If you’re looking to start your summer reading list check out our first ever...
FABRICATED READING LIST!
.
.
.
We are recommending books you’ve heard mentioned in our episodes. And if you like this brain food, keep a look out for more recs of all kinds that are based on and inspiring our podcast conversations !
.
.
.
NEW EPISODE out this week is a must listen... the first of a two-parter all about how American mythology (stories) shape and impact our day to day life and the lives of our fellow citizens.
.
.
.
All the links in all the bios! Subscribe to it, like it, or for as little as $3 a month support its creation on Patreon ♥️ and 🧠 food.
#fabricted #fabricatedpodcast #podcastersofinstagram #storiesmatter #narrative #readinglist #makeamericareadagain
This is my very good friend and very good collaborator @benjamin.leaf in a moment of levity making our podcast FABRICATED ... I love what this picture captures !
But this week, our latest episode dropped... an episode that wasn’t light... that took a lot of courage (read: vulnerability) to put out in the world and I’m honored Ben was willing to do it, and that I could pass the mic to him this week to talk about what it means to be Asian in America.
Check out our latest episode.
LINK IN BIO, as ever. Please take a listen and like us, subscribe to us, join us as we celebrate the steps forward (the recent passage of the AAPI hate crimes bill, the George Floyd verdict) but also join us as we attempt to engage in the hard conversations and actions that keep that moral arc of the universe bending towards justice. #stopasianhate #stopaapihate #stopwhitehate #stopwhiteterrorism #stopwhitesupremacy #thefabricatedpodcast #fabricated #narrative #storytelling #storiesforgood
Anyone who knows me knows I was actually proud when our episode on LOOTING got an E rating because we sure as s*** threw down some expletives we were so fired up about the injustice and DANGER of our country’s narratives around Looting. More social justice issues ahead on FABRICATED.
WARNING: This is a politically charged episode.
WARNING: I curse!
WARNING: I am a Very proud parent over this episode - so do check it out. Give us some stars or subscribe or do the things folks do in the social media landscape ESP if you’re enjoying the conversations!!!! @benjamin.leaf
Link is in the bio, y’all. #fabricted #thefabricatedpodcast #narrative #storiesforgood #fabfacts #storytelling
I know I’m quite new to Instagram and I know I’ve posted this image before. It’s really special to me... and there’s a story behind it I hadn’t shared. I took this picture 2 years ago today. On my Dad’s birthday. My dad lost a short but fierce battle with cancer in 2011, and for a long time I didn’t know how to celebrate his birthday... I think because I never really wanted him to be gone. Some years I just couldn’t face it, other years I would buy a few scratch-off lotto tickets in his memory. But in 2019 I felt ready in a meeting way. I was away on a job in Richmond and I decided to adventure off by myself on a long hike with the intention of honoring my Dad’s day. I was thinking about him so much and then I passed this tree... that said HI MK. And I said “Hi Dad” it felt like such a strong and clear message. I miss him so much ! But grief is funny, because it’s not necessarily any easier all these years later. I’m always missing him in new ways but also finding him in new ways. Anyone who knew him knew how great he was. He had integrity and humor. And most days I just try to live in that way and I know that’s at least a part of his legacy. HB Dad. ♥️
Who gets to decide who’s good and who’s WICKED ? ! ? @benjamin.leaf and I discuss...
Check out this week’s episode where we unpack / nerd out on this beloved musical. LINK IN BIO PEOPLE! Because I know how to do that now! #podcast #storiesforgood #narrative #fabricatedpodcast #wickedthemusical
There’s bound to be a story or two about these angels when @benjamin.leaf and I go LIVE at 8pm EST tonight ! ********THIS IS MY FIRST EVER IG LIVE I’M FEELING TECHNOLOGICAL**********
“I don’t know, stories just don’t seem to be working right now”. I said this to @benjamin.leaf last summer when we started discussing what we might want to make a podcast about. It was a kind of despairing thought for a self-described story-teller, a theatre maker with no theatre to make. But it actually felt very empowering to admit and inspired the very big questions at the core of FABRICATED ! our new podcast which - after many months of thought and loving care - is something we DID make and has dropped this week. !!! We decided to look at all the ways (obvious and not so obvious) that story and narrative interact with our daily lives. Why don’t stories seem to be doing enough to fix the world, and how might examining narratives (fiction and more importantly NON-fiction) that create the complex fabric of our existence help us to do more than just survive... help us to heal. We haven’t found the answers, but we’ve had a glorious good time just asking the questions and starting the conversations ..... JOIN US ! Especially if you’re in a philosophical mood ✨ I am now attempting link in bio 🤞🏼Thank you to our fellows artists and makers @schroedafly for the artwork, @jmorgannyc for our music and my dearest bud @camrhof for lending an audio hand. #narrative #narrativeart #narrativemedicine #drama #philosophy #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #newpodcastalert #storytelling #storiesforgood #quarantine #fabricated
Day 14 of #meditationresolution has me with no reflection but lots of gratitude. This image HI MK was carved on a tree in a park in Virginia where I was hiking. It might’ve been random carvings, but for me, in that moment, it felt more like a sign of being right where I was supposed to be... which is kind of like another word for love. @embodiedphilosophy and all ambassadors made me feel that, once again and always, I’m right where I’m supposed to be. I’m just feeling grateful and like acutely aware of all the signals and messages of love I feel daily everywhere. It’s easy to feel an embarrassment of riches, an abundance when I think of all the people I love and create with and the opportunities I’ve been given. I’m especially grateful to the dark times, the low points that walked me towards the things I needed most, and taught me -thru diligent work and mindfulness- that I’m built to survive.
My Day 13 of #meditationresolution was enriched today thanks to @embodiedphilosophy as I continued my course in Trauma First Aid. @milesneale thank you especially for such specific guidance AND such thoughtful post-meditation prompts. Today I thought about how access to your own agency, regulated healthy access to your own personal agency, is critical to confidence and mobility. I literally watched this happen before my eyes! Knowing that you’re safe to ACT, and safe in protecting yourself in turn makes it feel more possible to really rely on protection from others. To trust. And to grow despite the conditions that may surround you.
This is one of my favorite pictures of me and my little buddy Jack. I look at this picture and think how peaceful this moment was, and how I never want him to feel anything other than what we were feeling in this moment (in case it’s not obvious, we were making flower crowns). But today’s #meditationresolution had me thinking about peace in a different way again. Jack will feel pain sometimes, in fact I know he already has. Every moment can’t be flower crowns, but also, that’s not really what peace is. Peace is not being oblivious, peace is more like knowing things can go bad but that you’re safe anyway. Peace is that comfort that comes from wisdom and acceptance, not ignorance and avoidance. Peace is like, the deepest knowing. An ability to actively confront and interact with life as it is and feel right at home anyway.
@mirabelle_sivajyoti your meditations! I’m so grateful for your guidance and especially loved today thinking of my breath as soft.
I’m often very forceful and controlling with my breath in meditation - I used to look at it as failure - and have been at work diligently on a more gentle approach to myself all around. Today made me recognize failure as the best thing I could hope for, because failure means I’m in motion - I’m active... I’m trying. I mean, I’ve noticed how much time I spend worrying about the future or worse gazing in the rear view mirror in BOTH cases avoiding the present moment. Even when the rear view is pretty, it’s still past. It’s still a distraction from the present if you find more comfort in IT than you do in the present. But the present can also feel like the scariest place ... for myself I noticed it’s where the fear of failure rears its ugly head most. I’ve always had a bad relationship with failure - I avoided it at all costs and wanted to lead only with my strengths. Then you realize over time this creates a very narrow safe zone. So since shut down I’ve faced that head on and come to think of failure as a sign of mobility of vitality. This is important to me: someone who easily immobilizes in the face of fear. If I don’t try I can’t fail, but if I don’t try I can’t succeed either. Obvious much ?!?? But sometimes easier said than done. The comfort of breath work, for me, is that thru mindfulness I deepen my own sense of trust in myself. It makes me feel safe enough to fail, but even better, I’m also no longer defined by success OR failure. Failure is the action of achievement. But neither the failure nor the achievement is who I am. #meditationresolution
#meditationresolution Day 10!
I realized today that nearly every post I’ve made for @embodiedphilosophy Meditation Resolution has been of nature. I love spending time in nature ! It’s the ultimate inspiration, my home, and the best teacher. It possesses all the wisdom I need... all the things that really challenge ME, Mother Nature makes look so easy. Cycles, interconnectedness, regeneration, resilience, roots, surrender, acceptance of what is, and all this without any resistance.... Did you know that when Redwood trees finally die and “fall” they lie on the forest floor and decompose to fuel new life. By dying the trees make new life possible. And they literally live on in what grows. I admire the ability of nature to be just as it is, and I practice being with life as it is, and being with myself as I am. It’s our ‘nature’ ✨
