Jargon and Belonging – Podcast #623
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss how “loading the language” and using jargon can be purposeful in building community, but can also veer toward excluding and feeling more “special” than others. They discuss how certain wellness communities, organizations, and workout facilities can feel “cult-ish” and how personal agency and individual integrity are essential in staying grounded.
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This week’s resources:
- We Choose Our Cults Everyday – The Atlantic
- The Dark Side of Wellness – The Guardian
- Conspirituality Podcast
- A Little Bit Culty Podcast
- Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults & Abusive Relationships
- Orthorexia
Timestamps:
30:39 Cognisprings designs and sells children puzzles, activity kits, board games, books and many more intended to spark the love of learning, by tapping into children’s curiosity about the world around them.
1:06:00 Team Zen Avid Co.– Painting & Remodeling MenLiving Todd Adams Coaching
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| 0:00.0 | do do do do do do do do here we go my name's Todd and this is Gabi welcome back to another |
| 0:09.5 | episode of Zen Parenting Radio this is podcast number 623 why listen to Zen Parenting Radio |
| 0:15.7 | because it will help you to feel outstanding and I always remember our motto which is that |
| 0:19.7 | the best predictor of a child's |
| 0:21.8 | well-being is a parent's self-understanding. Will you tease the topic? And then I'm going to do his unparenting |
| 0:26.5 | moment, sweetheart. Sure. What makes something good? No, let me say it's a different way. What makes |
| 0:32.9 | something go from good to not good? What makes something go from good to not good? |
| 0:39.3 | I think some things that we look for in life, we see them as good or we experience them as good, |
| 0:46.3 | and then sometimes they start to cross over into a territory that's not good. |
| 0:52.4 | So what I mean by that is we're going to talk a little bit about cults. |
| 0:56.6 | Sweet. |
| 0:57.4 | See what I thought of was, you know, relationships always start out good. |
| 1:01.9 | Right. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, there can be cultish one-on-one relationships. |
| 1:05.7 | True. |
| 1:06.2 | Abusive relationships. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, interesting. |
| 1:08.2 | Okay. |
| 1:10.3 | But first, I was just before we pressed record, I asked my wife, |
| 1:14.7 | Kathy, if it's possible for, right now my computer says it's 61 degrees outside. And I asked her if |
| 1:20.3 | it's possible for it to go from 61 degrees to 63 degrees without hitting 62. And you said, |
| 1:26.8 | I said yes, but I don't know that scientifically, I just assumed. |
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