Wisdom of the Wise Welsh Woman

Tiff opens up about her quirky “healthy obsessions” and what they reveal about identity, projection, and the search for wisdom. 🌱✨ With honesty and humor, she shares how random fixations can actually shine a light on deeper truths about who we are becoming.

🎧 Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Healthy Obsessions as Mirrors – Discover how the people or archetypes we fixate on often reflect our hidden desires, values, or unresolved parts of ourselves. 🔍
2. The Archetype of the Wise Woman – Tiffany explores why she’s consistently drawn to certain figures, and how this fascination connects to her own evolving identity as a woman and mother. 🌸
3. Permission to Be Weird – Obsessions don’t make you strange—they can be powerful teachers if you pay attention to what they’re telling you. 💡

✨ This is a good listen if…

• You’ve ever had a “weird obsession” and wondered what it might mean.
• You’re curious about how seemingly random thoughts or fixations can point to deeper truths.
• You love raw, funny, and thought-provoking reflections that blend pop culture with personal growth.

Tiffany Rouge is a 🌸 mum, coach, and breathwork guide sharing raw stories, lessons, and real-life conversations about what it actually takes to grow, heal, and live on your own terms ✨💛. Through her workshops, coaching, and digital practices, she helps people reconnect with themselves, breathe deeper, and create lasting change 🌬️🌱.

She hosts powerful breathwork sessions in Adelaide & around Australia 🇦🇺, shows up at festivals & gatherings, and connects with open-minded souls online through her sacred coaching containers + digital practices 💻🌿

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) So this episode of the Miss Adventurers podcast is an interesting look into what I have referred to in the past and often thought of myself as like juvenile behavior, but it's a very interesting look at a perspective and a frame of thought of mine that I've recognized that has popped up when I have been able to be in a place of like stillness and slow where I'm not consuming anything and recognizing where the mind where my mind in particular goes when it's not in a place where you know I'm in mum mode or I'm consuming things or I'm busy in the day-to-day life and I encourage you because sharing this is almost you know I don't feel any shame in it but it's a very interesting look into where my mind goes when I'm not busy and there's a big enticing move online at the moment going towards your boredom and I'm sharing where my mind goes in those moments of boredom and I want you to know that if your mind goes there too it's okay so long as there's like parameters and boundaries where you know you probably won't take any action on said thought process. Look, it's cryptic enough, let's just get in the episode and you can have a laugh with me. This is the Miss Adventurers podcast hosted by me, Tiffany Rouge. Life is one big adventure and it all starts from taking that one teensy tiny step outside of your comfort zone. So for as long as I can remember when I was quite young maybe like teens I have been obsessed and I would like to call it a healthy obsession because I've never been in a situation where I could act too much on that obsession and I think growing up my obsession with this particular thing I've come to learn has said a lot about me. It was the things that I was looking for because a lot of the time when we are noticing things in others they are projections of our own things that we want or things that we have within ourselves that we are not enjoying. That you know like if we think someone's got a really bad temper and it really makes us angry well the question is is it the temper that is making us angry or are we just the angry person? So taking that look or that sense and that view on this which is on my obsession I've come to learn things about myself through this obsession. So that's why I'm calling it a healthy obsession but basically when I was younger I was obsessed with a tv show called The O.C. You might have seen it it's all about the lives of like an Orange County family and like their connected community around them. Now I wasn't just obsessed with the show I was obsessed with a particular character or a particular archetype which was the mum. Now her character is called Kirsten Cohen and the actress's name is Kelly Rowan and I would describe her as like a tall-ish slender white blonde woman like very Anglo-Saxon white woman and I remember thinking of her and like looking at you know all the things in her life that she had achieved this character. You know she was the partner in a development company she was very successful she was living in the upper west side of like Orange County so she was super rich she had a family she had a amazing husband and I realized like I wanted her life right like I wanted to be her and as a half Filipino half Australian with Scottish descent woman I never thought I would ever look like this woman like I am a curvy Asian dark haired tan skin woman and here is almost the complete opposite right and so this obsession lasted for however long the show went on I was devastated it ended but I guess I just I moved on and since then you know I looked at that growing up going like why am I so obsessed with this woman it's such a weird obsession to have at the age of 16 why am I like feeling all of these feelings like I must know more I must learn more I must like try and understand what are the motivations of this person this character this actress which was it was really in my head and I've really learned that I am quite an obsessive person and for me my obsession with particularly like the future and my desires and my dreams and what I want to achieve I can become super obsessed with that like so obsessed that I will spend my free time building a business as if you've listened to the previous episode of the Misadventures podcast you'll know that I had to put all that stuff down thanks to my Vipassana meditation so reflecting back on this obsession that I had with this woman who had this incredible life I've come to like learn right because as I have put the business down and put that obsession down another slender tall white woman with blonde hair has sort of like been represented on screens in in my field like I'm watching like House of the Dragon I'm watching Fate Wink Saga I'm very into um fantasy tv shows at the moment and this woman who you know fits the mold of this older obsession that I had when I was because I don't even know where Kelly Rowan is now like the tv show is long gone and yes there's been some revival things around it but I'm you know I've let a lot of that stuff go so it was you know it was nice to kind of revisit but I don't feel the things that I feel about this new obsession this new woman look I'll tell you her name is Eve Best she plays Rhaenys Targaryen in House of the Dragon and she also plays like a character like the headmistress Farrow Dowling in Fate the Wink Saga now why am I telling you all this stuff right well the reason that I'm sharing this with you is because I think that having this obsession right like I still see it as a healthy obsession I have no desire to go out and find this Eve Best person and like make friends with her I don't know like wear her skin whatever like that's not my jam I've no desire to do any of that but I'm still recognizing within my life my obsessive tendencies have just shifted right so when I was obsessed with this character from the OC when I was 16 some things happened in my life I realized that like I essentially like hit rock bottom in my life at that age and realized that I never wanted to get there again and so I started to form this idea of what I wanted my future to look like it was around about that time that I realized that I wanted to be a radio announcer and I let go of one obsession and I became obsessed with my idea and my vision of the future and so now you know a couple of careers later a couple of businesses later a family and a baby later I'm coming all the way back it's like going full circle to this obsession that I have with this slender white haired wise woman so I looked up what is the common similarities between these women because there also has been other women that have been like oh wow she's amazing you know I really look up to her I really like what they've achieved and you'd be surprised I have a type friends yes the type is slender white woman blonde hair tall even like to the point where I had like a uni tutor who was in that similar makeup and I was obsessed with her we went out for beers it was cool we were friends it was nice but I wanted to understand why is this archetype and it's a particular like it's an older woman as well it's not like a young gorgeous you know in her prime and you know the question is like what even is a woman in her prime like what age is she but for the archetype that I saw it was like an older woman and why you know why why do I feel that I am drawn to this archetype now there's a few different possibilities and I'm I'm going to investigate this and there's the possibility that I have a deep connection like a blood connection to this type of archetype and I've come to understand through looking at all the similarities that it's almost like it's a Welsh looking woman because both of the two actresses that I mentioned have Welsh heritage I don't I have Scottish heritage but you never know Scotland is close to Wales so maybe that's why I relate to this Welsh archetypal woman or maybe not right maybe I'm just looking for a matriarch who has a few more answers who's lived a life that I can actually turn to and go wow I really respect you what do you have for me what what wisdom have you got in your life what wisdom have you gathered right because we're all on this journey and as we go through our lives the lessons that we learn become wisdom that we can then impart to others and I can tell you right now I'm never going to be a tall slender white Welsh woman with blonde hair but I am going to be a wise woman with all of the lessons and I'm sure if you've listened to the Miss Adventurous podcast you've probably taken some of these pearls of wisdom on board or at least heard them and gone well actually that kind of makes a lot of sense so the big question that I really do feel is why why am I so obsessed with this woman or with this archetype and yes I could be related to one of them maybe there's something deeper towards it I don't have the answers it's a very interesting place to recognize this though that like these obsessive tendencies have been with me throughout my life right and I don't think that I am you know so obsessed that I need to seek help about it but I find my mind wondering oh okay like I wonder you know I wonder what Eve Best would be doing today right and it's such a weird like who even is Eve Best I don't even know this person the funny thing is right like I have no idea who what type of person this this actress is but I'm really drawn and like giving a lot of my mental capacity to that and so if you have ever been in a place where you're like weirdly obsessed with something and look there is no shame in this there's no shame in having an obsession or fighting yourself like coming back to thoughts of maybe it's an ex-partner maybe it's a fictional character but knowing that you're not alone hopefully by me sharing this legitimizes the thoughts that you have and the important part is us remembering that it's okay to have these obsessions but also like what are these obsessions trying to tell us right and this is what I've learned around my obsession and how like I want to be a successful woman even though I'll never have that archetype of the aesthetic that this wise Welsh woman has but I'll be a wise Asian woman so yeah have a think around the places where your mind wanders when you're not consuming when you are just living life because I'm sure you will find very interesting observations such as mine and if you do want to chat about them I'd love to hear about your weird and wonderful obsessions like mine hit me up contact me there's a link in the show notes or at tiffany underscore rouge on instagram let's talk about our weird wise woman obsessions together well that's almost it from me here on misadventurous if you dig what you hear and want to keep up to date with every single episode of the misadventurous podcast hit subscribe however you're listening to this right now and if you want to be even more of a legend and 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