Finders Seekers

Baked goods, amusement parks, and the human existence.  

Getting outside our box can bring in a flood of new perspective.  After a few weeks in Sicily, I'm sharing my own revelations with all the Seekers out there.

They say all suffering is the result of attachment.  Even knowing this stuff, even studying the things that cause suffering doesn't exempt us from getting bummed out.  Here are some lessons I'm learning, or trying to learn in what has been a really challenging year.  

This episode is the origin story of this podcast, explains the tiger image, and attempts to the the Truth...in whatever ways I can. 

Have you ever bathed in sound?  It's magic.  But what actually is a sound bath?  My friend Kylie Augustine stopped by today to talk about Sound Baths and how they can induce a meditative state! Kylie is an LA based practitioner and she can be found at soundbathbykylie.com! 

I recently saw this breakdown of the 7 Steps of Spiritual Growth and found myself squarely at a 5: Feeling Lost or Disillusioned.  Until I saw this list, I had been feeling incredibly lost & disillusioned...suddenly I felt like an A student, perfectly nailing level 5.  

Let's talk about the wisdom and spirituality revealed to us by Science Fiction writers.  Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Matrix -- so many similarities, so much wisdom :)

Being interested in others not only makes us more interesting, but it's the antidote to a headline world of non-thinking, folks blindly following mob mentality.  Connection to our fellow man is everything. 

Have you ever felt like it was time to make some new friends? Or make more friends? Why does that feel like cheating on old friends?  How do we go about making friends as adult?  When will this part of life be over! 

What is potential energy?  It's that feeling of being a ball poised at the top of a hill. Where do we have that feeling? Craft store? Hardware store? Farmer's Market?  What then? How do we convert our feelings of potential into Kinetic energy?  How do we generate momentum?  

Human beings, for centuries have been asking the question - how shall we pray? How can we get in touch with all that is? How do we connect? Do we wear this thing? Say these words? Breathe like this?  I'll share my thoughts from a Kundalini yoga class along with a personal miracle I once witnessed.  If I could have another please, that would be great, thanks.  

Is everyone's energy "off" right now?  Is everyone fighting the same virus? What's a solar storm?  What's the effect on our minds/bodies & vibes right now?  Certainly there must be some certainty we can cling to... HA! *Try not to sound too crazy Annie...

What happens when we level-up? What happens when we're about to break through?  When the final pieces of the puzzle are coming together?  Sometimes a whole world of self doubt, a wallop of depression, a fear so deep it can send us running.  Whether we imagine that we are in total control of our lives or that we are at the whim of the gods, we are likely wrong.  How can we dance with the universe so that we take turns leading our lives and allowing for grace, collaboration, and inspiration from the unseen?  

This is an episode about jigsaw puzzles.  Wait, no it's not, it's an episode about life's puzzles.  Actually it's both.  We're talking about the steps of receiving a new problem/puzzle and how we put alllll the pieces together.  Thanks for listening!

Let's talk about the weight of responsibility and how that propels us forward.  As the saying goes: Every baby brings a loaf of bread under his arm. Wait, what? We'll explain on this week's Finders Seekers.

In this podcast we explore my personal favorite model of change: Leap! And your wings will appear!  Happy 2019 friends!

If we start with the premise that all humans are basically good - then how do we forget this: our own basic goodness and that of others? The answer lies in spiritual junk food -- what we've been sold as joy is actually pleasure, pleasure is fleeting and does little to reconnect us to our basic goodness, our life joy.  

A view of love, concretized, made tangible, and given clarity through...poetry?  Oriah Mountain Dreamer's "The Invitation" as interpreted by Anne gives a clear prescription for true love and partnership.

Sometimes you have to be brave before you can be good. In this episode, we explore what we may need our bravery for and how we can practice it in order to get good.

There is a shamanic philosophy that most humans are blocked by one of these three limiting beliefs: I'm unworthy. I'm unlovable. I don't belong.  How can we melt these beliefs and grow beyond them? Let's figure it out.

In our childhood textbooks, at the end of every chapter there would be a test.  Did we really learn the things we read about?  Life sort of treats us in the same manner, when we're about to leap forward we're faced boldly with the big lessons - seemingly all at once. To boot, before a big leap, we are often plagued with doubt.  How can we jump these hurdles? How can we turn the page and make it to the next chapter?  

This week I interview Cardsy B, aka Rebecca Szymczak about how she found her way to spirituality through tarot, numerology and astrology.  She shares a fascinating history lesson and insights into these modalities. Check her out at @cardsyb on Instagram or www.badassbitchestarot.com

Finding the overlap in an Alan Watts lecture, Don Miguel Ruiz Toltec wisdom, and  the book of Exodus. Get your goggles ready!

What is service? I mean what actually counts as service? Let's take a look at some typical assumptions about service and let's dissect them - heck, let's all-out refute them. 

Is strength an emotion? Or the obstacle to it? Is it the facilitator therof? Let's think about it in terms of being in a swimming pool holding a beach ball. Sound fun?  Great.  Tune in!

This week I interview one of my oldest friends, Life Coach, Cory O'Donnell.  We talk about Freshman, Softmore and Junior Years of LIFE. What it must be like to be a senior.  And Zumba Gold.  Check her out at CoryOdonnell.com She's a gem.

What happens to our spiritual practice, our personal practice when we're under pressure?  How do we maintain our center? How can we engage in self-care when life is piling it on?  Let's use a corporate acronym to help us in our spiritual goals. Let's get S.M.A.R.T. 

One assumption: Our outer life is a reflection of our inner life.  This is our examination of that assumption from 3 different angles and the subsequent actions we can take to make meaningful change in our lives as a result of doing the inner work. What is that inner work? How can we get started? We explore some suggestions to help along the Seekers path. 

This episode explores a core philosophy, that souls are eternal, that they're here to learn, expand and gain a practical working knowledge of their eternal wisdom - and how stuffing some soul magic into a meat suit born with amnesia can be a challenging start to finding consciousness.  It's as though you had all the books on soccer memorized, but had never been on a field before - then bang someone drops you into the World Cup stadium and passes you the ball.  Good luck! 

Got a time machine? Yes you do.  It's called your imagination.  Let's jump in that bad boy and stear it toward calmer waters.  We'll jump backward & forward in time to help our current selves through this time and we'll travel backward to help out our past selves.  It'll be fun. I promise. 

Spiritual maturity has been defined as the ability to hold two opposing beliefs in one's heart simultaneously and accepting that no resolution is necessary.  We explore how to implement this practically and how to let go of our former selves in the process. 

This week we tackle the malleability of ideas, rituals, and their purpose. We also go through some steps in reassessing our belief systems and cleaning spiritual house. Spoiler alert - Step 1 is asking ourselves the big questions to find out what we beliefs we're already holding.  Might want to pick up a set of notecards for this week's homework! 

Hi Friends! We're just getting started here.  The inaugural episode of Finders/Seekers outlines our intention for the show and gives a little background on where we're coming from. Think of it as a first date with your host Anne.  Spoiler alert: things get deep on a first date.