Sure Uncertainty

Topics this week include:

Kristen's experiences during her one-month trip to New Zealand;

Laurel's stories starting college, parenting her son, and experiences with druidry;

Reiki, Tibetan vs. Holy Fire®, and Kristen's upcoming Advanced Reiki Training/Master class;

Astrological happenings during Pisces season and Mercury Retrograde

Topics this week include:

The meaning of the Winter Solstice on Friday, December 21st, 2018;

The emotional Full Moon in Cancer on Saturday, December 22nd, 2018;

How we can find time to allow ourselves to relax and reflect during the holidays;

How we can bring a little more light into our homes and into our lives;

How Kristen is approaching her one-month trip to New Zealand differently than any previous trip

Topics this week include:

Kristen's recent experience working with a spiritual healer;

Different perspectives and methods of healing our energies and releasing our emotions;

Our thoughts on finding or creating a spiritual/artistic community;

How Laurel chose to take start going to college

[Trigger Warning] We talk about trauma and suicide.

Topics this week include:

How we're doing Thanksgiving and Black Friday differently this year, how we're avoiding impulse shopping, and how we're striving to purchase natural and sustainable products;

Laurel's existential crisis, and the ways she's trying to find joy and creative expression;

How Kristen is finding joy through playing the guitar again;

Laurel's word for 2018 was "stability," and Kristen's was "healing". We share how those have manifested in the past year. Kristen's word for 2019 is "presence";

How we're creating (and not creating) micro goals and macro goals;

We talk faith, spirituality, woowoo, & crystals, and how we fall on different sides of pendulum at this point in time;

Mercury retrograde began on November 17th, and what it means;

We share the books we've enjoyed recently. Laurel is The Eureka Factor and Kristen's is The Sea Priestess.

Topics this week include:

Laurel's experience with her foot surgery;

Kristen's recent Reiki class, and both of our experiences with Reiki;

Our relationships with food, and how we're nourishing our bodies;

How far we've come physically and emotionally in the past year of recording Sure Uncertainty;

The legalization of cannabis in Michigan, and our relationships with medical marijuana

Topics this week include:

The positive potential of habits in our lives, and how to allow our habits to build and evolve;

Acknowledging how traumas and dark times can negatively affect our sustainment of habits;

Dealing with placing high expectations on ourselves and others, and the disappointment that comes with it;

[Trigger Warning] Laurel's past and current experiences with disordered eating

Topics this week include:

Where we've been for the past month;

Kristen's current healing and hormone status;

Laurel's cervical dystonia diagnosis, and progress with neck botox;

Our experiences with different types of meditations;

Exploring our current fears around injury and surgery

Topics this week include:

Tarot Card: Five of Swords - defeat and disappointment;

Where we are with our injuries, seeking treatment, and our mindset around it;

How fear and pain are so connected, and how we can lessen our fear while we’re still in pain;

How we can move from being passive to being actively involved in our healing;

Talking about life, death, & eating disorders;

The importance of balance in our mind, body, & spirit connections

Topics this week include:

Laurel's 3-year sobriety birthday;

On consent, and how "no" is a complete sentence;

[Trigger Warning] Dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and how we can work through forgiveness internally;

Our thoughts on pre-experiencing/pre-feeling emotions;

Kristen's experience with sound healing;

Laurel's plans and anxiety around her trip to Chicago;

We drew a tarot card at the end of the episode: 5 of Discs / 5 of Earth card. This is the Lord of Worry, and is right on topic with our talk about anxiety, fear, and confidence.

Topics this week include:

The process of reframing our mindset around our illnesses and injuries;

Our stories from when we used to work in offices, and why we chose to be entrepreneurs;

How we both did the exercise we mentioned in the last episode, to do something imperfectly on purpose;

How we can help other people, come together as a community, and create something together;

How we can allow our own growth and get through the ugly parts of the process;

Our experiences and advice for navigating the process of seeking any kind of help + healing, through the health system and also natural paths