Episode 269: Where Tenderness Lives with Heather Plett
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We're talking about tenderness and holding space with Heather Plett, author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership and the recently released book Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself. Heather opens up about her experience of dealing with divorce, co-founding the Center for Holding Space, and authoring books that dive into these concepts. Our conversation reveals how embracing tenderness towards oneself can disrupt patriarchal and capitalist structures and highlights the importance of self-care, setting boundaries, and the deep dive required for personal growth.
Featured topics:
- The concept of holding space: what it is and how to do it (3:10)
- Tenderness as a disruptive force (27:13)
- Putting into practice daily acts of tenderness (33:15)
Learn more about Heather Plett:
Heather Plett is the author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership and the recently released book Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself. She is also an international speaker and workshop facilitator, and co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space.
Resources & Links:
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Kate on A Tender Space Podcast: Healing and Divorce I A conversation with Kate Anthony
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.7 | Hey everyone. Welcome back. So we have kind of a lot to cover today. I don't want to say too much right now because I want to honor my guest today, Heather Platt, who I have known on the interwebs for a long time. And we just so wonderfully connected. I was on her podcast. I had her on mine, |
| 1:17.5 | obviously. That's what we're doing today. And it's such a wonderful, wonderful conversation |
| 1:22.2 | that I really want to get to it. But obviously, there is some stuff in the space here about the fact that I chose |
| 1:31.3 | to close my Facebook group recently. And for those of you who missed it, I'm sorry if this is |
| 1:38.4 | the first you're hearing of it and if it's shocking and jarring. But I might do a little mini episode that will drop at the |
| 1:46.8 | beginning of next week. Actually, I'm going to. I'm going to do a little mini episode on this |
| 1:50.6 | that I'll drop at the beginning of next week, maybe Monday or Tuesday, with a little more |
| 1:55.9 | in-depth information and explanation about how everything came to pass. But at the end of the day, |
| 2:03.1 | it was a boundary issue for me. And I had very clear rules about being in the space that people |
| 2:14.4 | agreed to before they even entered the group, and they weren't being honored. |
| 2:21.6 | And that makes sense. |
| 2:23.2 | There were over 18,000 women in the group, and they were some tough rules that were different |
| 2:30.2 | than other groups. |
| 2:33.6 | But the fact remains that it's a group of over 18,000 women, |
| 2:38.2 | and it's hard to manage that many people if it's not your full-time job, really, ultimately. |
| 2:45.4 | And it can't be my full-time job because I have other aspects of my business that I'm running. |
| 2:50.8 | So anyway, like I said, I will get into it in another episode. |
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