Karen O’Donnell - The Dark Womb (N275)

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Post-evangelical, Reconstruction, Liberation Theology, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Mysticism, Progressive Christianity, Faith Shift, Deconstruction, Evolving Faith, Religious Trauma Healing, Embodied Spirituality, Spiritual Direction, Mystical Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Feminist and trauma theologian Karen O’Donnell shares her experiences of repeated reproductive loss. Describing the physical, emotional and spiritual impact, she explores the complexity of faith from the perspective of the miscarrying person. Karen...

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Nomad podcast.
0:38.9	It does I, Tim Nash, and this is Joy Brooks.
0:41.8	Hello.
0:42.7	It's been a month, Joy, since you were last on Nomad.
0:45.8	So I'm imagining loads has happened for you to feedback.
0:49.2	What have been up to?
0:52.0	Not loads, I don't think.
0:53.6	There's been a lot of exams going on for the offspring of the household.
0:57.5	That's not you though, is it?
0:58.7	No, but it feels like it occupies my head and my feelings.
1:03.0	So, yeah, so that's been going on.
1:04.5	So I think probably running like a steady household that's a safe nest to return to after exams has felt like my priority.
1:11.9	My eldest got confirmed.
1:13.8	Wow.
1:14.3	It's the first ever confirmation I've ever been to.
1:16.7	That's quite a unnomaddy thing, isn't it?
1:18.9	Yeah, yeah, sorry anyone for whom that's horrible.
1:22.3	Spoke to the Bishop of Ely, nice little chimwag with him and saw, yeah, saw my oldest child do a whole religious
1:31.2	thing. Nice. Yeah, well, it was, yeah, it was quite nice. It was all very lovely. And when it's your
1:35.8	own child, it changes how you view everything, I think. Yeah. Do you, have you found that entering
1:40.6	middle age, you've been more able to embrace being boring? I feel that entering middle age, I'm now more able to not have to justify being boring.
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