Hello Universe

 Caroline Corcoran, MA, Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, and co-founder of the The Rising Tide Women’s group, and shares some serious wisdom on this episode. We discuss:

• Not-knowing as a gateway to spirituality and presence
• Mind’s experience vs direct experience
• Possibility and creativity when being love
• Transcendent moment in a traffic jam
• Power of welcoming anxiety and fear in being truly present
• Where do thoughts even come from?
• How spirituality shows up within therapy
• Why trying to take care of other people is a false aim
• Loving and caring for others from a place of non-attachment
• Leaning into our innate goodness
• Our desire for and fear of freedom
• Creating space for integrating spiritual principles
• Role of sisterhood in the Rising Tide Women's Group
• Celebrating both masculine and feminine energies
• The healing power of the ocean

“As soon as you go into your mind, you stop directly experiencing the moment.”

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Argos Gonzales is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey. We discuss:

• Parenthood, teenage rebellion, and the powerful vision his own father had before he was born
• The transformational power of a near-drowning experience
• Argos' journey in the Lucumi tradition, shamanism, and meditation
• Rigidity, fluidity, and finding balance
• How to develop your intuition
• Why meditation might feel like it “makes things worse” and how to sit with and through that
• Prayer as ritual and prayer as a conversation
• Mindfulness as a secular practice
• The inclusivity of mindfulness
• Agency and mindfulness within radical social justice work
• What to do with anger
• Modeling mindfulness and making it fun for children

“Can mindfulness bring greater clarity and greater intimacy into what your spiritual practice is?”

Little Flower Yoga

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Mary Magdalene Revealed

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Welcome to Hello Universe, a show about spirituality in our real, everyday lives. This first episode features your valiant co-hosts, Kyley & Eva, interviewing each other on their personal background and spiritual beliefs.

• Kyley’s experience growing up Catholic, how her mom taught her to be radical, and her influential Zen Buddhist aunt and uncle
• Eva’s experience growing up without religion and simultaneously with persistent faith
• Unlearning spiritual baggage
• The freedom and space that comes from recognizing that we don’t know
• How bed bugs helped Eva become a life coach
• How difficult experiences push us towards spiritual transformation
• Spirituality as a practical, everyday practice of showing yourself self-love
• Grace that comes when we surrender to the lesson

“All the books that I was reading were like, ‘You gotta believe in something bigger than yourself,’ and it was like a switch that went off that reminded me of when I was a kid. And I was like, oh my god, I forgot. I forgot that I used to believe that.”

— Eva Liao

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Eva Liao: 
www.evaLlao.com
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Kyley Caldwell: 
www.akashicgrace.org
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