We spend our whole lives doing. Nevermind that we are called human BEINGS, for most of us, all day, every day is do, do, do. But WHY do we do anything at all? This episode explores the often elusive, subtle nature of our doing that can bring us to an utter sense of peace and contentment: doing because the act itself is sufficient unto itself.

We spend so much of our time trying to find balance, equilibrium, center. As someone who has dedicated myself to a process of growth and self-compassion, being in balance has always been a target. This is episode is all about the epiphany that has changed the balance game!

Just about anyone who talks about mindfulness will inevitably talk about learning to hold ourselves. I, personally, have been talking about and teaching this for the last 10 years. But in recent years, the power and true meaning of this practice and concept has transformed into something deep and unexpected. In this episode, journey with me through the concept changes and evolution or REvolution of what it means to truly HOLD OURSELVES, and why it is the path to ultimate freedom.

Welcome to 2024!

On this episode we explore the "aha" moment of not making our minds our enemies. From how we're raised to view and judge ourselves naturally to even the language we sometimes hear on our spiritual paths, making the mind the enemy: putting it in its place or "controlling" it sometimes seems the ultimate goal. So today we work through the transformative possibility of making the mind our friend even during meditation.

Living in a society that glorifies goals and the idea of "more," this poem explores the idea of the question "what's next?"

This is the first offering of a new series on the podcast called Spoken Poetry. They are not "episodes," if you will, but rather offerings of words written in moments of inspiration and deep feeling. May they serve your spirit and awaken you to love that you already are.

In the first episode of 2023, I have a conversation with entrepreneur, spiritual enthusiast, and conscious living explorer Ash Geary around FEAR. What IS fear? How can we navigate our moments of fear in a way that brings us closer to the truth of who we are? This episode explores fear from tools and practices to lessen the pain all the way to the root of fear itself: death and the loss of everything we know and love. Such an honor to learn and explore with Ash and share his wisdom with you all.

We live our lives in a perpetual state of "doing." Every day is comprised of moving from one task to another: one thing to accomplish after the other. While this is necessary to live and survive, this episode explores untethering our worthiness from our productivity, success, and all our doings. Where can happiness and satisfaction come from if they are only attainable through what we accomplish? WHEN is it enough, and what MIGHT it feel like to define our worth by HOW we are rather than WHAT we do?

Often we devote so much energy, conscious and unconscious, to anticipating the outcomes of experience. How is something going to go? What do we want the outcome to be? What outcomes are we afraid of? We become anxious with the reality that the outcome, no matter how much we prepare, is unknown until we find ourselves alive in it as it unfolds.

This episode explores the idea that WHAT we have been focusing on in the hopes of preparing and easing our suffering is actually the wrong thing. If the outcome is largely out of control, what would it be like to focus on how we want to FEEL regardless of how things play out?

We are unconsciously conditioned throughout our lives to protect ourselves. Of course we are! Being in pain...well...HURTS. This episode explores, however, the possibility that the ways we have unconsciously learned to protect (things that served us in the past) may actually be creating more harm and pain than protection. We look at a new possibility for the greatest protection imaginable (at least the greatest I've ever experienced as of yet!).