The Inner Dialogue Podcast

Recorded July 19, 2024

One of Caitlin’s gifts is cultivating connection & in this episode the connections are beautifully woven through all of the intersections we touch on in our inner dialogue. 

Helping people heal through the disconnection that has been taught to us and move towards the cultivation of abundance in life. 

Authentic, vulnerable connection ✨

I love you endlessly, 

ABSD

Connect with Caitlin: 

Caitlin with a C Healing Connections: 

caitlinwithachealingconnections.com 

Instagram & TikTok: @caitlinwithac1989

Community Connections Project of Longmont: ccplongmont.org 

RESOURCES:

Self Love Meditation: https://insig.ht/tj0hpXUPtNb

Recorded July 13, 2024

Alyssa Sweeney was ICONIC, but she is not what is now.  

This episode is vulnerable. As I make my way through this dialogue, I do my best to honor my old self as Alyssa. 

I really want people to know that when I look at my life as Alyssa, I see it as nothing but an awesome fucking life. 

I love you, 

ABSD

Episode 58. Grace in the Transition w/ GOLDbard 

Recorded July 10, 2024

We start off with a beautiful chant for this episode: I believe in joyful abundant possibilities. 

We can always turn to the natural world for comfort.

The example of animals being and using that as a lesson for ourselves. 

In our Inner Dialogue, we touch on Divine Grace, a mindset of hope, time in nature, presence, nourishment for our planet, abundance and so much more! 

Grace: tending to the comfort of your own body. In every moment, learning how to prioritize your bodies comfort. 

When grace is extended to us, it makes it easier for us to extend grace to ourselves. Transitioning to a life that centers my own joy and repeatedly giving grace to self in the process. 

To be willing to release relationships where grace is not present.

The flow of life is to give and receive 

Trees are spiritually significant - bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth 

Trees - a feeling of home. “Wherever a tree stands, there is always space for rest.” There is time enough for it all. 

I love you abundantly, 

ABSD

CONNECT WITH GOLDbard: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chanting4queerjoy/  

https://linktr.ee/goldbardcreative 

Recorded June 29, 2024

Feeling grounded walking into the launch of A Better Standard Direction. 

Sitting in my energy and unknown the day before this launch. 

Coming out of the last 10 days and feeling like I am a different person. 

June was an incredibly abundant and hard month for me. Navigating a lot of big feelings inside of me with transitioning and the nonlinear journey of gender.  

The lens in which we view life through is how we internalize what we receive. 

I love you with grace, 

ABSD

LINKS: 

abetterstandarddirection.com 

https://www.youtube.com/@ABetterStandardDirection 

Recorded June 5, 2024

This conversation is going to bring you awareness that there are other options available to you. As we talk through our own experiences and hear about Chelsea’s expertise with nature healing, you may be surprised of how accessible these practices can be in your life! 

There isn’t one right way. Finding the way that works best for you! Just don’t give up. Be open to trying different things and allow time for grace. 

There are so many ways to heal. A deeper understanding of the therapy world has opened Chelsea up to seeing how nature can come in and be deeply beneficial for healing. 

We are designed to be connected with nature. We used to live in cycles with the moon and earth. The cycles that exist within cycles. 

We live more authentically when we are in tune in nature.

Nature has so many lessons to teach us.  

You don’t need to leave your house to do nature therapies. There are ways to connect with the Earth in an abundance of accessible ways depending on your needs. 

We are no one and everything. As humans we try to put things into boxes because it helps our brains make sense of things. Nature is a conduit that makes it so much easier to create new pathways in the brain. 

It is so powerful to do this work in nature and you don’t even have to know what is going on. It is subconscious, you aren’t thinking about it. 

I love you deeply, 

ABSD 

RESOURCES: 

Connect with Chelsea: 

https://sites.google.com/view/chirchertlpc-com/home 

On the Nature Therapy tab, there are several resource articles. 

Nature Integration Resources/Books:

● The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

● The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk

● Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind by Craig Chalquist

● The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger

● Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants

by Tamarack Song

● Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery by

Mark Coleman

● Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

● The Way of Council by Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle

● You guide to Forest Bathing by M. Amos Cliffard

● If Trees Could Talk by Holly Worton

Somatic Resources:

*Disclaimer here

I am only listing two women as there are a LOT of free resources out on the web and somatic work can be extremely dysregulating. I don’t recommend that people engage in this work without a Therapist, Coach, Psychiatrist etc to help when starting this work. With that said, many YouTubes video exist on how to heal trauma with a 12 min somatic video which I do not advise and could be more detrimental to people to tread lightly here ....

Instagram / online - The Workout Witch: https://theworkoutwitch.com/ 

Instagram / YouTube - Suki Baxter: Polyvagal Theory: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHCABftGT184YQ33z8I1uCw 

Opening/grounding poem (useful for meditation or while sitting in nature to recite)

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms

Recorded June 2, 2024

It genuinely is so fun to hear myself in a place where I feel safe in my body and have incredible love for where I am in my journey. 

Prioritizing safety for myself is important. 

Every relationship in my life has had to shift. 

How to love myself is my choice. How I live my life is my choice. I have to stay true to myself and continue to learn what this embodiment of ABSD is. 

Im grateful to be ABSD & to have started this journey over 2 years ago. 

Love on the New Earth is love at its purest form without walls and conditions. It is removing ourselves from judgement. 

When we allow grace for other people, grace is open to return to us tenfold. 

To live our lives through the lens of love is where we are headed. The seed is being planted and it will ripple. 

This work is collective work. I am so excited to welcome to the world into it. 

I love you unconditionally, 

ABSD

Recorded May 28, 2024

This episode carries the lens of expanding gently in our lives, healing processes, and in time of transition. 

Sitting in the Inner Dialogue space with GOLDbard, I felt myself expanding gently just through their dialogue and life experiences that are shared here. 

A preview: 

✨ “You do not need to be your therapist educator.” 

✨I want people who know me and love me, to know all of me. 

✨Being in the uncomfortability together.

✨Looking at with fresh eyes and be with us as we evolve. The attachment to the “version of us they first met”

✨What is the unmet need that is not being addressed here? 

✨Not sucking up to just keep going - reflection of earlier versions of self

✨Capable human mask before I go out the door - what a performance capable human is 

✨Taking off the mask - what do I do now? 

✨Unearthing these versions of ourselves that have been buried for so long 

✨The willingness to surrender to transformation

I love you deeply, 

ABSD 

CONNECT WITH GOLDbard: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chanting4queerjoy/  

https://linktr.ee/goldbardcreative 

Recorded May 19, 2024

Inspiration from stepping on a rusted nail while gardening. OUCH! This week has been weird. 

Taking it day by day & meeting myself with grace constantly. 

This period of rest really gave me space to look at some big shifts happening in my life & to have time to process it all fully. 

OPENING THE DOOR

No part of us are meant to be separate from love & I had segmented in myself that I was not allowing to be fully loved.

I love you, 

ABSD

Recorded May 9, 2024

This episode is about me, ABSD. 

I have been processing some big aspects in my life.

I have been deeply afraid of the power of my spiritual self & I am now in a point in my journey where I am in full trust. 

ABSD has always been something that is so much greater than myself. 

I officially no longer identify with the name Alyssa. 

I don’t want to be called Alyssa any longer & this episode is a mark in time where I decided this fully. 

I am doing the best I can. 

I channel light language in this episode - stay to receive at minute 17 if that is in alignment with you. 

There is an added in vocal disclaimer before hand.

I love you endlessly, 

ABSD 

Recorded April 26, 2024

HAPPY LAUNCH DAY! 🥳

Learning how to integrate the true meaning of what A Better Standard Direction is in my life. All throughout this episode, there is a golden thread about my social movement. 

So much appreciation for the process over the last year of having a podcast & how much I have grown through it. 

How I use philosophizing as a tool to help aid me in some of my greatest ideas. 

Conditional love - it hurts to be loved that way.

SONG: The Best is Yet to Come by Ryan Stevenson 

What is your favorite song right now?

I am an introvert at heart but an extrovert at love.

I had such large emotions and feelings as a kid which caused people to label me as dramatic. 

Learning the science behind how my brain worked before I could then rewire my mind. 

Why I like having the labels for my sexuality and gender in my life. 

I love you unconditionally, 

ABSD