067. Is It Burnout Or The Energetic Expense Of A Breakthrough?

For The Worldbuilders

In this episode I’m inviting you into this question with me: “Is It Burnout Or The Energetic Expense Of A Spiritual Breakthrough?” Now let’s be clear, sometimes it really is burn-out. Sometimes, no…a lot of the times, capitalism, the patriarchal refusal to compensate care work and the lack of a state sanctioned social safety net can really bring us to our knees and leave us feeling burned out. I want to acknowledge that, but what I also want to be emphatically clear about acknowledging is sometimes it is spiritual severance, self-denial and self-negation that is at the core of our exhaustion. What creative invitations have you been resisting? Let’s take a look at that and try to answer these questions together.

Resources

• Register for 4-Part Winter Worldbuilding Workshop: https://www.seedaschool.com/program
• Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire
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Citations

• For the Worldbuilder’s Episode 52 “Releasing the Burden of Being Complicit In Our Own Suffering” published July 4, 2024
• Karen M. Rose “Happy 2025 + Capricorn New Moon” Guidance
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs “Live Q&A About Daily Practice”
• Mundane Miracles with Sonya Renee Taylor “Episode 6: Let Your Old Life Fall Away”
• *The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry* edited by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
• “Poetry Is Not A Luxury” by Audre Lorde
• “Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic As Power” by Audre Lorde

• Cover Art: Mary L. Proctor’s Freedom of Expression (1998) Materials: Costume jewelry, buttons, cowrie shells, paint, on wood door. Dimensions: 80 x 30.5 inches. Image Source