Redefining Acts of Service through Connection w— Amelia Hruby
“What are systems for collecting care and resources so that pouring back into those is just a part of how we live our lives?”
Can service be pleasurable? How do I take care of myself while caring for others? These questions often take center stage in our conversations about self-care, providing services, creating businesses and making change. In today’s episode, Amelia Hruby + Mary Grace unpack the relationship between our connections + service — how they inform one other + how they help us envision lives that are more in alignment with who we are.
Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, speaker & founder of podcast studio Softer Sounds. Over the past decade, she’s been a a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now she helps babes get their voices off social media & onto the airwaves.
we discuss
reframing our life as an ecosystem
how connection is essential to our full expression
is service something “extra” that we do?
the relationship to between service to ourselves + service to others
why taking care of ourselves doesn’t always happen first
how to be of service without being codependent, a martyr or a “savior”
the Star card in the Tarot + how it holds a vision of service
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, edited by Roxane Gay
“The Uses of the Erotic : The Erotic as Power”, by Audre Lorde
the Star card in the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck
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8 Resources to Improve your Tarot Readings
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