Episode 106: You are Trustworthy with Your Life with Audra Avery
“My life is trustworthy and I am trustworthy inside my life.”
-Audra Avery, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Audra Avery. Audra is a wildling. A mystic, widow, mama, lover, queer kid, and facilitator of exploratory spaces for curious humans. Born and raised inside the constraints of fundamentalist religion, Audra's primary spiritual practice is expanding their edges; deconstructing restrictive beliefs and identities, leaving bunkers in favor of open skies. Through writing, collective conversation, and 1:1 depth mentorship, they spend their days creating as many paths to self-exploration as possible for as many people as possible. Because the world is richer when we're all fully expressed across every spectrum of our humanity. In this episode, Madison and Audra speak on growing up in testimony culture, feeling like you owe your private life to the world, their experience losing a partner to suicide in May of 2020, and, most importantly, learning that we are trustworthy with our lives. They also discuss self-compassion, non-explaining of the self, being with loneliness, living a quieter life, and trusting in the life that is opening to us.
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In this episode, we talk about:
Growing up in testimony culture, feeling like you owe your private life to the world
Audra’s experience losing a partner to suicide in May of 2020
Rejecting hustle culture and overextending oneself
Learning we are trustworthy with our lives
Developing compassion towards our coping mechanisms
Un-doing the need to explain ourselves
Befriending loneliness
The magic of tucking into a quiet life, being choosy and being less accessible
Who are you, as defined by what you enjoy.
Trusting life and staying open to change
