Into Our Own Hands

About Into Our Own Hands

Psychotherapist-turned Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn uses her tools in her own life and shares the results of her dirty work - growing as a human and working with her hands. In each episode, Gretchen explores how we can improve our living experiences as humans, create with our hands wherever we are and take more ownership over our own lives. Connecting to hunters, potters, weavers, artists, farmers, kindergarten teachers, acupuncturists and more in her native Hudson Valley, Gretchen is interested in reconnecting to our human legacy as the true builders of our own lives.

Publisher

Gretchen Winterkorn

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 May 2022

Latest episode

7 Apr 2023

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Apr 2023

   Introducing: Real Live Human Therapist

   Introducing my new show: REAL LIVE HUMAN THERAPIST with Gretchen Winterkorn! Find it wherever you listen to podcasts! I’m Gretchen Winterkorn, Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience and real live human being with 41 years of struggle. Welcome to my anti-advice column podcast where I share my own personal struggles and how I work with them every week. My intention with this podcast is to: Heal the myth of the split between mentally healthy and mentally ill people Reduce shame in seeking mental health support by sharing my mental health challenges as a mental health professional Inspire you with ways to work on/consider your own challenges Get curious about/question this role of therapist I occupy and all the benefits and challenges associated with it Follow the show so you will be notified when a new episode goes live. Learn more about Gretchen via her website www.gretchenwinterkorn.com

2. 

   20 Jan 2023

   Ep 12 OPEN PIT FIRING WILD CLAY: Desperate making with Emily Brownawell

   How an urgent need to make can lead to simple, accessible tools and methods.  Open pit fire the wild clay you harvested and processed with us earlier in the Season - if you don't have land, use a trashcan!  Can your earthenware make the transition to becoming ceramic?  Emily shares her artistic process and methods as a ceramic artist. This is Part 3 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay (Ep 2), processing wild clay (Ep 11) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3). About Emily: Emily Brownawell is a New York based ceramic artist. She earned her MFA in Ceramics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grants and fellowships include the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Technical Assistant, Andrah Scholarship, Research and Creative Projects Award, Bolton Scholarship, and the Virginia Fuller Prize.  She has exhibited at the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Raised by oceanographers across the street from an intertidal region of Long Island Sound, the marine ecosystem played a powerful role throughout her childhood and continues to inform her practice through visual inspiration and systems of organization. Her work focuses on the physicality of the landscape. In her practice, the ceramic process represents a transformation of natural materials into objects of culture and records of time. Through ceramic sculpture and installation, she explores various relationships between natural and synthetic processes. www.emilybrownawell.com instagram.com/emilybrownawell/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

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   16 Dec 2022

   Ep 11 PROCESSING WILD CLAY: How we relate to clay with Andrew Sartorius

   What clay are you from?  Process the wild clay you harvested alongside us in Episode 2 with Andrew Sartorius at the Oki Doki studio.  Turn a bucket of land chunks into a beautiful, silky, moldable clay.  Exploring different relationships to clay bodies.  Andrew shares what it takes to live and work as a full-time artist and the legacy of making passed down from his parents. This is Part 2 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3). About Andrew: Andrew Sartorius is the program manager at the Oki Doki studio and a full time wood fire potter living in Germantown NY with his fiancé and fellow ceramic artist Tanya Lee Hamm, and his pup named June. https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/ https://www.theokidokistudio.com/ Connect with Andrew on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/asartoriusceramics/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

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   25 Nov 2022

   Ep 10 INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY FARMING & TINY HOUSE LIVING: Sharing life with Beth Romaker and Spencer Crawford

   Meet the strangers-turned-landmates we are experimenting with in intentional community farming.  Beth and Spencer towed a tiny house onto our farmland in September of this year in exchange for labor on our farm.  How to trust and flow with a life shift that like that, keeping a "what if" mind during the whole process.  Imagine transitioning your life into a tiny house and moving it around nomadically.  Beth and Spencer share their love and wisdom of biodiversity, the merits of native plants, how to think about invasive species (including humans) and ways you can show up to an intentional relationship with the natural world. About Beth & Spencer: Beth Romaker is a woods walker, food grower, tree planter, and homemaker. She has worked in the field of forestry with the nature conservancy, the national parks service, and the forest ecosystem monitoring cooperative doing inventory and monitoring work on long term ecological forest plots as well as forest restoration. She has also worked on various organic farms and most recently, a native tree and wildflower nursery. Spencer Crawford is a naturalist, forager, and avian field technician with a special focus on grassland breeding birds. Most recently, he worked for the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program studying Saltmarsh Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow demographics for two years. This upcoming spring he will be working on a demography study of the Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler. Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

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   14 Oct 2022

   Ep 9 FORAGING FOR FREEDOM: Co-creating with plants and master herbalist Dina Falconi

   Make friends with wild plants so you feel at home and a little more powerful everywhere you go.   Foraging as a path to slowing down, being present, and getting into a long term relationship with nature.  Let nature teach you how to be messy and beautiful at the same time.  Dina invites you into her rich, textured and alive relationship with life through herbs and wild foods. About Dina: Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at www.InTheWild.Kitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody. Please check out her website: www.botanicalartspress.com And there is her full stocked YouTube channel for your educational viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaikA4Vq0S00kNOhm3uPyg?sub_confirmation=1 IG: https://www.instagram.com/foragingandfeasting/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

6. 

   9 Sept 2022

   Ep 8 MAKING A HOME: Historic Preservation with Kate Wood

   How to deeply have a relationship with your home, your time and your place in history.  How honoring those who came before us helps us have gratitude for our contemporary lives.  Confronting the uncomfortable as well as the beauty in history.  The healing power of getting invested and interested in what we are doing creatively, whether we use our hands or not. About Kate: Kate Wood grew up criss-crossing the country with her educator parents and two brothers in her family’s Volkswagen Bus, visiting house museums, battlefields, Main Streets, and wildlife sanctuaries. Today she is an award-winning preservationist, real estate broker (with with Patricia A. Hinkein Realty in Germantown) and principal of the full-service historic rehabilitation firm, Worth Preserving. Recognized as the go-to expert on properties of exceptional character and integrity, Kate partners with clients to unlock the potential of old buildings using her unique skill set and extensive network of trusted resources. Preservation is Kate’s passion, rooted in over 15 years’ experience as the CEO of a major organization advocating for New York City landmarks including the iconic 2 Columbus Circle and Central Park West skyline. A sought-after public speaker and authoritative source for The New York Times and other media, she was recruited to teach preservation planning, advocacy and law at Columbia University and to co-author the book, Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York, published in two editions by Monacelli Press. Today she is a regular presence on CIRCA Old Houses (https://circaoldhouses.com/agent/katewood/). www.worthpreserving.com Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

7. 

   19 Aug 2022

   Ep 7 PERMISSION TO BE ALIVE: Acupuncture and The Needle with Margret Hallisey

   Work with your hands to move energy - no needles required. Artists as Healers - healing with needles and through creative relationships.   Listen to Gretchen get needled for her Mother Hunger by Margaret and relax deeply into the interview. About Margaret:  Margaret Hallisey has been a licensed practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine since April 2004. Her initial practice began in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her second office in Columbia County, close to Hudson, NY, was opened in October, 2012. She is board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She earned her Masters in Acupuncture from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, when it was located in Hallandale, Florida. She is also a graduate of the Academy’s Herbal Studies program and can prescribe custom herbal formulas, as needed. Fresh out of college, Margaret worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York City, which enables her to bring a kinesthetic understanding of body mechanics to her practice. Early in her practice, she worked with many artists and performers, helping them sustain their physicality and creative inspiration. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989. Margaret has traveled across the United States and Europe to study with experienced practitioners of Chinese Medicine. She is certified in Clean Needle Technique by the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. In addition to being trained in Classical Acupuncture, Margaret has received training in Auricular Acupuncture, Acupuncture Detoxification, Pain Treatment, and Zero Balancing. She specializes in Fertility, hormonal imbalances and more difficult issues that cannot be explained or addressed by allopathic medicine. www.margarethalliseyacupuncture.com Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

8. 

   29 Jul 2022

   Ep 6 GARDENING AS RITUAL: Transmute pain and call in your desires

   Listen to Gretchen’s solo episode recorded naked in the recent heat wave.  Learn to live more in the symbolic. Accept that pain is between you and what you want and that big change happens over time.  Let Mother Earth hold your burdens and plants and flowers help you direct what you want your way. About Gretchen: Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist, Flower farmer, and fellow human being working through the muck of life with her family and on her farm BIRDESS in the Hudson Valley of NY.  She share her experience with this in her Podcast “Into Our Own Hands” and her newsletter “Real Live Human Therapist.” She previously founded and led a large private group practice of therapists working in her relational style "Winterkorn Counseling & Psychotherapy" in New York City. Her work and thinking about using one's self as a therapist has been published in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health and has been presented in numerous juried conferences including at Catholic University and the New School for Social Research. www.gretchenwinterkorn.com www.birdess.com (http://www.birdess.com) Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

9. 

   8 Jul 2022

   Ep 5 TWIST ENERGY: Spinning & Weaving with Margot Becker

   Spin wool roving into yarn with a diy drop spindle.  Spinning offers access to easy repairs.  Weaving grounds you to the present moment, where you can only look so far forward and accepting mistakes is necessary.  The hunger we go to our phones with and how making may provide more satiation.  Your consumption is your first clue to your unique making pathways. About Margot:  Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Her work explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Through tactile processes, she questions our understanding of sustainability, the value of labor and the role of handcraft in late capitalism. Her weaving practice originated from a desire to understand the origins of cloth and the lives affected by it. In 2010, Margot embarked on a study to understand the process of creating textiles from start to finish. Following the belief that to know your production line, you must be your production line, this project became an all-encompassing life practice- incorporating animal husbandry, yarn spinning technologies and fine hand weaving. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from California College of the Arts www.margotbecker.com www.margothandwoven.com Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

10. 

    17 Jun 2022

    Ep 4 FINDING YOUR RHYTHM: Making with Meaghan Witri

    Ground yourself in daily rhythms which we can create through making and simple easy rituals with our time. Connect to the rhythm of the natural cycles of sun/moon, breath and animal activity wherever you are. Finger-knit with yarn – easy, accessible, and calming. How to balance out how technology impacts our lives. About Meaghan: Meaghan has worked with parents and families in a variety of capacities for over fifteen years, including as an early childhood and parent-child educator and consultant. Her work and approach is steeped in a holistic understanding of child development that sees the human being as body, soul and spirit. Meaghan has trained with Developing the Self Developing the World and now facilitates the health and wellbeing programs offered through their organization in the US and Canada. Recently, Meaghan founded the Phoenix Initiative - an education initiative for families with children from birth through age 9. Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

11. 

    27 May 2022

    Ep 3 MAKING & MENTAL HEALTH: Making our way towards wellbeing in the collective with Melanie Falick

    How can making help you tap into your own need to be in charge of your survival? Why does making increase our empathy for others and how is it essential for our collective wellbeing? What do you need to be able to ditch your life so you can follow your creative dreams? In this episode, learn how to make the paper box that was a lightbulb moment for Melanie on her creative path. About Melanie: Melanie Falick is an independent writer, editor, and creative director—and a lifelong maker. She is the author, mostly recently, of Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live and she is currently working on a new book tentatively titled The Makers Way. She is the former publishing director of STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books, an imprint of Abrams, and the current creative director and editor of Modern Daily Knitting Field Guides. Her goal is to inspire as many people as she can to recognize and participate in making by hand as a pathway to individual, community, and environmental wellness. Melanie’s website: melaniefalick.com (http://melaniefalick.com/). Melanie’s mailing list: Melanie Falick Makers Way survey: The Maker's Way Making a Life: The Conversation (an online interview series): Melanie Falick - Author of Making A Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniefalick/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com (http://livingrootsmusic.com/)

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    27 May 2022

    Ep 2 HARVESTING WILD CLAY: How to ground yourself to the earth with Andrew Sartorius

    Learn about how to harvest wild clay wherever you are – in the country, city or suburbs. Understand how wild clay ties us to the past of the place we harvest from – both of the earth, the industry and the humans who lived there. How Wild Clay can help us have more grace for our own “organic material” and how to work with ourselves. This is Part 1 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay, processing wild clay (Part 2) and firing your wild clay (Season finale and Part 3). About Andrew: Andrew Sartorius is the program manager at the Oki Doki studio and a full time wood fire potter living in Germantown NY with his fiancé and fellow ceramic artist Tanya Lee Hamm, and his pup named June. https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/ (https://www.andrewsartoriusceramics.com/) https://www.theokidokistudio.com/ (https://www.theokidokistudio.com/) Connect with Andrew on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/asartoriusceramics/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

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    27 May 2022

    Ep 1 MAKING WITH YOUR HANDS: A path to feeling more responsible for your own life

    From a kid's blanket fort in an old barn, Psychotherapist and Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn invites you to join her in finding the "Maker" in you that can take your life into your own hands. Think you aren't a Maker – someone who creates with their hands? Gretchen will challenge that belief. For thousands of years, humans have created their whole lives - their homes, food, clothes, and children - by their own hands. Tapping into this powerful lineage of using our hands has helped her improve her own life and inspired her to start this podcast. Gretchen shares her journey towards this moment - how trapping herself into the role of Psychotherapist was ultimately the best decision ever - and how she left an unfulfilling life in the city to become a flower farmer and now the creator of this show. Begin this journey towards taking more responsibility for your life and the fulfilling, joyful happy experiences you want to have in it. About Gretchen Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist, Flower farmer, and fellow human being working through the muck of life with her family and on her farm BIRDESS in the Hudson Valley of New York. She previously founded and led a large private group practice of therapists working in her relational style "Winterkorn Counseling & Psychotherapy" in New York City. Her work and thinking about using one's self as a therapist has been published in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health which she has presented in numerous juried conferences including at Catholic University and the New School for Social Research. Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

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    13 May 2022

    Introducing Into Our Own Hands

    Welcome to the Into Our Own Hands Podcast. Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist and Flower Farmer residing in the Hudson Valley of New York.  Gretchen believes using our hands creatively is essential to our mental health. Our hands - our personal tools for survival for millennia - are no longer something we engage in in adult life. Reconnecting to our hands, handwork and the process of making can help us reconnect to feeling responsible for our own lives. Join Gretchen as she shares more about her journey to making more by hand and taking more responsibility for human life. Tune in to conversations with the artists and makers of Hudson Valley about how handwork impacts their lives. In each episode, you will learn a way to take a process of making into your own life in some small way so you can begin to connect to handwork as well. We are all the makers of our own lives. Let’s live that way. Again. The first three episodes will be released on Friday, May 27th 2022. Follow the show so you'll be notified when a new episode goes live. Learn more about Gretchen via her website www.gretchenwinterkorn.com

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