I'm a yoga teacher as well as a mentor for heart centered and amplified living. So I help people ages 20 to 30 in that quarter life region going through the quarter life crisis. So I'm sure I'll talk a little bit more about that as we go on. But, yeah, happy to be here. I'm looking to record some meditation, some just questions to guide you inward for some personal revelations, and we'll see what else is to come from this
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:44
I have a lot of nephews and nieces around that age, and it's just so fun to hear their trials and tribulations know it's not easy, but it's also really exhilarating, especially if you're in conversation about it, which is what's so exciting about your focus. So I'm looking forward and thanks so much for reaching out to swell and being a voice here
Hi, Marley. I am so happy to hear you on Swell. I am in my quarterlife crisis right now, and I just think it's awesome that you're helping. I guess that age range. Looking forward to hearing words of wisdom from you, meditations and anything that you're willing to offer. Super excited. Thanks
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 1:01
Hi, Marley. Welcome to Swell. I'm really looking forward to hearing more of your conversations. I really like that there is support during that time that you're supporting people. I'm curious. I know you said you were going to talk more, but I'm curious about any common themes of people that you've worked with that come up. And yeah, I'd love to hear other ways that you help people with that transition. I'm studying to be a drama therapist
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 3:32
Like you aren't attached and bogged down by children or a certain location. And not to say everyone's not. But many are not likely at the time where you're a little more free than those who are in their thirty s and forty s. So it's a time where you really can take chances and leap and explore and f*** up. And I think people get caught and like, well, my dream would be this ideally in an ideal magical world
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 1:37
Hey, Deborah, thanks for the response. Yeah. I really love how you label it as, you know, exciting and exhilarating when you're in that time, because I think there really are two ways to look at it. And you can look at it from that, like, victim mentality of like, oh, my gosh, life is working against me. What do I do? Or you can look at it as like, okay, let's have fun with this
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 1:15
It kind of is becoming just very common lingo because I know like four years ago, the first time I heard it, it really wasn't your midlife crisis all the time. And that's known about and talked about. But this quarterlife crisis truly is a thing right now and will continue to be if we recognize it is one. But there are totally things that we can do to help ourselves and to better our situation. So I'm glad you're here
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 3:40
It's amazing work, but it's more working with communities and for education, and it's more broad and it's more like working through themes. But a lot of personal things can come up. And I just felt through the work that has been doing that I wanted to go deeper into the personal, which is more drama therapy. So drama therapy is working with dramatic techniques to achieve therapeutic goals, and there's tons of different forms of it if you're interested
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 3:06
Hey Chelsea, that sounds really, really cool. Thank you for sharing. It brings up this memory from a few weeks back where I had a friend visiting and she's very creative native and very good at improvising and she's a dancer and I was kind of working through like a situation with my partner and he was out of town and her and I just dropped in this morning. And normally for me it's very out of my comfort zone to be outwardly creative or improvising in front of someone
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 1:56
We all have that inner child. I'm really interested in the inner child work. So, yeah, I'm glad that you got to do that, that it was free and that you felt better afterwards. Drama therapy. There's so many ways to use it. So, yeah, you probably were doing drama therapy. Didn't know it. And the psychology class I'm taking is personality series. So I guess it's going to be some different Freudian
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 3:06
So I think the more I've gotten into my own inner child work, it's been so extremely beneficial and quickly transformative, and it just makes me think, like, I wonder if that was kind of pushed down or away because of actually how powerful it was or some of it was, at least, or could be. So, yeah, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on that