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Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul, governance

Alison Crosthwait

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Business & Entrepreneuriat

Fréquence : 1 épisode/34j. Total Éps: 36

The Aliveness Podcast explores how we live, love, and think in a changing world. Every weekday brings Session Notes from The World’s Therapist - a fictional series about the inner life of our time. Each week I share an essay and a conversation with someone else who is thoughtfully exploring how we live. Dry humour lives here. Marion Woodman coded. The problems of our time are complex. Developing the inner capacity to withstand confusion and conflict in service of connection and growth is central to our collective thriving. More than one thing can be true at once. www.alisoncrosthwait.com

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As Within, So Without: The Politics of Projection and a Prayer

Épisode 55

mercredi 8 octobre 2025 • Durée 06:25

We project our anger onto those in power as if they were our parents constraining our freedom and failing us at every turn. In this short episode, I explore the emotional work of democracy: learning to see our leaders as human, to move from complaint to contribution, from projection to participation.

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Platform by Platform: A soul-based tech audit. How I decided where to speak and what to leave behind

Épisode 54

mardi 7 octobre 2025 • Durée 32:03

This episode asks: how do we stay human inside each of the social media platforms?

I trace the ways some of the platforms undermine my values: from Meta and its documented harms, to TikTok’s dopamine machine, to Substack’s conflicted role in the attention economy. I bring in Shoshana Zuboff’s theory of surveillance capitalism, the story of Cambridge Analytica, teen suicides linked to Instagram, and a chilling case of a man’s fatal entanglement with a Meta AI.

This is an episode about radical ethics. It’s about what we consent to, what we refuse, and how we choose to connect in ways that don’t hollow us out. Mostly it's about responsibility. I walk through my decisions platform by platform, and why podcasting has become my chosen container.

What you will hear

What “surveillance capitalism” means, and why it threatens democracy
The blurred line between influence, manipulation, and consent online
Meta’s record: Cambridge Analytica, teen mental health, and AI experiments gone wrong
Why TikTok and reels destroy our dopamine balance
Why Substack works for me—and where it fails on anti-censorship
The lure and limits of LinkedIn, BlueSky, and YouTube
Why podcasting is my chosen space: no ads, no algo, no intrusion
Web3: I forgot to mention this in the podcast! Web3 social is an area of active research for me and while I’m not sharing my work on Forecaster or Base it’s in the works. This is where we own our work.

Timestamps

02:00 Why the container matters as much as the content
04:30 Surveillance capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
06:00 Not all data use is surveillance, but the line blurs
09:20 The escalation: clicks → biometrics → behaviour shaping
11:00 Substack as a model, but also its flaws
13:40 Meta’s record: misinformation, Cambridge Analytica, teen suicides
15:17 Meta AI harms: the New Jersey stroke patient case
19:00 X as cesspool, TikTok as dopamine hijack
25:00 Why feeds are different from algorithms
28:00 LinkedIn, Blue Sky, YouTube—different shadows
35:00 Substack’s anti-censorship stance and my conflict
42:00 Why podcasting: intimacy without intrusion
46:00 Closing: real life is local

Links mentioned

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Book link
Cambridge Analytica scandal (Facebook fined $5B, 2019): Wikipedia
Research on Instagram and teen mental health / suicide risk: Wall Street Journal coverage
Meta AI and the New Jersey man’s death (stroke patient case): Reuters
GenAI Content Risk Standards leak (Meta, 2025): Reuters
On TikTok’s dopamine effects and algorithm design: Brown University
Robert Reich’s Substack (“Coffee Klatch”): Robert Reich Substack
Research on YouTube radicalization: Data & Society report

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Submission vs. Surrender

Épisode 35

mardi 27 juin 2023 • Durée 10:11

What's the difference between submission and surrender?

Both of these terms hold the essence of letting go, but there’s a fine line between the two of them.

Surrender can be an embodied state that supports our ability to create our desires and experience life as it is, while submission can be where we fall into the false idea that “it is what it is.”

In this episode, Alison shares the nuances between these two energies to support you in spotting where you might be surrendering versus where you might be submitting so you can realign toward surrender.

“This is a very natural human longing to surrender to life — to stop trying to take care of what clearly cannot be taken care of. And then there's submission — the following of the rules, the doing what we feel we should do, the “I don't see any other alternatives, so I'll just do this,” and it's a very, very, very fine line.”

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Paper by Emmanuel Ghent, "Masochism, Submission, Surrender: Masochism As a Perversion of Surrender"

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Trusting Yourself and Unearthing Your Wildness as a Service with Julie McIntyre

Épisode 32

mardi 6 juin 2023 • Durée 45:44

Julie McIntyre, author and Earth Ceremonialist, shares how by developing a personal relationship with our bodies and trusting their wisdom, we can navigate life with more authenticity — which she describes as a wildness that embraces the sacredness of all life forms.

Julie takes us on a personal journey, at the age of 10 when she discovered a magical place in a corner of her family’s farm where a massive old cottonwood tree stood. This became her refuge, a space to escape the chaos and connect with something beyond herself. She experienced an energy exchange with the tree, a profound connection that has stayed with her throughout her life.

This pivotal moment set her on a path of following something non-human, something from the natural world, to nurture the health of her soul.

Join us as Julie shares her wisdom on the power of heart-centered living, intimate self-connection, and the interconnectedness of humans, soul, and plants.

“You start by feeling. It's not a mental thing. It's really a feeling thing. Trusting your senses, trusting your body, trusting the feelings that are coming. Our bodies don't lie. They're very sophisticated sensory GPS systems. Life is less lonely when you have this relationship of trust with yourself, trust with your body, and trust in the earth.”

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Julie McIntyre is a writer, international lecturer, and workshop leader

having taught throughout North America, Ireland, and the UK. Julie is an Earth ceremonialist and practitioner of Deep Gaia focusing on the sacredness and relationship between Earth and human beings and plants and the circle of all life.

She offers workshops focused on ceremonies and practices that facilitate closer human bonding with the Earth.

An ordained practitioner of the Church of Gaia, Julie has directed a state ceremonial program for Native men in prison. She worked as a clinical herbalist for twenty years working with people in 20 countries around the globe with chronic illness, especially Lyme disease and co-infections.

How Self-Expression Can Unlock the Energy Needed to Create Our Big and Small Desires

Épisode 30

mardi 23 mai 2023 • Durée 13:29

When our sexual energy is blocked, it can be challenging to create what we want in the world — whether that’s to create a thriving business or simply how we want to engage with our family in a healthy way.

Freedom of expression is a practice that can unlock this energy that’s needed to create the life you desire in all aspects of your life.

Here Alison shares how she needed to reclaim her self-expression and how you can find ways to express your own as a way of connecting with your sexual energy.

“It’s really fun to explore these things in other ways with other people and just see who you really are, to dream about what you want to create in the world, to actually create it with no purpose whatsoever, but that you enjoyed it and to see what happens.”

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• Freeing my Expression – Chrysalis

• Musical collaboration — Snake + Carla Tour the Multiverse

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Why You Have a Lack of Desire in Your Relationship

Épisode 28

mardi 9 mai 2023 • Durée 13:00

Challenges in the area of desire tend to call us towards interpersonal dynamics. We think it is a relationship problem. I believe this is a misdirection of attention. Experiencing a lack of desire in your relationship isn’t necessarily a sign that there’s something “wrong” with your relationship.

All sexual desire starts with you, even when you’re in a partnership.

Feeling a lack of desire towards your partner is a sign that your own sexual energy needs tending to, and in this episode, Alison shares the very first step to take to do just that.

“What I see is a need for self intimacy first, that from a place of knowing one's self, knowing one is safe, knowing one is loved, which means loving oneself, almost anything is possible.”

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Connecting to the Love that Creates Inner Richness with Heather Vesey

Épisode 26

mardi 25 avril 2023 • Durée 40:05

How can we not only become okay with suffering but welcome it, love it, and appreciate it?

That’s the question that unfolds in this episode with Heather Vesey, a Wisdom Mentor.

Through this emotional and profound conversation, you’ll receive a beautiful call to cultivate your relationship with the Divine and with love itself.

Alison has been supported through Heather’s Wisdom Mentorship since the summer of 2022 and invited Heather to share this wisdom with you in this episode.

“What is your way of relating to the divine inside you? It's a relationship. It's a companion. It's an intimacy. It's knowing that presence, that love that we can just not put words to is there and is yours. It’s with you and for you and in you and ahead of you and behind you and around you. Express your love to that divineness and receive it back.”

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Heather has always had an interest and a sense of home within the Christian Wisdom tradition. She grew up in the Indian Himalayas, where her father was a doctor, specializing in community health care. These were profoundly formative years for Heather, where her Christian faith was nurtured and where she also developed and absorbed a deep appreciation of other religious traditions and cultures.

After completing her secondary education in the UK, she worked with street kids in Bolivia and Peru, and then in Nursing and Social Work. She soon realized, however, that her deeper heart was in more directly accompanying others in their spiritual Unfolding.

In 2014 she moved to Colorado with her husband Nicholas, and their kids Sam and Jessica (now 19 and 17), to work at the Aspen Chapel, where she is “Director of Contemplative Work.” She divides her time between leading services and small groups there, and doing her own one-on-one “Wisdom mentoring,” a form of spiritual direction and accompaniment. This is her main focus and joy – deeply listening and accompanying people who want to live more fully into their own authenticity and relationship with the Divine.

What Type of Healing or Therapy is Right for You?

Épisode 25

mardi 18 avril 2023 • Durée 10:41

There are so many healing practices and therapy modalities that can support you with on your healing journey, so how do you choose what type of healing and therapy is right for you?

In this episode, Alison shares both her perspective from her personal experience as well as research that highlights the most important consideration when choosing who to work with and why it matters so much on your healing journey.

This insight will help you tune into your own intuition to guide you toward who and what will be most supportive for you right now.

“All of us have a place at which we can't hold what's happening anymore. We may not show it, but you can feel it. What you're looking for in somebody that you work with is a feeling that you can open all the way, as far as you want to open.”

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The Third Stage of Healing

Épisode 24

mardi 11 avril 2023 • Durée 29:26

This is a follow-up to episode 16, “The Two Stages of Healing.” If you haven’t already tuned into that episode, start there and then come back to this episode.

This episode is filled with insight that will shape your understanding and open your mind on the deep work that needs to happen to change our state of being in the world.

Here, Alison explores what the third stage of healing is, how you can identify where you’re at in different areas of your life as a way to expand your awareness of what’s possible, and a few ways you can support yourself with moving through to the third stage.

She also offers two refinements to what she’s shared thus far on the stages of healing that provide a layer of nuance to support you with how you think about these stages in your own life and healing work.

“In stage three, we definitely have desires for the future and at the same time we know that our faithfulness to the present moment is the only thing that's relevant. We know in our bones that the outcomes are not up to us, and the only thing that's up to us is the moment-by-moment choosing to be present to elevate our being by inhabiting our body and our hearts.”

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What Does It Look Like to Thrive in all 5 Aspects of Your Health?

Épisode 23

mardi 4 avril 2023 • Durée 23:39

What does it look like to thrive in all five aspects of your health — physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and sexual?

This episode is intended to serve as a North Star on your healing journey. Alison shares a few of the most important qualities we’re working toward embodying in order to thrive in each of these aspects.

Sharing what a healthy state of each of these five aspects might look and feel like gives you an understanding of where you are currently with each and where you may desire to focus in your healing and growth.

And a reminder — it’s important not to judge or criticize yourself for wherever you may currently be, but rather use this as understanding and inspiration for where you’re able to go.

“On a cultural level, on a societal level, moment by moment, am I able to be true to myself?How often am I pushed out of myself into a more traumatized state where I'm not acting from presence? The more of this work we do and the more connection we have to our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and sexual selves, the less we're knocked around by life.”

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