The Wild and Wise
A series of conversations dedicated to the process of creating wellness, within ourselves and in our communities, in this time of deep transformation. We explore processes, practices, and ideas that resource our personal healing and illuminate the interplay between personal and collective liberation. Ashley and Mallika dive deep into these topics, together and with powerful healers, thinkers and change-makers, giving you a variety of ways to deepen your own connection to yourself and those around you. Ashley is Somatic Movement Therapist and ceremonialist dedicated to tending children, body, land, and spirit. Mallika is a licensed marriage and family therapist committed to creating containers that weave together spiritual and relational healing. In this show, you will learn pathways to healing so that you can awaken the wild and wise parts of yourself and grow your capacity to live a connected, sovereign, and creative life, in right relationship with all beings. Hit subscribe and get ready to come alive in ways you’ve always wanted.
The Wild and Wise
Deep Remembering Through Ancestral Story and Myth with Mallika Bush
ep. #27
Mallika and Ashley dive into an area of Mallika's work that has sprung from her own healing journey - working with story, metaphor, myth and ancestral stories. Mallika and Ashley both share pieces of their own ancestral stories, how they honor the broader sense of self and working with the pain and discomfort they have been born to work with in their own stories.
Mallika is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, currently living in North Carolina. While not practicing as a therapist, she is currently guiding women through re-membering ancestral wisdom, reclaiming their intuition and releasing patterns of self-inflicted pain. Mallika holds groups and individual sessions for moms to step into the unknown places with grounding resources, unconditional love and relational skills to lead them from fear and pain to whole, supported and strong ways of moving through the world.
Through Mallika's therapeutic skills, knowledge of yogic philosophy and practices, and experiences/trainings in conscious mothering, she discovered a responsive approach to working with her clients. In that work she brings humor, love and the ability to stay with the difficulties that arise. She eases clients through the painful and scary places to generate nourishing support, deeply connected awareness, and to embody the blessings of their lineages.
What we touch on:
- Stories and myth help us know ourselves and our experiences
- Relationship between belonging and ancestral stories
- Impact of ancestral stories being erased through war, colonization and migration
- Ways that old ancestral experiences continue to be enacted and lived out today
- Being with individual pieces of stories as a way to deepen our relationship to parts of ourselves
- Coming to terms with having personal lineage lines in both colonizers and the persecuted
- Finding this work through Narrative Therapy, Carl Jung's archetypes and Gestalt Therapy
- Tarot as a source of metaphor and imagery
- They ways story lives outside of us and within us
- Awareness of expanded sense of self
- Being careful not to bypass the experiences of this life
- Our job is to be ruled by our prayer
- Difference between allowing feelings and being ruled by feelings
- Passing down of the internalized parent voice
- How our life, even the painful parts, are an offering to our ancestral healing
- What is Mallika's new program, Myth, Animism and My Ancestral Stories all about!
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