A friend and artist Addie Hirschten recently released her first book, The Alchemy of Symbols: How to Use the Power of Images to Transform Your Life. The book is about living an intentional life filled with symbols: noticing how symbols affect you and paying attention to how the universe may be speaking to you through them, and/or how you also may be speaking to yourself. Addie asks the reader (and podcast listener) to consider what symbols you surround yourself with and why. Symbology is just another tool to work with. It can be part of our self-care toolbox, as well as help us in our work to decondition from and challenge mainstream culture. A way to better understand what messages we absorb and what we choose to own. About The Guest Addie Hirschten, is a visionary painter, public speaker, and host of the Studio Alchemy Podcast. She teaches creativity classes from her studio in Indianapolis, Indiana. Learn more at studioalchemy.art. Books Mentioned On the Podcast * The Alchemy of Symbols by Addie Hirschten * She Who Runs with Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola * Goddess in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives By Jean Shinoda Bolen * The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté * Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radicalsoul.substack.com