Podcasts that Nourish Me ~Recommendations

These two podcasts helped me to process the world and the hurts in me/ the world. Hope you find them useful as well. ~^^~

The Place We Find Ourselves on Apple Podcasts by Adam Young ( Accessible on a website or through apps)

This helps me so much. It was first recommended by another writer here and listening to it on a regular basis helped me so much. He talks a lot about a lot of topics that are mis-intepretated by religion such as trauma, purity culture, coming to terms with your past and sexuality in a simple podcast that is so easily palatable. I am so thankful that I found this podcast recommended by another writer here.

The other podcast I listen to regularly is Monday School by the Wally Show.

Being non-religious, I do read faith-based stuff or religious stuff quite frequently/ mostly daily. Find them very helpful as a compass but don’t quite get them like really internalising them. Listening to the Monday School by the Wally Show strangely helps me to process it on a light-hearted, and immediately-get-it kind of basis. Each podcast is two to three minutes long and incredibly funny and helpful. I listen to it when I come back from work and many times before going to work.

Hope you find these two podcasts useful. Pasting the links and screenshots below before some thoughts of the week.

The Place We Find Ourselves podcast features private practice therapist Adam Young (LCSW, MDiv) and interview guests as they discuss all things related to story, trauma, attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology.

Monday School by the Wally Show

Perhaps Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Humans is kind of famous. But on a day-to-day basis, probably what matters too is that we have good encounters or a good place/ group to go back to that shapes our actions and moods that move on forward day by day, month by month, year by year. This is often hard as we are governed by memories and impulses most of the time and a good part of these memories/ impulses are worn-out instincts and may not be that helpful so I guess the point is to really take care of ourselves when possible.

Am of the impression that school is reopening in parts of the world and is ongoing in many other parts. I didn’t have teachers that have motivated me or given me a helping hand that much. The group of people that helped me greatly who were “not related to me” is probably my past landlords/landladies when I used to be renting. Definitely have had less than ideal renting experiences before.

Throughout the crazy fearful years of 2020 to 2021, a lot of people got kicked out of their rentals and have had their rents exorbitantly increased. In that time, there was a lot of fear in me about not having a place to stay (perhaps that fear is in a lot of people) but I am glad that the landlords/ landladies hosted me and did not kick me out. That helped me to pull through that time. Of course, one landlady did raise my rent by a lot.

Sometimes, strangers also help me and I think that is the most touching though of course some strangers could be dangerous.

~ In 2021? once when I was on my way back from work, I suddenly felt sick and puked in a mall washroom. I could not find any mop to clean it up with and at that time, the cleaner lady stepped in and onto the stuff I have puked out. She was not disgusted and she comforted me, saying that happens sometimes. I think she was quite the big person here. Personally am not a big person at times and I know a lot of people can’t even talk about any of these stuff. But ya, that made my night better that day.

Once, I was in my 20s and travelling on my own, I was talking to this lifeguard in his 60s? at this cliff sightseeing place. He invited me to his place. I agreed as the people there had a reputation for hospitality but I asked him so who is staying with you. I said he is staying alone. I said alright and went off sightseeing around the place. I thought to myself hmm if I got into any trouble, the misogynistic police there would probably say I asked for it because I went to his home. I thought of this saying in the region which said even if one jumps into the yellow river, you would not be able to be washed from the guilt of the victim-shaming piled on you. ( My translation of the phrase into English )

So I went up this hill at that place and went down the other side, far away from the side where the lifeguard was, out from another exit and took a different bus back to the nearby city and that was the end of that. Being very young, I had no sense of foreboding or fear but perhaps I had a bit of wits with me I hope to say so I was very safe and went back to the nearby city very early that night as the bus ride recommended by the local cafe staff was very short and an express journey. And on the same trip, I also hitch-hiked or was rather forced to and the locals who took me were very safe. It was actually the locals who looked at me and said I think you need a ride. I didn’t want to get in but I got in and luckily they were all very safe. The lifeguard at the sightseeing place was probably a different story though. Not sure whether this story is helpful but just sharing.

Recently, on my travels, I had a long wait at the airport before my airbnb check-in and was feeling like a 5/10 on a mood basis. This gay? or simply nice guy sat next to me and we had a good chat, helping each other look after our stuff whenever one of us had to wander off to get some stuff in the airport. It definitely made me feel a lot warmer.

When I was having my liquids checked in the security checks at the airport and was waiting waiting, a random mother/lady with her daughter was very nice/warm and telling me things like they always check her stuff and smiling at me, being very pleasant.

There is perhaps a feeling that the community has felt more guarded and less friendly after the crazy fearful years so these encounters are quite heartwarming.

Day-to-day, do get upset by a lot of external factors/ people though probably they reflect my triggers. But I am lucky that I have a nice neighbour though she lives too close to me for comfort. >< XO

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Accessed Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Explained (thoughtco.com) on 20 July 2024.

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