In today's episode, I'm sharing the call I made to my spiritual advisor twelve hours after I drove my new car off the lot, the way she gently laughed at me, and the pattern she has been watching me run for eight years.

Jack Kornfield writes in A Path with Heart that we live in a sea of conditioning patterns that we repeat over and over, yet we rarely notice this process, and that the work is to drop below the level of the repeated recorded message and feel the energy underneath.

Today's episode is about the strange panic that hits the moment we commit to something, the pattern almost all of us run, and the spiritual move that finally takes its power away.

Question to carry into your day: What pattern are you ready to start catching as it runs, instead of believing what it tells you?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened the day a recruiter called for a reference on the assistant who'd stolen from me and refused to talk to me on her way out, and the one line from my friend Billy that I have not been able to put down since.

The Daily Reflections reader published by Alcoholics Anonymous says it has been said that anger is a luxury I cannot afford, that we are not asked to ignore the human emotion of anger but to recognize the gift of choice, and that today we can choose to open the door to freedom.

Today's episode is about justified anger, the cost of acting on it, and the one question that should come before every act of revenge.

Question to carry into your day: What are you carrying that's costing you your freedom?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something I've never talked about on the show, what happened with my last assistant, and the deep inventory work I was doing with my spiritual advisor at the same time her betrayal was unfolding.

Melody Beattie writes in The Language of Letting Go that we look at our behaviors and patterns with love and compassion for ourselves, and that we perform this examination without fear of what we shall find, because the soul searching itself can help us feel better than we ever dreamt possible.

Today's episode is about the spiritual work that's already happening underneath our lives even when we don't notice it, the difference between honest inventory and self-flogging, and how the work prepares us to meet the hard things with eyes already open.

Question to carry into your day: What hard chapter are you ready to look at with love instead of judgment?

So much of what we call shame about hard chapters with food and our bodies is really unfinished inventory we've been afraid to do. If you're ready to look at it with love, the Stop Starting Over System was built for you. Book a discovery call and let's talk. https://link.allyone.io/widget/bookings/mc-discoverycall

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened when I heard a wildly successful comedian say something so honest about his early days that it made me think differently about the runway we give ourselves for the things that matter to us.

Anne Lamott writes in Bird by Bird that not one of the great writers we love sits down feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident, that none of them write elegant first drafts, and that all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.

Today's episode is about the clumsy early stretch of becoming, what it actually takes to find your flow, and the permission to give yourself the runway when nobody else will.

Question to carry into your day: Where in your life do you need to give yourself the runway?

So much of what we call failure with food and our bodies is actually impatience with our own becoming. If you're tired of the loop of starting over every Monday and you're ready to finally give yourself the runway, the Stop Starting Over System was built for you. Book a discovery call and let's talk. https://link.allyone.io/widget/bookings/mc-discoverycall

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something I scrolled past while bracing for a return to social media that completely shifted the way I'm holding criticism going forward.

Marianne Williamson writes in A Return to Love that nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Today's episode is about criticism, where it actually comes from, and the small shift that takes almost all of its power away.

Question to carry into your day: What are you refusing to begin until you're certain you understand it?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing the decision I had to make before a trip I'm about to take that surprised me with how much it revealed about how I approach the things that matter most.

Richard Rohr writes that when we can stand in mystery, not knowing and not needing to know and being dazzled by such freedom, we are beginning to stand in divine freedom.

Today's episode is about the urge to study our way into the things we care about, the difference between preparation and control, and the radical freedom of walking in not knowing.

Today's episode is about why replenishment might look nothing like what you expect.

Question to carry into your day: What are you refusing to begin until you're certain you understand it?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened the day I accidentally left my phone at home and discovered something about my own nervous system that I genuinely didn't see coming.

Pico Iyer writes in The Art of Stillness that not many years ago it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury, but nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.

Today's episode is about the things we're certain we can't live without, the difference between true need and pure habit, and what shows up on the rare occasion we accidentally find out we can.

Question to carry into your day: What are you certain you can't live without that you've never actually tried living without?

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If the thing you can't seem to put down is the cycle of dieting and starting over with food and your body, that's exactly what I help people with.

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My best friend was having surgery, and I'd quietly decided I had to be there every second of it.

So when a once-in-a-lifetime concert landed right in the middle of that week, I said no before I'd even finished hearing the offer, and I wore that no like a badge. Then on a walk a few days later it hit me. I had never actually asked her what she needed. I'd just decided.

This one's about the quiet sacrifices we make for the people we love, the ones nobody ever asked us for, and the single honest question that sets everybody free.

Question to carry into your day: What are you giving up for someone right now that you've never actually asked them about?

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In today's episode I'm sharing something I am still learning — knowing when to fold.

I have a condition called mast cell activation syndrome, and a while back I pushed through to a hard exercise class on a day my body was clearly telling me not to. And I suffered for it.

Audre Lorde wrote in A Burst of Light that living with cancer forced her to consciously jettison the myth of omnipresence — the belief that she could do anything.

Today's episode is about honoring your real limits, the complicated relationship between body and movement in recovery, and why folding when you need to fold is not weakness. It is wisdom.

Question to carry into your day: What is your body telling you right now that you have been overriding — and what would it look like to actually listen?

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In today's episode I'm sharing something one of my retreat participants did after our retreat that I think is one of the most quietly radical things I have heard in a long time.

She found herself in New York City with almost no phone battery, turned it off, and spent the day following her own curiosity — the Jefferson Building, Rockefeller Center, Broadway — with no map and no agenda. She left tired and came back revitalized.

The artist date is not about rest. It is about exposure — exposing your soul to new experiences, new beauty, new wonder.

Today's episode is about why replenishment might look nothing like what you expect.

Question to carry into your day: What would your version of the artist date look like — and when could you give yourself one this week?

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