The Practice

How many of your habits come from a place of love? How many come from a place of striving — to be ‘more’ or ‘better’ or ‘enough’? If any tend to come from the latter category, listen in for what might be a helpful and nourishing reframe.

Counterintuitive though it may be, choosing ease can actually be the more productive option - and one that is so often dismissed in our culture. Tune in for a a few examples and ideas of how this might look in your own life.

The fear of missing out can have a huge impact on decisions we make. In addition to that, we often worry that saying “no” might prevent a future opportunity or otherwise negatively impact us, when really it can give us the ease we desire. Listen in for a guiding question to help you make decisions in a way that aligns with who you truly want to be.

We’ve all heard about the “fight or flight” response, but in reality the nervous system is more nuanced than that. Understanding how the body responds to stress can help you to grow in awareness of yourself and to understand that the body always acts in service of survival — an understanding that can lead to greater self compassion.

Being around family isn’t always easy or pleasant, and there are some clear reasons for why that may be the case. There are also, however, actions and understandings that can bring more ease into those moments. Listen in for some ideas that you can carry with you this holiday season.

So often we view challenges as things that hinder us or hold us back. But what happens when we actually face up to them and take them on full force? Sometimes the energy of that encounter is enough to propel us further than we could have imagined – further than we could have gotten by tiptoeing through the challenge. Listen in for ideas on how this might look and how to implement it into your own life.

Sometimes it can be helpful to understand why we are feeling a certain emotion or reacting a certain way. Other times though, identifying an origin or creating a story only gives that emotion more power. Sometimes the best thing we can do is not create a story and instead simply acknowledge what’s there for what it is. Listen in for some ideas on how this might look as well as how to implement this practice in your own life as a means of creating healing and liberation for yourself.

Emotions are inevitable. However, they don’t always need a story or to carry some big meaning. Listen in to learn how you might better sit with your experience without the need to fully explain or step away from it.

Growth is a beautiful thing, but it is not always pleasant and it’s rarely ever easy. The process of growing involves grief in many forms — tune in for a conversation on this topic and some insights as to how to embrace the process of growth - messy parts and all.

What is a “passion project” and how might creating one help you feel more fulfilled? Tune in for some ideas.