Sacred Gyre
Emily Newberry
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Creating positive change requires staying connected to your deepest values. This can be difficult when you feel under pressure. Let's have a conversation about how to do it!
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Recent Episodes
Episode 29 What Do I Want for Christmas?
A time when I received a gift I didn't expect. And learned how it might be more of a gift than I thought at first.
Episode 28 Navigating Uncertainty With My Torn Meniscus
In this episode I navigate through a recent knee injury, what it tells me about how we measure things, and about the ways life can be both certain and uncertain.
Episode 27 Integrating My Memories of 9/11
In this Episode of Sacred Gyre I think about my own reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 2001, and how I think this helps me stay connected to my deepest values under challenging circumstances.
Episode 26 A Crack in One of My Perfect Stories
In this episode of Sacred Gyre I talk about an incident in which one of my personal "perfect stories" becomes obvious and how I am reacting. I then offer some thoughts on how this appears in the…
Episode 25 Oh no! Another Opportunity to Live My Values
In this episode of Sacred Gyre, I grapple with a decision by my health care provider to stop certain forms of care for transgender youth. What should I do as I feel anger, fear or sadness in…
Episode 24 Navigating My Discomfort With Unconscious Bias
In this episode of Sacred Gyre, I use an example from my own life to illustrate the ways in which well-intended language about social change can potentially create harm. In addition to my thoughts on…
Episode 23 A Conversation With Carolyn Martin After my Reading of Her poems
In the last episode of Sacred Gyre, I read a collection of 13 poems from the newly released book Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin. In this episode 23 Carolyn and I have a conversation about…
Splitting Open The World
Today, I invite you to a reading of poems I selected from Splitting Open the World, By Carolyn Martin. I do this, of course, with her permission. It was published in March 2025 by The Poetry Box a…
Episode 21 The Old Machinist and The Young
In this episode of Sacred Gyre I will talk about my learning experiences and think about to what extent they do or do not resonate with the experience of people who work in the medical professions. …
Episode 20 The Biology of Spirit and the Spirit of Biology
In this episode I use an example of a chance encounter with a book and article to highlight ways in which my sense of spirituality evolves over time. I also reveal my thoughts that one's spiritual…
Interview with Robert O'Connor author of Jeep Show, a Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge
Jeep Show, A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge, by Robert O'Connor tells the story of Jim Hetzer who enlisted in the army during World War II and is assigned to the Morale Corps as an Entertainment…
Thanks But No Thanks
I'll do it my way. I imagine I am not the only person who has strong feelings after the recent presidential election. As an 80-year-old transgender woman, I have a lot of feelings around bathroom…
Why I Changed Names
I have changed the name of my Substack website to WWII Baby. Yes, I am a World War II baby, born in 1944 when the war was raging on. My new logo has WW II Baby at the top, a spiral in the middle, and…
Episode 16 Staying Centered in the Face of Senseless Acts
I interrupted my work on Butterfly Arose because I noticed myself having emotional reactions to the attempted assassination of former President Trump. I created this episode of Sacred Gyre as a way…
Episode 15 Pax by Annie Lighthart
In this episode I read a selection of poems from her new book.
Episode 14 Keeping and Deepening the Vital Connection
A new Sacred Gyre post in which I offer myself the chance to deepen my connection with my own values before creating the next Butterfly Arose podcast episode.
On Spirituality
The importance of spirituality in my own life, where mine came from and how it helped me stay connected to my deepest values as I work for change.
Episode 11 I am starting a new podcast
My new podcast on butterflyarose.com will be a place where I talk about my personal belifs on issues important to me, and thoughts on books and other peeole's podcasts whom I respect.
A Conversation with Mikki Gillette
In this Episode I talk with playwrite Mikki Gillette about how she stays conected to her deepest values as she works for change.
Episode 10 Reflections on my own activism
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Sacred Gyre has published 29 episodes since December 2022, covering topics in Education, Relationships.
Sacred Gyre is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 15m.
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