Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

• Thinking about habits as a necessity, similar to breathing
• The idea of the Daemon (or Daimon)
• Being a vessel for creative energy to flow through you
• Channeling ourselves to our intuition
• “Everyone is a hero in their birth.” - Otto Rank

Artists Mentioned:

• Marie-Louise von Franz (Psychologist)
• Philip K. Dick (Author)
• Otto Rank (Philosopher)

Books Mentioned:

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
2. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (Otto Rank)

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Natalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books, including Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala, 1986), which has sold over one million copies, has been translated into fourteen languages, and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Natalie’s first book, “Chicken and In Love” (1979)
• Being afraid of both success and failure before her book, “Writing Down The Bones,” came out in 1986
• Having thin values
• “I shop therefore I am.” - Barbara Kruger
• Consuming vs. finding meaning
• Natalie writing two books while undergoing treatment for cancer
• Accepting suffering
• Thinking about one’s legacy
• Zen Buddhism
• “Writing closes the gap between who you think you are and who you are.” - Natalie Goldberg
• What writing has revealed to Natalie
• “Make this moment an occasion to live deeply, happily in peace.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
• Managing discursive thoughts
• The pros and cons of the advent of the interview
• The art of haiku writing

People Mentioned:

1. Margaret Atwood (Writer)
2. Amy Tan (Writer)
3. Katagiri Roshi (Sōtō Zen Priest and Teacher)
4. Lidia Yuknavitch (Writer)
5. Barbara Kruger (Artist)
6. Joan Didion (Writer)
7. Viktor Frankl (Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher, Writer)
8. Carson McCullers (Writer)
9. Thich Nhat Hanh (Monk)
10. Masaoka Shiki (Poet)

Books Mentioned That Natalie Goldberg Wrote:

1. Chicken and In Love
2. Writing Down The Bones
3. Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home
4. The Great Spring
5. The True Secret of Writing
6. Three Simple Lines

Books Mentioned:

1. The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
2. Man’s Search For Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
3. The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
4. 2030 (Mauro F. Guillén)

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Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Article Mentioned:
Why Your Brain Needs To Dream by Matthew Walker

Podcast Mentioned:
Sleep Is Non-Negotiable: Dr. Matthew Walker | Rich Roll Podcast

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Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Show Notes:

• Giving space for one’s own stream of consciousness to flow
• The power of writing daily
• “What is your identity?”
• Awakening the spirit

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Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief—that is a fate more terrible than dying.” - The Book of Joan
• Having grit and an unwillingness to surrender as an artist
• False notions around the idea of transcendence
• Social conditioning
• Patriarchy
• The umbilical cord as a metaphoric symbol in Lidia’s writing
• Objective correlatives
• Intergenerational trauma
• Her writing center “Corporeal Writing”
• How her newest book “Thrust” is a love letter dedicated to her son and mother
• “The edges of everything are always shimmering” - Lidia
• Enzo circles
• Having a competitive spirit as an athlete
• Lidia feeling comfort in the water
• The connection between colonization and the way we view the gender binary
• Lidia’s process of researching while she is writing a book

People / Artists Mentioned:

1. VOWWS (Band)
2. Jesse Draxler (Visual Artist)
3. David Lynch (Filmmaker)
4. Melissa Febos (Writer)
5. Terese Marie Mailhot (Writer)
6. Judith Butler (Philosopher)
7. Danez Smith (Poet)
8. David Cronenberg (Filmmaker)
9. Viggo Mortensen (Actor)
10. Kristen Stewart (Actor)
11. Jane Campion (Director)
12. Philip K. Dick (Writer)
13. Brandon Cronenberg (Director)
14. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet)
15. Elizabeth Moss (Actor)
16. Margaret Atwood (Writer)

Books Mentioned:

1. The Misfit’s Manifesto
2. Thrust
3. The Book of Joan
4. It Didn’t Start With You
5. Frankenstein

Films / TV Shows Mentioned:

1. eXistenZ (1999)
2. Crimes of the Future (2022)
3. Titane (2021)
4. Blade Runner (1982)
5. Dead Ringers (1988)
6. Possessor (2020)
7. Mary Shelley (2017)
8. Shirley (2020)
9. The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)

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