What if you could stop outsourcing your healing and finally learn to calm your own mind?

In this episode, host Lisa Urbanski talks with Phyllis Coletta, author of How to Be a Good Dog, about what real healing looks like in everyday life. Through powerful stories of marriage, cancer, grief, and caregiving, Phyllis explains how meditation, stillness, and self-guided practice can help you move from chaos to calm—without pretending your trauma isn’t real.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
🧠 Understand what self-guided healing is and why guided meditations aren’t enough on their own
🧘‍♀️ Use meditation, stillness, and awareness to regulate emotions instead of numbing out
🚨 Recognize when trauma and anxiety need professional support (and why that’s not a failure)
🌊 Face long-standing fears—like illness, loss, and being alone—without getting swallowed by them 
🍃 Shift from “woundiness” to wisdom and build a calm, reliable inner presence
🐕 See how energy, mindset, and calm leadership affect not just people, but animals and relationships
🌍 Make small daily choices that support your nervous system, resilience, and impact on the world

Instead of another quick fix, this is a gentle, honest roadmap to building an “alpha mind” that leads with wisdom instead of reactivity… even when life feels overwhelming.

🔗 Links & Resources
Website: https://www.howtobeagooddog.com/
Blog: https://www.howtobeagooddog.com/blog
Contact: [email protected]

📘 Get the Book — How to Be a Good Dog: Learning to Sit, Stay, and Heal
BookBaby: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/how-to-be-a-good-dog
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Good-Dog-Learning-Stay/dp/B0F86PDJ3R
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/be/book/how-to-be-a-good-dog/id6745525078
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-be-a-good-dog-phyllis-coletta/1147392035