Renowned “Ritual Lady” Barbara Biziou is on hand to get this month’s Blissful Living theme rolling, with a few pointers on how to turn daily mundane and repetitive routines into rich rituals—and explains why we would even want to.

Not everyone who comes into our life is destined to stay forever. In this final part of our practice before the practice, we contemplate how to move on when surrender might mean allowing the ones we love to leave.

Grab your broom and garbage bags. We’re clearing the space for a deeper more tranquil experience, by letting go of the stuff that is creating clutter and hampering all the good work of our meditation practice.

Get ready for an emotional and spiritual detox in this episode where we are encouraged to experience blissful living through surrender and release hang-ups, guilt, worry, stress, and anything else that no longer serves us.

We may roll our eyes or squirm in discomfort at the very idea of it but, as our host discusses with special guest Ester Nicholson in part one of this month’s theme of blissful living through surrender, radical forgiveness is an essential spiritual practice to engage in before the practice.

While taking an online meditation course with our host, a student found himself plagued by tumultuous emotions that stymied his good intentions for sustaining a meditation practice. This was until he broke his foot; then he discovered the only place he could go was within.

If it’s true that “Tears are a river that takes you somewhere” then cry me a river, says our host who in this episode, without being maudlin about it, suggests it’s perfectly all right to shed a tear or two in one’s quest for blissful living through authenticity.

We’re experiencing blissful living through authenticity this month. What better way to start it off than with the wisdom words of the well-known guru Dr. Seuss who says: “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

Do you have trouble getting to sleep? Or, do you toss and turn all night and wake up feeling groggy? In the final part of our self-care series for May, our host provides suggestions for quality sleep and leads a lullaby meditation that will probably have us out for the count and slumbering like a newborn baby.

Someone really smart once said when we engage in self-care, the people in our lives get the best of us rather than what’s left of us. In this episode we share a word of encouragement with caregivers who are used to putting others before themselves.