How To Reclaim Beauty As A Spiritual Practice - Lian Brook-Tyler

Wild Sovereign Soul co-founder and soul guide, Lian Brook-Tyler, has spent over a decade studying beauty as a soul path rather than a surface concern... she explains why beauty deserves the same conscious attention we already give relationships and money, and what can happen once we stop pretending it doesn't already command our attention. This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her, could be literally anything - explored through the lenses of science, spirituality and story - hence the name of the show! It is created for those who feel called toward a soulful life shaped by meaning, depth, truth, and love… for those who feel unsatisfied with quick answers or surface level takes. This is a rich rabbit hole that Lian journeys through alongside you. She speaks from her own lived experience and unfolding process… while inviting you into your own as you listen. The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the next one: Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel, subscribed to our Moonly News email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. In this episode, Lian explores beauty not as something skin deep, but as a spiritual practice, tracing it from the evolutionary science of adornment through myth, history and her own teenage attempt to reconstruct herself in the image of Marilyn Monroe. She looks at the handicap principle behind why humans adorn themselves at all, research showing how self-surveillance breeds body shame, and what myths can show us. She brings in the Jungian analyst James Hollis on making our projections conscious, the psychologist James Hillman's case that recovering our sense of beauty is how we recover our lost soul, and her own Beauty Archetype work exploring the Lover and the shadows of chasing beauty and abandoning it. She closes by mapping Venus, the Ascendant and Chiron in the birth chart, asking what your own placements might reveal about your particular path with beauty. Listen if you either chase beauty for approval or dismiss it, and are wondering if there could be something deeper beyond both. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the same evolutionary instinct behind a forty thousand year old deer tooth necklace may be the same one now, but distorted, driving those anxious checks in the mirror How the myth of Psyche and Aphrodite shows that even the soul and Goddesses aren’t exempt from beauty's pull or the envy of it What happens when beauty is offered as a conscious devotion rather than performed for approval or discarded out of caution Resources and stuff that we spoke about: Watch the episode which explores the myth of Psyche and Eros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lx9PKm203c&t=705s Register your interest in Beauty Potion https://wildsovereignsoul.com/beauty To get your birth chart https://www.astro.com Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul, subscribed to our Moonly News https://wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Wild Sovereign Soul facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul or in UNIO https://www.unioacademy.com. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).