Waking Up in America

This Special Christmas Episode of “Waking UP in America” is packed with amazing guests, gift ideas, beautiful music and featuring an awesome Country music singer and actor Waylon Payne! SPONSORED by Grgich Hills and Ilirija Resorts

FEATURING:

WAYLON PAYNE, country singer and actor, KRYS MIDGETT, founder “Give a Little Nashville”, BRETT SWAYN, founder “The Cookery”, KEISHA OLDS, founder “Spoilt Magazine”, MICHAEL ALVEY trio, BRIAN HANSON on piano

FILMED at SEALE KEYWORKS, Franklin TN

Sound engineered by BRYAN LENNOX

SET DESIGN by Angela DeYoung

Waking UP For Christmas

This year, I’ve been exploring turning points that shift us into living with joy and purpose, and then bring goodness and love into our world.

Isn’t that what Christmas is about?

It’s a pretty big turning point in the history of the world that shifted us (or at least intended to shift us) into light, love and peace. The Gregorian calendar – one that has been used as an unofficial global standard for a while now – has always been centered around that turning point.

Every year as Christmas comes around, we collectively try to bring more of that light, love and peace into our world. We decorate our surroundings in ways that visually represent this ‘special’ time, we make delicious food that gathers us all together and nourishes our bodies, we create art and music that tell stories of the faith and miracles that accompanied the First Christmas, we wait for Santa Claus to deliver his gifts – presents which symbolically represent God’s gift to humanity. Presents that hold love and a message: I see you, I care about you, I love you. You matter.

When on Christmas morning children run down the stairway and look under the tree, that is what deep within their hearts they are looking for: a wish come true, a present that’s more than just a thing. Wrapped in love, representing to them someone that cares for them. Someone that says: “I love you… I see you… You matter.”

This message is what I believe we are all called to do, not only on Christmas but on every day of the year.

So I invited a few guests to share their ways to give, uplift, love and care for our world in this special episode of Waking Up in America filmed in Nashville and filled with great music.

Featured Songs:

“How I Love the Christmas Season” by Tajci

Performed by Tajci

“Move” by Brett Swayn

Performed by Brett Swayn

“O Holy Night”

Performed by Waylon Payne

“Where in the World” by Brian Hanson

Performed by Waylon and Tajci

“Silent Night”

Performed by Tajci

“Sto je Bozic” by Hrvoje Hercek

Performed by Tajci

“What Child is This”

Performed by Michael Alvey Trio

“I Wonder As I Wonder”

Performed by Tajci

“O Tannenbaum”

Performed by Michael Alvey Trio

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Season 2 – EP 35 (Special)

Watch episode with Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms: Love Heals Every Body

Read Tajci’s blog on Tajci.net

From Tajci’s Blog:

I used to always fall apart on Thanksgiving Day. I felt overwhelming gratitude, but also an inability to truly accept the grace and love it brought to me.

As an immigrant, I was grateful for every open heart that showed me kindness and welcomed me into their home – both physically in sharing the resources and opportunities of their country and in offering me a seat at their table, and spiritually in inviting me into their hearts, our shared home where Love is the host. As a traveler and a seeker, I was grateful for the bumps, high peaks and low valleys of the road I’d been on.

But for a long time, along with the gratitude, I carried regret, guilt and self-judgment, not willing to leave it behind.

A move to Nashville, Tennessee came as the perfect external shift to trigger an internal one, and the opportunity to try to let go of some of that baggage.

Only a few months after the move, a friend invited me to the meditation circle at Thistle Farms, a community for women who have survived sex trafficking, abuse, addiction and prostitution founded by Reverend Becca Stevens. <<< Read more

 

Connect with Thistle Farms

Web: ThistleFarms.org

FB: ThistleFarms

Twitter:  @thistlefarms

YouTube: ThistleFarms

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Read Becca Steven’s Books:

The Way of Tea and Justice (by Becca Stevens) on Amazon.com

Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling (by Becca Stevens) on

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Featured Song:

“Love Heals” by Donna Dozier

A look at the season of interviews and stories we featured on this show, and why we believe it’s important we keep telling these stories of awakening.

Season 2 – EP 34

Read Tajci’s End of Season blog on Tajci.net

From Tajci’s Blog: Making Big Life Shifts – It’s Not That Scary After You Learn a Few Lessons From Those Who Have Done It

Over the past year I’ve interviewed 32 guests on my show Waking Up in America about turning points in various aspects of their lives.

Many of them had CLEAR life-altering events that caused them to change their behaviors and thought patterns. For some it was a SERIES of external triggers that finally awoke them, while for a few they were able to listen to that WHISPER deep within their soul and avoid a loud wake-up call.

Here are some of the things they learned and what we can apply to our own lives. (For the full list, visit WakingUpinAmerica.net)

1. “Everything is dependent upon our ability to sit with discomfort. And not numb it, and not reject it and not use it to hurt other people… but just sit with pain. Everything beautiful comes from there.” – Glennon Melton

I learned from Glennon Melton that it’s only when we are able to sit with discomfort that we can understand WHY and WHAT we need to shift in our lives in order to move out of it.

2. Change requires risk, and with any risk comes the possibility of failure. Fear of failure and humiliation keeps us inactive.

Four ‘ordinary Moms’ shifted from passively waiting to stepping into their power to help with the hunger in Croatian schools. In just a few months they secured over a half million lunches and moved the government to address this problem.

<<< read more here

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Twitter:  @tajcicameron

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Jamie Marich, PhD is a life-long dancer, the founder of Dancing Mindfulness, an author and a clinical counselor who leads trainings and retreats on trauma, addiction and mindfulness worldwide. She talks about overcoming fear and her path from overcoming addiction to bringing healing and developing Dancing Mindfulness.

Season 2 – EP 33

Read full blog on HuffPost

Click here for full transcript.

From HuffPost Blog: Waking Up to Dance, Mindfully

I am dancing in Dr. Jamie Marich’s session of Dancing Mindfulness, following her instructions the best I can:

“There are no steps to follow… your body knows what to do… Mindfulness is noticing without judgment… “

When Jamie puts a slow piece on, my feet plant themselves in one spot. Now only my arms are dancing — slowly, as if delicately moving the air around me, and along with the air any feelings that are surfacing and radiating from me. I release tears that I didn’t even know I was holding back, and my dance like a flow of water moves them in a circular motion until they all evaporate and lift up into the heavens like a weightless cloud. <<< read more here

Connect with Jamie

Web: JamieMarich.com & DancingMindfulness.com

FB: DancingMindfulnessHome

Twitter:  @jamiemarich   @dancingmindful

Instagram: drjamiem

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