I’m so excited to publish this conversation with Amy Sousa! Here’s her bio:
Amy Sousa (aka @KnownHeretic on twitter) has been an active women's rights campaigner for the last 3 years, has organized rallies in Washington DC to protest Biden's executive order, has protested gender clinics in Seattle, the UN in NYC, protested men in women's sports against Lia Thomas at the NCAA championships in Atlanta, and most recently staged a press conference event in her hometown of Port Townsend, WA which has received international and legacy news coverage. She has testified on behalf of women & girls sex based rights in state legislatures and school board meetings. She holds an MA in depth psychology and leads workshops, classes, and individual coaching which focuses on embodied awareness. She has informational videos on her youtube channel https://youtube.com/c/KnownHeretic, and her teaching work can be found at: http://littleredreverberations.com
What a deep and rich conversation about “revaluing our embodied awareness” and the practices of trust, courage, resiliency and just showing up! Amy defines depth psychology and talks about paying attention to our guidance systems, that we are our bodies, and, of course, just what is a woman (spoiler: it’s an unavoidable developmental pathway for any female human.) We agree that what we need most right now is models (not martyrs.)
Amy references several books including Reviving Ophelia and The Gift of Fear
As Amy reminds during this conversation, “this is really hard work we are all doing” and this is an ongoing project for humans who value embodiment and intuition. Remember self-compassion is also a practice—and the work you’re doing will reverberate for generations to come.
Reclaiming what is Beautiful about Being a Woman -with Amy Sousa (aka Known Heretic)