Ep 9 | What Power Do I Hold and How Do I Intend to Use It? A Conversation w/ Althea Seloover

What does it really mean to be in right relationship with your power? In this expansive and heartfelt conversation, Althea Seloover invites us into the depths of that question, offering wisdom rooted in lived experience, recovery, and deep care for humanity. We explore how power can be reclaimed through rest, how self-care becomes a radical act of resistance, and what it means to move at a human pace in a world that constantly demands more. From redefining words like “work,” “sin,” and “justice” to mapping the internal landscapes of burnout, healing, and congruence, Althea’s insights challenge and nourish. This is a conversation about capacity, compassion, and choosing presence over performance — for yourself, for others, and for the collective. If you're longing for clarity, groundedness, and/or a deeper sense of integrity in how you live and lead, this episode is a soulful companion.

Connect with Althea:

Althea Riana Olds Seloover is a poet, a relational map-maker, a story teller, an advocate & abolitionist, an investigator, a teacher, an entrepreneur, a creative thinker, a hope holder, a griever, a dreamer, and a friend. She does prisoner liberation, self-parenting & life history investigation work in the world. You can find her on Instagram @altheais, on Substack altheaspinningon.substack.com, at disobedientgoods.com slinging stickers, and locally in Eugene, Oregon. 

Althea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/altheais/

Althea’s Substack: altheaspinningon.substack.com

Althea’s Website: disobedientgoods.com


Key Topics Discussed:

0:00:00 - Welcome and Introduction to Althea

0:04:40 - What Makes You Feel Most You

0:07:01 - The Power We Hold and How We Use It

0:13:41 - Rehumanizing Through Daily Self-Care

0:17:13 - Redefining Work, Effort, and Power

0:22:03 - Burnout, Recovery, and Power Misuse

0:27:53 - Becoming Rested and Ready

0:34:19 - Capacity, Congruence, and Aligned Yeses

0:43:56 - Interconnectedness and Personal Responsibility

0:50:11 - Being in “Fighting Shape” for What We’re Called To

1:01:06 - Discernment, Mapping, and Owning What’s Ours

1:10:17 - Redefining Sin as Leaving Yourself Behind

1:14:56 - Honoring the Path That’s Not Yours

1:18:08 - Spiritual Inquiry and Ancestral Integrity


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