The Art of Living

Hi There,

Happy Monday … this episode is fresh off the press. Still jagged in my hand. While some episodes are long polished either by time, the work of turning the memories over and over, divine softness … this episode is new stuff, recent stuff, raw edges and rough spots. When I shared about the road trip we took as a family this Summer in a recent episode, I mentioned it would be a story for another time, well that time is today. I woke up with this podcast in my chest, burning in my throat. I hope it meets you along our unfinished road and provides some company for the journey.

Thank you for listening,

Elyse

www.elysesnipestherapy.com

www.elysesnipes.com

Hi There,

I had an iPhone memory pop up in my photos and it felt like a cosmic flick in the head in all the right and hard ways. You know the memories, the ones that make you sputter and ugly cry and spiral into the rest of your 100,000 photos. The memory that came for me this week was right on time, a paper airplane from the past, and it lead to this episode. An invitation to pause, remember, pivot and proceed. What a gift, what a grace, that we can always begin again. And again. And again.

Cheers,

Elyse

P.S. If you are interested in doing some work on your own maternal story, have questions about your timeline syncs up with your child’s, or are wanting to gain some clarity and practical tools in motherhood, I have availability and would love to work with you. You can see all the therapy/coaching things at www.elysesnipestherapy.com.

We can also jump on a free discovery call together to see what you need and what might serve you in this season of life.

Hiiiiii,

Ok, we back. And hopefully with more consistency. This episode is both a pick up of the 40 Things, centering on the ideas of home and belonging to a place, as well as a recapping my 3,000 + plus mile road trip from the summer. I hope you listen, I hope you wonder, I hope you remember your own places of belonging and in turn, offer this sense of goodness to the world around you.

Cheers,

Elyse

www.elysesnipes.com - for all art things

www.elysesnipestherapy.com - for all therapy things

Hey There,

I have been considering where I fit in the intersection of art and therapy. On the one hand, they have felt like separate forms and on the other hand, they keep colliding, becoming one thing. This video is that collision.

I designed and fabricated this chair/throne. I wanted to create a distinct seat, a space for someone to come and boldly inhabit, an invitation to really sit in all their power, all their experience, all their knowing.

This shell throne is still in process, but as I walked by it my backyard, I couldn’t help but feel the pull to sit there. In therapy, we often use the empty chair technique and welcome the living out of the unspoken, the unfelt, the unrecognized. The demonstration or living art in the video above, plays with the direct intersection of art and therapy. Where one becomes the other and then becomes the other and so on.

May this work bless your perspective, bless your seeking, bless your awareness, bless your arriving.

Cheers!

Elyse

Reflection Questions from inside the bubble of you:

I am ...

I need ...

I want ...

I feel ...

I know ...

I will ...

I can ...

I am ...

Happy New Year! I hope this episode finds you just as you are - maybe fried from the holidays or bright eyed and full of new year resolution vigor.

This is episode 230 and is technically the 27th lesson of the 40 things part of this podcast. Next: You actually don’t have to have it all figured out. You don’t have to know what you’re going to do “next”. How could you possibly know that, if you don’t know how to be here now?

Listen to this episode to find out what presence and Fire Horses and the collective unconscious have to do with you.

May you be met this year with really grounded and also really passionate momentum.

Cheers!

Elyse

P.S. I made some big changes last year (sold a business) and am now full circle back in my own private practice. If you have been thinking of doing any work together, I am offering 1:1 coaching, one time sessions for ppl looking to jumpstart an idea, and journey within sessions. You can find all that on my website. Happy New Year!

Make peace with seasons. Beginnings and endings and starting again. Relationships, careers, roles, homes, friendships, your view of yourself, the hard phase you’re in, or your kid is in … it is all only right now, not always. Breathe.

What would change about the season you are in if you knew it wasn’t forever?

Today’s episode dips into the concept of impermanence and the various seasons we are in simultaneously. I walk you through an exercise on seasons and landscapes and how to use your visual cortex and imagination to take stock of where you are now. This is one of my favorite episodes I have recorded, I hope you enjoy it too!

Cheers,

Elyse

Hey there,

Back at this 40 Things journey with Episode 228: Possibility.

Resolve to not know everything. Commit yourself instead to wonder, to what if, to why not.

May this episode open for you new paths and moments of exploration along your way.

Cheers,

Elyse

Hey there,

Happy back to all the things … I don’t know how your week is going but I am feeling inundated by all the back to school-sports-extracurriculars that are now on my calendar. I was talking to myself in the car about the different carpool schedules, trying to figure out which days would work best to drive when my husband asked me what I was doing … I didn’t even realize I was talking out loud. So there’s that. And then the creation of this episode … finding neutral. In the urgency and good chaos of all that is life right now, I need neutral, I need pause, I need exhale and peace and ease.

This episode moves through two different exercises to help you find your neutral - breath work and guided visualization. I hope they bring you some sweet relief this week as you navigate your To Do lists. May we find neutral so we can find joy.

Cheers,

Elyse

P.S. I just opened my calendar for Fall bookings if you are interested in doing some work together: www.elysesnipes.com. 20% off an appointment when you mention this episode.