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 of power, rank, and privilege?” by specifically looking at four men in Jo’s life (Mr Dashwood, her Father, Laurie, and Friedrich), how she relates to them, how they influence her attachment, and their impact on her creative trajectory.

(See time stamps and links to the scenes mentioned in the podcast below.)

Intro 0-4:00

Overview of the Season: 4-9:00

Secure Attachment: 9-14:00

Male Gaze/Jo’s Queer Self: 14-17:30

Father: 17:35-20:20

Dashwood: 20:20-23:29

Friedrich: 23:29-29:50

Laurie 29:50-35:30

Men lose community in patriarchy: 35:30

Jo’s Gaze: 38:25-41:55

Outro 41:55-end

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Father’s note and breakfast to Hummels

Dashwood office

Friedrich’s feedback

Laurie’s Proposal

Men on outside before Marmee leaves (at 1:40)

Jo lamenting to Marmee: Used to be enough but it isn’t anymore

Beth wanting Jo to write

Amy “writing about it will make it important”

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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:

My teacher Carmen Spagnola for her courses on Secure attachment and Contact Nutrition on The Numinous Network

Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)

Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

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Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you, call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls or email them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire, can you help to add yours to the list? ​

Spread the word on social media, or check out Operation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need.

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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 the podcast in this decidedly un-pilot episode.

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Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you, call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls or email them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire, can you help to add yours to the list? ​

Spread the word on social media, or check out Operation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need.

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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass

Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

The Numinous Network and Quest teachings with Carmen Spagnola

Rev. angel Kyodo williams

Here is a link to the blog post I mentioned.

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Stoner Story Witch weaves together the works of: healing from and unlearning the colonial mind*, liberation roadmap and embodied social justice**, and the responsibility of white wealth***, through an animistic worldview, attachment focus, and collapse-aware lens****.

*Dra Rocio Rosales Mesa

**rev. angel Kyodo williams

***Toi Smith

****Carmen Spagnola

Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)
Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)