Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana Balicki
Join seasoned Transformational Coach & longtime activist, Dana Balicki, for a wildride into the jacuzzi-verse to explore the ebbs & flows of living an examined life. Each and every episode invites you to explore the strange magic of humaning together in these wild times.™ With 13 years of coaching expertise, Dana blends irreverent reverence, spiritual insight, decolonial teachings, collective movement-building, high-woo, personal narrative, and grounded growth-oriented practicality for deep, thought-provoking conversations.
Sound editing and design by Rose Blakelock, theme song by Kat Otteson, artwork by Natalee Miller! Extra support by robot cohost Alex & robot producer (and part-time cohost) Janet.
Episodes
37 episodes
Whatever Can Die is Beautiful: Transforming Our Fear of Death with Social Psychologist Sheldon Solomon
Death anxiety lurks beneath virtually everything we do. Our capitalistic drive for endless growth, our political polarization, even our addictions to consumption – all stem from our desperate attempts to buffer ourselves against the terror of o...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:05:46
Getting in Hot Water: The Sacred Practice of Rule-Breaking
What if breaking the rules isn't just about random acts of rebellion, but a sacred, messy practice essential for personal and collective liberation? Let’s explore the nuances of disobedience, how it (and obedience) lives in our bodies, and plun...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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36:59
Swipe Right on Your Eternal Self with Professional Mystic Leah Garza
What if we approach dating (and LIFE!) with genuine curiosity rather than the calculated performance and feigned ambivalence? With a commitment to compassionate relating rather than just detached, dehumanizing game-playing? Join Dan...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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53:13
Awkward Magic: On Being Transformed by Others
In this *spell* of an episode, magic, penetration, entanglement, and love emerge as steps toward understanding and willingness to be changed by others (sometimes oh-so awkwardly).We enter with the Buddhist concept of PENETRATION (via som...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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22:57
Inner Work is a Radical Act in Times of Crisis, with my Spiritual Teacher Julia Frodahl
There's room for personal growth in collective liberation—in fact, it's a critical component! Join Dana and her long-time teacher of nearly 13 years, Julia Frodahl, as they lean in and explore where our inner rebels come from, how we can show u...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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50:45
We're Too Busy Fighting Crow's Feet to Fight Fascism
Our attention is constantly being hijacked by systems training us to see ourselves as problems needing to be fixed. Let’s play with the phenomena of ‘perception drift’ (when you can’t see changes in/on you— grace à Courtney Cox) and ‘change bli...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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29:54
Wands on Wands on Wands: A Tarot Reading for the Collective with Mary Evans of Spirit Speak
What sparks of guidance illuminate your path through uncertain times? When chaos swirls around us, where do we turn for direction?This episode takes us on a magical journey down a wishing well (!!) to meet artist and oracle Mary Evans (S...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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46:37
Insecurity at Last: How in Redefining Safety, We Actually Create It
Crybabies, welcome back to the jacuzzi-verse! In episode 2, let's explore the boundaries between security and insecurity, safety and unsafety. You're invited to embrace security as an illusion—a product sold to us, someone else's imagination of...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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21:34
Osiris Dick in a Box: Mature Rebellion in These Times™ with astrologer Diana Rose
Welcome back, crybabies! Season 3 is here and we're kicking it off with the brilliant relational astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and educator, Diana Rose (currently residing and thriving on the planet Venus). In episode 1, we expl...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:07:10
Navigating the Year-end Paradox with Self-warmth & Curiosity
This is a special solstice, holiday slowdown medicine, between-season, late-stage-capitalism-sucking-your-life-juice-dry, you-might-need-support episode full of practical guidance and self-warmth tips! Baba Ram Dass said, “If you t...
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21:29
The Life-changing Art of Falling the F Apart
Falling apart is hard work, crybabies. But you know what's even harder? NOT falling apart and using all of your precious energy and attention to hold your sh*t together in some configuration based on someone else's polycrisis-inducing imaginati...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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34:18
Beloved Disruption
in this penultimate episode of season 2, we explore the essential role of DISRUPTION as a catalyst for inner & outer transformation.from protest movements to your own deepest inner work, let’s open up to disruption as responsibility, as...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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37:38
How to Live Well with your Anger
it's ADVICE DOM time, crybabies. to the dungeon we go! this listener's SUBMISSION is a juicy one because it's about a reoccurring theme in season 2 + a reoccurring theme in HUMANING and just being alive on the planet right now in our "apocalyps...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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19:11
Just a Little Death *boop* (with a Side of Death Cult)
broadcasting straight from the heart of the jacuzzi-verse (in a quantum overlap with the heart of the western imperialist, death-cult empire!), let's talk about death, baby. but death and uncertainty as secret core drivers of our lives...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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35:26
A Magical Field Trip to Rage-ville
it’s another trip to the magical library for some BIBLIOMANCY divination! let’s explore the transformative power of rage, drawing connections between our big (sometimes scary) feelings and the boundless potential they hold when tended to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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18:43
Every Criticism is a Longing
holy jacuzzi, crybabies! what if the criticisms we experience and feel (in our relationships with others, the world, and with ourselves) is actually our deepest longings & needs trying to be known?in this jacuzzi-verse layer, we ten...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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31:43
What to do when your dreams don’t (and do) come true?
welcome back, ever-evolving souls—it's ADVICE DOM time. to the dungeon we go! today's listener SUBMISSION is a two-fer. TWO Qs, ONE CUP full of As. one question about what to do when you’re trying and not getting what you want + an...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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12:03
Who's Your Mommy: Support System, Self-warmth, and the Pluriverse!
who really belongs in your support system? maybe not everyone who's there right now!! in this episode, we'll peel back layers and layers of your relationship to your relationships, explore what might be holding you in old patterns and feeeeel i...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:23
Unlocking the Mysteries of Existence with Bibliomancy
It's time for season 2's first field trip to the magical library, where we engage in the ancient wisdom of bibliomancy—using texts as tools for divination. join dana, CONNIE the quantum (book) worm, and THE LIBRARIAN as the library serves up an...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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14:46
The Only Kind of Heart Worth Having is a Broken One
what if brokenheartedness wasn’t something to get through, but an honored & trusted guide toward interconnectedness, courage, and grief as catalyst for heartfelt action? in this episode we explore the wild paradox of love and s...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:37
Digital Intimacy: How much honesty is too much?
to the dungeon we go! today's listener SUBMISSION is all about navigating honesty, transparency, and intimacy when running an online presence & business. we explore oversharing and vulnerability, authenticity and digital intimacy, and enter...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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13:03
Wonder & Awe: Learn to Flirt with the World
wonder & awe, the keys to belonging and connection! or at least that's how we see it here at crybaby HQ in the bubbling cauldron center of the jacuzzi-verse! yes, being human is complex. so much so, that we can forget we have a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:44
In Our Descending Power Era
aaaaand…we’re back! season 2 of crying in my jacuzzi is upon us, BUT FIRST, we need a warm-up. so let’s start with a little drunk history rendition of the buddha’s enlightenment and ride that all the way to the student encampment movement…along...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:30
Call Your Energy Back to Yourself: A Guided Meditation for These Times
message of support from dana in these complex times: "this is a simple guided meditation/visualization that i've used for years in my own energetic practices, with clients to support their presence, and i'm honored to share this wi...
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