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This episode is about love. May you feel love in your heart today, and all days.

Embodying vulnerability can feel hard, scary, and can feel threatening. We may feel raw and exposed, and this can be challenging to experience. At the same time, vulnerability is often something that leads to powerful self-healing and self-awareness. In this episode we talk about the ways that we can learn how to become more vulnerable, and we explore the ways that being unwilling to be vulnerable can impact our relationships.

Being vulnerable requires courage. It's brave. It's not easy. But this is more reason to do it. When we can access our vulnerability and fully embody it, we also end up healing many of our shadows and in doing so, we foster healthier connections with others.

"I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We always think that someday we'll be happy. When we get that car or that job or that person in our lives who will fix everything. But happiness is a mood and it's a condition. Not a destination. It's like being tired or hungry. It's not permanent. It comes and goes and that's OK. And if people would think that way, they'd find happiness more often."

- A quote from the show One Tree Hill

This episode explores the topic of happiness and what it means to be happy.

If you have find it hard to connect with your feelings and to actually experience them, this one's for you. When I say "feel your feelings," I mean this: allow yourself the space and time to sit with the emotions that are trying to capture your attention. Take the time to actually experience them, instead of numbing them, avoiding them, or burying them.

When we go through life burying our emotions, they don't ever actually disappear. They just come out in other ways. If you are angered easily, but not able to express your anger, it can turn into resentment over time. What if we emptied out our cups before they got too full?

In this episode, I challenge you to experience your emotions and learn how to sit with them in a state of observation and non-judgement. By doing this, we develop a much richer inner awareness, and we learn how to navigate our emotions in a more healthy and nourishing way.

Do you ever feel detached and disconnected from your body? Sometimes we find it challenging to feel connected to our bodies and the information that comes to us through our bodies. If you feel disconnected, this episode is for you.

It's common for us to feel disconnected from our physical form. In this episode, we explore different ways to view your relationship with your body and your mind. I believe that our bodies and our minds are like sacred temples, and we have been assigned the task to keep these temples tidy and feeling sacred.

I hope this episode inspires a feeling in you to want to view yourself as a divine being, and to treat yourself as such, always.

Friendships are a beautiful way for us to hand select certain people that we keep in our lives. Many people say that our friends are our chosen family members. I think healthy friendships allow for a great opportunity to show up as our most honest and vulnerable selves.

This episode explores the importance of friendships, and addresses what I believe to be the most friendship of all: the one we have with ourselves.

Tell the people in your life that you love them. Tell your friends that you love and value them. And do the same thing for you.

This episode is for everyone who has a tendency to fall into the martyr archetype. Being the martyr, it can seem instinctive to dismiss ourselves and our needs for the sake of other people. But are we actually helping anyone by doing this?

In this episode, we explore how martyrdom and guilt go hand in hand, and talk about ways of breaking from these patterns.

The shadow is all that is within us that remains unconscious and hidden. Shadow work is the process of intentionally accessing these parts of ourselves so that we can confront them, heal the wounds underneath them, and move forward in life from a more holistic and healed space.

This episode is an exploration into the beginning of the shadow work journey, with some examples of ways to begin this process.

Communication is the sending and receiving of information. In this episode, we break down what communication is and should be, and the various patterns and wounds that can interfere with our ability to healthily relate to another human.

Most of us were never modeled healthy ways to emotionally regulate, and therefore we are often left in a state of imbalance when we become overwhelmed and overstimulated. In this episode, we explore some ways to move through the times when we are emotionally dysregulated, and we get a motivational boost to move through our most challenging times.