A place to discuss, pivot, question, and develop our ideas. Your host, Shae, comes to the figurative table to initiate discussion on topics with the expectation that you will respond. Want a platform through which to speak? Please join the conversation!
Forgive Me Nots
On the Drama Queens podcast Joy Lenz shared an idea that forgiveness is scandalous, and while agreeing with that today Shae is going to discuss the opposite side: NOT forgiving is also scandalous. Let us begin digging up how personal and convoluted the experience of emotional harm and recovery is. Is forgiveness always necessary? Is it always positive? What does forgive and forget really imply?
3/25/2023 • 22 minutes, 29 seconds
It Is Okay to Want Something in Return
Shae discusses the idea of 'giving' and the fine print that is a part of the exchange, whether we acknowledge it or not. In this episode we accidentally draw an analogy between the five markers of cancerous melanomas to cancerous agreements. Catch one of the waves in this episode or just drift along with our host!Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
3/11/2023 • 22 minutes, 36 seconds
Decluttering the Concept of Decluttering
Or perhaps only cluttering the concept more??? Shae unravels the relationship between clutter and cleanliness, how it helps and how it hinders -- especially in regards to parents and creative people. There can always be more cleaning and upkeep... so when do you CHOOSE to stop?
2/18/2023 • 31 minutes, 26 seconds
Dirtbag Baby (Emotional Vocab. Part 2)
Continuing on from our last episode detailing emotional vocabulary (or the lack thereof) in children, Shae continues on to propose the idea in regard to teenagers and their "angst". This episode focuses less on the adults' role in teaching children and, drawing from Shae's own experience, more on the vision of: 'What might teenagehood look like if they had well-established emotional vocabulary?'Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
1/21/2023 • 30 minutes, 39 seconds
#CRYBABY (Emotional Vocab. Part 1)
The first episode of 2023 is about emotional vocabulary -- part one. The beginning of an (as it currently stands) three-parter in which Shae begins at the beginning: children and how they are taught the importance of emotion and the safety they should feel in their own and their parents' emotional expression.This episode will be followed up by another specific to teenagers and, eventually, one regarding adults.As always please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
1/7/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Hate Me!
Hatred! It terrifies, doesn't it? What if it didn't have to?After a short break to really hang in the vulnerability of the last episode, we delve into hatred and how it feels, what it means, and what danger it actually implies. In the process of this half-baked rambling Shae hopes that it helps you feel safer in your own emotions and helps you to ask yourself the right questions (as an xmas gift to yourself ofc)!As always: Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
12/24/2022 • 46 minutes, 38 seconds
(tw) Medicated.
While acknowledging the dangers of medication, we also want to acknowledge the benefit that it can have and the safety it can provide a person. Shae shares personal insight into her journey of depression and medication in hopes that it can make you feel less alone.This conversation does involve mention of suicide et al. so is prefaced by a trigger warning. Please do not listen to this episode if you are not prepared for heavy and deeply personal topics. Please do take proper steps to ensure that you feel safe after the fact if you do choose to listen alone!As always please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
11/26/2022 • 43 minutes, 31 seconds
Shame! Shame! Shame!
Welcome back to the Half-Baked Podcast (and a whole different volume)!In our third episode, Shae dives into the shame we are taught as human beings from day one and how that forms who we are and how we relate to others -- and, ultimately, how we feel about being alive.So let us ask ourselves this delicious question: What is beyond shame, and how do we get there?!..Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
11/12/2022 • 46 minutes, 2 seconds
All in My Feelings, All the Time. Wbu?
Welcome back to the Half-Baked Podcast where we hone in on the topic of sensitivity. What are the confines of being 'sensitive' and what if you do not follow in line with that image?Shae proposes sensitivity as strength, communication, and bravery, and highlights how patronizing its common usage can be by categorizing the patronizers as 'insensitive people' for the sake of discussion.Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
10/29/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 44 seconds
Is Help Always...Helpful?
Welcome to the very first episode of the Half-Baked Podcast! Our host, Shae, proposes ideas around helpfulness - where it comes from, how people choose to implement it, and when it becomes a hindrance.Chocked full of chit-chatter, mic problems, and currently lacking in the back-and-forth needed for the progression of ideas: Welcome to the Half-Baked Podcast!Please offer up your questions, corrections, or suggestions!
