The Sunday Soother
Welcome to a podcast all about authentic living, compassionate, personal development, and practical spirituality, geared towards the highly sensitive person. Catherine Andrews, the author of the popular Sunday Soother newsletter, discusses topics like self-worth, boundaries, emotional intelligence, ritual, spiritual and energy work done accessibly, and more. If you're interested in knowing yourself more deeply, living your life more magically, and growing as a person with space for wisdom and compassion along the way, this is for you. The podcast comes out every Sunday morning.
The Sunday Soother
43: 7 ways in which how you engage with privilege and racism reflect your own personal growth
Hello friends, and welcome to an episode of the podcast where I discussed 7 ways why engaging with your privilege and racism is necessary for your own healing, self-knowledge and growth — as well, and more importantly, to save the lives of and elevate the voices of people of color and vulnerable, marginalized populations.
If you're an empathetic, sensitive perfectionist with people-pleasing tendencies, in particular, you'll want to listen to today's episode. I explore the concept of "as above, so below" — how the external state of the world reflects our internalities, and why we must do personal healing and reflection in tandem with work to bring justice to the external world as well. I also discuss how shame, perfectionism and people-pleasing are no longer excuses we can rely on to not try to take imperfect action to address this scourge.
The 7 ways in which your personal growth intersects with your ability to reflect on your racism and white privilege are:
- Shame
- Boundaries
- Ego
- People-pleasing + perfectionism
- Self-knowledge about your role in the collective
- Spirituality
- Limiting beliefs
In short: If we don’t do all we can to reclaim wholeness in society we can’t also do it internally because we are betraying our very selves and souls when we allow injustice to exist outside of us. So if you are here for the personal growth and self-discovery, content, know that your own personal growth is deeply intertwined with how you engage with racism and white privilege, and that's what I'm hoping to unpack today.
The Sunday Soother is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that creates conversations around compassionate personal development and helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.
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