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  • Season 2, Episode 5- Bargaining
    In season two’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss bargaining as a stage of grief and the subtle ways we spin our energetic wheels in a vain attempt to alter the past. They highlight self-awareness and kindness as we understandably try to avoid the pain of the present by bargaining for a better past or future.Features original songs, Save the Day and End of the World in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.* 17:44- Karen’s song, Save the Day* 31:29- Katie’s song, End of the WorldEpisode Resources:* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp* Why Don’t You Love Me No More, Bootleg Honey song on a City of Santa Rosa compilation album- The Out There Tapes* JOURNAL PROMPT: Consider where you find yourself repeating “if only ____ then _____” in circumstances you’re grieving. Follow the logic to the end, writing the whole scene and see how that makes you feel.*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!*Follow us on Instagram and FacebookIN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com
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  • Season 2, Episode 4-Anger
    In season two’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss anger as a stage of grief. Leaning into and allowing the often rejected emotion as an important part of the grieving process is explored as a particular challenge for women in the patriarchy. The two demonstrate the usefulness of songs as a vehicle for healthy expression of rage and conduit for healing.Features original songs, Mother and Line of Fire in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.* 19:33- Katie’s song, Mother * 38:28- Karen’s song, Line of FireEpisode Resources:* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp* Nightbitch * JOURNAL PROMPT: What makes you angry? To the best of your ability, don’t censor yourself! This is a great one to express through motion, through using your voice in not pretty ways, to letting yourself just rant and rave into a voice memo, scream in your car, or big letters across your journal. *Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!*Follow us on Instagram and FacebookIN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com
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  • Season 2, Episode 3- Denial
    In season two’s third episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss denial, the extended play version of shock. Tell-tale behavioral signs of denial are highlighted, and the two share how songwriting can help break the spell and move us forward without leaving the love for what and who we lost behind.Features original songs, De Rien and 321(Summer’s Gone, So Are You) in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.* 16:14- Karen’s song, De Rien * 32:55- Katie’s song, 321(Summer’s Gone, So Are You)Episode Resources:* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp* Nezza’s national anthem in Spanish newsclip* JOURNAL PROMPT: Think of an experience or a time when the rug was pulled out from under you, this could be a death, a break up, a job loss, a natural disaster, etc. Let your current self time travel to that moment and try to practice just being a loving witness to the part of you that had to deal with that shock, and just notice. What do you feel in your body, what thoughts come to the surface. Write, talk, dance, scream, do whatever feels right to let this past experience give you some inspiration or information.*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!*Follow us on Instagram and FacebookIN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com
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  • Season 2, Episode 2- Shock
    In season two’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown delve into the “shock” stage of grief, sharing personal stories of their fathers’ deaths, and the waves of numbness and overwhelm that continue to ebb and flow throughout the grieving process. They demonstrate how songs and songwriting create a safe space to hold our disorientation and disbelief. Features original songs, Got To Be and We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This (Funeral Reunion) in relation to creative recovery.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.* 17:17-Karen’s song, Got to Be * 30:20-Katie’s song, We Gotta Stop Meeting Like ThisEpisode Resources:* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp* JOURNAL PROMPT: Think of an experience or a time when the rug was pulled out from under you, this could be a death, a break up, a job loss, a natural disaster, etc. Let your current self time travel to that moment and try to practice just being a loving witness to the part of you that had to deal with that shock, and just notice. What do you feel in your body, what thoughts come to the surface. Write, talk, dance, scream, do whatever feels right to let this past experience give you some inspiration or information.*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!*Follow us on Instagram and FacebookIN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com
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  • Season 2, Episode 1-Grief
    In season two’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown introduce the theme of grief and how songs bridge the gap left by culture’s unwillingness and inability to allow grieving its full depth and breadth.They discuss the current conceptions of the stages of grief and the wide range of losses besides death which are made harder through society’s lack of recognition. Personal experience through the loss of their fathers, friends, and break up of their band provide examples of creativity's power to transform loss.Features original songs, Forever and Lovely Like Lace in relation to creative recovery.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally!Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.* 19:00-Katie’s song, Forever * 40:02-Karen’s song, Lovely Like LaceEpisode Resources:* Kubler-Ross Change Curve* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp* JOURNAL PROMPT: What are you currently grieving that you don’t feel you have permission to grieve?*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!*Follow us on Instagram and FacebookIN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com
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About Supernova Support

Supernova Support invites listeners along for the ride with two veteran songwriters, friends, and former bandmates, Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown in their recovery from music scene disillusionment, career crashes, motherhood, and co-dependency. The dynamic duo explore the pitfalls of internal and external critical voices and systems that keep women songwriters from sharing their songs with the world and shine the light on a pathway to a joyful, sustainable, and successful creative life. Each episode features two original songs that illustrate the creative struggles and craft elements pertaining to the topic. Lots of laughter and f-bombs along the way. supernovasupport.substack.com
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