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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Champaign School Board President Dr. Gianina Baker - 3:16:25, 9.40 PM

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 34:46


Champaign School Board President Dr. Gianina Baker - 3:16:25, 9.40 PM by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 99, Cassandra Johnson, Champaign County Treasurer

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 16:44


Episode 99, Cassandra Johnson, Champaign County Treasurer by Elizabeth Hess

Stage Whisper
Whisper in the Wings Episode 822

Stage Whisper

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 23:51


For the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we were honored to welcome on the playwright/director/performer Elizabeth Hess. She stopped by to talk about her new production being presented by La MaMa and the Hess Collective, No Reservation. This was such a fantastic and fascinating conversation, and we could have talked with her for hours on end. But make sure you hit play so you don't miss out on this great interview, and then head over to the website to get your tickets while you still can!La MaMa PresentsThe Hess Collective's NO RESERVATIONFebruary 6th-23rd@ The Downstairs Theatre at La MaMaTickets and more information are available at lamama.orgAnd be sure to follow Elizabeth to stay up to date on all her upcoming projects and productions:thehesscollective.com elizabethhess.net

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Michael LeRoy FINAL

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 34:21


Michael LeRoy FINAL by Elizabeth Hess

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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 98: Leah Taylor, Champaign County Board

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 30:07


Episode 98: Leah Taylor, Champaign County Board by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 97: Benjamin Beaupre - Local Political Pundit

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 28:29


Episode 97: Benjamin Beaupre - Local Political Pundit by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Epidode 96: Laurie Brauer, Candidate for Champaign County Coroner

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 13:16


Epidode 96: Laurie Brauer, Candidate for Champaign County Coroner by Elizabeth Hess

OddBallers
Episode 54: Small Business September - Elizabeth Hess

OddBallers

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2023 37:58


This Episode of Small Business September Elizabeth is joined by Elizabeth! Elizabeth Hess of Alternative.Womens.advocate the Instagram page, joins OddBallers to discuss her journey of PCOS and to finding cleaner products and a health plan that works for her. You can find Elizabeth Hess on Instagram @Alternative.Womens.Advocate Enjoy!

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 95 - Ben LeRoy

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2023 23:08


Episode 95 - Ben LeRoy by Elizabeth Hess

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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 93 - Champaign Mayor Deb Frank Feinen

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 17:14


Episode 93 - Champaign Mayor Deb Frank Feinen by Elizabeth Hess

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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 94 - Champaign City Council Member Matthew Gladney

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 19:38


Episode 94 - Champaign City Council Member Matthew Gladney by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 92: Champaign City Council Candidate Kathy Shannon

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 16:44


Episode 92: Champaign City Council Candidate Kathy Shannon by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 91: Mentor, Volunteer Coordinator at Champaign Centennial, Lori Rogers

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2023 19:36


Episode 91: Mentor, Volunteer Coordinator at Champaign Centennial, Lori Rogers by Elizabeth Hess

Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles Podcast
A Woman Who Understands: AKOM talks w/Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett

Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 100:45


AKOM welcomes Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett, author of A Women's History of the Beatles. Phoebe, Daphne and Christine discuss: how the Beatles have inspired generations of women, effective labor, fandom, diversity in Beatles scholarship, Living History v. critical distance, and being (v. being WITH the Beatles).  SOURCES Ehrenreich, Barbara, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs. "Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun." In The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, edited by Lisa A. Lewis, 84-106. 1992. Reprint, New York: Routledge, 2001.  Whiteley, Sheila. Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture. London: Routledge, 1992. Collins, Marcus. "We Can Work it Out: Popular and Academic Writing on the Beatles." Popular Music History 9, no. 1 (2014): 79-101. http://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com Mary Ann Seighart. “The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it.” Doubleday, July 1, 2021 Candy Leonard. “Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World”   Arcade; Reprint edition (July 5, 2016)   PLAYLIST She Said She Said THE BEATLES (1966) I Don't Want to Spoil the Party THE BEATLES (1964) Drive My CarTHE BEATLES (1965) Rain THE BEATLES (1965) She's a Woman THE BEATLES (1965)  

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 90: Champaign County Sheriff Dustin D. Heuerman

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2022 30:50


Episode 90: Champaign County Sheriff Dustin D. Heuerman by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 89: Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 30:05


Episode 89: Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 88 - Champaign County Board Members Leah Taylor and Beth Vanichtheeranout

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2022 24:35


Episode 88 - Champaign County Board Members Leah Taylor and Beth Vanichtheeranout by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 87: Chad Beckett, Champaign County Circuit Judge Candidate

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 25:24


Episode 87: Chad Beckett, Champaign County Circuit Judge Candidate by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 86: Matt Kelly, President of Champaign County AFL-CIO

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 21:18


Episode 86: Matt Kelly, President of Champaign County AFL-CIO by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 84 - Jenny Lokshin and Elly Hanauer-Friedman Champaign County Board, District 4

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 20:57


Episode 84 - Jenny Lokshin and Elly Hanauer-Friedman Champaign County Board, District 4 by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 82: CUrbanism, Adani Sanchez and Kathy Shannon

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022 24:29


Episode 82: CUrbanism, Adani Sanchez and Kathy Shannon by Elizabeth Hess

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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 81: Ann Prisland, League of Women Voters of Champaign County

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 29:44


Episode 81: Ann Prisland, League of Women Voters of Champaign County by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 80 - Ray Long, Investigative Reporter, Chicago Tribune

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 26:04


Episode 80 - Ray Long, Investigative Reporter, Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 79: Champaign County Board Member Jenny Lokshin

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 14:42


Episode 79: Champaign County Board Member Jenny Lokshin by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 78: Steve Summers, Candidate for Champaign County Executive

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2021 15:57


Episode 78: Steve Summers, Candidate for Champaign County Executive by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 77 - 13th Congressional District Candidate David Palmer

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 24:38


Episode 77 - 13th Congressional District Candidate David Palmer by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 76: Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge Ben Dyer

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2021 17:29


Episode 76: Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge Ben Dyer by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 75: James Manrique, Champaign County Voters Alliance

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 12:11


Episode 75: James Manrique, Champaign County Voters Alliance by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 72: Marci Adelston-Schafer, Voting Rights Activist

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 19:23


Episode 72: Marci Adelston-Schafer, Voting Rights Activist by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 71: Stephen "Sven" Johnson - Champaign Is Also A Band

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 22:33


Episode 71: Stephen "Sven" Johnson - Champaign Is Also A Band by Elizabeth Hess

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Episode 72: Lara Orr, Urbana School Board Candidate (D3)

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 22:41


Episode 72: Lara Orr, Urbana School Board Candidate (D3) by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 71: Clarissa Nickerson Fourman, Champaign City Council

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2021 17:42


Episode 71: Clarissa Nickerson Fourman, Champaign City Council by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 70: Champaign City Council Candidate Justin Michael Hendrix

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 25:05


Episode 70: Champaign City Council Candidate Justin Michael Hendrix by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 69: Andy Quarnstrom, Township Supervisor, City of Champaign Township

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 20:42


Episode 69: Andy Quarnstrom, Township Supervisor, City of Champaign Township by Elizabeth Hess

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I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 68: Chaundra Bishop, Urbana City Council Candidate

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 19:31


Episode 68: Chaundra Bishop, Urbana City Council Candidate by Elizabeth Hess

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Episode 67: Champaign City Councilwoman Clarissa Nickerson Fourman

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2021 20:52


Episode 67: Champaign City Councilwoman Clarissa Nickerson Fourman by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 66: Precinct Committeeperson Shawna Martell

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2020 12:58


Episode 66: Precinct Committeeperson Shawna Martell by Elizabeth Hess

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Episode 64: Champaign County Board Chair Kyle Patterson

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2020 18:53


Episode 64: Champaign County Board Chair Kyle Patterson by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 65: Champaign County Board Member Jordan Humphrey

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2020 13:21


Episode 65: Champaign County Board Member Jordan Humphrey by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 63: Mike Ingram, Candidate for Champaign County Recorder of Deeds

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 20:29


Episode 63: Mike Ingram, Candidate for Champaign County Recorder of Deeds by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 62: Cassandra (C.J.) Johnson, Candidate for Champaign County Treasurer

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 16:01


Episode 62: Cassandra (C.J.) Johnson, Candidate for Champaign County Treasurer by Elizabeth Hess

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess
Episode 61 - County Board Candidate Kellie Lee Mansfield

I Have To Ask...With Elizabeth Hess

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 12:31


Episode 61 - County Board Candidate Kellie Lee Mansfield by Elizabeth Hess

Exploring the Seasons of Life
Experience the Pause with Elizabeth Hess Stamper

Exploring the Seasons of Life

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 31:34


Cindy: (00:00) This is Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast episode 20. I’m Cindy MacMillan and today’s guest is Elizabeth Hess Stamper. Cindy: (00:09) Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. Each week, join Cindy MacMillan as she interviews coaches, spiritual explorers and celebrants from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in-between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of our conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well. Cindy: (00:39) Hey friends, Welcome back to Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast. Thank you for listening today. I can’t wait for you to meet my guest today. Elizabeth Hess Stamper is a psychotherapist, retreat leader, poet and interfaith minister as well as the grateful member of a large, diverse family and an ever-evolving spiritual community. Her healing practice with individuals, couples and groups, integrates energy work, transformative breathwork, deep insight and the Internal Family Systems approach. She earned a Master's degree in counseling in 1994, and was ordained through the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Studies, Berkeley, California in 2011. She has authored two well-received books on spiritual relationships and two meditation CD’s, and has been leading workshops and retreats around the country for over 25 years. Cindy: (01:25) Welcome to the podcast, Elizabeth. I am so happy to have you here. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (01:29) Thank you, Cynthia. It's great to be here. Cindy: (01:32) Thank you. And I want to start off with a question that I do ask everyone, and that is what does exploring the seasons of life mean to you personally, or in your business? Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (01:44) The first thing that comes to mind seasons of life. I was reading that question on the email you sent me. The first thing that came to mind was that I work with a lot of young women, women in their twenties, early thirties, and older women as well, but they are in such a different season than I am. And it is so beautiful how I can share who I am or what I've gathered in my life experience and really own that I'm an elder to them. The tradition of being an elder is not as honored in our culture as it has been in many other cultures, but it's one we need to reclaim because every woman, every human who grows is on a spiritual path or a path of self-knowledge and growth becomes something that is potentially really nourishing, really supportive and really helpful to the younger generation. So that was what came to mind about seasons of life. Cindy: (02:55) Thank you, Elizabeth, because you're right. I don't think our culture necessarily, I'm not sure if respects is the right word, but they don't honor. Like you said, they don't honor as we're growing older and become the elders. Can you share your story on how you became a psychotherapist? I was reading on your website and, you know, you were talking about the deep meditation practice, yoga, the study of religion, the transpersonal psychology, and all of it just fascinates me. I love it. I would love to hear that story. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (03:29) It's funny, I sometimes think if I introduced myself as a psychotherapist, I wonder if I said I'm a psycho therapist, how it would come across. In truth, you know, you have to have been a little psycho in the sense that you confronted your own shadow in a way that made you really, really, really want to understand and to do some deeper work, to understand why we're wired up the way we are, why we react to life the way that we do, you know, the sensitivity or the difficulty challenging ways that we, people who are drawn into any kind of healing work are usually drawn there because of their own suffering. And for me, when I was really pretty young, still 18, 19, there were a series of, I had a troubled teenage life and I went through a lot. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (04:29) And at one point after a few years of getting into all kinds of scrapes and difficulties, there was a two week period, right during my summer between freshman and sophomore year of college. When in this two week period, two close friends died in two separate accidents, tragic accidents. They were very young, wonderful people. And my cat was hit by a train and that was just kind of like, okay, God, okay, I have to figure out something for all of this to make sense. And I think everyone starts on a path of exploration, spiritual work, psychological work because they confront those big questions. The Buddha did. That's what he started him on his path. He saw that there was old age suffering from illness and death. And even though his life was pretty perfect as a Prince and everything was going well for him, he had to go and understand why this happened and how humans could be okay with it, you know, just be at peace. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (05:42) And it's interesting to be talking right now and the time that we're living in these last few months, and it has felt like for me, that everyone is going through a dark night of the soul. It's like, I know everyone on their path and we'll go through that, those challenging times more than once because we don't change. We don't grow until we really, really, we're very comfortable. We, human beings can get complacent, but when the, you know, what hits the fan and we're in pain, that's when we change. That's when it's like it's too, we just can't stay the way that we are. We have to find that other way to sit back and look at that. This seems to be what's happening on a global scale. All these different crises converging, not just one and not just in my town or my country. So, I think, I don't know that you meant for me to go in this direction, but I look at it as the global opportunity for awakening. Like it's never been before. And those of us who choose to see it that way or have an inkling that it could be that way. We're really called to do some deep spiritual work right now. Cindy: (07:12) I agree with that. When I talk about beginnings, endings, and the messy bit, I really find that it's the messy bit. It's where we grow. It's kind of like what you're saying there, and collectively we're in a, in a messy bit that is calling for that growth. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (07:29) I like that term, a messy bit, it's so much gentler than saying, you know, crises and chaos. Cindy: (07:40) You know, one of the things that I wanted to talk to you about, and I am saying psychotherapy, correct. Right. Yeah, that is okay. How do we combine psychotherapy and spiritual practice? And by that, I guess I am referring to, you know, the work that we do on ourselves. As you said, looking at the shadow parts and everything. So how do we combine that to work through different things that are going on in our lives? Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (08:13) For me, it can't be separated. Because my foundational belief or my worldview is that we are deep in our core what we are, our true self, our essential nature is good, and it is made in the image and likeness of God, it's loving, it's compassionate, it's wise, it's free. It's everything we want to be. And everything that we already are in our best moments, those moments when we're just on top of our game, or we're in love with everything that's who are, and the uncovering of that, so that we can live from that essential nature, that true self more and more and more. I see it as needing both, a spiritual practice, but also the interior, honest, compassionate exam of our, how our psyche has been programmed, how it's been wired up from probably started when we were in the womb, actually. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (09:29) And then the situations that we're born into the families and the cultures that has an effect on how we think about everything and how we respond and react to everything. So from that conditioning comes the layers of belief, personality, layers, parts of us. However, you want to talk about that, that separates us from that true self or that essential nature. It's like, I love thinking about little babies and when all their needs are met, uh, that infant, or that toddler, that little four or five, six-year-old, when, when they're not troubled by an unmet need, they are in the moment. And they're happy for the most part and curious and spontaneous and full of wonder. I have grandchildren so I have learned so much just observing them a lot from my own kids too. But then it was a lot younger and more distracted, I think. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (10:46) But you know this sense that this one example I give of my, when my grandson was two and a half; he was all those things that I described. And, he had a way of just responding to people with such an open heart, but he also showed me that, that he responded to their energy. So, most people, when they saw him, whether it was a friend or a stranger, which is kind of light up, because he's an adorable little, you know, two and a half year old kid, and he's very friendly. So he would respond with all this love. And one day someone, our doorbell rang, he was over here and, he wants to go with me to answer the door. So I put him up on my hip and we go running down the hall and I answered the door and it's someone who's calm, but who's in a really troubled state. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (11:49) It's like he looked at her and he sensed her energy and he just slid right off of my hip and ran back down the hall. And it wasn't like he made a judgment like, oh, she's a bad person. It was just like, oh, this energy is not what I want to be around right now. You know, so that sense of an inner guidance system, even that we're always responding to, and then you get a little bit older and then somebody like that knocks on your door and you open the door, but you don't just respond with, a blank slate of, does this feel right? Can I choose to be here or not? You respond with, I should be this way, or it should be that way. Or there's something wrong with that person. This is bad, you know, all of these filters in layers. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (12:41) So what I feel like we can do with psychotherapy is we can find those layers and filters, those beliefs that got programmed into us and we can clear them. And when we clear them and we are adults, then we can choose how we want to respond to other people, to ourselves, to life more from that wise compassionate place and more in alignment with also who we want to be. So for me today, if somebody knocks on my door and they're in a negative place, because of my training and because of my commitment to how I want to live, how I want to show up, I want to embody unconditional love. I don't, I can't, all the time, but it's what I want to. So in that moment, my desire can sometimes override the sense of like, Oh, energy, danger, danger to be like, no, here's someone who's hurting. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (13:58) I can drop into that powerful Buddha-nature, that heart that's in us. It's always connected to love, always connected to source. I can drop into that because I've practiced dropping into that from 45 years of meditating. That's the purpose of the spiritual practice and then respond in a more gracious way to be helpful to that person. So does that make sense how you, you kind of work in your psychotherapy to undo the fear-based conditioning that comes from the world so that then you can live more from your inner nature or your beautiful heart. Cindy: (14:52) Elizabeth. Yes. That made perfect sense and that was beautiful, especially given us that imagery of your grandchild and feeling that energy. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (15:00) Yeah. Yeah. Cindy: (15:02) That's perfect. Thank you so much and you mentioned spiritual practice. What is a spiritual practice and how can we have a spiritual practice and be consistent at it? Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (15:17) Yeah, to me, a spiritual practice for me personally, it's meditation and prayer, and being with a spiritual community and spiritual friends and reading spiritual books, those things that inspire me, but for anybody, it could also be walking. I find that long walks in nature is a really important nurturing spiritual practice for me and for so many people, but basically a practice is whatever you find that when you do it, and you do it on a consistent basis, that you have a commitment to it, a daily practice, whatever you do that helps you make that shift. That helps you retrain your mind because a lot of spiritual practice, you know, is not blissful. It's boring. It's repetitive. In that, you're confronting with the way that the mind is used to. It's been taught to do this by growing up in our culture. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (16:25) It's been taught to just think, to focus outside of ourselves and just to kind of follow the, whatever thoughts, wherever they're going and respond, you know, outside of us spiritual practices where you notice chattering mind, monkey, mind, whatever you want to call that you notice that ongoing voice in your head, and you choose for this period of time to not give that your attention to not let that own all of your awareness, but to find another point of attention and keep bringing yourself back to that. So of course, most basic point of attention is usually the breath. And so the breath, the breath is great because it's always with you, no matter where you are, what you're doing, your breath is right there. And you can let go of that thought and come back to the focus on the breath. But it's a lot of people think that if I'm coming back to my breath or my mantra or whatever, the light that I'm, whatever is my point of focus for my attention, that unless I can stay with that, it's not a good meditation, but really the idea that my mind will by its very nature. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (17:52) Here's the, here's the focus, the breath. And here comes the thought, notice the thought, come back to the breath. I'm with the breath I'm with the breath. Here comes a thought. I go with the thought, I might go a few more seconds with it that I noticed that I let go of the thought I come back to the breath. And if you could imagine that when you're doing an exercise and you're doing all these reps, these reps are the muscle, that's going one direction and then back, the direction and then back and the muscle gets stronger because you keep repeating it. So think about that with meditation, your mind goes away, you bring it back. Your mind goes away, you bring it back. And there are a few things that happen. The muscle that you're strengthening is your attentional muscle, but also you're showing your own inner self, the depths of your desire and your commitment to not be ruled by the mind, but instead to be ruled by that deeper self and have that be the primary voice guiding you in your life and not just every ADHD, random thought pattern. Cindy: (19:16) You mentioned the breath. And I know that you do breathwork. Is that the same thing as breathing in meditation or are those two separate things? Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (19:30) The way that I use breathwork and the way that it's used, mostly by people who do transformational breathwork or holotropic breathwork, there's a lot of different forms of it. Conscious connected breathing, rebirthing, it was called rebirthing when I first was training in it back in the mid-eighties, that is different than the breathing that we use in meditation practice. In meditation practice it's usually a deeper, slower breath. And it's one in which we're really consciously wanting to calm our nervous system and bring about more of a sense of calm within the whole body and get the mind quieter. So this other kind of breathwork, transformational breathwork is a psychotherapy tool in which you use an intensified form of breathing. It's called sometimes conscious and connected because again, you are intending to breathe more intensely than you normally would, and to connect it because you leave out the pauses. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (20:50) That oftentimes when we breathe, you breathe in, you pause, you breathe out and then there's a pause. And actually, back to meditation for a moment, we actually want you to notice the pause, experience the pause, find that space; that's great in a meditation practice. In breathwork, it's the opposite and it does something different to our physiology and our awareness. So, when you do breathwork, you are actually going into a non-ordinary state of consciousness and non-ordinary state of consciousness is something that, again, most other cultures, indigenous cultures, especially, honor, and it's seen as every culture needs, every, every person needs a way to access non-ordinary states of consciousness because then they will connect to spirit. And like we know from, tribal cultures, native cultures, that they had many ways to access non-ordinary states of consciousness in which they would, you know, the Shaman would do a dance or use plant medicine or all night drumming, or go on vision quests three or four days in the wilderness with no food and no water. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (22:24) Why? To break us out of just ordinary thinking mind and openness to other dimensions. So in breathwork, we discovered, or, some psychotherapists back in the late seventies realized you didn't need to use LSD to create a different state of consciousness and you didn't need the plant medicine or dancing or drumming. You could actually, if you felt safe enough and you felt like the setting was safe and you were supported, you could access some very powerful states of awareness and that accessing those would both be healing for you. You would discover things about yourself and it could have some incredibly deep cathartic experiences and releases. And you could also so access that inner essential nature. In one way, if you think about going on a journey in which, in the very beginning a lot this is how I and a lot of other breathworkers set up, one of these sessions is in the beginning, you think about your intention. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (23:43) What do you want to get from this? Is there, a part of you or part of your life that you're working on, you want healing, or do you just want to be open and say, spirit, take me on a journey. I don't know where I was supposed to go, but I trust you and you do get relaxed. You might be lying down your facilitator, your counselors sitting next to you, instructing you in the way to breathe. And you start that breathing. Sometimes a lot of times music is used to help facilitate the journey, kind of take you on a roller coaster of these different emotions and something will happen. It doesn't happen for everyone. It's not for everyone, but for a lot of people there, there's a moment that comes after just breathing like this for five or 10 minutes where you realize you're surprised you're not in your ordinary mind, something spiritual, is taking you on a journey and to be able to trust that and let go to that and go on that journey. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (24:55) I just have to say that I heard about it in 1986 from someone - I'd never heard about it before. She told me briefly about it and I got really curious, I hadn't done any psychotherapy, but I had been already a meditator for about 16 or 17 years by that point. But, I laid down, she told me how to breathe, and I had the most amazing experience. I just have to say that when it was after about an hour 45 minutes, whatever, when I was, I was done, it was like, the journey was obviously done. And I was just resting in this state of bliss and connection to myself and to a higher power, the source of life, whatever you call it, whatever it is, that gives us breath. And my mind was completely peaceful. And as I was lying there breathing and just feeling so much love. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (26:04) I was also aware that each breath to breathe it and be present to it was one of the most intense experiences of pleasure. Now we think of pleasure as getting a massage, you know, or, you know, for those people that surf, I always imagine, wow, the pleasure of just gradually getting that wave and standing up and pleasure making love or eating a really good meal, but this was in this simplicity of just being with no thought in my mind, but very present in my body, in that space, each breath was like, uh, I don't know. It's just amazing to think that you could breathe and be in ecstasy just from a breath. Cindy: (26:59) Do you give workshops on that? Because I am very interested in that. Just that what you were saying about just the simple pleasure of just being. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (27:08) Just being yes. Yeah. Returning to that. That's, that's what we're, that's what we want, isn't it? Yes. Um, everything's a little bit different because we're all social isolation, but I have experience doing breathwork with people over zoom in order when life gets back to normal. And ordinary times I do breathwork with people, one on one in my office and also in groups. And, yeah, I have an email list so people can get on my email list and be also posted on Facebook. So people, if they're interested, can find out when I'm offering those Cindy: (27:54) Elizabeth, thank you for sharing all of your, your knowledge. It has been really so fascinating, and I cannot believe the time is just flying by. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (28:04) I know, I know. I know. Cindy: (28:07) Can you tell people how to follow you on your journey and how they can support you and your website? Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (28:14) Yeah. Thank you. My website is elizabethstamper.com and Stamper is spelled just like you put a stamp on an envelope and then you add an ER, stamper elizabethstamper.com my easiest email address is ehstamper@gmail. So, yeah, and Cynthia, you are such a lovely presence to be with. You're so gentle and I feel very deeply listened to and touched by just being with you this morning. Cindy: (29:07) Thank you so much. I do have one last question. If you could turn back time and talk to your 18-year-old self, what would you tell her about the season of life that you're in now? Or what advice would you give her? If you could go back and just say... Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (29:25) You know, when I was 18, I had so much self-doubt and so much negative self-perception. And so just so little confidence and I would want to say to her is what you have inside of you is beautiful. It's unique to you. You have gifts and you are going to be able to explore them, cultivate them and offer them to the world. And you will have great, great joy in being able to do that as well as to experience all the loving relationships that you will be just graced and privileged to, um, the people that will come in your life and touch you. So I would just want to somehow pull the curtain and let her see all those gifts that were ahead of her. Cindy: (30:27) I love that because sometimes we need help, for somebody to pull that curtain back, to help us see what our gifts are and how much that we are loved. Speaker 2: (30:37) Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Cindy: (30:40) Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. Elizabeth Hess Stamper: (30:44) Thank you very much, Cynthia. God bless you and your work. Thank you. Cindy: (30:51) Thank you. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Exploring the Seasons of Life and my conversation with Elizabeth Hess Stamper. I continue to be so grateful for your support and feedback, and I truly love hearing from you! You can reach me via the website CynthiaMacMillan.com or email me at Cindy@CynthiaMacMillan.com. 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