Changeable Podcast

“The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.” –Daniel OkrentIt always sounds funny to me when people talk about achieving balance. Or striving for balance. Or working on, or toward, balance.Balance is our nature. It is default. We don’t work toward what’s default. We stop working and find ourselves there. We don’t achieve

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Fairly recently, Lucy decided to experiment with drinking less.She didn’t quit. She experimented. She became curious and watched what happened as she didn’t drink one time. And then another time. And then another time. She watched what happened as she came up against situations where drinking was the norm. There were a lot of them.She let

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Phobias are one of my favorite things to coach. They are also one of the absolute best illustrations of how our experience works. When you have a phobia, you aren’t afraid of the thing you think you’re afraid of. You’re afraid of thought. Period. It’s amazing to see how a mind defends what it believes. There are

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Marnix is a coach and author with a growing sense of joy about life. Less than 10 years ago he was depressed, anxious, and addicted. Marnix and I talk about all sorts of things in this episode. From how and why he woke up to this very different experience of life, while others too often do

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In times of uncertainty, minds can get restless. They can make up stories and scenarios in order to give you some semblance of certainty. Knowing how your mind works, helps. It helps you see what’s beyond its stories. What is beyond the mind’s stories? Now. Where we’re all okay, doing the best we see to do, present and

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Some things in life feel like driving with your parking brake on.Other things feel simple. Effortless, even.What’s the difference? And how can we more naturally do the things that feel really hard?What if I said that no activity is inherently hard, ever? None. No exceptions.What if I said that paying taxes is not inherently less

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 Imagine what it might be like to truly see your physical health as loving feedback.Not good versus bad. Not healthy versus diseased. Your health is how the energy of life happens to be flowing through you, expressing itself through your physical container, at a particular moment in time.Imagine viewing physical health challenges as an offer

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There was a new mother who was very caught up in doing everything right for her baby. She saw her baby’s weight, eating habits, and moods as personal reflections of how she was doing as a parent. She worried about what people would think if her baby cried in public.Her B-A-B-Y.We talked and looked and listened.

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It’s been so fun to watch things change for Tom.Shortly before we met last summer, Tom was not feeling great. It was a feeling he had expressed off and on at times in his life. His doctor called it Recurrent Major Depression. Then, as Tom says, he snapped out of it. He began to turn a

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At first glance, the New Paradigm can appear to be inconsistent with the idea that memories are “repressed”, or that the effects of old thought and memory are manifest in our bodies. After all, if we are 100% free and innately well, feeling only Thought energy that is constantly in motion, how would repression fit? This is

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