Energy Vampires are people who suck the life force outta you! In this episode, Siena - who is a Highly Sensitive empath type of person - shares what she’s found helpful in dealing with Energy Vampires. But first we chat about growing garlic in our home vegetable garden.

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This episode was recorded when the world’s attention was on the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. So Toast might’ve gotten a little carried away or confused about some stories she related, so just to clarify, the stories of sportsmanship that we discuss did not happen at the 2024 Summer Games. But they did happen. And we’ve included links to more about that in the show notes on our podcast blog.

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This episode is all about getting comfortable being uncomfortable. The topics range from the Sony Walkman, to squirrels eating walnuts in the morning silence, to there being such a thing as very real dangers of too much convenience.

https://sienaandtoast.com/podcast/uncomfortable

Links for stuff we mention:
Bodyweight fitness programs by Mark Lauren: marklauren.com
Michael Easter’s Substack, called Two Percent: www.twopct.com
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Micro-Connections are small moments of connection with other people. Literally moments, not even minutes. Just a moment of holding the door open for someone, for instance.

In this episode, we talk about why micro-connections are so important and powerful, for individuals – especially for people with a history of trauma– and for societies.

The book Siena references is What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey. And the other podcast episode we mention is 205 Relationship Quality Is Life.

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This episode is a whole discussion about that saying of how the quality of your relationships is the quality of your life. Topics include the attraction of Hallmark movies, how early childhood trauma affects our ability to relate to others, EMDR therapy, and even relationships with the urban animals around your house, and more.

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Finally, an episode that’s about cats, by lesbians, or, we can say ‘by childless cat ladies.’ Anyway, more specifically, this episode is about an automatic pet feeder that’s impressed us so much, we wanted to tell you all about it. This is NOT a paid partnership . There are NO affiliate links. Like all our other episode, we just wanted to share, in case it might help you.

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No-brainer tips for a better night’s sleep. No-brainer as in nothing to do with meditating, or journaling or thinking. Just 3 super easy, science-based, CBD and cannabis-free things you can do to help improve your nighttime sleep.

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In this episode, we attempt an imitation of a baby raccoon, but it kinda ends up sounding probably more like the fungus in The Last Of Us TV show.

This episode also includes lots of enthusiastic but also very calm discussion about meeting donkeys for the first time, at Oregon Donkey Sanctuary. oregondonkeys.org

It was our first meeting with donkeys of any size.

And did you know, there are three?

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As we’re getting ready to release this episode, we’re also getting ready for a heatwave here in Portland, Oregon. And this brings to mind some of the icy homemade treats we’ve started enjoying this summer. In this episode, we share those recipes. It’s mouth-watering lemon, orange, and matcha flavors, but not all mashed up together. One at a time. You’ll find out when you listen.
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Have you ever heard of the Cup Tasters Competition? It’s a coffee tasting contest and the US winner goes on to a World Coffee Competition. So we only know all this because we were given – as a gift – a virtual class in Chocolate & Coffee Tasting, taught by a winner of the US Cup Tasters Competition. In this episode, we tell you all about it.
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