Episode 27: Cori Wright Deily, with hope, faith and courage

How are you stepping into your wholeness? This week’s #earthconversepodcast guest is Cori Wright Deily, wilderness guide therapist, mum, farmer.. and the 4th member of the Southwest Passage team. And she is stepping into her wholeness and womanhood. She reflects on her first conversation with a Juniper Tree, and how it was "overwhelming to start this path", "from being so disconnected to being so connected”. Awareness of the bigness of the earth, the conversations and how heavy it can feel, she stepped back.  “I needed to hang out with some dead people”. We talk about talking to children about death, grief and the cycle of life.  And we talk about the pain of separateness. And stepping into courageous conversations in modern and Covid19 times. As she concludes “there are ways of having a conversation that doesn’t pull people apart”. We talk about hope and it turns out she is very hopeful (there’s a super lovely surprise announcement) and inspiration from the ‘father of permaculture’ Masanobu Fukuoka, and his book Sowing Seeds in the Desert.   Throughout, she shares her journey into wholeness, including somatic experiencing and trauma training. Of learning “to always come with deep curiosity, assuming nothing and to ask one more question”.  And ‘there is a place to fiercely take a stand, particularly for women”.   Claiming permission to “shake and rage”, embrace the sacred and profound “profanity brought me back to life!” she seeks to integrate all parts of herself. And she talks about her work, from working with ‘wealthy whites to ‘invisible people’. Of bringing nature into her social justice work, her teachings and her offerings of taking sexual abuse survivors to the land for healing and ceremony. And she reminds us that we are not alone. EPISODE EXTRAS:  Cori is on Instagram @ctheseed and you can contact her (and the Southwest Passage Team) here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/southwest-passages-counselingconsulting-santa-fe-nm/340384 Email is [email protected] The Practice of Living and Dying (Meredith's programme I mentioned) https://www.schooloflostborders.org/term/practice-living-and-dying Charles Eisenstein (March 2020) article I mentioned,  The Coronation, https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/ Masanobu Fukuoka (2013) Sowing Seeds in the Desert. https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/sowing-seeds-in-the-desert/ Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/F-hWT4c1MO4 NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor,  podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth.  Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: [email protected] And the wind, the trees...