Rebel Buddhist

Content Warning: This week’s episode involves a personal story about intimate partner violence.

In this week’s episode, we talk about the times in life we find ourselves far from where we thought our life would be and wonder, “How the hell is this my life right now?” I’ll share my own story of healing and growth through a dark time of abuse, along with the key to bringing change and healing to any circumstance.

// Why we end up in the difficult life situations we do

// How veering off our path doesn’t mean we are weak or naive

// How we can end the loop and begin healing

// Two tools we need to bring change and growth

// Episode 51: Self-Compassion

// Episode 100: How to Know You’re Making Progress

// Episode 175: The Two Wings of Freedom - Wisdom & Compassion

// I’d love to hear from you! You can leave a review on the Rebel Buddhist Podcast on iTunes by clicking here.

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there! 

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

Welcome to the 200th episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast! This week, we’re celebrating the WILD ones. And yes - that means we’re celebrating YOU. We’ll jam on some of my fave concepts and teachings from past episodes and why each one is a rebellious act on its own. Plus, I’ll tell you the most counter-cultural concepts of all!

// Why the consumerist, materialistic world can never free us from unnecessary suffering

// Some of the most rebellious ideas and teachings from the past 200 episodes, including:

> Impermanence & non-attachement

> Non-dual perspective

> Compassion

> Mindfulness

> Ehipassiko

> Unnecessary suffering

> Curing vs Healing

// Why the world needs each of us - in all of our wild, rebellious, crazy glory

// Episode 9: Impermanence, Death, and Other Sexy Things

// Episode 51: Self-Compassion

// Episode 60: How to Avoid Unnecessary Suffering

// Episode 82: How to Live in Polarity

// Episode 122: Come See for Yourself - Ehipassiko

// Episode 161: Healing vs Curing

// I’d love to hear from you! You can leave a review on the Rebel Buddhist Podcast on iTunes by clicking here.

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week’s Episode is about liminality - what is it? How does it affect our spiritual path? What’s the difference between a mental health crisis and being in liminality (there’s a lot of overlap)? And how can we manage all the discomfort we’re bound to experience when we’re in it? We’ll also jam on why we can ideally spend as much time in liminality as possible,  and how we can navigate this vast area of unknowns.

// What liminality is and the places we see it on our own journeys - and in everyday life

// The difference between a mental health crisis and being in liminality

// The importance of recognizing when we’re in liminality and some of the common characteristics

// How liminality leads to certain types of death and transformation

// Ways we can help liminal spaces seem less frightening and more navigable

// Episode 100: How to Know You’re Making Progress

// Episode 126: How to Know if Your Making Spiritual Progress

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there! 

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week’s episode answers the question, “What the heck is enlightenment, anyway? And what does that even look like in today’s world?” We’ll dive into the truth behind finding enlightenment in our little every day moments, and how sometimes we only achieve it for a short moment… and that’s totally normal! Plus I’ll talk about the importance of practice as we each find our own unique enlightenment

// The role of accepting and living in paradox in enlightenment

// How there is more than one type of enlightenment

// How we can achieve enlightenment in everyday moments 

// The importance of building up a foundation for our insights to be sustained through practice

// How enlightenment can change our view of ourselves and the more-than-human world

// Why enlightenment has many types… and why that’s good news for each of us

// Episode 82: How to Live in Polarity

// Episode 82: Vulnerability & Lovingkindness

// Episode 107: Equanimity in Everyday Life

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week we’re diving into when our Core Wound becomes our Sacred Wound and how our Sacred Wound allows us to live our soul purpose… but only when we stop trying to heal or “fix” it. Plus, I’ll talk about how we can begin to explore our Core Wound without retraumatizing ourselves all over again.

// What a core wound is and how it affects everyone differently

// How we can safely explore our core wound without retraumatizing ourselves

// Why we don’t want to heal or “fix” our core or sacred wound… and why this work never ends

// How our Sacred Wound allows us to live our Soul Purpose

// Episode 55: Letting Go to Grow

// Episode 182: When Trauma Is Taken out of Context

// The Wild Mind Series:

Episode 142: Your Wild Mind – The North + Protectors 

Episode 143: Your Wild Mind – The South + Wounded Children 

Episode 144: Your Wild Mind – The East + Our Need to Escape 

Episode 145: Your Wild Mind – The West and Our Shadows

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week’s episode is all about our relationship with the more-than-human world, and the importance of not just taking from it, but also giving back. Today’s modern industrialized society encourages us to take and extract, but in doing so, we are left empty and disconnected, and the more-than-human world suffers as well. We can find a way to heal ourselves, and help restore balance, love, and respect to the world we all hold a unique and important place in. This plays out in our relationships with other people, too! 

// How reciprocal relationship matters not just in our human relationships, but also with the more-than-human world

// How modern industrialized society encourages humans to take and dominate… and how that’s starving the world and our spirits

// Practices that help us give back

// What it means when we are not experiencing reciprocity in our human relationships (hint: potentially toxic!)

// Episode 139: Nature and Reconnecting

// Episode 188: Connected in Our Grief and Wonder

// Episode 193: Lessons in Trust and Interdependence – Crossing the Street in Hanoi

// Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

In this Episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast, we’re diving into our 5 senses… and beyond. The way we connect with the more-than-human world can heal ourselves and the world around us, but using only our 5 senses just scratches the surface of ways we can begin to be more present to nature - and ourselves - on a daily basis. I talk about the more subtle and energetic ways of knowing that we can cultivate to develop an authentic relationship with the natural world, and even learn to communicate with more-than-human others. As usual, I’ll be giving you some great tips to help you get started!

// Exercises to practice having authentic relationships and connections with more-than-human others.

// How tapping into our deeper ways of knowing - more subtle than the 5 senses - can heal us and the world around us

// How we can drop into our five senses in a deeper and more meaningful way to help us be more present

// Ways we can connect with our more esoteric senses in nature on a daily basis

// Plus… more evidence to support you haven’t totally lost it if you sense messages from the world around you

// Learn more about Amos Clifford’s Nature & Forest Therapy

// The Adventure Mastermind is FULL!

Get on the waitlist for the next one at AdventureMastermind.com. We might not run it next year, but we will have a new program in its place that you’ll want to be the first to hear about

// Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly?

Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week’s episode is all about our work - and what to do when it’s more of a Survival Dance than a Sacred Offering. I’ll share my own journey as I stepped into my Soul Purpose of soul midwifery and how I chose to reframe my job to keep from resenting it. Plus I’ll talk about the first step we can all take to help us begin our sacred dance: cultivating ziji - our radiant inner confidence.

// Why the survival dance is necessary for each of us, and how it helps us begin exploring our sacred dance

// How self-reliance and ziji can help us power through moments of doubt and perceived failure on our journeys

// Why it’s become so hard for us to find and follow our Soul Purpose in a sustainable way

// Ways we can connect our survival dance to our sacred dance as we continue to explore our Soul Purpose

// Episode 64: Cultivating Radiant Inner Confidence - Ziji

// Episode 134: What You’re Meant to BE

// Episode 178: The Gift of Wandering - Exploring Our Purpose

// The Adventure Mastermind is FULL! .  

Get on the waitlist for the next one at AdventureMastermind.com. We might not run it next year, but we will have a new program in its place that you’ll want to be the first to hear about!

// Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly?  

Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there! 

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week I reflect on a recent visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, and how a simple experience of crossing the street turned into a very healing and eye-opening lesson in trust and interdependence. We’ll talk about how in the US, when it comes to navigating traffic and driving, we are taught to assume we are invisible. Drive defensively. Cross streets assuming no one sees you. In Hanoi, it was the opposite. If you wanted to do something as basic as cross the street, you have to assume you would be seen, and that people cared and would take care. I was able to literally walk into oncoming traffic amongst strangers - something we can’t do in many industrialized growth societies like the US. We explore the vulnerability and beauty of how humans can move through chaos together when we come from a place of interdependence and interbeing.

// What is possible when we embrace interdependence and the fact that we are connected to everything

// The gifts that taking risks by being vulnerable and trusting others can bring to us (while using discernment, of course!)

// How we can find healing in interdependence and trust in one another

// Why so many industrialized growth societies are so far from interdependent interbeing, and how we can offset that

// We just had our bonus virtual retreat for the AMM early birds, so be sure to apply if you haven't yet, because it’s recorded and you can watch it in your pajamas AND still get the amazing January bonuses we have going on. 

Head over and apply at AdventureMastermind.com. I mean, this is what I got from crossing a dang street. Imagine hanging with me while we go night snorkeling with manta rays and explore our consciousness in altered states? I know, right?

// Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly? 

Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.

This week we’re continuing our conversation about soulcentric adulthood by diving into the topic of soul initiation. We’ll jam on what the heck that even means and why we must first undergo a transformation and death of our old self before we can discover and step into our Soul Purpose. And I’ll give you some insightful questions and practices to try out so you can create space for dissolution to occur in your own life… when the time is right.

// 71: How to Find Your Purpose

// 99: Rebel Purpose

// 134: What Your Meant to BE

// 178: The Gift of Wandering - Exploring Our Purpose

// 187: Leaving Home

// 191: Soulcentric Adulthood

// If you’re up for a journey that involves soul-searching, mind-expanding wisdom at a level most people don’t even explore, and taking on the honorable role of a true adult in your community, and eventually even as a respected elder which we really need more of (because remember – we have to complete these other stages first!), check out the Adventure Mastermind – we start with a virtual retreat later this month, and our first retreat is on the Big Island of Hawaii in February. Head over and apply at AdventureMastermind.com. We’ve only got 2 spots left!

// Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly? Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. Plus, we have entire months devoted to wisdom and compassion. Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!

// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.