Hey hey folks!
I recently got to sit in the Blue Chair with Miha, host of The Blue Chair, a podcast for women on a path of self-reclamation, where books become doors and stories become mirrors.
She opened with a question she weaves through every episode: What’s a turning point toward self-reclamation? I thought I’d have one answer, and it turned out I had a spiral of them.
Press play if you want to hear:
05:06 Why I think reclamation is a spiral rather than a single moment
06:04 What a rowing injury at Oxford (yes, bumps racing, yes, people fell in the river) taught me about coming home to my body
10:06 The room with seven paint colors that everyone said would be terrible
11:14 Growing up in a community that made the news in the 90s, and the unexpected gift it left behind
17:40 My niece calls me boring. I think it might be my best reclamation yet.
22:38 Kindness vs. niceness, and why I think the Giving Tree is a story about bad boundaries
26:22 What “radical” actually means (hint: roots), and why a trustworthy yes is a generous thing
28:51 Why I’m a Herald, and why it goes back to a domain name I registered in 2001
32:47 Tutoring a billionaire’s kids, and how a good teacher works herself out of a job
39:17 What all my selves would say to each other around the kitchen table
So what does a herniated disc have to do with reclaiming yourself? Well, more than I ever expected.
By the way, I think you’ll love Miha and her Blue Chair. She asks the kind of questions that make your body exhale.
Until next time!
˜M
