In today's episode I'm talking about something I witness at almost every retreat I host — women who have come specifically to be received, and the moment someone offers to get them a glass of water, they say no thank you I can get it myself.

John O'Donohue writes in Eternal Echoes that our bodies know that they belong — it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

Today's episode is about the longing to be truly seen and what it costs us to keep managing ourselves out of the very thing we want most.

Question to carry into your day: What are you managing or deflecting right now that, if you let yourself receive it, might finally feel like coming home? Want to chat about working together?

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In today's episode I'm sharing something my friend Andrew modeled for me at a Q + A recently that I have been genuinely trying to practice ever since. Someone in the audience hijacked the microphone and Andrew just let him.

With complete grace. He told me afterward that after years as a journalist he'd come to understand that sometimes people just need to say what they need to say.

Today's episode is about the grace of not making other people's behavior about you.

Question to carry into your day: What is one situation where you could offer grace today instead of a verdict?

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In today's episode I'm sharing a reframe that has saved me more times than I can count — sometimes you don't know what the next right thing is, but you almost always know what it isn't. And that knowing is its own form of wisdom.

The Language of Letting Go asks: what doesn't feel right? What can't you stand? What makes you uncomfortable? Our guide is within, ever-present.

Today's episode is about trusting that guide — especially when it's telling you to wait.

Question to carry into your day: What is one thing you know you shouldn't do right now — and what would it look like to honor that knowing instead of overriding it?

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Today's episode is a vulnerable one... YAY! I had a hard Mother's Day and I'm talking about it.

Susan Cain writes in Bittersweet that our longing is the great gateway to belonging — and that if we could honor sadness a little more we might see it as the bridge we need to connect with each other.

Today's episode is about having a hard day in a room full of people you love. And about not pretending you aren't.

Question to carry into your day: What are you trying to smile through right now that might actually deserve to be felt?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened when my friend Michelle and I co-hosted an event that started with big plans for twenty people and ended up being five women in a quiet, intimate, extraordinary room — and how glad I was that we hadn't pushed to fill the seats.

Today's episode is about yielding to what's actually arriving instead of forcing what you planned.

Question to carry into your day: What are you trying to force into a shape it doesn't want to take — and what might it become if you yielded to what it actually is?

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In today's episode — your official public service announcement for meditation, you're welcome — I'm making a case for the practice that makes everything else possible.

A friend of mine with a profound meditation practice said something recently that I wrote down immediately: if you can't sit still, how can you do anything?

Today's episode is about the real version of meditation — not the blissful floating Instagram version, but the disciplined, unglamorous, completely life-changing version.

Because trying to be awake, alive, and ascending without a meditation practice is like trying to walk somewhere you could take an airplane.

Question to carry into your day: What are you avoiding in the stillness — and what might be waiting for you there if you stayed?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something that happened at a retreat I hosted recently — watching three women who know each other well slowly put down the performance they'd each been carrying, and discover that underneath their very different stories they were all longing for exactly the same thing. Intimacy. To be truly known.

I opened the retreat with healing and grounding work and asked them: what did you bring with you that you didn't intend to?

All three said some version of the same thing. A mask. A show. A version of themselves that wasn't quite true.

Today's episode is about the exhaustion of the performance and the intimacy waiting on the other side of putting it down.

Question to carry into your day: What are you performing right now — and what might become possible if you let someone see what's actually true? Interested in joining one of my sacred retreats?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend said to me at my house recently that opened up a whole new way of thinking about boundaries — the moment she realized you're allowed to cancel without a reason. Just say you can't make it.

Nedra Tawwab writes in Set Boundaries Find Peace that the hardest thing about implementing boundaries is accepting that some people won't like, understand, or agree with yours — and that once you grow beyond pleasing others, setting your standards becomes easier.

Today's episode is about over-explanation as a form of apology — and about letting I can't make it be enough.

Question to carry into your day: What are you over-explaining right now that actually just needs a simple, honest I can't make it?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend said to me recently that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He called it a one-handed surrender — the willingness to put down the behavior but not to look at what's underneath it. Not just in recovery.

In the relationship you left but whose patterns you brought to the next one. In the job you resigned from but whose defenses traveled with you.

Today's episode is about the second hand — the one that stays gripping — and what becomes possible when you finally open it.

Question to carry into your day: What are you still gripping with one hand — and what are you afraid you might find if you finally let it go?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something I saw on a sign in a cute little cafe that I genuinely could not stop thinking about — don't stumble over something behind you.

I had gotten a call the day before from someone from a chapter of my life that never really fed me, slept on it, and walked into that cafe the next morning still carrying the loop of it.

Today's episode is about the spiritual vacuum — what opens up when you release what's behind you.

Question to carry into your day: What are you still carrying from behind you that you could choose to set down today — and what might move in to fill that space if you did?

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