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On today's show, we welcome in the New Year with a Season Two Wrap Up of the Tulsa King starring our guy, Sylvester Stallone!Show Rundown: Happy New Year from Moody & Groo, Thoughts on the new trailer for James Gunn's Superman, Snuggling, Strong debate on Hulk Hogan's reaction on Monday Night Raw, Billy Joel's “sinister” Uptown Girl, Season Two of Tulsa King, Paramount +, Tulsa King spinoff? The excellent cast of TK, What did we think of the finale? Season Two review, Where might we go for season 3? ABC's Murder One, AP Bio is on Netflix, Moody and Groo love season two of Max Bookie.For out next episode of Van Dammit, we will give you our thoughts on Jean Claude Van Damme, 007 Roger Moore and an apparently no so young James Remar in The Quest.For our next episode of Nothing Worthwhile, Phil Collins is back with the documentary Drummer First, a look at his musical career as a drummer. Will Phil survive the entire documentary? Moody and Groo will let you know!Rip ‘Em!
On today's show, w we welcome in the New Year with a Season Two Wrap Up of the Tulsa King starring our guy, Sylvester Stallone! Show Rundown: Happy New Year from Moody & Groo, Thoughts on the new trailer for James Gunn's Superman, Snuggling, Strong debate on Hulk Hogan's reaction on Monday Night Raw, Billy Joel's “sinister” Uptown Girl, Season Two of Tulsa King, Paramount +, Tulsa King spinoff? The excellent cast of TK, What did we think of the finale? Season Two review, Where might we go for season 3? ABC's Murder One, AP Bio is on Netflix, Moody and Groo love season two of Max Bookie. For out next episode of Van Dammit, we will give you our thoughts on Jean Claude Van Damme, 007 Roger Moore and an apparently no so young James Remar in The Quest. For our next episode of Nothing Worthwhile, Phil Collins is back with the documentary Drummer First, a look at his musical career as a drummer. Will Phil survive the entire documentary? Moody and Groo will let you know! Rip ‘Em!
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The Danes are the happiest people on earth according to many surveys. They are dedicated to what they call Hygge. Snuggling together on a comfortable couch on a cold winters night with candles, cholocate and an open fire. It's being intentional about community and happiness. Many of us try to create this experience at Christmas. Many of us try to live out a theology or philosophy of love everyday, as this is the essence of the Christian story.
It's been getting dark entirely too early and all I want to do is curl up and sleep by the fireplace but for some reason you can't just do that all day without the bank getting peeved when you miss your mortgage payment Full spicy version of this audio and accompanying photoset will be uploaded to my Patreon tonight. Join now for access to this and all past audios: https://www.patreon.com/charleymooasmr - - - Main ASMR YouTube Channel @charleymooasmr All other links: https://linktr.ee/charleymoo (please copy/paste linktree if direct is not working! The link DOES work!) Business email (serious inquiries only please!): charleymoobiz@hotmail.com
This is the F4F version of this audio! There is a F4M version of this audio available on my Youtube and Spotify. It's been getting dark entirely too early and all I want to do is curl up and sleep by the fireplace but for some reason you can't just do that all day without the bank getting peeved when you miss your mortgage payment Full spicy version of this audio and accompanying photoset will be uploaded to my Patreon tonight. Join now for access to this and all past audios: https://www.patreon.com/charleymooasmr - - - Main ASMR YouTube Channel @charleymooasmr All other links: https://linktr.ee/charleymoo (please copy/paste linktree if direct is not working! The link DOES work!) Business email (serious inquiries only please!): charleymoobiz@hotmail.com
In the 31st episode of "Rhythms That Restore," host Cherisse welcomes Abby Teal, a community advocate, Motivational Speaker and Missionary living in Puerto Rico. We explore themes of personal transformation, community, and the significance of gathering, especially during the fall season. Abby shares her journey of resilience, including overcoming a life-threatening medical brain condition and navigating a loving divorce after 20+ years of marriage. She emphasizes the importance of authenticity in relationships and the power of community gatherings. Cherisse and Abby encourage listeners to embrace their imperfections, seek genuine connections, and trust in God's plan during times of transition. Abby also discusses her project, La Mesa, aimed at fostering community and support for women in a transition spot in life. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Motivation Speaker Abby Teal on Instgram @atabbyteal Website: www.abbyteal.com Podcast "Finding Your Joy" : www.youtu.be//ekWr2BKWku4 JoyFul Women of Purpose: www.joyfulwomenofpurpose.com/abbyteal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Welcome and Introduction (00:00:02)** Cherisse welcomes listeners to the podcast and introduces the episode's theme of restoration. **Celebrating Fall with Abby (00:00:27)** Cherisse introduces Abby, celebrating the arrival of fall and their friendship. **Advice for Facing Fear (00:01:14)** Abby shares her advice on confronting fears by moving forward despite uncertainty. **Abby's Background (00:02:14)** Cherisse highlights Abby's extensive experience in missions and her new community project. **The Importance of Gathering (00:03:30)** Cherisse emphasizes Abby's passion for community and gathering people together. **Transitions and Change (00:07:48)** Abby discusses the challenges and lessons learned during times of transition. **Finding Peace in Uncertainty (00:09:05)** Abby shares insights on navigating life's uncertainties without needing a clear plan. **Asking for Help (00:11:05)** Abby reflects on the importance of asking for help during challenging times. **Being vs. Doing (00:12:31)** The conversation shifts to the significance of being present with God rather than focusing on tasks. **Seasons of Life (00:14:18)** Cherisse and Abby discuss the need for rest and renewal in different life seasons. **Snuggling with God (00:16:14)** Abby describes her practice of connecting with God through quiet moments of rest. **Abby's Life-Altering Experience (00:18:23)** Abby recounts a pivotal moment in her life involving a serious medical condition and surgery. **Abby's Surgery Experience (00:19:34)** Abby shares her life-changing surgery and the unexpected realization of her worth. **Marriage Transition (00:22:50)** Abby discusses the end of her 25-year marriage and its impact on her identity. **Understanding Worthiness (00:25:56)** Abby reflects on her journey to understand her worth beyond societal expectations. **Moving to Puerto Rico (00:27:46)** Abby describes her move to Puerto Rico and the challenges of starting anew. **Finding Community (00:29:52)** Abby shares her experience of connecting with the local community and finding a home. **Acquiring La Mesa (00:31:42)** Abby details the purchase of a property called La Mesa, symbolizing community gathering. **Vision for La Mesa (00:35:40)** Abby explains her vision for La Mesa as a place for community meals and support for women. **Relaunch Initiative (00:37:56)** Abby introduces the concept of a relaunch program aimed at empowering women in the community. **Relaunch Vision (00:39:08)** Discussion on the importance of authenticity in community and sharing personal visions. **Moving Forward (00:39:27)** Emphasizing the need to look ahead instead of dwelling on the past, especially during uncertain times. **Intentional Gathering (00:40:14)** Abby shares her passion for gathering people in meaningful, spontaneous ways. **Embracing Imperfection (00:40:32)** The concept of less-than-perfect gatherings and how they foster genuine connections. **Breaking Free from Perfection (00:41:00)** Abby reflects on her past obsession with perfection and its impact on relationships. **Fill in the Blank Parties (00:43:20)** Introducing a fun, collaborative way to gather and support each other through shared tasks. **Revealing Humanity (00:46:26)** The significance of being real with one another and how it deepens community bonds. **Practicing Spirituality (00:47:24)** Understanding that our relationships with others reflect our relationship with God. **Imperfect Parties (00:49:27)** Encouragement to host gatherings that celebrate imperfection and authenticity. **Wisdom for the Past (00:49:59)** Abby shares empowering advice for her younger self, focusing on resilience. **Connecting with Abby (00:50:36)** Information on how to follow Abby's journey, including updates on her projects and book. **Closing Thoughts (00:52:24)** Cherisse reflects on the beauty of embracing imperfections and community connections. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Connect with Cherisse Hixson Email: cherissehixson@hotmail.com Instagram: @cherissehixson01 or @RhythmsThatRestorePodcast Listen In, Leave a 5 Star Review and Share with a friend to be encouraged
You've probably heard of 'girl bossing' but 'girl-mossing' is the new social media movement Oprah Winfrey's getting behind. Snuggling into soft green moss isn't just a form of nature therapy, it can also be a statement against the heavy energetic load carried by women, says sociologist Anna Halafoff.
Fertility Clinic nurse assistant studies female anatomy.By thomas_dean. Subscribe & listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Chapter 7: Pillow TalkI may have spoken of the much about my romantic interludes, sex play with my husband Jerry during my internship at the Fertility Clinic in my last year in college. I sighed 'husband' and 'wife' had become archaic words officially, but everyone in heterosexual relations still used those words in lieu of the official term `partner.' In a reflective moment cuddling, "Partners," Jerry had dismissed much modern parlance, "Sounds like something cowhands said to other guys in the old Western Movies."With both of us in school and working, our quest for physical intimacy tended to result in a quick, but spirited struggle, a wrestling match, Jerry called sexercises. There was only precious moments for a little cuddling time which generates pillow talk. As days grew longer and time in school shortened, we suddenly found more time for each other."Have you thought what you'll do after you graduate?" Jerry asked the frightening question. Up to now my hectic schedule, at school and work, gave me little time to ponder that the curtain would close on this life shortly.My mornings began early. I was due in at the Clinic at 5:45 AM. I had to give myself extra time. On my way to the bathroom on those mornings, Jerry's strong hand often landed on my shoulders. I'd feel the stumble of his whiskers rubbing against my neck, especially if I awoke still in my improvised PJs, worn panties and Jerry's raggy tee shirt."Jerry," I'd chide him, "Why do I know that if I find myself wearing my panties when I wake, it was good to have allowed extra time to get ready?" Wrestling me to the ground to take me from behind, Jerry quickly whipped my night clothes off. We rocked together till he came. "All too quickly," I pouted, "even if you never make me late for work."On my birthday, Jerry presented me with a harem girl PJs, a flimsy cotton bra and baggy bloomers tight at the waist and mid-calf ballooning out in between. "Hmm," I inspected the present, "Sheer. They should slide off easily enough when your projectile rules your brain."Contrary to his rough grab and tumble style, ritualizing the extraction procedure practiced in the Fertility Clinic dominated our sex play. Jerry played the docile partner when we reenacted my experiences at work.As much as I tried to keep my work life as an Intern at the Fertility Clinic entirely separate from my life at home, my husband Jerry's fascination with my role in assisting the drawing of sperm from virile young men occupied not only what few moments we could spare for our table talk, but also our sex play. Lounging on our couch with Jerry in my harem girl outfit, a loose fitting, billowy PJ bottom and matching cotton bra, Jerry appeared to be more intrigued than concerned. "It's a mechanical process," Jerry recognized, "without an emotional attachment. Kind of like the short-arm inspection in the service."Joining the nursing assistants in what we dubbed 'The Walk of Shame,' strolling nude from the locker where we stowed our street clothes to the employees' showers, Dr. Velour, exchanging pleasantries, smiled as she watched my eyes follow her double double D boobs bouncing with her every stride. "You're married to a male partner. Right? I meant to ask you," Dr. Velour got directly to the point, "how does your partner feel about your role in harvesting semen?""My husband," I paused for emphasis before continuing the response, "Jerry regards it as a process, like drilling for oil." I paused. "The clinic produces a yield and sells its product aloof from any personal commitment beyond professional pride in the product. The physical contact is incidental to the process, entirely impersonal without an emotional dimension."Snuggling with Jerry on the couch, I exclaimed, "Truth," I paused for emphasis, "could never have been better said! How could my work in extracting sperm from a male donor be any different from operating a pump?" I shot Jerry an expression of benign innocence as I plucked his member from his boxers. "All we do is work the handle to draw fluid from the well. A pure question of hydraulics. You're the engineering student. All that is little more than Archimedes Principles at work," I declared.Told of Jerry's description of inducing an emission as an application of the principles of `sexual hydraulics,' Dr. Velour described Jerry's reaction as objective with a bias toward structural analysis that she'd might expect from an engineering student. Pausing to think, Dr. Velour remarked, "It's good you have support at home. Some women might eh—not want to be so open with a partner. Surprisingly—men are different.""Jerry is so fascinated with my work at the Fertility Clinic," I shook my head, "We reenact the procedures to draw sperm. Interaction, says Jerry, might stimulate the donor, but the purpose is impersonal to draw the product, not to administer pleasure.""Hmm, there is," Dr. Velour raised her penciled in eyebrows, "a slender difference between the pleasure of business," She smiled, "and the business of pleasure, one wavering on a subtle question of purpose, intent and motivation."I chuckled. "Motivations, that's my field in Industrial Psychology."On the couch with Jerry cuddling up in a rare precious moment, I nested my breasts into his bare hairy chest. The outline of erect nipples proudly jutted out in the soft cotton fabric of the harem girl top. Whispering provocatively, I tapped Jerry's chest with the tip of my index finger, "two romantically motivated people putting their heads together can have more fun than one guy hitched to a post to jerk off."Then came the moment I dreaded. An aroused and tempted Jerry, brushing past the thin elastic band of my baggy bloomers, seized the flesh of my ass in his hand and kneaded it for a full minute before his hand reached over my hip and plunged down toward my pubes. "Slick!" Jerry's shriek ventured into such a high octave it sounded as if I had yanked his testicles. "When did this happen? If you wanted to go bald down there, why didn't you let me shave you?" Jerry cried.I sighed. "Shaving is so passe," I protested, "To avoid infections, hospitals, these days, use depilatory creams. No nicks, no cuts, no razor burns, thank god!" I exclaimed.At the entrance to the shower, I stood with Dr. Velour. Tilting her head back in a moment of reflection, Dr. Velour placed a firm hand on my bare shoulder. A shot of electricity ran through my body. My breath quickened; my nipples hardened, but I was confused. Velour was a woman.I had classified myself as a heterosexual. That's what it said on my marriage license in the statistical section-a totally private declaration not available to the public or even to `my partner,' but of course was available to the advertisers who loaded down our mailbox.Dr. Velour remarked, "Much of what we do here in the clinic to some outsiders may seem a semantic shuffle. It is unlawful for say a brother and sister to have sex, but a client seeking certain features might request a sister be inseminated by her brother's sperm.""Hmm, perfectly legal?" I inquired."Yes, but what are the ethics," Dr. Velour continued the hypothetical, "of inseminating a woman with sperm from a male with whom she could not legally have sex? From the perspective of your discipline, could you prepare me an opinion of whether we should tell the sister that she's being inseminated by her brother? Are you up to it?""A project of that nature would be difficult, lasting well beyond the few days I have left in school-and in this internship." I was reminded of Jerry's gut-wrenching question. Also, to graduate, I had finals to study for. I daringly raised the issue, "Could this project lead to a permanent job?"With a pleasant smile, Dr. Velour announced, "Perhaps, then I should consider rounding out your experience here at the clinic. I think it's time to advance your nurse-trainees' group to the next level, the female's body. The female body, like the female mind, is far more complex. I'll summon the rest of the group to meet downstairs in the theatre."Inside the shower, Dr. Velour seemed to vanish into the misty droplets that permeated the room before it condensed in dips on the tiled wall. I guessed Dr. Velour was in a hurry to accomplish some tasks before a training session. After rinsing off, I told the clerk, "I need scrubs for Dr. Velour's Nursing Assistant training.""Next level?" To my nod, the Clerk advised with a pleasant smile, "Congratulations, promoted to tend to females." A disarming smile filled her face when she reminded me, "With each little step the next one becomes that much easier.""Now, if that leads to a full-time job after graduation ..." I shook my head."Today," the clerk noted as she handed me a package, "you get the Nursing Assistant's full kit—scrubs, your very own plastic name tag, granny panties, bra and white sneakers.""I suppose I could attach the plastic name tag to the Shower Siren's top-the white bikini top the girl who works the donor's shower sports, but," I smiled, "there's something—a special eh, different appeal—to the nurse's scrubs," I remarked as I accepted the uniform. "Clothing defines the person and their role."On the couch with Jerry, I tried to conceal my delight over Jerry's present of harem girl pajamas. Holding the bottoms in front of me, I tried to assume a clinical tone in my comment, "tight at the waist and ankle, puffing out in between. Thin waist band may have trouble holding the bottoms up."To Jerry's smile, I shook my head. "I guess they're not intended to stay up. But this bra," I pulled the two ends to test it, "Cotton, no elastic, do you think this bra is sturdy enough to bind my wrists."Jerry responded with a devilish grin. Tilting my head, I smiled. "I guess you prefer to whip these PJs off my body to use me like a whore." With an evil smile, I added, "I should be proud to accept this gift as your candid appraisal of eh, my talents, quite a complement.""Clothing does add something," Jerry quipped, "even if I don't figure that you'll need it all night long."Receiving the scrubs from the clerk reporting in after showering at the Fertility Clinic, I reflected, "Scrubs do lend an air of authority." My comment drew a polite half smile and a nod.Fully dressed in fresh scrubs, I walked with an air of confidence as passed by co-workers moving toward the ramp that led to the subsurface level gym, pool and theatre. Trading pleasantries, I enthusiastically declared, "class exercises today, Introduction to Female Anatomy."When I entered the small theatre next to Dr. Velour's office, the other nursing assistant trainees, Cassie, employed by the clinic's gym, muscles bulging under short sleeved scrubs, Pat, the big breasted college girl, participating in an experiment at the Clinic and dark-haired Beth the oldest of the group had previously acted as a surrogate mother. All turned their heads to look when I entered, as if they had been waiting. Waiting for what? I wondered. What was up?On stage, Dr. Velour stood hand resting on a gynecological table. "Amy," Dr. Velour beckoned to me in a pleasant but officious tone, "how good of you to join us." To her left side in a corner of the stage rested a 5 foot by 5 foot white privacy screen. Inviting me on the stage, Dr. Velour announced, "Ladies, our study of anatomy of the female begins. Amy, would you go behind the screen, disrobe and put on a gown for us."I shook my head. "Why did you waste time by having me dress?" I allowed a tone of annoyance of enter my voice. "An anatomical model needs no costume.""The gown is optional, Amy," Dr. Velour, raising her eyebrows, snapped, "at your discretion.""You're going to poke and prod," I replied, "the gown will just be getting in the way."Undressing quickly behind the screen, I dismissed the fear that I was being submissive. Jerry taught me that he got over the rigors of the Marine Corps by responding enthusiastically to outrageous orders and overdoing it. "They're trying to cow you. But, if you show you can't be humiliated, they'll think you're crazy and leave you alone."Emerging from behind the screen, I held my arms out, "tah dah!" The faces of the nurse-trainees fell; Even Dr. Velour looked away. No one laughed. I had humiliated them. "I've exhibited my virtues. What's next?" I demanded.After a deep breath, Dr. Velour recovered from her surprise. "Lesson One is prepping, but first we have an initial evaluation," Dr. Velour pointed to my hair "hair clean, skin clear, breasts symmetric, no obvious discoloration of the nipples. You'll notice Amy has untamed pubic hair, slightly darker than her auburn hair."Ordered to turn around, I felt a tingle when Dr. Velour laid sturdy hands on my bare shoulders and grabbed the flesh around my hips. Tickling me by running a fingernail down my spine, Dr. Velour complimented me, "good posture."Stood on a scale on the right side of the stage, I measured in at 5 foot 2 and weighed 115 pounds. I jumped when Dr. Velour placed the cold steel of the stethoscope against my bare chest wall to listen to my heartbeat. With a playful, slap on my bare tush, she ordered me up on the table. I felt my fanny with great exaggeration like a chastised child.Placing my feet in the stirrups, Dr. Velour invited the other trainees on stage. "To examine the vulva, the female's external genitalia thoroughly, there is only one way: first remove the pubic hair." Leaning over to address me, Dr. Velour asked my permission, "Is that OK with you, Amy?"I had already decided to co-operate. "I'm willing for the cause of-science, but what do I tell my guy?" I asked in an exaggerated plaintive voice.Momentarily stunned, Dr. Velour hesitated. After a delay, she spoke, "You may tell your guy. `I was lucky," Dr. Velour took a breath, "`I wasn't shaved. My curly mess was trimmed by an experienced person, not a trainee and the hair was vaporized by a gentle cream."Turning to her audience, Dr. Velour discoursed, "In the course of human evolution, hairless bodies with smooth, clear skin signaled good health. Even though women are naturally less hirsute, sexual selection, ie attraction of a mate, may be the female's hidden agenda in her preference for bare pubes. Motivations and preferences are your field, Amy." Dr. Velour threw the question back to me, "Do you have any thoughts?""As far as male donors," I replied, "and female surrogates, the clinic insists that all females participating in our programs as well as male donors be shorn-With the male a clean pubic region assures that the iron jock strap fit snuggly. Also, it makes visual examination of the reproductive organs easier-for signs of infection or injuries.""In the outside world," Dr. Velour lectured, "some women and men remove body hair for aesthetic purposes; others for hygienic purposes; still many others as a matter of arbitrary choice. Soon, each of you will begin depilating the body hair of a patient. However, first you must watch it done. Amy, with your permission, I'm going to depilate your pubic hair." When I deliberately hesitated, Dr. Velour prodded me, "Are you ready?""I hear short skirts are coming back," I replied enthusiastically, "this is free grooming.""First, we comb the pubes for lose hair from the external genitalia, the perineum under the vaginal orifice and the perianal skin around the anus. Pat," Dr. Velour calling the college girl forward, "You're in the milk induction study and regularly are groomed here. Could you show Amy how it's done?" When Pat snatched the fine-toothed comb, Dr. Velour, grasping Pat's hand to guide Pat through the tangled web over my pubic mound, pleasantly reminded her, "gently."Summoned to the stage, Cassie was handed a damp rag and told to clean my pubic region. "This will remove whatever loose hairs and dirt the comb did not pick up." Beth was invited to scissor clip my bush. Beth pleasantly chattered away before she left me with stubble. "Good bedside manner," Dr. Velour complimented Beth, "Now I'll take over and apply the cream."Taking a small jar of cream, "nothing works better than my own special concoction," Dr. Velour assured me. "I'm going to rub the depilatory cream into the inguinal crease, the boundary, often hairy, between the thigh and the pelvis." The sensation was pleasant when she worked the cream into the crease massaging the outer edge of my vaginal lips in the process.When I reacted to her circular motions rubbing the cream in an arc across my mound, by attempting to rear up my butt, struggling against the stirrups, she, in comforting almost hypnotic tones whispered, "Close your eyes. Relax. Breathe easily. Think of yourself somewhere else with your guy, except he's doing it your way."Her voice-or was it some property in the cream-sent me into an altered state. I chose not to fight it. I was vaguely aware that Dr. Velour was addressing the ladies, "While we wait for the depilatory cream did as instructed, we can continue to study the vulva, older texts may call the area between the legs the pudendum. In the center is the vestibule of the vaginal orifice. Superior to the vaginal vestibule is the urinary orifice and the clitoris, the analogue to the male penis, and the seat of much-eh, eh --," she giggled, "mischief."I'm pretty sure she smiled as a gloved finger prodded the clitoris. "Distal to the vaginal," Dr. Velour expounded, "vestibule are the vaginal lips or labia, the fleshy folds that surround the opening the vagina. Hair can grow in the pudendal cleft the crease or crevice between the ridges of the major and minor labia. Let me work some cream there."My heart was palpitating as she worked the crease between the vaginal lips. "The inner lips," Dr. Velour taught, "the labia minora link up superior to the clitoris at the frenulum or prepuce and inferior to the clitoris at the glans clitoris or clitoral hood."I was there, listening to the lecture, but no longer cared anymore. I was hoovering on the edge of an orgasm when Dr. Velour's nimble fingers outlines the folds around the clitoral hood. "Inferior to the vaginal vestibule are the perineum and the anal cavity," Dr. Velour addressed the trainees, "still covered in the depilatory cream."
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Fertility clinic nurse explores magic of sex play in study.By thomas_dean. Subscribe & listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Chapter 4: Fun & Games People Play.My tall and muscular husband Jerry, pleasantly bemused, encouraged my studies and offered his body for practice."First, I wash my hands and introduce myself," I went through my checklist, "Good morning Mr.Warbler. I'm Nursing Assistant Amy Warbler. After I release you from chastity, I'm going to conduct a testicular exam, a complete physical inspection of the genitalia, the penis, scrotum, and testicles.""Oh, please do," said Jerry with a smile.I moved his chin to the right and ordered Jerry to put his hands on his head.Passing my written and practical test, with Jerry's help, I found myself in a somewhat more staid, professionalized environment. On duty, I was addressed as Miss Warbler. I wore medical scrubs replete with a name tag that identified me as a Nursing Assistant.Co-opting in the trial run-through for the hands-on portion of the exam, Jerry complained that I should borrow surgical scrubs for more realism in my exam. "There's something to the medical accoutrements, the scrubs, the name tag, and the stethoscope that promote cooperation of the subject."With Jerry's size and strength, I needed all the help the prop of an improvised costume could bring to assure his pliancy.To accommodate Jerry's quest for realism, I wore one of his white shirts, backwards, over a loose, billowy pj bottom. I preferred the short sleeve shirt to tease Jerry with a glimpse at my breasts. Jerry's T-Shirt fit loose enough; I only buttoned the top button to make sure the top flowed with my movement. To Jerry's suggestion that, on duty, I wear a bra or a T-shirt under the scrubs, I reminded him that paying customers give tips."Tips for Tits!" Jerry exclaimed. "You must model this exceptional garment for me. Bring a pair home.""To leave at the end of my shift," I replied, "I have to walk naked from a communal shower along a steel mesh parapet for 100 paces. How can I spirit scrubs out of the clinic?"Still, even after elevation to a demi-professional caste, we had to strip, stow our street clothes in a locker, and walk naked along a catwalk about 100 feet to communal showers. Instead of the 4AM race of the cleaning crew to the showers, we leisurely strolled to the showers. One of the women walked with the man, idly chatting. Next to me walked a cherubic brunette Darrie. "Think of it as short for Darling," she told me."Appropriate name," I replied, "for the angel who releases the male donor from the cock block to release the built-up eh—tension.""Angel Darlin', now that would be a nice name," Darrie chuckled, "the guys call the nurse in the locker the Angel of Mercy. We call her the `Warden.'"In our practice for my hands on exam, Jerry expressed interest in experiencing me in the role of the Angel of Mercy."Not ready to recognize me as your warden," I chided Jerry.Perhaps, Jerry suggested as he stood naked in front of me that I should have obtained permission to borrow a chastity belt for that purpose. "The clinic might have allowed issuance of the belt, but not the electronic notebook. You might find a chastity grows on you. Without the release button on the electronic notebook, you'll find the belt is easier to get into than to get out of."Under the spigot next to me, Darrie, looking around the shower, sighed. "You're new. The only problem with working at the Fertility Clinic is," a silly expression appeared on her face, "it grows on you.""Quite an interesting comment," I replied, "about an institution designed to grow eh, people.""The longer you are here," Darrie smiled, "the more you're bound up in it, the harder it is to leave, and the more you find yourself willing to do."Though there were enough spigots in the shower for us to keep a respectful distance from each other, we tended to congregate within arms' reach of each other. "I'm going to help you-just for the first few customers-In the locker-just to show," Darrie proposed, "you how to handle eh, the ropes." We both giggled together before she asked, "Soap up my back, will you be a luv?"Turning her back to me, Darrie waited for me to apply a washcloth from the short hairs of her neck to her shoulder blades down to her butt. "Are you married, luv?" When I acknowledged, she prodded me, "to a guy?" At my nod, she added, "you'd do well as shower girl, but today you play warden, unlock them on the way in and lock them tight on the way out."At the clothing counter, Darrie recommended that I wear a T-Shirt under the scrubs, "It being your first time, you might not want guys gaping at your swinging tits.""Tits bring Tips," I quipped.In my practice with Jerry, I went through the protocol: "Second, once the subject has disrobed, the subject should present naked standing in front of you. Some prefer to perform the examination kneeling to the side of the patient. Most examiners prefer to stand to conduct an initial appraisal of the subject's general condition.""Hands on your head, Mr.Warbler, if you please, legs apart," I ordered in a cheerful voice."Why do you need to keep an eye on my hands?" Jerry asked. "Does a 90 lb woman facing fear losing control over a naked, sex crazed man recently sprung from chastity?""Interesting choice of words," I replied.When Darrie and I peeked in the male donor's locker, three or four men completely undressed were milling about inside. Darrie pointing out a fair skinned nervous sort criss-crossing his chest with his arms, "Probably, the new guy, Mr.Flesher," she surmised.Naked except for an inverted triangular shaped dome covering their crotches, the men awaited release. Standing at the entrance the male donor's locker, Darrie whispered, "Unexpected things," an evil smile peered on her lips, "especially with new donors can happen when the projectile is unleashed. Never stand directly in the path of an eruption."We both giggled when I quipped, "Interesting concept."Entering the male donor's locker, Darrie barked, "Line up," Darrie pointed to a line down the middle of the room, "Hands on your heads, the one on top of your head you think with, if you expect your schlong to swing."There were some catcalls from the guys lining up. One called out, "Wear a bra if you're afraid I'll cop a feel.""While I keep your schlong locked," Darrie shot back, "fondling my tits in a moment of joy will bring your cock quite a shock.""You just want to smell my pits," screeched another."Just to check, forsooth," Darrie quipped, "underarms remain smooth and clean and not hirsute." Darrie leaned over to give me advice at an audible whisper, "it's good to keep chappies happy by wiggling your tush and acting a little sassy.""Consider this a eh, dress rehearsal. You're suitably naked and I'm in an improvised nurse's costume," I commenced a test-run of the examination. As Jerry stood hands over his head, I announced the next step, "Third," pausing to seize his penis for examination, I continued, "thoroughly inspect the penis frontal and dorsal,-eh all sides for lumps, swellings, ulcers or scars."At my touch, I could feel Jerry's penis begin to pulsate and gel from flaccid to rubbery. I noticed Jerry's lips pursing. I heard my heart pounding in my chest. Breathlessly, in a dreamy voice combining technical book learning with pillow talk, I gushed, "think of the penis as engineering miracle of erectional hydraulics, a natural pump capable of accomplishing a surge of blood flow within seconds. When the penis swells with blood, the pelvic floor muscles launch the penis eh, into ecstasy."Ecstasy? I questioned myself. That's contrary to protocol which impersonalized intimate contact. Putting aside the delicacy of social conventions, I, focusing on the objective, must conduct procedures by the book step-by-step. The heart may beat faster, the temperature may rise, but the purpose of intimate contact is professional. "Physical contact with a female nurse during a delicate examination can produce a natural reaction in a male patient," I reassured Jerry."Priming the pump triggers the launch. I hope so," Jerry replied.Announcing as we swept into the locker room, "Gentlemen prepare to launch your rockets, 10-9 -8-7 ...," Darrie pushed a button on her notepad. The clang of the plastic covers falling to the ground followed. While I collected the fallen shields, Darry declared, "Fun time! Examination of the genitalia."When she reached Mr.Flesher who managed to conceal himself at the end of the line, he was shaking; his fair skin was burnished red. In a soothing voice, Darry assured Flesher, "There's no shame in a natural reaction to physical contact with a female during a genital examination."Hushing the other men, Darrie sent them into the shower, noting, "Go take care of what you came here to do."As the other men filtered out into the shower, Darrie called me over. "Mr.Flesher," she addressed him, maintaining eye contact, "Let me introduce Amy Warbler, our new Nursing Assistant. I need to report to Dr. Velour our boss that Nurse Warbler is fully capable of conducting exams on her own. Can you help me teach our Nurse Warbler the art of an intimate examination? It'll only take a sec. Then you can get hitched to the hitching post for release. That's what you came here for, right?"In practicing with Jerry, I pronounced, "Fourth, inspect the scrotum. Hmm," I interjected, "I get to keep hold of your joystick. Moving the penis out of the way, inspect all sides of the scrotum. Lift the scrotum to check its underside."In the locker, Darrie thanked Mr.Flesher, "Good! My examination will only take a couple more minutes before you're on your way to the hitching post, release and ecstasy."In my dry run with Jerry, I reached the Fifth stage "palpating," I interjected, "that's an inflated medical term for examining by touch, the testicles.""Inflated? That's an interesting word. Sounds like fun," Jerry's laughter went into the falsetto range when I pinched a testicle."With my thumbs and index fingers," I explained, "I roll the testes between the fingers to detect potential abnormalities. Feel along the duct work, the epididymis tube and the duct deferens which deliver the sperm for ejaculation.""Go easy," Jerry's voice ventured into the falsetto range."That wasn't so bad. Your examination is over," I advised Jerry, "You're free to have fun. Thank you for being such a good boy," I patted his tush, "for behaving yourself and cooperating." I turned my back on Jerry to take off my gloves and drop them in the bathroom."Free!" Jerry exclaimed. When I felt his hands gripping me. Lifted off my feet, I felt the pj bottoms slide away. Bent at the waist, I heard Jerry yell "I don't have to be good, no more, but it will be good."In the locker, Darrie concluded Flesher's examination. "Not so bad, was it? You passed your exam with flying colors," Darrie counselled Mr. Flesher, "You're dangling free. Go have fun with it!" As Flesher walked away, Dearie whispered, "never turn your back on a released donor."At home, Jerry exclaimed, "Time for fun." A wild expression cropped on his face. "The pump's been primed, the torrents will flow." I felt the warmth of his body nestle between the half-moons of my ass while his nimble fingers separated my vaginal lips. Then he hesitated."Go ahead. Fuck me." I ordered Jerry. Tease, denial and release, I wondered as I gasped when Jerry penetrated, was that the magic?Chapter 5: Nature of the AttractionIn my senior year in college, I worked several hours in the early morning before classes in a fertility clinic. It was part of my internship toward my degree in Industrial Psychology. In my rotation as a student intern in the clinic, I, through study and practical training, had earned a promotion out of maintenance into the Nursing Department as an assistant.Smart in her white lab coat and dark dress, Dr. Velour introduced the study to three nursing assistant candidates gathered in her office."We start our study with the male body because it is less complex, designed for an important, but momentary role in reproduction," Dr. Velour's word brought a ripple of giggling to the motley group of prospective nursing assistants."This is a business," Dr. Velour expounded, "We have to recruit livestock, groom their bodies, generate interest in purchasers, draw and refine the product and sell it. Initially, our question in dealing with the men, is what makes a man want to `bind his loins' in a cock-blocker, hitch his penis to a machine and discharge his seed into a hitching post? The answer at least initially is curiosity."I chuckled. Ever since I obtained this internship, my husband Jerry has beseeched me to sneak him in to test his equipment. Didn't I put out enough? I lay crunched up like a pretzel, hands bound behind my back with my bra, complaints squelched with panties in my mouth too often to think differently.It was hard to think of Jerry tied docilely to a hitching post at the Clinic to be jerked off. For foreplay, Jerry preferred wrestling me to the ground. Taken by surprise, forced face down, with Jerry strong hands tugging at the waistband of my jeans, I'd spur Jerry on by pleading, "Don't rip my clothes, Jerry. I don't get paid till next week."Was Jerry jealous or afraid my job involved physical contact with other men? No, Jerry was so curious so much so he wanted me to reenact the protocols in sperm extraction."You come to the clinic through different pathways, bringing different experiences to the study. Dr. Velour looked from student to student, "we have Amy, here, a student in Industrial Psychology at the local college. Perhaps with Amy's background in Industrial Psychology, she will develop a clearer idea the motivation of the persons involved in the people involved in the donation process. Amy?""My ugh-experience tells me curiosity is a good hypothesis," I replied. The room filled with chuckling, "Men are always looking for a new spot to anchor their spar in."When the laughter subsided, Dr. Velour pointed out a girl with muscular forearms and legs, "Next, we have Cassie. She's a gymnast who has been working in the gym; Pat," Dr. Velour pointed out a college girl like me, "a participant in our experiment in inducing the mammary glands to produce milk; and Beth," Dr. Velour pointed to a woman in her mid-thirties, "a surrogate.""Regardless of sex, however," Dr. Velour continued, "the brain is the largest sex organ. Oh, the body reacts to physical stimulation and once aroused can control the mind, but the mind creates the expectations in given situations.""Thus, because male body's function in reproduction is limited," Dr. Velour ex
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Dr. Catherine Clinton, a licensed naturopathic physician, has spent over 16 years helping people overcome their health issues. Diagnosed with two autoimmune conditions and Lyme disease while in medical school, she began the long and difficult journey of healing- a path that led to the commitment to help others to not only heal physically but to return to the relationships we evolved over millennia with for a deeper sense of health and belonging. By healing herself and patients like her, she discovered that true health comes from our relationships. Dr. Catherine has learned how our quantum biological system is intimately and inseparably connected to the world around us. Our relationship with the dirt beneath our feet, the sun, the wind, the water, the plants, the seasons, each other- that is the real medicine. Her mission is to empower as many people as she can with this knowledge to encourage the paradigm shift we so desperately need. Website & Social media links (Facebook, instagram, twitter): Instagram: @dr.catherineclinton Facebook: www.dr.catherineclintonnd YouTube @dr.catherineclinton Website: www.drcatherineclinton.com The Way of Fertility is here! Be sure to check it out here www.michelleoravitz.com/thewayoffertility For more information about Michelle, visitwww.michelleoravitz.com The Wholesome FertilityFacebook group is where you can find free resources and support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2149554308396504/ Instagram: @thewholesomelotusfertility Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/thewholesomelotus/ Transcript: Michelle (00:01) Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Clinton. Catherine (00:04) Thank you so much for having me. I know we've been trying to get together to do this for a while and I'm just really excited to talk with you today. Michelle (00:14) I am so excited. I've been actually looking forward to this call for like a while just because I found you on Instagram and I was like, oh my God, this lady gets it. Like your work is so fascinating to me. I'm really into quantum physics in general. And then I'm like quantum biology, like the whole idea and just there's so many things that we're uncovering. It's kind of like the future of medicine. But also, I feel like you're very intuitive in your work. I feel like you're sort of channeling a lot of really fascinating intelligence through your work. So, yeah, that was my initial thing when I started looking at your work and the things that you're posting and sharing. And I would love it if you can share your background and how you got into this field and also how you got into it in the way that you're getting into it. Catherine (01:10) Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, it definitely feels like I've been talking about this for years and now the energy around it is just like so much momentum, right? It kind of used to feel like I was talking in an empty room, sort of talking to myself, right? And what happened was I was in naturopathic medical school. I was in my second year and it was that initiation year where... they really want to weed people out, right? So it's like, get there at 7 a .m. If you're a couple minutes late, you can't sign the attendance sheet. You have to wait another year to take the class, you know, that kind of like med school initiation, really long clinic hours. And it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. And I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, two autoimmune conditions and I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. So I just was like spiraling with my health. And that's when, you know, I was in a great place to put my physical body back together, put the pieces back together. I was in naturopathic medical school. I was across the river from an acupuncture school. I was just down the hill from a very progressive, allopathic teaching hospital. And so I had so many tools to work with, but for anybody who's had a chronic illness, getting back to that, you know, productive member of society state, while wonderful to go from debilitated to being able to participate again is absolutely incredible. It still is missing a huge piece of health and vitality. And I was really struggling even after I put...the physical pieces back together, so to speak. And that's when my physician, my physician and also the one I was doing rotations, clinical rotations underneath, said you should really look at psycho neuroimmunology. And that's just a big word for how our thoughts and emotions impact our health and our biological function. And at the time I was researching mitochondrial health because I was like, oh, this is the latest, greatest, newest thing. You know, this was almost, 20 years ago, and I read an article by Martin Picard about how our mitochondria are impacted by our emotions and our state of our thoughts, our internal dialogue. And I was like, oh my goodness, this just kind of blew me out of the water and opened up the doors to quantum biology. And then I started actually reading. I discovered the early... quantum biology research from Greg Engel and Graham Fleming about quantum coherence and quantum superposition. And I was just absolutely hooked because in medical school, I was taught like it's still being taught. We're all taught this way that there's a chemical mechanical reason for illness and for health, right? It's all chemicals floating around mechanical parts of our body, that key and receptor lock where the key bumps around and randomly finds its receptor, unlocks the receptor and action can happen. And we now know that, you know, we're trillions and trillions of cells and for the amount of action that happens in a cell, researchers estimated at, you know, hundreds of thousands of tasks each second. Some researchers even say over a million tasks, right? And for that to be random, for that to rely on this bumping around and hoping to find that receptor is just mathematically not feasible, right? And so that's where quantum biology comes in. It gives us this understanding of the subatomic action happening in living systems. Michelle (05:08) Mm -hmm. Catherine (05:18) that give rise to that chemical mechanical model, which of course that exists, but this idea that it's random, that it's chance, you know, it is just really far from what quantum biology is showing us. It's showing us that there's this intelligence, there's this language happening at the subatomic level, and it seems to be guiding what we see with our eyes, what we see with our symptoms in a doctor's office, on our lab results, right, our blood work. And so it's such an incredible perspective change than what I learned in school. Michelle (05:56) Oh my God, it's a perspective change for life, like for what we learn in life. I mean, there's so many things like, so many things that came to mind as you were talking about, like one of them, I don't remember where I saw this, but it was something about how, like when you first start learning about science, then you start to become like almost like an atheist. You know, you don't believe in God, but the more you uncover science, it actually brings you back to God. It proves God exists and And you could say God intelligence, whatever you want to call it. But it's basically this intelligence that runs the show of ourselves and tells it where to go and what to do. And there's just so many fascinating things. I mean, I think the biggest mystery is like how does stem cells become what they end up being? How do they differentiate when they all have the same? So the whole idea was like, oh, DNA. Well, they all have the same DNA. What is it about the DNA in the blueprint? that changes the way it expresses and that environment aspect of it. But it's just, it's fascinating. Catherine (06:57) Yeah, absolutely. It is. It's so fascinating. And I've just been, I've been sort of obsessed for the last couple of years about the fields, right? The electromagnetic fields and how our cells communicate with electromagnetic frequency, right? Just like a language. and we're able like tuning forks to kind of tune into that. And just like a tuning fork, if you strike a tuning fork that is set at a certain frequency and you have another one that's set at the same frequency, it will pick up that tone and it will start singing that same note, right? It's this communication of resonance and frequency between those two tuning forks. Or if you go into like a piano shop and you press one key, like the C key on one piano, all the C keys on all the other pianos will start to ring in harmony with that. It's absolutely amazing. And we know that our cells are communicating with electromagnetic frequency. I mean, Michael Levine has done incredible work showing this electromagnetic Michelle (07:56) Oh my God, I love that. That's amazing. Catherine (08:17) language, right? He was doing work with, I think it was salamanders, maybe frogs, I think it was frogs. And he was trying to figure out just what you were talking about. We know how our DNA makes proteins, right? We know that, but we don't know how those proteins, how those cells become an ear or become an arm, right? That we still don't know. And he was mapping out these electromagnetic frequencies that would happen when a frog would grow a leg, right? And so then he took cells and worked with embryos and he would put that same frequency in different parts of the body and that body would grow that arm or grow that face. And he took these amazing pictures where you can see the electrical imprint of like a face or an arm. So this idea that these fields of electricity are guiding, you know, our very anatomy is just absolutely mind blowing. And the fact that we don't acknowledge that, right? It's just like, oh yeah, that happens. You know, we grow an arm. Yeah, we have no idea how, but we're not really interested. It always like floors me that this research isn't more well funded because it really comes down. to the fundamental nature of what it means to be alive on this planet. It's incredible. Michelle (09:48) It is. And what I find, and especially just being so intrigued by the mind for so many years, and one of the things that I found is that even if there's a false concept, if your mind is so attached to it and that becomes something that you really feel like you've believed in, it's like a death, a little death letting go of that, even if it's false. So people really hold onto it. And that's why there's this medical dogma that happens. And people really hold on to concepts. They have a hard time letting it go. It's like letting a reality shift and it could cause anxiety for people. Like I found that that's like a thing. Catherine (10:32) Oh, absolutely, absolutely. I mean, that story I told you where the physician I was working under and who was my physician when she was pushing me to look at my emotional reactions, I was like, oh no, don't you have an herb? Don't you have another lifestyle treatment? Or, you know, I did not want to go there. It's hard to change. It's hard to look at things we don't want to look at. Michelle (10:45) Yeah. Catherine (10:58) But that's science, right? I mean, that's how we've gained insight into what it means to be human, what it means to be alive on this planet. And if you look at the history of it, it's always disregarded, right? It's always somebody saying, I think it's this, and everyone else saying that new idea is crazy and you're crazy, you know? And so here we are with these, Michelle (10:58) Yeah. Yes, it's true. Catherine (11:28) sort of isolated researchers and scientists doing their work, finding incredible discoveries about light and electricity and water and frequency. And we've yet to adopt that on a mainstream model. But I see that it's coming. I'm hopeful. Michelle (11:48) I think it's coming from the people. That's kind of my thing. It's not a top -down thing. Now, you know, it's funny because a lot of what Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about is that the best kind of organism is it's a bottom -up. It's the group of people, the collective. And so the collective wants it and they're going to make it happen. Catherine (11:50) Mm -hmm. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's how I got into this was looking for a way to be healthy, right? A way to live my life without these day in, day out symptoms and suffering. And so I think everybody is looking for that too. And on another level, people are looking for a better explanation of life. This idea that it's just chaotic and it's random and it's Michelle (12:22) Yeah. Yes. Catherine (12:37) indiscriminate and it might strike you down at any moment. It's not a safe place to live, right? That does not bring me a sense of ease. And I think so many of us are looking for a different explanation. I think quantum biology offers that. Michelle (12:43) Mm -hmm. Yeah. Oh my God, I just love, I mean, there's so many things I love about it. And I eventually I'm going to talk to you about like possible books that people can read, or maybe we should just do that now. And then we'll come, come back to some other questions that I have. But what are books for people who don't really know what this is, but it seems intriguing and there's something about it. They're like, Hmm, that really sparks an interest. What books can they read or what, you know, how can they find out more about it? Catherine (13:21) Absolutely. Well, what we've just been talking about with electricity sort of guiding life, the body electric is just a classic from Robert O. Becker. And that's just a wonderful read, easy to read and just mind blowing. And that I think that electrical charge is really being guided by the water within us and the water lining ourselves. And that has a very, Michelle (13:31) Bony one. Mm -hmm. Catherine (13:51) profound negative charge, and that comes from it being a different structure. And so the fourth phase of water by Gerald Pollock is just another hands down, I'm always recommending that. And when it comes to quantum biology and this idea of quantum phenomenon at play in living systems and looking at how electrons and protons, photons of light, phonons from sound kind of guide our biology. Life on the Edge is a wonderful introduction to the science behind this and how that sort of played out in the early 2000s and how it's starting to explain our protein function, our enzymes, how birds migrate over long distances without any landmarks or any previous knowledge, right? The first time they do it, they know exactly where to go via this quantum entanglement with the magnetic field of the earth. And so those three books are sort of a wonderful introduction into what quantum biology is and how it's impacting living systems like our own bodies. Michelle (15:10) Amazing. And I remember seeing in the Krillian photography, they look at like almost like the it describes the phantom limb where there's some kind of energetic body. And they think that that might be what is causing the cells to differentiate. There's this electric energy. And I don't know if body electric talks about that, but it's kind of like this, this almost, I think it's called a vital body, right? Or the vital body or like a what, what other terms you know? Catherine (15:40) Yeah, like the subtle body, people call it often. Yes, this energetic blueprint. And that's exactly what the body electric is talking about. And these researchers are actually measuring that field and then using it to regrow limbs and fingers. And they were doing this in animal studies, of course, but we know that this happens with humans as well, right? We can regrow a fingertip or a finger if it's lost, especially under the age of five. And this work was being done with human stem cells as well. And so it's just fascinating. And to start to understand and kind of unravel. Michelle (16:18) Mm -hmm. Catherine (16:33) That language of frequency just gives us a whole different perspective of what's happening in our body and in the world around us. Michelle (16:42) You know, I think about this and I knew this story about under the age of five, you can regrow the tip of a finger. What is it about under the age of five that kids have that we lose after the age of five? That's the question, right? Are we too invested in this material world? Is that what causes us to not have that ability anymore? Catherine (16:55) Yeah. I think that we, for lack of better terminology, we just sort of leak electricity, right? We lose electrons as we age, but especially in our modern life, right? Like when my kids were young, I could not keep clothes on them. I could not keep shoes on their feet. They were... Michelle (17:13) Mm -hmm. Catherine (17:26) outside naked, running around, you know, absorbing all those electrons from the earth and getting that charge from the sun. And they're just really much more vital when it comes to healing, right? Their energetic patterns are just so much different than us as adults. And I think that has to do a lot with... Michelle (17:28) Yeah, totally. Catherine (17:53) our modern day life, you know, us adults usually are waking up with an alarm clock. We are feeling groggy. We roll out of bed, have some coffee. We're in a house lit by artificial lights. We are living in temperatures that are artificial and separate us from the seasonal temperature changes. And then we go in the car. with our windows up and then we go in the office and we work all day and we come home and we're like, I deserve to watch Netflix, I'm exhausted. And then we go to bed. So we've completely divorced ourselves from that relationship with the sun and the seasons and the weather and the wind outside and the dirt beneath our feet. All of those things that we evolved over millennia with were really divorced. And what I see in my practice is that, Michelle (18:18) Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Catherine (18:45) Kids are becoming more and more affected by this. And this epidemic of disease in childhood is something that I did not see when I started practice. It was something that was really unheard of 20 years ago. And now it's commonplace to see a child with chronic skin conditions, autoimmune allergies, mast cell. I mean, all of these things are just, Michelle (18:48) Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Catherine (19:15) so prevalent where they weren't a couple days ago. Michelle (19:17) Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. I mean, also just even the toxins that we're exposed to, there's just so many things, so many aspects of it. And I go back and forth because there's some things that are so out of our control. And then sometimes I'm like, wait, is what is going on within me impacting what's out? Because that's really what this is all about. It's what the ancients have always brought us back to the internal. And we could fix the external from the internal from like meditating and from really connecting to that divine intelligence. And then if we all do it collectively, as we know, it can actually decrease crime rate because we've seen that, uh, I wonder if that's something that more of us should be at least considering and to bring that connection to that divine intelligence, that intelligence that we are all connected. Catherine (19:55) Yeah. Michelle (20:10) that really is within ourselves. Catherine (20:14) Absolutely, absolutely. I say all the time, you know, we don't end at the barriers of our skin, right? And back to those electromagnetic fields, if we think about it, they sort of go out in this toroidal shape. And so that electromagnetic frequency, energy, information, we emit that and it also mingles with the fields around us, picking up information and energy and bringing that back in. Michelle (20:20) Yes. Catherine (20:44) So we are intimately connected with the fields around us and they impact us, right? And you mentioned some beautiful research on this idea that we can change the state of society if we have a different state, right? So like the research looked at a group of seasoned meditators, right? They were... have been doing this for years and years. And they asked them to become coherent in lack of a better term, right? They became very meditative and concentrated on a feeling of peace and love and unity. And we saw this in New York, we saw this in the Middle East, that crime rates and wartime violence. were decreased and the more people that were added to the group, the more those rates declined. And they looked of course for confounding things, right? Is it the heat or is this impacting it? Is that impacting it? And they couldn't explain it. And so it's this beautiful example of what HeartMath Institute talks about all the time, about how coherence in our body. Michelle (21:46) Amazing. Catherine (22:05) how when our brain and our heart are coherent, it impacts our biology in a whole different way, right? We're innervated in our frontal lobe, we can make calm, rational decisions that impacts our nervous system, our immune system, our hormonal system. And that coherence, when we have that, can actually impact the people around us, right? And affect their level of coherence, affect their nervous system. It's just... Michelle (22:31) Yes. Yeah. It is. It really is. And I remember when I first got into meditation, I used to meditate at night. That was like when I did it. And I found that when I meditated at night the next day, people were acting different towards me. And I'm like, is it me? But whenever I meditate, I feel like people are nicer to me, like at work and everything's going easy. And I'm like, I'm almost like, and then, and then of course, when you get more into it, you start to pick up on subtleties that you just are not. Catherine (22:35) It's just plain blowing. Michelle (23:01) typically familiar with, and one of them being you feel like you can bend time. That's the whole saying of like, if you have time to meditate, meditate for 20 minutes. If you don't meditate for an hour, you will bend time, like literally. Catherine (23:16) Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And for those that don't have that experience, I think we might all have the opposite experience, right? Where you wake up and you're tired and you don't wanna get out of bed and you stub your toe and you drop your breakfast and you spill stuff over your work project and just that energy starts to snowball. And it's the same thing in reverse or inverse. Michelle (23:40) Yes. Catherine (23:45) that you're talking about, right? That energy feeds upon itself and the world around us feeds on that too. It's a really incredible thing to experience. Michelle (23:46) Yes. Yeah, definitely. It's almost like we're part of this mesh. And of course, we're touching that mesh, so our energy will impact it. Catherine (24:06) Absolutely, absolutely. Michelle (24:09) And I remember you talking about water. So almost like, I forget what the term was, but it was almost like activating water or like not, there's a word for it. It's like increasing the vitality, but it's like charged water. Catherine (24:27) Yeah, well, when it comes to water, water is just such an underappreciated substance in our world, right? So we have water that we drink, and so water in a glass can become more energized. Some researchers are calling it more coherent or excited, right? But then we also have that water inside of us that I alluded to before. And...Our cells, our cell membranes, our fascia, our DNA, all of these things are hydrophilic, they're water loving. They're not hydrophobic and pushing the water away. Water can come right up to that surface of the cell. And when it does, the interaction between that cell membrane and the water create this structuring of water. And Gerald Pollock, I mentioned his book, The Fourth Phase of Water, was the first to actually identify this under a microscope. And researchers had been theorizing about it for decades, but he was, or over a century really, and he was the first one to actually identify it underneath a microscope, that it is a different phase, a different structure than water that we drink in a glass, right? And we're used to those three phases, right? That solid ice, that steam vapor, and that liquid water. That liquid water can take different forms, and this structured water in our body becomes gel -like, it becomes viscous, and it actually creates, Gerald Pollock proposes, it creates this hexagonal lattice, almost like a honeycomb, right? Of hexagons. And...it becomes structured in a way he describes as H3O2. And if we have any math -minded people out there, you recognize, well, we're missing a hydrogen. And that's exactly what happens. As that structured water builds inside of us, it kicks out a positively charged hydrogen or a proton, and it creates what researchers are calling a proton wire or a proton rich zone. And the separation of charge between the two. The structured water against our cells and tissues is negatively charged and that proton wire is positively charged. And just like a nine volt battery, it creates energy. And this is another thing that Professor Pollack found in the lab. He put an electrode in that negatively charged water and one in the positively charged water and it was enough to light a light bulb, right? So this starts to explain some of that biological action in our body that we couldn't explain before. Michelle (27:04) Wow. Catherine (27:12) the ability to communicate almost instantaneously, the ability for our heart and circulation to work the way it does. It just is sort of this incredible understanding that we didn't previously have. And the idea is that this lattice hexagonal structured water as one sheet forms an at acts as a template for more sheets to form. And what's building that? What's creating those layers and building that structured water? Infrared energy, right? So we're right back to your question of why we don't heal as fast as children. Well, we're separated from the biggest source of infrared energy on our earth, right? The sun and movement. creates infrared energy. Snuggling is one of my favorite ways to increase our infrared energy, right? There's many different ways, but there's this water battery inside of us via this different structure of water inside of us. And we see something kind of similar in a glass of drinking water, that there are what researchers are calling coherent domains. Michelle (28:06) Yeah. Catherine (28:30) and those coherent domains can have a different charge. And when they go from coherent to incoherent or from excited to a ground state, right, these are all different terms that the research is using, they give off energy that can be used for action, right? Can be used for communication, can draw a molecule in for an interaction. So it's not this random. chaotic world that we live in. It's this beautiful frequency language and water has such a huge role to play in that. Michelle (29:09) Wow, it's so interesting. And there's this thing where it creates almost a vortex. I've seen those like containers that supposedly they make the water more alive. Now I don't understand the science of that. So do you know anything about that? Catherine (29:26) Yeah, I mean, there's all kinds of ways that people are structuring, right? So Victor Schauberger was an incredible, I think he was actually a forester who was noticing how rivers flow and that they're never just flowing straight. There's always these eddies and vortexes and that's creating an energetic charge, right? So when you are Michelle (29:42) Mm. Mm -hmm. Catherine (29:54) vortexing or stirring or creating that circular motion. You're adding not only that infrared energy, but oxygen to the water, which can create that structure, right? Putting water out in the sun or in the moonlight. That's something that ancient indigenous cultures did all the time, right? We hear about that in the Vedic texts. Michelle (30:19) Yeah. Catherine (30:23) in Mayan scriptures and it's something that holds true in this idea of structured water, right? Some people are using electrical conduction. There's a company out there, Viva Water, that is doing amazing research with these coils and using the coils to excite the water and create the structure in the water. And, Michelle (30:33) Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Catherine (30:53) It's really new, but has been talked about for so long and for centuries really, when we look at some of the ancient wisdom out there. And when we look at the new research around it, we find that there is research about how it's beneficial for plant growth and agriculture. It's useful for livestock and animals. And there's also research to show that it's beneficial for humans. And so, Michelle (31:16) Oh, interesting. Amazing. Catherine (31:23) My patients, because I talk about this so much, I get so many questions, right? And my bottom line is there are so many structuring water devices out there, right? And they can get really, really expensive. So what I tell people is if we're hydrated, then we structure the water within us, right? We structure the water with that infrared energy tending to our mitochondrial health. Michelle (31:44) Mmm. Catherine (31:49) which also create infrared energy, movement, getting out in the sun, safe exposure to the sun. All of those things have the ability to charge that water battery within us. So as long as we're hydrated, as long as we're drinking clean water, with a little bit of mineral content, so that good old osmosis, it can get into our cells and hydrate us, then that's where I really tend to focus. Michelle (32:11) Mm -hmm. Catherine (32:16) when it comes to just general blanket statements. Of course, I have done other things and dived a little deeper with different patients and people, but just generally speaking, I think we can get such incredible benefit from just being hydrated and then tending to that so -called water battery in our body. Michelle (32:41) Fascinating. I mean, I have like a million questions. I have another. So of course I think about messages in the water and how water responds to vibration and it's been measured and visually could be seen in the crystals that occur from certain sounds, music, but also intentions, words. And it's fascinating. And then you think to yourself, well, Catherine (33:03) Yeah. Michelle (33:08) we're holding all of that in our body and how is our body responding to all these frequencies. And then I got into sulfegio frequencies and also sound bowls and also mantras that have been done for like so many, thousands of years. And they've been talking about this for a long time and how certain mantras have been shown to make a difference. So those specific seed mantras repeated even just in our minds. compared to random words impacts the body different. So they see that those seed mantras actually have a healing effect, a very calming effect versus they used other words like crick or things that are very like not that way. And it actually causes an adverse effect. So just to show that those specific sounds make a difference. Catherine (34:01) Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And sound is fascinating, right? It has such a huge effect on us. We know that it structures water. We know that it has so many different effects on us, our nervous system, our vagus nerve, our oxytocin and melatonin. And when we think about it, they're pressure waves, right? They're these pressure waves that are working through a medium and creating these collisions. of molecules. And when that happens, they create light, they create infrared energy. So we kind of come full circle back to, oh my gosh, it's that language again, right? It's that language of frequency again. It's incredible. Michelle (34:44) It really is incredible. And there was another question that I had quantum entanglement. That's another really cool thing. So this is something that I do. I always talk about this because of course, even when we're separated from something that we've already entangled in, that's like the quantum physics. when we're entangled into something, which means it could be a cell in our body or something that we're connected to somehow, when we get separated from that, the connection doesn't end. You continue having that connection and that impact or relationship where you could almost communicate with that. So they've, I believe you probably know more about this. I think that they took a cell from a liver and like moved it far away and then saw that when they were like, operating on the liver, the cell reacted. So that's like an example of quantum entanglement. So when people go and do IVF, I work with a lot of fertility. So when they do IVF, I tell them, send love to those embryos, those eggs. They are responding. And whether you think it's true or not, just do it anyway, because it doesn't hurt. Catherine (35:55) Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That idea that our thoughts can have an energetic imprint is absolutely fascinating. And I think it's clear in the research, whether we're talking about water memory with like, Luke Montagnier and this electromagnetic frequency of a cell of DNA being held in the water. being able to record it and actually send it to a lab in another country. And that frequency was played back. I know. And that frequency was played back in that other lab to a glass of water with nucleic acids. And those nucleic acids are like the building block of DNA. And they coalesced and formed almost 98 % identical DNA just with the playing of this frequency. Michelle (36:28) So fascinating. Wow. What is this? This is a... Okay. Catherine (36:51) Luke Montagnier, and he's just one of many, what people have termed water memory research, right? But this idea, I think it's pretty clear. We're not 100 % clear on how that's happening, but we are clear that water can act like a mirror, right? It can be imprinted. Michelle (37:05) Mm -hmm. Catherine (37:20) it can hold information. And so bringing that into our everyday lives is a beautiful practice, I think. And I agree with what you say, even if it doesn't, even if we figure out that it's actually something else, what a beautiful practice that is, right? To really sort of cultivate. Michelle (37:35) Heheheheh Mm -hmm. Catherine (37:45) our relationship with water, with the world around us, with our thoughts. Michelle (37:51) Yeah. And I think that the reason why we don't optimize our minds and our bodies the way we could is because we just don't believe it with all these emerging studies and the science that's coming out, it's showing us, wow, there's just so much more to us than we originally thought. It's like, oh my God, my mind is blown. Like I love this stuff. I can nerd on this all day long. I really, really love this information, but the water memory makes me think about crystals too. Catherine (38:25) Yeah. Yeah. Marcel Vogel has done amazing research with not only crystals, but water as well. Right. And so, and all these things we're talking about have a liquid crystal capacity. Right. And that sounds so like, oh my gosh, what is she talking about now with her crystals? Right. But, but this is something that we're very accustomed to. Right. The reason we can talk right now and I can see your beautiful face is because, of these screens, right? Our smartphone, our computer, our TV screens utilize liquid crystal technology. And it just means that it's a mesophase between a liquid and a solid, and it is aligned as a collective. So the molecules are aligned in the same way, in the same orientation. And when an impulse of electricity comes through, Michelle (38:57) Yeah. Mm -hmm. Catherine (39:22) they shift in a different way, allowing different light to come in to the screen and show these images, right? The same thing applies to our fascia, our DNA, this water that we're talking about that lines our cells also have a crystalline property. So it's just, it's really mind blowing when you start to see all the different pieces of it. Michelle (39:49) It truly, really truly is. And then I think about also those crystal water bottles where they have crystals inside the water so that the water can submerge into quartz or rose quartz or many different ones. Catherine (40:06) Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I'm so grateful that researchers are continuing to research this, even though it is not funded by the powers that be, right? But it's such an incredible insight into life on this planet. And so I'm just really grateful that this work continues and can't wait to see. Michelle (40:19) Mm -hmm. Catherine (40:32) what we find next. And I agree that it seems to be this full circle return to what those ancient indigenous cultures always spoke of. So I can't wait to see more. Michelle (40:44) Oh my God, me too. I definitely second you on that. And then also just for people listening, like if people want to really impact the body through the mind, I mean, you've really given us so many great things. How can we use our intention and like really our thought patterns to impact our cells? Catherine (41:09) Yeah, absolutely. I think that HeartMath Institute, again, has done amazing work with heart coherence exercises and this idea of creating and feeling a feeling of gratitude or love and bringing that into our heart center and cultivating that feeling of coherence and what that feels like. And I've done this for years and years. I have their professional software to use with patients. I've used it with my family for years. And what happens is after you cultivate this practice, it becomes a feeling you can sink into, right? You don't have to go through this whole exercise and meditation. You can sink into that feeling of coherence. And it's one of my favorite things to do in an incoherent conversation or room or interaction, right? It's just to like, okay, whoa. Michelle (42:02) Mmm, yeah. Catherine (42:06) I'm going to get coherent here. I'm going to hope that it brings some coherence to our interaction. Even if it's just me, it's absolutely worth it. So there's lots of coherence exercises on YouTube that are a wonderful place to start. Gratitude practices, just making space for our emotions, even if they aren't gratitude, right? Allowing those emotions to come and and make space for them and allow them to flow through us. All of these things can really rewire that emotional regulation that we have and that those thoughts in our body, right? Michelle (42:39) Mm -hmm. Yes, definitely. I think keyword regulation, it's all about regulation. It's not about like stopping stress from happening. It's about adapting. So it's kind of like allowing our bodies to do their thing because they're, again, they're charged with this intelligence that they know what to do ultimately when we get quiet and we use these tools. And I think that once you do find that coherence and you feel that coherence, You learn, like you said, you learn how to look for it. It just becomes very intuitive. Catherine (43:20) Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. It's such a beautiful practice that ripples out to so many different layers of our life. Yeah. Michelle (43:29) And I will say, I have to mention something because you talked about like when you're in an incoherent situation and you get coherent, that works. Cause I have had incoherent situations or people like from family trigger it and I felt triggered. And I said, you know, instead of reacting, I'm just going to meditate. I'm going to sit with my feelings. I'm going to sit with this energy. And once it did settle, which to me settling is kind of equating to becoming more coherent. things started to really feel more at ease in my body. Interestingly enough, get on conversation again, it was like everything was resolved so easily. It was like effortless. So I was like, this stuff works. And so I started to do that moving on. I was like, instead of being reactive, I'm just going to be proactive and kind of sit with myself. Catherine (44:20) Yeah, absolutely. I think it's a beautiful practice that has so many different uses and our health is just one of them, right? So, yeah. Michelle (44:29) Yeah. Yeah, awesome. So, oh my gosh, I mean, I can literally talk to you for hours, but of course we don't have, we are bound by reality time. But if people are hearing this, and I'm sure like everybody's fascinated by this conversation, because it's just, it's just incredible information and you're such a wealth of knowledge, which I so appreciate and love because Catherine (44:41) you Michelle (44:55) There's so many things out there that we don't even realize. There's so much research that we don't even know is out there. And to hear that this is actually being looked at is mind blowing. So for people who are interested in either working with you or finding more about you, how can they find you? Catherine (45:13) Yeah, I'm Dr. Katherine Clinton everywhere. That's my website, Dr. Katherine Clinton. That's where you can find me on social media, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube for longer videos. I just love to share this information because I think it helps point us in a better trajectory than we're currently on. So that's where you can find me. Michelle (45:34) Yes. Oh, love it. Okay. Dr. Katherine Clinton, this was more amazing than I expected and I was expecting it to be amazing. So I am so thankful that we had this time to talk and I'm so thankful for the work that you do and the information that you are getting out. And this is really amazing. So thank you so much for coming on today. Catherine (45:58) Oh, thank you so much for having me. I love the work you're doing and it was just a pleasure talking with you today.
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Today is a weird day. Lion didn't sleep well last night, so he slept late this morning. He ate breakfast with me but then zonked out until somewhere around 11. His morning email was three minutes late. By rights, I should punish him. I guess it depends on how lenient The post Dr. Mrs. Lion Prescribes Snuggling appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.
Today is a weird day. Lion didn't sleep well last night, so he slept late this morning. He ate breakfast with me but then zonked out until somewhere around 11. His morning email was three minutes late. By rights, I should punish him. I guess it depends on how lenient The post Dr. Mrs. Lion Prescribes Snuggling appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.
DISCLAIMER: Tommy's mic was having issues. You'll hear some occasional buzzing. I tried to edit out as much as possible without messing up the conversations. Aren't rainy days the best? Snuggling with your favorite blanket with a hot bowl of soup. Well, how about a spoonful of SouperPod Saga? Aaron and Tommy are joined by Adam of "Halftone Takes" as they discuss their favorite cozy games to play as the rain patters against their windows. Is that the right word to use? Patter? Sounds right to me. Adam's info: https://redcircle.com/shows/878c24cc-9e5b-4f60-9e64-d83e72e918bd Check out all of our other episodes, follow us on social media, check out our Patreon, and more! https://www.superpodsaga.com/ Are you a coffee fan? Click the link below and use one-time code "SUPERPODSAGA" at checkout to get 20% off of your order! https://www.bonescoffee.com/?rfsn=7344707.323bd7 Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/aarontommysuperpodsaga to save 20% off anything you order. 00:00 - Intro 01:11 - Guest Intro 08:49 - Discord and Patreon Q&A 20:21 - Topic of the Day 24:38 - Professor Layton series 27:41 - Tinykin 29:18 - Puzzle Agent 30:28 - Chicory: A Colorful Tale 34:32 - Terraria 36:03 - Dredge 40:14 - Shenmue 43:39 - Red Dead Redemption 51:30 - Night in the Woods 55:11 - Patron shout-out and ad break 01:02:02 - Bejeweled 3 01:04:36 - Civilization VI and Picross 01:07:22 - Peggle 01:10:18 - Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden 01:13:18 - MLB: The Show 01:14:50 - Later Alligator 01:17:45 - Honorable Mentions 01:27:35 - Wrappin' it all up 01:28:57 - Topic for the next episode 01:29:18 - Outro
Just what exactly happened on that couch???
Just what exactly happened on that couch???
Just what exactly happened on that couch???
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We begin the program with some casual opening patter. Then it's time to be briefly airdropped on the Faroe islands. Will Tracy buy some wool? Will Mike buy some wool? Did everybody buy wool? There's only one way to find out.
This week, the Bigger, Better World podcast takes a trip to Panama, talking to International Living Overseas Editor Jessica Ramesch about her recent scouting trip to the westernmost edge of Panama—the province of Chiriquí.Although it's a small country, Panama is a big destination in the world of overseas retirement and relocation. Just three hours' flying time from the U.S., with a dollar economy, year-round warmth, a busy metropolitan city, and two glorious tropical coastlines, the Central American nation is one of the most popular settling points for in-the-know expats.While many of those adventurers concentrate themselves in Panama City, or in the beach towns and resorts close by, there's a growing number of retirees, digital nomads, and work-from-anywhere professionals who explore a little farther, and find exactly what they were looking for in the Chiriquí region.That shouldn't be a surprise. Snuggling right up to the border with Costa Rica, Chiriquí is a mountains-meets-sea region, with enough altitude in the highlands to create its own cool microclimate, sweeping right down to the Pacific Ocean with its wild waves, tropical beaches, and secluded bays. Diversity is the key to the landscape here, with productive farmland up in the high spots giving way to deep jungle and green grasslands at lower levels.It all means that the prospective expat can pick and choose from a range of microclimates, finding the exact match for their personal preference.In her article for International Living magazine, and in her discussion with podcast host, Jim Santos, Jessica explores the many options for expats in the Chiriquí region, from the beaches of Boca Chica and Las Lajas to the city in David, all the way up to Boquete—one of the world's premier expat destinations. She paints a glorious picture of small farms, fishing villages, lush coffee plantations, deserted beaches, and horseback ranchers living a life that looks like something from centuries ago.Join host, Jim Santos, as he meets Jessica Ramesch in the latest episode of Bigger, Better World.If you're enjoying the podcast, we would really appreciate it if you could leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform: https://lovethepodcast.com/internationalliving.Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
Join Premium! Ready for an ad-free meditation experience? Join Premium now and get every episode from ALL of our podcasts completely ad-free now! Just a few clicks makes it easy for you to listen on your favorite podcast player. Become a PREMIUM member today by going to --> https://WomensMeditationNetwork.com/premium So allow yourself to settle in, Snuggling yourself into the position you know so well. Observe your breath. In and out. Expanding and contracting. Receiving and releasing. Notice your thoughts. Allowing them to drift away as soon as they arise, Freeing yourself from their desire to stay and play. Let them go. One by one. Observe your body, Noticing if there are any places of discomfort or pain, And inviting it to leave your body on your outbreath, As you relax deeper into your bed. Breathe... PAUSE… Mother Teresa said, I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water that creates many ripples. That stone is love. So see if you can imagine yourself holding that stone. Look at it in your hand. See it's shape and color. Feel its texture. Hold it to your heart, and imagine it being infused with your love. Your deep desire for more kindness, More compassion, More honesty, More connectivity, More beauty. PAUSE... Now recall those images of pain and suffering and negativity that have been dancing around you. And as you squeeze the stone of love in your hand, Imagine those images evolve into images of love, healing and joy. Seeing them transform in front of you, The energy of your stone sending waves of love out into the world. PAUSE… Watch the energy spread out to those you know and love, Soothing their suffering. PAUSE… Let the energy of love spread even further out to those who challenge you, Dissolving their pain. PAUSE… Watch as that energy of love covers all the rest of the people of the world, Filling them with healing light. As you lie here, deeply relaxed, And holding to your stone of love. LONG PAUSE… Now see if you can imagine that you're holding your stone, And are staring out onto a body of water in front of you. Slowly, but powerfully, you throw your stone of love across the smooth water. It jumps on the water, each time, casting ripples out, And eventually, dropping heavily, leaving a wake of many, beautiful ripples. PAUSE… You feel yourself smile, knowing your love is being cast out into the world. And then something catches your attention. You see more ripples in the water. You see the smooth water being disrupted by all kinds of different stones, And ripples small and large painting the water with their love. And they each glow. They each shine brightly. And soon, the water in front of you illuminates with deep loving energy. One that you imagine spreading like a healing salve all across the world. You look around and see one person after another, looking upon the water, their hands still vibrating from the stone they just released. We're all here. Seeing each other. Connecting with each other. Giving our love out onto the world together, So that love can heal, change and evolve us all. Be here in this moment. Feel the warmth of the massive light in front of you, Feel the connection with everyone around you. PAUSE… “You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together, we can do great things.” Together, we rise. Sweet Dreams, Beautiful.
It Makes Sense If You Understand Decision Theory – a podcast literary analysis of Planecrash/Project Lawful Episode 12 – Eneasz Breaks The Future Will Be Hyper-Local Eneasz on Chuck Tingle The Official IMSIYUDT Weekly Reading Table of Contents, created and maintained by Cakoluchiam The Project Lawful audiobook (help fund it here) Epub versions… Continue reading
Join Premium! Ready for an ad-free meditation experience? Join Premium now and get every episode from ALL of our podcasts completely ad-free now! Just a few clicks makes it easy for you to listen on your favorite podcast player. Become a PREMIUM member today by going to --> https://WomensMeditationNetwork.com/premium So Let's Begin… The intention of today's meditation is to lull you into the quiet, welcoming clouds of sleep. So Let's Begin… Allow yourself to settle, Snuggling into your favorite sleeping position, And close your eyes. Take a deep breath in, letting your body expand with fresh air, And exhale, allowing your body to melt deeper into comfort. It's time to rest, beautiful. There's nowhere you need to be, nothing you need to do. So come with me into dreamland. PAUSE… Feel the heaviness of your eyes. Feel your cheeks soften, Dropping your tongue from the roof of your mouth as your jaw releases. Let your shoulders soften and lower, Let your arms feel heavy, Your fingers melt. Feel your chest rising and falling as you breathe in just a little longer, and exhale just a little more. Relax your stomach, Let your legs let go and get heavier with relaxation. Let your feel release. And feel the cool air on your nose as you breathe in, And the warm air on your nose as you breathe out. Breathe, Just breathe. PAUSE… Now imagine that there's a soft, blue energy floating above you. Like a soothing cloud of mist, this soft blue energy hovers above you. You feel safe and calm, so you invite it in. Now imagine that soft, blue energy pouring over your head slowly. You immediately feel it soften you, relax you, nourish you...release you. Feel the soft, blue energy on your head, relaxing your face, your shoulders, your chest. Melting your arms, fingers, stomach, hips, thighs, legs and toes. Imagine the soft, blue energy is now at your feet, patiently waiting. As you breathe in, let your breath search for any areas of unrest, any thoughts or discomforts that may be keeping you awake. Let every inhale help you find them within your body. PAUSE… And now imagine that with every breath out, you release them all to the soft, blue energy at your feet. Breathing those thoughts or discomforts down to your feet and out of your body. And watch as the soft, blue energy absorbs them all. Breathe in, Breathe out. Breathe in, Breathe out. PAUSE… Take one more look inside and release all that unrest on your outbreath. PAUSE… Feel the heaviness of your body. Feel the lightness of your mind. And notice the deep, relaxed comfort you feel. PAUSE… Now see that soft, blue cloud of energy at your feet. You can see all your thoughts and feelings of unrest swirling inside of it. They're not yours to hold onto anymore. And every time you breathe out, You notice the soft, blue energy dissolve away. Bit by bit. Every time you exhale. A bit more disappears. Until you look down and see...nothing. Notice the relief you feel. Notice the lightness. Notice the freedom. Breathe in… Breathe out. Namaste, Beautiful.
Mike and Jason talk about the recent controversy surrounding goat snuggling . Overall it is not good in many situations, however, is it constructive for the vegan movement to go after small farms?
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According to happiness science, there are two prongs of life where we derive our happiness. Tune in to find out what they are and how I utilize them! Transcript: Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day, through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and when we talk about balance and harmony and fulfillment, I believe what we are really after is happiness. The definition of happiness is a two pronged definition. 1) happiness emotions, joy, contentment, love, positive emotions with 2) satisfaction and purpose. Together, you get well-rounded happiness - life fulfillment. In her 2007 book The How of Happiness, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky (LU-BO-MER-SKE) elaborates, describing happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” How can you have a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile if you are overwhelmed, over-tasked and so busy that you fall to your pillow every night with a todo list longer than when you started in the morning. When we are in harmony with our todos and our priorities, when we are mostly doing the right things in the right season, we can't help but feel happiness. When we are happy, we can't help but be less stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. You can't hold two emotions at the same time. So for happiness to win, we need to create that harmony and work specifically on that second prong of the happiness definition - satisfaction and purpose. I can tell you what makes me happy (and fulfilled) in the first prong, it's spreading random acts of kindness and spending time with my friends. A beautiful dinner out. Snuggling with my kids. Watching the waves of any ocean. Spending time with my husband, having a conversation. That's all the first prong. What satisfies the second prong of happiness for me is order. I need order in my day and my life. That looks like a tidy kitchen, a calendar that is not double-booked and with time to breathe. That also looks like researching and writing and recording this micro-podcast. My work feels purposeful and that contributes to my happiness. So, what I do is intentionally incorporate these things into my life, in the season that they are most valuable to me, which not only helps me feel in harmony when I am so busy, but also happy. And isn't that what we're all after? What this comes down to is that no one can make you happy. No one can change your life for you. That's a job only you can do. And it starts with intention. Get Everyday Happiness delivered to your inbox by subscribing at: https://www.katiejefcoat.com/happiness And, let's connect on social at @everydayhappinesswithkatie and join the community on the hashtags #IntentionalMargins and #everydayhappinesswithkatie on Instagram Links: https://onamission.bio/everydayhappiness/
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear." Proverbs 25:11-12 Lauren Corley joins me in this episode to discuss how we, as mothers, can take advantage of teachable moments and use our words to teach all that is true, good and godly. She says, "Often our children's hearts are open to receive wisdom and instruction...but, my mind is busy and focused on the many tasks before me, easily missing the open door." God has been teaching Lauren to focus her attention towards intentional instruction. She shares some practical advice on what this looks like on a daily basis in her home as she raises her young sons for the Lord. These are a few of the practical things she implements. . . *correcting wrong attitudes and guiding behavior patiently + frequently, not simply because I am *finally* frustrated. *creating spiritual conversation! “I'm looking at the moon, mama...I like the moon!” “Do you know who made the moon, bud?” “God did!” *having a goal of pointing my boys to Christ in times of joy + struggle, and showing them their need for His saving grace. *Stopping to savor the sweet times. Snuggling them a little longer, getting on their level to play, reading one more story, and pausing my work to patiently answer the 274th toddler question of the day. Resources: Follow Lauren on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/simplehavens/) Follow my journey by subscribing to this podcast. You can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and www.nohighercalling.org
Welcome to episode 39 of the official podcast of Your Unofficial Boys. Every week we review beers, talk sports and discuss funny current events. Please like and Subscribe! Episode Guide: Beers of the Week Brazilian Lemonade Gose by Sycamore Brewing (Charlotte, NC) - Rating: 4.25 KA-BAR Brown Ale by Railhouse Brewing (Aberdeen, NC) - Rating: 3.75 Fact of the Week Your most active muscles are in your eye. The most popular toothbrush color is blue, and red is second. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum. 4000 people are injured by teapots a year. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the size of a tennis court. This Week in History Pokémon Go. Sliced bread was sold for the first time. NFL running back and convicted criminal Orenthnal James Simpson was born. Your Unofficial News This dog broke into a Tennessee couple's house and snuggled her way into their bed. A man in Chile has vanished after he was accidentally paid 286 times his normal salary. A woman brought a baby, and a stash of drugs to a Florida prison visit. Unofficial Fanzone NFL News Miles Bridges charged with Felony Domestic violence. NHL Draft lineup, Champs can't hold on to the cup. MLB Records Myths, Legends & Conspiracies MK Ultra Unofficial Thoughts Detention stories Best sunflower seed flavor 4th of July weekend Please go follow us on our social media and subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast. Also check out our website www.yourunofficialboys.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/your-unofficial-boys/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/your-unofficial-boys/support
Losing our weed virginity, Rene's puns, Prince Alberts, Twitter Update, and Losing the bigger dick? All that and more on this episode of TNEP.
Lindsay says…”I've learned to really hold on to 5 words in many situations. And the interesting thing about it is, I use the same 5 words in difficult life moments and in the very best life moments." Those words are… this is just a moment. When it's an amazing life experience or phase of your life, it's the best reminder to soak it all in, feel all the feelings and really be where your feet are. Because this is just a moment and it won't last forever. And when it's a super challenging time of life, or really bad day or a time when you're dealing with grief and sadness, those same 5 words can help so much. This is just a moment. The pain you feel now, you won't feel forever. You might replace the word moment with phase or period of time in life depending on the situation but the message is the same. It's a moment in time, and it won't last forever. We love something that is easy to remember - something that pops into your mind when you're in a situation or a phase or feel like you're at rock bottom or feel like you've never been happier and you're on top of the world. If it's good, breathe it in, live in it. If it's not, know that things get better with time and this too shall pass. This is just a moment. Let's go! A few points Lindsay talks about: -We know this about time - it keeps passing, no matter what we do. **If it's not a particularly great phase or situation… ** -If you can hang on, soon enough, it will be different. -Let's talk about ways this comes into our lives. -Hard phases with kids - a toddler who won't sleep for example. -Feels like you will never be out of that phase, and then you wake up one day, and you are in fact, out of that phase. That period of time that was painful and felt like it would never end, actually ended. And often looking back, it wasn't as painful as we thought. -Picture yourself on the other side of it. -When do you picture you're be out of it? -Time heals things!! -Or if it's irritating things! A terrible meal at a restaurant Traffic!! -Helps to have more patience -like with a slow moving grocery clerk -or aging parents -or kids who won't.get.in.the.car! **If it's a great phase or situation… ** -BE WHERE YOUR FEET ARE! -Whatever that moment is for you - a super high high. Maybe it's on vacation at a magical place. Or running a mile further than you've ever run before. Or reconnecting with someone you thought you wouldn't connect with again and mending a friendship and now you have that special person back in your life. -Breathe it in. Take an actual picture, take a mental picture. -Snuggling newborn babies -beach days - seasons - enjoy it while you can - it is just a moment -what can you do to savor things now? -take a trip alone with one of your kids - one day they will be at college and you won't have the same opportunity. -This may sound sad but it's healthy and realistic. Nothing is permanent. -This allows us to get through hard or unpleasant things. And really enjoy the awesome things, which also makes the tough times easier to get through. I think when you really LIVE in those high highs, you don't get depressed or quite as down when things aren't going your way. CHEERS to making the best of the phase and situation you're in. Because we know, it's just a moment.
Joy multiplies itself when we rejoice over what others have that we don't. It comes to us when the joy we see in others is enough to fill us. Today's episode shows how it's done with three beautiful grandparent memories shared by two listeners. Grandparents impact us long after they are gone If you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time you'll know it's all about relationships. It's about finding the joy God intends for us in our relationships. It is the “this” you were made for in You Were Made for This. As an example, for many of us our relationship with our grandparents left a lasting impact on our lives long after they passed away. So I recently asked listeners like you to describe memories of your grandparents. I shared several of these in episode 147: Memories Our Grandparents Make. I'll have a link to it at the bottom of the show notes. A few more grandparent memories have come in that I thought you'd like to hear today. I see joy in each one of them. I'll comment at the end of them with a few thoughts of my own that may surprise you. Here's the first one from a listener who starts by identifying herself as “The woman from Minnesota again…” Yes, it's Marilyn from Minnesota, who always has something interesting to say. Today is no exception. She writes: A listener responds with a grandparent memory “When I was in about fifth grade, our family made our trek from the U.P. to Indiana to visit my mother's parents. I adored them, but was only able to see them once a year or less. Interesting how those few days a year made a huge impact on my life. “One evening, after my grandparents had gone to bed, I happened to be passing by their room. The door was ajar by a couple of inches so I could easily hear what they were saying. They actually were not talking to one another. They were talking to God. I paused by the door to listen to their entire prayer time. It became quite clear to me that this was their habit each evening after turning off the lights and settling in bed. “They were praying for each of their five children and each of their many grandchildren. Their specific names were mentioned and specific prayer requests were given. Of course, I waited expectantly to be sure I was included. Sure enough, I was. Those few minutes were a treasure I have never forgotten. And they never knew I eavesdropped on their private three-way conversation. It's all part of my treasured heritage.” Isn't that a great story? I see joy in it, don't you? She concludes with a brief story about being a grandparent herself. Before our grandkids move away “A few weeks ago, on our local Christian radio station, they mentioned a woman who traced each of her grandchildren's hands in a notebook. When she would pray for them, she would place her hand over that traced hand. A special ‘touch.' “Four of my grandchildren are moving a far distance from me. Before they leave, I'm planning on tracing their hands in my prayer notebook.” Memories of music and making bread Then I heard from Dorcas, a missionary now living in Virginia. I see joy in her grandparent stories, too. She begins, “Once again I enjoyed your podcast today…and it brought back really sweet memories of my grandparents. You're right – it was the simple things that we remember, but they made them - and our time with them so very special! “My paternal grandpa taught me hymns and ballads while sitting on the front porch of their home, rocking in the porch swing. ‘Ole Dan Tucker' was my favorite and then Johnny Appleseed (“The Lord is Good to Me”.) My paternal grandmother was the best bread maker around. She baked all the bread for the local hospitals, and I still remember having hot buns and fresh blackberries and crème for breakfast….nothing better! I love to make bread to this day. “Then my sweet Scottish, shy maternal grandmother was so special. The mother of 12 kids, and not afraid of work at all. She taught me how to see the rain coming through the mountains and would say ‘go get a blanket and then grab the songbooks and join me on the front porch.' Snuggling and singing with Grandma “There we would sit on her porch swing, wrapped up in the blanket, snuggled together and her teaching me old southern gospel songs and hymns. I loved it. And she made me love rain, songbooks, and time to swing during summer rains. I can still hear her voice in my memory and have loved porch swings ever since. “I guess those porch swings were the center of community back then and I am grateful for the love of God, family, and songs they gave me. Hospitality happened so naturally for them all – they just shared what they had! I can't wait to meet my other grandpa in Heaven someday.” My reaction to these grandparent stories I love the memories shared by “that Minnesota woman again.” What a tender and beautiful picture of eavesdropping on her grandparents as they prayed for each of their children and grandchildren individually, and specifically for her. What a touching picture of love poured out for one's family. And to do it privately when you think the kids aren't watching. But as you know, the kids are always watching, even when you think they aren't. And then there's that story of tracing her grandchildren's hand in her prayer book that she will touch as she prays for them when they move far away from her. Doesn't that grip your heart? It does mine. Our missionary friend Dorcas listening in Virginia also shares some great memories her grandparents created for her. I don't know about you, but I can just smell the bread her grandmother baked. And I can feel the warmth of her other grandmother snuggled with her granddaughter on the front porch, singing during the summer rain. The surprising thing for me in these stories is I can't relate at all to the grandparents described here. My grandparents weren't anything at all like Marilyn's or Dorcas. Where they anything like yours? Do you see joy in the stories of your grandparents? Yet the joy I see in what Dorcas and Marilyn experienced brings me joy now. My grandparent memories I only saw my maternal grandparents twice in my life. They lived on a farm in northern Minnesota, far from where I grew up in southeastern Wisconsin. I only saw them the two times we visited them. Once when I was about 10 or 11, and the other right before I started college when I was 18. I don't recall them interacting with me at all during those brief visits. My dad's father died decades before I was born. His mother lived with us when I was quite young. I only remember tension in our house during those years, as she and my mother didn't get along. I do have fond memories of my grandmother when I was a teenager. For several summers I spent a week with her in her simple low-income flat in an aging neighborhood in the city, not far from the suburban home of my parents. A summer memory with my grandmother I remember one summer painting her flat. She was fascinated with the fact I could paint her ceiling without a ladder. I was tall, and her ceiling was short, just like her. In her broken English, and with her hands to the side of her face, she would exclaim, “Janez, Janez,” marveling at my handiwork. My brother Joe still calls me Janez. And he's “Yo - Szha” to me. My grandmother was always kind to me and gave me stamps off the letters she received from her friends in Slovenia - the country she immigrated from when she was just 18. I always felt she loved me. But that's about it when it comes to my grandparent memories. There was a time earlier in my life when I would have been jealous of grandparent memories like Marilyn and Dorcas shared. “Must be nice” would have been my theme song (by the way I talk about the harmful “must be nice” phrase back in episode 005: The Gift of Joy - Part 1) Connecting with the lives of others so different from our own Yet despite the differences in our background and our grandparents, I thoroughly enjoyed these grandparent memories you've heard today. Rather than being envious, I share in the joy I see in Dorcas and Marilyn's stories. I find joy in hearing about the character of their grandparents and how they expressed love for their grandchildren. I find joy in hearing how Marilyn and Dorcas were blessed by their grandparents in different ways. To see the joy in them fills me. It doesn't bother me in the least that I wasn't given what they received. I find joy in seeing how the character of God manifested itself in the lives of these older people I never meant, and the positive impact they had on their families. I find joy in the subconscious realization that I can be like the grandparents in these stories. In creating meaningful memories for others, I in turn bring joy into my own life. How about YOU? I bet there are people in your life who are filled with joy over something missing from yours. But our lives are so much more enriched when we can appreciate the joy we see in the lives of others and share in it with them. It's what God wants for us when he says “rejoice with those who rejoice.” It takes the spirit of God working in our lives to live like this. All we need to do is ask Jesus to make us feel content in whatever circumstance we are in. And then the joy will come. We can't do it on our own. We need Him. Here's the main takeaway I hope you remember from today's episode Joy has a way of multiplying itself when we rejoice over what others have that we don't. It comes to us when the joy we see in others is enough to fill us. Joy is meant to be shared. Closing In closing, I hope your thinking was stimulated by today's show to reflect on how you might be able to experience more joy in your life by sharing in the joys of others. Through the power of God's spirit, you were made for this. Related episodes you may want to listen to 147: Memories Our Grandparents Make 005: The Gift of Joy - Part 1 139: Why Should I Listen to This Podcast? Our Sponsor You Were Made for This is sponsored by Caring for Others, a missionary care ministry. We depend upon the generosity of people like you to pay our bills. If you'd like to support what we do with a secure tax-deductible donation, please click here. Thank you.
It's the most wonderful time of the year! And what is Christmastime without the movies? They are an entire genre all their own! In this episode, Nicole joins me to rank our individual Top 5. There is nothing quite like a Christmas movie and the traditions we carry on watching them. Snuggling up with a blanket and some cocoa with friends and family watching these classics are apart of what makes this season so special. Its slowing down and just enjoying something together. Unless it's Die Hard… oy. Hah! Check out the episode and let us know what your favorites are! Did your favorites make our list? If you would like us to ask questions about a particular topic or ask questions to some in particular, let us know! If you want to sponsor the show feel free to email the show. We love giving back and being generous and would love to collaborate. Instagram: Tayler Asks A Question Nicole's Instagram Email: Taylerasks@gmail.com TAAQ Facebook Page Show Image: Molly Meeks Photography --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taylerasksaquestion/support
Featuring the fic "Narrative Tension" by Amelia_Clark, Part 6 of the Good Books, Bad Movies Series https://archiveofourown.org/works/1955637/chapters/4228956 Podfic link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30552123 Rating: Teen and Up Tags for this fic include: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, I swearbut these two gotta talk instead of fuck for once, Unsafe driving, cameo appearan, cereal talk, vegan Friendsgiving, more real talk, inappropriate self-medication, Mental Illness,Depression, Writer's Block,Pining, ill-advised drunkenness, everybody knows the sides are the best part of Thanksgiving anyway, Backstory, good people sometimes do terrible things, declarations, New Year's Eve, KC BBQ, Kissing, Cuddling & Snuggling
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Tonight's episode features Professional Snuggler Lisa Van Arsdale. The Peas get candid about their own relationships with understanding intimacy and how platonic relationships are necessary. Music: Derek Clegg - Add a Line Sources: What is Aesthetic intimacy? 7 Truths About the Link Between Emotional and Sexual Intimacy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/peasinthepodcast/support
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