When Laughter is Medicine
Pasha Marlowe is a therapeutic comedy coach, pleasure podcast host, and author.
She artfully blends her unique life’s experiences with her life’s work in healing through psychotherapy, embodied emotions, holistic wellness, life coaching, theater, and comedy.
Visit Pasha’s website: https://pashamarlowe.com/
Show Notes:
1:36 Pasha’s introduction
2:40 “I feel like I missed the part of life that was supposed to be pleasurable and fun”
2:59 “I needed a back door way in and through my trauma”
3:06 Man’s Search for Meaning
3:48 “I started to research laughter and comedy”
5:08 Time + Trauma = Comedy
6:30 “Our innate state is joy”
6:44 Laughter is “a relief of what’s stuck in our throat” … “A release of secrets and shame and all that we hold in”
8:08 In laughter yoga “we laughed while we were saying what we were laughing about”
9:16 “When I feel ready for laughter might be sooner than I’m ready for comedy”
Sometimes it’s so heavy you have to relieve it in that way
11:25 “When you go through something hard your determined on a different level to access joy, or pleasure, or humor, or purpose in life.”
11:59 “It’s hard to see the edges and parameters of humor around things when you’re in the middle of the trauma”
Everything shifts a little and wiggles, and you can breathe again
15:19 “It’s so bad, it’s funny”
15:53 “How is this gonna be funny one day?” “Lightens our load if someday we can imagine…”
21:09 “I regret my toe surgery and I do not regret my abortion”
22:50 Beth Stelling- abortion comedy
23:36 “There’s no one way liberation… someone in the audience is saying thank you so much”
24:12 “It’s radical truth telling”
Holding space for grace and forgiveness
25:57 “Orientate yourself to the possibility of humor”
30:57 “This is me… from a state of curiosity”
31:55 If you can attach some lightness to it, that’s what your body will remember
32:03 “... not that we’re making light of something, but we’re enlightening”
Allow it all to be there… this is funny and it sucks
36:53 “Could you step into it a little and see if they bite?”
Is this funny yet?
38:40 “Where are you in the middle of this grief, is there anything around you that could be funny?”
39:37 “There’s so much comedy in our life… you just don’t know it yet”
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