Featuring “963hz Divine Awareness” and “174hz The Moon’s Kiss” frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽

Teaser: What if you were never actually an alien? What if you were just a human who hadn't found your people yet? Welcome to The Season 5 Finale.

Description: Season 5 closes with a love letter to the recovery community; told through the metaphor of an alien finally finding her constellation. Miki reads the “Recovery Constellation” essay and ties the season's arc together: from not knowing where the bus was headed, to finally finding the people who make the not-knowing bearable.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open — finding your people
• [0:30] Frame: closing the season's arc, from Episode 2 to here
• [2:10] Full reading: Recovery Constellation / Alien Essay
• [16:05 Unpacking: the alien metaphor and disorientation of difference
• [18:20] Refusing binary labels — the Middle Way and the gray area
• [19:35] "Sobriety is the presence of everything" — the season's thesis line
• [21:00] Full-circle callback to Episode 2's bus
• [22:00] Extended finale CTA, Thank you & Outtro

Momentum Quote: "Sobriety isn't just the absence of something… it's the presence of everything."

Metta Question: Where have you already found your people, and where are you still searching?

Show Notes Links:

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

• Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “639hz Pink Full Moon” and “528hz 4Yorgos” frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: What if loving someone well means getting out of the way of their healing?

Description: Miki reads "Some Thoughts on Let Them," exploring attachment, codependency, and the difficult, freeing practice of releasing people we love from our need to fix them; in romance, in family, in friendship, and in recovery.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:07] Cold open — releasing to love well
• [0:35] Frame: this isn't only about romantic relationships
• [1:30] Full reading: "Some Thoughts on Let Them"
• [15:40] Unpacking: the "ampersand" identity and standing alone
• [16:40] Borrowed clarity — the therapist's words as a bridge to self-trust
• [17:40] The vulnerable fear of being healed past
• [19:00] The courage of "let them talk, and cry, and resent, and hate"
• [20:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "Let Them Heal. Let Them Be. And suddenly, the elephant has taken the weight of its foot off my chest."

Metta Question: Who are you still trying to fix, heal, or manage… that might actually need you to simply let them?

Show Notes Links:

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

• Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “852hz Soundbath” and “528hz 4Yorgos” frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: A new phone, an old phone named Cinderella, and the quiet, unglamorous proof that you've actually changed.

Description: Miki reads "No More Drunk Texts," a recovery story that measures transformation not in sobriety chips, but in an eight-year-old phone finally being retired. This episode explores self-forgiveness, identity, and the physical, embodied residue of a life lived differently.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:06] Cold open — how do you know you've changed?
• [0:55] Frame: why this story reaches beyond the recovery community
• [1:35] Full reading: "No More Drunk Texts"
• [17:20] Unpacking: Cinderella as a witness to the old self
• [18:30] Thanking rather than shaming the past self
• [19:15] Measuring change in ordinary time, not just milestones
• [20:10] The body's own recovery — "my hands are clean, too"
• [21:05] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "This new phone will never help me send a drunk text. It will never have to."

Metta Question: What's the object in your life that's quietly witnessed your own transformation? And if it could speak… what would it say?

Links & CTA: 

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “396hz Root Chakra” and “528hz 4Yorgos” frequencies by STATiC, used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: Some fires aren't yours to put out. A forest-fire metaphor for boundaries, control, and burnout.

Description: This episode is for the helpers, the fixers, and the recovering people-pleasers. Miki reads "Letting the Fires Burn" and unpacks the identity of "the stabilizer," the ecology of controlled burns, and what it means to ask, every single time urgency shows up… “is this truly my fire to fight?”

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open: whose fire is it, really?
• [0:30] Frame: naming the audience for this one directly
• [1:30] Full reading: "Letting the Fires Burn"
• [16:00] Unpacking: the "stabilizer" identity and its origins
• [17:10] The forest fire metaphor - gentle momentum over force
• [18:20] The spider rebuilding her web without rage
• [19:25] The daily discernment practice: is this fire mine?
• [20:30] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "My worth isn't measured by how many fires I extinguish. Perhaps it's found in knowing which ones truly need my attention."

Metta Question: What's one fire in your life right now that might actually need to burn?

Links & CTA: 

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “417hz” and 528hz “4Yorgos” frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: What are you running from… and what are you chasing? A practical, unforgettable metaphor for radical acceptance.

Description: Miki reads "Writing in Pen and Peace Without the Eraser," exploring what happens when we stop erasing our mistakes and start letting them exist in permanent ink. This episode covers radical acceptance, impermanence as a source of comfort rather than dread, and the courage it takes to admit you're avoidant, imperfect, and human.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open — running from vs. chasing
• [0:32] Frame: why this is one of the season's most practical episodes
• [1:18] Full reading: "Writing in Pen and Peace Without the Eraser"
• [16:55] Unpacking: the pencil-and-eraser metaphor
• [18:30] Impermanence used against despair rather than to produce it
• [19:30] "I am the ocean" — self-trust in the body
• [20:20] The courage of naming "Sticky Miki" out loud
• [21:05] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "These feelings cannot and will not destroy me. They are merely temporary visitors. I am the ocean, vast and deep enough to contain them all."

Metta Question: This week, where could you write in pen instead of reaching for the eraser?

Links & CTA: 

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring 528hz “4Yorgos” frequency by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: What happens when, instead of running from fear, you pour it a cup of tea?

Description: One of the most personal and widely resonant essays in the whole catalogue, "I Sat With Fear For a Cup of Tea" becomes a full meditation on turning toward instead of away. Miki unpacks mindfulness, compassion, and Right View, and closes with a short embodiment moment inviting you to sit with your own fear, right along with her.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:05] Cold open — inviting fear to tea
• [0:30] Frame: why this essay embodies the Metta Momentum voice
• [1:10] Full reading: "I Sat With Fear For a Cup of Tea"
• [13:50] Unpacking: turning toward instead of away
• [14:40] Fear softening into concern, then into love in disguise
• [15:35] The girl in the mirror — trusting your own reflection
• [16:05] Right View: fear as messenger, not danger
• [16:50] Embodiment moment: naming and sitting with a current fear
• [19:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "Behind every fear of loss lies the miracle that I have something precious enough to lose."

Metta Question: What would it look like to set a second cup, this week, for whatever you've been avoiding?

Links & CTA: 

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring 639hz “Pink Full Moon” frequency by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: A dream about a stranger, a packed box, and a white envelope… and the practice of learning to receive.

Description: In this episode, Miki reads "Lucid Dream — The Envelope," written during a season of real financial and emotional chaos. Together, we unpack what it means to practice receiving rather than giving, why support so often arrives ordinary instead of dramatic, and the two-way street between worthiness and asking for help.

Episode Highlights:

* [0:40] Cold open — the refusal to hold your hand out

* [1:00] Frame: the chaos behind the dream

* [1:37] Full reading: "Lucid Dream — The Envelope"

* [9:42] Unpacking: the envelope as permission, not money

* [11:12] Receiving as a practice, not just giving*

[12:15] The gray-haired man and quiet, ordinary support

* [13:30] Dependent origination — nothing arises independently, including help

* [14:08] The closing line: creating space to receive

* [15:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Metta Question: Where in your life is an envelope waiting — and what would it take for you to reach for it?

Momentum Quote: "The envelope cannot appear unless I create space and make room for it to show up first. It is a two-way street. I must reach out my hand."

Links & CTA: 

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Cough Drop Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

featuring 741hz "Throat" Frequency by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude.

Teaser: A dream about a bus with no destination… and what it means to trust the road before you know where it leads.

Description: Miki reads "The Bus Dream" — an unpublished short story about a dream that arrived mid-transition, mid-uncertainty, and taught her something she couldn't have learned any other way. This episode unpacks self-trust, Right View, and impermanence through the lens of a bus ride that ends a thousand miles from home, and asks: what does it actually feel like, in the body, to trust something you can't yet see the end of?

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open — trusting a road you can't see the end of
• [0:35] Frame: the real-life transition behind the dream
• [1:45] Full reading: "The Bus Dream"
• [5:05] Unpacking: self-trust and the absence of the catastrophe story
• [07:20] Right View and the bus driver's flat, factual "last stop"
• [08:15] Impermanence in the passing landscape
• [09:30] The stranger at the back of the bus, and being recognized mid-transition
• [10:30] Right Effort without Right Control — getting on without steering
• [11:50] Optional pause: naming your own "whole map" demand
• [14:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Metta Question: Where in your life are you waiting to see the whole route before you'll get on the bus?

Momentum Quote: "I knew I got on that bus for a reason. And I knew that it was going to take me where I was meant to be. Eventually."

Links & CTA: 

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here
• Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here
• Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

• Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium
• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Work With Miki

featuring 963hz "Divine Awareness" frequency by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude.

Teaser: Before we get into the stories… a behind-the-curtain look at how a diary becomes a business, and why that's not something to apologize for.

Description: Season 5 opens not with an essay, but with the truth behind them: how years of writing turned into a podcast, a course, and a community. In this personal, unpolished episode, Miki talks candidly about the tension of monetizing your own healing, the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood, her background in opera and musical theatre, and why these essays were always dharma talks… she just didn't know it yet. Consider this your invitation behind the curtain before the season truly begins.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:06] Cold open — building a business out of a diary
• [2:20] Why these essays exist, and who they were really written for
• [4:00] Naming the discomfort: is this exploitative? Right Livelihood as a lens
• [6:55] The actual mechanics — how an essay becomes a podcast, a course, a Patreon post
• [9:05] Why hearing a story differs from reading it — opera, voice, embodiment
• [11:45] The nine Metta Momentum values previewed
• [14:40] Closing frame & CTA

Metta Question: What would it mean for your own work — creative, professional, spiritual — to be built on Right Livelihood rather than just right output?

Momentum Quote: "I didn't set out to build a business out of my diary. There was just a woman, sitting on her bed, writing things down because if she didn't, she thought she might come apart at the seams a little."

Links & CTA: 

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here
• Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here
• Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

• Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium
• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Permission to Gather, 
a Live Softening into Momentum Event! Thursday, June 25th
Click Here to Register:

https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/lexgknkxib

🎧 featuring “174hz The Moon’s Kiss” frequency by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩ 

Theme: Becoming Who You Are | Frequency: 174 Hz (Grounding Integration)

Buddhist Teaching: The Eightfold Path as a lifestyle — not a checklist, but a way of being

Key Insight: This isn't about fixing. It's about returning. Growth is not a destination. Growth is a direction.

Meditation: Vision Casting Ceremony — future self visualization and identity declaration

Reflection Questions: What is your "I am" declaration? What does life look like beyond "not drinking"? Who are you becoming?

PERMISSION TO GATHER — Free Live Event

Thursday, June 25th | 6:00 PM MST / 8:00 PM EST

An intimate conversation with Miki about the Permission to Be course, what to expect, who it's for, and a special group cohort option to walk the path together in Sangha

Free to attend — register for the Zoom link: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/lexgknkxib

Thank you for listening to Season 4 of Softening into Momentum. We will take a short break and be back for Season 5.

Want to support the podcast? Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum

With deep metta, always,Miki Byrne | Metta Momentum

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

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