In this final episode, Brooke and Jesie reflect on the past five seasons and how grateful they are for the podcast in their own lives and for all the ways listeners have come alongside, companioned the work, and let this podcast mean something truly special.

An invitation to leave you with:

Remember that you are already whole.

PODCAST STATUS:

After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’ve closed the Heart of Life podcast.

We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next.

Thank you for being part of this with us.

We want to stay in touch. We know new and beautiful things are to come:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: ⁠⁠@jesie.steffes.healing⁠⁠

Substack: ⁠⁠Sated Soul⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠jesiesteffes.com⁠⁠

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: ⁠⁠@riverbendtherapy⁠⁠

Substack: ⁠⁠From Inside the Circle⁠⁠

Website: ⁠⁠riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Jesie and Brooke dive into the benefit of delight, even in dark seasons or cold currents. Can we anchor into moments that bring levity, not as escape from reality, but as an essential part of being alive. 

This week’s invitation:

The invitation to you is to find delight. Let moments be light, even when the times are heavy. Make your mark. Where will you leave your shoes?

 PODCAST UPDATE:

After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’re closing the Heart of Life podcast.

We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next.

As we prepare for our final episode on April 13, we’d love to hear from you - anything you’d like us to revisit or share with us before we close.

We’d love to hear from you by April 10th. 

Thank you for being part of this with us.

⁠[email protected]⁠ / @riverbendtherapy

⁠[email protected]⁠ / @jesie.steffes.healing

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: ⁠@jesie.steffes.healing⁠

Substack: ⁠Sated Soul⁠

Website: ⁠jesiesteffes.com⁠

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: ⁠@riverbendtherapy⁠

Substack: ⁠From Inside the Circle⁠

Website: ⁠riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore how moving with the current of life can allow questions of control and presence to emerge. How can we choose to be most softly present in each moment, even the ones that are difficult, for these are proof of life. 

This week’s invitation:

In the current that you’re in, see if you can find a moment where you can be present with what is true. Whether you find yourself in a really strong current or something more gentle notice a moment that makes you feel fully alive.

PODCAST UPDATE:

After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’re closing the Heart of Life podcast.

We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next.

As we prepare for our final episode on April 13, we’d love to hear from you - anything you’d like us to revisit or share with us before we close.

We’d love to hear from you by April 10th. 

Thank you for being part of this with us.

[email protected] / @riverbendtherapy

[email protected] / @jesie.steffes.healing

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Jesie and Brooke continue the discussion of unlocking and consider what it feels like to open doors, the other side of which we cannot predict. How fluidity and movement allow us to meet unexpected challenges with resilience. 

This week’s invitation:

This is an invitation of rest and flow. Can you identify the currents in your life and consider what it would be like to move with them and surrender to them?

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore why the risk of holding the paradox is a valuable investment. How times of bravery can unlock the rest of our lives, truly making our investment in our own authenticity deeply, truly worth it. 

This week’s invitation:

You’ve done the hard work, you’ve come to the middle place and allowed for the and/both. You hold the key. What are you ready to unlock?

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Jesie and Brooke explore how releasing stories, or being released from stories often come with a level of discomfort or pain. However, this process of release invites us into deeper integrity with the emerging self.  

This week’s invitation:

This is an invitation of integrity. Can you, with compassion, identify the places where you have changed your mind or where you no longer want to contort yourself to fit the story that you once told of who you are and what would it take to gently begin to come back into integrity?

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore how difficult it can be to hold the paradox of others. The temptation of either idealizing or villainizing people in their own paradox, and how our work is to anchor into ourselves in order to be in healthier relationship with others. 

This week’s invitation:

What are the stories that you were telling about who people should be to you and can you release them from that story?

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real,

tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Jesie and Brooke continue the discussion of the converging space between the “light and shadow” parts of self. Identifying the felt sense of contradiction in that space as a form of wisdom. 

This week’s invitation:

In the convergence between light and dark, can you identify the paradox? What seems to be contradiction can become and/both where a deeper truth can be found.

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real,

tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Brooke and Jesie discuss the nature of love. How transformation in the self exists in the almond shaped space between the shadow parts and light parts. That center, the portal to the most authentic self. 

This week’s invitation:

Draw two circles that converge in the middle. On one side, describe what you know to be light about yourself. This could be generosity. This could be empathy. And then the other side write things that are harder for you to accept about who you perhaps the things you’ve been taught aren’t good or keep you from connection. Make sure they converge into the middle where you are fully gloriously human.

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real,

tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com

In this episode, Jesie and Brooke dive into the parts of self that have sought belonging, through the misaligned means of “fitting in.” They explore what it means to allow those parts to rest, revealing more authentic presence. 

This week’s invitation:

Identify the parts of you that developed to stay connected or fit in to a group, presume good intentions, and from a place of curiosity and compassion, allow them to sit next to you and then do something different

Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real,

tender, and true in being human.

Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer? 

You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:

JESIE STEFFES

Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing

Substack: Sated Soul

Website: jesiesteffes.com

BROOKE SMALL

Instagram: @riverbendtherapy

Substack: From Inside the Circle

Website: riverbendcolorado.com