The Whole Paradox
Welcome to The Whole Paradox podcast, where we explore timeless wisdom in the modern age to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and belonging to ourselves, our world, and one another. We will integrate the sacred, mythic, somatic, creative and poetic to expand our meaning of truth and our capacity for complexity and nuance.
The Whole Paradox
Falling Apart with Anna Olinova
Why so much suffering? The constant and unspeakable atrocities of humanity over and over and over it repeats, the horrors we inflict upon others, ourselves, is there a difference?
I turn to the void, unhinge my jaw, I open to let it in. “Is this going to annihilate me?” “Yes my love, let it.” On my knees I reach down to the earth, the tears come, washing me clean from the inside “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.”
In this episode Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews expressive arts therapist and associate mental health counselor, Anna Olinova. They discuss:
- How being a Russian immigrant informs Anna's life perspective
- Experience working in prison rehabilitation program, with youth offenders, and with people with schizophrenia and other perceptual disorders
- Why to keep on going in the face of the terrible truths of life
- Art as healing modality
- Cultivating community
- The language of sensation
- This episode includes an experiential exercise around noticing what you are feeling through expressive arts lens
Find Anna Olinova:
Follow Anna @glitterforest.
Find out more about her work on her website.
Follow us @mollymitchellhardt
This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.
References:
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron