32: World Weary Woman: Her Wounding and Healing with Dr. Cara Barker
Posted: September 11, 2020
Today my guest is Dr. Cara Barker. Dr. Barker has spent over 40 years helping thousands of individuals transform their secret suffering into greater strength. Learn about her journey and be reminded that the process of disappointment and loss doesn’t end with acceptance; the stage of acceptance simply prepares us for deeper connection and collaboration with what helps us thrive. Her work, for close to half a century, focuses on what she calls “the Way of the Soul,” aligning life with what nourishes body and soul. Join us to explore, and act upon, unexpected opportunities to love and be loved, and to create fuller enjoyment of life.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Editing out parts of our lives
- Letting go of the things we love but no longer have energy have for
- The meaning behind “World Weariness” and the Egyptian story of “Discourse of a Man with his Ba”
- Type A behavior and its relationship to world weariness
- How young people are struggling with world-weariness and a sense of despair
- Patterns in the outer world that show how women deal with world weariness
- Blocking out pain and keeping busy to avoid emotional pain
- How world-weariness can cause “soul drought”
- Learning to live in our true nature
- The quickening of the Divine Feminine
- Reconnecting with our body wisdom
- The antidote for the world-weary: getting back into harmony with ourselves (being in Tao)