9. The Great Collapse and the Great Awakening (Part 1)

Part 1 of a 3-part special in which Sonya tells the tale of her 2020 experience, which she calls her "great collapse" as well as, paradoxically, a time of great spiritual awakening. She outlines the unfolding of one life-shattering week in March 2020: her precious dog Anastasia being rushed to the emergency vet (Monday) and diagnosed with terminal liver cancer (Tuesday), her partner confessing falling in love with a coworker (Wednesday), the demise of Sonya's relationship (Thursday), the entire country of Aotearoa / New Zealand shutting down due to COVID (Friday), and Sonya asking her partner to move out (Saturday). In this episode, Sonya discusses leaving the US for Aotearoa in 2017; the global emergence of COVID while she was on a 3-week book tour in the US; coming home to Aotearoa; and the implosion of her relationship and seemingly her entire life in the course of one week. On the edge of your seat for what happens next? Part 2 drops Monday, March 3rd for Patreon and Tuesday, March 4th for everyone else. Stay tuned ♥️ Support Sonya's work and get video episode drops a day early: www.patreon.com/sonyareneetaylor Miraculous Musings: * Where might abandonment and/or codependency pop up in your relationships? What aspects of Sonya's tale resonate with your own relational experiences? * Are there times you've felt different timelines (adult you, little you, memories of parents / loved ones / friends, outside observer you, etc.) melding and collapsing in on each other as Sonya describes here? * How have 2020 and COVID reshaped your life assumptions and expectations? Resources: * Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America by Mark Ehrman: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/getting-out-mark-ehrman/1100408680 * Edmund Hillary Fellowship: https://www.ehf.org * "My Time" by Kindred the Family Soul (2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akk7tu0I75Y Producer: Sonya Renee Taylor Editor: Dr. Shannon Weber Music: "Joy & Grief" and "Dying", The Bengsons