The Tiny Pod

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

This week is all about how we try to quantify our life to find meaning, comfort and a sense of control.

Our modern world celebrates quantity - how much money, power, achievements, titles, friends we have. We measure the success of relationships in the length of time couples are together.

It is in the quality, not quantity, that true value is found.

See you next week,

M x

Transaction originally meant to drive something through, bringing something to fulfilment. It was complete in and of itself.

Over time, transaction became about exchange, commerce, giving and receiving, and it is this modern understanding that has become contaminated by fear, greed and ego.

Transaction from scarcity is a trauma response. When you are in survival, transaction is about trying to win.

Overflow transaction is about living in a state where you can’t lose. When you are whole, you give from fullness without need for return because you are already complete. Giving is a natural extension and expression of your fullness, and sovereignty. You can give love, energy, resources and time without any expectation, and this is where true freedom, trust, and alignment live.

It is from our own fullness that we are able to build and nurture true, authentic connection with others fearlessly.

See you next week,

Miranda x

Today on The Tiny Pod is all About Dominance.

Dominance is a survival mechanism, it is primal- whoever had resources, territory and control survived. Dominance is built on the nervous system of the traumatised.

Our modern world today continues to reward dominance: those who perform, control, force and strive garner attention, wealth, power and influence. Dominators have to win at all costs because their identity collapse without the win. True Power doesn’t need a victory to know its worth. Dominance is loud, it shouts, true power simply is.

Dominance is outward: force, performance, ego, spectacle. True power is quiet certainty, alignment, conviction, presence, grace and humility. Cultivating true power and breaking free of domination systems requires nervous system regulation, emotional maturity, and alignment. It is a shift from “I must dominate to be worthy,” to knowing you are inherently worthy and therefore do not need to dominate, prove or fight for control.

See you next week,

Miranda x