Lisa Marchiano, LCSW: When You Need to Be Shrewd and Ruthless: Finding Your Vital Spark

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Women across every age and culture have struggled with the pain of repressing essential aspects of themselves. There may be no misery greater than when we bury our vital spark beneath a dense layer of niceness that society insists upon. With her book The Vital Spark, Lisa Marchiano, a Jungian analyst, author, and podcaster, offers readers a breakthrough guide filled with insights, practices, tales, and teachings to unleash your “sizzling spirit” and live life to the fullest. Get ready to reclaim your “outlaw energies” in this powerful podcast on: transformation through fierce feminine initiations; the protective quality of shrewdness and ruthlessness; breaking out of an “innocence complex”; allowing ourselves to know what we know; why “too much kindness defangs us”; discernment; the metaphor of the central fire within us; Carl Jung’s teaching on the unlived life and the “glowing coals under gray ashes”; the vehicle of story and fairy tales to convey wisdom; the tale of “Fitcher’s Bird”; squinting and symbolism; the unsentimental quality in nature; the story of Lilith; the role of greed and selfishness in the quest for wholeness; growing confidence; cultivating the qualities that help us stay connected with ourselves; and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. My name's Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge.
0:12.0	I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership community and digital platform.
0:18.9	It's called Sounds True One.
0:21.7	Sounds True One features original, premium, transformational docu series, community events,
0:29.0	classes to start your day and relax in the evening, special weekly live shows,
0:36.0	including a video version of Insights at the Edge with an after-show
0:41.3	community question and answer session with featured guests. I hope you'll come join us, explore,
0:48.6	come have fun with us, and connect with others. You can learn more at join.soundstrue.com.
0:56.4	I also want to take a moment and introduce you to the Sounds True Foundation,
1:00.4	our nonprofit that creates equitable access to transformational tools and teachings.
1:08.6	You can learn more at SoundsTrueFoundation.org. And in advance, thank you for your
1:14.6	support. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Lisa Marchiano, Jungian analyst, author, and
1:23.4	podcaster. Lisa is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia. She lectures and
1:30.9	teaches widely and is the co-host and creator of the popular depth psychology podcast, This
1:38.3	Jungian Life. With sounds true, Lisa Martiano is the author of the book, Motherhood, Facing and Finding
1:46.3	Yourself. And a gorgeous new book, The Vital Spark. Reclaim your outlaw energies and find
1:54.8	your feminine fire. Lisa, podcaster to podcaster, welcome. Thank you so much. It's great to be here. What inspired you
2:04.2	to tackle the feminine fire and outlaw energies as the topic of your new book? Well, I didn't know
2:12.8	what I was writing when I started writing it. So I didn't know what was going to come out the other end.
2:19.2	But we had done this podcast on this union life. The title of the podcast is something like
2:24.8	fierce female initiations. And I don't even remember how we landed on the topic, but I,
2:30.4	I just remember feeling really impassioned as we were talking about it. And I just had fairy tale after fairy tale after fairy tale.
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