Lisa Olivera is a therapist, writer and author of two books, Already Enough and When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway. In this conversation, she joins host Mariah Rooney to explore what it means to come home to your body, to sort through the grief and stories we inherit, and to find belonging amidst the mess of it all. They talk about what it looks like to hold the full range of being human without collapsing into it.

Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.

MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Liina Potter.

Strengthening the connective tissue that binds us—to ourselves, each other, and the world around us—one story at a time.

Mindful. Messy. Movd. Human.

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Maria Popova is one of the most prolific writers and thinkers of our time. The multi-hyphenate (author-essayist-critic-poet-human) joins Mariah to talk about the power or danger of identity and about how she lives in a state of curiosity and wonder about the world around her.

Explore Maria’s project The Marginalian, her study of the search for meaning, now immortalized in the Library of Congress, and her most recent book Traversal, a philosophical book that explores the meaning of life by weaving together the biographies of historical visionaries like with scientific discoveries and historical events.

Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.

MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Liina Potter.

Strengthening the connective tissue that binds us—to ourselves, each other, and the world around us—one story at a time.

Mindful. Messy. Movd. Human.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Palestinian and Saudi musician Rotana Tarabzouni speaks with Mariah about seeking and following the pulls of the erotic. For the first time, she shares publicly her experience of cultural exile when a live performance of hers ending a music set with a Qur’an recitation went viral online.

Listen to Rotana’s albums Alien of Extraordinary Ability and Opening, and experience her visual EP IBQI.

Make sure you’re following the podcast wherever you listen and follow along on Instagram at @MOVDpodcast.

MOVD is created by host Mariah Rooney. Production by Isabel Robertson. Music by Joshua Roman. With writing support from Emily Long and community building support from Liina Potter.

Strengthening the connective tissue that binds us—to ourselves, each other, and the world around us—one story at a time.

Mindful. Messy. Movd. Human.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.