Podcast deep dive
thoughts around my recent podcast interview with Painterly on grief, creativity and ways of seeing post loss. Also sharing other artists who's grief work really inspires me and a heal all soup recipe.
Well I’m starting with the soup as I’m nursing a cracking head cold and the assemblage and transmutative qualities of making this feel very analogous to grief processing right now.
Gather some shitake mushrooms (2 cartons), raw ginger (2 thumbs), garlic, turmeric (tablespoon), dried kelp (one strip) and white miso (1-2 tablespoons)…add to boiling water and simmer until everything melts, expands and the whole becomes a bubbling pot of sunshine. Drink with freshly squeezed lemon often until you feel better. Recipe is an adaptation from the wonderful Gem of Gem’s. Follow her on insta Gem's wholesome kitchen
The ingredients are all healing but brought together through cooking gives them superpowers. I’m mid way through my EMDR therapy and the mental travelling and enmeshing then releasing of memories allows a new and somewhat calmer headspace - it’s like magic and I don’t understand it but it works.
I was super anxious about the podcast interview but somehow talking about everything I was doing made me understand myself better. I was able to make connections I hadn’t before. It’s so interesting how speaking out loud can act as a release in itself. Here’s a link to the podcast Painterly podcast on YouTube. It’s the brainchild of Alex Foley - fellow painter and Brightonian.
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