ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Resident crone, Joan Advent invites women of all ages to return to the wisdom of the body as an antidote to what former guest Marion Rose PhD., calls “Disconnected Domination Culture.”
From her chaise lounge beside her dog, Molly, Joan reflects on the body as a wise elder, the foundation of our humanity, and a sanctuary that reconnects us to our sacred nature. Drawing on Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese, she reframes healing as allowing “the soft animal” of the body to love what it loves—not through numbing out, but through becoming more alive, connected, and oriented to a deeper truth.
Joan invites the listener to unplug from stimulation and come home to breath, heartbeat, and simple sensations, sharing practices like stillness, slow stretching, micro-movements, and observing animals as teachers of comfort and ease.
She also highlights the body’s innate wisdom, the heart’s steady miracle, and a few mysteries of human biology—offering the body as a compass for navigating collective chaos and the unknown.
00:00 Welcome to The Crone Codes + Today’s Theme: Coming Back to the Body
01:27 The Body as Wise Elder (and the Cost of Disconnection)
03:12 Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese”: Let the Soft Animal Love What It Loves
05:53 Disconnected Domination Culture: How We Lose Our Yes/No and Our Power
08:00 Return to Sanity: Unplug, Breathe, and Rejoin Life’s Natural Rhythms
09:58 A Sacred Heartbeat: Remembering the Miracle of Being Alive
13:31 Simple Practices: Stillness, Stretching, and Micro-Movements
16:44 Go Out of Your Mind, Return to Your Senses (Daily Body Reverence)
18:25 Body Mysteries: Heart-Brain Cells & Fetal Microchimerism
20:55 Learn from Animals + Closing Blessing
From Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.
Love & Will with Marion Rose PhD. Episode 6
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