Today's guests are former students, friends of mine, and all around impressive women who have different outer life paths but share much in common in their inner worlds.

They both found themselves getting crushed under the weight of expectations: from how they look to who they are, and knew it was time to make a change.

This is the story, in their own words, of their journey to establishing self trust, self acceptance, a life on their own terms.

144 | The Journey to Self Trust: STA Grads Share Their Stories

How we think is how we live. Hosted by life and mindset coach Taylor Gage, this show explores our relationship to ourselves, our nature, and the world at large, so we can be more aware, present, and alive.

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Alua Arthur is one of America’s most prominent death doulas and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning organization. She shares with us why and how we can explore our own relationship to death in ways that will help us reach a new, deeper, and more fulfilling level of living.

209 | Facing Your Mortality with Death Doula Alua Arthur

Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we want to rewild ourselves, then these are some places where we might want to stop looking to our screens and instead look up, or look within.

208 | Human, Interrupted

We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city.

207 | Closer to Nature

How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness.

206 | Loneliness V. Solitude

These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.

144 | The Journey to Self Trust: STA Grads Share Their Stories

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