Light Work by Dear Patriarchy

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Light Work — a soft place to land in what could otherwise be a hard moment.  We’re two sisters walking the path of healing together. In this space, we share honest conversations about the practices that have helped us reconnect with presence and a deeper sense of meaning in our daily lives. This ep...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Light Work — a soft place to land in what might otherwise be a hard day.  We wanted to offer up a short, unguided drumming meditation as another way to rest the thinking mind and allow the body and nervous system to lead. The buffalo drum has deep roots in Indigenous and shamanic traditions across...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Light Work — a soft place to land in what might otherwise be a hard day. We wanted to offer up a short embodied presence practice for moments that feel heavy, loud, or disconnected. Making time in your day to pause & connect back in is a beautiful way to be present. In this practice, we focus o...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Light Work — a soft place to land in what could otherwise be a very hard day.  We’re two sisters walking the path of healing together. In this space, we share honest conversations about the practices that have helped us reconnect with presence and a deeper sense of meaning in our daily lives. This...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome back to you - and to us! We're returning to our regularly scheduled podcasting (sort of) and we're so excited to take you along on our amazing journey of exploring different healing modalities and ways to bring lightness, and Light Work, into all of our lives. We're looking forward to s...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to season 5 of the Dear Patriarchy Podcast -  we're back, baby! Season 5 is the beginning of our evolution of the Dear Patriarchy offering. A year and a half ago, we stepped away to start healing and we're bringing back what we've learned and want to continue the healing journey with yo...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the ninth episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, Lisa chats to the fabulous Nila Varman, host of the Nila Extract, an award winning radio show and educational platform that amplifies the voices of thos...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the eighth episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. In honor of Beltane (roll on summer!), this week’s episode is a re-release of our amazing conversation with Shifra Nerenberg (she/ her), owner of Spiral Intuitive & an int...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the seventh episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. Due to the unprecedented onslaught of anti-trans legislation and the steep rise in anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in the United States of America, we’re re-releasing our...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the sixth episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, we’re hosting the incredible Joshua Jernigan, a trans rights activist and philanthropist living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Josh started the GEN (Gend...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the fifth episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, we’re hosting Jessica Olzak and Shannon Collins, creators and co-hosts of Rainbow Connections from the Abington library, a program designed to give youn...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the fourth episode of series 4, where we’ve been focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. However, because this week is Trans Awareness Week, we're taking a short break from hosting guests to focus on the trans community and how cis people can be better s...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the third episode of series 4, where we’re focusing on the educators, activists, and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, we’re hosting Shifra Nerenberg (she/ her), owner of Spiral Intuitive & a lifelong feminist based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. With...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the second episode of series 4 where we’re focusing on the educators, activists and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, we’re hosting Gonzy, the fabulous owner of sustainable, feminist British brand Sasspatch. Gonzy's designs uplift you while keeping you grounded, and...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to the first episode of series 4 where we’re focusing on the educators, activists and influencers who inspire and guide us. In this week’s episode, we’re hosting the incredible writer Uju Asika. She’s based in London, runs the “Babes About Town” social media accounts and is the author of two incredibl...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 20, the finale of series 3! This is our series recap where we discuss which episodes were the most important to us and how we feel the series progressed. We talk about the short-sightedness of the term imposter syndrome, the differences between how both us prepare and gather information for...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 19(ish) of series 3 where Lisa does a mini-breakdown on eugenics and how it relates to reproductive healthcare, specifically forced sterilization. She starts by explaining what eugenics, and scientific racism, is at a high level, touching briefly on Margaret Sanger & Planned Parenthood...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to series 3, episode 18 where we talking about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court. We talk about how we got here, starting with the election of Donald Trump who was voted in overwhelmingly by White women. While the Democratic Party needs to clean their house, White women (us inclu...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 17 of series 3 where we’re talking about how to raise good kids, which involves educating them (and yourself) about diversity, inclusion and consent. Jenni shares an experience she had with her daughter and Lisa talks about raising White boys, who need a lot of education to ensure they are...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 16(ish) of series 3 where Jenni does a mini-breakdown on social media allyship. She starts by running through how important an inclusive mindset is to have and how “un-learning” is the place we all need to start from and continue with as we amplify and share the work of other educators and...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 15(ish) of series 3 where Lisa does a mini-breakdown on the connection between mass shootings and the Patriarchy. There is a clear link between toxic masculinity, misogyny and violence and this mini-sode focused on connecting the dots between them all. Instead of offering thoughts and praye...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to series 3, episode 14, where we’re talking about all things reproductive and social justice. We start by discussing the potential impact if Roe vs. Wade is overturned, particularly the impact on Black women and women of Color, which leads nicely into breaking down what reproductive justice is, where...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to series 3, episode 13 where we’re discussing the toxicity of the girlboss mentality and how it sets out to use feminism as a cloak for capitalism. We talk about how prominent “girlboss” companies and figureheads successfully weaponised guilt and shame to force women deeper into hustle culture and di...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 12 of series 3, where we’re discussing what success and achievement look like, particularly for people who identify as women. We break down what society says women need to have to "have it all" and discuss our experience of what having it all does to you on an individual basis. We...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to episode 11 of series 3, where we’re breaking down internalized misogyny, often misnomered as “toxic femininity.” Before we started our main conversation, we discussed Debanhi Escobar and the global problem of femicide as well as the growing disappearance of girls and women not just in Mexico/Latin...