Untaught Essentials

Why this? We over focus on what’s problematic, wrong or broken and that can easily lead to being caught in a doom spiral.

Just like having a balanced food diet is helpful, We need to a balanced energy diet. And we do thatmaking a concerted and conscious effort to see what’s good, strong and helpful. For me, who lived a long time with chronic illness, where it was all to0 easy to get caught up in doom scenarios, so building this particular muscle was essential. Its something you can do everyday and most people find it accessible and helpful.

Why Solidity Practice? This is one of the most basic practices to shift your nervous system. When the world is topsy-turvy and distracted, scattered and overwhelmed….Solidity Practice is an easy way to shift yourself back into the green zone.

Today we’re going to do something a little different. My friend Suraj and I were chatting the other day and he asked me about doing some guided practices as part of the podcast. Give me something I can use to start and end my day with. This is an introduction to the following two practices.

We welcome your feedback, do you like this kind of thing? Should we do more? Send a note to [email protected]

Today’s guest, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, has done more than her fair share to help heal trauma in the world including her own. She’s the creator of mindfulness based the mind fitness training program (MFIT). She’s also professor of security studies at Georgetown University, US Army Veteran, and author of Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma.

We discuss what trauma is, how it distorts people’s lives and how to heal it. We have some interesting explorations about how organizations exploit traumatized people, why so many people in positions of authority are themselves traumatized and the relationship between trauma experiences and overachievement. We had a wide-ranging, engaging conversation that I think you will find very interesting.

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Marcela Widrig has an expansive view of the body. She sees the body as a field of information that can be accessed, dialogued with and related to in ways that that profoundly changes how you relate to your world.

The changes are experienced both inside yourself but also with the people in your life. I’ve sent dozens and dozens of my students, friends and family to her and watched how each one steps into a sense of their promise and possibility as a human being.

Not only can traumas be decisively healed, but there is a vast and expansive world of growth beyond it.

You can learn more about Marcela's work at her website

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This episode is from Wade Brill Centered in the City podcast.

Centered in the City is a virtual oasis to support you living a more mindful and intentional life in the hustle and bustle of your city. Certified Professional Mindfulness Coach, Wade Brill, will lead you in various practical and tangible meditations, discussions and interviews that create a space for you to pause, reflect and connect. Manage stress, anxiety and overwhelm so you can feel more calm, centered and intentional as you live your life in the city.

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For the last episode, we thought it would be fun to do something special. Enjoy this unique episode where I interview a super secret special guest...namely a 7-year old close to my life. What ensues is something typical: moments of intense silliness puntuated with profound wisdom. Enjoy.

In this episode we explore what is beauty? Why do we need the beautiful? According to Sandra B. Lubarsky we have lost something valuable: our relationship to the beautiful. Sandra asks us to look deeper at beauty. Beauty is fundamental to helping us solve our way through many crises we find outselves in. For her, what we find beautiful are patterns of relationship that are generated by life and that sustains and affirms life. Beauty is not a thing as much as a kind of relationship.

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We switch up the format and do something a bit different. Producer Jason Beck steps out behind the curtain to have a conversation about what we learned in the 2 years of doing this show. We chatted about human development, transformation of fear, and the future of human evolution.

My guest Pilar Gerasimo helps answer this question not through simplistic dieting or exercise tips but by asking us to step into a greater sense of who we are.

In her work The Healthy Deviant, she outlines a very practical method for uncovering and taking action on what truly gives you life.

https://pilargerasimo.com/