Podcast appearances and mentions of pema chodron

Dream as Analogy for RealityThis world is psychoactive. So much so that we don't even realize how are fundamental beliefs and unquestioned assumptions shape our sense of who we are and what the world is.One of those assumptions is the referent to this simple, and often thought/spoken phrase I am.Its innocuous, we think it constantly. I am hungry, I am tired, I am sad, I am lonely, I am scared, etc.When we say “I am” —this thought or sensation goes unquestioned, and so we build our life or our sense of self on these unquestioned thoughts and feelings.Sometimes the shape of the I AM, is really negative or painful, I am not good enough, I am bad at this, I am unworthy.Or it takes the shape of shame, anger, fear, desire, anxiety, hatred.We usually get totally bought in to those feelings, sensations or thoughts being who we are— we suffer them. We become trapped in the world that is created through believing them or identifying with them.In the dharma practice, we are practicing looking into these basic assumptions, to ask well what does this I AM refer to?We can do this now, notice the sense of I am. How are you experiencing it? Is it a thought, a feeling, a sensation, something else?And if so, what is the nature of this thought, sensation, belief or emotion?When we look, with non-judgmental awareness and genuine curiosity what we begin to see is — the I Am is ungraspable, it changes, its spacious, flowing, here only in the moment of its happening, non-referential.So, the encouragement is to look, to really look, to see what happens in your own experience.Often we don't look back into the sense of I AM, we let it be a given, so this kind of inward looking, turning our awareness around, can feel strange and unnatural.Nothing happens—or there is nothing there, or its just this.These are actually profound experiences, but subtle, we are expecting some big fireworks experience of no-self or emptiness, and don't appreciate the profundity of verifying for ourselves the ungraspable, spacious nature of our sense of self.The openness of not-finding, is the openness of being. The openness of pure possibility.The dream-like nature of reality is one way of describing the ungraspability, the spaciousness, openness and the insubstantiality of direct experience itself .Any word is imperfect.So we have a lot of different analogies. Dream is a good one. There is also illusion, magic show, echo, reflection in water, phantom. Modern practitioners sometimes say, like a motion picture or a hologram.I feel like dream is particularly evocative, it shows up most in the Zen teachings.And its's a practice. An invitation to see through the assumptions or reactions we paste onto reality. This is a DreamTo practice seeing the insubstantiality of thoughts, feelings, emotions, reactions, fears, we can invite this slogan or phrase:This is a dream, am I dreaming?To work with this as an inquiry or koan, doesn't mean that we are carrying it around all the time, zapping things that we don't like into dreams.Its a living question, its about inviting curiosity.So maybe you are standing in line, and frustration is building—and your mind starts thinking about all the things that you need to do, or how you are going to be late, or how you don't want to be here. You can inquire:What if this is a dream? And really entertain it, what changes?When its a dream, we are usually present.So you might notice the other people, these characters in your dream—who are they? You might notice other things in the room, the colors, smells, sounds.You might notice what you are drawn towards, or what becomes present that you weren't aware of before.What does waiting feel like in a dream?If this were a dream you were remembering in the morning, what parts of it would you share, or record.Regard all dharmas as dreams is the first of the five slogans for awakening absolute bodhicitta in the Lojong. Pema Chodron comments in her book Start Where you Are.Really, regard everything as a dream. Life is a dream. Death is a dream, for that matter sleeping is a dream and waking is a dream. Another way to say this is everything is a passing memory.She goes on to tell a story of someone who opened to the dream like nature of reality spontaneously while on a solo backpacking trip. He started to feel like the mountains were dream mountains, and his food was dream food. He was writing on dream paper, dream words. The man remarked that in that state there was a vastness and a peace, a kind of possibility and okness about the way things were.Pema Chodron comments that the practice of regarding everything as a dream invites openness.Openness is one of the qualities of bodhicitta, its a practice of opening up to the spaciousness of being. Of being less identified with the suffering making mind. Openness brings possibility.When I entertain that this is a dream, I feel like I am leaning into life. The possibility of the hawk singing a song or the stones telling me a story, becomes vividly real. I see the magic of this world. I am filled with a kind of wonderment. Life is re-enchanted in an open kind of way.What happens for you?Is wonderment possible even in lines? Even in traffic? Even while watching the news? Even in challenging conversations or disagreements?Try it out. Let it be a living inquiry.This is a dream. Its psychoactive, it may just wake you up to the openness that you are. That this world is.For more. Listen to the talk. I would be interested to hear your comments and experiences trying on the inquiry This is a Dream. Feel free to share here.I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, Astrologer and Artist. I offer 1:1 Spiritual Counseling sessions using IFS and somatic mindfulness. I also offer astrology readings. Check out my website to learn more. I currently live in Columbus, OH and am a supporting teacher for the Mud Lotus Sangha.Below you can find a list of weekly and monthly online and in-person practice opportunities.Weekly Online Meditation EventMonday Night Dharma — 6P PT / 9P ET Join weekly for drop-in meditation and dharma talk. We are currently exploring Zen and Dreams.Feel free to join anytime. Event lasts about 1.5 hours. 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This is part of a series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

This is part of a series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

This is part of a series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

This is part of a series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

This is part of a series of awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

This is an introduction to a series of short practical meditations I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen consecutively, but if there is one in particular that speaks to you, feel free to stick with it. Loosely based on the teachings of Adyashanti, they can be used alone or as a companion to his audio series, The 30-Day Wake Up Challenge, or his book, The Direct Way: 30 Practices to Evoke Awakening. In some cases, the meditations are also loosely inspired by the teachings of Andrew Holecek and Pema Chodron. I hope you enjoy.Music and audio editing by Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

Mindshifters Radio 2-14-2025 First Hour Tim Hayes - Reading from Pema Chodron's book - Start Where You Are - and highlighting the identical message about ego from her book and Alan Cohen's book - Of Course In Miracles. We don't benefit from hating or attacking ego. We only benefit from understanding it deeply, and recognizing it as a very simple and useful tool.

  About the Author: Pema Chödrön, born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City in 1936, is one of the most influential spiritual teachers in the West. A former teacher and wife, her life transformed after a series of personal challenges, including a painful divorce, which led her to explore Tibetan Buddhism. She became a student of Lama Chime Rinpoche in the French Alps and was later ordained as a Buddhist nun in London by the Sixteenth Karmapa. Under the guidance of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she deepened her practice and teaching. Pema is the director emeritus of Gampo Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Westerners, in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a prolific author, known for works like When Things Fall Apart and The Places That Scare You, which explore mindfulness, compassion, and resilience. Her teachings emphasize finding liberation through vulnerability and embracing life's challenges as opportunities for growth. About the Book: In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön invites readers to explore the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the bardo, the transitional state between death and rebirth. As a side note, Buddhism embraces the concept of reincarnation. These teachings highlight how the impermanent nature of life mirrors the bardo experience and how the way we live daily reflects how we will face life's ultimate transition—death. In essence, she's saying that the gap between birth and death is what we call life. She contends that by cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance of birth, life and death, we can navigate the uncertainties of life and death with a calm state of grace and wisdom. My personal take on this topic? I think it's important in some way to acknowledge and accept the reality of death in order to live your life fully in preparation for it. Make Sense?   Important: I encourage you all to read these books or listen to them on Audible. My hope is that these short form synopsis's will awaken you to some great books to put on your list.   Contact Pema Chodron: https://pemachodronfoundation.org How We Live Is How We Die Book: https://amzn.to/4fOPllH   Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast: This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works and that perception is a subjective and acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. Makes Sense Mondays is LIVE STREAMED weekly on Mondays at 8am est on Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube   These episodes get edited and cleaned up for the MAKES SENSE with Dr. JC Doornick PODCAST for your listening pleasure.   PLEASE SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.   FOLLOW the NEW Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=09e1725487d6484e    Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where i get all these topics for almost 15 years? I have learned to read at almost 4 times faster with 10X retention from Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon   OUR SPONSORS: - Makes Sense Academy: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about - The Sati Experience: A retreat designed for the married couple that truly loves one another yet wants to take their love to that higher magical level where. Come relax, reestablish and renew your love at the Sati Experience. https://www.satiexperience.com   I have been using Streamyard for years now and it is simply the easiest and most efficient platform ever for live streaming and recording video content. Check itout. You will be happy you did. https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6657951207522304     Highlights: 0:00 - Intro 1:14 - How we live is how we die 2:12 - About the author? Pema Chodron 4:21 - The Bardo 6:50 - Lessons and Takeaways 9:12 - Living Mindfully 13:40 - The power of letting go? 14:54 - Making Transitions Sacred 16:10 - Sacred Moments 17:46 - Integrating daily practices for resilience 19:18 - Closing Reflections

She has dedicated her life to her spiritual path, and learning the healing arts and mystical wisdom of many world cultures. She is a holistic energy healer: Reiki Master; Crystal energy healer (certified, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine); Sound Therapy & Sound Healing practitioner (certified, Complementary Therapists Accredited Association); and shamanic practitioner. Kathy walks the path of an ancient lineage of women frame drummers. An award-winning artist, photographer, and poet, Kathy's fine art photography can be found at her online gallery at KathyHarmonLuber.com, her shop at fineartamerica.com/profiles/kathy-harmon-luber/shop, and on Facebook at facebook.com/Kathy-Harmon-Luber-Suffering-to-Thriving-103160192354485. Kathy's compelling writing and marketing prowess have helped nonprofit organizations advocating the arts, education, and environment, as well as helping foster children and youth, helping homeless youth get off the streets, and empowering people with developmental disabilities. She's an articulate spokesperson, having appeared on CNN, in The New York Times, LA Times, The Washington Post, and more. She has taught at professional conferences, university, high school, and middle school levels. She earned her Graduate degree in Publishing from The George Washington University and BS in Marine Biology from University of NC, Wilmington. This time we get to visit with Kathy Harmon-Luber, a Sound Therapy & Sound Healing practitioner, Reiki Master. In her twenties Kathy was diagnosed with serious autoimmune diseases. Also, she was told that she had the spine of someone in their eighties. Kathy had grown up in Pennsylvania and then moved during her high school years to North Carolina. She will describe how she went to college and obtained a degree in Marine Biology, but after leaving college she went in a slightly different direction and began working for various nonprofit agencies including spending 12 years working for these organizations in Washington D.C.   As Kathy describes, she slowly began looking for ways to help her conditions and learned about and started to work with sound healing. In a sense, much came to a head in 2016 when she experienced a worse than usual ruptured disk in her back and became bed ridden for five years.   The unstoppable Kathy after coming to grips with her situation began to work on becoming aware of her own body and what it would need to heal. Clearly what she did worked as now, as she will tell us, walks two or more miles at a time. She still monitors her body, but that is the real crux of the issue; she is aware of her body and has learned what it needs to stay healthy. She reminds us that we all can be more aware of our physical and mental needs if we will but take the time to gain awareness and insights.   At the end of our time Kathy tells us of a free gift for all. You can find this gift on her website, www.sufferingtothriving.com.       About the Guest:   Kathy is an inspiring, compassionate, and empowering author and wellness guide whose passion is helping people navigate the challenging terrain of the healing journey. With insight and enthusiasm, she opens people's eyes to the potential of becoming more physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy by offering a toolkit of practical solutions. Her book, “Suffering to Thriving: Your Toolkit for Navigating Your Healing Journey ~ How to Live a More Healthy, Peaceful, Joyful Life,” is full of wisdom gleaned from decades of healing from health crises. Kathy went from suffering to thriving, reversing the progression of asthma, chronic bronchitis, and autoimmune disorders, and recovered (without surgery) from several debilitating, inoperable spinal diseases and disc ruptures which left her bed-ridden for five years. Kathy's passion is helping others find their compass and chart a course for navigating illness, injury, and loss – learning how to not only cope, but to become more resilient, joyful, and thriving.   Photo by Lynne Eodice     Ways to connect with Gail:   https://www.facebook.com/SufferingToThriving https://www.instagram.com/kathyluber/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-harmon-luber-4b38158/     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, thanks for listening. Wherever you happen to be today you are listening to unstoppable mindset. I am your host, Michael hingson, and today we get to chat with Kathy Harmon Luber, who is a Reiki Master, a healer, and she comes by it very honestly. Why do I say that? Because for many years, like others I've had the opportunity to chat with on the podcast, she actually went through some very serious, debilitating and unhealthy issues. But also, like a number of people, as you will see, Cathy is very unstoppable. She went through it, and it is kind of helped shape what she does today and where she is in her life. And I'm going to leave it at that, because I think it'll be a whole lot more fun if you get to hear from her. So Kathy, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 02:16 Hi, Michael. I'm so happy to be here with you today.   Michael Hingson ** 02:19 And the other thing about Kathy is we don't live all that far apart from each other, because I live in a town called Victorville, and she lives in Idlewild, and so we're, as I said, I could she's below us, although a little ways away, but I could probably, if I had a really good, strong arm and a well built paper airplane, I could throw a plane that would go into her window and land on her desk, but I think that's going to be a little tough to do under normal conditions, but you never know what'll happen. But I'm really glad that you're here with us. Why don't we start? If we could by you telling us a little bit about kind of the early Kathy growing up and so on. That's always a fun place to start. Yeah,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 02:59 always a good place to start. Thanks. You know, Michael, I grew up in Pennsylvania, even though we live in California now, I grew up in Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, in a lovely small town. Our our home was on a property that my dad planted quite a lot of trees. He was a forestry major, so he planted lots of trees. We had this beautiful wooded yard, and I spent a lot of time outdoors and with our with our dog, our colleague, Taffy, and exploring the woods and nature. And so nature has always been such a big part of my, life as a result of that early upbringing, but I was also very, very creative back then and now i i played piano. I got started really young. When I was when I was three years old, my mom started giving me piano lessons because I had just sat down beside her one day and started to play and wanted to play. Then I moved on to flute. So I've, my dad played a lot of classical music, and so I was, I was always very inspired with that, and I also did a lot of art. And so young Kathy was, was was very creative. And I've, I've carried that through my life. It's been something that's given me a lot of strength through adversity. And as I like to say, you know, we all need to find our medicine to get us through life and the challenges that we face and creativity is my medicine, along with nature, is my medicine as well. So yeah, it's a little bit about my early days. So   Michael Hingson ** 04:44 you went to school and all those usual things that us kids did back in the day as it worked. I did. You went to college.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 04:52 I did. I went   Michael Hingson ** 04:54 to college. Where did you go and what did you do?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 04:57 Okay, well, interesting. I. We moved when I was 14 from this idyllic life in Pennsylvania to North Carolina. My dad got a great job offer in Charlotte, and he moved our family there. So I went to high school there for a couple of years, and then I went to college. He wanted me to stay in state, and so I went to University of North Carolina at Wilmington on the coast. I majored in marine biology. My dad did not want me to major in the creative arts. He was adamant about it. He wanted me to be a business major. And, you know, I subsequently have had a lot of experience in in business, but I I also just had this, you know, this, this love for nature that was, that was kindled in my my childhood. We also took trips to the beach once we moved to North Carolina, and so I, I decided to be a marine biology major. You know, I was very inspired by Rachel Carson and her, her books and, and other writings and and so that is, is what I majored in, and loved it. I used to, you know, snorkel and scuba dive and all of that, and just found the ocean to be another home. Yeah, cool.   Michael Hingson ** 06:17 So you went in and got a degree in marine biology, but what did you then do with it?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 06:24 Yeah, isn't that interesting? Yeah. So   Michael Hingson ** 06:27 I, I know the feeling well.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 06:32 So I moved with my soon to be now ex husband to to Washington, DC, after college, and I just had the fire in the belly to to work with advocacy organizations that make the world a better place. And that's been my entire career, prior to to career change into sound healing, and the the other healing arts and Reiki and all of that, which we'll talk about. But, but, yeah, I I was very inspired by my grandfather, who, you know, he was one of those people who was always volunteering, always making a difference in the world. Believed that we could make a difference no matter what was going on in the world and in the power of every person to make that difference. And so I was really inspired by that. And so I went to work in nonprofit organizations, and I worked in environmental organizations. I worked with a couple of organizations that that worked at the grassroots level to empower environmental organizations to to, you know, fight a lot of the big battles with with corporate polluters and super fun sites and things of that nature. I went on to work with a lot of of different, varied nonprofit organizations over the years, including when, when I was in DC, the Smithsonian Norman Lear's People for the American Way, a constitutional rights organization. So, so I've had a lot of varied experience in in the nonprofit world, but it was working. You know, in environmental causes that really lit me up. And later, you know, moving to California as a consultant, I also work for environmental organizations. So it's, it's been a passion of mine, yeah, so it   Michael Hingson ** 08:35 sounds though, like marine biology, in a sense, had a little bit of an influence. Did you find that there were ways and places where you were able to use some of that knowledge or some of the experience you gained along the way with marine biology? Yeah,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 08:49 for sure, within the environmental work that I did, I did fundraising and grant writing, and certainly the marine biology, you know, I took ecology classes and animal physiology classes and all kinds of things that weren't specifically marine biology related, but biology and nature related. So so that well rounded education has served me very, very well over the years. And I might also say that at the time that we moved to DC and I went to work in these environmental nonprofits, I really wanted to get an advanced degree in marine biology. There were hiring freezes in the government. They were doing a lot of the hiring of young Marine Biology majors. And so I kind of hit a roadblock there, which required me to pivot a little bit. And that's kind of been the story of my career. As I've gone through many different kinds of nonprofits. You know, as opportunities opened that that seemed interesting to me and and worthwhile causes, I have had these pivots into slight. The, you know, different fields and away from the marine biology, but it to the state, you know, I've still done, like, a lot of snorkeling, and put that information to use as well. So it's been both professionally as well as in my personal life. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:17 well, so you, you were in DC for how long? 12 years, wow. And then, what did you do? Then   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 10:26 I had a great opportunity. I I worked. The last job I had in in DC was working with the Democratic National Campaign Committee to to raise what was then, like a record breaking amount of money, and I was offered a job doing some some consulting in LA, and I, I, I really love DC. I have so many great memories and lots of friends still to this day, but I had the opportunity in working in DC to travel to California a lot, and I loved it here. And so when that job opportunity came, I decided to move to California. I've worked with a lot of different varied I got out of politics at that point and into other kinds of nonprofits that make the world a better place. And that includes, you know, the arts, Health and Human Services, helping traumatized children mental health issues. So quite a lot of of organizations that that help people. Yeah, so what did you   Michael Hingson ** 11:44 What did your father think about you going into all this nonprofit work, even though he wanted you to get and you got your degree in marine biology, or did he approve?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 11:56 Uh, you know, he wasn't crazy about it, I have to say, because he didn't feel that that nonprofits are business, because people think, if you work for a nonprofit, there's no money, there's no profit, and in in the the strict sense of the word nonprofit, nonprofits cannot make profit that is then shared with board members and stakeholders and all of that. But you know, many nonprofit organizations raise millions upon millions of dollars to put into their work. It's just that they have a a mandate from the government to spend it on the programs, on the on the programmatic work. So he wasn't crazy about that, but by that point, he realized his daughter was going to do what she wanted to do in life, and I've never looked back. It has been deeply fulfilling, and I do feel like a lot of nonprofit organizations are real change makers in the world, right? And so, so so it's been deeply fulfilling to me at that level. And you know, the the fundraising part I kind of fell into when I was in DC, people took me under their wings and taught me how to fundraise and and I became development director and VP of development and advancement and all those things, and that's what powers the nonprofit work. So, so I always felt really good about that, yeah. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 13:27 the reality is, of course, that people who really are committed to their nonprofit work into whatever nonprofit organization they are a part of will tell you that it's all about trying to make a difference in the world. It's all about trying to improve the world, whether they specifically are the ones to make a difference, they want to be part of the process that will make the world a better place. And they they do recognize there is money, but they also recognize that the more important thing are maybe the tangibles and possibly the intangibles that go along with making a real difference, right?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 14:11 Exactly? And it's such a wonderful opportunity to you know, in the in the fundraising part, you know, money comes from individuals, it comes from private foundations, and it also comes from corporate philanthropy. So it was an opportunity to work in partnership with corporations to also make good things happen. Yeah, did   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 all of your work, both in marine biology and just the things that your your dad wanted you to do, in terms of business and so on. Did all of that experience and the terminology that you got to learn, did all that help you? Yes,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 14:47 absolutely. You know, it's been fascinating to me, Michael, how at every step along my career path, how I've been able to take what I've learned in Marie. In biology in and just, you know, nature studies in general as part of that, getting that degree, not strictly marine environment, but, but, but you know, the natural environment in general, and and everything I've learned in working in nonprofits and in fundraising and all of my varied interests, like even in the arts, I've worked as a as a development consultant with lots of arts organizations, so I've been able to sort of marry all of These what seem like disparate skills and bring them into almost every job I've well, not almost every job I've ever had. So that part has been fascinating to see how interconnected all of those things have been in making it a rich experience and making it a career. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 16:01 well, along the way, your life changed because of some some physical things that happened to you. Why tell us a little bit about that? Because I know that that leads to a lot of the choices that you've made since, and a lot of the things that you've learned   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 16:15 absolutely, you know, I think it's like so many of us in life, disruptions can happen in our lives that set us on a different course or or maybe just we course correct a little bit, or maybe it's dramatic, and in my life, it's been just a little bit of both. I when I was in my 20s, I was diagnosed with autoimmune diseases and severe hereditary spinal diseases. I was always really interested in pursuing complementary medicine, right along with Western medicine, both have helped me enormously, and I was doing just great. I had doctors when I was in my 20s tell me I had the spine of an 80 year old at that point, and that I also would probably end up in a wheelchair by my mid 30s. And I'm thrilled to say that, that I am, that I am not currently, and I'm I'm many   17:12 decades older. I was gonna say you're a lot older than in your 30s. Yes, I am. And so   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 17:17 I've been able to to, to really find a healing path that has helped me to really thrive physically. So that was one part of it, but then I was doing just great. You know, I had had some minor setbacks over the years, especially with my spine disc ruptures and things of that nature that would take, you know, two or three months of being down for the count, and then I'm back, you know, strong and right back at my very, very active life. I've always been, you know, I when I was younger, I was a runner. I've always been a hiker. I love to swim, like, like, an hour at a time, at the at the pool, you know, not just playful swimming, but but serious swimming. And, you know, I played a lot of high impact sports and things, from basketball when I was young to tennis and volleyball and all the things so super active life, and I managed until 2016 when I had, I had gone to visit a client. It was an overnight trip, and it involved several hours in a car each way, and all year long. In 2016 it was a very, very big year. We had had, I had, you know, traveled internationally, my husband and I did a drive all the way up the coast to from Southern California to Oregon. You know, I was serving on three boards of directors. Yes, I was still working more than full time. I had quite a lot going on in my life, and I was getting these subtle, intuitive hits that I really needed to rest my back more. It was very, very painful. And I, I, I practice good self care, you know, I'd rest for a while, and then I'd be right back to my really busy life, right? So the day after this, this trip to the client, I was very excited. I'm standing in the kitchen, telling my husband, as the coffee is brewing, all about the trip, and I get this extraordinarily severe like I've had never had before in my back to the point that I barely made it to the bedroom without falling he had to help me, and I'd had ruptured discs before. This was really different in terms of the intensity of the pain. If the others were a 10, this was like a 20, and I could not move. Once I got laying down flat on my back in bed, I could not move at all, like without just incredible searing pain. And I thought, well. Well, here we are. It's going to take another couple months, maybe three, for this to, you know, resolve. I know I have to really be down for the count now and really rest and you know. So I started just making changes, you know, I knew I had to resign some boards temporarily, I thought. And I talked with doctors and all of that. And come to, you know, fast forward, I was bedridden like that for five years, five years. I wasn't prepared for that, you know, I really thought it was going to be a more or less speedy recovery and and it wasn't like other recoveries, where I could even prop myself up in bed and work from my laptop. I was completely down for the count. Um, it was inoperable. Doctors said it could take anywhere from six months to three years to heal. Maybe you'll be better, and maybe you won't. So I went through that those moments of it may be always like this. It may not get better. I mean, one, one neurosurgeon said you, you may not be able to ever really walk much again. And in the early years of that, I couldn't walk to the bedroom door. So, you know, it was, it was that was depressing. It was, you know, you go down the downward spiral of feelings like and asking all the wrong questions. You know, I was in that place of asking, Why me? Why did this happen to me. You know? What? What Will it always be this way? What if it's never better? What if? What if I am completely reliant on my husband and friends for the rest of my life? You go to that place. It's human nature. And we can't beat ourselves up when these kinds of things happen, and we we tend to, you know, either blame ourselves or go down the dark rabbit hole. But the important thing, as you have talked about so much, and that you and I both know, is that when great challenges happen in our lives, just like when they don't, but magnified when they do. Every moment is a choice. And I realized one day that, you know, I could prop my laptop on my stomach and look for inspiring quotes. And one day I got up, woke up, and I thought, that's what I'm going to do this morning. I'm in a bad place. I started looking for inspiring quotes of people who went through bad stuff, who got through it. And I realized in that moment, it was like a lightning bolt. Every moment I have a choice, I could I could go and just forever live in that dark place, or I can try to find hope and a new purpose in my life. I could choose to be a bitter old, unhappy woman one day. Or I could take a different path, and I start thinking, Well, how would I take that different path? Here I am lying in bed. I can't do anything for myself. What can I do? I began looking at it from the standpoint of not disability, but ability. What is my ability? What can I do? And I actually, with my computer, made a list of everything I couldn't do right? I couldn't I couldn't go for walks. I couldn't swim. I couldn't walk to the kitchen at that point, you know, like I said, I couldn't even get to the bedroom door. I could no longer ride horses, which, which was something I love to do. I, up until that point, had been playing classical flute in our town at least once or twice a weekend. Professionally, I could not even lift up my flute because it twisted my back in a way that was just completely unbearable. So in one column, I made that list of everything, and I said, you know, I can't be on boards of directors anymore, because at that point, you know, that was 2016 2017 we weren't using zoom and other platforms to connect virtually, as we began to do during the pandemic. And so So I made a list of the things that had to go What did I have to completely get rid of? I resigned boards. I cut back on client writing work. And then I looked at all the things I love to do, my flute playing, my art, my photography, and I said, All right, what is a work around here? I can't I can't ride horses. I can sketch horses. I love to sketch. So maybe I'll just lean into that. Something I never did before, that I wasn't sketching or painting horses. I couldn't stand at my easel, but I could. I could sketch. I couldn't play my classical flute. I could play my Native American flute because it didn't twist my spine. I had, you know, Tibetan and Crystal singing bowls, which, which I loved. I had gotten into sound healing years, decade, a couple of decades ago now, for anxiety and relaxation from stress, right? And, and I thought, well, there's something I can do. I'll have my husband bring those things to me, and I'll, I'll do those things. And, what I'm saying is I found new and different things that lit me up, that that gave me joy. And there's a very good reason for doing this first. First what got me to that point unbeknownst to the reason why it's important, which I'll get to in a second. But the what got me to that point, is asking the right questions instead of poor me. Why did this happen to me? It was what if this is an opportunity for me to turn inward more? I've always been a very spiritual person, not necessarily in a religious way, but, but, but spiritual. What if this is an opportunity for me to really lean into that? What if it's an opportunity for me to learn new things and get certified in sound healing and become a Reiki Master? Uh, what if it's an opportunity for me to find a new path in life. What if this is a portal to something new and different, a new and different life purpose? And when I was telling you about all the nonprofit work I did and still do that, I thought that was my ultimate life purpose and and because of of of this massive health challenge, on this healing journey, I've discovered there's more to it than that, sound, healing, energy, healing, um, all of that is, is part of my new   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 27:17 um, expanded Life Purpose, and what I the gifts that I bring to the world. So, so what I'm saying is, you know, when we look at it as our healing journey, as embedded in our life's journey, of course, if we live long enough, we're all going to face health challenges, be they physical, mental, emotional, even spiritual, right? So our healing journey embedded in our life's journey, embedded in our soul's journey, or what we came here to do in the world. And so healing journey becomes a portal. The reason why this is so important, I just finished Michael reading a really fabulous book by a doctor, Dr Jeffrey rediger, I believe his name is. It's called cured, and it is about the medical science behind people who have really rather miraculous feelings. They don't. They don't just the cancers don't go into remission, only they are cured of cancer. He's been following some of these people for decades, and he decided, from from the medical perspective, why do some people have amazing healings and others don't? And many of these people were given two months to live from their particular cancer or other diseases, and decades later, they're still alive and they're thriving. Why is that? And it seems the common denominator throughout his book is not owning the label of your disease as the be all and end all. In other words, I am not my spinal diseases. I am not my autoimmune diseases. I have a purpose in life, and then finding that purpose, living that purpose, living an intentional life that brings you great joy. He told the story of a woman who had two months to live from an extremely aggressive pancreatic cancer, one of the worst cancers, and she spent the weekend with her, with her girlfriends. They went to the beach. They all you know, gave her lots of love and encouragement for what she thought was the final couple of months of her life. Then she decided I am not my cancer, and I am going to just live every day of my life, however short it remains. I'm going to live it full of joy, full of passion. And full of love, and that's what she did. Fast forward over a decade, like close to 15 years later, she ends up in the hospital, same hospital that that, that you know, did all the the testing for the pancreatic cancer and she had appendicitis. She saw the doctors, and they looked at her chart and said, We didn't think you were alive, right? She was. She only had two months to live here. She is nearly 15 years later, alive, and then she began working with the doctor who wrote this book to even explore further why she's still alive. Turns out, living a life of purpose and full of love and support, following your passions is is for many people, what helps them to transcend and have these rather, rather amazing feelings. And so I have, I have been, I was doing that then without knowing that I only read the book a couple months ago. So it's a relatively new, new book out. I, I, I began just sort of following that, and now I'm leaning into it even more, as you can imagine, knowing that's kind of a recipe for thriving, right,   Michael Hingson ** 31:23 right? And well, and I think it's, it's been known in some quarters for quite a while that your mental attitude and your perceptions can dramatically and can totally, I think, actually control how you are, how healthy you are, and so on. Disease is a is really dis ease, but it is as much, if not more, in most cases, mental, than anything else. That doesn't mean that some people aren't going to get a broken arm or something like that, or in your case, you had some very bad back problems. But it also doesn't mean that your mind doesn't have the ability to help you move beyond that, which is what you did   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 32:15 exactly. And you know, in my book, I I dedicate a lot of my book suffering to thriving, to this concept of suffering is a choice, unnecessary suffering. Okay, I'm not, I want to say right up front, I'm not talking about people who are in war torn countries or or in countries where there are terrible, you know, injustices to people. That's a different kind of suffering. I'm talking about the kind of suffering that is in our mind, that we perpetuate with our minds. Suffering is a choice. Unnecessary suffering is a choice. Thriving is a choice. And I write a lot about this in my book, about how we need to make our mind our medicine. And that's not false positivity. You know? It's about training your mind not to go down the negative rabbit hole of the terrible questions of perseverating about all the bad things that can happen. Because, look, life is complicated in our world, bad things happen every day. It's important to find a place within us, that place of stillness where we can live in the moment. And when we sit here like I'm sitting here right now with you, this is a beautiful moment. There are lots of terrible things going on in the world. There are lots of terrible things happening to our planet environmentally. And we can choose to find moments of peace in our lives, that peace, that stillness within that is healing and so, so harnessing the power of that in our lives, every day, every moment, is a choice. We can do something healing or not, and and you and I have talked about this before. You know the Buddhist nun Pema Chodron, who I'm a big fan of, because she is just so plain, speaking about the challenges of daily life. And you know, how do we how do we thrive through, through what's going on in our in our world, even she talks about every moment is a choice between fear versus love. What would fear decide? Fear? Fear goes down that rabbit hole and doesn't come out and just lives in that dark place and we feel sorry for ourselves. It's human to do that. It's human nature to do that in to some degree. But what would love do if we're being loving towards ourselves and the people we're in community with, right people in our lives who we love, I will decide   Michael Hingson ** 34:50 right I would submit that fear isn't necessarily a rabbit hole that we have to go down. That is to say fear is in part physiological and in part mental. That's right, but, but fear is also something where, again, like with most things, we have the choice of how to deal with it. And you know, we've talked about my new book, and I've talked about it here on the podcast, live like a guide dog, which is all about discussing the idea of learning to control fear. Fear can be a very powerful tool in our arsenals. It doesn't necessarily need to be something that overwhelms us, or, as I put it blinds us. The reality is that fear is something that if we learn to use it properly, can make us more aware, more perceptive. It can help our visualizations, and that's what we need to deal with. You said it in a very interesting way a few moments ago, when you talked about living in the moment. The problem with fear is that what we usually learn on this earth, many of us anyway, is that we have to what if everything? What if this happens? Oh, my God, that's horrible. What if that happens? And as several people have written over the years, the problem with most all of our fears is they never come to pass, but we spend so much time dwelling on them that we don't look at what caused them, where they come from, and what good is it going to do for us to continue to dwell on things when all we're doing is making stuff up as we go, but rather to say, Okay, I'm aware of this, and when you go back and study it, ah, that's What caused me to think that way? Okay, I understand that now, and I'm aware of that, and I don't need to worry about that, because I recognize that's just a myth that I'm trying to create when I don't need to do it. Oh,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 37:16 I love that so much. Michael, that's exactly it. Exactly it. You know, fear, like you said, is it is a an important, an important feeling, because as human beings, you know, think of our, think of our long ago ancestors and and saber tooth tigers like you couldn't be curious about that big cat. You had to be fearful of it, or you could lose your life, right? The problem is today, we're not being chased by by crazy wild animals. Most of us, and we are, we're, we're, we're fearful of things that happen in everyday life, to the point that a lot of people just have this running emotion of fear all the time, what I have found, and I've read a lot about this, and I'm very excited to read your book and learn even more about it from you. I think it's really important to face our fears and to be curious about them. For example, you know, I would be very, very fearful about about certain things. And when I really sat down and faced them and said, What is behind this fear, and then what's behind that?   Michael Hingson ** 38:29 Well, let's go back to the saber tooth. Let's go back to the saber tooth tiger a minute. Um, were we just afraid of the cat, or did we observe and learn and become respectful of it and gave it its space while it may not have cared about our space so much, but we we learned to recognize it and to respect it more than to fear it. Because the problem with fear as such when we let it run rampant, is that we lose our ability to put things in perspective. And I expect that those cave people realized I don't want to tangle with this cat, because now that doesn't mean that there wasn't a level of fear, but again, fear used in the right way leads to better awareness, better observation, being aware of when that cat's around, looking for it, learning more about how to recognize when the cat's there, so that you can avoid it, which doesn't mean that you're not afraid of it, in a sense, but more you're aware of it, and you learn to respect and deal with it. Yeah. On the other hand, I wonder if there are any cave people that ever got to make friends with the saber tooth tiger. You never know.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 39:48 We never know. Yeah, it could well be. But in regular, you know everyday life now, like often, we'll be afraid, and I can remember this very well in the first couple of years of being. Bedridden. I was afraid of my spine. I was afraid my spine was going to get worse. I was afraid that if I started walking, I might make it worse. And then I sat down one day and I thought, I can't live in fear of my own body. You know, our bodies are so wise. They everything pain, allergies, lives, anxiety, it all tells us something. It's a teacher. And so is fear. Like in the case of a saber tooth tiger, you know it's it teaches us something. So if we can approach fear from the perspective of, okay, why am I afraid of again years ago, walking for fear that my spine would collapse further. Why am i i turning this into a fear of my own body, and then I would be okay? Well, if it happens again, I'm afraid that I'm really going to be a burden on my family. And you go down, you know, that line of inquiry, okay, well, what's behind that, and what's behind that, and that, and, and is that a worthwhile fear to live your life? There you go. And I came to the point where it's like, uh, no, I have to take calculated risks. I'm not going to do anything crazy, but, but let's set small goals for myself and and sure enough, you know now I'm, I'm walking, I'm, I'm I'm able to walk. I'm able to walk a couple of miles, but it began with those baby steps that were full of fear. We have to face that and dig underneath it and and I like anything you know, when you confront it, it takes a lot of the scariness out of it. Actually, can just face the fear, right? Absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 41:50 What is it that eventually happened to you or because of you, that healed essentially, as much as possible that your spine so that you are able to walk and so on. Now,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 42:06 yeah, that's a great question. I would love to say it was one thing, but like most things in life, it wasn't. I was. I was doing quite a lot of things. I was I was doing a lot of visualization of walking, I was doing a lot of visualization of going about my regular life. There was a time I couldn't stand in the kitchen and make dinner. I visualized standing in the kitchen and making a cup of coffee, a cup of tea, a dinner. And so I did a lot of work in my mind to and this comes from athletes. You know, elite athletes use visualization to win their games or to win their gold medal, right? So I learned a lot from that. Right visualization really helped. I really did a deep dive of research into supplements that help the body to fight inflammation. I was, you know, my whole life I have, I have been either vegetarian or pescetarian, you know, eating fish and shellfish. I I began to introduce things like, like, like chicken into my diet at one point when I recognized the need for more protein. But it's about listening to your body and what it needs in order to heal, supplementation, Ayurvedic medicine. I saw a naturopath. I just began to explore every single thing. Then after about three years, I was cleared to go to physical therapy. Physical therapy has saved me so many times. You know, from sports injuries. I've had torn menisci in my knees, and, you know, doctors would say, I think you're going to need surgery. And physical therapy helped so much that I've avoided that surgery my entire life. So so when the doctor said it was inoperable because of the way the disc ruptured and glommed onto the sciatic nerve and other disease, spinal disease, problems that were hereditary, they could not operate. I began to look at everything else. I began to look at things like magnet therapy, just Reiki healing energy Reiki is energy healing, sound healing. I had been doing music and sound I had been going to sound baths, mostly for stress, relaxation, mindfulness, all the all the good stuff. But then I began to realize that that sound healing is so much more powerful than even that. I got certified as a sound healer and began just expanding my repertoire of sound healing and energy healing work. And now I mean this, this, this, I think you find fascinating. You know, doctors are incorporating. Sound healing and Reiki energy medicine into their hospitals across the United States and Europe, into hospitals departments of integrative therapies. And last year, when my mom was in the hospital for cancer, that that that major hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, had a department of integrative therapy that worked with the hospital and with hospice to to help people. The science behind it is is being proven by by major major universities all over the country. There's some fascinating work coming out of UCLA here in California, by a researcher who works with medical doctors. The researcher's name is James jimzewski, and he, in collaboration with doctors, have found that the different types of cells in the body, the heart cells, the brain cells, they have their own frequency of hertz, which is simply the measure of vibration of sound. They each have their their own unique vibration. And when cells, if they look in a petri dish of heart cells, to become atrophied or brain cells, they realize that those atrophied cells can be brought back to their normal cellular function by applying those frequencies to the cells so sound reinvigorates them. It holds great promise for the future of medicine. And lots of medical doctors are writing about this. There's a well known oncologist by the name of Dr Mitchell Gaynor, who wrote a wonderful book called The Power of sound healing. And he uses sound therapy himself. He conducts a sound bath for his cancer patients. He believes in it that much right along in compliment with Western medicine, of course, and so I that was one of the things. I really, really, I got certified in sound healing, like I said, I became a Reiki Master, and I began applying those things in my own life when I began doing the sound treatments, in other words, when I was better enough to be out of my completely bedridden state, about three, four years in, I got a gong, and the gong has the widest range, the lowest lows, the highest highs that we can't hear. Many dogs and other animals can hear these sounds, but human ears cannot detect them, but our sound, our cells at the cellular level, pick up on that sound, and I began noticing I'd have really accelerated healing again. It's now been, you know, it's now been, uh, going on. It's been, uh, you know, over seven years, going on eight years that that all of this has been has been healing, but over time, I believe everything is incremental. It's like anything in life. Everything is incremental. You can't go to the gym and lift weights once and have a fit body. You know, you got to keep at it. So applying all of these things. Over the years, I have noticed big changes. So again, to answer your question, it wasn't just one thing. It was a lot of complimentary therapies put together, and then what I call in the book, stick with itness. You know, sticking with it, not just trying it for a short time, really, really incorporating it into my daily self care regimen, right? That's what has made the difference for sure.   Michael Hingson ** 48:49 So here's a question, little bit of a quick question, but you talk about thriving a lot, if you were to and you've talked about unstoppable thriving, how would you distill or what would you say are three major points that lead to being able to be an unstoppable thriver, if you will?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 49:06 Oh, I love this question so much. Michael, okay, so my book is a toolkit of, like, 36 tools that get us to answer this question. But I'm going to give you my top three, and I think the very first one is, is really deep self care and self compassion. When things like this happen, we tend to think, Okay, I'll take better care of myself. I'll eat right, or I will exercise more, whatever it happens to be in your own situation, there is something called robust self care and robust self compassion that's really about giving your body everything it needs to heal. If you need to sleep 12 hours a night, that's what you've got to do. And and we all say, Oh, I don't have time for that. You know, I got a busy life. I've got a. These other responsibilities and commitments. I don't have time for that, but that's what your body often needs, is that level of of really deep self care and and when things happen to us again, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritual, dark, Night of the Soul, whatever it happens to be, we tend to think of our bodies and ourselves as betraying us, as being the enemy. I hear my clients say this all the time, and there was a point early on when I was like that. It's like my body has betrayed me. How could this happen? I'm young, I've I'm active, you know, I'm doing all the right stuff. From every standpoint, doctors would say you're doing everything exactly right, and yet I had all this stuff going on. We think our bodies betrayed us, but our bodies and this is a wonderful book by Dr Gabor Mate, who writes, When the body says no, our bodies are sending us loving signals of pain. They're telling us when we need to stop doing stuff or cut back or rest. You know, allergies, anxiety, pick, pick anything you know, arrhythmia, pick anything your body is sending you a signal, we have to say. And this has been hard for me, because recently, I've had some a resurgence of some knee problems, and they were pretty debilitating, and we thought I was going to need knee surgery, you know, that I've been avoiding since I was, like, 14 years old. We thought I was really close to it, and it was really hard to say to my knee, oh my goodness, my beautiful hard working me. You have helped me so much in my life. I'm listening to you and doing deep inquiry. What are you trying to tell me? What am I doing wrong here? Right? I needed more rest. I simply needed more rest. I'm thrilled to say that problem over a few months, and with physical therapy and with doing all the right things, I'm back to walking again. I'm walking as much as I did before. So, so it's about, you know, at one point last year, when my mom had multiple myeloma and was in hospital and then hospice, and incredibly stressful time, I started having arrhythmia. I've never had arrhythmia before. I had to, you know, practice what I've been saying in my book and take a deeper dive and say my wonderful, hard working heart. What is up? Why is this happening to me? Right? So, so it's that is, that is self care and self compassion. So that's that's one big piece, and to be able to get into that dialog with ourselves in our very busy, highly interrupted, device driven world, it's hard to slow down and listen. But that brings me to my second point, and that is really listening to what I call our inner healer. Our inner healer is our intuition. It is our gut instinct, if you will, our bodies. And we knew this when we were children, right? We had instincts. We listen to our instincts. If you walk into a room and there's a person and you don't like that person, you don't hang around that person, you try to get away. It could be, you know, a certain food that you didn't like as a kid, you just didn't want to eat it. Right? As we become adults, you know, whether it's societal conditioning or or we have very busy lives, and we just fall into patterns, or whatever. We stop listening so much, and when we get still, hard to find the time, I know, but even 10 minutes of quiet time where we go out in nature, we go for a walk, we just sit quietly in meditation. I've been meditating since my early 20s. I I love meditation. I know. I recognize it's not for everyone. My clients tell me it's not you know for them necessarily. And we find other ways, but, but, but finding something that connects you with yourself, where you can listen to your dreams, where you can listen to your intuition, follow your gut instincts about what feels right for you, if, if something doesn't feel right, don't push yourself to do it and and that is something that I think it can be very, very hard for us in our in our modern age, to slow down enough and do. And I alluded to this the third one earlier, finding our medicine. Nature is medicine, creativity is medicine, as I found sound healing, Reiki, energy, their medicine. What is your medicine to all of our listeners out there? What is your medicine? Do you know what your medicine is? What brings you joy? What makes time fly, where you just don't even realize how much time has has transpired? Those things really, really help us to to find that joyful, happy place where we're in the flow and and, as I mentioned by the book I I referenced cured, that is healing, but also what we what we've been talking about so much, which is your mind is your medicine? How can you harness the power of your mind to heal, whether it's visualizing, telling yourself affirmations, just stopping yourself when you get to the point where you're going down the dark rabbit hole, just saying, Oh, there I go again. Yeah, going to that place. Let me. Let me just stop that and choose something different. Like we said, everything's a choice. Choose something different is making your mind your medicine. Those are my top big three. I mean, the whole the science behind this is, you know, everything in the universe, as Albert Einstein and Tesla Nikola, Tesla told us, and lots of other scientists, everything is energy. Everything vibrates. If everything is energy, our thoughts, our our words, our actions, our feelings, our energy. So choose the good stuff, right? You know, catch yourself when you're when you're, when you're and we look, we all have days, I have them regularly where I find myself getting in a bit of a snarky mood or something, and, you know, things just aren't going quite right, or I'm not feeling quite right, and I go to that bad place, but I quickly say, ah, Kathy, there you go. You're going to that place. What can we choose that would be more positive. That is a choice of energy, and energy is healing? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:06 well, we only have a few minutes, but I have a couple of quick questions for you. Hopefully they're quick. You've talked about sound healing and a sound bath, but not everybody can make it to a place to get a sound bath. How can they deal with sound healing at home?   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 57:23 I love that question, and I can make it brief. Okay, so, so we don't necessarily have to go to a sound bath or a yoga studio to get sound healing. Many things in our lives, our voice. We don't need special equipment. We've got a voice. Right coming singing have been found. DR. DR, Jonathan Goldman has been writing about this for decades, the power of the humble hum. It connects our ear to our vagus nerve, the wandering nerve through our bodies that touches all the organs that controls heartbeat, blood pressure, all the things we never think about, coming and singing are hugely stimulating. That's one thing, percussive tapping on our body. I happen to be a drummer, so I tend to drum. Drum is rhythmic. It's the sound of our mother's heartbeat when when we were in the womb and and it it helps us to settle into a place of of coherence. And so those are just two small things that have very, very big benefit. We can just tap on our, on our, on our, our chest bone, or there's a thing called Emotional Freedom tapping EFT, where you tap on different parts of the body. I have written to make this really brief, Michael, I've written an article about sound healing. I also have another article about your mind is your medicine, and another one about the power of intuition. Three articles in yoga magazine, the people can find for free on my website. And we'll, we'll get later. Yeah, so   Michael Hingson ** 59:04 an observation, and then two quick questions. It's, you know, there's an advantage of having lived on the earth a while and having a memory. I remember when the United States started interacting with China during the Nixon administration. And somewhere on the line, we started to hear about this thing called acupuncture that we had never really heard of before, and a lot of people poo pooted and so on. And now it is a much more common mechanism that is used. It was even used on Roselle, my guide dog who was with me in the World Trade Center when she developed some back problems, and it and it helped. But the reality is, just because it isn't something that goes along with the traditional Western medicine approach, and even my doctor at Kaiser will say this, it doesn't mean that it doesn't work. Work and that it is invaluable, because it is and we really need to to look at all options. Having said that, let me ask you this. You said that you have a free gift for anybody listening. Can you tell us about that? I   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 1:00:17 do? I do. Oh, good. Oh, good. Acupuncture, I would just add, it's much like sound healing. You know, it's been around for 1000s of years.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:26 It's been around a long time. It's just that we haven't had exposure to it,   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 1:00:30 that's right. And acupuncture was one of the things on my when I said I use very many modalities. I did, I've done a lot of acupuncture over decades. So yes, I'm a big believer in acupuncture, part of why it works is because the same as the chakra system in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, right? These are the energy centers of the body, and they can get blocked. So here's the free gift, Michael, I'm thrilled to be able to offer this to to our listeners today at my website, and we'll link the Earl at the at the very top, you can you can access this for free. Dr Charlize Davis, a doctor of functional medicine, and fellow Reiki master and I, have put together a few modules called Healing the heart chakra. And she comes from the medical perspective of saying, when your heart chakra is blocked, what does that turn up with? As in your, in your, in your health, you know, sure, the heart, of course, the lungs, yeah. But shoulders, shoulder issues, all kinds of things. And she goes into this in great detail. And then I come at it from the perspective of what we were just talking about, the chakra, what a blocked heart chakra feels like. What is happening in your life that that would tell you that your heart chakra is is blocked. It's more than just, I don't feel love. I mean, that's a common thing, but there's, it's way more than that. And then the best part of the free gift you'll learn about all of these things. And then the best part, I think, is that I do a sound bath geared toward balancing and opening the heart chakra, and I also give Reiki energy during that. And Dr Charlize, as a as a Reiki Master, also gives Reiki energy throughout the sound bath as well. So it's really powerful.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:26 There's a link to all of that on there's a link to that all on the website.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 1:02:29 It's at the very top of the website. So tell us   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:33 your tell us what your website is and how people can reach out to you. Because I'm assuming that you you do interact with people all over   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 1:02:41 I do. I do sound baths. I do individualized sound baths, which target to your very specific issues. So how do people reach out to you? My website is suffering to thriving.com. And there they can. They can reach out to me. They can learn more about my work. They can look at my book, suffering to thriving. They also can connect with all of my social media, and they can access how to work with me and email me from that place as well. So it's all right there at the website, on the home page, at the bottom, there are more podcasts and articles, lots of free article content too, if anyone's interested in exploring this at a deeper level, so suffering   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:25 to thriving.com. Well, that's right, Kathy, I want to thank you for being here and giving us so much information. There's a lot of very invaluable stuff here, and I hope people will listen and have an open mind, because the reality is, the more we explore, the more we learn, and the more we learn, the more we can put into practice, and the more we do, especially for ourselves, the better we'll be. So I want to thank you for being here, and I want to thank all of you for listening today. This has been fun, and I hope that you have found it fun. I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to hear what you think. About our episodes and this one today, in specific, feel free to email me at Michael h i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, or you can email me at speaker. At Michael hingson, M, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, S o, n.com, I would also invite you to wherever you're listening. Please give us a five star rating. We value your reviews, your input, and especially your your five star ratings whenever you feel inclined to do so. So please give us a five star rating. If you know of anyone who ought to be a guest on unstoppable mindset, let us know. Email me at speaker@michaelhingson.com introduce us, and we'll go from there. And of course, Kathy, same for you. If you know anyone, we'd love to hear from you. But one more time, I'd like to thank you for being here and for taking the time. To be with us today.   Kathy Harmon-Luber ** 1:05:01 Thank you, Michael, it has been just a delight, and thank you for the beautiful work that you do.   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:11 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. 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   Slam the Gavel podcast welcomes Laurie Smith, LMSW back to the podcast. Laure was last on Season 3, Episode 170, Season 4, Episodes 37, 74 and 153, Season 5 Episodes 102, 139 and 172. Last episode we talked about "Shame Unspooked: Exploring Shame Within The Context Of Your 'Public Story'."     Today we talked about discussing the ways through surviving the seemingly unsurvivable circumstances that take place in our lives. Laurie read excerpts from the book, "The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times," by Pema Chodron. Storms are not permanent and that there will be regrowth and that a person can survive whatever is coming. Talking about surviving and suffering while wanting to fix a situation immediately and that a person has a right and responsibility to survive this life. Not a podcast to be missed.To Reach Laurie Smith, LMSW: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass and https://www.facebook.com/share/p/kKyEVgR9ThcpjX3s/?mibextid=qi2Omg******** Supportshow(https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maryannpetri)Maryann Petri: dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@maryannpetriFacebook:  https://www.youtube.com/@slamthegavelpodcasthostmar5536Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guitarpeace/Pinterest: Slam The Gavel Podcast/@guitarpeaceLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryann-petri-62a46b1ab/  YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@slamthegavelpodcasthostmar5536  Twitter https://x.com/PetriMaryann*DISCLAIMER* The use of this information is at the viewer/user's own risk. Not financial, medical nor legal advice as the content on this podcast does not constitute legal, financial, medical or any other professional advice. Viewer/user's should consult with the relevant professionals. Reproduction, distribution, performing, publicly displaying and making a derivative of the work is explicitly prohibited without permission from content creator. Podcast is protected by owner. The content creator maintains the exclusive right and any unauthorized copyright infringement is subject to legal prosecution.Support the showSupportshow(https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maryannpetri)http://www.dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com/

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textBooks are a time-tested cure-all, so in this week's bonus episode Amy weighs a few of the titles that have helped her forget life's latest troubles and doubts … (sort of). She leaves no stone unturned in her quest for distraction, from Proust's meandering sentences to a behind-the-scenes memoir about a beloved '80s film and a charming, century-old suffrage novel that captures our current political zeitgeist. Rounding out the episode is a sneak peak at “lost ladies” we'll be featuring in the coming year and Amy's recitation of a poem by Adrienne Rich that's perfectly suited to these strange times.Mentioned in this episodeWhichbook.netThe Sturdy OakMeditations by Marcus AureliusWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron.Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustSwann's Way by Marcel ProustLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 116 on Dorothy RichardsonLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield FisherLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 98 on HeterodoxyPilgrimage by Dorothy RichardsonInconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary ElwesTurning to Stone: DiscoveringFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comDiscuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

En este episodio Paola responde preguntas de la audiencia sobre diferentes temas. Recomendaciones de libros -Liberando la carga materna. Erica Djossa -El camino del bodhisattva. Pema Chodron

How do you navigate and survive life's crises during times of extreme burnout?Learn 20 survival skills to restore calm from the paralyzing effects of emotional exhaustion and overwhelm.In 'When Things Fall Apart,' Pema Chodron emphasizes the importance of giving up control and accepting the chaos. Here's how to do that without falling apart yourself!Show NotesWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema ChodronSend us your thoughts as an anonymous SMS----------------------------------- Burnout Resources:Get 1-on-1 burnout recovery coaching at https:/mini.dexrandall.comBurnout Recovery eCourse: https://go.dexrandall.com/beatburnoutFor even more TIPS see FACEBOOK: @coachdexrandallINSTAGRAM: @coachdexrandallLINKEDIN: @coachdexrandallTWITTER: @coachdexrandallor join the FACEBOOK group for burnout coaches onlyhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/1030925731159138See https://linktr.ee/coachdexrandall for all links

In moments of personal or collective anxiety it is easy to feel thrown. This meditation offers an opportunity to cultivate calm clarity through attuning to your heart. Life requires us to walk through many portals, some more challenging than others. Hard times allow us to discover who we are, to find our mettle. This meditation invites you to open to whatever life presents you in this moment, to feel the weather in your heart, to be curious. When we allow the inner waters to become still, we find the clarity we need to respond to life with wisdom and agency. The track begins with a 6-minute introduction. The meditation starts at 06:20. Enjoy!Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio editing by Eric FIscher of Audi-Refined.com.Support the showHost: Tess CallahanSubstack: Writers at the WellInterview Podcast: Writers at the WellMeditations on Insight TimerMeditations on YouTubeTess's novels: https://tesscallahan.com/Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke.Audio Editing: Eric Fischer of Audi-Refined.com By tapping "like" and "follow" you help others find the show. Thank you for listening!DISCLAIMER: Meditation is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to this recording. Use the material provided at your own risk. Do not drive or operate dangerous equipment while listening. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host or the management.

What happens if you stop looking for your flaws?  My friend Jaime is back to chat about Lisa's wellness journey. We reflect on the ways we attempt to find balance and peace and happiness in our own lives, learn about Pema Chodron and her wisdom, and Jaime reflects on who she would “Freaky Friday” with.Listener discretion advised: this episode includes adult languageSupport the show:On PatreonBuy us a bookBuy cute merchIf you have any comments or questions, please connect with me on Instagram or email babesinbooklandpodcast@gmail.com. I'd love to hear your suggestions and feedback!Link to this episode's book:Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Journey by LL KirchnerOther ways to support/connect with LL Kirchner: InstagramShow Notes:Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot - video Tara Brach - Radical Compassion - book Christy Harrison – The Wellness Trap - book Adam Grant: How to stop languishing and start finding flow | TED TALKTranscripts are available through apple's podcast app—they may not be perfect, but relying on them allows me to dedicate more time to the show! If you're interested in being a transcript angel, let me know. This episode is produced, recorded, and edited by me.Special thanks (again!!) to my dear friend, Jaime. The light in me recognizes and loves the crap out of the light in you.Xx, Alex

In this episode, I reflect on the experience of engaging in a 7-day meditation challenge, offering insights on the power of simple, short meditations and the universal struggle with meditation. I share personal experiences of how incorporating even brief, 1-minute meditations has led to greater consistency and depth in my practice this week. Drawing from the wisdom of Pema Chodron, the episode emphasizes that meditation is not about achieving perfection or escaping thoughts, but about creating space to witness the mind's activity without judgment. This process of noticing and allowing thoughts to come and go, Alexander Blue Feather suggests, is at the core of true meditation practice. I also share the joy of community meditation sessions, expresses gratitude for a birthday gift, and looks forward to upcoming personal events and gatherings, including attending a retreat at Kripalu. The episode closes with words of encouragement, reminding listeners that meditation is a revolutionary practice that allows us to hold space for our thoughts, feelings, and deeper emotions, such as grief and pain.

Katherine discusses the experience of being in the deep end of life and navigating its inherent uncertainty. She, too, is in the deep end right now— she shares personal insights from a big wave of momentum in her business. Be prepared for wisdom on embracing uncertainty, letting go of perfectionism, and learning to trust yourself in the process of change.We Cover:— What it means to be in the deep end (hint: you get to decide)— Katherine's latest experience with stepping into a big business challenge— Adapting your routine, energy, and mindset to fit your needs— The importance of honoring changing lifestyle desires— Letting go of who you think you are to evolve into who you are becoming— Trusting yourself!— The value of focusing only on the "right next step"Schedule a free, no-obligation Discovery Call with Katherine here to discuss 1:1 life coaching.Say hey to Katherine on IG.Come hang out on Substack where I'm sharing stories + coaching tips.

New York Tawk, host, Elyse DeLucci (@ElyseDeLucci) welcomes you into her Upper East Side living room talking: ‘Don't you want to have fun', Book Tawk: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron & Nora Ephron, Food Tawk: Restaurant Danny Meyer's Daily Provisions, Due restaurant, Santa Cruz lemon juice AND MORE! LOVE TO LOVE YA! SUBSCRIBE TO MY YT CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrl_... Follow Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elysedelucci/?hl=en

Send us a textSimon and Lee talk about the things they have learned from their enemies.Things they discuss: Mars the planet and who owns Mars the confectionary thing, Lee's newfound love of stickers, Pema Chodron's "Living Beautifully", the people we don't like, Bob interviewing a student who talked about their nemesis, Lee getting the discards, the wisdom of Ru Paul, feeling happy at the misfortune of another, Simon's greatest teacher, gentle hints to help you get rid of people, being an outsider, Peter Kramer helping Lee with a bullying situation years ago, the force of personality to be an actor, teachers are not to be trusted and they know fuck-all (except the brilliant ones), the value of terrible things, imagining if Lee were still an actor, the directors Lee would have liked to have worked with (David Lynch), Simon would go with Terrance Mallick, Wild at Heart (by Lynch), Nicholas Cage before he was a little bit Nicolas Cage, not Blue Velvet, Willem Dafoe losing his head, David Lynch having lunch with some actors and getting a phone call from Dennis Hopper, Lee being a fancy human being.Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. ---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

When I think back on being 20 and choosing to be a lawyer, there was a lot of, “why not? That seems like a cool path.” There was less of, “how will this serve?” or “will this contribute to a more harmonious world?”I see now that whether my work created harmony or discord was always the important question.Pema Chodron invites us to ask, “am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?” That's the question I would ask my 20-year-old self today. It's the question I ask my 65-year-old self as often as I can remember: “Today, will I be practicing peace?”What about you? Are you practicing peace? Or do you wake up each day, ready for war?

Join Charlie and Brian in this enlightening discussion on 'harvesting peace' during the first new moon after Lunasa. We explore the four paths of Creation Spirituality, focusing on the often misunderstood via negativa— the path of sorrow, letting go, and peace. Through a detailed explanation of violence as a removal of agency and an engaging analysis of cultural references like 'John Wick' and 'Derry Girls,' they delve into the essence of peace, incorporating mindfulness and personal anecdotes. This introspective session reflects on the broader implications of peace, justice, and free will, guiding viewers on how to find and cherish moments of tranquility amidst life's chaos. Don't forget to subscribe for more insightful content!Support us on: https://ko-fi.com/cedorsettBecome a patron of the arts patreon.com/cedorsettFor Educational Resource: Wisdoms Cry https://wisdomscry.comFor all of the things we are doing at The Seraphic Grove go to Creation's Paths https://www.creationspaths.com/BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/creationspaths.comThreads https://www.threads.net/@creationspathsInstagram https://www.instagram.com/creationspaths/Transcript: Blessings and peace be upon you on this first. New moon after. Lunasa. Today, we are going to be talking about what we can glean from this. Day. Really getting into a topic that. I don't hear a lot of people talking about, at least not in the way that we're going to be. ​Hello, my name is Charlie and I am a non-binary scifi fantasy writer. I am here joined today by my wonderful husband, Brian. Hello we are going to be talking about harvesting peace today on this first new moon after Lunasa. This is something that I've been wanting to talk about more in our practice. We have associated the four paths of Creation Spirituality with four of the phases of the moon. Today on the new moon... Shameless insert for more information on that. Go-to https://wisdomscry.com. I totally broke your thought. Yes, he did. So, uh, today on the new moon, we are meditating on the via negativa. The via negativa is the path of sorrow of pain of letting go and letting be and those are usually as far as we go, when we talk about the via negativa or the negative way. I have always kind of, bristled against this in a way because I think that there is a weird association that we get in our minds with the word negative that we have to look at it in a negative way. I think that one of the things that we should be working on, , D'var. Dibbur. Is the word of God in the via positive. I am of the opinion that there is actually a word of God in each of the four paths. This one is up for debate in my head, but the word of God in the via. Negativa is either Shalom or Selah. Shalom means peace and Selah means pause and listen to what you just heard. I think that both of these are appropriate for the day. But I want , especially with everything going on right now in the world to focus on the idea of peace. That today on this new moon, we need to sit, and work on, the harvest of peace and harvesting peace. Peace is something that I think we all want. I think it's something we all think about and talk about, especially with so much war and violence and everything going on in the world. We don't actually think about what piece is. Peace has two major components. One is the absence of violence. the second is the absence of fear. I think both of these are necessary for true, complete and lasting peace now. Notice those two caveats that I put on there complete and lasting. You can experience peace without the complete lack of fear or the complete lack of violence but it is not going to be a full peace without those two things added to it. I also feel like I need to explain really quickly when I say violence I'm talking much broader than most people are when they're, when they think about violence. Violence in the common mind is an act of harm, someone lashing out. We've talked about a violent storm or a violent act taken by somebody. Personally in my own way of understanding a storm, a storm cannot be violent. Because violence to me is the forceful removal of a another's agency. When you're taking away the ability of another to act that is violence. This is also tied into a deeper topic. Something that we'll have to touch on later on of free will because that is the greatest gift from God. Is everyone's individual free will and the violence is the removal or the violation. Of that gift from that God gave to another and that is why it is so bad, thing to have happened. More to perpetrate another. Which is why I would say that a storm came in from my point of view can not be violent. , Storm can be brutal, , but a storm can't be violent because there isn't that volitional act of deprivation happening there. And I'm sorry to use big words there, but I don't know how else to get the idea across. The storm is not intending to take away your free will. The storm is just dissipating, excess energy in the environment. It doesn't have any other goal other than to dissipate that energy from the environment? I think one of my favorite exercises in meditating on what is violence was actually when a Charley had pointed out. John wick is not a violent movie. Thinking about that and I watched it with that meditation in mind and it was absolutely fascinating because there is a lot of messiness. There's a lot of people dying. A lot of hostility, a lot of pew, pew, pew, and shooting and stabbings and all kinds of stuff. Lots of action but John wick does not perpetrate violence. it's very fascinating, but like I said, that's a whole topic for other days. It's a good way to try to get this idea across, because it shows the difference between a hostile act and violence. Yeah. John wick in that movie franchise, and especially in the first film. Always gives people the choice. Yeah. Just leave. Just give up this doesn't have to go down like this. I'm just here to talk. I'm just here for this. I'm just here for that. The option is always on the other person to engage in hostilities. He is not imposing the hostilities on the other. And that is at its root what violence is. What is done to him is violence. They break into his house. They are stealing from him. They kill his dog. And as we all know, you don't mess with the dog. Never mess with the dog. Never mess with the dog. Violence is done to him, but he does not return violence for violence. He returns the option of force, the option of any of retaliation, but he does not actually return violence for violence. It is an interesting perspective when you realize that what makes him a very different action movie? Character. It's also why storms are so fascinating to look at because from that perspective, they're messy. They might be hostile. They may cause death, but they do not remove the agency of freewill from the individuals. I don't want to get too deep into the depth of this because we have the other point we need to get back to peace. And we're going to be talking about peacemaking more in the not too distant future. It's actually on the schedule. But when we're talking about this removal of agency, Violence comes in a lot of different forms. And when we're talking about peacemaking, We often think about ending war. Or ending conflict, both of which are. Valid. In the actual making of peace. But so is justice. Justice is vital in bringing about peace. As a queer couple I think one of the greatest peace we felt in this country was when the Obergefell. , decision came down and queer and gay marriage was legalized in this, in these United States. We had been married twice before that. We had a handfasting. Which was just us and some friends at a. Park. And that meant a lot. That's our first union our second union, was a civil union in the state of California and that meant something, but it was also very, hollow. It was very transactional. Extremely bureaucratic. Extremely bureaucratic. Uh, we'll call her Olga. dah she slammed the stamp on the, on the table and everything. I wept, but not for emotional reasons. It just felt so cold and clinical. When we actually got married. When we got to go get our marriage license and we were in the room with the pastor signing our marriage license I wept. Yeah, I wept in a way that I wasn't quite prepared for, because this was peace. In it's greatest. Expression. This long-held removal of agency had been removed. This violence that had been imposed on us in particular and people like us in general, was gone. We could make this volitional choice. Not only that, but it was done without removing anybody else's agency. The priest that officiated. Wanted to officiate. Yeah. He was happy to do it. Yeah. Because that's the thing, you know? I remember all the arguments. Well, you're going to force churches. No one is forcing anybody. It was removal of violence. You know, not taking away from that agency. That's really the key to understanding how peace works. Is yes, sometimes peace, is a zero sum game. If you were in a war and two sides are fighting over a particular tract of land, that's a zero assault. There's only so much land. That land has to be divided, equitably or at least in a way that resolves the conflict. So, yes, there, there are times when a zero sum game is actually being played. But for the most part, when we're actually trying to resolve a conflict, there actually isn't a zero sum. No one has to lose four piece to be achieved. It's hard to get people to understand that. That is why to me, peace is really a part of the via negativa and not part of the via transformative of the transformational way. Which is where I think a lot of people would see it in the four paths. I think the negotiations and everything. The justice making aspects of it are parts of the via transformative of the fourth path. The actual peace itself is here in the second because peace requires the letting go and letting be. That is core to the idea of the via negativa of this silent way, of the second half. We have to let go because what was really at stake, what was at risk, if you will, in this action of legalizing same gender marriage, which is the analogy, the example that we're using for this. Was the ego of the people involved. If your ego was tied into the idea of your own supremacy because of the nature of the relationships that you partook in, as opposed to the nature of the relationships that we're going to be legalized here. Then you felt. a change. We as peacemakers need to be able to see and recognize that feeling of change but at the same time, not to cater to it as if the feeling of change is the same as actual change. Those who felt that a change had occurred, that was a violence done to them, of something being taken away from them is a true and valid feeling, but it is not a true invalid thing that happened. And this is something that we in our society have not been very good at recognizing is the difference between those feelings and those actualities. It's one of the things that makes it harder for us to actually achieve peace is. Peace. Often has hurt feelings. Yeah, and to your point of that. It is with that letting go. It's such a strong and important element in that. Um, a lot of times, like you said, it is letting go of the ego. a lot of times it's for a lot of individuals I had conversations with and helped them over time, too , better live with it be comfortable with, and to come to peace with other lives that are not like theirs, was recognizing their own ego, that their path is not everyone else's path, forcing their path on another individual is an act of ego. It isn't. a good act and they had to learn to let, go and accept that others aren't trying to do that to them. That they need to stop trying to do it to others. Because it made them defensive, because they were perpetrating it. So they were thinking others were trying to do it to them. So they're like, oh, well now I'm going to have to go get gay, married, you know? As I would here it phrased and it's like, no, no, if you're happy in a husband and wife relationship, than be happy in your husband and wife relationship. We will all celebrate that and just let go of the fact that. That individual needs to stop pushing that one path on others so that they can then also be at peace. Letting go of this expectation and perception that others are pushing it on them. . That really is the heart of what we're talking about here. I like to make media references because I think it's something that when we have a hard time expressing a truth , as rabbi Nachman said, "to show a person their true face. Show them through story." I think stories can really help us to understand a lot of these issues better. while it is a silly show in many respects, Derry Girls is really good at showing this sense of peacemaking. While it is about three girls and james. It's lumped in with them because of his backstory and family connections, and what have you. And just, they're kind of silly adventures in Northern Ireland. There's a current running through the entire series about the peace process, which was also going on at the time. And the approaching good Friday Accords. And in fact, The final episode of the series, I'm getting emotional talking about it because it is such a profoundly emotional episode in a series, is the vote over the good Friday Accords and whether or not there would be peace in the island. Because everyone had to give up something. Everyone had to change the way that they had been thinking about this conflict and everything that had been going on. Watching this profound meditation. Which I don't think would have been as profound in some ways, if it wasn't for the fact that we had seen these girls and James. Go through all of these. Very silly adventures. Very emotional adventures. We've watched them grow up over the three seasons of the show. This extremely momentous occasion with them being old enough to vote. And one of the first votes they really have to engage with, is this, what is the entire future of their country? What is Ireland going to look like going forward? Are the troubles going to persist? Or will the good Friday accord is actually doing anything. Well, they accomplish anything. There's a lot of interesting debate and argumentation. Throughout the episodes about. how do you forgive,. Some of these people that were being set free from prison had murdered people. Or had been involved in devastating terrorist attacks. How do you forgive? How do you move forward? Which that touches in on the second part of that, the fear. The fear. Watching them have to grapple with that. And come to their own opinions. The show doesn't have a where these right or wrong, were any of these feelings right or wrong because they're personal. How do you let go of the feelings of hurt? How do you let go of those feelings of pain? How do you work through that fear? that is a personal journey. I really wish there was a panacea, a thing that I could tell you, right here and now, and say, just to take these five simple actions and you too will be free from fear. The only thing I can say on that, the closest thing that there is to that, would be, it's in the via. Negativa the letting go. It's not an easy one. But it is a tremendous step is learning when you see that fear you have to. recognize it and give it a hug. Then let it go. And watch it. Oftentimes it disappears. Sometimes it doesn't. Um, whose practice was that sitting and giving your fear hug. Um, Pema Chodron in her many pain and fear meditations talks about holding your pain, holding your fears as if it's a crying child. And to visualize it as a crying child and let it weep. But just sitting there with it and letting it have its tantrum, letting it have its moment. But doing that all in this imaginal space, this visualized space where you're holding it as a child and soothing it. Letting it rest and find that rest and relaxation. And really helping it to let go. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in his book Shambhala. Talks about courage, this bravery is very important quality of the spiritual warrior. In there, he points out that the Tibetan word that he is relying on here for bravery means to jump over. To jump past. That bravery is not the absence of fear. It's having the strength. To jump over the chasm created by fear to get to the other side. I have always loved that image. It's of being able to go to the other side, of getting across to get to the other side. That it's about weathering that storm about making it to the other way. Because faith and fear are so intimately connected. . Faith is learning to have trust. Fear is the active distrust of an individual, of a situation. Depending on how acute and pervasive the fear is, it could be the distrust of everything. They are both born out of our instincts. They were things that helped our ancestors out. To survive to thrive and they continue to help us today. To warn us of possible dangers. And to help us be bold. And to do things that aren't rational. But allow us to go to the moon. That was acts of faith. There was science, but they weren't sure of it. There was a lot of faith. To pack one self on top of a bunch of explosives. They have faith that it will be controlled to cast someone. that far. There was a non-zero chance that when the Lander touched down the surface of the moon, It wouldn't stop. We knew that the moon was dusty. We didn't know how thick the dust was, we didn't know how deep, how packed it was. We did not know exactly what would happen. We had ideas. We had theories. We thought we knew, but it was a non-zero chance. I love the phrase. Non-zero chance because it's the remotest of remote possibilities. But. The odds aren't to zero that it's going to happen. So, what does it mean to harvest piece? We named this episode, the harvest of peace. We started off with the concept of harvesting piece, but we've talked a lot about what peace is. Harvesting piece is grabbing it wherever you can. We live in a late stage capitalist world where our agency is violated constantly. We don't have a choice, whether or not we work at all, let alone at the job we probably have to work to make money because we have to pay that money to a landlord and pay that money to people for food and so on and so forth. That is a removal of choice. And so we're constantly, whether we recognize it or not, feel it as a background radiation in our life, we are constantly in the state of violence. Especially if you are of any minority status. If you're queer, if you're, I always feel weird saying a woman because 51% of the population is female, but yet they are still treated as a minority, which is mind boggling when you think about it, because they are actually a majority, but their agencies violated constantly. Oftentimes without even awareness by the perpetrator. If you're a member of a racialized or ethnic minority or a minority faith, you feel that lack of volition? That inability to live your life as you would like to live it, that violation of your will. That removal of agency. That is perpetrated against us all the time in a million big and little ways. How you dress when you leave the house, how you hold yourself when you move to the house, whether or not you code switch and use a different tone of voice, a different vernacular. When you engage with other people for safety. Those are removals of our agency and so we can live in the state of violence to the point where we don't recognize it as violence being perpetrated against us anymore. It's just normal. It's a normalcy and that is a terrible thing. As we are striving for justice as we are striving for that better world. Practicing Tikkun Olam the reparation of the world. We are looking for those moments of peace. And collecting them and recognizing them and holding them dear. Whether that's a moment of peace that you find during a mindfulness meditation or any other kind of meditation. A moment of piece that you feel listening and singing along to your favorite piece of music, that moment of peace that you have just when you take that sip of coffee and it's just perfect. It's what you wanted. Or even just harvesting that moment of peace after you've been violated. After your free will has been violated by some fool acting a fool. Just letting it go. When you get a chance to take a step back. Pausing and taking a deep breath and letting it go. Because, having attachment to that, to the suffering, to the fear and the anger and the hate that that moment could breed. Just let it go. You don't need to hold onto it. I feel like this is one of those moments where we have to point out that letting it go is not the same as pretending it didn't happen. Yes, because I think a lot of people conflate those two ideas. Yeah. Letting it go means holding things open-handed it may still sit on your hand. But you are not forcing it to be there. You are not grabbing it so tight that you were pressing the shape of it into your flesh, into your soul, into your mind and into your emotions. That's what letting go is. It is opening your hand. Things can still be held in your hand when they're open , but you are not pressing them into your skin. Yeah. You could take a quarter. Put it in your hand, if you squeeze your hand really tight, that quarter will hurt you. It will hurt your hand. It will hurt you and you'll see the imprint of it. It leaves a mark. It harms you, but if you set it on your hand, leave your hand open. The quarter is still there. It's still your quarter. It's still on your hand, but. It is no longer causing suffering. That's really what is meant by letting go in the circumstances. We can hurt ourselves more than others have already hurt us. In how we hold on to the pain that they have caused. And I've said this many times before, but to me, the difference between pain and suffering is how hard we hold on to the pain. That's what harvesting piece is about. It's learning to have that open hand. It's learning to let go and let be. It doesn't mean that we don't do something about it. We practice the way of the four paths. The via transformative is coming. In fact, it is out of the union of the via positive of the first path and the via negativa the second path that the via creativa is born, that our creativity is born. The place where we find the courage to ride these ideas to ride. To birth God. This is half of the energy that brings that forward. So justice making this coming. We have to learn to let go. So that we're not holding on so tight that we cannot speak. You cannot sing with a closed throat. So in an honor of this, the new moon and an honor of Lunasa and harvesting peace. Let's let's take a moment and exercise harvesting piece together. We're going to take a deep breath together. Is everybody ready? And let go. And that is a moment of peace. So hopefully you can find some time in your regular daily life. To like go. To harvest some peace to harvest some joy. And that can be as ritualized as in your meditations, in your prayers. Or like I said earlier, I find a good song that you just love to sing. That brings you joy. Because joy and peace, often dance hand in hand. And just give yourself that moment. Give yourself that time. Because if we're not regularly harvesting those moments of peace. Then the forces that are trying to Rob us of our agency and Rob us of our peace. I hope this episode has been helpful for you. I hope that it has meant something to you. I'm glad to be doing these podcasts again. I want to remind you if you can help us out. We're trying to do this at a much more regular pace and bring a lot more forward for you all. So if you can head over to https://www.creationspaths.com/. 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“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.” Pema Chodron  

Have you discovered Travis Holpe yet??? THE Warrior Unicorn, will brighten your day. Host Kris LeDonne in her bliss, gets to share this conversation with @TravisWarriorUnicorn for an authentic look behind the hype into a brilliant human with a heart as big as they come.  This is one episode you'll want to listen to more than once and certainly send to someone who needs a little unicorn magic in their day. Conversation highlights include:Spiritual gifts and how they serve usWhat the heck is Astro Cartography?Following intuition and the life of a mediumSetting boundaries in lifeHolding safe space for LGBTQ+ and mental health awarenessAlso mentioned: Legally Blonde (Reese Witherspoon), Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle, Pema Chodron, and a favorite song by Scandal (singer Patty Smyth)Here's Travis Holp's Bio:At the end of each working day, Travis Holp has one aim: that his clients leave their sessions with him feeling a new sense of connection, clarity, closure and healing. Travis is a psychic medium with close to 300 thousand followers on Instagram and 500 thousand on Tik Tok. He's been featured on Entertainment Tonight and in Us Weekly and Elle magazines and on Today.com. Known on social media as the Warrior Unicorn – a nod to his fighting spirit toward LGBTQ and mental health awareness issues, combined with his effervescent personality – Travis connects with those who have passed over and delivers messages to their loved ones in the physical world. It's a unique gift that he says he has always had the power to do. Visit his website travisholp.com."Welcome to the Picture Love podcast! I'm your host Kris LeDonne and it's my purpose to see the good in others and mirror the love back to them, and photos are one of the ways I love to do this. You'll hear a mix of solo episodes with lessons I love to share and heartfelt interviews and valuable resources to support you with the parts that resonate. As an encourager, it's my joy to help you picture love better in your life and if you need help curating photo evidence of lives well lived… I You can help other optimists and storytellers find this podcast by sharing and leaving us a rating/review.Find me on Social @KrisReminisce or visit my website krisledonne.comGrab Kris's freebie HERE: Obliterate The OverwhelmHappy Reminiscing!

This week, we are sharing a really special discussion and workshop from a Coexist meeting with Michelle Gean. Tune in to learn about writing and how you can use it for healing in your life. Michelle is a writer, editor, and good friend to Dr. Amigues. As an editor, she has worked with writers like Ryan Holiday, Pema Chodron and Mark Hyman. Today she runs a book camp called Book Writing Accelerator where authors write, edit and publish their books in 90 days. What Michelle has discovered is that writing heals both the author and the readers. While her mission through Book Writing Accelerator is to publish high quality works, her more hidden mission is help others heal through writing. This episode includes a couple writing exercises from Michelle, so grab your notebook and pen!Be sure to check out Michelle's incredible book writing camp:Website: bookwritingaccelerator.comContact: michelle@bookwritingaccelerator.com_______________________________________________________________________________________________Find UnabridgedMD on social media! We appreciate your support.Instagram: @unabridgedmdFacebook: @UnabridgedMDTiktok: @unabridgedmdAre you, or someone you love, looking for a rheumatologist near you? Maybe you queried Google for the “best rheumatologist in Denver” and felt that no other arthritis clinic in Denver really seemed personable? Or maybe you are simply looking for a doctor who will listen to you and work with you to achieve disease remission? Well, you have come to the right place. UnabridgedMD has the best rheumatologist in Denver, Colorado and we cannot wait to work with you.Click here to get in touch: https://www.unabridgedmd.comOr give us a call: 303-731-4006If you live in Colorado and are looking for a rheumatologist to help you achieve disease remission, email or contact us at UnabridgedMD.com. We are the first direct care rheumatology in Colorado and can see you within a week!If you live in Colorado and are looking for a rheumatologist to help you achieve disease remission, email or contact us at UnabridgedMD.com. We are the first direct care rheumatology in Colorado and can see you within a week!

What do we do when it appears that everything is falling apart? Lets make sense of our relationship with things and how we've been taught to gauge whether they are going well and happening in favor of our dreams and desires vs. falling apart and altering our desire to have a great life? Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning.   Watch this Episode on Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/DMh1UspWBR8    Resources: - Youtube Video: When Life Falls apart does it actually fall into place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Jl5OA_y3o  - Pema Chodron Book: https://amzn.to/3WYXmPo   Makes Sense Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week https://podcasts.apple.com/.../makes-sense.../id1730954168   Click this link to SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW - https://ratethispodcast.com/makessensepodcast   Thank you for your support a we look to remove the blindfolds from the sleepwalking masses and help place people back in the drivers seat of their lives.   OUR SPONSOR: MAKES SENSE ACADEMY Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy

Tune into the Ordinary to Badass podcast episode 370 to immerse yourself in a book lovers dream. Our host reveals the final five books from her top must-reads list for women, delving into each one's core teachings and the impact they've had on her life. In this episode, you'll uncover secrets from bestsellers like "Worthy" by Jamie Kern Lima, "The Success Principles" by Jack Canfield, "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie, and "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron. Don't miss out and feed your mind with these inspiring literatures. Make sure to reach out to Marie @ordinarytobadass on IG, screenshot this episode and tell her what book she and other women must read! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ordinarytobadass/message

Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun who is known for compassion and grace. Today I read an article of hers that discusses a form of meditation that centers on empathy; taking in the pain of others and sending out comfort and relief. It's called Tong Len.  COme listen   Meditation Coaching Schedule Time with Thom (Complimentary consultation)   Connect with Thom Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thom-walters-5636391b Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zencommuter Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thom_walters Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=zen%20commuter   Become a Super-Fan of the Show Support ZEN commuter and get access to patreon bonuses   THANKS FOR LISTENING! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful, they help it reach a wider audience.  The more positive reviews the higher in the rankings it goes.  Of course that means more peace in the world.  So please let me know what you think.  I read ever one of them. Did you enjoy the podcast?

We speak with Bill St. Cyr starting with how common shame is and how the mean voices that we carry around make it hard for us to let in the love that’s all around us. Test taking in a dream is often about shame. Bill shares a dream in which he felt a deep sense acceptance when a dear friend tenderly put their forehead up against his. We talk about something called the entropic theory of the brain which draws parallels between the dreaming brain state and the brain on psychedelics and how they both can throw our brains into enough disarray that we come out of them in a new state. We take a call from Christine Barrington who shares a dream where she felt supported, and she speaks about how we all learn best through connection. She also defines a heretic as one who choses. Bill closes by encouraging us to bring tenderness to our life’s journey every step of the way. To learn more and to contact Bill and to learn about his coaching and classes, see his website at StudentsoftheDream.com Books we talked about include Pema Chodron’s Start Where You Are and Lisa Barrett’s How Emotions are Made. BIO: Bill St. Cyr is a devoted student of the dream and of the process of coming into deep consciousness in the face of the trauma and alienation that is so endemic in our culture. Bill has over 10 years experience working with dreamers and teaching practitioners the practice of Embodied Dreamwork. He has presented and facilitated over 75 workshops, retreats and conferences throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Find our guest at: StudentsoftheDream.com This show is an edited replay from October 2021 so you will hear licensed music as intro and outro pieces plus interlude songs. Also the background music is louder than I usually play it now. This show is episode number 255. It was played on April 20, 2024 and was originally recorded during a live broadcast on March 13, 2021 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel.  Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show and to Max Deaton for the phones. SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question by emailing Katherine Bell at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow on FB and IG @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms released the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/. Now also available on PRX at Exchange.prx.org/series/45206-the-dream-journal Note that closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Hey, you... in the words of Pema Chodron, "Lighten up!" :) --- If you would like to join live, please visit: SIT CLUB If you would like to donate to Davin as an energetic exchange for these offerings, please do so here: DONATE Meditation practices can tend to steer away from the idea of aspiring or dreaming, but at the heart of being present to this moment, right here, right now is the truth of infinite possibility. In fact, the Buddha aspired to end suffering and so why should we not follow his lead and imagine the same for ourselves? In fact, what if dreaming and aspiring, different than longing and clinging, were incredible acts of self-love? In this gathering, Davin explores this theme precisely, offering his own unique take on meditation and manifestation. -- Born out of the pandemic, Sit Club began in September of 2020 and continues every Sunday morning at 10am CT. Typically an hour in length, an intimate group of all ages, genders and races, from all over the world gathers on Zoom to sit in guided meditation, contemplate a reading and then share in conversation. Each gathering is centered around a spiritual theme chosen and guided by Davin. Youngs Buddhism is often the framework through which the readings and practices are approached, but no particular religious or philosophical ideology is subscribed to. There are no requirements, special skills or abilities that are necessary to attend. Just an open heart and a desire to connect with a community of seekers.

Much of our life seems to swing between the dramatics of emotion, but MOST of our lives are mundane. How do we find delight and joy in the midst of brushing our teeth? Eating a meal? Getting caught in traffic? In this gathering, Davin explores the theme of delighting in the mundane elements of our lives and uses the words of Pema Chodron to guide. --- If you would like to join live, please visit: SIT CLUB If you would like to donate to Davin as an energetic exchange for these offerings, please do so here: DONATE Meditation practices can tend to steer away from the idea of aspiring or dreaming, but at the heart of being present to this moment, right here, right now is the truth of infinite possibility. In fact, the Buddha aspired to end suffering and so why should we not follow his lead and imagine the same for ourselves? In fact, what if dreaming and aspiring, different than longing and clinging, were incredible acts of self-love? In this gathering, Davin explores this theme precisely, offering his own unique take on meditation and manifestation. -- Born out of the pandemic, Sit Club began in September of 2020 and continues every Sunday morning at 10am CT. Typically an hour in length, an intimate group of all ages, genders and races, from all over the world gathers on Zoom to sit in guided meditation, contemplate a reading and then share in conversation. Each gathering is centered around a spiritual theme chosen and guided by Davin. Youngs Buddhism is often the framework through which the readings and practices are approached, but no particular religious or philosophical ideology is subscribed to. There are no requirements, special skills or abilities that are necessary to attend. Just an open heart and a desire to connect with a community of seekers.

Hope & Fear are two sides to the same coin according to Pema Chodron. In this episode I share some passages from Pema's book When Things Fall Apart that relate to hope and fear.

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3104: In "How to Get Good at Dealing with Massive Change – Part 2," Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net offers insightful strategies to embrace the fluidity of life with a calm mind and a grateful heart. Babauta guides readers through practices of relaxation, compassion, gratitude, and joyful appreciation amidst life's inevitable changes, illustrating how to find beauty and strength in the transient nature of our experiences. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://zenhabits.net/everchanging/ Quotes to ponder: "Relax into the beauty of the changing moment. Everything is moving, changing, shifting into a new moment." "Practice compassion, gratitude, and joyful appreciation. Can you be grateful for this moment? Appreciate its beauty, its swirling change, its wide openness." "Love the everchanging moment exactly as it is. It includes suffering, loss, and pain, but also constant shifting, growth, and the joy of moving into something new." Episode references: Pema Chodron: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feeling stressed lately? Our stress responses are being activated by a lot of stressors floating around lately. That's why we wanted to replay this episode that digs more into stress and reclaiming balance. As we'll get into, stress is generally fine as long as it recedes in a reasonable amount of time. If that doesn't happen, we can lock ourselves into a chronic state of stress. That's where equanimity can come in. In this episode, we explore equanimity (we also like to call it inner calm), the science behind it, and how it has been sought after throughout human history. We share some learnings from those quests and five pathways to experiment with to help ease our stress responses and bring more equanimity back into our lives–even after just a single equanimity practice.    IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Introduction to Joy Lab Podcast 00:43 Understanding the Concept of Equanimity 02:12 Historical Perspectives on Equanimity 03:50 Personal Experiences with Equanimity 10:12 The Neuroscience of Equanimity 13:38 The Science of Equanimity 19:21 Pathways to Inner Calm and Equanimity 27:33 Conclusion and Final Thoughts   KEY TAKEAWAYS: Equanimity is defined as an even-minded mental state where clear action can come from. It is not the same as indifference or apathy. Stress is not a bad thing, it is a normal and healthy reaction. But it is essential that we learn to respond to it in more healthy ways.  Individuals taught practices that helped them cultivate equanimity respond more calmly to a stressor and rebound more quickly compared to individuals who have not engaged in an equanimity practice.   Sources and Notes: Resilience Quiz and free Mini-Course: Based on decades of clinical experience, we've created a model of resilience that is both helpful and practical. True to our approach at Natural Mental Health, we start with strengths. You'll identify these strengths in your Resilience Type. Your Resilience Type highlights your unique strengths, what fuels your joy, what keeps you in balance, and the lifestyle practices that most nourish you. After you find your Resilience Type, sign up for your free mini-course to receive tailored lifestyle practices (e.g., foods to eat more of, ideal forms of exercise, supplements, and mindfulness activities) that can support your mood, resilience, and overall wellbeing. Resilient Community: Access lots of extra resilience-boosting resources (like our Sleeping Well Workshop) AND you'll join a group of inspiring folks who play an integral role in keeping this podcast going... which means powerful resources stay accessible to everyone.   Joy Lab Program: Take the next leap in your wellbeing journey with step-by-step practices to help you build and maintain the elements of joy in your life. Joan Halifax: https://gratefulness.org/resource/equanimity-the-fourth-abode/ Pema Chodron: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/product/working-directly-with-the-mind-audio-download/ Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation- Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985305/ Mindfulness and Psychological Process: http://www.contemplativemind.org/enewsletter/2011_Spring/Mindfulness_and_Psychology-Mark_Williams.pdf Moving beyond Mindfulness- Defining Equanimity as an Outcome Measure in Meditation and Contemplative Research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350240/#R148 Mind over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410434/ Subscribe to our Newsletter: Join us over at NaturalMentalHealth.com for exclusive emails, updates, and additional strategies. Check out our favorite resilience-boosting reads: https://bookshop.org/shop/NMHreads Where to shop: Our partner store at Fullscript: This is where you can find high-quality supplements and wellness products. Except for our CBD Gummies, any product links mentioned in the show notes below will require an account. Sign up for your free Fullscript account here: https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/nmh/store-start Resilient Remedies: This is where you can find our line of trusted, high-quality CBD gummies: https://www.resilientremedies.com/   Full transcript available at: https://www.naturalmentalhealth.com/podcasts/joy-lab-podcast/episodes/2148560136   Please remember that this content is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice and is not a replacement for advice and treatment from a medical professional. Please consult your doctor or other qualified health professional before beginning any diet change, supplement, or lifestyle program. 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Happy Monday, honey. Thanks for surviving another thrilling week on planet earth so that you can listen to my important thoughts on these important things:     ⁃    Who helped you at Sephora? WHO?!    ⁃    Filling out my application for a Ride-Along with the NYPD    ⁃    Lotta kids getting puppies in the days of social media… hmm…    ⁃    Conquering my Achilles heel: comments on Instagram     ⁃    We're (I'm) putting the Artist's Way on pause while I spend the next few weeks reading from my girl Pema Chodron's book “How We Live is How We Die” because these are words of wisdom the world needs first.Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchSee me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premiere* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios    ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue RoomJoin my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

Happy Monday, honey. Thanks for surviving another thrilling week on planet earth so that you can listen to my important thoughts on these important things:     ⁃    Who helped you at Sephora? WHO?!     ⁃    Filling out my application for a Ride-Along with the NYPD     ⁃    Lotta kids getting puppies in the days of social media… hmm…     ⁃    Conquering my Achilles heel: comments on Instagram     ⁃    We're (I'm) putting the Artist's Way on pause while I spend the next few weeks reading from my girl Pema Chodron's book “How We Live is How We Die” because these are words of wisdom the world needs first. Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premiere* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios     ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and Godspeed. I'm on one this week and I blame it on ketosis. On today's episode of The Voices In Our Heads, I expand on these concepts, so you don't have to!     ⁃     Rico Nasty and my undying love for women who lean into their rage     ⁃    Pubes but on my head     ⁃    The power of hanger and where to unleash it     ⁃    FUCKBOI THEATER     ⁃    The Confederacy lasted 4 whole years, guys     ⁃    A final reading from our girl Pema Chodron and her book “How We Live Is How We Die” Listen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” on Spotify and Apple Music. See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked 8pm + 10:30pm     ⁃    Feb. 25th | NYC | “Wait, What?!” Live (link coming soon)     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room (headlining) Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and Godspeed. I'm on one this week and I blame it on ketosis. On today's episode of The Voices In Our Heads, I expand on these concepts, so you don't have to!    ⁃     Rico Nasty and my undying love for women who lean into their rage    ⁃    Pubes but on my head     ⁃    The power of hanger and where to unleash it    ⁃    FUCKBOI THEATER    ⁃    The Confederacy lasted 4 whole years, guys    ⁃    A final reading from our girl Pema Chodron and her book “How We Live Is How We Die”Listen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” on Spotify and Apple Music.See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked 8pm + 10:30pm    ⁃    Feb. 25th | NYC | “Wait, What?!” Live (link coming soon)    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room (headlining)Join my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

In this episode, we're sharing a classic, yet unreleased episode from a 2018 interview with Waylon Lewis and his mentor-from-afar Bo Burlingham, author of one of Waylon's two most-recommended books ever (the other is Pema Chodron, Buddhist author). Bo Burlingham, journalist, business writer for Inc. of many years, is the author of Small Giants, which Waylon calls one of "his favorite Life-Helpful ‪‎Mindful‬ Books." *Sadly, the audio is rough at moments in the recorded video, so we've only provided a clip of the audio as a podcast. For the full conversation in video (free!) with captions, find it on Elephant Journal.  

I'm so glad you lived to see another week! Whatcha up to, ya spreadsheets? Working out? Driving? Thanks for making me the voice in your head. Today's riveting topics include:     ⁃    The magic of a GWF Live show     ⁃    You got a luxury car for rent in LA? C'I rent it? PLS?!     ⁃    Docu-series to watch: American Nightmare     ⁃    Fuckboi in the DMs, on Tinder and Hinge oh my!     ⁃    A reading from Pema Chodron's “How We Live Is How We Die” about scary emotions being your path to freedom. Oy vey! Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch Listen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” on Spotify and Apple Music. See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club (headlining)     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room (headlining) Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm so glad you lived to see another week! Whatcha up to, ya spreadsheets? Working out? Driving? Thanks for making me the voice in your head. Today's riveting topics include:    ⁃    The magic of a GWF Live show     ⁃    You got a luxury car for rent in LA? C'I rent it? PLS?!    ⁃    Docu-series to watch: American Nightmare     ⁃    Fuckboi in the DMs, on Tinder and Hinge oh my!    ⁃    A reading from Pema Chodron's “How We Live Is How We Die” about scary emotions being your path to freedom. Oy vey!Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchListen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” on Spotify and Apple Music.See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club (headlining)    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room (headlining)Join my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

I'm so glad you didn't kill yourself because my debut stand-up comedy album, “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” is out now for you to listen to on all the platforms! You can also listen to today's episode of The Voices In Our Heads, touching on some of these hot button issues:    ⁃    Passive aggressive signage     ⁃    The pledge of allegiance is weird     ⁃    The perils and excuses and actual reasons of ADHD    ⁃    Pedophiles! (I'm anti)    ⁃    Sleep no more because orgies     ⁃    A reading from Pema Chodron's cult classic, “How We Live Is How We Die”Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchListen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA”See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue RoomJoin my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

I'm so glad you didn't kill yourself because my debut stand-up comedy album, “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” is out now for you to listen to on all the platforms! You can also listen to today's episode of The Voices In Our Heads, touching on some of these hot button issues:     ⁃    Passive aggressive signage     ⁃    The pledge of allegiance is weird     ⁃    The perils and excuses and actual reasons of ADHD     ⁃    Pedophiles! (I'm anti)     ⁃    Sleep no more because orgies     ⁃    A reading from Pema Chodron's cult classic, “How We Live Is How We Die” Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch Listen to my debut stand-up comedy album “GOOD GIRL, BARBARA” See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm happy to see you've made it another week on earth! I tried to speak softly this episode, but alas, some shouting and yelling occurred.  Next week I'll try harder. Other deep topics explored today include:     ⁃    The glory days of podcasting, sans video     ⁃    Letting your dog hump     ⁃    Kevin's Llama drama (a UTI)     ⁃    Fuckboi Theater: Guy Friend edition     ⁃    Basking in the glory of a big trip to the grocery store     ⁃    A reading of Chapter 13 of Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die all about leaning into the emotions you want to run away from. Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm happy to see you've made it another week on earth! I tried to speak softly this episode, but alas, some shouting and yelling occurred.  Next week I'll try harder. Other deep topics explored today include:    ⁃    The glory days of podcasting, sans video    ⁃    Letting your dog hump    ⁃    Kevin's Llama drama (a UTI)    ⁃    Fuckboi Theater: Guy Friend edition     ⁃    Basking in the glory of a big trip to the grocery store     ⁃    A reading of Chapter 13 of Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die all about leaning into the emotions you want to run away from. Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchSee me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue RoomJoin my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3050: Kylee Lessard's candid exploration of anxiety sheds light on its prevalence and personal impact, offering practical strategies for managing it. Her insights, bolstered by lessons from a Buddhist nun and personal coping mechanisms, provide valuable guidance for navigating life's anxious moments. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.ablueskymind.com/blog/mental-health-anxiety Quotes to ponder: "Accept non-permanence and change. Security is an illusion." Episode references: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Hard Times by Pema Chodron: https://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Fall-Apart-Difficult/dp/1611803438 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Monday, honey. Thanks for surviving another thrilling week on planet earth so that you can listen to my important thoughts on these important things:     ⁃    Who helped you at Sephora? WHO?!     ⁃    Filling out my application for a Ride-Along with the NYPD     ⁃    Lotta kids getting puppies in the days of social media… hmm…     ⁃    Conquering my Achilles heel: comments on Instagram     ⁃    We're (I'm) putting the Artist's Way on pause while I spend the next few weeks reading from my girl Pema Chodron's book “How We Live is How We Die” because these are words of wisdom the world needs first. Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch See me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch     ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premiere* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios     ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Monday, honey. Thanks for surviving another thrilling week on planet earth so that you can listen to my important thoughts on these important things:     ⁃    Who helped you at Sephora? WHO?!    ⁃    Filling out my application for a Ride-Along with the NYPD    ⁃    Lotta kids getting puppies in the days of social media… hmm…    ⁃    Conquering my Achilles heel: comments on Instagram     ⁃    We're (I'm) putting the Artist's Way on pause while I spend the next few weeks reading from my girl Pema Chodron's book “How We Live is How We Die” because these are words of wisdom the world needs first.Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchSee me live! Tickets at linktree.com/KrystynaHutch    ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premiere* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios    ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue RoomJoin my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com

Happy Monday and wow what a Monday it is. On today's episode of The Voices In Our Head, I'm joined by my pal, Ollie aka Problemas. Topics discussed today include:     ⁃    We're RUNNERS now and I can't walk down stairs       ⁃    Sad plumber having to declog your toilet     ⁃    Being embarrassed     ⁃    The death of a beloved comedian, Kenny Deforest and being reminded that people can just…. die     ⁃    A  rather blunt reading from Pema Chodron's book “How We Live Is How We Die” about the dying process and its effect on the body Follow me on social media: @KrystynaHutch Follow Mikey @MikeCoscarelli Follow Ollie @OllieProblemas See me live!     ⁃    Jan. 4-6 | New Brunswick, NJ | The Stress Factory     ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premier* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios     ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live     ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club     ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live     ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue Room Join my Patreon group Share-apy: www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinson Want to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Monday and wow what a Monday it is. On today's episode of The Voices In Our Head, I'm joined by my pal, Ollie aka Problemas. Topics discussed today include:    ⁃    We're RUNNERS now and I can't walk down stairs      ⁃    Sad plumber having to declog your toilet     ⁃    Being embarrassed     ⁃    The death of a beloved comedian, Kenny Deforest and being reminded that people can just…. die     ⁃    A  rather blunt reading from Pema Chodron's book “How We Live Is How We Die” about the dying process and its effect on the bodyFollow me on social media: @KrystynaHutchFollow Mikey @MikeCoscarelli Follow Ollie @OllieProblemasSee me live!    ⁃    Jan. 4-6 | New Brunswick, NJ | The Stress Factory    ⁃    Jan. 20th | NYC | The *live premier* of my new show “Wait, What?!” | MCM Studios    ⁃    Feb. 1st | NYC | The Midnight Theater | Guys We Fcked Live    ⁃    Feb. 9, 10 | Hasbrouck Heights, NJ | Banana's Comedy Club    ⁃    Feb. 14th | Los Angeles, CA | The Comedy Store | Guys We Fcked: Live    ⁃    March 22, 23 | Springfield, MO | The Blue RoomJoin my Patreon group Share-apy:www.patreon.com/KrystynaHutchinsonWant to advertise on the show? Send all inquiries to Mike at michaelacoscarelli@gmail.com