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For listeners of any and all religious or non-religious backgrounds who have a committed spiritual practice, want to improve their relationships, and see their values manifested in those relationships.

LaShelle Lowe-Chardé


    • May 10, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 31m AVG DURATION
    • 63 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Wise Heart

    MCD for Teams

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 32:33


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    Elia & Ava MCD Therapy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 24:04


    Check out the 2025 live online 2-hr workshop series for therapists facilitated by Elia & Ava: Introductions to the 12 Relationship Competencies

    Now Is the Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 16:26


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    Envision a Relationally Competent World: Bringing Together the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Mindful Compassionate Dialogue 

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 14:43


    Groundedness and Practice in the Face of Political Tragedy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2025 33:34


    What Is a Healthy Romantic Relationship?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 27:04


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    How to Listen to What Emerges

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 10:46


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    Healing from Betrayal

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 38:48


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    Transaction vs Mutuality

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 42:14


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    How to Interrupt People Pleasing

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 22:26


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    The Power of Distinguishing Needs from Strategies

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2024 28:09


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    How to Replace Disempowering Habits

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 33:23


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    4 Long Term Strategies for Interrupting Reactivity

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 30:25


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    Differentiation and Joining as Energy for Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 17:12


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    How Do We Dismantle Without Opposing or Going Against?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2024 19:06


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    S2E2 - 5 Tools for Shifting Into an Expansive Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2023 36:27


    www.wiseheartpdx.org https://hakomiinstitute.com/Forum/Issue16-17/8_R_CS_tranform.pdf Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S2E1 - Beyond Codependency: 3 Signs of Healthy Differentiation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2023 17:11


    What comes after all the work you've done to move out of codependence? Self empathy, care and generosity for the heart of another, and curiosity... www.wiseheartpdx.org Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E46 - Setting Aside Grief and Suffering for the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2023 25:52


    The capacity to witness suffering and still maintain your own center. 3 aspects of practice: accepting and celebrating our humanity, how to allow grief, and turning towards practices that are immediately of service to life. Transmuting grief and suffering into that which serves life and makes life better.  www.wiseheartpdx.org Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E45 - Interview With Matt & Alona of We heal

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 41:56


    LaShelle interviews Matt & Alona of We Heal about their new book, Wellness to Wonderful,_ _and more! https://weheal.health/ www.wiseheartpdx.org Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E44 - Deepening Appreciation and Dissolving Separation

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2023 20:24


    LaShelle talks about what appreciation is in the framework of MCD, and offers a specific practice: empathy for appreciation. www.wiseheartpdx.org Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E43 - 8 Ways of Understanding Gratitude

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 34:02


    Gratitude practice: what it's not, eight ways to understand gratitude, and three specific practices. www.wiseheartpdx.org Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E42 - Interview with LaShelle - Recognizing Reactivity: MCD Competency 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2023 59:01


    Special episode ~ join LaShelle and guests!

    S1E41 - Meditation From Joyful Choice Rather Than From Lack

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 30:15


    LaShelle offers 5 angles to this topic: compassion, consciousness, preferred experience, meditation and other foundational strategies, and a practice. https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E40 - How to Remain Grounded With Admiration

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2023 15:28


    Remaining grounded when giving and receiving admiration. Specific ways of understanding and navigating this dynamic for maximum connection. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E39 - Spiritual Practice and the Power of Identity and Meaning

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2023 14:27


    Enter into the realm of spiritual practice specifically as it relates to identity and meaning. LaShelle talks about attempting to remember who we are in every moment; that we are made from love, that in any moment we can choose to love, that we are great and powerful spirits engaging in this human experience. Reactivity is framed here as a type of forgetting this. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E38 - Recognizing and Setting Boundaries with GaslIghting

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2023 52:28


    Identify gaslighting, and its opposite: that which inside yourself and with others supports your access to wisdom and compassion. Possibilities for setting boundaries when you encounter gaslighting behavior. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E37 - Examining the Relationship Between Dependence and Community

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 20:11


    Are you willing to depend on someone else? Who depends on you? Who else are you willing to depend on? LaShelle explores the concept of depending upon one another in an essential way in terms of vulnerability, convenience and security, and strength and courage. https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E36 - Relationship to Resources: Finding Compassion and Taking Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2023 30:08


    Re-igniting a sacred relationship to resources. Bringing compassion to the impact of our economy on you. https://charleseisenstein.org/ https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E35 - Cultivating the Gift of Feedback - With Matthew Lederman, MD

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2023 54:02


    https://weheal.health/ https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E34 - The Four Fruits of MCD #4 - Wise Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 22:17


    The last episode in “The Four Fruits of MCD” series. LaShelle defines wise action, talks about the characteristics of wisdom, and gives the supportive conditions and central aspects of wisdom. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E33 - The Four Fruits of MCD #3 - Access to Agency

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 17:48


    The third episode in "The Four Fruits of MCD" series. Agency is a state of having the internal and external resources to act on your choice. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E32 - The Four Fruits of MCD #2 - Compassionate Relating

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2022 24:24


    "The Four Fruits of MCD" continued. LaShelle defines compassion, gives a key for balancing attention, and discusses compassion fatigue. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E31 - Interview with LaShelle - Self Empathy: MCD Competency 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 53:23


    Special episode ~ join LaShelle and guests! Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Self Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/mcd-relationship-competency-4-self-empathy-90min-workshop Matthew Lederman - https://www.kinectin.com/ MCD Companions: https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/classes/2022/private-sessions-with-mcd-companions Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E30 - Mindful Engagement

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2022 23:24


    The importance of mindfulness for creating a new consciousness, a new world, a new way of living this life and caring for this earth. Without mindfulness, limiting conditioning keeps us making the same kinds of decisions that created the suffering that we see now.

    S1E29 - Love as a Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2022 22:34


    A definition of love. Setting an intention, directing attention, offering compassion, and maintaining consistency.

    S1E28 - Finding Rest

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 23:51


    LaShelle talks about the importance of rest for living your relationships as a spiritual practice, and about what is created when we don't have rest. Then, three aspects of rest.

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    S1E27 - Freedom From the Tyranny of Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 36:06


    Considering time and time management, LaShelle addresses as an overarching theme the concept of time-- what it means for a sense of spiritual connection, and its impact on relationships. Critical concepts regarding time, the cost of becoming attached to the idea of time, and three practices for becoming free of tension around "watching the clock." Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E26 - Interview with LaShelle - Honest Expression: MCD Competency 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2022 57:29


    Special episode ~ join LaShelle and guests! Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Honest Expression online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/mcd-relationship-competency-3-honest-expression Matthew Lederman - https://www.kinectin.com/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E25 - 3 Keys for Relationship Repair

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2022 36:36


    What repair means, and what is required for it to be effective. Repair is important for continuing to thrive in a relationship and for finding your way back to connection. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E24 - Help for "I Can't Be Myself in This Relationship"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2022 30:16


    Exploring what does it mean to "be yourself"? Examining limiting beliefs as an obstacle to being yourself. Practices to free yourself from limiting beliefs. https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E23 - Self-Warmth & Resonance With Sarah Peyton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2022 38:09


    A conversation between LaShelle Lowe-Chardé, founder of Wise Heart PDX, and Sarah Peyton, certified trainer of Noviolent Communication and specialist in relational neuroscience. Wise Heart PDX https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Sarah Peyton https://sarahpeyton.com/ https://www.yourresonantself.com/ breathing animation: https://www.jessicawolfartofbreathing.com/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E22 - Family "Power With" and Life-Serving Boundaries

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2022 34:24


    Examples of "power with" that we might expect to see in a family, and three areas in which we could imagine that "power with" is translating into life-serving boundaries. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E21 - Interview with LaShelle - Empathy: MCD Relationship Competency 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2022 64:18


    Special episode ~ join LaShelle and guests! Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/empathy-mcd-relationship-competency-2 Wise Heart pre-recorded 8-week Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/empathic-listening Matthew Lederman - https://www.kinectin.com/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to the podcast Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E20 - Part 2 - Spiritual Practice with Power Dynamics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2022 35:37


    Distinguishing between "power over" and "earned authority." Exploring earned authority and a "power with" consciousness. www.wiseheartpdx.org Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E19 - Part 1 - Spiritual Practice with Power Dynamics

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2022 40:40


    How power dynamics effect your relationship with yourself and with others. Defining terms regarding power dynamics, and anchoring those terms and understandings in a spiritual perspective. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E18 - Acceptance as the Ground for Change

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2022


    LaShelle defines acceptance and talks about its benefits, while also describing the opposite of acceptance: resistance. LaShelle also explains the cost of resistance, the signs and symptoms of resistance, and practices to cultivate for engaging the consciousness of acceptance.

    S1E17 - An Empowered Response to Suffering and Violence

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2022 24:41


    Acknowledging your experience and the experience of those around you. A practice of acceptance, and a practice for getting grounded and taking action. https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E16 - Interview with LaShelle - Appreciation: MCD Relationship Competency 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2022 48:59


    Special episode ~ join LaShelle and guests! Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min course: Appreciation >> https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/appreciation-mcd-relationship-competency-1 Matthew Lederman >> https://www.kinectin.com/ Support Wise Heart by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E15 - A New Understanding of Forgiveness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2022 36:34


    Reclaiming the word "forgiveness." LaShelle talks about replacing negative associations of forgiveness with more empowering ideas, and relates forgiveness to spiritual practice by naming three central elements of spiritual practice that forgiveness supports. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart

    S1E14 - Meeting Conflicts With Big Businesses

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2022 42:53


    A unique episode focusing on relationship to interactions with others who are representing big businesses or corporations.

    S1E13 - Setting Life-Serving Boundaries and Saying "No" With Care

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2022 28:02


    LaShelle provides a definition of Life-Serving Boundaries relative to the framework of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue, connects Life-Serving Boundaries to spiritual practice, and identifies 8 key elements for saying no with care and connection.

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