Wild Women Wild Soul Podcast with Morgan Ruff

This was a previously recorded podcast from spring of 2020 that I am honored to re-release here.

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The questions I get asked most often are around mindfulness and meditation. How do I start? Why is it so hard? How do you sit for so long? How do you get your mind quiet (hint, I don't)

I was so trilled to have long time mindfulness teacher Kurt Hoelting share his wisdom and knowledge in this conversation. I love Kurt's connection to wild place and how right now we are all being asked to sit with the wildness of ourselves in really challenging ways.

Please check out his website if you connect with his message: https://www.insidepassages.com/

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What do you do to regain momentum when you find yourself separated from your soul? For me, when I get triggered or start feeling scared I tend to abandon my soul. I put her in a closet and say, stay here, it's safer. This completely cuts me off from my voice and my creative expression. In this episode I describe my process for re-finding my creativity, my flow, and my voice after a rough patch. I hope this is helpful! 

For more information about the FREE 14 Day Gratitude Challenge or to inquire about the Journey to Joy Coaching program please visit my website: morganruff.com

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As always, I so appreciate you and your ongoing commitment and support of me. 

Be Brave and Stay Wild

xoxo,

Morgan

Coming out of the holidays - I feel like a heavy sludge has bogged me down. Maybe it’s too much of the rich foods and “holiday cheer” though I left alcohol in the dust over 4 years ago.

This happens to me frequently as I come out of the season of high expectations that typically surrounds the holidays. This year, 2020, has been so different and so very strange that I have found a lot of tears and grief coming up to the surface, more than may be normal. Grief has a sneaky way of creeping up on me. I might be moving about my day to day and not even notice it lurking around the edges of my mind until, blamo, there she is. And interestingly, it doesn’t always feel like sadness. Sometimes it feels like fiery hot rage that I just want to exhale and burn everything down. Grief is a tricky force for sure. 

After this past few days out of our routine I feel a bit like I’m stuck in quick sand. Many of us know that expression well - but how many of you have any experience with quick sand? I do! As a guide in Alaska we used to visit the outwash plane of a melting glacier. Amongst the boulders were always the patches of smooth sparkling grey sand. It looked so tempting to walk through compared to the uneven surface of the boulder field. The first few people would travel through without a hitch, but if you were a few people back, the ground would quickly give way and if you kept wiggling your boots they would be quickly consumed under the sand and saturated with the milky white water coming from the glacier.

In this podcast I explore some old guide tricks that I learned from these experiences that I think equates to what I’m experiencing now and I hope they will be helpful for pulling you out of the mud as well. 

2020 has been a year of unprecedented interruption. It's asked us to sit with discomfort in many ways. For those of us who are lucky enough to have the resources to feel the comfort of safety and security it's also been an invitation to go inward. To really grapple with some of our shadows and look at our own light. 

Solstice in the northern hemisphere does much of the same. It is the dark days. It is the time we can look to the core of who we are and go inward.

Many of us are feeling the fatigue of the process which still may not have a clear end in sight. But how can we use the energy of solstice to bring nurturing to our roots and release that which is no longer serving us and let it go.

Special Thanksgiving Episode!  

As someone who works for a Native American community I hadn't realized until recently the extent of schooling I've been receiving by being connected to this community. First nations communities live in a culture of gratitude. In this episode I reflect on the significance of a life lived in gratitude and the importance for the future of humanity to live a joyful life.

If you are interested in deepening your gratitude practice and finding your own JOY, join my FREE Journey to Joy program: https://www.morganruff.com/gratitudegroup

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What a pleasure it is to connect with this beautiful human and to share our conversation with all of you. Kristen Stavros

Kristen embodies the word changemaker and wild woman. She lives life with intention, focus and shows up as the true embodiment of her core values and she leads from a place of love and abundance.

The conversation flows through stories of personal change about how Kristen made the shift from a 6 hour commute doing work in the environmental field to becoming one of Whidbey islands leading realtors (and the inner work needed to make that transitions), how outdoor adventures have shaped our relationship with fear, and how leading with love and abundance can change the world.

I really hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Lots of laughter in here....

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