Feelings Soup is a podcast hosted by community organizer, writer, and producer Elly Belle, who primarily creates projects about emotions, mental health, healing, and intimacy. On the show, they stew on on nuanced conversations about feelings, connection and love, mental health, and intimacy, and how we show up in relationship—all through an anti-capitalist, anti-racist lens centering oppressed people. Elly is invested in exploring ways we can build a better world together, and is using this podcast as one of the many tools in their toolbag to do so.
Episode 11: Our Birthright is Connection (Regulating Our Nervous Systems for Justice) with Jessica Denise Dickson
In this episode of Feelings Soup, part of the Palestine mini series during the genocide of Palestinians, Elly welcomes Jessica Dickson, a liberation-centered culture cultivator and life empowerment coach who teaches and coaches for the reclamation of our full humanity, equity, justice, and freedom through the intersections of the Enneagram, antiracism, and embodiment. Elly and Jessica talk mental health, nervous system regulation, white violence, how we interact with social media and more.
22 Nov 2023
Episode 10: A Brief History of the Israeli Genocide of Palestinians with Zoé Samudzi
In the tenth episode of Feelings Soup, Elly speaks with academic and editor, writer, professor and historian Zoé Samudzi to provide us with a brief and contextualized history of how we got to this point in 2023 with the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Zoé offers books and poets to pay attention to, and they discuss ways to stay grounded when the whole world feels like it’s going to shit.
Note: This episode was recorded prior to the 4-5 day pause agreement released on Tuesday, November 21. Note also that the podcast host believes the pause is not enough and we must keep demanding a total ceasefire and then proper reparations for the Palestinian people.
13 Nov 2023
Episode 9: Showing Up Honestly in Relationship (Grief Can Be a Barrier or a Bridge to Connection)
In the ninth episode of Feelings Soup after returning from a summer hiatus, Elly shares why they are no longer co-hosting with Sam, and talks about what it looks like and means to show up honestly in relationship, confronting and navigating anger, grief and all. What does it look like to choose to see each other through the fog of fear? Time to find out!
The poem shared in the episode is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye (https://www.instagram.com/naomishihabnye/). The song referenced is Bends (https://open.spotify.com/track/2nwgjU7khPnusiP4keln0s?si=c020328f28c848cd) by Carly Rae Jepsen.
1 Jun 2023
Episode 8: Our Relationship with the Sky (An Astrology Conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat)
Feelings Soup welcomes Alice (Ace) Sparkly Kat, an astrologer and author. How do we relate to the stars? In this conversation, Sam and Elly explore with Ace and talk about what astrology can and cannot tell us, how it gives us something to react against what people say we are, and more. This talk is not just for astrology experts but for the astrology curious and everyone in-between!
22 May 2023
Episode 7: Conflict is an Opportunity to Grow Closer (A Conversation with KB Brookins)
Feelings Soup welcomes KB Brookins, a Black trans poet and cultural worker. In this conversation, we explore navigating conflict, writing poetry, how to feel at home in states targeting trans people, how writing changes over time, and learn more about KB’s upcoming books Freedom House and PRETTY.
KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (https://www.kallistogaiapress.org/product/how-to-identify-yourself-with-a-wound/) (Kallisto Gaia Press 2022) and Freedom House (https://store.deepvellum.org/products/freedom-house?variant=43538506875129) (Deep Vellum 2023). KB is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow (https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/kb-brookins). Follow them online at @earthtokb.
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
8 May 2023
Episode 6: Where We Learn to Care (You’re On Your Own Kid… is a lie)
Sam and Elly dig deeper into the subject of care. We all come from somewhere. What do we do when where we come from isn’t caring? Where do we learn to care for one another and ourselves? How can we ask for what we need? Where can we invite disability justice into these conversations (and some thoughts from Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (https://brownstargirl.org/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice/))?
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Find the transcript of this week's episode here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fKCeEQL9NQ1VS1GFesFyMXYdsAfrbVSJ/view?usp=sharing).
24 Apr 2023
Episode 5: How to Feel Cared For
Sam and Elly answer a listener-submitted question: "How do I stop feeling like I care more about the people in my life than they care about me? Especially when they're generally loving and caring, but they don't go "above and beyond" for me the way I do for them all the time."
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Find the transcript for this episode here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VBiaYhZHLb6PeFyFn7cJ4kvMfMfZD2W/view?usp=sharing).
10 Apr 2023
Episode 4: Uncertainty Is A Creative Force (A Conversation with Frankie Simmons)
Feelings Soup welcomes Frankie Simmons, “The Internet’s Big Sister” and Self-Tenderness Bitch. What can anticipation feel like when we don’t let it translate into anxiety? How can trampolines help us regulate? How is capitalism stopping us from connecting with ourselves? Sam and Elly get into the important questions with Frankie.
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Follow Frankie here: https://www.instagram.com/frankiedoodledandy/ (https://www.instagram.com/frankiedoodledandy/)
Find the transcript of this episode here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-W7_mY_n6BPg_2MnVL3UM6MiEiKMcX4c/view?usp=share_link).
27 Mar 2023
Episode 3: Fear Is A Teacher (A Conversation with Arielle Estoria)
Feelings Soup welcomes Arielle Estoria, a poet and multi-talented storyteller. What is fear trying to tell us? How do we show up to hard conversations when we’re feeling avoidant? How does slam poetry work and why is it so scary? Sam and Elly hear about Arielle’s experiences with all this and more.
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Buy Arielle's book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unfolding-an-invitation-to-come-home-to-yourself-arielle-estoria/ (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unfolding-an-invitation-to-come-home-to-yourself-arielle-estoria/)
Follow Arielle here: https://www.instagram.com/arielleestoria/ (https://www.instagram.com/arielleestoria/)
A note from Sam & Elly: We are currently working on getting transcripts for our episodes and should have them by the next episode. Thank you for your patience!
13 Mar 2023
Episode 2: Posting Through It Online, A Memoir
Reducing each other to social media accounts, decontextualization, the experience of trying to translate ourselves… Sam and Elly talk about how they feel about how The Internet affects our feelings, and how we affect other people's feelings through how we use it. We explore how we use it to connect, how we project onto each other online, how good it can feel to create community, how bad it can feel to try to be vulnerable, and more.
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Find us at www.feelingssouppod.com and on all platforms at @feelingssouppod. You can also support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/FeelingsSoupPodcast (//www.patreon.com/FeelingsSoupPodcast).
A note from Sam & Elly: We are currently working on getting transcripts for our episodes. Thank you for your patience as we navigate our own chronic illnesses and urgencies.
27 Feb 2023
Episode 1: Soup is Friendship Glue or Fear and Loving (Not in Las Vegas)
In the first episode of Feelings Soup, Sam and Elly introduce themselves, discuss the framework they're coming from when talking about emotions, and get into the nitty gritty of hard moments in intimate relationships. How do we find the language to express what we’re feeling instead of throwing it at others, and build safety with people to be able to talk about it? Sam and Elly dive in.
Theme song written by Elly Belle and performed by Mal Blum, logo art by Sarah Day.
Find us at www.feelingssouppod.com and on all platforms at @feelingssouppod. You can also support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/FeelingsSoupPodcast.
Find the transcript of this episode here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5wv_G74w9Um3p9iVkjF-R4H-sr7LLpV/view?usp=sharing).
31 Jan 2023
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Feelings Soup is a podcast hosted by writers Sam Slupski and Elly Belle, who both primarily write about emotions, mental health, healing, and intimacy. On the show, we stew on and chew on nuanced conversations about feelings, behaviors that arise from our feelings, connection and love, mental health, and intimacy—all through an anti-capitalist, anti-racist lens centering disabled, mentally ill, chronically ill and mad folks. Sam and Elly are interested in exploring ways we can build a better world together, and are using this podcast as one of the many tools in their toolbag to do so. It will be premiering in February 2023.
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