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Elle invites to you join her personal “Becoming Divergent” journey - including youtube channel, newsletter, and instagram. 

Elle shares about recent experiences that highlight the importance of community. 

She discusses:

• Crying
• Healing in community 
• Integrated living
• Sharing emotions
• The impact of your life on others
• Allowing what is to happen
• The power of participation 
• The impact of not resisting
• Planting and nurturing relational seeds
• Jonathan Feingold’s focus on community 
• Distractions of social media and advertising
• Being a highly sensitive person
• Emotional pain
• Belonging 
• Our lives are our greatest lesson
• Our lives are our greatest creative act
• The power of asking
• Learning and practicing what you want
• Pruning friendships 
• The magic of connection shared in the “Oh the People You’ll Meet” story series

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Today’s guest on the LYHL Podcast is teacher and fellow writer, Simone Hall. Our heartfelt conversation moves from:

the writer Alex Elle to 

synchronicity to

the power of a writer's conference to

Julia Cameron - "The Artist's Way" to 

teaching as a calling to

life as swirling to

Simone’s poetry book Heart Storm" to 

authenticity to

masks to

self-preservation to

the terror and gift of creating to 

the importance of self-love & community

and so much more. 

You can find her book of poetry, "HeartStorm," as well as get in learn more about Simone and her work at https://www.simonehall.com.

Thank you, Simone.

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Join Elle in the backyard as she explores two types of dreams - one that holds us back, one that invites us forward, but both require love, growth, learning, change, adaptability, and bravery. Stasis and fear get and keep us stuck, often without us knowing. Evaluate your dreams and how you relate to them in this short episode. Learn how art and, in particular, poetry can open up truths to you that you hadn't previously seen. Unpack the profound poetry of Hafiz and his poem "Forgive the Dream."

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This episode invites you to expand your concept of what it means to be a clown and to clown around. Founder of the Clown School in Los Angeles, David Bridel brings his unique and exemplary presence to The LYHL Podcast. Their conversation holds breath and depth and topics explored include the following and much more. 

Clown as embodiment practice 
Playfulness
Releasing stored energies
Commitment
Courage
Frustration
Clowning as oppositional 
Safety through expectation 
Conditioning 
the play: "Waiting for Gadot"
Experimentation
Being unbothered
Withholding judgement 
Flow
Surrendering to impulses
Avoiding outcome-based thinking and behavior
Exit strategy for managing energy after energy relational exchanges 
Finding joy in everyday life
wonder 
Journey towards appreciation
Spiritual bypass
Personal dogma 
Ann Basting of the University of Wisconsin

Philippe Gaulier

Samuel Beckett

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On this episode of the LYHL Podcast, Elle brings us into conversation surrounding the rewarding work of intention setting.

She references a video and artwork; you can see it here on the youtube channel: https://youtu.be/BFdMwAz-tbs

Themes explored include soul, essence, quieting yourself, knowing, theme or word of the year, annual and seasonal personal retreats, value-based living, integrated living, the power of art, following intuition and internal guidance, talking to God, and more.

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Laura Dunn civil rights and victims’ rights attorney and cousin to Elle joins Elle on this heartfelt episode of the LYHL podcast.
Committing her life to justice after experiencing violence and betrayal, she shares openly and articulately about living an integrated life, healing, political goals, psychedelics, sexual assault, serving others, Evangelical Christianity, family patterns, healthy civil rights leadership, law & order, oppression, criminal legal system, cruelty, mental health, Title IX,  the Me Too Movement, shame, SurvJustice - a victim's advocacy non-profit she founded, trailblazing, activism, self-care, advocacy, PTSD, health & wellness, the importance of sleep, “Trust, Surrender, Receive” - a MDMA testimonial book, Ruth Bader and Marty Ginsburg, authenticity, Gabor Maté, autoimmune disease, Hillary Clinton, sexism, masculine and feminine energy, bell hooks, healthy communication, cognitive dissidence, evil, oppression, love ethic and so much more.

You can learn more about Laura, her work, and contact her at: www.Lauraldunn.com & @lldunn_nyc

Thank you, Laura.

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In this new series, Elle shares thoughts that arrive during runs in nature. (Nothing like nature and movement to clear the head and allow space for new connections, thoughts, and ways of being.

In this episode, Elle discusses "opportunity gain," comparing the power of decisions versus "opportunity cost" and our dread of FOMO. Want to F*ck FOMO? Purchase items that reminder you and other to be here now. Available in the newly launched VRNACLR x LYHL collaboration - use and gift items that inspire and prompt positive change. Purchase at RedBubble:

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Elle is joined on The LYHL Podcast by two lovely humans & singer-songwriters: Lauren Evans & Sergio Snow.

They fully embrace the practice of considering and discussing how we can live our healthiest lives.

The conversation is wealthy with topics including:

• Supporting one another
• Calling 
• Making healing accessible to the masses
• Words create worlds 
• Michael Jackson’s "Heal the World" 
• The joy in creation 
• Collaboration
• Quantum physics 
• Energy exchange 
• Music as spiritual & healing like 12 steps in AA
• Art requiring surrender 
• Unlearning
• Awakening 
• Alignment 
• Integration of physical, mental, and Emotional well-being 
• Gardening as a metaphor for life
• Flourishing personally, communally, and in the environment/nature
• Creating art that you need and sharing it
• Fear in the atmosphere
• Confirmation bias
• Making yourself a safe space for others
• Cultivating empathy 
• Growing goodness
• Glimmers of hope
• Conquering the dark
• Preservationism
• Burying head in the sand
• Journaling as a mirror for self-examination of behavior 
• Visualization specifics of future self and future life during meditation 
• Transitioning familial patterns to healthier celebrating
• Lauren's Newsletter: "Pen Alchemy" 
• Glee versus joy
• Alchemizing difficulties into goodness and beauty
• Not feeling guilty about your needs for a day
• You’re never stuck; you can always change

You can be in touch with Lauren & Sergio and connect with their song "Glimmers"

IG, Bluesky & TikTok: @thereallevans

Facebook: OfficialLaurenEvans

Website: www.laurenevans.com

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IG: @thesnowverse

Email: [email protected]

Youtube: Sergio Snow

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Spotify: 

https://open.spotify.com/album/6W7VUOFLQLy2FWNzp2ENN7?si=C2ZLo2WuRTCRxTmAIvuP6Q

Apple Music: 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/glimmers/1795153537?i=1795153538

YouTube Lyric Video:

https://youtu.be/G6S1wcAxip8

YouTube of Performance at Kulak's:

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Often we need each other to help because we become stuck. I've spent several decades helping people heal pain. Here I discuss the more challenging layer of emotional energy being stuck and stored in the body and leading to physical pain.

Described and demonstrated is using LQEB - low, quiet, easy breathing and SBS - sense, breathe, say combined with progressive emotional intelligence and presents to identify and thus process stored pain and emotions and release through identification, breath, awareness, and curiosity.

Pain coaching info available at: LYHL Coaching and Physical Therapy

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Need a dose of loving, laughing, listening, wise vibrant 90 year olds in your life? Would you benefit from models of healthy relationships and marriage? Want to be inspired about how to live a life of purpose - rooting your identity in your soul and knowing how to give that to others and the world?

Then have a listen to this podcast episode with between Elle and Sally and David Evans married nearly 70 years!

Full of advice, wisdom, chatter, playfulness, curiosity, listening, engagement, friendliness, noticing, energy, amazement, generosity, preciousness, unity, integration, learning, caring communication, connection, spirituality, self-expression, and uniqueness (yes - we even talk about being weird!)

You'll be hard-pressed to be leave this rare conversation unchanged

72 minutes well spent!

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May you always see the blessing.