Ep 1 MAKING WITH YOUR HANDS: A path to feeling more responsible for your own life

From a kid's blanket fort in an old barn, Psychotherapist and Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn invites you to join her in finding the "Maker" in you that can take your life into your own hands. Think you aren't a Maker – someone who creates with their hands?

Gretchen will challenge that belief. For thousands of years, humans have created their whole lives - their homes, food, clothes, and children - by their own hands. Tapping into this powerful lineage of using our hands has helped her improve her own life and inspired her to start this podcast.

Gretchen shares her journey towards this moment - how trapping herself into the role of Psychotherapist was ultimately the best decision ever - and how she left an unfulfilling life in the city to become a flower farmer and now the creator of this show.

Begin this journey towards taking more responsibility for your life and the fulfilling, joyful happy experiences you want to have in it.

About Gretchen

Gretchen Winterkorn is a Psychotherapist, Flower farmer, and fellow human being working through the muck of life with her family and on her farm BIRDESS in the Hudson Valley of New York. She previously founded and led a large private group practice of therapists working in her relational style "Winterkorn Counseling & Psychotherapy" in New York City. Her work and thinking about using one's self as a therapist has been published in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health which she has presented in numerous juried conferences including at Catholic University and the New School for Social Research.

Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com