A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess - Faith, Vulnerability & Spirituality Without Borders (with Dean Morris & Zach Berman)

This week I’m joined again by my impromptu informal co-host Zach Berman (my episode with Zach if you haven't listened to it yet is here ) and our mutual friend Dean Morris. Strictly going by job labels and societal identification, Dean is a pastor, but it’s clear to me as he’s sitting across from Zach and I as a man in his mid 30’s with two daughters in a forest green sweater, Lululemon pants, and a Patagonia toque that he’s not your average pastor. 

This was indefinitely a conversation about faith. But not faith in the conventional term. I’m the first to say that I am a spiritual seeker who’s always learning and growing and eager to find the message of love and mystery anywhere in any form it appears. And today with Dean, we explore the Bible and the life of Christ. For anyone out there who might cringe just by hearing the word Jesus, Christianity or even just religion, please just listen to the end and stay open minded. I’m personally not religious, but I took so much away from this conversation with Dean and learnt so much about the true pure origins of Christianity and can now whole heartedly say I think Jesus was an incredible enlightened inspiring human, and modelling a life based on how he lived is something that I think we could all benefit from.

My co host Zach summed up this conversation beautifully, not only is this just three people talking about life and what it means to be human, it’s primarily a dialogue about “love, peace, vulnerability and spirituality with our borders.”

Alright, hope you all enjoy and dont forget if you have any questions to send me a message @happyandhealthy96 on instagram.

And as always, thank you for listening.

If you missed my episode with my co-host Zach Berman you can listen here:

http://stephyu.com/podcast/2017/11/2/a-beautiful-mess-zach-berman-co-owner-of-juice-truck-on-travel-community-gratitude-more

And check out Dean on Instagram @deaner

A Beautiful Mess- Letting go of Shame & Knowing our Worth with Katie McKenzie

This conversation is about as raw and unfiltered as it gets, and it truly left me so inspired and excited to share it with you all. Katie is truly a powerhouse of vulnerability and had me crying more than once during the episode. We covered so many topics from shame/guilt, to mental health in general, body image, relationships/love, self-love, knowing our own inherent worth, and the illusion of needing to do our passion for our work. But at the end of the day, it was just an honest and open conversation between two individuals on their own personal experiences living and struggling through this beautifully messy life. I'm just so blown away by the humility, strength and love that Katie embodies and I can't wait for you all to get to know her too.

Also just as a side note, I was extremely stuffed up while recording this so I apologize for the nasally voice and constant sniffling, ahah. Hope you all enjoy regardless, and as always I love hearing your feedback so message me on instagram @happyandhealthy96 with any questions or comments.

And to keep up with Katie's adventures, find her on instagram @ktcakes03

Thanks so much for listening,

Much Love,

Steph. XX

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I’m so excited to share this episode with you guys, it’s one that’s been a while in the making and something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Today I’m joined with two of my best friends Anna and Zack to dive deep into the connection and the conversation around spirituality and being vegan we explore the disconnect that can often exist between people in the spiritual community and eating a vegan diet. But at the end the day we really just have an honest dialogue on how we can all be more kind, more patient, more present & more loving in our every day lives. We really had fun and let the conversation flow and go wherever it wanted to go and at the end the day we covered far more than I had planned. We talked about parenting and the spirituality of being a parent, we talked about how we practice mindfulness and we talked about how it’s always a practice and there’s never an end destination to strive for. Some thing that I think sums it up perfectly is: practice makes practice there is no such thing as practice makes perfect because there’s always more to learn more to improve and more to practice. I truly hope you guys enjoy this episode and let me know if you have any questions or any opinions that you want to share, and if there are differing opinions I’d love to hear them I’m always open to constructive criticism and hearing different perspective so shoot me a direct message on Instagram if you’d like to chat. thanks as always for listening and talk to guys soon.

And if you guys wanna learn more about Anna, she’s a mother of two an animal rights lawyer and activis,t and just a truly kind human being, but for more on Anna here’s a link to her site.

And if you missed my podcast episode with Zach, it’s episode #16.

And to follow both of them on social media their handles on Instagram are at @zacktuck and @easyanimalfree.

Much love, and as always thank you for listening,

Steph. XX

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