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Ep 98: From Onyx to Opalite: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Feeling It All

Episode 98 ✨From Onyx to Opalite: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Feeling It All

This week on Trusting Dorothy, we’re blending two worlds I love: Taylor Swift’s music and the art of mindfulness. We explore how The Tortured Poets Department and The Life of a Showgirl together illustrate the beauty of emotional duality, and remind us that when you can hold both, you can move through both.

Join me as we break down songs like So Long London, Down Bad, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, Father Figure, Cancelled!, Eldest Daughter, and The Fate of Ophelia, exploring how Taylor mirrors the process of mindfluness, emotional healing, holding more than 1 emotion at once, and self-trust through her lyrics.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • 🌗 How Taylor’s albums reflect release and integration from the dense onyx energy of TTPD to the iridescent opalite of The Life of a Showgirl

  • 💫 What it means to hold emotional duality, love and loss, joy and sorrow, strength and softness

  • 🧘‍♀️ Mindfulness practices that help you become the person who experiences and observes the emotions you are experiencing.

  • 💔 Down Bad  - the beauty of irrational sadness, selfawareness without self judgment

  • 💃 I Can Do It With a Broken Heart - performing and processing at once

  • 🔥 Father Figure - anger as love for yourself and reclamation

  • ✨ Cancelled! - humor as armor and healing that sparkles

  • 💞 Eldest Daughter - the moment we put the armor down

  • 🌊 The Fate of Ophelia - transformation through surrender

 

 

Keywords:
Taylor Swift duality of emotion, mindfulness and music, The Life of a Showgirl meaning, Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department analysis, emotional healing podcast, nervous system regulation, Trusting Dorothy podcast

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