Drunk on Spirit

Let's explore all the ways we hold ourselves back. Sometimes it's our voice and how we express ourselves. Sometimes it's parts of ourselves that we wrap in shame and reject. Or it can be our heart's desires that we don't make time for. Maybe it's all three! Holding ourselves back can have large implications to our lives. In this episode, I explore how we restrain ourselves, when it's appropriate a...

We all curate and edit ourselves. Sometimes we want to be seen a certain way or sometimes it's adaptation to a certain environment. Regardless of the impetus, we can hide parts of ourselves. But what would it feel like to be fully you in the world? To be fully expressed and to have that expression be seen and valued and loved? This episode explores the process of us becoming more us -- in the worl...

True Confession: I turned into a bitter and jaded b*tch. But I'm on the other side now and can talk about it. This episode is about the hurt that builds up inside our hearts and how that hurt, over time, can obscure our ability to see what is good in ourselves and in our lives. I'll talk through this state, how to become aware of it and the role of gratitude in helping us to navigate it. An import...

Friends, I believe we are in the midst of a new age where the integrated human is awakening. It's the process of us uniting our minds, hearts and gut instincts into one cohesive, solid, clear sense of self where we are whole unto ourselves and simultaneously free to play dynamically in the world. But this doesn't happen automatically, we have to do the work to step towards it. In this episode, I t...

As we all stand on the precipice of the new, what are the new choices we feel inspired to make? I love that fresh starts can enable new choices. This episode is about how to understand the landscape and language of the heart in order to make new choices that are truly ours. I offer an approach of inner navigation to source deep wisdom in order to do something new. Choices which could bring, joy, l...

When we awaken from a deep sleep, our eyes open to life. Well similarly, awakening is a metaphor for our eyes opening to a deeper truth of who we are and what is life. This episode unpacks the different paths or processes that helped me in my ongoing journey of awakening to the deepest truth of who we are as souls in physical form. I talk of study, introspection, self-analysis, finding teachers an...

Friends, I've returned from hiatus to bring you this wonderful episode on the nature of existence. I've spent these past few months studying some ancient Indian philosophies like Vedanta and Kashmiri Shaivism and it has awakened a deeper understanding inside of me around what is life and who we are. In this dispatch from a volcano in Bali, Indonesia, I give you a little life update, my last 2 mont...

What is eroticism? How do we integrate the sexual self into the larger tapestry of who we are? How do we see ourselves as sexual beings; de-shamed and in our own power. How do we make the sexual act more joyous, more present, more connected and intimate? These are some of the questions I'll explore in this episode. Sex is not just sex. Eroticism is not porn or fantasy. It's the awakening of a vita...

Please enjoy this dispatch from a public park in Sydney, Australia where I try to navigate profound topics like the past lives and fields of quantum potential while tourists take selfies and helicopters fly overhead. Hopefully this meandering talk, including an impromptu guided meditation brings you into a personal exploration of all the lives you could have lived and the new ones that await you.

These are challenging times my friends and perhaps we can be the heroes of our own story. It requires a paradigm shift that begins within ourselves. From one of seeing ourselves and each other as objects, that can be judged and discarded. To one of seeing ourselves and each other as sacred expressions of life to be respected, valued and loved. It's moving out of tribal dynamics and all the isms th...

In this dispatch from Bali, I talk about the proactive work we must do in order to architect a deep and solid sense of worthiness. I cover the impact of our childhoods and how it can fracture or create a fissure in our self-worth and how perhaps that fracture is purposeful. It is designed to get us to look within, to remove any belief systems born out of mythology and to install new belief systems...

Sometimes we find ourselves in the space between two versions of our lives. One that doesn't quite feel right anymore and one that has yet to present itself. While this space can be challenging (and the disillusionment that comes with it), it's actually the bridge between two worlds. I talk about the importance of this phase of life transformation, what it requires, how to show up for it and how t...

This episode is an important one friends. It's a blueprint for how to access what your heart truly wants - the clues and insights around who you truly are, what you are here to do and experience and be. And that accessing this treasure can only be done by resolving some emotional residue from past experiences. I give you an explanation on how to understand introspection, resolving past hurts and h...

This episode explores fear in identity. Fear has a role in life - it's designed to keep us safe. But fear in identity separates us from true aspects of us. This exploration shines a light on why we might be afraid to become more truly us. And likely much of the fear comes from values or qualities that our upbringing system did not value or actively suppressed. Then those qualities get wrapped in f...

Happy 2023 friends. After a bit of a break, I return with this episode on the storied self - the character that we create based on the stories of our lives and the vastness, which is the expansiveness of the soul. We dive deep into a life update, a transformative psilocybin journey and my attempts to language the unlanguageable aspects of living from the soul. Enjoy.

Breathe, feel, listen, see - that is how we enter the heart and understand the unique experiences that our soul wants. This episode is about learning the language of the heart in order to access the unique blueprint of living that is etched in it. I discuss the power and limitations of the mind and how to move to the heart and use it as a decision-making tool. I do believe we are in a time in huma...

Happy 2022 friends. This first episode of the year is a deep and personal exploration of what we carry - pain, fear, doubt, etc. We carry belief systems born out of personal trauma, ancestral values and collective/global challenges. And those beliefs can really hinder our enjoyment of being us and living. I talk about negotiating outdated belief systems and how the challenging of these things can...

This episode picks up from Part 1 and focuses on the intersection between the process of becoming and our need to belong. As children, we decipher what we perceive as the terms of belonging - who we need to be in order to be loved and accepted in our culture. Sometimes the need to belong can obscure or hide certain parts of us. This episode talks of the need to consciously negotiate belonging and...

This episode introduces a fresh perspective on the process of becoming and how to witness it and support it in our lives. It's the understanding that we are always unfolding - new things coming on line and old things going away. We can claim who we are today, but we have to leave room for whom we could be tomorrow. The last 5 mins of the episode unpack a huge central challenge that I will talk abo...

Hi Friends. I am back from taking a summer break from Drunk on Spirit. And this episode is about what I learned - notably about the power of trusting yourself, the work required to feel at home in yourself and how when you do those two things - how the outer world can respond. It was a wonderful time in Europe and I am excited to share the stories with you all. Have a listen.

The world is changing and the next decade will see even more changes. We need to learn how to feel safe within these shifting sands. This episode is about understanding how to build that safety: through inner intimacy - developing a familiarity to our inner landscapes. Through connecting with kin - intimacy, vulnerability and openness. And, lastly, through the natural world, which can ground us -...

Enjoy this soothing guided journey to come home to ourselves. Imagine creating a space within yourself to relinquish the needs and the demands of the day and to descend into a place of deep stillness. It is in this place where we are safe; where we are whole and where, in this moment, all is well. Enjoy this as an end to your day. Ideally listened to in bed, under the sheets, with the lights off.

This episode offers us a reprieve from the constant need to achieve and win. That energy, if unchecked, is the path to burnout. Here is an invitation to see and experience other models of living - a way to create balance and harmony. I explore the achiever paradigm, the play paradigm and the "come be nothing at all" paradigm. Unpacking what they are and how they can have a role in our lives - ulti...

Enjoy this short reset to come home to yourself. Use it to start your day or end your day. A moment to take a break from our needs and desires. From our worries and fears. Our goal is to get below all of that. To go deeper and deeper into a place within us that we can call home - where we are whole and complete. Enjoy this self-affirming reset with the sounds of birds from Kona, Hawaii.

Life is always changing - and so are we. In every single moment, some part of our beingness is changing. The trick is understanding what all the micro changes within you, are leading to. This episode is about understanding and recognizing the process of transformation that is unfolding and what to do about it. Because sometimes we have to initiate, do and act and sometimes, we simply have to allow...