22. Don’t Look Back: Orpheus, Eurydice, and the Fear of Losing What We’ve Gained
In this week’s episode, Marrissa explores the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and what it reveals about the fragility of trust — in love, in leadership, and in ourselves. She reflects on what happens when faith collapses in the face of uncertainty, and how this same dynamic plays out whenever we step into the unknown.
From Orpheus’s glance back into the underworld to our own moments of doubt in business, artistry, or relationships, Marrissa invites listeners to see “looking back” not as failure but as a developmental threshold: the struggle to hold what is unseen. She then expands the myth into a meditation on pioneering leadership — what it means to go first, to hold the vision before anyone else can see it, and to walk forward without proof that what we love will survive the transformation.
Takeaways
- The Orpheus myth is a mirror for our difficulty trusting what’s unseen.
- Looking back represents the psyche’s anxiety when the familiar disappears.
- Winnicott’s object constancy teaches us that faith begins with knowing what we love still exists, even when it’s out of sight.
- True leadership requires symbolic sight — the ability to feel coherence forming before it’s visible.
- To pioneer is to go first: to embody a frequency the collective hasn’t yet named.
- Trust is not certainty; it’s containment — the capacity to hold what’s still becoming.
Orpheus and Eurydice, Myth, Trust, Leadership, Psychoanalysis, Winnicott, Object Constancy, Creation, Visionary Work, Transformation, Faith, Uncertainty, The Unseen
Chapters
00:00 The Nature of Trust
04:36 The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
09:16 The Challenge of Moving Forward
13:41 Pioneering the Unseen
15:55 Embracing the Journey of Becoming
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