Karen O’Donnell - Radical Practices for Remaking the Self (N332)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

No stranger to loss and trauma, feminist theologian, Karen O'Donnell helps us to reconsider some commonly held perspectives around spiritual practice. Sharing from research and lived experience, she offers insight into how we might benefit from reimagining our approach to rebuilding and remaking ourselves in the aftermath of difficult, or damaging, life experiences.

Following the interview, hosts Anna Robinson and Joy Brooks consider how their spiritual practices have changed alongside their shifting faith and experiences of harm.

Interview starts at 13m 17s

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Anna Robinson and today I am hosting with the wonderful Joy Brooks. Hi Joy. Hi. How are you doing today on this fine day? Is it a fine day with you? It's grey but dry. It's dry and not windy and I think really the bar's so low these days that I'm
0:54.7	going to settle for that. There is washing on the line. I and how am I? There's been a day where
0:59.7	there's been some significant stresses. So I think I'm over having done them now, but the fallout
1:06.9	might mean I'm slightly unhinged, who knows, but hopefully. Well, that would be good joy.
1:12.1	I quite like to see joy unwrapped.
1:15.2	Yeah, exactly.
1:16.9	So if everyone's really lucky, that might happen.
1:19.5	How about you?
1:20.8	Yeah, I'm doing okay, I think.
1:22.5	I don't know if I've shared this.
1:23.6	Do you ever get the feeling when you're a nomad that you shared things over and over again? I'm paranoid that I just repeat myself like an old uncle in the corner of a Christmas party.
1:33.4	Those that don't know, I have home educated or alternatively educated my kids. And my eldest went to
1:39.4	school in year 9 when she was 13 and now it's just started college and my youngest who was 13 she
1:45.8	decided to follow her sister's footsteps and head on into school so yeah for the first time in 16
1:51.5	years I've been completely not responsible for my children's formal education which has been
1:56.8	quite a big shift for me a good one it's like's like totally feels right. It's the right time.
2:01.2	I'm really proud of them both, immensely proud. But yeah, it's a kind of transitional moment for me.
2:06.9	Yeah, that's a huge transition. Yeah, I can't quite wrap my head around what that might feel like having
2:12.3	not alternatively educated because it's a big responsibility. Yeah, but I'm happy, I'm happy at this point for the, for the school to take it on.
2:21.1	And Ashley's, she's loving it, you know, people always just say, oh, how are they
2:24.2	transitioned to school if they've not been in school?
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