When life is hard, the voice of self-pity says "Why is this happening? No one is helping me. I'm all alone. I am not loved. I do not have enough." 

When life is hard, the voice of creation says "What now? Can you help me this way next time? I trust there is enough. I trust that it will be good."

Catherine's dad's favorite Easter song is an old hymn called In the Garden . Each chorus starts "And He (God) walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am His own. . ."

When life is hard, we either tune into the voice of self-pity or the voice of creation.  Catherine encourages listeners to destroy self-pity by creating. By tuning into the voice of God, just like the hymn says.

To discover what kind of creating gives purpose to your life, here are some questions to think through:

1. What has caused you pain or broken your heart in your life?
2. How has this pain allowed you to have compassion/get angry/makes you sad about a group of people or a certain problem?
3. Repent of any agreements with the enemy’s lies or untruths as a result of this pain. 
4. Receive healing by giving it to God and asking HIm to make this sadness and grief come untrue. 
5. Ask God to replace the pain and brokenness with prupose by asking HIm what He wants you to know and what HE wants you to do with the pain. 

The books Catherine references are Switch On Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf, The Power of TED  by David Emerald, and Where'd You Go Bernadette?  by Maria Semple. 

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

Each day is a discovery lab. How you move forward in balance depends on this ground breaking paradox Catherine Baker introduces: simultaneous self forgetfulness and self awareness. 

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

Who teaches you these days?

In this episode, Catherine talks about being teachable, teaching, and why it all matters.

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

This year has surfaced bigger differences of opinion between us as humans then we can remember in our living history. It seems that we are all feeling divided, frustrated, disappointed, and hurt by actions of those close to us - friends and family, as well as those in extended circles of influence like work.

Enter FEAR. Fear of gathering, fear of getting sick, fear of being judged. So much fear. To make sure fear doesn't win this year, this season, Catherine Baker helps you unwrap the gift of psychological security and safety - something you can receive and give to others today, if you want. It will be one of the best gifts you can give to those you love.

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

When you turn your eyes and ears to someone to listen to them, you are giving them a spotlight in making them feel seen and heard - one of the most luxurious gifts they might not even know how to ask for.  You will also be tuning in to the second note of belonging - psychological safety and security.

In this episode, Catherine shares a few tools about how to become a better listener and be aware of your own listening patterns carved into your history with your family of origin.

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

You know what it's like when you don't feel like you belong. You feel like you can't trust anyone. You feel like no one shares your priorities. You feel different than everyone else.

Belonging is being welcome where you are, as you are. Belonging is how we are tuned into coming alive. This episode covers the second note of belonging - psychological safety and security. Host, Catherine Baker, does an emotional check-in for you shares a story of not belonging.

We hope you can listen and come alive today as you start enjoying being together with those you love. As life is double the joy and half the grief when enjoyed together!

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. Feel free to email Catherine with questions at [email protected]

P.P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

Ever wonder why you are drawn back to places with good food? Your brain's most important job is to keep the body alive. Whenever your brain scans a place and finds it to be physically safe - with food, water, and shelter, it will tell you to go back. Catherine also shares about a tradition in Judaism and a Zulu greeting that will help tune your spaces and places into the first note of belonging - physical safety and security.

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family
Experiences that shape your life.

P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

What if your life had a battery charge icon that flashed when you were hovering around 7% of energy levels?

Want to start functioning off of 100% charge and not 7%. Listen to this episode to learn what experiences are sucking the energy out of you. And start designing experiences you're responsible for that charge you up and fulfill you.

Catherine Baker, founder of Together experience design and event planning shares what makes Together experience design unique and gives the vision of how you can start leading your gatherings where you live, lead and love into belonging.

Hope you can savor this week's moments with the ones you love. Till next time.
-The Together Family

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P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here. 

Ever been in a place, with a group of people or with another person where you never felt like you belonged? So has founder of Together event planning and experience design, Catherine Baker. It was 2012, she had just gotten married, moved to Seattle, and started work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And she didn't feel like she belonged in any of those places with any person.

Two years in, she discovered she didn't have to live like that and set out on a journey of understanding how to receive belonging and tune her own life into it she could do the same for others.

Catherine would love to learn your name. Put it into the comments or review area below.

You can download the "thank you" images for those who cared for you, shared with you, and hoped in you at Together's Instagram page @enjoy.together .

You can also email us more of your story at [email protected]

Stay in peace, have fun discovering, keep up the good work, and take joy in your rest.

You're one in the whole history of the universe. Thank YOU for honoring us with your trust.
- The Together Family

P.S. We use Buzzsprout to host the Enjoy Together podcast. We think you might enjoy this tool if you're thinking of becoming a podcaster too! Follow this link here.