MOVD

Lisa Olivera is a therapist, writer and author of two books, Already Enough and When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway. In this conversation, she joins host Mariah Rooney to explore what it means to come home to your body, to sort through the grief and stories we inherit, and to find belonging amidst the mess of it all. They talk about what it looks like to hold the full range of being human without collapsing into it. Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Liina Potter.

Maria Popova is one of the most prolific writers and thinkers of our time. The multi-hyphenate (author-essayist-critic-poet-human) joins Mariah to talk about the power or danger of identity and about how she lives in a state of curiosity and wonder about the world around her. Explore Maria’s project The Marginalian, her study of the search for meaning, now immortalized in the Library of Congress, and her most recent book Traversal, a philosophical book that explores the meaning of life by weaving together the biographies of historical visionaries like with scientific discoveries and historical events.Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Liina Potter.

Poet and spiritual teacher A Helwa joins Mariah to encourage us to hold joy and light through the darkness. She also shares a story about finding beauty and losing herself in the desert. Helwa is the author of the beloved book Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam. Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein and Liina Potter.

Susan Raffo joins host Mariah Rooney to talk about the value of “glacial slowness” in our urgency-driven world. Raffo is a grassroots organizer, queer elder, somatics practitioner, and writer whose walk across the country she is currently turning into a book.Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein.

John Christian Phifer joins host Mariah Rooney to talk about death and grief and the ways he is radically reimagining those with Larkspur, a revolutionary conservation burial ground in Tennessee. John Christian reminds us that death is a part of life and that our cultural distancing from death and from grief mirrors our disconnection from the earth. He also shares with us a path back to reconnection.Learn more about Larkspur and consider contributing to their important conservation work. Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein.

World-renowned musician Joshua Roman joins Mariah to talk about his art and his life-changing journey with chronic illness. Joshua has brought the healing power of music to communities around the world as a cellist and composer.Read the story behind Joshua’s piece Drive that scores every episode of MOVD and listen to his latest album Immunity. Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein.

Host Mariah Rooney speaks with Kai Cheng Thom: somatics practitioner, mediator, and teacher. Kai Cheng is the author of five books, including most recently, Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls.Kai Cheng invites us to find the beauty in the grotesque and the monstrous. She evokes Frankenstein and trans scholars, speaking about monsters as harbingers of a new world.Learn more about and donate to Kai Cheng’s organization of choice, the Trans Women of Color Collective.Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein.

Mariah Rooney talks with Willow Defebaugh: host of The Nature Of podcast, author of The Overview: Meditations on Nature for a World in Transition, and editor-in-chief of climate and culture magazine Atmos.In this conversation, Willow invites us to step into wonder and reclaim intimacy with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. She shows us what we can learn about relationship and healing through the study of queer ecology and deep ecology, through bridging science and spirituality in discovering the natural world.For her organization to support, Willow chose Healing for Gaza. Learn more about their emergency mental health intervention work for those affected by the ongoing violence in Gaza on their website and at @healing_for_gaza.Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Rachel Hornstein.