B Is For Being

Amendment notice: This interview has been amended for the purposes of anonymity. I spoke with a member of The Liberators at this year’s Blazing Swan. The Liberators International is an organisation which creates flash mob events around the world to remind people of our shared human connection and the ability we all have to express ourselves authentically. Initially we were talking about the things we’d like to let go of, but the conversation naturally opened to include much more than that. In this episode he shares his journey of self-liberation and how he’s moved through some of his strongest insecurities around body image and dancing in public, and realised his fears were nothing more than social conditions which he had accepted as the definite way to behave. We also talk about forming ‘whole-relationships’ where neither individual is needed by the other to feel complete, but instead both people support each other’s growth and development while staying true to their own needs and personal interests.