Madly In Love: The Podcast MIL: Who is this bird? This episode explores the host's background, education, personal and professional experiences, as well as the goals of the podcast. Giving you the context and the landscape from which this podcast was birthed. Love and Madness: Part One This episode introduces the idea of ethical love acts. What does love mean? What can love do? What is 'Mad Love' and why is it so important? Embracing the Diversity of Madness Imagine a world where we truly appreciate the intricate details and diverse forms that madness takes. This appreciation is vital to breaking free from the medicalization and pathologizing of madness. We need to realize that madness is more than just pain and distress. In fact, pain and psychic distress are not even forms of madness. But rather living in a human body in a world that does not support Mad experiences. Madness is a wide spectrum of energetic states of being it can be intense, extreme experiences. And it can also be surprisingly ordinary in our mission to challenge the medicalization of madness. We must honor it in all forms. what if I don't feel like loving madness This episode explores:the many ways madness shows up. provides a case study of madness, trauma, and psychic distress, and the why's and what's about madness. We talk through the many difficulties around loving madness and how one might go about navigating all the feels that come with experiencing madness today.