Imagine you're at a magical castle with two distinct areas: the Enchanted Garden and the Crystal Ballroom. Entering through the Enchanted Garden is like starting therapy. Here, you explore the roots of the magical trees, dig through the soil to find and heal hidden hurt, and nurture the plants to blossom into beautiful flowers. This garden represents your past, with its histories and traumas. As a therapist, you help your client tend to this garden, ensuring it grows healthily and beautifully. Now, picture a one-way garden gate that leads from the Enchanted Garden to the Crystal Ballroom. This gate represents the transition from therapy to coaching. Once the garden is looking lush and vibrant, you can move through the gate into the Crystal Ballroom. In the bright and dazzling Crystal Ballroom, where coaching happens, you're focused on dancing gracefully and forward-looking aspirations. You use the rhythm and music of the past to guide your present steps and future moves. The ballroom is all about the here and now, and getting ready for all the grand dances life has in store. Even if you're an expert gardener and a trained dancer, if your client enters the Crystal Ballroom first, you only help them dance. You can catch a glimpse of the Enchanted Garden through the crystal-clear walls, using what you see to inform your guidance, but you don't step back there to dig through the soil. Your role here is to help them perfect their moves and plan for their spectacular future performances. So, whether you're tending to a garden or mastering a dance, remember which door your client entered through and guide them accordingly—cultivating their past or choreographing their future. Join the best stress management support group for Healthcare and Mental Healthcare Practitioners, Get more information at https://app.joinforum.com/partnergrouppage/calm-through-change-healthcare-providers-building-their-practice-gpid2191

Imagine yourself standing under the sprawling canopy of the Enchanted Tree, its ancient limbs adorned with twinkling lights that mimic constellations. A whisper of wind carries the scent of possibility, as if the tree itself is alive with stories yet to unfold. From the tree's hollow, a soft glow emanates—a letter, its edges shimmering as if kissed by starlight, emerges and floats gently into your hand. The letter reads, 'Welcome, Dreamer. You are invited to traverse the Garden Labyrinth and uncover the treasures hidden within your own soul.' This is no ordinary journey. It is a quest where the map is etched in the fabric of your memories, the path illuminated by the lantern of your intuition, and your guide? None other than the Squirrel Wrangler, a keeper of stories, a weaver of wisdom, and a guardian of transformation. As you approach a magical coach waiting at the edge of the meadow, its sides polished like mirrors reflecting not the world outside but the many faces of your inner self, you sense a stirring of excitement. The coach, drawn by sleek, silvery squirrels (each one a reflection of a different aspect of your being—curiosity, courage, and even caution), invites you to climb aboard. Inside, the seats are plush with comfort, and the air hums with anticipation. The journey unfolds not across miles but through the realms of your own mind. The coach glides past landscapes that shift and shimmer—first, a peaceful grove, representing your cherished memories; then a bustling market, echoing the cacophony of your daily thoughts; and finally, a shadowy forest, symbolizing the fears and doubts you’ve long avoided. Through it all, the Squirrel Wrangler sits beside you, gently pointing out patterns in the chaos, like constellations in the night sky. At last, you arrive at the Garden Labyrinth, its entrance marked by an intricate gate carved with symbols of dreams, challenges, and growth. As you step through, you find yourself in front of the grand, multi-paneled door. Each panel radiates a unique energy: the green of healing, the gold of wisdom, the blue of clarity. When you choose a door, it opens to a realm teeming with the lessons you need most. The library is filled with books authored by your past selves, each one holding the dreams you once had and the strengths you’ve forgotten. The laboratory is alive with experiments of the soul—each potion a chance to transform pain into understanding. The art gallery brims with the colors of your creativity, reminding you of the beauty you carry within. Finally, as you weave through these spaces and gather their gifts, you find yourself in the Hall of Reflections, where a grand mirror stands before you. The Squirrel Wrangler steps beside you, holding up a golden thread. 'This is the thread of your story,' they say. 'It binds your past to your future, your trials to your triumphs. Weave it into the tapestry of who you are becoming.' When the journey draws to a close, you return to the Enchanted Tree, your hands filled with treasures no gold could match: resilience, self-compassion, and the clarity of knowing your worth. The coach departs, but the Squirrel Wrangler remains, a watchful presence in the meadow, ready to guide you whenever you choose to return. For now, as the glow of dawn kisses the horizon, you step back into your world—empowered, transformed, and ready to live as the hero of your own wondrous tale.

Frustration or Future?

Today's podcast is something a little different. This is a story I composed a few months ago, and I think it fits for future planning. November is a great time to start reflecting on our past year and plan for the next one, so we have all of our nuts stored in a row, as it were. So, I present to you, The Squirrel Quadrant: An Approach to Finding Life’s Balance. Imagine your life is like a bustling park, full of activities, commitments, and occasional disruptions – just like how a park has visitors, trees, and, of course, squirrels. Now, think of yourself as one of those intelligent, adaptable squirrels. Each day, you navigate your park, balancing various nuts (tasks and responsibilities), acorns (long-term goals), and seeds (short moments of joy). 1. The Present Nut: As a squirrel, your most valuable nuts are the ones you hold today. Just like The Squirrel Wrangler's squirrels gently take peanuts from her hand, focusing on the present moment means savoring what you have right now, instead of always darting off to find the next nut. This allows you to truly enjoy and appreciate the moment, finding joy in what might seem like small successes—which, in the grand scheme, are quite fulfilling. 2. The Past Acorn: Occasionally, you'll come across an acorn planted long ago (a lesson from past experiences). It's important to recognize these acorns not for the regret of missing them earlier but for the nutrients and wisdom they provide now. Look back occasionally to learn but don't let those acorns pull you away from the nuts in front of you. 3. The Future Seed: You're also planting seeds for future oak trees (your long-term goals and dreams). While it's important to scatter these seeds with hope and optimism, remember, you can't predict exactly when and how they'll grow. Keeping ourselves from being in the throws and perils of constant change is also a possible pitfall of not living in the moment, so don’t get so caught up in your future grove of oaks that you fail to enjoy the current bounty of nuts. 4. The Savoring Tree: Finally, find time to climb up the savoring tree and rest on a branch for a moment. From this vantage point, you see your entire park—the present nuts, past acorns, and future seeds—and you realize the importance of balance and perspective. As squirrels helping each other—a concept of support and mentorship—you learn and teach while navigating the park together. Life can become an enjoyable, fulfilling playground when you balance your efforts. Like the gentle and trusting squirrels the Squirrel Wrangler feeds from her hand, approach life with a good balance of delight in the present, lessons from the past, and hope for the future. Plant your seeds, gather your nuts, learn from your acorns, and always make time to visit the savoring tree. In this analogy, the park represents the complexity of our lives, while the nuts, acorns, and seeds symbolize our focus on present actions, past lessons, and future goals. The savoring tree embodies that essential pause for reflection and balance. Book a session with the Squirrel Wrangler, Stacy Braiuca, at stacybraiuca.com slash book, to wrangle your inner squirrels and find which nuts you want to focus on..... See you tomorrow.

Today's podcast is something a little different. This is a story I composed a few months ago, and I think it fits for future planning. November is a great time to start reflecting on our past year and plan for the next one, so we have all of our nuts stored in a row, as it were. So, I present to you, The Squirrel Quadrant: An Approach to Finding Life’s Balance. Imagine your life is like a bustling park, full of activities, commitments, and occasional disruptions – just like how a park has visitors, trees, and, of course, squirrels. Now, think of yourself as one of those intelligent, adaptable squirrels. Each day, you navigate your park, balancing various nuts (tasks and responsibilities), acorns (long-term goals), and seeds (short moments of joy). 1. The Present Nut: As a squirrel, your most valuable nuts are the ones you hold today. Just like The Squirrel Wrangler's squirrels gently take peanuts from her hand, focusing on the present moment means savoring what you have right now, instead of always darting off to find the next nut. This allows you to truly enjoy and appreciate the moment, finding joy in what might seem like small successes—which, in the grand scheme, are quite fulfilling. 2. The Past Acorn: Occasionally, you'll come across an acorn planted long ago (a lesson from past experiences). It's important to recognize these acorns not for the regret of missing them earlier but for the nutrients and wisdom they provide now. Look back occasionally to learn but don't let those acorns pull you away from the nuts in front of you. 3. The Future Seed: You're also planting seeds for future oak trees (your long-term goals and dreams). While it's important to scatter these seeds with hope and optimism, remember, you can't predict exactly when and how they'll grow. Keeping ourselves from being in the throws and perils of constant change is also a possible pitfall of not living in the moment, so don’t get so caught up in your future grove of oaks that you fail to enjoy the current bounty of nuts. 4. The Savoring Tree: Finally, find time to climb up the savoring tree and rest on a branch for a moment. From this vantage point, you see your entire park—the present nuts, past acorns, and future seeds—and you realize the importance of balance and perspective. As squirrels helping each other—a concept of support and mentorship—you learn and teach while navigating the park together. Life can become an enjoyable, fulfilling playground when you balance your efforts. Like the gentle and trusting squirrels the Squirrel Wrangler feeds from her hand, approach life with a good balance of delight in the present, lessons from the past, and hope for the future. Plant your seeds, gather your nuts, learn from your acorns, and always make time to visit the savoring tree. In this analogy, the park represents the complexity of our lives, while the nuts, acorns, and seeds symbolize our focus on present actions, past lessons, and future goals. The savoring tree embodies that essential pause for reflection and balance. Book a session with the Squirrel Wrangler, Stacy Braiuca, at stacybraiuca.com slash book, to wrangle your inner squirrels and find which nuts you want to focus on..... See you tomorrow.

On Thursday mornings at 9 AM CST, I have coffee online, virtually, with new friends, old friends, sometimes people I've never met, sometimes people I've even met in person. And the subject matter is different every week. We simply often call this event 'coffee', original, right? We meet at a place called quantum quaff dot com, and every week, it's different. This week in coffee, we had such a good time, which happens a lot. It reminded me that Creator gave us 2 really important medicines, laughter and tears. They are really 2 of the best medicines there are. And we really do need both. Though we might not wanna be crying frequently, sometimes it is the medicine we need. But I digress. This morning in coffee, literally, there were 4 of us, some on camera, some not on camera, some drinking coffee, some maybe drinking whiskey, and we were laughing until we cried. It's even possible that one or all of us might have been close to peeing our pants. We were laughing that hard. I want to thank Artemis, Shadows, and Brendaliz for my medicine of the day! And it just reminded me that daily, we need at least one of those medicines. We need the laughter. Just think, if we can have daily laughter so much so that we cry at the same time, we're getting double the medicine. That helps us get closer to joy. And the reason we're on this planet is for joy. I'd love it if you left a message in the comments of the last time that you laughed so hard that you cried and you really enjoyed it. If there's a story you can share, share that, if you can't share the story, share the fact that it happened and maybe the last time you did it so that you can reflect and think of how long it's been since you laughed until you cried? Because maybe you need to do that again. Also, I'd love to invite everyone to come to coffee with me. See if we can make you laugh until you cry, or at least have a connected time and meet new people.

Find out more at stacybraiuca.com/events, sign up for coffee, and come join us. I'll leave Artemis, Shadows, and Brendaliz's links in the show notes as well. It's free. It's fun, and sometimes it's so hilarious that you laugh until you cry. See you tomorrow.

Thank you to:

Artemis: https://artemisnorth.com/my-insane-meno-brain-podcast/

Shadows: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfF2Phdys1rt1uJdVPC4caqM3e2qVE0u and

Brendaliz: https://www.youtube.com/ @thebreathlab

for MY medicine today!

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My name is Stacy Braiuca, the Squirrel Wrangler™, and I guide humans to wrangle their inner squirrels so they can live in peace and joy. I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

Happy Wednesday. Today's subject is stretching. Do you allow yourself to stretch and try new things, even little things like a new spice on food or checking out a different news source? My friend RJ describes life as a series of experiments, especially for business owners. When I say experiment, I mean a planned experiment. You find information, set up a few things, try it, and build as you go. This applies to life choices and behaviors as much as it does to entrepreneurship. Both can be scary, but stretching is crucial because if you don't stretch, you get stuck. Think about stretching your muscles. Stretching helps your muscles understand different ways of being. I'm not a physiotherapist, but stretching muscles seems to pull and release chemicals into our bodies, signaling for more protein to build stronger muscles. If you're a physical therapist or physician, I'd love your feedback to explain this better because I'm sure I butchered the idea! When we stretch our conscious and unconscious minds, we can introduce new ideas. Remember defragmenting a computer? You cleaned files out and ran a process to rearrange and sort them, clearing the dust out of corners. I see this as stretching the memory space of your mind. As we stretch our minds, we uncover negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and baggage. We must pull out these negative things while keeping the lessons, just like keeping good files and throwing away bad ones. Afterward, everything has to rearrange, like a 500-piece puzzle falling into place. I've used many analogies and visual metaphors today, but the core takeaway is the importance of stretching your mind, behaviors, and self to avoid getting stuck. When you stop moving and stretching, you get stuck, making it harder and more painful to move next time. Growth and movement are sometimes necessary for survival, and if you haven't stretched in the meantime, it will hurt more. If you have medical or physical therapy knowledge, please share insights on the muscle aspect. Follow me on the podcast and visit https://stacybraiuca.com/connect for more information on how to connect with me. Let's work on stretching, growing, and clearing out old baggage together. Have a great Wednesday.

Welcome to today's podcast. Today, as the squirrel wrangler, I'm thinking of things that the little things. Not the distractions that you would think that a squirrel might be or see. Not the shiny objects, but the other little things. The little things that we do for each other, sometimes on a whim, sometimes planned, sometimes well thought out and intricately put together. Sometimes just okay. Maybe it is a shiny object that you discover. Or you're driving along and you realize that you need to take a detour.

And when you take the detour, you realize you're next to a restaurant that one of your loved ones has some favorite things. And because that loved one is somebody special to you and you just wanna let them know that you're thinking of them, you stop and buy some goodies for them. And just those little things of being able to give someone something of a surprise just because you love them is sometimes a gift to your own heart and your connections with other humans and connections with the universe. So what is a shiny object or a fun little fact or a fun, something that you spend time to put together for for a friend or loved one in your life. Moreover than that, when was the last time you did that? If you can't remember the last time you did it, what's something you can do? Is it for a friend? A neighbor? Maybe, an elderly person who's near you that you don't even know well, but would appreciate maybe even just a hello or taking them a cup of coffee and saying, hey, I'm thinking of you. I think those human connections, those tiny human connections are what They're like little energy sparks that keep our humanity alive. And as long as we keep our humanity alive, I think we can keep anything alive. Those little sparks of humanity are also like little sparks of hope and joy and goodness.

And given that we don't ever know what our tomorrow is, it's important to live in that tiny moment today, where you're thinking of someone else or doing something for them. Anyway, those are the little squirrel Wrangler thoughts for the day, and I hope you're having an amazing Tuesday.

My podcast for today is to literally say thank you to those who have served in the military and who have protected the freedoms that I was born with. Without saying how old I am, just know that I was born with the freedom of religion, the freedom to vote, the freedom to bear arms, the freedom to be both an American citizen and a citizen of an Indigenous nation inside the United States, and as an indigenous person also have the right to vote and have the right to be a citizen of the United States, which didn't happen until after women were allowed the right to vote. My gratitude is to all of those who have served. I see you as some of the bravest, courageous human beings on the planet because you were willing to make the promise to give everything up to and including your very lives, and many of you did, so that I could have the freedoms I was born with. And anyone who describes you as anything other than brave, strong, selfless, patriots with full love of country and a devotion to the Constitution to the country and not to any one human being, but to all human beings and human rights anyone who says other than that I would say they don't deserve the rights, but then again, it's because we all deserve those rights. So everyone deserves the rights, but if they say that about you, I feel really sad that they don't understand the full value of the freedom and the rights human rights that you have all sacrificed many things for, not just your lives, but also many of you sacrificed even being told a simple thank you or an appropriate welcome home when you've been somewhere else in the world fighting for freedom. But know this, the Squirrel Wrangler thanks you from the bottom of her heart. And I pray that you are having an amazing day in the sunshine with the wind on your face and knowledge in your heart that there are those who really, really appreciate you.

Sorry this is published on Monday, tech glitches caused Sunday to weave into Monday! But, Welcome to Sunday's Squirrel Wrangler's Thoughts: So I'm doing some reading today and the site that I'm reading advises us to seek, feel, grow, forget, and heal for moving ahead in life. And in looking back at this last week, what is it? I think we saw some things that people were seeking, and not just one side or two sides, but multiple multiple seekings. Everyone is seeking something different. We certainly have multiple and very heightened feelings. I think the next stages are when we get into growing and then forgetting and healing. I'm not sure if those are in that order. I'm gonna say that we are instead of forgetting, we're forgiving. We're growing so that we can forgive, and then we're forgiving so that we can put something into the past. Not necessarily forgetting, but forgiving so that it can go into the past. And we can learn lessons from each other in that forgiving. And then heal so that we can all move ahead. Because overall, the world is a series and a unique combination of balances. Left and right, up and down, forward and backward, hot and cold. And it's the interlocking of all of our patterns and all of our behaviors and all of our differences that cause us to be able to have a balanced world. That's not to say that we have to have as much evil in the world as we have good. It's that the things that we do that are good balance out the things that each of us do that might be not so good. I don't think that we absolutely have to have evil, But I do think the world is inherently still good, and that we inherently have to have the good to make it through this life. Because if we don't have the good, we don't have hope, and if we don't have hope, we don't have survival. And that's not just as individuals, but as an entire planet. Anyway, those are the Squirrel Wrangler thoughts of the day. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and I will find some thoughts for you for tomorrow. Keywords from today: seeking, feelings, growing, forgiving, healing, moving ahead, balancing, good vs evil, patterns, behaviors, differences, balanced world, interlocking patterns, combination of balances, multiple seekings, heightened feelings, life lessons, past forgiveness, hope, survival, inherent good, planet, unique combination, personal growth, looking back, evil, good, positive actions, social dynamics, hope for survival, Squirrel Wrangler thoughts