0.35: Willow + The Use of Magic

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In today's episode we have a more in-depth conversation with Natalie Muskin-Press, taking a deeper look at Willow’s arc with her use of magic in this season. Natalie is a Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor who has been working in Higher Education for the last 10 years. Prior to that she spent 3 years working in the community providing Intensive OutPatient Treatment to adults and adolescents and running a residential Recovery Home for women. Her work centers on harm reduction with a focus on prevention, intervention, and education. This episode will contain spoilers through the end of Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and will also include conversations on themes of substance use, the prison industrial complex, sex work, and mental health. DONATE If you are able, please send donations to Project Neighbors, and specifically their Solar Conversion Project at projectneighbors.org! If you donate, let us know at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/projectneighbors & you can also enter to win some very fun Buffy prize-bundles. TODAY'S GUEST Natalie Muskin-Press: @mzbitca If you are looking into finding treatment options for yourself or a loved one, you can use the SAMHSA Treatment locator: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment +++ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Learn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team +++ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES National Harm Reduction Coalition:https://harmreduction.org/ Drug Policy Alliance:https://drugpolicy.org/ Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavitz: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663669-unbroken-brain?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=dJ1PyVy1xN&rank=1 North America Syringe Exchange Network:https://www.nasen.org/map/ The Chicago Recovery Alliance:https://anypositivechange.org/ Self-Management and Recovery Training:https://www.smartrecovery.org/community/

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0:00.0	Hey there!
0:04.8	Hello!
0:05.8	We are here with an extra episode for you this week and please be warned,
0:10.3	sirens going off in the distance.
0:12.4	This episode contains spoilers, spoilers through the end of season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
0:20.9	In this episode, we sit down to have a more in-depth conversation with Natalie Muskin Press,
0:26.5	who you met here in our buffering verse when she did a segment in our episode for Tabula Rasa.
0:31.8	Yes, we will be as you probably have guessed, taking a deeper look at Willow's arc
0:37.6	with her use of magic in this season.
0:40.0	There is a ton to be said, and there's no way for us to say all of it even in the span of one
0:46.6	complete episode, but since season 6 digs into some really massive themes,
0:52.0	we want to do our best to create some space for more conversation than we're able to have within
0:55.8	the episodic discussions themselves.
0:58.8	A little information for you on Natalie.
1:01.2	She is a licensed clinical addictions counselor who's been working in higher education for the
1:05.9	last decade, and before that she spent three years working in her community, providing intensive
1:11.0	outpatient treatment to adults and adolescents, and running a residential recovery home for women.
1:16.6	It's also really important for us to note that Natalie works within a harm reduction framework
1:21.2	with a focus on prevention, intervention, and education.
1:25.2	Our hope is to bring you a few of these very focused,
1:28.1	thematic episodes this season, and we want to thank our patrons who have made it possible
1:32.0	for us to produce large conversations in many ways over the past year.
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