Podcasts about feelings

Welcome back to Facts vs. Feelings! On today's episode Liz Loza and Daniel Dopp discuss the players who you should buy into on your roster and which players will give you misery! Should you still view Trevor Lawrence as a QB1? Are the Chargers struggles too much for Ladd McConkey to overcome? Plus, has Michael Wilson become what we expected Marvin Harrison Jr. to be? Link to Liz's article: https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/50061867/facts-vs-feelings-fantasy-advice-week-4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growing up, Eliza learned that having a stable job meant you were doing well—and that people who didn't have one could be viewed as lazy or unable to get their lives together. She also missed an important developmental stage: the freedom to discover what she liked, who she was, and how she naturally wanted to express herself. Now, through raising her own children, Eliza has an opportunity to give herself something she didn't receive: permission to discover herself without pressure. Together, Christine and Eliza explore identity, people-pleasing, parenting, boundaries, self-worth, generational patterns, and the difference between who you truly are and the roles you play in the world. If you've ever thought, "I should know what I want by now," or felt ashamed because your career doesn't look the way you thought it would, this episode offers a powerful invitation: stop forcing yourself to have the answer and allow yourself to enter a season of discovery. Press play to explore how reconnecting with your authentic self may bring far more clarity than trying to force yourself into another role. Consider / Ask Yourself Do you feel pressure to have your career or next chapter figured out? Was your worth growing up connected to achievement, productivity, or having a "good" job? Are you making choices based on what you genuinely want—or what you believe other people will approve of? Did you have the freedom as a child to discover your interests, preferences, and authentic self? Have you confused your job, career, or other roles with your identity? Where might people-pleasing be making it harder to hear your own desires? Key Insights and A-Ha's Not knowing what you want doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong with you. You may never have been given enough space to discover it. When worth becomes tied to productivity or employment, career uncertainty can trigger deep shame. Feelings can be powerful without necessarily being facts. Missing a developmental stage in childhood can create patterns that continue showing up in adulthood. Parenting can provide an opportunity to reparent ourselves alongside our children. Moving from authoritarian parenting to overly permissive parenting doesn't necessarily break the pattern; healthy boundaries still matter. People-pleasing makes discovering yourself difficult because so much energy is spent monitoring what everyone else wants. Setting boundaries doesn't mean you're dishonoring someone else's feelings or desires. A career can be one expression of who you are, but it does not have to define your identity. Sometimes clarity comes after discovery—not before it. How to Deepen the Work Give yourself permission to put the pressure of finding the "right" job aside for now. Consider this season a discovery process rather than a problem you need to solve. As your children explore what they enjoy, allow their curiosity and playfulness to reconnect you with younger parts of yourself. Notice the qualities, interests, and forms of expression that begin coming back online. Practice stronger boundaries while remembering that honoring someone else's desires doesn't mean always giving them what they want. Notice when you're making a decision because you're afraid someone will be disappointed in you. Explore who you are through your qualities and authentic expression rather than through your job title. Release guilt or shame around making a self-honoring choice that works for your family during this stage of your life. A Powerful Reframe on Identity Christine offers Eliza a helpful metaphor for separating identity from the roles we play. Think of your authentic identity as water. Your roles—mother, wife, teacher, coach, podcaster, employee, entrepreneur, or anything else—are the different glasses that hold that water. The glasses can change. You are the water, not the glass. Instead of asking a job to give you an identity, begin by discovering the authentic version of yourself. Then ask: What roles allow that version of me to express itself? Resources Mentioned in This Episode Free Love Magnet Workshop Christine and her husband, Stef, are teaching a free three-day virtual workshop on October 13, 14, and 15 for those who desire a healthy, aligned partnership. Christine shares that they'll be teaching the work they did to call each other in and invites listeners who desire partnership to learn more and register. Register for the free Love Magnet workshop Social Media + Resources Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment Christine Hassler Podcasts including Coaches Corner Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler Facebook — Christine Hassler Instagram — @ChristineHassler Instagram — @SacredUnionCouples Apply to be coached on the show Courses, retreats, and more resources  

Have you ever walked away from a moment and thought, Why did I say that? Why did I act that way? Stress, fear, and overwhelming circumstances can affect us more than we realize. And surprisingly, David knew exactly what that felt like. In this episode, I’m unpacking Psalm 34 and the very relatable story behind it. We’ll talk about what David did when life became overwhelming, why seeking God is different from simply seeking relief, and how God meets us without shame, even when we haven’t handled things perfectly. If life feels a little crazy right now, Psalm 34 offers practical truth, hope, and a way forward. Remember, I'd love to connect more on Instagram, where you'll find me at @donnaajones or on my website at www.donnajones.org. And don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode! Xo, Donna Key Takeaways: 0:01:55 - When Life Makes You Crazy: Even David Lost It 0:07:55 - Seek the Lord, Not the Rescue: He Does the Delivering 0:08:50 - Deliverance Is a Birth, Not Amazon Prime 0:10:10 - Radiant, Not Ashamed: God Convicts but Never Shames 0:12:30 - Jesus Camps Around You: Taste and See That He's Good What We Talk About The surprising backstory behind Psalm 34 Why David fled into enemy territory and pretended to be insane What David did after fear and circumstances got the best of him The difference between seeking deliverance and seeking the Lord Why God’s deliverance can take time How to recognize the difference between conviction and shame What it means to look to God and become “radiant” Why desperation can lead us into deeper prayer What “taste and see that the Lord is good” looks like in real life Using Psalm 34 as a go-to passage when life feels overwhelming What to Do When Life Makes You Feel a Little Crazy Seek the Lord. David didn’t say he sought deliverance, he said he sought the Lord, and the Lord delivered him from his fears. Trust the process. Deliverance isn’t always like Amazon Prime. Sometimes it’s more like delivering a baby, it develops over time. Just because you don’t see immediate change doesn’t mean God isn’t working. Look to God instead of looking at your shame. God convicts us, but He doesn’t shame us. When we turn our eyes toward Him, we’re reminded of His love, acceptance, and help. Pray when you’re desperate. You don’t have to wait until you have it all together to pray. Desperation can be the very thing that drives you to seek God. Take refuge in Him. Don’t just know about God’s goodness. “Taste and see” it for yourself by experiencing His presence and trusting Him in the middle of what you’re facing. Donna’s Resources: Order a copy of my latest book - Healthy Conflict, Peaceful Life: A Biblical Guide to Communicating Thoughts, Feelings, and Opinions with Grace, Truth, and Zero Regret. It is available anywhere books are sold– here is the link on Amazon. If you need a helpful resource for someone exploring faith and Christianity or simply want to strengthen your own knowledge, you’ll want a copy of my book, Seek: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God. It’s a must for seekers, new believers, and those who want to deepen their faith. Let’s Connect: Instagram: @donnaajones Website: www.donnajones.org Donna’s speaking schedule: https://donnajones.org/events/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

In Episode 207 of the Facts vs Feelings podcast, Carson Group's Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist, welcome back Rory Johnston, founder and CEO of Commodity Context, to make sense of an oil market that remains historically tight more than 200 days into the war with Iran. Rory explains why Brent sits near $108 with extreme backwardation, why roughly 13.5 million barrels a day are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz versus a pre-war normal of about 21 million, and why he calls himself a "Hormuz half-empty" kind of guy.From there, the conversation turns to what Rory calls the "Beijing swing," as China cut net crude imports by about 5.5 million barrels a day, and to record-high diesel prices, including what a U.S. diesel export ban would mean for prices at the pump. The episode wraps with the market signals Rory watches that may indicate when the crisis is truly over: rising OECD inventories and the front of the crude curve flipping into contango.Key TakeawaysBrent is near $108 with prompt spreads close to $8 a barrel, signaling an acute physical deficit even though Hormuz flows have recovered to about 13.5 million barrels a day, up from near zero for non-Iranian crude in March and April.Rory argues Iran is gradually losing control of the strait, but the cost is enormous: Iraqi barrels have been discounted by $30 to $50, VLCC rates have hit record highs, and the war is far from over.China cut net crude imports by roughly 5.5 million barrels a day, and Rory believes drawdowns of strategic crude and diesel stockpiles, not just weak demand, explain much of that swing, making it inherently unsustainable.Diesel remains the tightest part of the market, with roughly 2 million barrels a day lost from the Middle East and Russia, U.S. exports up about 50%, and diesel cracks running at several times normal levels.A U.S. diesel export ban would lower domestic prices but send global diesel prices soaring and eventually force refinery run cuts. Rory expects a rationing of export licenses rather than a full ban.In Rory's opinion, the clearest signal the crisis is over would be OECD inventories rising and the front of major crude curves flipping into contango, which would show the supply deficit is truly behind us.Jump to:0:00 — Welcome and a Family Update2:35 — Rory Johnston Returns and Reintroduces Himself6:40 — From $200 Oil Fear to Reality10:45 — What Tight Backwardation Is Signaling14:55 — Hormuz Transit Data and Dark Tankers25:10 — China Demand Swing and the Brent WTI Gap38:15 — Why the War Keeps Dragging On42:10 — Diesel Shortage and Export Ban Math47:55 — The Cleanest Signal the Crisis Ends50:15 — Where to Follow Rory and Final ThanksRory Johnson is not affiliated with CWM, LLC. Opinions expressed by this individual may not be representative of CWM, LLC.Connect with Ryan:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandetrick/• X: https://x.com/RyanDetrickConnect with Sonu:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonu-varghese-phd/• X: https://x.com/sonusvarghese?lang=enQuestions about the show? We'd love to hear from you! factsvsfeelings@carsongroup.com

Hello to you listening wherever your feet touch the ground. Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Everywhere in the world women are living their lives unrecorded. What's up with that? What's the use of unrecorded lives? What are we afraid will happen if we put pen to paper to set down one memory moment of our lived experience? If we had the courage to venture into the depth of inquiry that guides a nice essay to a memorable story, what unexpected magic, freedom, or self-understanding might happen next? The depth of inquiry into our personal narratives moves even the best essays away from a nice recounting of facts and events and what happened to what did it all mean? There's more to your story than facts and events. Our stories become memorable when we deeply explore our lived experience, become curious about our motivations, what was at stake, the choices we made, the risks we took, and then reflect on how those experiences earned us a hard-won lesson. To get started recording a lived memory moment experience you recall—maybe the first job you ever had or the first time you stood up for yourself—set down the time, place and setting of the facts and events as you remember them. Next, capture highlights of the character (that would be you), who she was, how she was living her life, and why we might care about her. What was the event that upended her daily routine and set her up to want something different for herself? What was the problem that got in the way of what she wanted and how did she overcome it? Now we're embarking on the depth of inquiry. We focus our attention on the character's underlying emotions, feelings, fears, doubts, struggles, and values. These personal truths help us understand the meaning of what has happened when her routine was upended, what was at stake for her, and why she chooses to do what she does to get what she so keenly desires, come what may. When we dig deep into our lived experiences by asking difficult questions, refusing to accept our initial reactions, and allowing the story to lead us, we transform surface answers into self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-affirmation. With this first step we have begun to live a recorded life. What was the experience like for you? What is your next story? If you could use a little help from a story doula who could listen your personal story out of you, click HERE to schedule time for a brief Discovery Call. What happens next ...? As always, thank you for listening to “the music of the spoken word!” YOU'RE INVITED: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, subscribe & spread this episode with a generous 5-star review & comment on APPLE Podcast—it helps us all—& join us next time!STOP BY my newly re-imagined Quarter Moon Story Arts website ARRANGE a no-obligation Discovery CallSUBSCRIBE to STAY CURRENT with me as Diane Wyzga / Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Entering Erdenheim by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. Enjoy my work? Share & attribute it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

This week on Science Faction, we tackle the important questions: Is bread actually good? Can a Disney Channel movie sneak science fiction past Steven? Can Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally make Ben stop complaining? And, most importantly, how did a movie about sheep detectives turn out to be legitimately great? Then, in Future or Now, things get a little more serious as Devon brings us a massive Kelvin wave moving toward California, while Ben explores a fake version of Windows 11 that leads us into a much bigger question: why are we still using computers basically the same way we have for decades? Real Life We begin, naturally, with bread. Ben is against it. Devon, who apparently becomes increasingly French whenever bread is involved, is very much in favor of it. Steven loves sourdough and becomes increasingly concerned about what exactly Ben considers the staple crops of his diet. Devon settles the matter with perhaps the strongest argument anyone can make: fresh French bread is amazing, and he will eat all of it. From there, Steven has two movies to discuss, neither of which would normally be considered science fiction. Or would they? First up is Big City Greens: Spacecation, which gets a thumbs-up from Steven. It's a Big City Greens adventure that sends the family into space, which certainly sounds suspiciously like science fiction. There's also a familiar name in the writing credits: Mike Trapp. Then there's The Love Hypothesis. If you've listened to Steven talk about romantic comedies before, you probably already know where this conversation is headed. If you don't, well…he's going to tell you. Meanwhile, Ben has reached the end of another season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which raises an important question: is there a limit to how long Ben can complain about Star Trek? Season four is over, and somehow the show may have accidentally made a good Star Trek episode. That sends us into a bigger discussion about what some fans want from the franchise: an aspirational future where science, discovery, truth, and people working together matter more than enormous space armadas and the latest galaxy-ending artificial intelligence. Could this finally make Ben stop complaining about Star Trek? Maybe for five minutes. But the biggest surprise of Ben's week was The Sheep Detectives. And apparently it was EPIC. Ben calls it a genuinely smart movie and, perhaps most impressively, says it succeeds where Cars 2 failed. Beneath the absurd premise of sheep solving a mystery, there's a story dealing with grief and trauma that worked far better than Ben expected. Ben recommends it. Strongly. Future or Now Devon brings us something considerably larger than sheep detectives: a slow-moving, planetary-scale Kelvin wave heading toward California. The Guardian: Concern mounts over planetary-scale Kelvin wave heading for California The enormous mass of warm water is moving across the Pacific and could affect sea levels along the California coast, with changes potentially approaching a foot in some areas. That leads us into a conversation about what these enormous ocean systems actually mean when they finally reach land—and, for Devon, a much more personal connection involving his son and the devastating flooding in Texas. Then Ben takes us somewhere considerably sillier. Definitely Not Windows is exactly what it sounds like: a parody of Windows 11 that gives us an excuse to complain about modern operating systems. But the joke leads into a much more interesting question. Why do computers still work like this? Windows, icons, folders, desktops, applications—we've been iterating on essentially the same basic ideas for decades. Ben brings in Scott Jenson's exploration of what could come next and asks whether we're really going to use the same desktop UX forever. Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever? If artificial intelligence changes how we interact with computers, maybe the future isn't simply an AI assistant sitting inside the same old operating system. Maybe the entire idea of what an operating system looks like—and how we tell a computer what we want—needs to change. So this week we've got bread, romantic comedies, surprisingly good Star Trek, emotionally complicated sheep, planetary waves, fake Windows, and the possible death of the desktop. You know. Science Faction.

Slipknot fans are already arguing about the band's next album, Linkin Park is working on new music, and more rock/metal hot takes in another episode of "THE LEEGION SAYS!"This week, Jim Root's latest comments about the new Slipknot album, including why fans shouldn't expect another Iowa or self-titled record, why the new album is going to "hurt some feelings," and what Root says about experimenting with different approaches in the studio. Also the band annnounced a stadium tour.Linkin Park's Joe Hahn's comments about new music, ranking nu metal guitarists, my most unexpected artist that I LOVE, and moreDrop your hot take or question in the comments for a chance to be featured on the next episode of "THE LEEGION SAYS!"Don't forget to bang your head on the links belowTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@jesealeeInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jesealee/Podcast available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and everywhere else you consume podcastsProduction by WhatTheGleeson Content Creation https://www.instagram.com/whatthegleesonTheme song by Michael Stoutengerhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6LO5eGttpemsEdm5kixX10?si=pXW6AbohTWaFgHMdh3ZmzgSubscribe to my newsletter:https://jesealee.substack.com/Everything else:https://www.jesealee.com/

Melina hat das Gefühl: Alle anderen haben klare Ziele im Leben – nur sie selbst nicht. Eine Forscherin erklärt, warum die Suche nach dem eigenen Weg heute so herausfordernd sein kann und welche Rolle Social Media dabei spielt. **********Ihr hört: Gesprächspartner*in: Melina, fühlt sich lost und weiß nicht, was sie im Leben will Gesprächspartner*in: Carla Hornberg, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Postdoktorandin am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, forscht zu Ungleichheiten in der Bildung und am Arbeitsmarkt Gesprächspartner*in: Antonia Speerforck, systemische psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Autorin von "Wo ist mein Platz im Leben?" Autor*in und Host: Ivy Nortey Redaktion: Friederike Seeger, Yevgeniya Shcherbakova, Sarah Brendel, Anton Stanislawski Produktion: Philipp Adelmann **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Bore-out: Wie gehe ich mit Unterforderung im Job um?Ausbildung: Wann sollte ich dranbleiben und wann abbrechen?Neuanfang: Wann sollten wir uns trauen, was zu verändern?**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok und Instagram .**********Meldet euch!Ihr könnt das Team von Facts & Feelings über Whatsapp erreichen.Uns interessiert: Was beschäftigt euch? Habt ihr ein Thema, über das wir unbedingt in der Sendung und im Podcast sprechen sollen?Schickt uns eine Sprachnachricht oder schreibt uns per 0160-91360852 oder an factsundfeelings@deutschlandradio.de.Wichtig: Wenn ihr diese Nummer speichert und uns eine Nachricht schickt, akzeptiert ihr unsere Regeln zum Datenschutz und bei Whatsapp die Datenschutzrichtlinien von Whatsapp.

What if ninety seconds on a dance floor could do what ten years of therapy couldn't? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Sah D'Simone, a spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and bestselling author whose approach to healing was forged through over 300 days of silent meditation, clinical spiritual care training at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, and years of direct service in the margins. Sah is the creator of the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method and founder of the Somatic Dance Institute, and his work has drawn collaborations with Harvard, Columbia, and the UN. They trace Sah's path from meditation teacher to dance mystic: the night in Bali when a trance on the dance floor cracked him open into a full-body recognition of strangers dancing beside him, the year his mother died and everything he'd built around joy fell apart, and why he believes talking about trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame while dancing it moves the charge all the way through. They also get into how Christian missionaries turned the god of dance into the devil, the nuanced difference between chasing pleasure and finding it inside whatever is true, and why no feeling, however big, is the one that finally breaks you. In this episode, Sah explores: Why talking about your trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame, while dancing it moves the charge all the way through The night in Bali when a trance on the dance floor cracked him open into a full-body recognition of strangers he'd apparently known before How Christian missionaries turned Pan, the god of dance and revelry, into the image of the devil The difference between chasing pleasure as an escape and finding the ecstasy inside whatever is true, even rage or grief What his mother's death taught him about prayer, pain, and the limits of visualization A Vipassana retreat gone sideways, and the wave of full-body release that followed once he stopped resisting Opening for a DJ with five minutes' notice, and the closest he has come to a physical experience of the divine on a stage Why no feeling is too big to survive, and what actually makes people exhausted Key Moments: 00:00 – Emily's introduction: from meditation teacher to dance mystic, and why Harvard and Columbia came calling 03:02 – Why the most prestigious universities on the planet are studying his work 05:10 – His mother's death, and the six months of "sanctioned insanity" that followed 07:48 – The Osho line: why a woman dancing is closer to God than a man meditating 08:40 – Why talking about your trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame and victimhood 14:11 – How Christian missionaries turned Pan, the god of dance, into the devil 19:40 – The night in Bali when dance cracked him open into a past-life recognition on the floor 27:06 – 2020, and the moment "the goddess" rewired his entire career overnight 28:00 – "Part rave, part ritual": why the fastest, most industrial beats create the safest place to disappear 30:47 – His pushback on spiritual bypassing in ceremony culture, and Emily's response 40:34 – What his mother's death taught him about pain, prayer, and the edges of joy 42:27 – A Vipassana retreat, "princess and the pea," and the full-body release that followed 44:23 – The Iceland eclipse festival, and opening for a DJ with five minutes' notice 49:31 – The first-ever multi-day festival at the pyramids, and the Egypt eclipse he's building toward in 2027 51:16 – What he'd say to the exhausted parent of three who says they don't have time to dance 54:05 – His one request: dance to a single song, eyes closed 58:04 – A Lakota elder's line: all the suffering on the planet traces back to uncried tears About Sah D'Simone Sah D'Simone is a spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and bestselling author of Spiritually Sassy and Spiritually, We. He is the creator of the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method and founder of the Somatic Dance Institute, where he has trained teachers and guided communities worldwide in trauma-informed, body-based practice. A chaplain intern in spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and guest teacher at Columbia University, his work has been recognized with the City of Los Angeles CARE Award. He hosts the podcast Solving the Riddle of Being Human. Website: sahdsimone.com Instagram: @sahdsimone This episode is sponsored by Timeline. Support your mitochondrial health and get 20% off Mitopure at timeline.com/ziva.

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What if the life you're working so hard to build isn't actually the life you want? Jim Murphy, author of The Best Possible Life, joins Michael Easley for a wide-ranging conversation about achievement, suffering, joy, purpose, unconditional love, and what it means to live fully. Jim draws from his experience as a professional baseball player, coach, and mentor to high-performing athletes and leaders. He explains why achievement can become a substitute for identity, why we cannot always trust our feelings, and why suffering and difficulty can play an important role in developing wisdom, courage, and strength. Michael and Jim also discuss parenting, retirement, the pressure to perform, being present, gratitude, and the challenge of mastering the ego. Chapters 00:00 — Why difficulty is necessary for growth 00:37 — Jim Murphy's story and the road to The Best Possible Life 01:24 — From professional baseball to a crisis of identity 02:54 — The three worlds model 05:32 — Achievement, identity, and the need for love 07:17 — Why success can leave us empty 09:47 — Purpose, sacrificial love, and joy 11:18 — Happiness vs. joy 13:37 — Trusting God when we are uncertain 14:49 — What unconditional love really means 16:33 — Why you can't always follow your heart 18:03 — Feelings versus truth 19:01 — Parenting, grit, and doing hard things 21:19 — When achievement doesn't bring happiness 22:28 — The role of suffering in growth 24:12 — The hidden struggles of high achievers 26:16 — Growth through suffering 26:41 — Four daily goals 29:02 — Learning to live in the present 30:10 — Letting go of achievement 32:07 — What people really want 34:54 — Mastering the ego 36:23 — Learning through pain and experience Key topics covered • Achievement and identity • The pursuit of success • Unconditional love • Happiness vs. joy • Sacrificial love • Suffering and spiritual growth • Parenting and grit • Purpose and retirement • Presence and gratitude • High performance • Mastering the ego • Love, wisdom, and courage Links Mentioned: Inner Excellence website The Best Possible Life by Jim Murphy The Inner Excellence 90 Day Challenge Watch the highlights and full version of this interview on our Youtube channel. For more inContext interviews, click here.

Why Do I Rush Past My Feelings? Anxiety, Trauma Responses, and What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You Do you find yourself rushing through uncomfortable feelings, talking faster when you're anxious, frantically trying to fix things, avoiding difficult emotions, or feeling like you just need to get past something as quickly as possible? There may be a reason. Sometimes what looks like rushing, perfectionism, avoidance, overreacting, shutting down, or trying to control everything around you can be an automatic survival response. Your nervous system may be responding to something happening today based on what it learned during an earlier experience. In this episode of Trauma Healing for Christian Women, Michelle Croyle, LPC, EMDR-Certified therapist, explains how slowing down and paying attention to your reactions can help you recognize what your nervous system may be trying to tell you. Why Do I Rush When I'm Anxious? When anxiety or a trigger hits, your nervous system may respond before your logical mind understands what's happening. You might notice yourself: Talking faster Moving faster Trying to fix everything Becoming unusually angry Feeling an urgent need to leave Avoiding uncomfortable feelings Becoming perfectionistic Shutting down or withdrawing Worrying about being judged Feeling like you're not good enough Instead of immediately asking, "How do I make this feeling stop?", it may help to become curious about why your system reacted in the first place. Could This Be a Trauma Response? Sometimes your reaction isn't only about what's happening now. Your nervous system may have learned a strategy during an earlier experience that helped you avoid rejection, criticism, embarrassment, abandonment, helplessness, or another painful experience. Maybe you learned to move faster. Maybe you tried to make everything perfect. Maybe you withdrew before someone could reject you. Maybe you learned to anticipate other people's reactions. Maybe you pushed uncomfortable emotions away so you wouldn't have to feel them. Those strategies may have served a purpose at one time. The problem comes when your nervous system continues using an old survival strategy in situations where the original threat no longer exists. Perfectionism Can Be About Safety Imagine someone is coming to your house and you suddenly feel frantic. You don't simply want to straighten up. You feel like you have to make everything perfect. What's underneath that urgency? What if someone sees how you really live? What if they judge you? What if they think you're a bad wife or mother? What if someone sees that you're not perfect? The intensity may be telling you something. Perfectionism isn't always about wanting things done well. Sometimes it can be connected to fear, criticism, rejection, vulnerability, or an old belief about what you need to do to be accepted. Why Do I Overreact to Small Things? If your emotional or physical reaction seems much bigger than the situation in front of you, consider whether something older may have been activated. You may notice: "This situation isn't actually dangerous, but my body feels like it is." That can be an important clue. A current experience can sometimes activate emotions, body sensations, beliefs, or survival responses connected to something that happened much earlier. Instead of criticizing yourself for your reaction, you can become curious about it. Slow Down and Notice When you notice yourself becoming frantic, tense, angry, avoidant, shut down, or unusually activated, slowing down may help you understand what's happening. If you feel safe enough to explore it on your own, you might ask: What am I feeling right now? What am I afraid will happen? What does this remind me of? When have I felt this way before? What am I telling myself right now? What do I believe I need to do to stay safe? Is that still true today? Sometimes slowing down allows you to see the connection between what you're doing now and what your nervous system learned to do years ago. Your Nervous System May Need New Information An old response doesn't have to remain your automatic response forever. Once you recognize the pattern, you may be able to give your nervous system a small experience that challenges the old expectation. Maybe you don't make the house perfect before your friend comes over. Maybe you stop studying once you know the material. Maybe you allow someone to see a little imperfection. Maybe you slow down instead of talking faster. Then you notice: I'm still okay. I wasn't rejected. Nobody attacked me. I didn't have to be perfect to be safe. Experiences like these can begin giving your brain and nervous system new information about what's safe now. When You Need Help Going Deeper Not every trauma response should be explored alone. If slowing down brings up overwhelming emotions, memories, body sensations, or experiences that are difficult to regulate, working with a qualified trauma therapist may help you explore what's underneath your reactions more safely. Trauma therapy can help you understand the connection between your current triggers and earlier experiences while developing healthier ways of responding in the present. You don't have to force yourself through something overwhelming in order to heal. Christian Trauma Therapy and EMDR Intensives in Pennsylvania If you keep wondering, "Why do I react this way when I know I'm safe?", there may be something underneath the reaction that needs attention. THERAPY WITH MICHELLE Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way that aligns with God's Word and evidence-based treatments for trauma healing?   I offer THERAPY INTENSIVES which help you to go deeper and with faster results than weekly therapy can provide.  Learn more at: www.emdrpittsburgh.com. 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A frustrating interaction can last for seconds, but the anger it creates can follow us for hours. Joe Rockey opens this episode with a very modern example: getting increasingly angry at AI when it gives an obviously wrong answer. The deeper issue, though, has nothing to do with technology. It is what happens when frustration becomes a story—“nothing is going my way,” “everything is going wrong,” or “this always happens to me”—and that story begins shaping the rest of the day.Father Boniface Hicks connects the experience to road rage and other situations where we attribute intentionality or injustice to something that cannot actually intend to harm us. His practical advice is simple: don't give away your peace. Feelings can arise spontaneously, so we should not shame ourselves for having them. But we can create space between the feeling and the reaction—take a breath, step back, clarify what is actually happening, and choose what happens next.The episode then goes deeper into the mechanics of anger. Before the feeling becomes a reaction, there is often an expectation that was not met and a story we are telling ourselves about what that means. Maybe the AI did not “fail” so much as misunderstand an underspecified request. Maybe being two minutes late is not actually a crisis. Maybe the person in front of us at the grocery store is simply having a human interaction that takes a little longer. Once we identify the expectation and the story underneath the anger, we have something we can actually examine and change.The practical homework is straightforward: find your triggers, identify your story, and check whether that story is true. With greater self-awareness—and with trusted people willing to hold up a mirror—we can catch the “smoke alarm” earlier. That creates room for surrender, perspective, and a return to peace before one frustrating moment spills into our relationships, work, and relationship with God.Key IdeasDon't give away your peace: frustration may be unavoidable, but escalating it is not.Anger can create a false background narrative—“nothing is going my way”—that causes us to search for evidence supporting the mood.Put space between the feeling and the reaction: breathe, step back, clarify, and reset.Look for the unmet expectation beneath the anger, then examine the story you are telling yourself about it.Self-awareness grows through practice and through trusted people who can help us notice our warning signs before we spiral.Links & ReferencesNone explicitly referenced with a clear official/source link in this episode.CTA: If this helped, please leave a review or share this episode with a friend.Questions or thoughts? Email FatherAndJoe@gmail.com.TagsFather and Joe, Joe Rockey, Father Boniface Hicks, anger, frustration, anger management, emotional regulation, self awareness, triggers, road rage, AI frustration, artificial intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, Claude, peace, don't give away your peace, surrender, perspective, unmet expectations, expectations, negative stories, background narrative, cognitive habits, self reflection, emotional awareness, stress, resentment, frustration tolerance, patience, breathing, reset, spiritual growth, prayer, God's sovereignty, trust in God, surrender to God, relationship with God, relationship with others, relationship with self, business life, work stress, communication, conflict, anger triggers, habits, discernment, Catholic spirituality, Catholic podcast

Support our Show:buymeacoffee.com/UmagangKayGognaWhat do you do when your heart is saying one thing, but you know you should do another? My friend, we've all been there, when emotions feel loud, circumstances feel shaky, and certainty seems nowhere to be found.

I am so happy to share another episode in the series of conversations about Attachment Play, this time in conversation with Vivian Viester. Vivian is a level 2 Aware parenting Instructor in the Netherlands and has a 15 year old son. In this conversation, Vivian shares how she has learnt to incorporate her own big painful feelings into attachment play with her son and gives lots of examples of how she has done this. We talk about bringing attachment play to prepare our children for stressful events and to support their healing after experiencing stress and trauma. We talk about the importance of getting support and listening for ourselves in order to have capacity to play. To learn more about Vivian's new immersion starting on 4th October Attachment Play with Vivian, please visit https://www.vivianviester.com To learn more about joining the 5th year of the Exploring Motherhood & Aware Parenting Community - a year long online village exploring all aspects of the motherhood journey, then please visit https://awareparenting.com.au/parenting-coaching/community/ The doors re-open on 1st October 2026 and the community re-starts on 2nd November. For support with Attachment Play or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to get in touch. If you would like to receive a free copy of my Introduction to Attachment Play eBook, please email me support@awareparenting.com.au

Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his influential works on how humans and plants have shaped each other at the level of food, medicine, health, and culture. In this episode we discuss consciousness—what it is and how the recognition between our self vs others contributes to-- but also can impair, certain aspects of conscious experience. We discuss psychedelics, the microbiome, caffeine, and how the unconscious dialogue between our body and brain impacts our thoughts and feelings. Pollan offers a hopeful perspective on how our relationship with plants and animals – including other humans, can lead us to a healthier, and far richer experience of life. Read the full episode show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Mateina: https://drinkmateina.com Rorra: https://rorra.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Michael Pollan (00:02:50) Wendell Berry, Nature (00:06:30) Consciousness; Sentience (00:10:04) Environmental Response, Plant Intelligence; Self-Recognition (00:13:52) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & Rorra (00:20:49) Plants, Communication, Sentience, Symbiosis (00:27:37) Self-Awareness, Time; Xenobots, Instinct (00:34:32) Microbiome, Influence & Symbiosis (00:40:28) Meaning; Cortex vs Brain Stem, Homeostatic Feelings (00:47:17) Sponsor: AG1 (00:48:36) Body & Brain Communication, Vagus Nerve (00:57:21) Collective Consciousness, Psychedelics, Ego, Awe (01:08:14) Filter Theories of Consciousness (01:13:28) Sponsor: Function (01:15:06) AI, Consciousness, Feelings; Memory; Quantum Effects (01:21:27) Childhood, Gardening, Interacting with Nature (01:27:08) Hope, Nature & Agency, Food Industry (01:32:21) Advocacy, Psychedelics, Food Industry (01:39:50) Sponsor: Mateina (01:44:52) Psychedelics, Ibogaine, Veterans, Politics; MDMA, Psilocybin; Risk (01:52:18) Caffeine, Caffeine Fast, Health Benefits (02:00:21) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Monday on Mick Unplugged, we're revisiting Mick Hunt's conversation with David Pollack about standards, faith, leadership, and the work behind personal growth. David shares how mentorship and his experiences in football shaped the way he approaches challenges, leads others, and keeps growing. Mick and David explore the “50-40-10” principle, why preparation and consistent effort matter, and what it means to hold your standards when your feelings pull you in another direction. Whether you're hearing this conversation for the first time or returning for another listen, consider where you can put one of these lessons into practice this week. This is a re-release of a previously recorded episode. In this conversation: Choosing standards over feelings. The role of preparation and effort in the “50-40-10” philosophy. Leadership built on care, influence, and understanding the people you lead. How an invitation and a mentor helped shape David's faith journey. Adapting through challenges and learning from setbacks. Reflection: Where are you letting a temporary feeling make a decision that should be guided by a lasting standard? Follow Mick Unplugged for more conversations about purpose, leadership, and your because. Share this episode with someone who could use it this week. Connect & Discover David Pollack: Instagram: @davidpollack47 Facebook: @PollackFF X: @davidpollack47 YouTube: @DavidPollackCFB Website: davidpollack.com Podcast: See Ball Get Ball with David Pollack FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged  Facebook: @mickunpluggedYouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast  LinkedIn: @mickhunt  Website:  MickHuntOfficial.com Website: howtobeagoodleader.com Website: Leadloudseries.com Apple: MickUnplugged Book: How to be A Good Leader When You've Never Had One #MickUnplugged #Leadership #Podcast

Editor's Note: We're bringing some of our favorite episodes of Teach Us to Pray out of the archives for you to discover or rediscover again. This episode originally aired in August of 2020. As much as we've learned about the numerous benefits of prayer so far in this podcast, you'd think it would always come easy. Sometimes we just don't feel like praying. Feelings should not be ignored. They are indicators as to what deeper issues may be going on within us that needs to be addressed. In today's podcast, we discuss some of the feelings that challenge our desire to pray so that we can find the faith to keep praying anyway.Key Takeaways:• In your feelings of grief and sadness, God is with you. He is not only with you; the Bible tells us He is close.• Our struggle with doubt can often be rooted in our view of God and what we know about Him or what we don't know about Him.• God is not mad at you; He is mad for you.• When we feel guilty, the last thing we need to do is run from God, that is the time we need to run to God to receive the grace and forgiveness our souls desperately need. Resources Mentions in This PodcastDownload Christina's Free 5 Day Prayer Guide at www.belovedwomen.org/prayer-guide to help you put into practice the powerful habit of prayer.Connect with Christina PatersonWebsite: www.belovedwomen.orgYouTube: www.youtube.com/BelovedWomenTVInstagram: www.instagram.com/BelovedWomenFacebook: www.facebook.com/BelovedWomenScriptures in the Podcast are from NIV, ESV or NKJVEpisode Image Credit: Getty/Jorm Sangsorn Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

MONDAY HR 5 Ryan Holmes: The King Of Denmark. His Highness shares how he spent the weekend watching hours of old school MTV programing and it hurt his feelings. Hobbies and physical items that sound like they would be fun, but you would be bored with them very quickly. Monster Messages & Hot Takes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Transformation Church Podcast! Each week, you can be a part of the weekly sermon delivered at TC by one of our Communicators. You can join us and listen to each message and then catch our Transformation Church Podcast on each Thursday, where we talk a little message and a lot of nonsense. Thank you for taking the time to connect with us and with God through this message! For more info about Transformation Church check out our website at https://transformationchurch.com This week Lead Pastor Brad Livingston brings the message from the Facts Or Feelings series with Why does God feel so far away?

The entirety of DJ & PK for September 28, 2026: HOUR ONE Wrapping up a weekend in Sports; Pablo Mastroeni & Andre Tourigny Bronco Mendenhall, Utah State football head coach Morgan Scalley, Utah Football head coach HOUR TWO What is Trending: Utah, Utah State, College Football, NFL, MLB, RSL, and Utah Mammoth Utah Jazz Media Day Austin Ainge, Utah Jazz President of Basketball Operations HOUR THREE Lauri Markkanen, Utah Jazz forward How do the Utah Jazz turn tanking basketball into winning basketball? Keyonte George at the podium from Utah Jazz Media Day HOUR FOUR Bronco Mendenhall, Utah State football head coach Keyonte George, Utah Jazz Guard Feedback of the Day

Hour three of DJ & PK for September 28, 2026: Lauri Markkanen, Utah Jazz forward How do the Utah Jazz turn tanking basketball into winning basketball? Keyonte George at the podium from Utah Jazz Media Day

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Adam talks about fears surrounding the process of death and how he is coping with recent events.

Pfingstrosen oder ein thailändisches Glückssymbol – Sofie hat insgesamt acht Tattoos. Doch für keines davon würde sie sich heute noch einmal entscheiden. Warum sie ihre Tattoos bereut und welche Fragen wir uns vor dem Stechen stellen sollten.**********Ihr hört: Gesprächspartner*in: Sofie, hätte sich im Nachhinein lieber nicht für ihre Tattoos entschieden Gesprächspartner*in: Markus Niebuhr, arbeitet an der Internationalen Hochschule IU im Bereich Soziale Arbeit und beschäftigt sich mit der gesellschaftlichen Rolle von Tattoos Gesprächspartner*in: Sascha Roth, ist Tätowierer und macht Tattoo-Content auf Social Media Autor*in und Host: Ivy Nortey Redaktion: Friederike Seeger, Anne Bohlmann, Yevgeniya Shcherbakova, Sarah Brendel, Anton Stanislawski Produktion: Philipp Adelmann **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Unter der Haut: Was unsere Tattoos ausdrückenÜberlegt oder spontan: Wie wir uns für Tattoos entscheidenTattoos: Hierauf solltet ihr bei der Tattoo-Pflege achten**********HörtippWir packen jeden Tag eine Nachricht für euch aus - mit persönlichen Perspektiven auf das Thema: Unboxing News**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok und Instagram .**********Meldet euch!Ihr könnt das Team von Facts & Feelings über Whatsapp erreichen.Uns interessiert: Was beschäftigt euch? Habt ihr ein Thema, über das wir unbedingt in der Sendung und im Podcast sprechen sollen?Schickt uns eine Sprachnachricht oder schreibt uns per 0160-91360852 oder an factsundfeelings@deutschlandradio.de.Wichtig: Wenn ihr diese Nummer speichert und uns eine Nachricht schickt, akzeptiert ihr unsere Regeln zum Datenschutz und bei Whatsapp die Datenschutzrichtlinien von Whatsapp.

God's voice is more discerned than heard. In 2 Kings 3:15, Elisha called for a musician, and the hand of the Lord came upon him as the musician played. A heart governed by peace can grow sensitive to the Holy Spirit's inward witness. These five feelings give practical language to that witness, including the conscience that checks your course and the warmth of His presence. Give the Word room to distinguish soul from spirit. Learn to test your thoughts and exercise your senses in prayer, so you can recognise His leading in your daily decisions.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr hosts #SistersInLaw to discuss Trump's war on media organizations following the stripping of credentials to respected organizations, how his actions butt up against the 1st Amendment, and the judicial response.  Then, the #Sisters examine the U.S. immigration policy of 3rd country removals, the legal challenges to it, and the ongoing human rights concerns.  They also review the legality of Trump API, whether it constitutes insider trading, and the ethical concerns it raises.Remember to send in audio questions to SistersInLaw@politicon.com for the #Sisters to answer on their new companion podcast, SistersInLaw Sidebar!  It airs Wednesdays wherever you normally get your podcasts!Get the brand new ReSIStance T-Shirt, Mini Tote, and other #SistersInLaw gear at politicon.com/merch! Additional #SistersInLaw ProjectsCheck out Jill's Politicon YouTube Show: Just The FactsCheck out Kim's Newsletter: The GavelJoyce's new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable, is now available, and for a limited time, you have the exclusive opportunity to order a signed copy here. Barb is on a book tour!  You can also order Barb's new book, The Fix. Her first book, Attack From Within, is now in paperback. Add the #Sisters & your other favorite Politicon podcast hosts on BlueskyGet your #SistersInLaw MERCH at politicon.com/merchWEBSITE & TRANSCRIPTEmail: SISTERSINLAW@POLITICON.COM or Thread to @sistersInLaw.podcastGet text updates from #SistersInLaw and Politicon. Support This Week's SponsorsWild Alaskan Company: Get $35 off your first box of wild-caught, sustainable seafood—delivered right to yourdoor. Go to: https://www.wildalaskan.com/SISTERSOneSkin:Get 15% off OneSkin with the code SISTERS at https://www.oneskin.co/SISTERS #oneskinpodLola Blankets:Get 40% off select Lola Blankets products at Lolablankets.com by using code SISTERS atcheckout. Experience the world's #1 blanket with Lola Blankets.DeleteMe:Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/SISTERS and use promocode SISTERS at checkout.Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and treats for life when you head to Smalls.com/SISTERSGet More From The #SistersInLawJoyce Vance: Bluesky | Twitter | University of Alabama Law | Civil Discourse Substack | MSNBC | Author of “Giving Up Is Unforgiveable”Jill Wine-Banks: Bluesky | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth & Justice Against A Criminal President | Just The Facts YouTubeKimberly Atkins Stohr: Bluesky | Twitter | Boston Globe | WBUR | The Gavel Newsletter | Justice By Design PodcastBarb McQuade: barbaramcquade.com | Bluesky | Twitter | University of Michigan Law | Just Security | MSNBC | Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America | The Fix

In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain, and Jackson Felts discuss feelings about the state of the Huskies offense currently, the belief in the team and Head Coach Jedd Fisch, then Rick Rizzs joins the show ahead of his final Mariners series to reflect on his career, talk about his goodbye ahead, the final week, and what his future holds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the moment you enter a Disney park, the Imagineers are intentionally manipulating your feelings and perspective.They compress spaces before revealing enormous vistas, control what you can and can't see, carefully transition you from one environment into another, alter architectural scale, and use visual order to influence how you experience the world around you.Tonight on Distory Nite Shift, Kate and Joshua explore the psychology and perspective tricks hiding throughout the Disney parks through the ideas of Imagineers including Claude Coats, Joe Rohde, and John Hench.We'll explore Disney's famous “Christmas Morning” views and how Imagineers use this technique in many of their most popular attractions across all the Disney parks. Then we're heading to Disney's Animal Kingdom to examine Joe Rohde's fascinating explanation of how Imagineers intentionally move guests from geometric, human-controlled environments into increasingly natural spaces, and what feelings they wanted to evoke in the process.Finally, we'll dig into Imagineer John Hench's psychological interpretation of Disneyland including visual cohesion, elements designed to make you feel safe, and more. Clock in for another Distory Nite Shift as we follow some Imagineering rabbit trails and explore how Disney uses architecture, storytelling, psychology, scale, perspective, and carefully controlled reveals to influence not only what we see, but how we feel as we step into the Disney parks. Resources referenced in this episode:John Hench's Psychological Interpretation of Disneyland:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yykXGfS8GbE&t=3sKate's books & Substackhttps://disneycicerone.com/E82 Disney Parks Soundtrackshttps://www.epcotlegacy.com/musicDistory Nite Shift is a conversation between two Disney historians who have a combined 55 years of Disney history knowledge. The “after-show” of Distory with Kate & Kirk, this late-nite conversation for Disney history lovers is hosted by Kate the Disney Cicerone and Joshua of E82 | The Epcot Legacy.Nite Shift is broadcast every other week, opposite of Distory with Kate & Kirk. Join us LIVE on YouTube every week for Distory! Be notified by subscribing to Kate's Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@disneycicerone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter X, and also at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disneycicerone.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠epcotlegacy.comView full video versions of each episode at Disney Cicerone's YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OR on the Spotify version of our podcast.Joshua's resources:E82 | The Epcot LegacyJLH OmniMediaKate's resources:Kate's BooksKate's SubstackShow Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Distory T-shirts and Stickers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Bishop Jim's insightful messages help others find THEIR METRON through M~otivation E~nlightenment T~ranscendence R~enewal O~utreach and N~etworking Learn more: www.bishinthenow.com Follow Jim Swilley on Youtube to see the videos live Sundays at 11:11 am – https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow In Part 3 of “If Your Eye Is Single,” Bishop Jim Swilley continues exploring mindset as the internal “setting” through which we interpret our lives. His central argument is that many things traditionally understood as spiritual warfare, strongholds, demons, and adversaries can also be understood as patterns of thought that oppose our purpose and distort our perception. Rather than arguing with an unhealthy setting, we can recognize it, change it, and consciously choose a different response. Through Scripture, personal stories, and unconventional interpretations of biblical imagery, Bishop Jim emphasizes that transformation happens when we stop surrendering authority to inherited beliefs, fear, past experiences, or negative thinking and begin examining the mental settings through which we interpret reality. Difficulty may still come, but our response determines what that difficulty produces in us. Main Takeaways Your mindset functions like a setting. Bishop Jim compares mindset to the settings on a phone, computer, car, or thermostat. When the setting produces the wrong result, arguing with it accomplishes nothing; the setting itself has to change. You are not obligated to believe everything you think. Some thoughts are temporary, while others have become deeply established because of childhood experiences, religious teaching, relationships, trauma, or repeated reinforcement. Recognizing that a thought exists does not require accepting it as truth. Strongholds can be understood as entrenched patterns of thought. Bishop Jim connects Paul's language about spiritual warfare with Paul's instruction about “casting down imaginations” and bringing thoughts into obedience. 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 becomes a major framework for understanding the battle as something occurring within perception and thought. Scripture can reveal truth beyond strict literalism. Much of the message explores biblical stories symbolically rather than exclusively historically. Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Pharaoh, the Red Sea, Daniel's Prince of Persia, and other images become ways of discussing consciousness, fear, ego, adversity, transformation, and spiritual awakening. Adversarial thoughts can become your “devil.” Bishop Jim points to the basic idea of an adversary and applies it internally: a thought that continually works against your purpose can function as an adversarial force within your life. This reframes spiritual warfare as recognizing and confronting thoughts that continually undermine who you are becoming. Pressure can reveal abilities you did not know you possessed. Moses standing between Pharaoh and the Red Sea becomes an image of those moments when the only way forward is through. Sometimes we discover what we can do precisely because circumstances leave us no alternative. Stop asking only, “Why is this happening to me?” A more transformative question is: What can this teach me? How can this make me stronger? Bishop Jim uses his upcoming shoulder replacement and current pain as an example of deliberately changing the meaning attached to a difficult experience. Eventually, you have to take ownership of your response. What happened to you may genuinely have been caused by someone else. But continuing to surrender control of your present life to that event keeps the old setting active. We cannot necessarily control what happens, but we have significant influence over how we respond. Feelings do not have to be denied to change your mindset. Bishop Jim specifically acknowledges allowing himself to feel disappointment, pain, or frustration rather than suppressing it. The goal is not pretending something is good; it is refusing to remain mentally trapped there. Repentance can mean changing your thinking. In this framework, repentance becomes the recognition that a way of thinking is no longer producing life and choosing another way to perceive the situation. Key Scriptures Matthew 6:22–23 — “If your eye be single…” The foundational text of the series. Bishop Jim interprets the “single” or healthy eye in terms of healthy perception: when perception changes, what we experience becomes filled with light. Romans 15:4 — Scripture was written for instruction so that through endurance and its encouragement we might maintain hope. 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 — The weapons of our warfare are not carnal; they pull down strongholds, cast down imaginations, and bring thoughts into obedience. This is one of the clearest biblical connections to the message's emphasis on mindset. Daniel 10 — The Prince of Persia becomes an image Bishop Jim uses for entrenched thoughts that seem to delay or resist truths already known within the spirit. Exodus 14 — Moses and the Red Sea illustrate the capacity that can emerge when circumstances force us beyond what we previously believed we could do. Psalm 112:7 — The person whose heart is established is not afraid of bad news. Psalm 138:8 — “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.” Bishop Jim describes this as one of the truths that became deeply established in his own thinking. Romans 8:28 — “All things work together for good…” The message emphasizes developing a mindset capable of looking for transformation even within difficulty. Romans 12:2 — “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” This captures the larger theme of changing the internal settings through which life is perceived. Philippians 4:7 — The “peace that passes understanding” illustrates an inner experience that can transcend the apparent logic of circumstances. John 16:33 — “In the world you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Quote from Bishop Jim Swilley “You're not obligated to believe everything you think.” — Bishop Jim Swilley That line captures the heart of this installment: thoughts can be examined rather than automatically obeyed. A mindset may have been established years ago and remained silently active—like an alarm setting waiting until 3:00 a.m. to reveal itself. Becoming conscious of the setting gives us the opportunity to change it. Another line that strongly captures the closing movement of the message is: “I'm going to start declaring the end from the beginning. I'm going to prophesy my own resurrection.” — Bishop Jim Swilley The message ultimately moves from examining inherited beliefs to consciously choosing expectation: I will get through this. I will learn from this. I will become stronger. This circumstance does not get to write the ending of my story.

When people say "your feelings are valid," they mean that your emotional response makes sense given your experience, perspective, or circumstances. It is an acknowledgment that what you are feeling is real, understandable, and allowed to exist—without judgment, shame, or the need to minimize it.Validation is about accepting the emotional reality of a situation, not necessarily agreeing with every thought or action that stems from it.The Feeling (Valid): Fear, jealousy, grief, anger, excitement. It arises automatically.The Fact / Thought (Subject to change): "They left me out on purpose." The feeling is real, but the story driving it might be incomplete or mistaken.The Action (Your responsibility): How you choose to respond to that feeling. You can validate the feeling while still choosing a constructive way to handle it#feelings#emotions#listen #learn#understand #relate #valid #ai

This week on Chattin' with Coach Amy, there is no guest—just me and my assistant Darlene doing what we do best: talking.

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An exploration of why feeling your feelings matters, how to recognize when emotions have taken over, and practical tools to get your rational brain back online so you can befriend — rather than escape — your emotions.About Taylor WelchTaylor Welch is an entrepreneur, author, and host of The Deep End a growing media platform exploring the intersection of God, money, business, and psychology. He is also the Founder & CEO of Novos Network, a research and training company focused on identity reform and personal development, offering workshops, events, in-person trainings, and online programs for individuals and entrepreneurs seeking to grow personally, professionally, and spiritually. You can find our upcoming events and workshops here.Taylor is the author of three books:- The Currency of Heaven: How to Trust God for More Than Enough- Winning At Sales: How to Get So Good People Say “Thank You” For Letting Them Buy- The Wealthy Consultant: Confessions of a 9-Figure AdvisorSOCIALS:Website: https://taylorawelch.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/taylorawelchInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/taylorawelch/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@taylorawelchFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylorawelchprofileTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorawelch

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This video podcast is the third in a series of three posts about the Hidden Hold of Horrors Golden Thread in the work of author Rowling-Galbraith. A Golden Thread is a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole. The ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' repeated scene is of a location underground, be it a cave, a cellar, a tunnel, a tomb, or a basement pool, in which a frightening confrontation, a Near Death Experience, flat out murder, or transformative revelation occurs.The first post in this series was Nick Jeffery's exploration and explanation of Rowling's Church Cottage childhood home in Tutshill and its remarkable cellar beneath a covered access port, what has been mistakenly referred to as a “trapdoor.” In The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home, Nick shares why a building in West England on the border with Wales from the mid 19th Century that was built as a Church of England school would have a substantial brick and cement vaulted basement and what this room, originally a cistern to prevent cholera outbreaks, was probably like during Rowling's childhood.[Golden Thread Image: Wovex.com; Ladder to Cellar Under Access Port: Pinterest]The second post was one I sent out yesterday in which I shared Nick's and my off-the-top-of-our-heads catalog of everything subterranean, frightening, and damp in Rowling's oeuvre, that is, her seven Harry Potter novels, eight Cormoran Strike mysteries, the Cursed Child ‘collaborative' play script, her Beedle the Bard fairy tale collection and Ickabog “political fairy tale,” the three Fantastic Beasts screenplays, her border-line autobiographical Casual Vacancy, and the Dante-meets-Dickens Christmas Pig classic. Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap DoorHogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The morning after posting it, readers are already adding scenes Nick and I overlooked and I am kicking myself for not including the “deepest dungeon” in ‘The Warlock's Hairy Heart' and “the trapdoor beneath the rug” concealing the tunnel beneath Poem and Pretense's sanctuary from the Loss Adjustors, a tunnel reached via a ladder. ‘The Tunnel' takes them “to the bottom of the mountain” where Compass joins them for their flight to the City of the Missed across the Wastes of the Unlamented, Pig's story turn and meaning-in-the-middle. As Nick and I note in the conversation above, a comprehensive list will require a repeated reading of Rowling's complete writings. Please add the ones you think of that we missed in your comments below, especially for Cursed Child, the only book for which Nick and I drew a complete Golden Thread blank.Those first two posts cover half of the four subjects Nick and I tackle in this Golden Thread conversation; the Ten Questions guiding that discussion with the relevant links and notes from our answers can be found below. What I want to write out here briefly are some notes about Golden Threads in general, their place in a Lake and Shed bifurcated critical environment, and then the importance of the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread specifically for understanding Rowling's work, its inspiration and intentional artistry, and for seeing what will happen in the remaining Strike novels. Not to mention the meaning of Hallmarked Man's fictional silver oligarch Murdoch's name!{Lake image source; Golden Thread image source; Shed image source]Are ‘Golden Threads' Evidence of ‘Lake' Inspiration or ‘Shed' Intentional Artistry?Since the time of our first Hogwarts Professor Substack posts and podcasts, Nick and I have described what we are trying to advance here in the niche field of Rowling Studies is Fourth Generation work. For a discussion of the four generations of Rowling scholarship, listen to On Reading ‘On Writing.' where we discussed the evolution of reader approaches to Rowling-Galbraith texts and how each generation, while typical of a specific time period, continues into the other generations (most of Strike-Ellacott fandom, for example, is reading that series as the ‘Shippers and speculators did the Hogwarts Saga during Potter Mania, the first generation of Rowling Studies).What distinguishes Fourth Generation thinking is, in essence, (1) the incorporation of biographical material in understanding the inspiration of Rowling's work (per her implicit instruction since the late 2019 Lake and Shed metaphor interview), (2) the creation of a gauge to measure the success or failure of her work out of the intention evident in her choices of literary tools, her Shed artistry, and (3) shifting the critical focus from the latest work and the book-next-in-queue to the oeuvre as a whole, everything she's written. The bumper-sticker version of that?Lake — Shed — Golden Threads. Lake? Rowling describes the source of her stories' inspiration as the ‘Lake' of her unconscious mind, her personal issues, the events of her life, her reading and education. This is the work of Fourth Generation specialists who sift through what is known about Rowling's life in pursuit of clues to the source material of her stories.Shed? Again, Rowling's bipolar metaphor for her creative process has a marker, her ‘Shed,' that represents the alocal place ‘where' she deploys her traditional tools to craft archetypal story out of her very personal Lake inspiration. These tools — I focus on seven — have a specific quality, both antiquarian and profoundly effective in producing the effect Rowling desires on her reading audience.And, at last, the Golden Threads, which are not explicitly Lake or Shed findings, but, as noted above, “a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole.” Examples?In two episodes of The Kanreki Series last July (here and here), Nick and I discussed fourteen Golden Threads in Rowling's work: The Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward, Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers. ‘Blood' makes fifteen (see here, here, and here for that) and my post yesterday about the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' is sixteen.As Nick and I explain in the conversation above, most of these Golden Threads have a Lake element or point of origin, e.g., the Cholera Cistern cellar beneath Church Cottage. Understanding why Rowling returns to them again and again in reinventive ways in her work, though, requires more than a psycho-biographical connection. This is obviously the case with all the underground terrors to be found in Rowling's stories.[Basement Image from WallPaperAccess.com]How are We to Understand the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread? What does it mean?As I listed at the end of yesterday's post and the conversation with Nick above, Rowling's childhood home with its hidden depths beneath the floorboards and neighboring graveyard and attendant ghosts is only one part of the explanation for the Hidden Hold Golden Thread. It's a wonderful point of origin and launching pad for inspiration, certainly, but restricting the interpretation of her usage of this meme to nightmares and flights of fancy she had as a child about the sublimely subliminal spaces around her is, for lack of a better word, lazy. Her use of these spaces again and again reflects, I'm sure, to a certain degree her psychological Default Setting from childhood memories of the ‘Wet Nightmare Place' under the dining room table and next door. But Rowling's mind was shaped as much by her bibliography, the books she read and loved, as by her biography, the exterior circumstances of her life. Her reading is the bridge linking her Lake and Shed creative process and it plays an outsized role in her Golden Threads as well. Granting that the first inspiration of her unconscious mind may just have been childhood fears and fantasies, knowing that Rowling has read Homer, Virgil, and Dante and studied Greek mythology from her time at Wyedean Comprehensive through UExeter means that a Trip to the Underworld to speak to the dead is a touchstone of myth and epic. There's a word for this commonplace, katabasis, the going-down-and-coming-back. Odysseus visits Tiresias, Aeneas his father Anchises, Dante with Virgil tours the Inferno's multiple levels — and Psyche is sent by Venus into Hades on the last of her purgative trials.· Rowling, having entered into these stories, knows they are delivery vehicles for the cathartic transformative change to be found in consultation with the dead and in thinking about death.Joseph Campbell famously argued in Hero with a Thousand Faces that per James Joyce, ethnographers, and comparative mythology experts this descent into the nether worlds and return was an essential aspect of the “monomyth” or Ur story underlying all story and myth. Campbell's more important contribution was arguing that this was not an abstract historical or literary assertion but one fundamentally important in every human being's life and psycho-spiritual development.The Journey to the Underworld from this perspective is that it represents the conscious entry into the Unconscious Mind, the Hidden ‘Depths' of the Person Behind the Persona-Mask. Rowling has said that, if the writing dream had not worked out, she would have studied to become a psychologist. It is a touchstone belief of Fourth Generation Rowling Studies that, even though the writing gig did work out, that Rowling-Galbraith still became a psychologist in the sense of a person working to help her client-readers experience meaning (logos) more profoundly in their souls (psyche).Every time we descend into the depths with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, with Cormoran and Robin, or with Jack Jones, we jump into a shared psychological crucible for our alchemical dissolution, purification, and reintegration. In this Golden Thread, we can see the Shed tools of literary alchemy, mythology, psychomachia, Christian symbolism, chiastic writing, and cathartic shock all at work.And, though speculating about the novel-on-the-near-horizon isn't a signature quality of Fourth Generation reading, I would be remiss not to point out that Rowling-Galbraith has left pointers in Hallmarked Man and throughout the Strike series that Robin Ellacott is on a ‘Heroine's Journey' — and overdue for a trip to Hades.Pointers to Trips Underground to Come in the Cormoran Strike Series' Remaining BooksSubscribers to Hogwarts Professor are familiar with Rowling-Galbraith's use of the Cupid and Psyche Myth as a template for the Strike-Ellacott series, a use the author highlighted in a tweet after the publication of Strike 8. That myth is about the Soul's trials to be worthy of Divine Love, Psyche being the Greek word for Soul and Cupid or Eros for love (Anteros for True Love). Psyche's great trial is her descent into Hell at Venus' command to receive from Persephone a gift for the Goddess of Beauty. As infernal as Robin Ellacott's sufferings have been, Serious Strikers have been anticipating that she will at last ‘go there' for real in Strike 9.Iris T. M. wrote in The Rowling Library Magazine, Issue #99 (March 2025), her belief that Robin's story arc conformed, intentionally or not on the author's part, with ‘The Heroine's Journey.' See ‘Robin's Heroine's Journey: How J. K. Rowling's Robin Ellacott from the Strike Series Follows the Classic Path of Self-Discovery' in that archived issue of TRL (and say a prayer for the return of The Rowling Library in 2027!). Iris mentions psychotherapist Maureen Murdock as the original advocate of a ‘Heroine's Journey' distinct from a Campbell-esque ‘Hero's Journey,' but uses the ‘Aletis' archetype of Jody Gentian Bower as her framework for tracing Robin's story arc. It's a brilliant exegesis and well worth reading in full.It misses the mark, however, in at least three important respects.First, it makes no mention of the Cupid and Psyche myth, which conforms to every ‘Heroine's Journey' marker and is Rowling's only admitted mythological template for the series;Second, it was written before the publication of Hallmarked Man so Iris T. M. could not have seen that Rowling-Galbraith gave a historical character, a 19th Century Freemason, silver millionaire, and author of Secrets of the Craft (see Ed Shardlow's discussion of his importance here), the name Alexander Hughson Murdock. Taking that as a pointer to Maureen Murdock and her groundbreaking The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness, we're obliged, I think, to look at the stages Dr Murdock assigns to this transformative odyssey.Last, that look reveals a stage that Iris, Bower, or both neglect, namely, ‘Initiation and Descent to the Goddess' after ‘Awakening to Feelings of Spiritual Aridity/Death.' Iris following Bower looks for a ‘Dark Night of the Soul' and attendant “descent into the underworld,” which she ties to Robin's being buried alive at the UHC's Chapman Farm in Running Grave. She argues that after this experience “two key stages remain in the Aletis Journey: Self discovery and integration—where she fully embraces her skills and authenticity—and the Establishment of a new home, where she builds a life that reflects her true self and her desires.”A Murdock reading, in contrast, suggests that Robin's descent into hell has not yet begun or is not yet over.Heroine Journey's Cycle image source; Maureen Murdock image sourceMurdock's ten stage Heroine's Journey looks like this per HeroineJourneys.com with my notes in [Brackets}:* HEROINE SEPARATES FROM THE FEMININE. The “feminine” is often a mother/mentor figure or a societally prescribed feminine/marginalized/outsider role. [Robin's decision to pursue her vocation to be a private detective despite her fiancee's and family's disapproval, especially Linda's]* IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MASCULINE & GATHERING OF ALLIES. The heroine embraces a new way of life. This often involves choosing a path that is different than the heroine's prescribed societal role, gearing up to “fight” an organization/role/group that is limiting the heroine's life options, or entering some masculine/dominant-identity defined sphere. [Her move from secretary to detective to partner at the Agency]* ROAD/TRIALS AND MEETING OGRES & DRAGONS. The heroine encounters trials and meets people who try to dissuade the heroine from pursuing their chosen path, or who try to destroy the heroine. [Insert list here of those who try to convince Robin to leave the Agency or to kill her.]* EXPERIENCING THE BOON OF SUCCESS. The heroine overcomes the obstacles in their way. (This is typically where the hero's journey ends.) [Partner status and respect of Strike and the Met as a First Tier detective]* HEROINE AWAKENS TO FEELINGS OF SPIRITUAL ARIDITY/DEATH. The heroine's new way of life (attempting the masculine/dominant identity) is too limited. Their success in this new way of life is either temporary, illusory, shallow, or requires a betrayal of self over time. [Robin's growing awareness that her vocation as a detective is in an undefined but certain way in conflict with her life as a woman and the roles of wife, daughter, and mother]* INITIATION & DESCENT TO THE GODDESS. The heroine faces a crisis of some sort in which the new way of life is insufficient, and the heroine falls into despair. All of the masculine/dominant-group strategies have failed them. [Strike 9! Robin breaks down but conferring with the Goddess-Crone, her Jungian psychoanalyst, she learns how imbalanced her life has become; she makes decisions a la those of Psyche in Hades per the Crone's instructions]* HEROINE URGENTLY YEARNS TO RECONNECT WITH THE FEMININE. The heroine wants to, but is unable to return to their initial limited state/position. [Ditto]* HEROINE HEALS THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER SPLIT. The heroine reclaims some of their initial values, skills, or attributes (or those of others like them) but now views these traits from a new perspective. [I suspect this healing will be akin to Strike's Chapel ‘conversation' with the late Charlotte Campbell; for reasons to be discussed, I think Linda Ellacott dies in Strike 9 which precipitates Robin's mental crisis]* HEROINE HEALS THE WOUNDED MASCULINE WITHIN. The heroine makes peace with the “masculine” approach to the world as it applies to them. [Strikes 9 and 10]* HEROINE INTEGRATES THE MASCULINE & FEMININE. In order to face the world/future with a new understanding of themselves and the world/life, the heroine integrates the “masculine” and “feminine” qualities/perspectives. This permits the heroine to see through binaries and to interact with a complex world that includes the heroine but is also larger than their personal lifetime or their geographical/cultural milieu. [The Alchemical Hermaphrodite or Rebis, Strike 10]I think there are two more Golden Threads to be explored in Rowling's work that are rooted in Tutshill's Church Cottage and Rowling's life there, both of which I began to pull in the conversation with Nick above, namely, the Nightmare Upstairs Room and the Neglected Dead Mother. But those will have to wait for another day!Hats off in salute to Iris T. M. for her work with Robin's ‘Heroine's Journey' (and Strike's in TRL Issue #100)! Writing as she was before Hallmarked Man and not being familiar with Rowling's Shed tools and how they work together, she still revealed the psychological template Rowling is deliberately following, it seems, if the Murdoch name drop is any indication.The Hidden Hold of Horrors, then, is an especially rich Lake-Shed-and-Golden-Thread story point in Rowling's work. Stay tuned for more of the same with respect to Mums and Upstairs Nightmares!The Ten Questions with Notes and Links1. Good day, Nick! What can you tell me about the trap door basement in Rowling's childhood home, Church Cottage in Tutshill?* The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home2. So, it's bigger than I once thought. Are you asking for the reasons I think you're asking?* Golden Thread discussion above3. So, yes, that Ironbridge cellar and my recent revisits to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with its gauntlet run beneath a trapdoor, made me wonder: is the nightmare basement a Rowling Golden Thread? It's not as if all of them have been identified; you just came up with the Crimson Golden Thread this year --* See here, here, and here for that.4. How many Golden Threads have we discussed, John? Why do we care again?* Golden Thread 1: Kanreki (Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward)* Golden Thread 2: Kanreki (Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers)* Lost Child Golden Thread: Kanreki Finale* See Golden Thread discussion above.5. So it's a Big Deal, really. Care to join me in reviewing Rowling's work to see what's lurking in her basements? (Harry Potter back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door6. How about the Stand-Alones, John: Casual Vacancy, the Ickabog, The Christmas Pig? And the collaboration exercises, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door7. And Cormoran Strike? (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door* Nick: “And the Dell, of course, in Lethal White's Chiswell House, where the remains of the Shetland pony are dug up in the pink blanket.”8. Okay, that was fun -- and we have sufficient evidence to say that Rowling thinks of the spaces downstairs as wet, scary, even horrible. So what? Tell me this isn't just a Lake inspiration bit; what is this very deliberate artist choosing to do with the basement image? Do we have any bibliographic pointers?* Discussion Above in text.9. What about the psychological piece here? Rowling has said she'd have been a psychologist if the writing gig hadn't worked out. Is her ‘underground' piece of Harry's Journey everywhere our moving into the subconscious of depth psychology?* Joseph Campbell ‘Hero's Journey,' Joyce scholar, Jung disciple, monomyth advocate – myth not only historical but important as individual psychological template;* Maureen Murdock ‘Heroine's Journey,' Jungian psychotherapist, writing for therapiss and patients not writers on Campbell model, “Initiation and Descent to the Goddess”* Victoria Lynn Schmidt ‘Heroine's Journey for Writers'* Iris T. M: The Heroine's Journeys of Robin Ellacott (TRL #99) and of Cormoran Strike (TRL #100)10. Do you think we'll be going underground in the last two Cormoran Strike novels? * YES, we will!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

You walk into a room and have absolutely no idea why you're there. You can't find the word you were JUST about to say. You're exhausted, foggy, forgetful - and everyone tells you: welcome to motherhood.But… what if we stopped brushing all of it off??Today, Deena sits down with Emma Heming Willis and clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Beurkens from Make Time Wellness for a fascinating (and refreshingly non-doom-and-gloom) conversation about women's brain health and why we should be thinking about our brains LONG before there's a problem - especially in the context of potential Alzheimer's disease prevention. We're getting into brain fog, hormones, perimenopause, sleep, movement, stress, dementia risk, and the simple things we can start doing now to support our brains for the long haul. And thankfully, this is NOT another episode telling you to wake up at 5 a.m., meditate for 45 minutes, eat superfoods, hit 10,000 steps and become a completely different person by Tuesday.You'll learn:When brain fog and forgetfulness are part of a season (and when it's worth talking to your doctor)The five basic pillars that support brain health over timeWhat's actually happening inside your brain while you sleepWhy you absolutely do NOT need a perfect workout routineWhy women are at greater risk for Alzheimer's disease - and why prevention starts decades before we think it doesHow to advocate for yourself when a doctor tells you everything is “normal” but you know something feels offPlus why 10,000 steps is not the magical number we've been led to believe, why the exercise you'll actually do wins, what your 30s and 40s have to do with your brain decades from now, and how to advocate for yourself when a healthcare provider dismisses what you know you're feeling.This isn't about becoming afraid of getting older. It's about realizing we have more power than we think - and your brain deserves to be part of the conversation NOW.After Bedtime listeners can get 20% off with code AFTERBEDTIME20 at maketimewellness.com This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.Boll & Branch - Get 15% off your first set of sheets plus free shipping at bollandbranch.com/BLF with code BLF. Jones Road Beauty - Use code BIGLITTLEFEELINGS at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a FREE full-sized MASCARA with your first purchase! #jonesroadbeauty #adLadder - If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/blf and take a quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Get a free seven-day trial with no credit card and ten dollars off your first month if you do join.Naturepedic - Visit www.naturepedic.com and use code FEELINGS to get 20% off safer, healthier sleep products for the whole family.Nutrafol - Head to nutrafol.com and enter the promo code FEELINGS for $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping. REBEL - Visit fromrebel.com for up to 70% off the brands you already love!Wayfair - Head to wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. Wayfair. Every style. Every home.Produced by Dear MediaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We all want God’s blessing but what does it actually mean to be blessed? And how do we experience more of it in our everyday lives? In this short and personal episode, I’m sharing something from Psalm 1 that has been changing the way I think about God’s Word. We’ll talk about what it really means to meditate on Scripture (it might not mean what you think!), and how speaking God’s truth to yourself can replace worry with peace, fear with courage, confusion with direction, and weariness with endurance. If you’ve ever struggled to delight in God’s Word, this practical shift might be exactly what you need. Remember, I'd love to connect more on Instagram, where you'll find me at @donnaajones or on my website at www.donnajones.org. And don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode! Xo, Donna Key Takeaways: 0:00:42 - Hashtag Blessed: What Does It Actually Mean? 0:02:30 - Psalm 1: The Word of God Paves the Path to Blessing 0:04:15 - Delight Means Pleasure: Why Scripture Feels Boring 0:06:20 - Meditate Means Mutter, Not Woo-Woo 0:11:40 - Five Minutes a Day: Start Reading, Then Memorize What We Talk About What it really means to be “blessed” by God Why Psalm 1 connects blessing with delighting in God’s Word How Scripture provides guardrails for everyday life What the Bible means when it tells us to “meditate” on God’s Word Why speaking Scripture out loud can be so practical and powerful Using God’s Word when you’re dealing with worry, fear, anger, confusion, or discouragement Simple ways to become more immersed in Scripture How to start small if Bible reading has felt difficult or overwhelming 5 Ways to Get God’s Word Into Your Life Read it. Spend time actually reading the Bible even if you begin with just five minutes a day. Hear it. Listen to Scripture through church, sermons, Bible teaching, or audio. Memorize it. Choose verses you can recall when you need God’s truth in a real-life situation. Apply it. Don’t stop at knowing what Scripture says. Put it into practice in your everyday life. Meditate on it. Speak God’s truth to yourself. Mutter it under your breath. Bring it to mind when worry, fear, anger, confusion, or discouragement creeps in. The goal isn’t simply to know more Scripture, it’s to allow God’s Word to shape how we actually live. Donna’s Resources: Order a copy of my latest book - Healthy Conflict, Peaceful Life: A Biblical Guide to Communicating Thoughts, Feelings, and Opinions with Grace, Truth, and Zero Regret. It is available anywhere books are sold– here is the link on Amazon. If you need a helpful resource for someone exploring faith and Christianity or simply want to strengthen your own knowledge, you’ll want a copy of my book, Seek: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God. It’s a must for seekers, new believers, and those who want to deepen their faith. Let’s Connect: Instagram: @donnaajones Website: www.donnajones.org Donna’s speaking schedule: https://donnajones.org/events/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

In this week's episode photographer, Alex Majoli takes on our ‘Proust Photo Quiz'… The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album, a form of parlour game popular at the end of the 1890s. The album, titled An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc.was found in 1924 and published in the French literary journal Les Cahiers du Mois. Our ‘Proust Photo Quiz' is an adaption of the original text. Alex Majoli Majoli was born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1971 and attended the Art Institute in Ravenna. His career began to develop after he photographed the closing of the notorious insane asylum on the island of Leros in Greece, which resulted in his first monograph, Leros. Majoli's early interest in psychiatric care led him to Brazil, which marked the beginning of his twenty-year-long, ongoing project, Tudo Bom, a body of work documenting the multi-layered country, and the extremes found in the darker side of its society. The experience of photographing people in all kinds of circumstances led him to explore the idea that everyone is an actor in their own life. This is why he started the ongoing project, Scene in which his images become scenes in which people, through their performances, express themselves in what becomes a film set or a theater stage. Majoli's work is held in various public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, MUFOCO and Mucem. Among many honours, he has received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship for Humanistic Photography, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ICP Infinity Award, a Getty Images Grant. He was NPPA Photographer of the Year and received an OPC Feature Photography Award. His books include One Vote (2004), Libera Me (2010), Congo (2015), Andante (2018), Scene (2019) and Opera Aperta (2021). Majoli joined Magnum Photos in 1996, becoming a full member in 2001 and lives in New York. www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/alex-majoli/ Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott continues to work as a photographer, writer and filmmaker and is the Subject Coordinator for both undergraduate and post graduate study of photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. © Grant Scott 2026

"I've seen a billboard. It's lawyer maxing." Hannah Wallen hosts with Richard the Lionhearted, on a post by Shadowclaw about what happened to a generation of young men once women got picky about who they'd even spend time with — and the reply insisting it was all about sex. Also: why being picky in the eighties and nineties had a rationale; the difference between deserving something and being more likely to get it; and the reply that accused him of saying what he'd just explained he didn't mean. "Anything with the word maxing added to it — it's going to become a thing. Biscuit maxing." Support the show: feedthebadger.com/support Send us a message: feedthebadger.com/justthetip Join the community: badgernation.online

Words cast spells — including the ones you use on yourself. Today I'm answering more of your questions: how to separate yourself from your feelings without bypassing them, what actually keeps me committed to this podcast on the days I don't feel like showing up, and whether I've always felt this alive or had to cultivate it. I also get into what to do when you hate the way you look on camera, and why that word "hate" deserves a closer look. Big, honest questions today — let's get into it. In this episode:How to separate your feelings from your identity without rejecting themThe "weather vs. climate" metaphor for when a feeling becomes who you areWhat keeps me committed to podcasting even on unmotivated daysWhat "aliveness" really means, and how to cultivate it deliberatelyWhy hating your own content is worth investigating, not judgingHow self-inquiry and journaling build self-trust and self-respect⭐️YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS: Please: Subscribe + leave 5⭐️Star rating +review HEREEnjoy! xRxFIND ME ON:️INSTAGRAMSUBSTACKYOUTUBEXTHREADS

Free 10 Day Couples Challenge Try Relationship Academy When your partner walks through the door in a bad mood, do you immediately wonder what you did wrong or rush to fix it? Taking your partner's emotions personally turns their everyday stress into relational friction, forcing them to manage your reaction on top of their own feelings. In this episode, we unpack the shift from carrying emotional responsibility to offering true empathy, giving both of you permission to feel. Main Talking Points: Personalizing Versus Empathy Unpacking Emotional Responsibility Breaking Fixing Cycles Tolerating Partner Discomfort Reducing Emotion Layers Frameworks Over Scripts Secure relationships aren't built on avoiding uncomfortable feelings, but on cultivating the capacity to tolerate and hold space for them together. Real connection happens when you allow feelings to be felt without making them about you. Give Me Discounts! Kiwi Fodzyme - Get 30% off your first order!  Tanasi - Use code “relationship" for 25% off your first order. *If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a⁠ review in iTunes⁠? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Colter, Cayla, & Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Facts vs. Feelings! On this weeks episode Liz Loza and Daniel Dopp discuss the established names you should trust. Plus, which players have they changed their mind on already heading into the Week 2 Sunday slate? Finally, is their a potential love connection brewing in fantasy therapy???? Link to Liz's article: https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/49956322/facts-vs-feelings-fantasy-advice-week-2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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