This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Ceasefire. From the Latin word Cessare, meaning to stop, to yield, to give over, a ceasefire is an exhale, a nervous system rest and reset, and it is only when our nervous systems are parasympathetic, at rest, that we are able to see with clarity and a clear head, and negotiate real peace. Ceasefires create space for peace by stopping further harm, pausing active attacks, and giving clarity a moment to settle. It is a step towards armistice and peace, a pause, not permanent resolution but in that pause peace can be found.

As without, so within. When we let the word Ceasefire land on hearts, we feel relief, we soften, we put down our weapons of self-criticism, pressure, perfectionism and allow calm to settle. Ceasefire with ourselves is permission to stop fighting with our self, with others, and with the world. It is in allowing ourselves to be as we are, and others to be as they are, and let life keep lifing that we find peace and stop exhausting ourselves fighting against life as it is.

The practice of peace is to notice when we have picked the weapons back up, and choose again and again to put them down. It is a continual, committed practice that takes active surrender to life as it is, and commitment to no longer fighting reality.

A ceasefire is a conscious interruption of harm, in a system that has become used to conflict, and creates space for something new to emerge. It is not final, but often the first honest step towards lasting peace.

When we regulate our nervous systems we naturally, and consciously move away from anything and anyone that does not bring peace. And each time we choose peace, we choose to put the weapons down, we are really choosing ourselves, choosing each other, choosing love and choosing life. True ceasefire is positive, encouraging, hopeful and an invitation into deeper, lasting peace, joy and love.

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This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Faith.

Faith isn't just a feeling, it is a state of being fully sure. Faith is inner fortitude.

“Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Everything we now see was once unseen: houses, buildings, clothes, cars were all once just faith that they were possible. Faith is not 'I’ll believe it when I see it,' Faith is "I will see it when I believe it. I will see it because I believe it>

Faith is not a strategy, it is a frequency, a walk of life, a choice.

Faith is not subject to or dependent on external circumstances, faith remains constant. Faith is a choice that strengthens in endurance and comforts in the storms. Faith is connection.

I have loved creating podcasts here on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It took a leap of faith to begin the Tiny Pod, and what started as a Tiny Pod, a mustard seed of faith, has grown into a tree. This will be my last episode here on Spotify And Apple Podcasts. This sanctuary is moving to Patreon.

I am really excited about this next chapter. Patreon feels safe, secure and intentional, a community where people invest, choose and connect. I value my podcasts and am taking a leap of faith that Patreon will sustain The Tiny Pod.

To those who want to, I will see you on the other side on Patreon. To everyone else, I wish you peace, love and faith on your journey.

Miranda x

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Terror.

Historically, terror is a tool used by governments for control, distraction away from their atrocities, to instil fear to paralyse any resistance.

Terror only survives when we are disconnected - from ourselves, from truth and from each other.

The solution is in your nervous system. When we are rooted in ourselves, we cannot be shaken by terror.

See you next week,

M x

This week on the Tiny Pod is all About Grief.

Grief is found in the everyday, it begins in birth with that first loss of connection from the safety of the womb and compounds throughout childhood with every lost micro connection, trauma, neglect, and moments of rejection and humiliation just for being ourself. We learn early to carry it silently, to adapt, to cope using all the coping mechanisms we can find- denial, avoidance, fantasy, illusion, repression. We get so familiar carrying grief it becomes “normal” and “familiar” in our nervous system. But unfelt grief is heavy, exhausting and impacts us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

When we allow ourselves to feel our grief, to acknowledge our losses and witness our past hurts, we free ourselves from being run by the past. We step into presence, and power.

There is so much collective grief in the world now it can feel debilitating if we are still carrying our own unprocessed personal grief. As we heal, we create space and capacity to connect, to love, to act and to experience joy fully, deeply, now.

See you next week week,

Miranda x

In honour of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and every single human who has courage to stand up to injustice, this week on The Tiny Pod is all About Courage.

The word courage comes from the Latin word ‘cod’ meaning heart. Courage comes from the heart. Our heart is the source of our power, it is the strongest electromagnetic field, it generates our energy.

Broken hearts, hard hearts, act from fear. Cowards hide their faces behind masks, their malice behind power and authority. They are hiding from themselves, from their accountability, from their heart. A regulated person stands, shows their face, and has nothing to hide.

Historically it has always taken courage for the world to change - the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the civil rights movement were all acts of great courage.

Courage is whole hearted, and it asks us to heal our own hearts, to open our hearts and to live wholeheartedly.

In a world of terror and violence, there is a temptation to close, to harden. The revolution is to soften, to remain open, to feel and to love.

Those who love power forget the power of love.

Love overcomes, love wins.

Amor Omnia Vincit,

M xx

.. And Illegal Alien, and inalienable rights and alienation.

This week on the Tiny Pod is all about neutral, natural words immigrant and alien becoming charged when media-political narratives were created as a distraction for power to hide behind.

Dehumanising language removes dignity and protection. Labelling a human being an “illegal alien,” criminalises the person, and strips them of their humanity.

Power uses law to enact violence under the cover of impunity.

Immigration is ancient, biblical, natural.

We are all immigrants, moving from town to town, from emotional state to emotional state. From life to life.

We are all One Human Race. One Humanity.

One Love,

Miranda x

This week is all About Liberal.

The word liberal comes from the Latin word Liber, meaning free. Liberal first found its way into politics in 17th Century England around the time of the “Glorious Revolution.” John Locke, often called the founding father of liberalism, wrote about life, liberty, happiness and self-ownership of property. Thomas Jefferson later took his philosophies and adapted them for the Declaration of Independence- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and modern democracy in France is founded on liberty, equality and fraternity.

It is therefore ironic when people use the term liberal to insult, denigrate or mock another, while using the democratic privileges that liberalism affords them - free speech, platforms, and individual rights.

Woke is not about moral performance, it is moral courage, awareness of social injustice, and staying awake to oppression and corruption. When people attack liberals, left and woke, they are trying to poison the values inherent in the words - fairness, equality, individual rights and freedom. Only politicians who maintain power and control through domination need to vilify conscience with courage and love that refuses to stay silent in the face of injustice, oppression and harm.

May all beings be free 🙏

See you next week,

Miranda x

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🌟

Welcome to Season 5!

As we look back at the year past, and look forward to the year ahead, we have the clarity to see where we are, and to clarify who we are.

Clarifying is a process, it involves heat, pressure, time and patience. We often want to skip the process to get to the result, we imagine results will fulfil us- wealth, love, achievements. But it is the process of clarification that builds strength, resilience, and the capacity to hold all we are moving towards.

To clarify is to strip back, to remove impurities and allow the fog to be cleared so that all that remains is true. Clarifying is simple, quiet, and purifying. It does not promise ease, but it promises honesty, and honesty lived consistently is peace.

See you next week,

Miranda x

This week is all About Capacity.

As the year draws to a close, we reflect on all that has past, and what is to come in the New Year. We make New Years Resolutions, and believe in new possibility. Capacity is the inner structure that allows beliefs to take form: love, money, purpose and change, without collapsing.

Beliefs are the initiator, capacity sustains quietly, through steadiness, regulation and trust.

Belief, and resolutions invite us forward, capacity expands, is patient in discomfort, and steady in change.

Capacity is built in repetitive, moment-to-moment regulation in face of external challenges, emotional vulnerability, and humility.

Capacity enlarges us so that when the life we are building arrives, it lands.

See you next week,

Miranda x

This week is all About Perfection.

The original meaning of perfection was all about wholeness, completion, and the word implied nothing essential was missing.

Our modern world, shaped by religious and capitalist ideas has replaced this completeness with flawlessness.

Perfection is the enemy of the good. Needing every thing to be perfect is a signal the nervous system is deregulated, and essentially the body feels unsafe. Seeking perfection is an unconscious form of control, and creates discomfort, anxiety and stress in the body, and the rooms we inhabit. Perfection is unattainable, elusive and therefore unsatisfying to pursue. When we chase perfection, we miss out on presence.

This Christmas, I encourage you all to relax into the now, to enjoy the truth of being human in all its imperfect, beautiful unpredictability and to focus instead on authentic connection, presence and one another.

Joy cannot exist with perfection, so at this time of year when we want everything to be perfect, instead choose joy. Choose each other. Choose love. Let peace reign in your homes and in your hearts.

Happy Christmas to you and yours 🌟❤️

Much love,

Miranda x