Why aren’t we talking about this
Why Aren’t We Talking About This? is a series of honest conversations about the stuff we rarely discuss but probably should - big feelings, weird thoughts, life, death, and all the messy, beautiful parts of being human.Hosted by me, Carly Osman-Holme, on a quest to dodge a…
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Why aren't we talking about this: Psychedelics (opens the original)
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For most of us, psychedelics come with a lot of baggage. Drugs. Hippies. Bad trips. Losing control. Yet, there’s another conversation happening around them. One about perspective, identity, creativity, connection and what can happen when the patterns we’ve spent years living inside suddenly become a little less fixed. In this episode I’m joined by Nasreen El-Mariesh, transformational coach, certified Psychedelic Integration Coach and co-founder of Women are the Medicine. Naz works with women aro
Why aren't we talking about this: Maternity Leave (opens the original)
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“Enjoy your break.” It’s such a normal thing to say to someone going on maternity leave, except maternity leave isn’t really a break at all. It’s a period of enormous change, and underneath all the excitement there can be a much messier set of feelings we don’t talk about nearly enough. Will my job still be there when I get back? What if my maternity cover is better than me? Will I still be good at what I do? Then the baby arrives and somehow there’s another pressure: to be good at this too. To
Why aren't we talking about this: Wanting more (opens the original)
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There’s something slightly uncomfortable about saying, out loud, that you want more. More money. More success. More adventure. A bigger business. A bigger life. Because surely we should be grateful for what we already have? I realised during this conversation how often I’ve downplayed things I desperately wanted because I didn’t want to seem greedy, ungrateful or a bit too big for my boots. But maybe wanting more doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with what you already have, maybe you just want
Why aren't we talking about this: Sex and pleasure (opens the original)
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We spend a lot of our lives learning how to be good at things. We learn how to do our jobs, manage our money, raise children, cook, exercise, communicate better, sleep better. There is a book, podcast, course or expert ready to teach us pretty much anything we could possibly want to know. Sex, though? Apparently we’re just supposed to know. We get taught the mechanics at school. We absorb the rest from films, porn, previous partners and whatever we manage to piece together along the way. Then we
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