Semi-Together

We’re back from a hiatus, during which a lot has happened on every level of our lives: individually, in our communities, and in the world. In this episode, we’re discussing a question that comes up all the time these days: How do we cope when it’s all just too much? 

We’ll share how we’ve been managing through overwhelm with the challenges that keep on coming: what’s been helpful, what hasn’t, and what we’ve been trying, 
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For ADHD Awareness Month, we talk with painter Ellen Langford about her ADHD journey and how it intertwines with her creative life. Ellen shares the gifts and challenges of neurodivergence as an artist and small business owner, and the strategies that help her thrive.

Ellen Langford is a painter whose body of work is inspired by landscapes, chance meetings, and the cross-currents of the South. As a former paramedic in central Mississippi, she was moved by the personal stories of her patients and the quiet rituals of their lives. Ellen has studied her craft in cities such as New York, San Francisco, DC, and Italy, among other places, but her work took on its recognizable narrative quality when she returned home to Jackson, Mississippi.

As a parent and animal lover, Ellen often incorporates children and animals into her paintings, color, movement, and texture to build the story worlds her figures inhabit. 

You can find Ellen's work at ellenlangford.com, on Instagram at @ellenlangfordpaints, and Facebook at Ellen Langford Paints.

You can support Ellen's lifelong dream to hike the Appalachian Trail here.

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There’s rarely enough time in the day to do everything we want to. So how do we zone our time to reflect our priorities? We discuss strategies to sort out what we actually value, as well as experiments to build our schedules around these values.

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We're back after a bit of a hiatus! We talk with Jeff Hamilton, our older biological half-brother, collectively telling the story of how we met as adults and became a big bonus family. This is the first time the three of us have talked about what this life-changing experience was like for each of us.

Jeff grew up in Livermore, California and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Melissa and a menagerie of pets. Jeff is a project manager for Auto-Chlor whose interests include fostering rescue animals, woodworking, and travel. Jeff and Melissa have two children, Bryce and Haley.

We discuss the question: What makes you feel alive? It’s been on our minds during this mid-winter period, when we often get the blahs or the blues. We talk about what energizes, fuels us, or puts us in a flow state – and how we make time for it. We also share four strategies you can use to figure out what makes you feel most alive. 

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Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/semitogether⁠

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Ep. 30: Balancing Novelty & Familiarity

Ep. 52: How Nostalgia Helps Us Cope with Stress

Ep. 80: Finding Everyday Awe
What Maslow Overlooked: The Need to Feel Alive (ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World)

In this episode, we discuss how to acknowledge (vs "celebrate") emotionally complex anniversaries of life-altering challenges, like serious illness or loss. How do we process these events? What kinds of rituals help us through the peaks and valleys that accompany them?

We talk with Tara Blumenthal, owner of Tara Yoga Movement and Wellness Clinic, about her experiences moving through difficult anniversaries. We’ll also share some insights from our Semi-Together patrons and other loved ones who’ve been through their own challenging anniversaries.

*Note that this episode contains mature language and deals with complex topics like major illness and death, with a brief mention of self-harm.

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Tara Blumenthal:

Instagram: @notyouraverageyogateacher / @mellowkissroyals

Tara Yoga & Wellness Clinic in Flowood, MS:

@tarayogaclinic

www.tarayogamovementandwellnessclinic.com

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Find us on the web for show notes and extras: www.semitogether.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/semitogether

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Book a Discovery Call with Melia, who coaches adults with ADHD via Zoom: www.risingspiralcoaching.com 

Happy New Year! To celebrate last year's wins and set intentions for this year, we each share three "Got It Together"s from 2023 and three "Get It Together"s for 2024. That is, three areas where we've made meaningful strides, and three areas where we would most like to progress.

Get It Together, Got It Together, is a segment we do in most episodes, where we share something that we’d like to work on and something that’s going well for us right now. We’ve found this framing helpful to remind us that at any given moment, there are things that are working for us as well as things that aren’t. It helps us find the wins -- especially on the days where it feels like everything is falling apart -- and helps us notice that all of it is constantly shifting.

We'd love to hear your 2023 "Got It Together"s and 2024 "Get It Together"s. You can them with us at [email protected].

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2023's new year's episode: Ep. 74: So This Is The New Year
For 2024, how about living a truly quiet life? (Susan Cain’s Substack: The Quiet Life 

The holiday season is beginning ... and it's a lot! We talk about how we’re approaching the season when our bandwidth is limited and our plates are full: gauging capacity, setting intentions, and communicating boundaries.

It’s spooky season, and we’re talking about how to find our just-right amount of thrills and chills -- what feels fun or engaging for each of us (eustress), and what’s too much (distress). The amount of challenge that we desire in each arena of life can differ quite a bit, depending on our individual nervous system and season of life. What’s brave for one of us can be too extreme for another, and only we can know for ourselves.

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Find us on the web for show notes and extras: ⁠www.semitogether.com⁠

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Book a Discovery Call with Melia, who coaches adults with ADHD via Zoom: ⁠www.risingspiralcoaching.com ⁠

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Most of us aspire to live a good life. We may assume we know what that looks like, without asking what a good life looks like for us -- which may diverge quite a bit from cultural ideals. In this episode, we share research findings on the essential elements of general well-being and discuss how our own ideas of a good life have changed over time.

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Book a Discovery Call with Melia, who coaches adults with ADHD via Zoom: www.risingspiralcoaching.com