272 // Magic Moment: When Life’s Waves Tumble you

Does it ever feel like you are just being thrashed by the waves of life? Most of us have felt that way. In this episode, Taralyn describes some things she learned about facing waves in the ocean in Costa Rica. Sometimes it is helpful to face them with peaceful warrior strength; sometimes, its easier to duck under and let the wave roll over us, and sometimes we can surrender to it and allow ourselves to rest as we roll through them. Also, let’s not forget the joy of riding the waves! Sometimes life is a joyful ride, and thats important to enjoy also.

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All of us experience metaphorical winters throughout our lives—times of emotional upheaval, physical taxation, or perhaps just times when we need more rest. Many of us also live in places where the outward cycles of our environment shift from warm and sunny to cold and darker.

In this episode, Taralyn explores the concept of wintering as a philosophy, where we actually give ourselves permission to rest, to lean into the darkness as we incubate and grow our deep internal strength we feel ourselves swing back into the light. 

Books and links she mentioned:

Wintering // Katherine May

No blue light reading lights 

How Light Affects Our Sleep, Fertility, Our Child’s Behavior, and More With Andy Mant

Craving a Slow Down? Start With Your Mind

Going With the Flow: Allowing Ourselves to Rest, Work, and Play With Meridith Bienvenue

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It is a New Year! How can we renew our habits with a recommitment to ourselves? We talk through a listener question about just this! Let's find motivation together.

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Before we can add in NEW yummy desires and goals for 2024 we have to clear out the old. Our psyche can be full of unwanted triggers and patterns and this can be the very thing blocking us from becoming who we would like to be. Feel bogged down? Tune in for a quick retune before you embark on your 2024 goal setting.

Connection may just be the cure all to childhood misbehavior and troubles but it is harder to foster than any of us would want! In this episode we dive into one of our favorite books "Hold Onto Your Kids" by ⁠Gordon Neufeld⁠ and ⁠Gabor Maté MD⁠ and pull our favorite tips for maintaining a strong relationship with our children as well as signs and symptoms that may point to a connection issue! We also discuss how and why kids become "peer oriented" and why it is happening more and more.

We hope this episode leaves you empowered to create strong family bonds and connections that will heal past hurts and forge new relationship paths for future success! 

Authoritative Parenting / Arguably the MOST Effective Parenting Style

230 // Pt. 1 What Ancient Cultures Can Teach us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans // Michaeleen Doucleff

Discovering YOUR Life Essentials

Solitude Through Digital Minimalism

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Reiki is known as the divine movement of life force energy and is used as a healing technique to guide stuck energy from our chakras into alignment with our true purpose and intention. This week Felica interview Reiki Master Kristen Morris of MotherTree Reiki about her journey guiding people to know themselves better and she shares her experience having a healing session with Kristen!

They talk about how our energy can prevent us from knowing ourselves fully and how reiki can move us into alignment.

You can learn more about Kristen at @mothertreereiki

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In this episode we answer a question about how to respond when other adults in our lives want to parent our kids in a way that differs from our desires. Listen in for ideas on how to navigate these situations in a way that honors ourselves, our kids, and the other loving (and often well-meaning) adults in our lives.

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Stress is a fact of life, getting stuck in it isn't! When we are stuck in chronic stress or our stressors push us past our ability to cope we find ourselves in overwhelm. This episode we unpack Atlas of The Heart, the work of Brene Brown, as a guide to moving through stress and out of overwhelm. We touch on ways that we can identify the feeling in our body before it becomes overwhelmed and our favorite tips and tools for increasing our ability to cope with these often uncomfortable feelings.

9:00- Definition of Stress vs. Overwhelm

15:26 - Where do we feel stress/overwhelm in our bodies?

18:30 - Your body keeps the score

22:52 - Move through the tunnel

23:50 - Completion of the stress cycle

25:50 - Fight, flight, or freeze

28:30 - Using RAIN from Tara Brach as a tool

31:45 - Grounding

36:11 - Having a positive social interaction

40:06 - Creative expression