Understanding our Belief Systems and Cultivating a Better World
Episode 3 Season 4: Catherine Quiring on Healing Community
None of us live in a vacuum. We live in families, in communities. In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Catherine Quiring about healing systemic harms—for ourselves and the world.
“We need to acknowledge the harm—and that’s actually really healing for both sides, if we allow it.”
Show Notes:
We often talk about how our early family live has shaped how we think, feel and react to life. But what about the bigger systems we’re raised within—religion, for example, or the culture where we live. What is their impact? And how can we heal the wounds they might cause us? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Catherine Quiring, a fellow therapist and coach in Florida, for a discussion of the how our belief systems shape us and the world around us. They talk about the need for empathy and how breaking free from systems that burden us can help us get back to ourselves and our values—and maybe make a better world.
Listen and learn:
How societal pressures and expectations can affect the way we see and react to the world around us
What we can learn from indigenous cultures
Why making amends is so necessary—and so beneficial to everyone involved
How we acknowledge others’ feelings while maintaining our emotional boundaries.
What thought leaders are saying about creating new, more collaborative, communities
Why it can be helpful to examine our attachment to our belief systems
Why religious belief doesn’t have to be a yes-or-no issue.
Why we need to look at our impact as well as our intent
How we can develop a world view or belief system that reflects our values and our experiences
Learn more:
Catherine Quiring’s website
Catherine Quiring Counseling on Instagram
Catherine Quiring Counseling on Facebook
Guided meditations on Insight Timer
Resources mentioned in this episode:
> I AM: Poems for Expansion and Renewal by Catherine Quiring
> Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s website
> On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
> Elizabeth Lesser’s website
> Cassandra speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
> Tierra Valiente: The Brave Earth website
> Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation
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