Time is a spiral - right now and always. And COVID time is a ride all its own. Whatever your experience of time has been in the past year, join us for a look at what time gives us and the benefits of letting go. We'll also explore our own personal connection to space and time so we're not so thrown by the world around us.
Read MoreS2 E1 Welcome to Womanhood (Susan Burgess-Lent/Nikole Lent)
Being a woman in this world brings challenges. Susan wanted to prepare her daughter Nikole for those challenges in the best way possible. So she invited several of her closest friends to a non-religious ceremony and asked them to present Nikole with some of the things that had supported them in their own lives.
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Announcing Season 2!
On Season 2 of Shame Piñata, we'll dive into what it looks like to create rituals for the important moments in our lives.
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→ Episodes on Grief & Loss: https://ever-changing.net/grief-loss
→ Episodes on Challenging Times: https://ever-changing.net/challenging-times
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About the Show
Shame Piñata is hosted by Ritual Artist Colleen Thomas, a Certified Meditation and Mindfulness teacher who helps people make sense of life through ceremony. Music by Terry Hughes.
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Full Transcript
I’m Colleen Thomas. I help people make sense of life through ceremony. On Season 2 of Shame Piñata, we'll dive into what it looks like to create rituals for the important moments in our lives.
Lent: The experience of transition into womanhood was something that everyone present took very seriously.
Thom: But there was so much variety and people were totally involved. So you weren't just watching. It was like, you were in it.
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S1 E17 Dancing in Liminality
What if I told you that it's possible to find grace and flow in the middle of chaos? What if I said you could learn how to dance in liminal space and be a rock star, a liminal kind of rockstar. It's all about releasing expectation and connecting to the things that matter the most.
Read MoreS1 E16 Inviting Grief to the Wedding (Tria Wen)
It's taboo to acknowledge or to express anything but joy on the wedding day. But what would it look like to make room for some of the more complex emotions? To let everyone acknowledge the effect a wedding has on their unique relationship to the couple?
Read MoreS1 E15 Deep Rest
What does your body need in order to rest fully? What does your heart need to soften a bit? What would it feel like to rest - not with one ear out for the next crisis - but actually fully rest?
Read MoreS1 E14 The Programming Language of the Soul (Betty Ray)
The transitions in our lives can bring up difficult feelings. It’s easy to see the lay of the land when we’re walking a straight path, but when the sidewalk ends, all kinds of confusion can come up. We may lose track of where we’re going and even start to question our values. How can ceremony help us through the transformations in our lives? Join me for a conversation with Betty Ray.
Read MoreS1 E13 Being in a Body
Even if it's not our natural disaster, even if no one we know has COVID, all of the chaos of this moment is affecting us. It's affecting our body. What can we do to begin to work with these strong feelings, these strong events, fears, moments, dynamics? How can we let our body help us find a way through?
Read MoreS1 E12 Why Weddings Push Our Buttons (Jocelyn Charnas)
Transitions are our friends. Transitions bring us new things. Transitions can also bring discomfort, but that discomfort offers us a chance to grow - if we are willing to let it have a seat at the table. What would happen if we embraced the discomfort, embraced the difficulty, embraced the challenge? What would it be like if all parts of us were offered a place at the table?
Read MoreS1 E11 How To Be Strong
How do we keep moving forward in a world that doesn't feel like ours anymore? We need grit to stay strong and we need resilience to stay flexible. Join us for a simple ceremony to do both.
Read MoreS1 E10 My Self Marriage Story
What if you could find the most amazing partner in the world, someone who loves you unconditionally, who respects you, admires you, and has your back through thick and thin? What if that person was you?
Read MoreS1 E9 A Ritual for Flow
In these less than normal times, when the world is crying out for change, it can be difficult to tell which way is up, let alone make decisions on how to move forward. But liminality offers us the opportunity to slow down and look within. What if we could find a way to flow with the chaos? What if, inside, we actually know what we need to do next?
Read MoreS1 E8 A Whole Other Level of Self-Love (Jennie Taylor)
We hear all the time that we should love ourselves more, but what does that actually look like in real life? Can self-love be more than buying ourselves flowers? Jennie Taylor shares the tools in her self-love playbook and speaks honestly about loving herself through a deeply personal surrender.
Read MoreS1 E7 Releasing Overwhelm
With so many things happening at once, it's easy for the nervous system to become overwhelmed. When this happens, it's hard to think, it's hard to function. We have the power to gain a bit of distance from what is coming at us by doing a simple ceremony to release overwhelm.
Read MoreS1 E6 There Must Be Something Wrong (Sheryl Paul)
The pain, grief, discomfort, and vulnerability that can arise throughout the wedding process can actually be doorways into joy if we are willing to let them in. Sheryl Paul speaks about her book "The Conscious Bride" which addresses the MANY feelings that can arise around a wedding for everyone involved.
Read MoreS1 E5 A Ritual for Balance
Looking for a way to respond to COVID-19 beyond social distancing? Here’s a simple ceremony that can help you find your center again.
Read MoreS1 E4 I Want to Have a Ceremony with You (Betsy Weiss)
What happens when our values and choices don't match the expectations of our family? How can we nurture those important relationships while also finding ways to be true to ourselves? Today we will meet Betsy and Brandon who wanted to do their commitment a bit differently than their families expected.
Read MoreS1 E3 Wedding Therapy, Is That a Thing? (Landis Bejar)
Landis Bejar has a job you may not have ever heard of before. She is a wedding therapist. In her room, individuals and couples plan for the big day by setting goals and processing the experience of the transition.
Read MoreS1 E2 San Francisco as My Witness (Betty Ray)
Betty Ray walked to the top of Bernal Hill at the turn of the millennium. She brought three things with her: a candle, her checkbook, and a ring.
Read MoreS1 E1 We're Together (Tria Wen)
Tria is getting remarried. She and her fiancé want to create a unique wedding ceremony that is not only different from her first wedding, but also one that won’t give her any flashbacks to the many weddings she has planned. But how exactly does she do that?
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