Stoner Story Witch

Can any good story that compels you towards a more liberated life be considered “Gospel?”  If the Bible doesn’t mention Hell, what else might fundamentalist Christianity be getting wrong?  Is this whole podcast made possible by Kristyn’s teenage years of evangelical somatics?  If inspiration is really a godsend, then isn’t our creative practice a worship of the divine?  

Kristyn with a Why chats with friend and fellow spiritual-c...

(This episode is inspired by and heavily discusses the 2019 Tony Award Winning Musical Hadestown.)

Why is Kristyn so obsessed with Hadestown, really? What becomes possible when we treat stories as animist beings?  What can be gleaned in reviewing the previous year of the podcast, and what are we inviting for the next year?  Can we grapple with the fact that TERFs can create meaningful art and can that practice help us navigate co...

(This episode is based off the FX show “Say Nothing” that came out in 2024, based on the non-fiction book of the same name.)

What is it that makes stories of revolution (Les Mis, Hadestown, etc) so irresistible? How is it possible that our suburban public school education in the 90s in the USA did not properly educate us on the realities of oppressed peoples overseas?  Who benefits when we believe the narratives that empire tries...

(This episode is offered as a collective imagining and embodiment of better stories we can look to for guidance towards liberation)

How can we collectively pivot away from stories that demand converting or disposal rather than co-holding in community?  

In what ways can wounds and embodied practices be portals offering ancestral healing?  How can a practice of polyamory be a portal to an animistic practice of opening up to resour...

(This episode was recorded before 2025’s “Summer of Love” & only contains spoilers for old seasons of #LoveIslandUK and #LoveIslandUSA)

How do humans biologically build attachment?  How do popular reality shows (ab)use mammalian attachment to create dramatic moments for entertainment?  What happens to our nervous systems as viewers when we watch?  What are the narratives that #LoveIsland perpetuates? Who benefits when the col...

This episode marks the podcast’s one year anniversary and to celebrate we are going to give plants some “main character energy”

What might emerge if we proceeded as though plants could grow us just as much as we grow them?  In what ways can Cannabis be a competent protector, and a companion for practicing consent in times of collapse?  How is the Cannabis industry “just like the Handmaid’s Tale” (which is to say it is actually ju...

This entire episode, not to be listened to while driving, is a guided meditation provided to help listeners practice radical rest, connection, and creativity.  

In this mini-season, Kristyn discusses {Dream Productions} and offers a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids for over a year titled “Dream Place.”

Follow me on Substack to read the transcript for this meditation 

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In this mini-season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids for over a year titled “Dream Place.”

How can we practice opening ourselves up to accidental spiritual encounters?  What is a witch if not someone who can shift their consciousness at will?  What becomes possible when we offer our bodies rest and our spirits a sense of security?

In this episode...

In this mini-season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids for over a year titled “Dream Place.”

This episode provides a synopsis and discussion of the 2024 animated series “Dream Productions” that takes place between the events of “Inside Out” and “Inside Out 2” on Disney/Pixar.

Why do all the stories on this podcast have characters that are a person...

In this season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids titled “Dream Place.”

In the words of Sophie Strand, inspired by Octavia Butler, what is sexy?  How can the tropes we love in stories be the roadmaps for what liberation looks like for us, here, now?  How can intentional changes of consciousness be a magical practice to enable our senses to feel the ...

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance”- season 2 aired in 2025 on Apple)

How can shows, like Severance, hijack our nervous systems into dysregulation so that we will accept the same-old stories, confusing coherence with liberation? In what ways is Severance a part of the same propaganda it warns about?  How can we use stories as a way to locate ourselves in the larger story of our own lives- to see what gaps ther...

This episode does not center a particular story.  It is a revisiting of a {PAST} conversation, honoring that {people are stories, too!}.  

In this episode, Kristyn practices secure attachment and connects with her tattoo artist Dusty to discuss tattoos, the union of creativity and spirituality, and the practices that resourced us to leave the cult of evangelical Christianity while leaving the door open for the Numinous.

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(This episode contains spoilers for the season 1 ofBad Sisters on Apple- Watching not mandatory-Kristyn provides arecap in the beginning of the ep)

If practicing pleasure weren’t a radically potent act of resistance, then why are radical conservatives andlow value men so scared of women, trans, & queer folk experiencing it?  How does capitalism condition us into scarcity mindsets that keep our pleasure small?  What are simple...

How can we resist buying into the big lie that we are alone?  What does it take to embody a sense of dignity and belonging when we hold dominant identities within oppressive systems?  Can we lay to rest the desire to be “pure, perfect, and innocent” and still be worthwhile to the revolution?

Kristyn with a Why receives compassionate witnessing from some of the folks from her Embodied Social Justice cohort (ESJC) in today's (relat...

(This episode contains spoilers for the first two books of The Empyrean Series- Fourth Wing and Iron Flame)

How can romantasy novels resource us to live a more liberated life?  How does “curing” a protagonist of their chronic pain support larger ableist narratives?  If you fall in love with a “book boyfriend” whose lands, language, and culture have been stolen from them- how can you show your devotion to them in real life and hon...

(This episode contains spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of Squid Game)

How can I connect and hold space for someone who is moved by a story that I refuse to watch?  How does capitalism thrive in binary/hierarchical thinking: good vs bad, guilt vs innocence, us vs. them? Is consent and free will even possible in capitalism? In what ways is Squid Game a metaphor for reality shows like Love Island?  How can a practice of satisfiability ...

(This season contains spoilers for the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)

In what ways does Santa prime kids for the blind obedience to authority and black and white purity thinking that fascism requires?  How can stories help us overcome our fear response and reach for things we deeply yearn for?  Are reality TV shows (like Love Island) just another high demand group keeping us dysregulated and disconnected?  Is i...

(This season contains spoilers for the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)

What are all the ways that we sever from parts of ourselves?  How does public school utilize the tools of “the break room” to foster compliance rather than embody liberation?  How was Helly’s embodied elitism a catalyst for her Innie to revolt? How does Burt living out his “1st edition” beliefs radicalize Irv into queering his “ramrod straigh...