(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) How might someone heal from a coercive relationship or high demand group?  How can we identify fascism and fight tyranny and why must we?  How can we respond when escape is off the table?  When trauma severs the mind from the body, what are the pros and cons of “top down” vs “bottom up” healing modalities?  How can we discern when “wellness” isn’t safe?  How is absurdity a hallmark of...

(This season is related to the show “Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) How is it that, once you start tracking power, rank, and privilege- you start noticing how the invitation for liberation is always bottom-up?  How do we reach for authenticity in relationships where one person’s pain activates the other’s shame response?  How can we utilize ritual to metabolize and mobilize disorganization while practicing security?  Can cis-het women practice pleasure through embodying...

(This season is related to the show “Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) In what ways is capitalism a cult: a high demand group that thrives off of the confusion and insecure attachment of its members?  How do dystopian “fictional” stories such as Severance equip us for the realities of our present moment?   Kristyn with a Why has a friendly chat with her BFF Jamie about witchy shit (like sourdough, cats, and astrology) as well as an introduction into the themes of...

Kristyn is joined live by her husband and sound editor in today’s episode where she revisits and reflects on her relationship to Sourdough and how it is continuing to guide her(See Episode 0: What’s in a Name?)as she is gearing up for a new season of the podcast and any other synchronous pleasures and breadcrumbs that may line the path. —--------------------------------------------- Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode: Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s...

How does our creative process actually create us?  How does having a thriving ecosystem of relationships and creative outlets better resource us for ALL our relationships and creative projects?  How can we create community and engage in metaphor to support ourselves?  What does sourdough have to do with any of this?? Kristyn with a Why gets personal and reflects on the process of season 1, sharing more backstory of the last year of the three-year journey leading up to the release of the...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” and this episode connects it to the 2019 Tony Award winning musical “Hadestown.” How are period pieces a prophetic praxis that helps us to view the reality of THIS moment in time?  In what ways is/can our creative practices be liberatory?  How can we reach toward a liberated future when public schools are priming and praising students to obey fascism?  Is Orpheus even a real person, a metaphor for creativity, or a manic pixie dream...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” Wouldn’t Sally have a more intimate friendship with Meg if she were better attuned to the gap in their economic realities?  If Laurie weren’t so worried about pleasing his rich grandfather would he feel free to pursue his creativity?  How did forming attachment with Beth provide the catalyst for Mr Lawrence to move from a place of “charity” to “reciprocity”?  In what ways does Aunt March’s scarcity mindset and hoarding tendencies keep her...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” In what ways is a creative practice also a liberation practice, and why is Jo the only one who gets to carry her creativity with her into adulthood? (hint: it’s capitalist patriarchy)  What are the archetypal choices, needs, and thresholds the March sisters represent? What happens when: you can’t get what you want, when you get what you want only to realize you don’t actually “love it as you should,” and when your life circumstances shift...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” How does “Contact Nutrition” build secure attachment? What is liberation if not people in up-power positions being in solidarity with those in down-power?  Specifically, how can we, as parents, teachers, and adults, respect kids when they are occupied and meet them where they are rather than demanding they operate on our schedule?  And also, some “Friedrich fan fic” for an important invitation to liberation that was not explicitly told in...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” What is Secure Attachment? How can period pieces be a useful tool for locating ourselves in our current moment?  How “process>product” yields creative practices that help us cultivate secure attachment within ourselves.  And Happy Pride Month to Jo! Kristyn with a Why explores the question “is it possible to earn secure attachment across lines of power, rank, and privilege?” by specifically looking at four men in Jo’s life (Mr Dashwood,...

What are the questions Stoner Story Witch invites us to ask?  Is Stoner Story Witch a set of instructions?  In what ways is Stoner Story Witch an archetypal energy? What exactly defines a poem, anyway? How does sourdough relate to any of this?? Kristyn with a Why discusses the title of “Stoner Story Witch” and shares a little bit of backstory to the three-year journey leading up to the release of the podcast in this decidedly un-pilot...