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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
"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
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
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.
A definition of love. Setting an intention, directing attention, offering compassion, and maintaining consistency.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
A unique episode focusing on relationship to interactions with others who are representing big businesses or corporations.
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.