We're doing a deep dive on Julia Cameron's 12 Week Process of The Artist's Way. This is week 2: "Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one." https://juliacameronlive.com/ GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.co...
Apr 04, 2024•11 min
We're doing a deep dive on Julia Cameron's 12 Week Process of The Artist's Way. This is week 2: "Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one." https://juliacameronlive.com/ GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.co...
Apr 03, 2024•9 min
We're doing a deep dive on Julia Cameron's 12 Week Process of The Artist's Way. This is week 1: "Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one." https://juliacameronlive.com/ GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.co...
Apr 02, 2024•12 min
We're doing a deep dive on Julia Cameron's 12 Week Process of The Artist's Way. This is week 1: "Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one." https://juliacameronlive.com/ GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.co...
Apr 01, 2024•12 min
"We are all creative. Creativity is a natural life force that all can experience in one form or another. Just as blood is part of our physical body and is nothing we must invent, creativity is part of us and we each can tap into the greater creative energies of the universe and pull from that vast, powerful spiritual wellspring to amplify our own individual creativity. As a culture, we tend to define creativity too narrowly and to think of it in elitist terms, as something belonging to a small c...
Mar 29, 2024•9 min
The overwhelm is real, and until I return to a more regular sense of whelm, I am going to go easy on myself if I don't have time for an explicit "date" with myself. Today's resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Way https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/artists-dates/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 28, 2024•10 min
counterwill is an important developmental function, but it can be a hindrance to healthy relationship develeopment. it's important to recognize it is an instinct, albeit a frustrating one. so remember when dealing with counterwill, it's important not to ignore the rebellion but also important not to force control. instead, we should pay attention + focus on our attachment in the relationship, instead. “We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take res...
Mar 27, 2024•9 min
“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” - Gabor Maté If you didn't know, Gabor Maté is truly a great educator and I aspire to communicate ideas as meaningfully and effectively as he can. Until then, I'll just encourage everyone to check out the other amazing work he does: GABOR MATÉ'S WEBSITE: https://drgabormate.com/ GABOR MATÉ'S BOOK: https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/ GE...
Mar 26, 2024•9 min
“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” - Gabor Maté If you didn't know, Gabor Maté is truly a great educator and I aspire to communicate ideas as meaningfully and effectively as he can. Until then, I'll just encourage everyone to check out the other amazing work he does: GABOR MATÉ'S WEBSITE: https://drgabormate.com/ GABOR MATÉ'S BOOK: https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/ GE...
Mar 26, 2024•9 min
Today I'm sharing some thoughts on and from Gabor Maté's book, Scattered Minds . While many of us don't have ADD/ADHD, I think learning about psychology at any specificity can be helpful to anyone with a brain - especially if you choose to communicate with anyone who also has a brain. Basically, we're all lil weirdos who's brains crave and need attention + it gets a little tricky if we're not aware of the way we're asking for it. I especially enjoyed the point the author made about the "deficit"...
Mar 25, 2024•10 min
let's get out there and make some beautiful trouble, shall we? LINK: https://ia600504.us.archive.org/4/items/BoydAndrewEdBeautifulTroubleAToolboxForRevolution/Boyd_Andrew_ed_Beautiful_Trouble_A_Toolbox_for_Revolution.pdf GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica The opinions expresse...
Mar 18, 2024•9 min
Believe it or not, there's some great news coming in + I will do everything in my power to share it with you. From methane trackers, to AI medical advancements, there are plenty of brilliant people fighting the good fight with and for us. RESOURCE: https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-10-of-2024/ GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATRE...
Mar 15, 2024•7 min
Key quotes: "...the way to keep the hungry hordes from storming the gates is by getting them food security now." "I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships." "What I came to realise was that these men are actually the lose...
Mar 14, 2024•8 min
Solving any type of problem can be likened to digging a hole. It is laborious work. And as you continue to dig, the uprooting becomes tougher because the problems you deal with are more compacted and nuanced. That said - it's CRUCIAL we remember that it's a great sign that the work is getting harder. It means you're making progress. Don't get discouraged. Take breaks, be proud you have come this far, and don't get too frustrated. You're doing a great job! Just. keep. digging! GET AN OCCASIONAL P...
Mar 13, 2024•6 min
"Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create..." "Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us." RESOURCE : https://www.theguar...
Mar 12, 2024•8 min
REPOST || you are your other half! Back tomorrow with a regular ep. GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to b...
Mar 07, 2024•4 min
As soon as we label something that is ambiguous, we begin to "substitute the map for the territory". Learning to embrace uncertainty may quite possibly be the most valuable thing you can do for yourself. From Oxford Languages · ambiguity: the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. Wikiversity: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Embracing_Ambiguity NIH:h ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560665/#:~:text=Ambiguity%20exists%20when%20a%20term,the%20word%20%E2%80%...
Mar 06, 2024•8 min
I have spent so much time searching for that ONE hack/tip/trick/secret that was gonna change my life. I realized recently, that it's dramatically easier to change your entire life, when you stop focusing on changing your entire life + you simply focus on where you are NOW. Let me be clear, that won't stop me from sharing every decent "hack" I find along the way, but it may stop me from putting so much pressure on the hack (and myself) to fix everything at once. RESOURCE: https://www.verywellmind...
Mar 05, 2024•9 min
Everyone wants to save the world, but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes. Resources: https://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hero-in-Real-Life GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment pur...
Mar 04, 2024•8 min
a pal on IG asked for this episode and I couldn't find the original post, so I figured I'd repost it for a Sunday special since i feel like most of us could use a lil pick me up again. Sending good vibes and I'll talk to you tomorrow!!!! GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com TUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcast OR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica The ...
Mar 03, 2024•6 min
Did y'all know about this??? I didn't and I think I'm obsessed. "Culture jamming (sometimes also guerrilla communication ) [1] [2] is a form of protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements [3] to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising . It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of mass society . [4] " THE INSPIRATION TEXT: https://beautifultrouble.org/ AND https://andrewboyd.com/ PDF OF TEXT: https://ia800504.u...
Mar 02, 2024•8 min
“White supremacy is a toxin. The older history textbooks were like syringes that injected the toxin of white supremacy into the mind of many gene rations of Americans.” - Historian Donald Yacovone . here's to ridding ourselves to that toxin, as best we can. resources for relearning: pbs program: https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_platform.html Kenneth Stampp's article: https://www.commentary.org/articles/kenneth-stampp/the-tragic-legend-of-reconstruction/ learning for justice projec...
Mar 01, 2024•8 min
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and _________. Lewis Howard Latimer has been erased from history lessons but the man should absolutely be a household name. Here's what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/biden-lightbulb-black-man-trnd/index.html https://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/historical-connection-lewis-latimer/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnehQD9NCrE GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast....
Feb 29, 2024•6 min
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and _________. Lewis Howard Latimer has been erased from history lessons but the man should absolutely be a household name. Here's what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/biden-lightbulb-black-man-trnd/index.html https://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/historical-connection-lewis-latimer/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnehQD9NCrE GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast....
Feb 28, 2024•7 min
if it hasn't been clear by now, Angela Y. Davis is one of my favorite writers and humans to follow when it comes to revolutionary thinking and theory. This book: are prisons obsolete, was 128 pages of information that we should all have in our back pocket - since it affects each and every one of us in some way or another. it's all connected, and Angela Y. Davis has a knack for reminding me of that while also telling me what to do with that, to improve it for all of us. RESOURCES: buy the book: h...
Feb 27, 2024•9 min
" The prison industrial complex is fueled by privatization patterns that, it will be recalled, have also drastically transformed health care, education, and other areas of our lives." - Angela Davis Get the book: https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html PDF copy of it: https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Are_Prisons_Obsolete_Angela_Davis.pdf RESOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis Angela's Twitter!?: https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_logi...
Feb 26, 2024•9 min
“I’ve come to the conclusion that our work as activists is always to prepare the next generation,” she says. “To create new terrains so that those who come after us will have a better opportunity to get up and engage in even more radical struggles. And I think we’re seeing this now.” - Angela Davis WOMEN'S MARCH SPEECH TRANSCRIPT: https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a42337/angela-davis-womens-march-speech-full-transcript/ INTERVIEW IN PARIS: https://archive.is/20231217175936/https://www...
Feb 25, 2024•8 min
Originally released in 1971, the album Free Angela was sold to raise money for the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis. This is a sample of just some of the songs, including the title track Free Angela by Larry Saunders. Fun fact: Larry Saunders is the father of the multi Grammy nominated artist Ledisi . SOURCES: https://www.discogs.com/master/614033-Various-Free-Angela https://www.funkmysoul.gr/larry-saunders-the-prophet-of-soul-strangers/ https://www.discogs.com/artist/371682-Larry-...
Feb 24, 2024•9 min
Angela Davis is a lot of things. A scholar, an author, a philosopher, an activist, an advocate, an educator, and a badass. Let's talk about her. RESOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/30/archives/miss-davis-tells-of-buying-guns-but-denies-plot-role-miss-davis.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/19/t-magazine/angela-davis.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Brothers GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodc...
Feb 23, 2024•9 min
Angela Davis is a lot of things. A scholar, an author, a philosopher, an activist, an advocate, an educator, and a badass. Let's talk about her. RESOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/30/archives/miss-davis-tells-of-buying-guns-but-denies-plot-role-miss-davis.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/19/t-magazine/angela-davis.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Brothers GET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodc...
Feb 22, 2024•8 min
