About the show
I dabbled in poetry in high school and into my early 20's but then stopped writing for almost 20 years. A few years ago, a number of personal issues came to a head and I had no real choice but to face them and start working through them. As part of that working through them, I began writing poetry again and it has become a very powerful and effective tool for me in rediscovering and reconnecting with myself, which is at the heart of my recovery. In The Poet (delayed), I'll share some of my poetry and discuss it with different guests. But the real point of the podcast is to use my poetry to start conversations about trauma, healing and personal growth.
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Episodes
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Episode 40: The Torchlight of Rescuers…
July 16th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
In this episode, I was joined by Zach Wheatley. He is a friend, the son of a friend and the nephew of a friend…all at the same time. He works as a Teen Center Coordinator in the newly established Teen Center Program at Viewmont High School which provides him an opportunity to support students who are lacking basic needs. Zach and I discussed his work at the Teen Center in light of a couple of my poems, “Dark Canopy” and “Moab.”
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Episode 39: Just for today...
July 9th, 2024 | Season 1 | 59 mins 50 secs
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
My brother, Wil Edgar is a Reiki Master, and joined me to talk about the five precepts of Reiki.
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Episode 38: Shattered
July 2nd, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 34 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
Lisa Cox joined me and read her poem, "Shattered." Then, through the lens of our personal experiences, we discussed what it means to shatter and how it can be the catalyst to positive transformations in our lives. We discussed why we shatter; What shattering can look like; What happens after we shatter; What we can do with the shattered pieces of us and other “shatter” related issues, including how a kaleidoscope factors into the process.
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Episode 37: Don’t Worry Baby
June 25th, 2024 | Season 1 | 48 mins 55 secs
authenticity, carl jung, love, persona, poetry, relationships, safety, self discovery, shadow, vulnerability
In this episode, I use the Beach Boy’s song, Don’t Worry Baby, to discuss my observations and experiences related to vulnerability, love and safety in relationships, all types of relationships, and how that the lack of those three things contribute to an unfulfilled life.
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Episode 36: Courage is Found in Failure
June 18th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 23 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
I sat down with Jackie Pack and we discussed courage including what it means and how we recognize it. We also discussed Brene Brown's statement:
"I don't think we can get to courage without the capacity to deal with uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure."
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Episode 35: The Traveling Sisterhood
June 11th, 2024 | Season 1 | 54 mins 27 secs
authenticity, empowerment, healing, poetry, self discovery, women supporting women
Angie is a mother, a photographer, an entrepreneur, a bringer-together of women for healing and a travel addict. She and I sat down and talked about the power of community in healing - especially a community of women for women. We talked about how she started the annual women’s retreats. And we talked about so, so much more. She’s a remarkable woman doing remarkable things amongst other remarkable women.
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Episode 34: We have art lest we perish of the truth. ~ Nietzsche
June 4th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 12 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
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Episode 33: Nostalgia for Now, Part 2
May 28th, 2024 | Season 1 | 43 mins 37 secs
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
Part 2 of my conversation with SAW. See how the cliffhanger turns out and stay for the conclusion of our conversation in which Stephen takes over host duties and starts questioning me.
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Episode 32: Nostalgia for Now, Part 1
May 21st, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery
I met Stephen in high school in Collinsville, IL in 1988. I moved away after my junior year in 1991 and we have bumped into each other only a few times since, but before I moved away we had some grand times. In part 1, we talked about the grandest time we had together when we took a road trip to the east coast as two 17 year old boys (one with a horrible haircut) armed with fake IDs, a bag of audio cassettes, a rough idea of what we were going to do and…well, that was about it.
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Episode 31: “i have been a thousand different woman” by emoryhall
May 16th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 8 mins
authenticity, poetry, self discovery, transactional love, unconditional love
I was joined by my friend, Wendi Shavon. I asked Wendi to chose a poem to read and she chose “i have been a thousand different woman” by poet emoryhall. She read the poem and we discussed.
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Episode 30: “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
April 30th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 8 mins
authenticity, individuality, may i be i, poetry, self discovery
I’m joined by Rachel Allen, LCSW. She chose a quote from a favorite book of her, Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, which includes the line, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
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Episode 29: This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
April 25th, 2024 | Season 1 | 54 mins 21 secs
authenticity, intergenerational trauma, parenting, poetry, self discovery
I’m joined by my friend Tyler Mathis who reads Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be The Verse.” We discuss the trauma passed down from generation to generation and ways that we are dealing with it and hopefully breaking the chain.
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Episode 28: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
April 12th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 25 secs
alignment, authenticity, mary oliver, poetry, self discovery, wild geese
I’m joined again by Josh Baron and we read Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese, and discuss the idea that “we do not have to be good.”
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Episode 27: The Capacity of Your Tears
November 25th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 6 mins
asking for help, authenticity, hope, hopelessness, poetry, self discovery, tears
We can't do it all alone. Sometimes, we need to reach out for help and that's not always easy. In fact, in my experience, it's rarely easy. In this episode, I discuss three obstacles that get in my way of asking for help.
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Episode 26: The Burning Comes First
November 7th, 2023 | Season 1 | 25 mins 17 secs
authenticity, be brave, healing, kalen dion, mental health, phoenix rises, poetry, self discovery
Carl Jung said, “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” My experience has been that this is true and in this episode, I use a poem by Kalen Dion as a way to introduce Jung’s concept and then discuss my experiences with change.
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Episode 25: Terrible Potential (redux)
August 6th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
authenticity, childhood trauma, hope, mental health, personal responsibility, poetry, recovery, self discovery
In this episode, I revisit my poem, Terrible Potential, and talk about ways in which it applies to my recovery.