The Wisdom of Curiosity | Ep. 11

September 29, 2026 · 38:07 read

Category: Business & Economy

Show: Sigma Femme Podcast

Certainty can feel safe until it becomes the thing that keeps us stuck. In this episode, Alva Carter-Pope and I explore what begins to open when we stop demanding fixed answers and allow curiosity to

Certainty can feel safe until it becomes the thing that keeps us stuck.

In this episode, Alva Carter-Pope and I explore what begins to open when we stop demanding fixed answers and allow curiosity to become part of the healing process.

We talk about grief, spirituality, sovereignty and the courage it takes to question the beliefs, patterns and inherited ideas that shape how we understand ourselves and the world.

Alva shares how profound loss at a young age opened a lifelong inquiry into healing, choice and human possibility. We explore why healing can feel chaotic while transformation is unfolding, how grief can open new questions about identity and meaning and why growth often moves in spirals rather than straight lines.

We also talk about belief versus direct experience, spirituality beyond rigid structures, imagination, conditioning and the ways comparison can keep us stuck.

At the center of it all is curiosity: learning to trust your own inner authority, question what you inherited and create more freedom in the way you heal and live.

About Alva Carter-Pope

@TheThirdOptionPivot26

Alva Carter-Pope, LCSW, M.Div., MSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, ordained pastor, educator and founder of Touchstone Counseling Services.

Drawing from more than two decades of experience at the intersection of behavioral health, spirituality and human development, she helps people navigate grief, trauma, life transitions and personal transformation with greater self-awareness, resilience and intention.

She is also the creator of The Third Option Living Framework, a psycho-spiritual model centered on Pause, Presence and Pivot that invites people to move beyond binary thinking and discover new possibilities for healing, wisdom and growth.

Connect with Alva:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/touchstonerva/

YouTube — The Third Option:

https://youtube.com/@TheThirdOptionPivot26?si=mcIkyF2XLJ6CLEbm

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