Stoner Story Witch

In this season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids titled “Dream Place.” In the words of Sophie Strand, inspired by Octavia Butler, what is sexy?  How can the tropes we love in stories be the roadmaps for what liberation looks like for us, here, now?  How can intentional changes of consciousness be a magical practice...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance” - season 2 aired in 2025 on Apple) How can shows, like Severance, hijack our nervous systems into dysregulation so that we will accept the same-old stories, confusing coherence with liberation? In what ways is Severance a part of the same propaganda it warns about?  How can we use stories as a way to locate ourselves in the larger story of ou...

This episode does not center a particular story.  It is a revisiting of a {PAST} conversation, honoring that {people are stories, too!}.   In this episode, Kristyn practices secure attachment and connects with her tattoo artist Dusty to discuss tattoos, the union of creativity and spirituality, and the practices that resourced us to leave the cult of evangelical Christianity while leaving the door...

(This episode contains spoilers for the season 1 of Bad Sisters on Apple- Watching not mandatory-Kristyn provides a recap in the beginning of the ep) If practicing pleasure weren’t a radically potent act of resistance, then why are radical conservatives and low value men so scared of women, trans, & queer folk experiencing it?  How does capitalism condition us into scarcity mindsets that keep...

How can we resist buying into the big lie that we are alone?  What does it take to embody a sense of dignity and belonging when we hold dominant identities within oppressive systems?  Can we lay to rest the desire to be “pure, perfect, and innocent” and still be worthwhile to the revolution? Kristyn with a Why receives compassionate witnessing from some of the folks from her Embodied Social Justic...

(This episode contains spoilers for the first two books of The Empyrean Series- Fourth Wing and Iron Flame) How can romantasy novels resource us to live a more liberated life?  How does “curing” a protagonist of their chronic pain support larger ableist narratives?  If you fall in love with a “book boyfriend” whose lands, language, and culture have been stolen from them- how can you show your devo...

(This episode contains spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of Squid Game) How can I connect and hold space for someone who is moved by a story that I refuse to watch?  How does capitalism thrive in binary/hierarchical thinking: good vs bad, guilt vs innocence, us vs. them? Is consent and free will even possible in capitalism? In what ways is Squid Game a metaphor for reality shows like Love Island?  How...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) In what ways does Santa prime kids for the blind obedience to authority and black and white purity thinking that fascism requires?  How can stories help us overcome our fear response and reach for things we deeply yearn for?  Are reality TV shows (like Love Island) just another high demand group keeping us d...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) What are all the ways that we sever from parts of ourselves?  How does public school utilize the tools of “the break room” to foster compliance rather than embody liberation?  How was Helly’s embodied elitism a catalyst for her Innie to revolt? How does Burt living out his “1st edition” beliefs radicalize Ir...

This bonus and first ever mini-sode is a practice of trust--recorded, edited and uploaded in an hour. Kristyn takes a moment to celebrate the podcast's half revolution around the sun: Timeline peering the last six months, sharing best predictions for early 2025 (more subversive smut coming soon?!), and offering a tearfelt thank you to listeners- THANK YOU for sitting around my campfire with me the...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple, and this episode contains spoilers for the romantic fantasy (romantasy) series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” (ACOTAR) by Sarah J Maas ) How can we increase intimacy with someone by opening ourselves to the stories that are speaking to them?  What can we learn about our own liberation when we engage in acts w...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) How might someone heal from a coercive relationship or high demand group?  How can we identify fascism and fight tyranny and why must we?  How can we respond when escape is off the table?  When trauma severs the mind from the body, what are the pros and cons of “top down” vs “bottom up” healing modalities? ...

(This season is related to the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) How is it that, once you start tracking power, rank, and privilege- you start noticing how the invitation for liberation is always bottom-up ?  How do we reach for authenticity in relationships where one person’s pain activates the other’s shame response?  How can we utilize ritual to metabolize and mobilize disorga...

(This season is related to the show “Severance” - season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple) In what ways is capitalism a cult: a high demand group that thrives off of the confusion and insecure attachment of its members?  How do dystopian “fictional” stories such as Severance equip us for the realities of our present moment?   Kristyn with a Why has a friendly chat with her BFF Jamie about witchy shit (lik...

Kristyn is joined live by her husband and sound editor in today’s episode where she revisits and reflects on her relationship to Sourdough and how it is continuing to guide her( See Episode 0: What’s in a Name? )as she is gearing up for a new season of the podcast and any other synchronous pleasures and breadcrumbs that may line the path. —--------------------------------------------- Grateful for...

How does our creative process actually create us?  How does having a thriving ecosystem of relationships and creative outlets better resource us for ALL our relationships and creative projects?  How can we create community and engage in metaphor to support ourselves?  What does sourdough have to do with any of this?? Kristyn with a Why gets personal and reflects on the process of season 1, sharing...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” and this episode connects it to the 2019 Tony Award winning musical “Hadestown.” How are period pieces a prophetic praxis that helps us to view the reality of THIS moment in time?  In what ways is/can our creative practices be liberatory?  How can we reach toward a liberated future when public schools are priming and praising students to obey fas...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” Wouldn’t Sally have a more intimate friendship with Meg if she were better attuned to the gap in their economic realities?  If Laurie weren’t so worried about pleasing his rich grandfather would he feel free to pursue his creativity?  How did forming attachment with Beth provide the catalyst for Mr Lawrence to move from a place of “charity” to “r...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” In what ways is a creative practice also a liberation practice, and why is Jo the only one who gets to carry her creativity with her into adulthood? (hint: it’s capitalist patriarchy)  What are the archetypal choices, needs, and thresholds the March sisters represent? What happens when: you can’t get what you want, when you get what you want only...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” How does “Contact Nutrition” build secure attachment? What is liberation if not people in up-power positions being in solidarity with those in down-power?  Specifically, how can we, as parents, teachers, and adults, respect kids when they are occupied and meet them where they are rather than demanding they operate on our schedule?  And also, some...

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” What is Secure Attachment? How can period pieces be a useful tool for locating ourselves in our current moment?  How “process>product” yields creative practices that help us cultivate secure attachment within ourselves.  And Happy Pride Month to Jo! Kristyn with a Why explores the question “is it possible to earn secure attachment across lines...

What are the questions Stoner Story Witch invites us to ask?  Is Stoner Story Witch a set of instructions?  In what ways is Stoner Story Witch an archetypal energy? What exactly defines a poem, anyway? How does sourdough relate to any of this?? Kristyn with a Why discusses the title of “Stoner Story Witch” and shares a little bit of backstory to the three-year journey leading up to the release of...