Things That Will Help

This week, Buffy delivers stories of slowing down and celebration through the metaphors of Speed Bumps and Parades.  Listen to tales of temper tantrums and raging inner fires, and how speed bumps can be a tool for course correction and parades a tool for recalibration. Your energy is currency, and speed bumps and parades will help you in spending and celebrating your energy in a wise and mindful way.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

We spend so much time considering how other people think of us, rather than tending to the core of who we are - rather than remembering ourselves. If you stripped away all of the personal hurts, injustices, and trauma that have covered you up, and made you self-protect over the years, what would be underneath that? What's the quality you come by most honestly?

In this episode, you’ll learn how to remember yourself - your deepest self - through stories of dancing through Alzheimer's, organ transplants and cellular memories, Little Orphan Annie, and more.

Buffy references Joy Harjo in this episode. Watch the incredible video of Marta C. González here.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Did you know that mutts are generally healthier than purebred dogs? Buffy talks about why that makes sense, and shares stories of Anusara yoga, "guru moments," and how cherry-picking the sweet fruit from various systems can help you build your  own personal system of integrity, intuition, and wisdom.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Well… it’s election week, and even though Buffy recorded this before we knew the results, her message is simple: roll out the red carpet for your feelings. Be in their bigness, their complexity, and their fullness. Don’t skip over them. Are you celebrating this week? Feel it. Grieving? Feel it. And, no matter what, remember: we can’t abide in feeling by ourselves. Find your people, be in community, and live into the question instead of the answer.

She references Tanya Crosby in this episode.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

What do you believe in? What do you give a damn about? In this episode, Buffy talks about the high stakes moment in time we are living in, a time where neutrality and silence can have dangerous consequences. She asks you to consider what you, right now, you are hooking your hitch to. You’ll hear mosh pit metaphors, wrong-place-wrong-time stories, and a great wide call to yoke your beliefs to your on-the-ground action.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Beauty marks are daily, sense-based, present-tense small treasures that are hopeful, happy, and good. Small lighthouses. They don’t negate anything hard, but they help one to remember the beauty amidst the difficulty.  She reads the original Things That Will Help by her brother Benjamin, who was the catalyst for this podcast.

There is so much difficulty these days. No matter what you are managing in your life,  Buffy encourages you to discover the “beauty marks” in your own life by sharing the simplicities of her own. Her stories will have you “mhm-ing” and “mmmm-ing” for the duration of the episode. This week, make a list of your own beauty marks.

She references “Today” ‘by Mary Oliver, Anne Lammott, and Billy Collins. 

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Intuition: it’s really simple, and it’s really hard. It is, like most things, a practice. The voice of our intuition is always there, but we listen selectively. Buffy weaves stories of torn ACLs, blue necklaces, and a dangerous hot springs encounter, which will have you both holding your breath and breathing more deeply afterward.

This week, get quiet enough to hear yourself. Get low enough to the ground to prioritize listening for what’s next. The thing is, we usually know what to do, but we don’t usually slow down enough to listen. Your body is likely talking to you already.

She references Doe Zantamata in this episode.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Do you ever find yourself minimizing your suffering because of how it compares to other suffering in the world, in your community, in your family? In this episode, Buffy talks about the insidious trap of comparative suffering - the way it stifles your story, makes small your grief, and in the end, really doesn’t help anybody. Listen to stories of apology, struggling creatives, and the way hidden suffering amplifies shame.

It’s possible to hold your grief while also staying present to the world’s suffering. Both don’t have to disintegrate, and both deserve proper attention. This week, feel your body, move your muscles, sweat, meditate, sleep, and unpack your suitcases of suffering with people you trust. Get clear so you can bring forth your medicine.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Between the rapid fire news cycle and the pandemic of 2020, we are square in the middle of collective resilience training. Buffy reframes the idea of resilience from “bouncing back” into a new picture of “bouncing forward.” Resilience isn’t really possible if we get too nostalgic about the way things were - we have to stick in the present tense, and to build and bounce forward from challenge and difficulty.

She invites space for the fits, the tantrums, and the grieving spaces before we bounce forward. In order practice resilience, we have to feel and acknowledge the weight of the loss and disruption. You’ll hear stories of interrupted music ritual, cow hearts, and more. 

“Resilience is a newer, stronger place. It’s a repurposed place. It’s a place that is smartly designed to go with a new world or perspective that’s being offered. The world you didn't want, or expect to plan for, but the one that was handed to you anyway. We are building a new thing, and somehow, we must find the deep down trust in this process.”

Buffy references Andrew Zolli, co-author of “Resilience.”

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).

Buffy extends the idea of“birth” out of the sole context of birthing a child, and into the world of birthing ideas, business, creativity, relationships, and family structures. In our creative lives, an incubation period is necessary, and how when we over-share, or share too soon, we jeopardize a vital, healthy birth. “When we let things marinate in the dark, they build blood, bone, and nutrients, just like a baby in the womb.”

Who are your midwives for your creativity? Where could you let ideas and beliefs ripen? You’ll hear stories of tomatoes, naysayers, and more.

Buffy references Valarie Kaur, Walt Whitman, and W. B. Yeats.

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Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Lee-Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Daniele Alling (www.ritualmade.com).