Create Harmony

Tell us more about your practices of peace

A coffee shop can be more than a caffeine stop. We sit with Cody and Johnny, the founders of Unhinged Coffee, to hear how two people with demanding corporate careers made a fast, fearless pivot into the Raleigh coffee scene and built something that feels like a true third space. Cody shares the personal roots of the idea, including how coffee became a way to stay close to his dad, and how that meaning shaped the heart of the brand.

We talk about what makes Unhinged Coffee different: a mission anchored in mental health advocacy, a refusal to treat wellness like a buzzword, and a tagline that lands with honesty, “Sip Through The Struggle.” Cody and Johnny open up about anxiety, ADHD, therapy, stigma, and why accessibility matters. Coffee is the vehicle, but community is the point, from clinician and nonprofit partnerships to events designed to help people feel safe, seen, and steady.

You’ll also hear the behind-the-scenes growth story: starting with a coffee cart and pop-ups, operating out of borrowed spaces, then taking the leap into a brick-and-mortar shop with warm murals, thoughtful design, and the unforgettable Unhinged Wall where sticky notes turn into threads of anonymous support. We get into what’s next too: expanding hours, building out a patio and alleyway markets, adding limited beer and wine and THC beverages without becoming a bar, and long-term dreams of roasting their own beans. If you care about small business building, community over competition, and how coffee culture can support mental wellness, this one is for you. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave us a review with your biggest takeaway.

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

We sit down with Amanda Rigby to trace how The Well Mental and Spiritual Care grows from a late-night COVID-season burden into a real, local pathway toward healing and wholeness. We break down what The Well actually offers, how to choose between therapy, spiritual direction, and life coaching, and why lowering stigma often starts with a simple first step.  
• The midnight phone call that sparks The Well’s founding vision during COVID lockdown isolation  
• Barriers to mental health care even in privileged spaces, from insurance issues to full therapist caseloads  
• The Well’s mission of accessible and affordable mental and spiritual care for church and community  
• A “constellation of care” model, combining clinical therapy with relational supports  
• Community classes that lower stigma, including couples enrichment, aging as spiritual practice, yoga nidra, and support groups  
• Clear distinctions between therapy and counseling, spiritual direction as companionship, and life coaching for calling and purpose  
• Big dreams to replicate the model in other churches while honoring what each community already has  
• Practical ways to connect, share the story, and help others find support in the Raleigh area  

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

Your body might be smarter than your overthinking. We’re joined by Karley Kimbro, a yoga teacher and sound healer, for a conversation that starts with movement and ends with a bigger question: what does it look like to live in alignment with yourself when the world keeps pushing you into speed, stress, and self doubt?

Karley tells the story of finding yoga, going through teacher training during the pandemic, and feeling the “cosmic nudge” to leave a cushy corporate HR job to teach wellness full time. Along the way, we talk about accessible yoga for beginners, the intimidation factor of studios, and why yoga is more than flexibility or perfect poses. For Karley, yoga means union, and that opens the door to breathwork, meditation, sound healing, and even tarot as real tools for connection and self understanding.

We also break down what a sound bath actually is, how instruments like crystal singing bowls and chimes can support nervous system regulation, and why a sensory practice can help you rediscover calm when your brain is trained toward agitation by constant devices. Then we shift into retreats, softness as strength, and the sober curious journey including how to rethink sobriety without shame or labels.

If you’re craving a more intentional rhythm, better mental wellness, and practices you can actually stick with, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a deep breath, and leave a review so more listeners can find us.

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We welcome Megan as our new teammate and share the real story of how Create Harmony grows from solo work into a true partnership built on intention, creativity, and connection. We talk about slowing down the noise, building confidence to share our work, and the bigger vision of helping people feel less agitated in daily life. 

• how Create Harmony evolves from workshops to guided meditations to a long-running podcast 
• why we know it’s time to add a teammate and what changes when we do 
• Megan’s career path through finance and tech startups plus layoffs and motherhood during COVID 
• what draws Megan to mental wellness work through yoga, reflection, and meaning 
• learning to talk about our work with more confidence and clarity 
• the long-term vision of helping people slow down and feel more connected 
• what we want to try next with guests, partnerships, and local pop-up events in Raleigh 

come back next week we've got more great stuff planned. 

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

Today, we welcome our first guest on the podcast.  We feature Amy Cook of Petal and Pink Mental Wellness Boutique.  She shares all sorts of good info about what the store has to offer as well as details about how it came to be.  You will definitely find it interesting to hear about how it got it's name.  Check it out!  

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

Joy isn’t something we have to chase down or earn. It’s already here, tucked into the ordinary: a butterfly outside the window, the first sip of coffee, a gentle breeze on a dog walk, the smell of dinner on the stove, the relief of a soft bed at night. When the world feels noisy, I’ve learned that the real “trick” is attention. The more we practice noticing, the more joy we actually experience.

I’m Sally Burlington, and I’m getting practical about how journaling helps me do that noticing. My journaling isn’t pages of polished writing. It’s a way to sort my brain, quiet the mental clutter, and make intentional decisions about what I want to focus on. I share why I lean into bullet points and lists, why I use planners as journaling tools (not for calendar management), and how monthly prompts plus a month-in-review can anchor gratitude, progress, and reflection.

We also talk about quarterly resets and why goals set during the holiday season sometimes stop resonating by spring. I explain how I adapt rigid planner pages with sticker paper so my journal meets me where I am, plus a simple practice I call “journal mining” to flip back through old entries and spot themes you might be missing.

And yes, I offer a confession: I bought a wellness journal to support habits like strength training, whole foods, protein, sleep, and meditation and then didn’t open it for an entire quarter. That moment turns into a bigger takeaway about introspection, seasons, and asking whether a goal or tool truly fits your life right now. If this helps you breathe easier and refocus, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find Create Harmony.

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Spring can spark a strange kind of urgency. The light comes back, your energy rises, and suddenly it feels like you should overhaul your life overnight. I’m slowing that impulse down and offering a softer truth: you don’t have to bloom all at once. If you’ve been pushing, planning, or pressuring yourself to “make the most of the season,” this is your permission slip to grow in phases. 

We talk about how life is shaped less by big moments and more by the rhythms you return to. What you practice becomes your pattern, and what you repeat becomes your lived reality. Using spring as a guide, we look at how nature unfolds gradually: buds, partial blossoms, steady opening over time. That same pacing applies to personal growth, mental wellness, creativity, and habit building. I also share a real example from behind the scenes at Create Harmony when excitement turned into a confetti-cannon rush, and how coming back to gentle, steady living brought everything into better alignment. 

You’ll leave with a simple practice: choose one to three small things to tend this season and notice what’s quietly opening in your life, plus what isn’t ready yet and can wait. If you want extra support, I also share details on our spring subscription box with peaceful guided meditations and cozy self-care items. Subscribe for more spring content, share this with a friend who feels behind, and leave a review telling me what you’re choosing to grow next.

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We’re sharing a real-time update from our home life and using it to talk about what we care about most: peaceful living, joyful rhythms, and daily habits that help us step away from stress, even when we only have a small window of capacity.

We walk through what we’ve learned after a full year of backyard pool ownership, from winter freeze-protect settings to the reality of spring “pollen season” where everything looks dusted in yellow. Pool maintenance is not glamorous, but we’ve found an unexpected mental health win in it: skimming and cleaning can become a mindfulness practice. When we treat a necessary chore as contemplative time, we get a cleaner pool and a quieter mind, which is the kind of practical stress management that actually sticks.

Then we head into the garden for a spring growing season check-in: building out a robust herb garden with basil, parsley, chives, sage, lavender, lemon balm, and a whole experiment of mixed mint varieties. We talk raised bed gardening with dahlias, tomatoes, and cucumbers, getting our irrigation system running again, and watching fruit trees and berry bushes wake up while birds try to steal the harvest. We also share our excitement about a GreenStalk vertical planter and the learning curve that comes with trying something new.

If you’re craving a calmer pace and a few grounded ideas you can try today, press play. Subscribe for more slow living inspiration, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review telling us what spring habit brings you the most peace.

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

Create Harmony invites you to step away from the noise for a few minutes and ask a deceptively simple spring question: what are you growing this season, and are you growing what you actually want to harvest later? When life is packed and your nervous system is tired, clarity matters more than hustle. This gentle reset is about intentional living, not perfect productivity.

We explore how life is shaped by small daily habits and repeated rhythms, the quiet practices that form us long before results show up. Using the garden as a metaphor, we look at what’s happening under the soil: your thoughts, your focus, your attention, and the environment you’re living in. Hot days, dry days, floods, sickness, upsetting news, and overload all affect what you can realistically tend. Instead of pushing harder, we work with honesty and grace.

Then we get practical. I’ll guide you to name one to three things you want to grow and to write them down so you have a simple cue to return when distraction hits. We talk about why growth often stalls, how to decide whether something should wait for another season, and how tiny steps still count. I close with a beloved Apache blessing, then share a few ways to go deeper with our seasonal meditations.

If this brought you a little peace, subscribe, share the episode with a friend who needs a gentler pace, and leave a review so more listeners can find Create Harmony. What are you choosing to tend this week?

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Tell us more about your practices of peace

Spring doesn’t hit the body like a light switch, and that might be exactly the point. We’re slowing down to explore “somatic spring” a simple, meaningful way to notice how seasonal change shows up inside us as small shifts in breath, energy, and the quiet urge to move. If you’ve been pushing for a fresh start and wondering why your motivation isn’t matching the longer days, this conversation offers a gentler path. 

We talk about how spring arrives in real life: brief warm spells, sudden cold snaps, buds that open a little more each day. Then we mirror that same rhythm in the body. After months of wintering, we may feel tiny signs of waking up, a deeper breath, a desire to stretch, a moment of presence that feels like color returning. Rather than demanding a dramatic transformation, we practice somatic awareness and nervous system friendly pacing, trusting that your body remembers how to come back to life. 

You’ll also hear a closing reading from Dinah Ashworth’s Wild Hope, a reflection that captures the tenderness of renewal and the way spring “gently shakes out our hibernating toes.” When you finish listening, try one small experiment: notice a single moment of somatic spring today and let it be enough. If this helped you slow down, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find a calmer rhythm too.

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