24: Existential Kink and Why It Hurts So Good with Carolyn Elliott
In this episode, Kelly is joined by the author of "Existential Kink: unmask your shadow and embrace your power", Carolyn Elliott. Carolyn unpacks the fascinating concept of existential kink, where taking total responsibility for our life experiences becomes a transformative practice. Kelly and Carolyn explore the interplay between acceptance and approval and discover how embracing our deepest desires can lead to healing and personal growth.Today on Reclamation Radio:Exploring the taboo desires hidden within the unconscious mindThe role of somatic experience and embodied awareness in the practice of existential kinkImportance of self-awareness and introspection in identifying unconscious desiresEroticizing past wounds and patterns of sufferingSetting aside shame and judgmentHow embracing desires and challenging experiences can lead to personal growth and fulfillmentLiving a desire-based existenceResources:Connect with Carolyn: carolyngraceelliott.comThis interview is part of Kelly's interview series: Faces of Fierce FemininityConnect with Kelly:Instagram: @kellybroganmd Website: kellybroganmd.comCheckout Kelly's monthly membership Vital Life Project hereWhat's your Reclamation Remedy? Take Kelly's quiz here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman hereThis show is produced by Soulfire Productions
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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.