horse and what that might mean for how we move through the year. First, what are we hearing and feeling about the Fire Horse? High-energy, sometimes chaotic, transformation, bold changes, breaking old patterns… It’s an excellent time for self care and community care and maybe incorporating some white or blue into your life to balance the fiery red.

How may we choose to show up in a big collective community care way? Protesting, activism, nonviolence. Erica Chenoweth is someone Theresa refers to when thinking about countering the violence with non-violence. We discuss what makes a successful nonviolent movement: 1. the ability to organize large scale participation and build momentum, 2. ability to illicit loyaltyships in key pillars of support. 3. maintain resilience even under violence. 4. innovate beyond street demonstrations.

Playbook of every successful non-violent struggle.

Jennifer think about the different roles we might play when engaged in a movement as outlined in the Social Change Ecosystem Map. And is inspired by the wisdom shared by Valerie Kaur  and her philosophy on Revolutionary Love: Three Different Tenets to it. Loving Self, Love for Others, Love for your Opponents.

Want some inspiration for taking Anti-ICE action:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/

From Pat Ryan’s Office: Please complete his quick survey here to tell him your thoughts about stopping ICE from opening a new detention facility in our home of the Hudson Valley.

Anyone thinking Tax Strike? Here are some resources. https://nwtrcc.org/ https://taxstrike.info/

We conclude the show with some Divine Feminine divination from Lakshmi.

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394 Natasha Williams “The Parts of Him I Kept”

Today on the show, I speak with Natasha Williams.  She has an MA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her memoir and debut book, THE PARTS OF HIM I KEPT (Apprentice House. 2025), is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member. In the tradition of Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous and Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road, this is one family’s story that asks us to consider the ways mental illness is as much a social issue as a biological condition and illuminates ways we find hope, and even thrive in the face of the extraordinary challenge of mental illness.

Excerpts and essays have been published in the Bread Loaf Journal, Change Seven, LIT, Memoir Magazine, Onion River Review, Writers Digest, Writers Read, Post Road, and South Dakota Review.

Today Natasha shares about her childhood and the special if not sometimes challenging relationship she had with her farther. We get a glimpse into the stories she shares in her book and the reasons for writing it. It’s more than a personal story, it’s a window into what we’re lacking broadly in society when it comes to what we value and how we care for each other.

She’ll be in PROVINCETOWN, MA, Saturday, October 4, 2025. Event details HERE. Then in HIGH FALLS, NY, Sunday, October 26th, 4pm, 2025 at Blue Heron Books, 1209 NYS Route 213. Event details HERE.

The book is available at local bookstores as well as online, and if you’re shopping online and what to support your local book sellers, check out Bookshop.org.

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