Love Notes From a Soul Coach

The poet David Whyte once said: 'You know you're on your path because it disappears. You are going into the unknown which is called growth and sometimes the only single source of strength you can rely on is your faith.' I have felt pulled deeper toward this kind of faith-based growth very strongly lately and as a result, I've decided to pause the Love Notes show for now while I focus on other endeavors. It's been such a joy creating the podcast all these years and I sincerely hope you'll keep in touch with me over at: marywelch.com where I'll continue offering ways to support your healing journey. Thank you, in the meantime, for listening and being part of my community!

Paradoxically, emptiness is not a void within us. It's the space that can give rise to our most profound experiences. When we let go and create room in our lives, new and deeply meaningful connections can take shape. Spring in New York has been a reminder of this and an inspiration for today's show. Winter cleared the slate for the overwhelming natural beauty that's been blooming here lately. We can learn so much from the examples of the natural world around us; it's our best teacher. Tune in today to hear more! Thanks, as always, for listening and remember: you can find more resources to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com

What happens when we buy into the idea: Why bother? We begin to lose our connection with Life. We must bother - with the big and little things - working through resistance to make sure our collaboration with Life is something we protect, nurture and insist on. On today's show we're talking about all of this and also sharing the words we all long most to hear. I hope you'll join us! Find more tools to support your healing journey + my library of guided meditations - at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Working with difficult emotions requires skillful tools. Meditation is one of the most powerful ones we can use. On today's episode, we're exploring this idea more deeply and discussing how meditation helps us grow our threshold to tolerate the parts of ourselves and our lives which are not easy to embrace. I hope you'll join us! And remember: you can find more support for your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thank you for being here

I'm answering an Ask Me Anything question on the show today re: the difference between chasing after something we want for ourselves vs letting it come - and the role of self esteem and positive vibration in this style of energetic work. Do YOU have a question for a coach? Find the Ask Me Anything form on the homepage of my site: marywelch.com ! This is just one of many services I offer to support your healing journey. Hope you enjoy the show today and as always, thank you for listening

In order to meaningfully change, we must be compelled to meaningfully change.  Many people think this is what the world of self help and motivation are all about - giving people the tools to change. But giving people tools doesn't always compel them. The real ingredient that moves the needle for us is inspiration. Join the conversation today as we explore the role of inspiration in meeting the critical threshold many of us long to reach inside of our lives - where the shifts we seek are finally possible. Beyond today's episode, you can find my library of guided meditations and lots of other tools to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's Love Notes podcast, we're talking about what it means to be our own best resource during times of trouble or hardship. Taking refuge means taking comfort in the deeper truths of our experience and coming home to ourselves. We'll look at this through a Buddhist lens with nuances from modern day teachers who remind us how powerful we are when we remember where we come from and the greater purpose we're here to fulfill. Join us and find more FREE tools to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com

It takes strength to say: I don't know. And it also takes strength to admit the answer when we do know. To be self honest enough to say: I'm failing to try. I'm letting myself off the hook too easily at the cost of my deeper growth. I'm using delusion as a form of protection. When something really matters to us, our desire to actualize it is bigger than our fear of changing. It's bigger than our unconscious need to stay the same. Join the conversation today exploring this topic and much more! And remember: you can find all the resources you need for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Dark and difficult times can throttle us into survival mode and once there, we tend to consider things like happiness as non-essential nice-to-have's. But as the research shows, happy people are critically important to moving the needle in a positive, constructive direction for humanity. What can we learn from the common traits of self identified 'happy people' - and how can we incorporate these characteristic and POV's into our own daily lives? Join the conversation on the Love Notes podcast today and find ongoing support for your healing journey any time at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening!

Anger itself is not a problem. It's not un-spiritual. It's not something we need to try to avoid in our lives. The issue is how we work with it. We can choose to use anger as an agent for transformation. We can engage it, leverage its intensity and passion, so that the energy of anger serves us instead of drains us. Let's talk more about this on today's show and explore the ways in which working with big emotions can have big, positive outcomes in our lives. Connect with me outside of the show anytime at: marywelch.com where you'll find FREE tools to support your healing journey!

Joan Didion once described Los Angeles's weather as 'apocalyptic' and last week, tragically, that proved true. On today's Love Notes show we're talking about what it means to live through devastating experiences, the teachings of loss and impermanence and also: the power of love. I hope you'll tune in and find something to resonate with. Remember: you can find FREE tools to support your healing journey at marywelch.com. Thank you for being here

Winter is not the time to begin - it's the time to prepare to begin. Knowing the difference helps us set ourselves up for success and avoid frustration or self defeating tendencies. The closer we live to nature, the better we feel. Each season teaches us how to be. Winter is for pulling inward and taking stock. So let's explore how the new year can be a time of recalibration and appreciation more than hitting the ground running on Jan. 2nd. I hope you'll enjoy this episode and if you want even more inspiration, check out my latest FREE offering at: marywelch.com

Learning the difference between self blame vs taking responsibility for our lives + choices sets us free and enables us to heal for real. As long as we're stuck in the habit of making things our fault, we are relating to ourselves as victims. This is one of the most painful and limiting ways to live. Let's talk today about how to shift out of this mindset and embrace a deeper empowerment + sense of purpose so we can feel good and make the most out of our lives. Thank you for listening today and please visit me at: marywelch.com for more FREE resources to support your healing journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Being lost and recognizing that we're lost are two different things.  After realizing that I haven't been noticing the mountains on my daily commute, I felt compelled to ask: What else am I not noticing? What other miracles are scattered around my life, waiting to be seen?" Join me for an intimate conversation about getting older, paying attention and giving up the hustle for peace (at last) - on today's Love Notes podcast. Thank you so much for being here! Find more tools to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Ram Dass said: Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. If this is the time you find yourself in, call upon your capacity for faith. As Louise Hay used to say: you don't have to know how — you just have to be willing.  Let your willingness to trust Life guide you now. Make a mantra out of it: I am willing to trust in the deeper process of Life. Every time you find yourself in the throes of fear, reach for this mantra. It will pull you out. Join me for this very special Love Notes episode where we discuss the necessity of tending to and nurturing the inner light that dwells in each of us. And find more tools for your journey at: marywelch.com

On today's Love Notes show, we're sharing spiritual wisdom for difficult times and considering what it means to: "Demonstrate resilience through art, joy, trust and love." I hope you'll join me for this very special episode - especially if you're in need of a little extra support or inspiration right now. Find more tools for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Someone recently shared something beautiful online: When caught between a rock and a hard place: let me be water. Being in-between things is one of the most difficult positions for us to bear as humans. But it's also fertile, sacred ground. Something is over but what's next hasn't come through yet. How we wait, relate and contextualize this time in our lives is EVERYTHING. Today I'm sharing a very personal story about my own in-between time and how I found the self love and compassion necessary to shift out of freeze mode and get back to life in a bold new way. I hope you'll tune in and find something meaningful to resonate with. You can find more support for your healing journey 24/7 at: marywelch.com

Being unaware of our beliefs is how we lose alignment with the goals and aspirations we carry for ourselves in our hearts. When we feel disenfranchised or lost it means we're believing something negative, something discouraging.  Our beliefs are the first place we can go to make the kinds of course corrections that will profoundly improve the experience we're having inside our lives. Working with beliefs can open our hearts and bring us back into direct contact with our inner light, our guidance. Tune in to learn more and find other resources to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Some exciting new research in the field of healing depression has emerged and we're digging into it on today's Love Notes show. Have you ever thought about the connection between what you SAY + how you FEEL on a daily basis? Turns out replacing a few simple phrases can be life changing - maybe even life saving. Join us for this important discussion today and find more tools to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thanks for being here!

One of the hardest parts about being human is our tendency to judge our own progress. Sometimes when things aren't working and the needle isn't budging it's a sign that we're meant to pause and reassess our situation - not just push through. This is the theme of today's show - which is also a response to an Ask Me Anything question. I hope you'll tune in and find some resonance. Do you have a question for a coach you'd like feedback or support with? Find my Ask Me Anything form on the homepage of my site: marywelch.com Thanks for being here!

When it's genuinely impossible to feel joyful, we can still be meaningful. We find meaning by finding the present moment. The irony is that we're never actually in any other moment! But our minds would have us believing otherwise. Let's untangle this tangle together today and learn some sacred tools for opening our hearts and planting our attention right here, right now. It's where the magic is. You can find more resources to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thank you, as always, for being here

One of the big epiphanies that's surfaced for me, on the verge of turning 50, is that I'm a lot less resilient than I used to be. Which means I don't have the ability to fake how I'm feeling, what I can handle or how fast I can push myself. Instead, I've been experimenting with what it means to embrace slowing down. I'm not rushing anymore to transform the negative. Even when it hurts, it's meaningful. Join me for more insights and reflections - as well as a favorite quote from a favorite author - on today's Love Notes show

On today's show, I'm sharing some personal writing about attending a back to school event during one of the most difficult times of my life... and how some hidden graces and epiphanies appeared (when least expected). I hope you'll tune in and find something here to resonate with. I'm teaching an IRL mindfulness meditation class in NY's beautiful Hudson Valley right now. Learn more + find FREE resources to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thank you for being here

We have to keep an eye on the Ego when it comes to healing. If we're not careful, the quest to feel better becomes the quest to BE better. Better than another. Better than the Self we're constantly trying to strong arm into some kind of perfection. All in the name of "healing" or self improvement. It's a relief to remember that we don't have to make "work" out of healing. It can be easeful. We can surrender and make just as much progress as we might have through more forceful efforts. Tune in for more on this topic and remember: you can ask me questions, join my IRL meditation group and find FREE tools for your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening!

A "bad mood" isn't something that manifests randomly in us. Bad moods are always connected to emotional pain. We create them by reinforcing specific, negative thoughts and feelings until that painful state is entrenched. Imagine if we walked around saying: "I'm in pain right now" instead of "I'm in a bad mood."?! The Ego wouldn't allow for this - it's too vulnerable. Too honest. A bad mood is harder to penetrate. There's room to hide there.  But if we hide out too long in our bad moods they become our temperament. We lose the light. The sweetness. The curiosity. The capacity to laugh at ourselves. The capacity to say: 'I don't even know why I'm like this; I've lost the plot. I've committed to this role and I need to be set free.' We're diving into all of this on today's episode - I hope you'll join the convo and as always, thank you for being here! Find more support for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Your Ego will ruin your life if you're not mindful.  One of the most effective ways to hold it in check, and break free from its tyranny, is to recognize that our inner, unconscious commentary ABOUT what is happening is not the same thing as what's ACTUALLY happening. It's interpretation - and interpretation is not the same as capital T truth. When we're able to bring some spaciousness, some quiet observation to our own inner experience, we find that there are many nuances to a single feeling. Anger is often connected to sadness. And bad moods are almost always about some kind of pain in us that isn't getting the acknowledgement or attention it requires.  There is much to know about a single feeling and when we put in the effort to explore and understand ourselves in these ways, we become our own allies. We heal. Join the conversation on today's Love Notes episode to learn more! And find lots of tools to support your journey at: marywelch.com

For many of us, hope feels dangerous, despair feels (tragically) familiar and we try to manage the rollercoaster of them both by avoiding disappointment. But chronically downshifting our hope in order to manage disappointment leads to a dead life. Louise Hay used to famously say: "You don't have to know how, you just have to be willing." That's all I'm asking of you today - the willingness to let these ideas enter your consciousness and begin to potentially shift your relationship with feeling your own feelings. This is the first step. Let's take it together! Find more resources to support your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the reasons we struggle in our relationships is because we settle for broad strokes and foggy understandings of what we're actually feeling or needing from one another. Precise language changes everything. It empowers us. It arms us with the tools to heal what's not working and affirm new ways forward. Join us for a deep chat and a fresh perspective on some common pain points in our most important relationships - including the one we have with ourselves! And find more tools to support your healing at: marywelch.com

Ram Dass taught: when you fall from the path, that's still the path. There's tremendous wisdom and truth in this - which is lost on us too often - because we're tangled up in our own Egos, judging our lives/choices as good or bad, right or wrong. When we feel good, we're on our path. When we feel bad, we're off it. But what if ALL of our experiences, good and bad, are part of our path? What if it's impossible to fall off it? If everything we go through in our lives is meant to teach and expand us, right and wrong no longer factor into our understanding of ourselves. We are free to focus on authenticity and meaningfulness instead. Tune into today's Love Notes episode and go deeper with this theme - there's lots more to uncover : ) You can find more tools and inspiration for your healing journey at: marywelch.com Thanks for listening

What we avoid inside our relationships, we avoid within ourselves. And yet, growing up unseen or misunderstood can make the intimacy of adult relationships complicated for us. On today's Love Notes podcast, we're taking a deeper dive into this topic, sharing reflections and insights and leaving room for your own personal wisdom to surface, as always. Hope you'll join the conversation! Find more support for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

One of the most prominent ways the wounded Divine Masculine shows up in our lives is through a lack of structure. Structure is, energetically speaking, a very masculine quality - it counterbalances the soft, receptiveness of the Divine Feminine. Each of us has both - the masc and the femme - as humans. But many of us struggle to get the balance right. Or to realize these energies are out of balance within us in the first place. We're taking a deeper look at this on today's show. I hope you'll tune in and find something meaningful to take away with you. Find more support and FREE tools at: marywelch.com Till next time :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have more choices to exercise, moment to moment, than we often consciously realize. But as we become more aware of this truth, we also become more empowered inside our own lives. On today's Love Notes episode we're taking a closer look at the power of choosing wisely and also the subtle difference between seeking to solve our perceived problems vs seeking to witness them. I hope you'll join us! You can find more support for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

We are here to evolve. To continuously learn, integrate, change. Fear will always be a part of this process because it requires us to let go of one trapeze bar in order to reach for the next one. When we try to manage our fears through hyper-vigilance or by limiting the risks we're willing to take in our lives, we wind up betraying our destiny. Surrendering to the fear means respecting it, acknowledging it and then releasing ourselves from its tight grip. Hope you'll join this deep conversation today and find something nourishing to take back with you. You can find more support for your journey at: marywelch.com

When we're able to recognize cynicism as heartbreak, we can engage with our pain and begin the mourning process in earnest. We can open our hearts instead of hardening them. This is the only way out of our suffering. On today's Love Notes podcast, we're taking a closer look at how to heal the shutdown parts of us and why courage plays such an important part in the process. I hope you'll join us! Find me at: marywelch.com for more tools + support for your journey

On today's Love Notes podcast episode we're answering a listener's question: How to know when it's time to start dating again after a break up? Of course the only one who can answer this question is the person asking it. Everyone's timing and path of healing is individual to them. But there are many important points for consideration and we're digging into them! Please join the conversation and find me at marywelch.com for more healing resources

Codependency is actually not about the other person. It's about YOU. It's about your tolerance, your history, your standards for your life, your wounds - and also, your capacity to heal them. Please join this deeper dive into a topic widely misunderstood and share your feedback with me - I'd love to hear from you! At: marywelch.com Thanks for listening

Sharing reflection on the experience of my first earthquake in New York and how it feels when something that's "not supposed to happen" happens. Hope you'll join me for the special Love Notes episode and find me at marywelch.com for more tools + support for your spiritual journey

One negative thought is painful enough. But a whole string of them can be immobilizing. The good news is: positive thoughts stack up too, and create tipping points in powerful directions in our lives. Thoughts, like energy, can create momentum in our lives. The more we understand how this works, the more empowered we feel. We're talking about all of this and much more on today's show. Hope you'll join the conversation! Find more tools and support for your healing journey at: marywelch.com

Growing up with neglect can make it difficult to know what our own needs are, as adults, and how to communicate them to others. Through self awareness and self love, we come to understand the difference between having needs vs being "needy" and we learn to demonstrate the kind of integrity and respect for ourselves in our daily lives that informs others around us about our standard for ourselves. There is deep, meaningful healing in this. Hope you'll join today's Love Notes conversation and find something nourishing to take away with you. You can learn more about my private practice and other offerings at: marywelch.com Thanks for being here!

We tend to focus on what we want for our lives without investigating if we have the capacity to receive it. Grace is the prerequisite to receptivity. It primes the pump and makes all things possible. Please join the conversation today as we dig in deeper to this very important theme in every spiritual journey. Find more resources and support at: marywelch.com Thank you for listening!

Sometimes our feelings are mysterious; not connected to any obvious source. But we're still tasked with the challenge of skillfully processing them. An especially tricky one is ANGER. Awareness of our feelings matters. So does the decision of HOW to relate to the feelings as they arise (and pass away). Overtime, this experience profoundly shapes our sense of self. We're taking a creative approach to this topic - I hope you'll tune in and find something helpful to carry away. You can find more inspiration and support 24/7 at: marywelch.com

What matters most to you, in your life? Have you ever taken the time to consciously ask + answer this question? The answer holds the blueprint for your best life. When we live according to what matters most to us, it's easy to prioritize what we give our time to and also to let go of what is not in alignment. I hope you'll join the conversation today and find something meaningful to incorporate into your own journey. Discover more resources at: marywelch.com Thanks so much for listening

I had a wild experience the other day. I suddenly felt like myself again. Which made me realize that I hadn't been feeling like myself. Maybe for quite some time. The contrast sparked the epiphany. Moments like these are miracles and we can use them as springboards toward deeper self understanding, forgiveness and love. Please join me for this very special Nove notes episode! And find my latest free offerings at: marywelch.com

We heal loneliness through CONNECTION, not by finding someone to love us. There are key traits happily single people have in common and they are worth highlighting because there's a lot to learn about the benefits of prizing our relationship with ourselves above all else in our lives. I hope you'll tune in and enjoy this Love Notes episode today! Wanna learn more and join the deeper convo? Come find me on IG @marywelchofficial : ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is an exceptionally powerful episode of the Love Notes show today. We're talking about optimizing our lives through contemplating the reflections of those who are on the verge of letting their's go. We're digging in to Dr. Joe Whittington's list: 5 Wishes of the Dying. You won't want to miss this one. Learn more about my work at: marywelch.com and find FREE resources to support your healing journey

On today's Love Notes episode, we're talking about how to get the balance right between holding ourselves accountable and letting ourselves hang loose to let the magic in. We need both as humans, not just one or the other. We're also diving deep into an Ask Me Anything question that will speak to the hearts of many! So join us - and don't forget to check out marywelch.com for the latest free offering, to support your healing journey : ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy New Year everyone! Today, in honor of the Love Notes podcast's one year anniversary, we're reflecting on what it means to test drive a vision. Because before we can actualize a dream, we have to make sure it fits.  Tests deepen our faith and force us to reconcile the difference between our intellectual philosophies vs reality. And new years are auspicious times to marinate with all of this. To pause, look back and consider what has been and also look forward, and cast the intention for what we want to find next.  Hope you'll enjoy the convo! And: if you wanna learn more about how to manifest big visions for the year ahead, check out my FREE guidebook at: marywelch.com

Emotional maturity is the backbone of healthy relationships. But how do we develop it in ourselves? This is what we're exploring on today's Love Notes episode. I hope you'll tune in to join the convo! Also: I'm sharing a very special reading of Francis Ward Weller's work on grief and gratitude. Looking for extra support as you navigate the holiday season? Try my FREE guided meditation at: marywelch.com Thank you, as always, for listening

In honor of the one year anniversary of my book: Love Notes From a Soul Coach, (which inspired this podcast by the same name!), I'm sharing an excerpt from the book and also talking about the concept of seeing something all the way through. Not half way. Not almost. All the way. This is how we experience our destiny - inside the kind of growth that lives beyond the confines of our comfort zone.  I hope you'll join us for this special episode! And if you want to learn more about my book or any of my other offerings to support your path of healing, visit marywelch.com Thanks, as always, for your support

Are you a winter soul? Do you prefer the quiet to the noise? Going inward? Hiding under layers? Winter can be a time for incubating and self-nourishing. It can be a time of hatching new visions, repairing our weariness. Recalibrating. We're celebrating winter being on its way today and also talking about something new I just learned: the spectrum of consent! What it means to shift out of "tolerating" to actually WANTING what our lives are offering us. Join the conversation if you're hungry for some companionship and thoughtful reflection. Don't forget: I have a FREE guided meditation for extra support during the holiday season. You can find it at: marywelch.com Thanks, as always, for listening!

Join me for a very special Love Notes episode where we practice making contact with our breath, anchoring ourselves in the present moment and connecting with our deeper selves as a point of refuge during a time of year which often brings up heavy feelings. You can also find additional support on my homepage: marywelch.com where I'm offering a FREE guided meditation for ease and grounding right now. Hope you'll enjoy