219 | Creative Practice as a Portal to Our Freest, Truest Selves
It’s not frivolous, it’s vital.
Whether you consider yourself a “creative person” or not, if you’re a human, you have the capacity for creativity. Today I’m sharing 5 ways that I believe developing a creative practice can be both life-altering and life-giving, from helping us reach new levels of authenticity, to transforming our relationship with uncertainty and imperfection, and lots more.
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218 | Merging Mystery and Medicine with Dr. Erica Matluck
Dr. Erica Matluck shares how our spiritual wellbeing is an integral part of our overall health.
We tend to think of "mental" health/illness and "physical" health/illness as separate things, but are they? Nurse practitioner and naturopathic doctor Erica Matluck talks to us about the connection between our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts, and reminds us that all of our components are connected and cannot be decontextualized as easily as we may like.
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217 | Finding Joy in a Broken World
Joy is resistance.
The news these days is filled with atrocities and horrors, destruction and hate. Life can feeling daunting when we’re mired in doom and grief. So today I’m sharing some things that I have been practicing that keep me connected to joy, to people, and to all that is GOOD in the world — and I hope it helps you access that infinite well of goodness, too.
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216 | Trusting Our Life’s Path
Your life is your art.
Am I making the right choice? Did I make a huge mistake? Is this where I should be? These are questions a lot of us consider when reflecting on the path our life has taken, or will take. Today I wanted to share a mixed bag of thoughts, metaphors, and reflections that will hopefully help us move from a state of regret or doubt, into one of trust, as we think about the path of our life.
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215 | Strengthening Our Friendships with Danielle Bayard Jackson
Relational health educator Danielle Bayard Jackson knows how to make your friendships healthier and happier.
Have your friendships been dwindling, feeling unbalanced, or difficult to maintain lately? Relational health educator Danielle Bayard Jackson is an expert on women’s friendships and today she’s sharing some easy ways that we can rekindle our existing friendships, deepen and strengthen them, and get better at forming new bonds — no matter what stage we’re at in life.
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214 | Living Slower: Ideas to Quiet the Rush
Most urgency is false.
America LOVES to be in a hurry — we are always rushing from one thing to the next, multitasking everything and feeling completely burnt out and overwhelmed by trying to keep up. Whether you’re leaning into the tones of winter, have a goal to scroll less or use less tech, or are just interested in feeling more present, I’m sharing the simple things I do in my life to reject the capitalist forces of URGENCY and live a slower life.
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213 | Cycles, Rhythms, Calendars & Clocks
Your body is never wrong.
It’s January, and the new year is here! But you’re exhausted, unmotivated, and feel like all you want to do is lie on a pile of warm laundry and eat bread. Is it seasonal affective disorder, or is it the capitalist culture you live in urging you to carry on like a machine when your body is responding perfectly to the change in your environment? Here’s an invitation to sync to the cycles of the natural world instead of the clock or calendar, where/when possible.
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212 | Settling Your Nervous System with Conni Biesalski
Breathwork and Somatic Experiencing Coach Conni Biesalski takes us on a tour of our nervous systems.
Breathwork and Somatic Experiencing Coach Conni Biesalski takes us on a tour of our nervous systems and teaches us how we can help our bodies move from heightened states into a calm, centered embodied presence. We cover how to spot activated energy, how to feel your emotions, understanding stress response cycles, and lots more, including a short guided breath work session at the end.
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211 | Putting Down Our Phones: Tips & Thoughts
Reconnecting with the world around us requires looking up from our screens.
My relationship with my phone has been of peak interest to me lately, and I have been working on ways to rely on in less, and in turn, reclaim some of my humanness — and return to the present moment and world that surrounds me at all times. If you’re trying to use your phone less, tune in to hear what I’ve been doing on this front, and then come join the discussion on my recent post here.
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210 | A New Chapter Begins & Life Updates
Hi, I’m back!
Our four years of sailing the world have come to an end, and I am kicking off a new chapter of life on land. Join me for a quick chit chat where I bring you up to speed on things and dust this show off, almost seven years to the day that I first launched it.
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209 | Facing Your Mortality with Death Doula Alua Arthur
How contemplating death can open the door to a fuller life.
Alua Arthur is one of America’s most prominent death doulas and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning organization. She shares with us why and how we can explore our own relationship to death in ways that will help us reach a new, deeper, and more fulfilling level of living.
Alua’s website: https://goingwithgrace.com/
Buy Alua’s book, Briefly, Perfectly Human: https://amzn.to/3UQcAU4
Watch Alua’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/alua_arthur_why_thinking_about_death_helps_you_live_a_better_life?language=en
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208 | Human, Interrupted
The places technology is pulling us away from ourselves and what we need most.
Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we want to rewild ourselves, then these are some places where we might want to stop looking to our screens and instead look up, or look within.
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207 | Closer to Nature
Practices to notice more of the earth you are a part of.
We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city.
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206 | Loneliness V. Solitude
How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it?
How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness.
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205 | Energetic Balance
How to let energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.
These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.
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204 | Too Safe
Has comfort become your ultimate goal?
As humans, we all crave comfort and ease and safety, and it’s important that we establish these for ourselves through decisions and time. But for many of us, there is a point where the pursuit of safety or stability is no longer protecting us, and starts hurting us — turning into a cage that we become more and more scared to step out of.
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203 | You Own Nothing
What if you lived like this was all on loan?
In this episode I share a perspective shift that will invite more presence, gratitude, and gentleness into your daily life.
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202 | Confessions & Life Updates
Let’s chat.
To start off our new year and new chapter, I wanted to sit down and chat with you about a few things, get honest, and also offer a chance to connect 1:1 with a few of you.
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201 | Rewilding: Welcome to the New Podcast
That new new
This show is six years old, and it felt like time for a little refresh. Welcome to the new podcast. In this episode, I explain what REWILDING is and what you can expect from this space moving forward, and I also ask you for your input!
Come share your thoughts with me here:
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200 | Letting Go
How to let it go.
Episode two hundred! Today we’re exploring one of the hardest things for us humans to do — letting it go. I’m sharing helpful questions and prompts that might help you see more clearly what you’re really holding onto, and some reminders that might help you release what needs releasing
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