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This episode discusses the importance of remaining curious, standing witness, and observing how we operate within our relationships so we can show up better for ourselves and each other.

As we continue to navigate the unknown, we are faced with extreme pressures and confronting defenses causing separation and inflicting pain. This episode discusses ways to approach separation through self-evaluation for clarity, alignment, and resolve.

An unexpected snowfall in Seattle brought forth an opportunity to reflect on intentional living by returning to natural cycles of life through seasonal change and preparing for the upcoming New Year.

This episode explores how I process my dreams to see what fears or pain are living in my body and provides the techniques I use to release them for myself and my lineage.

What are we doing out of obligation or commitment and why? This episode invites you to evaluate why you participate in events or commitments. Do you feel obligated? Pressured? Or, is it a joyful choice? Listen in to learn a simple exercise to get to your answer.

Where are we denying ourselves self-care and why? What are the stories we tell ourselves that justifies our reasoning behind this denial? Today's episode provides some great questions for you to ask yourself and provides context for the current energies.

The big questions are asking to be answered. Who am I? What do I care about and what do I actually want? When you strip away all of the associations and inherited ways of being, what's left? Who's left? This episode speaks to the number one question to ask to get closer to who you are. Related Episodes:

We've been trained to compare ourselves to others all of our lives. How do we balance comparison so it's supportive vs. destructive? This episode speaks to the slippery slope of comparison and what to do when you are stuck in a loop.

An intimate discussion of my self-realization journey over the past four months and a glimpse of my life as a digital nomad.

When we transition between one phase of our lives to another, there is a time between where you were and where you are going that requires stillness in the present moment. It requires surrender of perceived control and allowing for what is taking place to take form. This episode discusses aspects of this process and how to look at it objectively for greater ease through this transitional period.

What do you do when someone actively chooses to violate a boundary you have set? How do you handle that in an empowering and neutral way while being direct? Here are some tips along with a scenario that played out in my life recently.

I speak into an awareness that came to light around pregnancy, shame, and how it influenced my choices around motherhood.

“It’s complicated.” If I could check a relationahip box with my social media habits, it would have been that one. Not anymore though! I had to bring my relationships with my phone and social media into balance. Here’s how I reined it in with these simple tips helping me regain my energy, experience fewer headaches, and feel less bogged down.

In this episode, I address the opportunity we have to explore or ignore the sensations and feelings within us that point us to clarity and understanding. How do we identify red flags and what do we do with them once they arise?

Our relationship to our material possessions can be complicated. Do the items you possess bring you pleasure or pain? Every item we have contains a memory. Even if some carry “micro-pains”, multiple micro-pains can quickly add up. Where can you clean house? What brings you JOY and what brings you PAIN, even if micro?

Join me and the tropical rains of Hawaii as I discuss listening vs. hearing. Are you listening deeply or just hearing what is being shared with you? ⁣ ⁣ This episode discusses the difference between listening intently vs. waiting to speak or projecting what you think maybe happening. Can you stand witness another through deep listening? ⁣ ⁣ In this episode, I discuss ways to shift the way you engage in conversations to deepen the connection and emotional intimacy between you and the one sharing. ⁣⁣

I got a healthy dose of medicine this morning after feeling the emotions of irritation, frustration, aggravation, and anger towards myself for not spending my time wisely. ⁣ ⁣ In this episode, I discuss time and attention as it relates to evolving out of old habits and patterns. ⁣ ⁣ ✨How are you spending your time?⁣ ✨Who and what is receiving your attention? ⁣ ✨Are you responding to situations, scenarios, and people with an old habit or pattern that no longer is supportive or true for you? ⁣ ⁣ I discuss ways to become more aware of your needs, what’s true for you, how to identify when you are dropping into an old pattern while also helping you respond compassionately towards yourself as you grow and evolve. ⁣⁣

Join me, and the winds in the Hawaiian palm trees, as I share my heart on the topic of legacy, the passing of it, and the responsibility that comes along with it. ⁣ ⁣ With the recent passing of my 100 year old Grandma and the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I was feeling the enormity of the responsibility we now hold as the torch has been passed to the next generation. ⁣ ⁣ We would not be who we are today if women like them had not paved the way for us. The question is, what will we do about it? How will we carry on their legacy and continue to pave the way for those to come? ⁣ ⁣ We can do what once was considered impossible. Why? Because they made it possible. Now it’s our turn to make more possible. ⁣⁣

A year ago, I started a podcast for personal talk therapy as a way of helping me work things out with myself out loud. ⁣ ⁣ After realizing how many people assumed I was living a life of ease based on my Instagram feed, I also wanted to help shed light on the illusion that our curated social media highlights are NOT our actual lives. ⁣ ⁣ My intention was to provide an inside view of my day-to-day reality while sharing insights along the way to help ease the journey of self realization for all those who listen. ⁣ ⁣ Today, I celebrate a year of fun, insight, transformation, and love. A heart-felt THANK YOU for being here! ⁣⁣

Taking responsibility for our experience begins with setting an intention on how you show up to every situation presented to you. Like attracts like. I share an example of how to approach and manage your energetic output for a more aligned response vs. emotional reaction. Ask yourself: How Do I Want To Show Up Today?

Join me as I guide you through a 12 minute meditation to help relax your body, still your mind, and allow your nervous system to come into balance.

How often do you defer responsibility of your choices by having others choose for you? ⁣ ⁣ I realized I was doing this all the time masking it as being a “team player”, “fluid”, or “cool” resulting in obligations I didn’t want and some really hard lessons. ⁣ ⁣ Ultimately, this pattern was disempowering by handing over my choices to others with the hope and expectation they would meet my needs. Here is how I overcame it and how you can too. ⁣⁣

Getting Comfortable with Discomfort. As we continue to evolve and more things are presented to us to respond to, discomfort is going to arise. This episode gives a few tips on how to deal with discomfort in a way that is productive and fruitful.

Everyone struggles with overcoming obstacles associated with our perceptions and beliefs formed from our childhood but many have no idea how to figure out what they are or how to clear them. ⁣ ⁣ My series, PERCEPTIONS, discusses into some of my personal perceptions and shows how intricately entwined many of them can be. ⁣ ⁣ Today’s podcast discusses my obstacle of overcoming the fear of speaking up and using my voice to express without fear and how sometimes we need external forcing functions to help fuel the fire to burn away those fears. ⁣⁣ ⁣

Bold statement, isn’t it? Well, there’s deep truth here. Today’s episode shatters the illusion around rejection. Bottom line: you will never be rejected again if you commit to authenticity. This will heal so much for you.

Every moment, encounter, and experience that we have had up until this moment has been preparing you to handle what is ahead. In this episode, I share three significant events that had occurred in my life to help me prepare for future events and how I navigated through it.

This episode talks about the critical realization that helped me create my dream life and move from conformity to creation. “Your dream job doesn’t exist. You must create it.” -Unknown

I had a big awakening around my idea of gender roles and what I was portraying vs. what I actually believe and desire. This episode discusses ways to evaluate your beliefs around gender roles and steps to take to determine what is true for you and what isn’t.

When emotions run high, we can respond from a reactive place causing additional damage. Today’s episode discusses ways to tune into what is happening within you as triggers arise and how to manage them. {Includes: Tropical birds and palm tree breezes} RELATED: Check out additional episodes in the SERIES: PERCEPTIONS to deepen your experience.

When circumstances feel uncertain and a path forward is unclear, trust that your inner guidance will never lead you astray. This episode speaks about how to use your inner knowing as a tool to guide you forward with clarity and confidence.

Today I discuss coming into the awareness around my perception that success had to be hard in order to achieve it, my dream job wasn’t a reality, and if it wasn’t an empire, it wasn’t successful.

Today’s episode discusses how we often use distraction to avoid things that are uncomfortable by doing, doing, doing. When all the actions that can be taken have been taken, we can find ourselves in a place of irritation or frustration with having to be patient and sit still. This is the perfect opportunity to see if we are intentional in our actions or just doing something to distract resulting in burn out and exhaustion.

Join me for 60 seconds of peaceful sounds as the water trickles into the river and the birds sing from high above.

The moment when someone accepts you, or a part of you, in a way that you wouldn’t have accepted yourself, brings to light how strong the hold of personal worthiness is. Personal acceptance is the key to internal peace.

I always thought if I had more, went somewhere else, did something different, I would find what I was looking for. I finally realized it’s not about getting somewhere.

Sometimes we block ourselves from the things we most desire like Love, Wealth, Success, and Security without even realizing we are doing it. How? Our perceptions! Perceptions are the subconscious beliefs we hold and drive our decision making process. Recently, I was invited to retrace my steps in my hometown to uncover what beliefs live within me that are subconsciously blocking my conscious decisions. What are the perceptions you hold that are blocking you from a achieving your goals?

Are you accidentally creating separation by self-protecting or guarding yourself against judgement, rejection, or assumed pain? I was given another beautiful lesson today on how my narratives are an illusion of safety and actually creating more separation when the intention is belonging.

As the entire globe is experiencing triggers in real-time, here is a way to see triggers as an opportunity for clarity, understanding and behavioral change.

Reflecting on my perceptions of a “Woman’s Role” in marriage made me aware of why I resisted marriage for so long. As I changed the question from “do I believe in marriage?” to “do I believe in sacred union?”, my perspective shifted. But why?

Enjoy 90 seconds of peace as you listen to the icicles slowly dripping as they melt as the birds sing their sweet spring song and the wood peckers peck.

In this series, I share the journey of retracing my steps in my hometown to uncover and discover experiences that have shaped my adult life. Today’s episode goes deep into experiences with orbs, out of body elevation, and E.T. contact.

Today’s episode reflects on a pivotal time in my life that put things into perspective about happiness, success, and my relationship to things. How do you define success and is it a result of social conditioning or your heart’s desire? Is over consumption, consumerism, and influence ultimately causing you pain?

The gift of sacred silence allows us to process without distraction, influence or interruption. In this episode, I discuss permission to create the space to do so and questions to contemplate anytime you are in a transitional point or growth stage of your life.

Becoming aware of how labels or identifications can further separate us from each other and send misconstrued messages. What do you identify yourself as and is it supportive or counterproductive?

Becoming a better leader, partner, friend, lover, community member, parent etc. begins with steps to expanding your personal development through participation. You may not understand why things happen, why there are challenges, repeated cycles, and experiences but each of these opportunities help you see or feel what‘s working and what isn’t. Understanding the phases one goes through during times of growth will give you context and a gentle reminder that development takes time. Just like it takes time for a caterpillar to become a butterfly.

I had a big awareness hit me today about one of my perceptions around love and attraction. This episode talks about how and when our beliefs are formed and an activity to do to see what you actually believe around subjects such as love, success, and money.

Today’s episode speaks to the current energies of the now moment, what is happening over the next week, and how to manage it. First episode of the new decade!

The Bali Birds and I reminisce on my favorite holiday traditions and wishes for Christmas experiences. NOTE: It’s a bit windy on the mic.

AH-HA Segments are moments of realization that come to mind but aren’t long enough for a full podcast. Just a small, yet big, awareness or insight. Enjoy!

Welcome to the truth train. All aboard!

How to manage yourself during tricky conversations. When charged conversations arise, how do you handle it? Today I speak to an invaluable lesson I learned this summer when debating with my Dad.