The Morning Meds Podcast

Today's morning dose will be the last for sometime and what better way to close than on the note of hope? I ruminate on the power of hope, faith and love and the commodities we simply can not do without. 

Struggle. Ironically, this episode was a struggle to create - because it seemed with as much experience as I had in this topic, there were varying obstacles that suddenly reared their head to make it that more challenging to record and release! That being said, we made it, albeit a bit later than scheduled, and in this episode, I get real with what struggle can often look like for me and the ways that I attempt to overcome it. 

This week's episode looks at the instinctual mechanism of "self-preservation" ; but not just in terms of physically but also emotionally. That what can often come disguised as a well-meaning method of survival can really more often than not, keep us in that constant state of simply "surviving", rather than living and thriving in the full potential of what life has to offer. 

Dancing is an expression that weaves and threads through our lives and various cultures as instinctively as breathing or singing. It's a powerful tool of human communication and "The Dance Of Life" is a term often coined to describe our daily lives. In today's dose, I ruminate on what this could mean from an improvisatory perspective of life, and in tandem to the competitive edge of a dance-off that can do more than just provide an entertaining spectacle to be experienced. 

In this episode of Morning Meds, I think about what it really looks like to practice the now very popular and mainstream mantra  #selflove. But really, how many of us are truly doing this the way we ought to, and for the right reasons? It may have never been as important as it is now to really know and actualise the love we were born to carry, without condition; so we can move in the world with the knowledge, and the confidence that we were designed to. 

The three words "Mind The Gap" have become synonymous with modern day mobility and transportation but how synonymous are these three words  with our own personal journeys and lives when we measure where we are now to where we're trying to get to? In today's morning meds, I look at the land of perpetual discontentment and the ways in which we can ensure we don't get stuck there. 

This may be a term that I've just coined but it's helped me to identify what my experience of "minimalist love" has been of late, and why it seems to pervade popular culture and our daily lives more than we realise. With revived reality TV and the technological age fuelling our hunger and access for more, we're inadvertently demanding for less and as little work to get, keep and maintain it. *Disclaimer* This episode was recorded in a moderately quiet courtyard garden whilst I'm currently overseas travelling so excuse the quality and chirping birds! 

Happy New Year folks! It's 2020, a new year, a new decade, a what seems like a new era.  But with this new year, comes the high expectations of becoming somewhat a version 2.0 of yourself - and the stakes are high. Today's morning dose takes a quick look at the more than familiar perils of "the new year, new me" mantra and why there's a better alternative to be had this time around. 

Everyday, we measure ourselves against various standards - but in a world where these are ever changing and often without accurate context, are these standards realistic and frankly, leading us to see ourselves as less than, always striving, daily? Todays dose looks at the metrics of "enoughness" and how to look at ourselves through the eyes of love, rather than the measuring tape of a ""standard". 

Ever been in a supermarket and come across a bulky packet or box of broken biscuits? It's funny how many of us can identify with it, the feeling of being broken in multiple places, emotionally and spiritually, and thus feeling like reduced value goods on a shelf. But this isn't necessarily a reality you have to carry with you, and in today's dose, I look at the redemptive power available to us all; thanks to the broken-ness, and not simply just in spite of it.