Being In Awareness

In a world that often asks us to choose sides, elderhood invites us to see more deeply.In this episode of The Elder Within, Corinna explores the nature of polarity — how it shapes perception, fuels judgment, and simplifies a world that is far more nuanced than “right” and “wrong.” While polarity can help us recognize contrast and meaning, it can also blind us to the shades in between.Drawing from personal reflection and lived experience, this conversation explores the movement from black-and-white thinking toward greater awareness, discernment, and conscious choice. What happens when we no longer react automatically to opposites, but instead learn to hold complexity with presence?This is not an invitation to avoid differences, but to meet them differently.Perhaps seeing beyond polarity begins by asking:What do I choose to create, embody, and contribute — even in the midst of tension?

Corinna Stoeffl’s website: https://beinginawareness.com

"Whispers From the Elder Within" is a free, downloadable card deck that invites you into stillness, insight, and the gentle unfolding of your own knowing: https://mailchi.mp/beinginawareness/whispers-from-the-elder-within

"Whispers From the Elder Within" is a free, downloadable card deck that invites you into stillness, insight, and the gentle unfolding of your own knowing. https://mailchi.mp/beinginawareness/whispers-from-the-elder-within

Healing is often framed as something we do — a problem to solve, a body to fix, a symptom to overcome. Elderhood invites a different orientation.

In this episode, I explore healing not as intervention, but as relationship:
with the body, with time, with stress carried over a lifetime, and with the wisdom that emerges when we stop asking “How do I fix this?” and begin asking “What has my life been asking of me?”

This is a reflection on presence, integration, and the kind of healing that unfolds when we stand in our lives with earned authority.

Corinna’s website: https://beinginawareness.com

"Whispers From the Elder Within" is a free, downloadable card deck that invites you into stillness, insight, and the gentle unfolding of your own knowing: https://go.beinginawareness.com/whisperscards

Beyond age, roles, and identity, there is an elder presence within each of us — a quiet, steady awareness shaped by lived experience, loss, insight, and remembering. Yet in a world of constant movement and noise, we rarely take the time to listen.

This episode is not meant to be consumed while multitasking. It is an experiential pause.

Guided by contemplative questions from my forthcoming book Re-Imagining Elderhood, you are invited to meet the elder within you — not through thinking or analysis, but through presence.

These questions are offered as companions, allowing something deeper to speak in its own time.

You may wish to listen slowly, pause often, or return to this episode more than once.

Corinna Stoeffl’s website: https://beinginawareness.com

Elders know that change is a constant in life. The free e-book on having ease with change can help: https://go.beinginawareness.com/7steps

What happens when work is no longer driven by strategy, predictability, or optimization—yet arises from presence instead?

In this episode, I explore and reflect on what it means to work from the space of elderhood: a way of being that listens for aliveness rather than forcing outcomes. This is not about working less, rather about working differently—guided by felt sense, inner timing, and integrity instead of intellect alone.

It is not a problem-solving conversation, but an inquiry into a different way of orienting to work, and contribution.

It is an invitation for those who sense that the old ways of doing business no longer fit, and who are willing to step into a more spacious, living orientation to work and offering.

This reflection is for those in the second half of life who sense that their work is no longer about fixing or improving, but about offering something that can only arise from lived experience and presence.

If you have any thoughts about this episode, I would really appreciate it if you left a comment. That way I can get different angles to the exploration and possibly do a follow up episode in the future.

Corinna Stoeffl’s website: https://beinginawareness.com

Elders know that change is a constant in life. The free e-book on having ease with change can help: https://go.beinginawareness.com/7steps

Elderhood is not defined by age or role, but by presence. This episode explores what it means to be present with oneself, with others, and with life as it is—and how that presence quietly reshapes the way we live and relate.

Corinna’s website: https://beinginawareness.com

We are living in a time of global transition, and the world is longing for elders again. 'The Elder Within' podcast is a space to remember what elderhood truly is — not age, not authority, and not a single way of being. Elderhood arises uniquely through each person, shaped by the life that has lived them.

Hosted by Corinna Stoeffl, the podcast explores how we navigate change, heal old stories, listen to what is really happening, and rediscover the wisdom already within each of us. It is an invitation to walk through life with clarity, compassion, and presence — and to find YOUR way of becoming an elder.

What is the difference between shaping and progrmming? Where does it ocur and what are the effects of it? Theses are some questions I am exploring in this episode.

Please leave a comment if something in this episode touched you, or evoked a reaction.

Here is a link to my new Facebook business page Re-Imagining Elderhood (https://www.facebook.com/ReimaginingElderhood). If these episodes resonate with you, please follow me there for more information

You can connect with Corinna on Social Media:

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnastoeffl

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CStoeffl

on Substack: https://corinnastoeffl.substack.com/

and in her online community Toward a New World: https://community.towardanewworld.com/

Check out her website: https://beinginawareness.com

The podcast is available in the following places:

on Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corinna25

on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/2s45mjj6

2 years ago, in E13, I offered a different perspective on Climate Change. With all that is currently going on, I want to revisit this subject.

Please leave a comment if something in this episode touched you, or evoked a reaction.

Here is a link to my new Facebook business page Re-Imagining Elderhood (https://www.facebook.com/ReimaginingElderhood). If these episodes resonate with you, please follow me there for more information

You can connect with Corinna on Social Media:

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnastoeffl

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CStoeffl

on Substack: https://corinnastoeffl.substack.com/

and in her online community Toward a New World: https://community.towardanewworld.com/

Check out her website: https://beinginawareness.com

The podcast is available in the following places:

on Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corinna25

on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/2s45mjj6

Stress is usually associated with work life, not with retirement. Yet we get stressed at any age. In this episode, I take a look at how this may show up.

Please leave a comment if something in this episode touched you, or evoked a reaction.

Here is a link to my new Facebook business page Re-Imagining Elderhood (https://www.facebook.com/ReimaginingElderhood). If these episodes resonate with you, please follow me there for more information

You can connect with Corinna on Social Media:

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnastoeffl

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CStoeffl

on Substack: https://corinnastoeffl.substack.com/

and in her online community Toward a New World: https://community.towardanewworld.com/

Check out her website: https://beinginawareness.com

The podcast is available in the following places:

on Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corinna25

on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/2s45mjj6

Returning to podcasting after a long pause, I want to share what I have been learning about AI during that time: asking questions of AI,conemplating about AI and listening to voices both pro and con, as well as my own experience with it.

Please leave a comment if something in this episode touched you, or evoked a reaction.

Here is a link to my new Facebook business page Re-Imagining Elderhood (https://www.facebook.com/ReimaginingElderhood). If these episodes resonate with you, please follow me there for more information

You can connect with Corinna on Social Media:

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnastoeffl

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CStoeffl

on Substack: https://corinnastoeffl.substack.com/

and in her online community Toward a New World: https://community.towardanewworld.com/

Check out her website: https://beinginawareness.com

The podcast is available in the following places:

on Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corinna25

on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/2s45mjj6