The Creatures We Become

A conversational episode where hosts Nate and Petrina celebrate their podcast's one-year anniversary by answering questions from Inside the Actor Studio, exploring their favourite words, turn-ons/turn-offs, alternative careers, and what they hope to hear at heaven's gates.

Nate and Petrina enjoy a book-club discussion about The Good Life, by Drs. Waldinger and Schulz. Join us for a conversation about the connection between happiness and relationships, the challenges of prioritizing relationships in modern life, and the connection to the "loneliness epidemic."

A deep conversation between two friends on the process to change old patterns. Nate and Petrina talk about life transitions, loneliness aversion, and the shift from external to internal motivation.

As promised, we are sharing another resource to help you implement your own mindfulness practice. In this episode Petrina will set you up for a simple 5-minute mindfulness practice that you can do anywhere. Afterward, she debriefs the experience to support your learning and integration. Please let us know what you think in the comments!

After reading The Science of Enlightenment, by Shinzen Young, Nate and Petrina discuss mindfulness, meditation, and impermanence. Talking about concentration, clarity, equanimity, pain vs suffering, and practical meditation techniques; this conversation covers a lot of ground! Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Nate and Petrina discuss the top five things they each learned this year to support personal growth and development. Listen in for ten pearls of wisdom and personal examples that can help you apply these lessons in your own life.

Mindfulness for Beginners A guided mindfulness body scan practice with detailed explanation of the experience and benefits for developing attention control skills.

The Creatures We Become is happy to launch this new mini-series within the larger podcast. These will be shorter episodes, hosted by either Nate or Petrina, that provide information on a specific skill, resource, or tool that you can use to assist your journey of personal growth. This episode on Mindfulness for Beginners is hosted by Petrina.

Petrina and Nate take a deep dive into Dr. James Doty's book Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation. We dig into the six-step framework and how it can be applied in our own lives.

After reading the Comfort Crisis, by Michael Easter, Nate and Petrina reflect on the challenges of staying healthy, body and mind, in a modern world that seems designed to keep us alive but unwell.

Nate and Petrina answer listener questions about how to get started on a journey to improve your physical health and fitness. Drawing on lessons from episode one about doing hard things, they discuss the crossover between physical, mental, and emotional health. If you've got questions about how to take the first steps on this journey, this is the episode for you! Filled with practical advice and concrete steps to help you get started, we encourage you to ask yourself, "when I invest in my own physical health, who might be the creature I become?"