Gratitude Blooming Podcast

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We are part of something bigger than ourselves. This week, we are joined from the UK by psychotherapist and co-founder of Misfit Robots Marianne Le Coyte Grinney. 

Together, we explore the systems of care that are essential to our mental health and the Gratitude Blooming theme of Sorrow, represented by the flower the Touch-me-not. 

Marianne reminds us that mental health at its most basic level is a simple way to talk about the health of our brain. 

Some simple practices introduced by Marianne to help get grounded: Pay attention to your screen time. Less is better. Get rest. And recognize that FOMO happens. It’s okay to feel and to figure out what will make you feel better. 

Lastly, Marianne introduced the practice of autogenics, a method to support relaxation. It means “coming from within”. The practice supports connecting to your own nervous system and to calm it down. 

Learn more about Marianne’s mental health work in web3 at https://twitter.com/MisfitRobots

Collect the ephemeral Touch-me-not NFT as a powerful reminder for what matters to you and a great way to support the show. 

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Check out the new Gratitude Blooming journaling notecards at www.gratitudeblooming.com.

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Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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Every moment matters. Teacher and blogger Livia Chan learned early in life that you don’t know when it will be the last time you get to say goodbye to the ones you love. In her 20s, Livia lost her best friend and grandmother. Since then, Livia has made it a point to make sure to count her blessings by making every moment count. She calls these everyday moments Atomic Interactions.

Valuing these small moments is a practice of healing or feeling into our wholeness. This conversation leans into the Gratitude Blooming theme of Healing represented by the Peony, which you can also collect as an NFT. https://mirror.xyz/gratitudeblooming.eth/6O3wcMnZBlEVjOgqapyeYGQXzOFFXAnCUiPGdVxLrNY

Find more about Livia Chan’s work at https://livchan.com

You can always find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Check out the new Gratitude Blooming journaling notecards at www.gratitudeblooming.com.

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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Embodiment practices are reminders that we are emotional beings before we are physical beings, according to somatic coach Steve Seto. He shares how your emotions are not something you watch like a television show, but something you experience directly. 

In mindfulness practices, there are times when it is good to be like a sky and watch the cloud of your emotions. Sometimes, however, we feel sadness or grief and all we can do is be the rain and let the water flow. 

Collect the Daffodil NFT representing Beautiful Sadness.

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Check out the new Gratitude Blooming journaling notecards at www.gratitudeblooming.com.

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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Protocols are the basic set of rules that define how information can be exchanged whether it is a biological cell or the transfer of data between computers, even cryptocurrency. 

This week we explore the theme of Infinite Possibility, represented by the delphinium, and learn about spiritual protocols from Michael Pom Preston from the Winnemem Wintu tribe of Mt. Shasta in Northern California. He claims spiritual responsibility to the winnemem wywakit (McCloud River) and this is the spiritual background that he speaks from. He is also an enrolled member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria in Susanville California as a descendent of the Wada Ticutta Numu (Seed Eater Paiute), Modoc, and Ilmawi/Madesi Pit River tribes. 

He shares how ceremony and spiritual enlightenment are the highest technology there is, even in our day-to-day life. There are rules to it and spiritual bypassing is not allowed as a matter of physics.

Collect the Delphinium Infinite Possibility NFT.

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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This theme for the second season of our podcast is Collective Acceleration.

We believe stories are maps.  These words are a technology to help us navigate life. 

The 39 plants in the Gratitude Blooming card deck are wayfinding points to our Collective Acceleration.  

Each week we share stories from the frontlines of this new landscape.  We will have teachers, healers, leaders and many other changemakers join us to share their emergent practices.  

The stories become the map we create together across our lives and even into the metagarden.  

For each episode, we will drop a new limited-edition digital art, an NFT.  Collecting them is how you can support our podcast, movement and participate in future utility, including discounts at Gratitude Blooming and Hestia Retreat Center. 

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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Dr. Sofia Costa is an author and artist with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. She connects to the art of alchemical medicine through sacred words, sound, energy healing, and custom handcrafted creations.

 Originally from Puerto Rico, Dr. Sofia was born into a family line of healers, shamans, and medicine men and women, allowing her to gain access to ancient wisdom and Spiritual practices that amplify Heart-Earth connection. 

Dr. Sofia guides people on a heart-centered journey to alchemize fears, integrate a new way of Being, and embody the truth and power of who they are so they can strengthen their connection to Self, Earth, Lineage, and Love.

To live wholeheartedly is Dr. Sofia’s intention. Learn more about her at https://www.drsofiacosta.com

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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Sometimes life makes you pause in profound ways. This is what happened to Liz Childs Kelly, a writer, host of the Home to Her podcast, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator.

At a business conference, Liz stopped in her tracks and made a profound pivot in her life. She left the corporate world of marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to be closer to the land in rural Virginia.  

Learn how Liz came to create Home to Her, which is part remembrance, part movement to reclaim the ancestral wisdom of the Sacred Feminine, an ancient spiritual force older than time itself. She believes when we reconnect with this powerful energy, we have the ability to heal ourselves, our communities, and our relationship with our planet.

More about Liz:

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, award-winning researcher, educator, community builder, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. Her writing has been featured in a variety of online publications, including Forbes, Mashable, Rebelle Society, Human Parts (a Medium publication), and Braided Way, as well as the Girl God Books anthology Just As I Am: Hymns Affirming the Divine Female. An initiated priestess in the 13 Moons lineage, she also holds certifications in Reiki, as well as Vinyasa and Yin Yoga.

Liz lives in rural Virginia with her family, and can often be found exploring the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains or wandering in the woods behind her home. 

Follow Liz at:

• IG: @hometoher
• Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher
• www.hometoher.com

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming oracle bot in our metagarden on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

Share our podcast with a friend! We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom. Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com. This also supports our show.

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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This week we explore different paths to social emotional learning, somatic healing and emergence. How do we stay open to change and adapt to it? 

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at [email protected]. We love hearing from our listeners!

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We go to schools to train our brains. We go to gyms to train our bodies.  Where do we go to train our emotions? The reality is that we train our emotions on each other. This, however, is changing with a new generation of teachers who integrate social emotional learning and somatic practices into their curriculum. 

In this episode, we hear from four teachers who are on the leading edge of education. Their inspirations are both ancestral and science-based. Future generations will have whole new vocabularies and practices to integrate their minds, bodies and hearts. Fortunately, it’s never too late to learn these integrated practices now. 

Melorie Serrano Masacupan, M.Ed is a writer coaching founders to tell their stories with her digital growth agency focused on organizational wellness. You can find her @heymelorie on all social platforms and at heymelorie.com.

Jen Wolfe is a biracial Thai American mathematics teacher educator and scholar at the University of Arizona.  You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram, @drjenmathed

Tiffany Chan is a Chinese American educator and visual artist who seeks to build equitable & compassionate learning communities.  You can find her on Instagram @t.chanchan and at www.tiffanychanart.com 

Bong Lau (they/them) is a Cantonese somatics and mindfulness coach, singer, and visual artist who lives to cultivate creativity in themselves and others.

Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4

We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. 

You can always email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you! 

Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

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What does it mean to live and die well?

Death is a topic we don't often talk about, but it's something we all must face.  We decided to ask our friend Linda Ong to share her perspective and experience as a hospice nurse, death doula and sound healer who had to navigate the loss of both her parents.   

More about Linda: 

Linda Ong is a holistic registered nurse working in Hospice since 2011 and becoming a Death Doula in 2018.  She specializes in the Art of Living and Dying Well and believes that when we learn to live well, we can also learn to die well. 

As a Sound and Energy practitioner, Linda continues to study both Western and Eastern healing philosophies and loves to find ways to incorporate both to help others on their healing journey.  She recommends the book, The Healing Power of Sound, for anyone interested in learning to work with sound.

You can follow her @lindanaomiong.

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Join us live on substack to participate in our monthly community practice:  https://gratitudeblooming.substack.com

Create an intentional practice or give meaningful gifts with the Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candles and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com.  

Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4:

Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers

Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack

Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao Center

If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review.  Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow.  

Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at [email protected]. We love hearing from our listeners!