Curating the Curious
Welcome to Curating the Curious, the podcast that celebrates staying curious in life and never settling into a box.
This show is for the creators, the seekers, the explorers, the truth tellers….and the forever students of life.
No matter what age or stage you’re currently at, this is not as good as it gets and it is never too late to begin.
Join me as we explore all of the questions that come with the idea of curiosity. A place where the possibilities are endless and you can always start again.
We expand our lives through curiosity. One of my greatest passions is finding ways to encourage and inspire others to keep pushing, sharing, living, and making things for the world to see.
Curating the Curious
Day 3- Alchemize That Sh*t
Welcome to DAY THREE of our new 30-day project where we make something with our hands every day to improve mental health during difficult times. We all realize that creativity heals...it's time to put that knowledge into action.
I'm going to publish an episode to follow along with several days of each week (I'll take breaks on Fridays and weekends in order to give you time to catch up as needed). These episodes will exist here, marked with the days numbered, in order for you to follow along at any speed that you like. Miss a day? Doesn't matter. Just pick up right where you left off and keep making things. These episodes will give us all some accountability, but if you need more, pair up with a partner. It really does help!
Join our creative community by making something today, whether it's for five minutes or several hours—your brain will thank you. Let's do this thing together and turn all of this sh*t into something beautiful!
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You cannot stand high atop a mountain of suffering souls and proclaim yourself to be free. Freedom is not an individual condition. It is a collective caring, a sustained devotion, a subtle symphony of interwoven soulfulness. Freedom weeps by Jaya John.
Speaker 1:Today has been an interesting one. I woke up, grabbed my phone, got on social media in exactly the way that I've promised myself that I would not wake up. So then I proceeded to force myself into the shower, get my clothes on and go for a very long walk with my dog, and I do believe that saved my day. I've made a promise to myself I do not begin my day with social media or news and I do not end my day with social media or news. When it comes to social media, I have pretty tight regulations and I've been breaking a lot of them lately, which I need to get better at. But the walk helped turn my thoughts around and get focused. So after that I sat down, I read a passage from Salekha Juwad's book, the Book of Alchemy, then I did a writing prompt that she has at the end of each passage. I really like the book because you can just take it in small bites and work on writing prompts, and that's my activity for the day. That's my project for the day. I'm making it short and sweet. Sometimes you have a little time, sometimes you have a lot. You make it work. Transform this stuff into something else. I'm also going to make the tidbit that I release about my life over the last several years. I'm going to make that short and sweet and I'm going to tell you something that I've been wanting to say for so long, but I haven't been here.
Speaker 1:If you've been listening for some time, you heard me going through so many issues with my hormones. I was going to a functional medicine doctor. I was going through acupuncture. I was changing the things that I was eating. I was changing anything I could to fight the horrendous things that were happening to me with perimenopause. I believe it was near the end of 2023 when I was just physically and mentally at my breaking point. I finally sought help with my hormonal issues and I went on hormone replacement therapy through a company called Midi M-I-D-I. It's the best decision I have ever made in my life Well, one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life and within I would say, a month less than a month probably of being on the HRT, the hormone replacement therapy. It's a patch that I wear on my stomach and then I take progesterone at night. I will say with every fiber of my being that HRT has changed my life. My mental health was in the red. My physical health was in the red. Hrt changed everything.
Speaker 1:Dr Mary Claire is the one who recommended Midi. Now I think she sells her own stuff, so she's not recommending other people, but the only thing I can say is that MIDI takes insurance and they specialize in hormones. If your general practitioner is giving you this stuff, they are not specializing in this. If your endocrinologist is giving you HRT, they are not specialists. I would highly highly recommend that you would find specialists that only deal with hormones to give you your HRT. Plus, this place takes insurance, and I know there are other companies just like this that do it, but I can't think of their names. You can look it up very easily and they take insurance. The costs are lower than what you would ever guess and it's all done on Zoom.
Speaker 1:I'm going to leave you with this paragraph from Salaika Jawad's book the Book of Alchemy a creative practice for an inspired life. Journaling as a process is utterly alchemizing, with practical applications in every area of one's life and work. The journal is like a chrysalis the container of your goopiest, most unformed self. It's a rare space in this age of hyper-curated personas, where you can share your most unedited thoughts, where you can sort through the raw material of your life. Day by day, page by page, you uncover the answers that are already inside of you and you begin to transform. And yet, at the same time that it offers transcendence, there's nothing more humble than the journal. Same time that it offers transcendence, there's nothing more humble than the journal. Make something, write something, clean something, cook something, take part in the project today in whatever way you can, and also stay curious.
