Releasing the Trauma of Productivity ft. Solasta McIntyre Ethridge
SELF CARE IS COMMUNITY CARE //
SELF CARE IS COMMUNITY CARE //
In this episode, we’re talking to cosmic rainbow dolphin Solasta McIntyre Ethridge! 🌈👽🐬 We jam out on unraveling the trauma of productivity + “doing” and coming to live in deep harmony with our bodies. We talk about honoring our cycles of rest and moving through the world in the ways that feel best to each of us uniquely - it’s a gorgeous conversation with a gorgeous soul and I hope you enjoy 🎉
ABOUT SOLASTA MCINTYRE ETHRIDGE ~
I’m going to let Solasta tell you about themselves in first person, because their bio is so gorgeous I don’t want to rewrite it in third person and change a thing 😂 So, meet Solasta:
“I am a cosmic rainbow - I have many names and am many things.
I am a Bruadarach - a dreamer and visionary in Scots-Gaelic - my ancestral tongue. I am Pisces sun, Aquarius Moon + North Node, and Cap Rising + Stellium. These energies tie me to where land meets sea.
I am a queer, trans non-binary gender non-conforming, poly, autistic, racialized white, seventh-generation settler with mixed-european-ethnicity living between The Bay and New York on Turtle Island.
I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in California specializing in somatics, trauma, attachment, busy minds, and perfectionism. I work with individuals, provide consultation, and do speaking engagements through my private practice Accessible Therapy.
I am a lifelong artist, director, producer, triple threat performer, writer and community organizer who puts all these pieces together in my studio Full & Plenty Joy whose vision is to change the way stories are told so we can manifest a new world.
I believe the more people share their stories the closer we'll be to liberation.”
-Solasta McIntyre Ethridge
CONNECT WITH SOLASTA ~
On the interwebs - www.fullandplentyjoy.com
On the Instagrams - @solasta_mcintyre_ethridge
Sign up here to hang out on Telegram with them weekly!
Or head here to dive into all their podcasts and freebie goodies 🎉
Find their psychotherapy listing on Therapy Den here: https://www.therapyden.com/therapist/sam-m-ethridge-alameda-ca
Email for psychotherapy, consulting speaking: accessibletherapywithsme@gmail.com
FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~
some of my personal favorite lines of conversation that came up throughout this episode:
The intersection between capitalism, productivity + trauma
Tuning into our bodies to understand our true capacity
Modeling to one another that it’s safe to honor our needs
Holding beauty and mess at the very same time
Resourcing ourselves in small, simple, beautiful moments
DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~
0:00 - 10:00 ish:
About Solasta + episode overview
How to access the free course, Legit Freedom 👽
10 - 20:00 ish:
The intersection between capitalism, productivity + trauma
Childhood patterning that can tend to restrict life
The myth of laziness
Normalizing that living inside a capitalist world is exhausting
20 - 30:00 ish:
Language and linguistics that “mechanize” our bodies
Honoring neurodivergence and our individual needs
Tuning into our bodies to understand our true capacity
The connection between overriding our bodies and harmful productivity
30 - 40:00 ish:
Living step by step and moment by moment as an act of self love and care
Modeling to one another that it’s safe to honor our needs
Fabulouuusss reflections for ‘leaders’ who want to model community care and self care
40 - 50:00 ish:
Leadership as supporting an ecosystem, rather than a top down approach
Celebrating life right alongside death because it’s all really the same
Exploring how we can be in the mess of life together and hold the light and the shadow simultaneously
Parts work as a tool to explore ourselves deeply
50 - 60:00 ish:
Holding beauty and mess at the very same time
Resourcing ourselves in small, simple, beautiful moments
Sharing with true vulnerability in spaces where it’s honored
How to connect with Solasta!
