✨ Today we air from Skaneateles, “skinny atlas,” NY in a small room at the bottom floor of a castle. Technically this room is a wine cellar but it also has this incredible magical quality to it…
The ceiling is a muted blood color with metallic gold flower prints that bring to mind elegance but also ancient bloodlines and the arched door of this cool stone room is a set of iron bars complete with a heavy padlock and skeleton key.
I think this is a very fitting place to be talking with Jessica Terry Burke. We are here at a surprise family gathering my sister has thrown her husband and are taking the time away from everyone to discuss finding Value and Worth in the stories that we personally have aligned with.
For both of us, it is a powerful opportunity to speak with another woman that appears to be (and operate) very differently on the surface, but deep down shares similar core values.
This is because she and I come from respectively, the viewpoint of the Christian faith from the West and the mystical viewpoint of Yogic spirituality from the East.
How she sees it: Christians have seen yoga as evil and the Yoga tradition feels the Church to be oppressive.
(We did not dissect this exact sentiment, however I feel it could be a great subject for a future discussion with her.)
Throughout our conversations over the years we have realized that we really aren’t so different from one another and that sharing our story to each other has only widened and healed old narratives.
It is my hope this episode can give a window into the same for you, where we reveal a common language that can help us to heal old narratives and times that have not served us in the past along with:
1. What it means to be a strong woman in leadership roles-alone and alongside her husband
2. Her journey of discovering the importance of being valued, not used
3. The structure and role community plays in their unique “roaming Christian pop up church” in Sacramento, where going Deep before Wide is key
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