CareFull Practices

In this fourth episode of CareFull Practices Season 2, Ryder Fox dives into our fourth practice towards getting unstuck: mapping mind-body awareness. We invite you to curiously examine what you're feeling in your bodymind, and then explore what comfort feels like - not what you think it should feel like, but what it actually does feel like. Check out our Patreon for our full-length episode, where...

Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker as they deep dive into the third practice in the Getting Unstuck program: Recognizing the narratives of stuckness This conversation explores: What are narratives of stuckness, and why is it important to identify them? What is the role that narratives play in our experiences of stuckness? How can building a relationship with our stuck narratives help us to get unstuck?...

In this second episode of CareFull Practices Season 3, Ryder Fox dives into our third practice towards getting unstuck: recognizing the narratives of stuckness. When we receive the same messages over and over, or learn that doing a specific thing keeps us safe, we internalize that message. We might not even realize that some narratives are internalized and aren't just objective truth. We invite yo...

In this second episode of CareFull Practices Season 2, Ryder Fox dives into our second practice towards getting unstuck: noticing the patterns of our stuckness. When we're inside of what feels most stuck, we can forget that there might have been other experiences too... times that felt less stuck. We focus on survival, on getting out of the stuckness any way that we can. But what if instead we can...

In this first episode of CareFull Practices Season 2, Ryder Fox dives into the first step towards getting unstuck: identifying specifically what even feels stuck in the first place. Sometimes, all we feel is overwhelmed, trapped, panicked, stuck ... but how can we consider how to get unstuck if we don't even really know what is making us feel this way? Yet at the same time, our bodies and minds na...

Wondering what's changing as we move into Season 2 of the CareFull Practices Podcast? Ryder Fox talks about the upcoming season as well as the care ecosystem we're building on Patreon. ----- Follow us on Instagram: @strongeruwellness Help us expand the care we provide our communities by joining our care ecosystem on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/CareFullPractices Visit our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

How do we hold space for suicidality, complex trauma, and other conversations that just feel hard or uncomfortable to us? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive into the things we’re not supposed to talk about – and identify practices that have helped them to gain comfort with the hard stuff This conversation explores: Topics that have felt taboo, harder to negotiate, or g...

How do perfectionism and people pleasing show up in giving and receiving care? Join Ryder Fox, Ash Parker, and Isa from Stronger U as they deep dive into everything about perfectionism and people pleasing. This conversation explores: How perfectionism and people pleasing show up in our own care practices How we address our perfectionism and people pleasing Common ways that we observe our communiti...

What is saviorism? And how does it show up, both within the Mental Health Industrial Complex and within our communities of care? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive into everything about saviorism. This conversation explores: What saviorism means to us Why it's important to talk about saviorism in care work Some ways that saviorism shows up for us How we witness saviori...

What does it mean to show up? How do we know how, for whom, or to what extent to show up? Who, or what, tells us when it’s “enough”? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they contemplate what it means to show up and how messy that can get when the idea of showing up fluctuates as we evolve. This conversation explores: What "showing up" means to us How we  determine where, how, and for...

So often we're told that care needs to focus the person receiving care. That there isn't room for our humanity, that we as someone giving care should just be a blank slate. But healing and care happen in relationship. Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they explore mutual vulnerability, and how we can be mutually vulnerable within care work. This conversation explores: How we would d...

So, grief is a part of our existence in this world. What do we do with it? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they revisit last week's conversation about grief and expand that to talk more specifically about grief practices. This conversation explores: How we would describe what a “grief practice” is What the significance of grief practices has been in our lives What has helped us to...

So, grief is a part of our existence in this world. What do we do with it? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox discusses grief practices. Even though grief comes in so many forms in our lives and care practices as multiply marginalized people, so often we end up either hiding from it, or feeling crushed by it. Ryder uses their own experiences of learning how to micro-grieve their har...

How do you notice grief? Anger? What do you do with them, when they arise? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they talk about their experiences with grief and rage, how they intertwine with care practices, and how they learned to be more present with these difficult emotions so that they can also be more present to and receptive of care. This conversation explores: How grief and rage...

How do you notice grief? Anger? What do you do with them, when they arise? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox discusses grief, rage, and other difficult emotions that so often become intertwined within our care practices. These emotions are can be deeply overwhelming - leaving us fearing ways we could harm others, lose ourselves, or become completely broken. And yet they are also fu...

What is your care work fueled by? Desperation, fear, urgency, and survival? Or inspiration alongside the burnout? Rest alongside the urgency? Joy alongside the fear? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they talk about what helps them stay inspired to care, what helped them move beyond survival-based urgency, and the practices that reconnect us to meaning, joy, and even hope. This conv...

What is your care work fueled by? Desperation, fear, urgency, and survival? Or inspiration alongside the burnout? Rest alongside the urgency? Joy alongside the fear? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox discusses a different side of care work: rather than care driven by reaction and the urgency of survival needs, they explore care that is sustaining, inspiring, and joyful. When care i...

Fear of rejection, abandonment, burdening others, making mistakes, hurting others, losing people, or not being enough... what are you afraid of when it comes to care practices? Join Ryder Fox, Ash Parker, and Isa from Stronger U as they get honest about their own fears and how those fears show up in their care practices This conversation explores: Some examples of fears that we've recognized in ou...

Fear of rejection, abandonment, burdening others, making mistakes, hurting others, losing people, or not being enough... what are you afraid of when it comes to care practices? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox discusses fear, and its frequent origins within trauma, marginalization, and survival. Where many of us might believe that care won't be so scary once we're more healed, mor...

How can we ask for care while balancing our needs and fears with others' capacities and needs? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with understanding their needs, asking for care, and building mutually caring relationships. This conversation explores: Some ways that we naturally ask for care Our relationship with asking for care, and how that h...

How can we ask for care while balancing our needs and fears with others' capacities and needs? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox discusses one of the most vulnerable parts of building relationships: asking for care. Many of us struggle between never asking because we fear being a burden, and asking in ways that unintentionally overwhelm others after years of our unmet needs. Th...

How do we care for others without burning out or losing ourselves in the process? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with learning how to give care in creative, dynamic, and sustainable ways. This conversation explores: What comes to mind when thinking about giving care that is relevant to the person we're caring for Examples of natural ways t...

How do we care for others without burning out or losing ourselves in the process? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox explores what it means for care to be dynamic, and how we can give care in sustainable, dynamic ways. For many of us, our values, lived experiences, and communities inspire us to show up for others - and at the same time, we're also left grappling with the realiti...

Why is giving and receiving care so complicated and messy? Join Ryder Fox and Ash Parker from Stronger U as they deep dive their own experiences with reciprocity, expectations, disappointment, and the ongoing practice of building more caring relationships. This conversation explores: What giving and receiving care has looked like throughout life, and how it's changed over time. What "mutu...

Why is giving and receiving care so complicated and messy? In this episode of CareFull Practices , Ryder Fox explores a common tension: many people show up consistently for others but feel unseen or unsupported in return, while others feel overwhelmed by needing care and worry they are asking for too much. Why? Often, we were never taught how to engage in balanced, transparent care relationships....