Most of us consider selfishness a bad thing...but what if that's an oppressive lie? Episode Resources: Link to become a patreon ! Reflection Questions: How do/have you used the word selfish against other people? How has the word selfish been used against you? How do/have you used the word selfish against yourself? How do you want to (re)define selfish ? Love How To Make Love ? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️...
Mar 30, 2022•18 min
laura tackles a listener question from episode 82: "How can you personally tell the difference between feeling an emotion and inflaming an emotion?" Do you have questions from any of the episodes? Let laura know here: https://www.speakpipe.com/laurabrewer
Mar 16, 2022•6 min
High expectations can be helpful -- and they can create harm. For ourselves, and for others. How do we know the difference? What can be done to mitigate the harm? All in today's episode. Love How To Make Love ? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove Access the show notes page here: www.laurabrewer.love/episode83...
Feb 28, 2022•22 min
Let's talk about the importance of feeling emotional pain and "negative" emotion in both our lives and in the work of justice. In this episode, you'll learn ways to feel sh*tty -- better . Access the show notes page here: www.laurabrewer.love/episode82 Love How To Make Love ? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove If you'd like to work with laura 1:1 to build a radical practice of feeling all ...
Feb 08, 2022•19 min
Join host laura as we dig into the whats, whys, and hows of aliveness. What prevents us from being and feeling alive? What helps us be and feel alive? Access the show notes page here: www.laurabrewer.love/episode81 Questions from the episode for reflection: What does aliveness mean to you? What do you need to be more alive in and for your own life? What would you like the point of your life to be -- today? Where are you distracted from being alive right now? What about life are you missing out o...
Jan 18, 2022•15 min
Access the show notes page here: www.laurabrewer.love/episode80 Love How To Make Love ? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove If you'd like to work with Laura 1:1 to build a radical practice of gentleness , you can do that here ....
Jan 11, 2022•14 min
Thank you times a million. I'll see you for episode 80 in the new year. love. laura
Dec 21, 2021•2 min
Do you have your own back? Would you like to? If you'd like to explore working with laura to build a radical practice of self compassion , you can do that here . You can find the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode79 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Nov 30, 2021•12 min
We've all heard of 'intent vs. impact' -- but how are 'intensity' and 'impact' related? And does our intensity produce the impact we mean to have? If you'd like to explore working with laura to change your life's impact or your life's intensity , you can do that here . You can find the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode78 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howt...
Nov 16, 2021•13 min
It's another listener love pick!--a listener-selected replay episode while we take a short October hiatus. Join guest adrienne maree brown for a conversation about learning to make pleasure, science fiction, and freedom. And how they're all tied together. adrienne is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in North Carolina. She is also the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversat...
Oct 26, 2021•51 min
It's the first ever listening love pick!--a listener selected replay episode while we take a short October hiatus. Join former guest Yolonda Coles Jones and her partner Will Jones for a frank discussion about making partnership, freedom, intimacy, conscious parenting, and raising free children. Will and Yolonda are both entrepreneurs, home-based educators, and the curators of The Real Life Joneses . Welcome to a conversation about making love and justice through practicing intimacy and freedom. ...
Oct 19, 2021•57 min
In today's episode, we will: Look at the inherent challenges and limitations with focusing on being not depleted ; Understand why a focus on being well-resourced is more liberatory; Hear some real-talk: you are the only real resource you ever truly have. Learn juicier, more empowered, more creative questions to ask yourself to create well-being. If you'd like to explore working with laura to create a deep, permanent sense of being well-resourced , you can do that here . You can find the show not...
Sep 30, 2021•12 min
In today's episode, we will: Define courage -- unconventionally. And as a verb. Identify opportunities and obstacles to practicing courage. Hear a vulnerable example of struggling to courage and then enacting courage in the midst of fear. Be invited to a practice-challenge: 100 days of courage. If you'd like to learn more about laura's 100 days of courage program, you can do that here . You can find more info on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode74 Love How To Make Love ? You can ...
Sep 16, 2021•17 min
Must of us don't feel overwhelm, we think overwhelm. Learn the difference in today's episode, and why it matters. You can find more info on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode73 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Aug 26, 2021•15 min
Join laura for a discussion about the importance of defining and making love for yourself. You can find more info on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode72 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Aug 17, 2021•10 min
Join laura for a discussion about what imposter syndrome is, how it uses and connects to oppression, and four strategies to heal it. You can find more info on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode71 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Jul 29, 2021•16 min
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about what we mean by 'taking up space,' why that's historically harmful, and 5 concrete whys/hows on learning to take space as a practice of liberation and wholeness. You can find more info on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode69 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Jun 29, 2021•11 min
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of wholeness as a noun and a verb. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode68 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Jun 17, 2021•14 min
Join host laura brewer as she explains how learning to hear and validate our desire can be a practice of love and justice. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode67 Love How To Make Love ? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
May 31, 2021•12 min
Join host laura brewer as she shares 5 personal lessons that changed her life. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode66 Love How To Make Love? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
May 11, 2021•14 min
Join guests Tanya Williams and Bari Katz for a discussion about making love and justice with and through a liberatory consciousness. Steeped in the work of Dr. Barbara Love, Bari Katz and Tanya Williams have developed a relationship over the years deeply rooted in their shared beliefs and values around social justice and liberation. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversation at: https://www.laurabrewer.love/episode65 Love How To Make Love? You can give a little love back by wri...
Apr 29, 2021•46 min
Join end-of-life doula, coach, and host laura brewer for an exploration of death, love, and justice. Welcome to a special series and set of critical dialogues about how we can all live -- and die -- more courageously. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/miniseries6 Love How To Make Love? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Apr 20, 2021•8 min
Join guest Dr. BJ Miller for a transformative conversation about grief. What it is, how it feels, the different shapes it takes, how to work with it, learn from it, and deepen our experience of life and love as a result. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/miniseries5 Love How To Make Love? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon . ❤️...
Mar 16, 2021•47 min
Two minisodes in one! Join guests Nora Menkin & Anna Swenson for two in-depth conversations about death care: legal considerations, body disposition options, and agency at the end of life. We'll also dig into laura's current choice for her own body disposition: natural organic reduction with Recompose. There is lots of info in this episode and on the show notes page below. Quick links to the three orgnanizations featured are: Recompose ; The Co-Op Funeral Home ; and the People's Memorial Ass...
Mar 02, 2021•52 min
Join guest Daisy Sharrock for a deeply personal, moving story about loss. And intimacy. This is a conversation about creating intimacy with death, and the healing and love that can subsequently be made. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/miniseries3 Love How To Make Love? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon . ❤️...
Feb 16, 2021•30 min
Join guest Iana Sundari for a powerful conversation about death and justice. Iana is a birth and death doula, and the Director of BIPOC Well-Being for The Dinner Party . Welcome to a s pecial series and set of critical dialogues about how we can all live -- and die -- more courageously. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/miniseries2 Love How To Make Love? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on P...
Feb 04, 2021•43 min
Join end-of-life doula, coach, and host laura brewer for an exploration of death, love, and justice. Welcome to a special series and set of critical dialogues about how we can all live -- and die -- more courageously. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/miniseries Love How To Make Love? Return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Jan 20, 2021•16 min
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of how our blueprints for how we love can get all twisted up in patriarchy and paternalism, without our even realizing it. In this episode you'll hear: A big announcement about a new mini-series on death and loss that will be airing on How to Make Love. A "cosmo" quiz to help you self-evaluate the extent to which you might be loving yourself or others in ways that reproduce patriarchy. A distinction between taking responsibility for and taking care of. 4...
Nov 30, 2020•15 min
Join guests Randy Quarterman and Sarah Eisner to talk about ancestral healing, redress, and reparations to the descendants of American slavery. Randy and Sarah are the founders of The Reparations Project. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversation at: https://www.laurabrewer.love/episode57 Love How To Make Love? You can give a little love back by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Nov 27, 2020•37 min
Join host laura brewer for discussion about practicing self, family, and organizational care during election week -- and how to prepare for it now. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page: www.laurabrewer.love/episode56 Love How To Make Love? You can return the love by writing a review on iTunes or joining our incredible inside supporters on Patreon. ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/howtomakelove...
Oct 27, 2020•10 min
