Plot Twist

What if the reason your story feels so clear is because someone else became your villain? Because once they are all bad, everything else makes sense. But what if that's not the whole story? If I'm the hero, then I do not have to wrestle with the parts of the story that make me uncomfortable. Hero stories are seductive because they simplify in simplicity can feel like safety, especially whe...

What if the reason you feel stuck is not because your life isn't working, but because you think your only options are everything or nothing? Leave or stay. Change it all or change nothing. But what if there's another way? Not everything hard needs to be endured forever. Not everything off course needs to be abandoned. Not every tenderness needs to become a lesson. Some things, they just ne...

This episode of Plot Twist, the curse of Living for potential is about the seduction of possibility and the price we pay when we build our lives around what could be instead of what is. Some things are felt deeply. Some things stay in possibility and never arrive in form. And maybe that's a plot twist. Maybe the deepest plot twist of all is that a life can begin to feel more like your own the mome...

I was a cactus. The thing about cacti is that they are remarkable survivors. They learn how to hold what they need. How to make something out of very little. And in the right environment they are beautiful. But sometimes the ways we learned to survive become so familiar we stop noticing them at all. The distance, the self-reliance the quiet ways we learned to get through. Not wrong. Not broken. Ju...

Some of us are not out there living our lives. We are pre-living the next problem. We are in a constant state of bracing. UNCONSCIOUS bracing which is its own unique flavor. Bracing is a form of hope distorted by fear. It says: maybe if I prepare enough, this will hurt less. Your nervous system learned this from your history. Downshifting is is coming out of emergency mode long enough to remember...

Am I a dopamine hostage? Who is the captor? What if it’s me? I have been sitting with these questions and the longer I do, the more uncomfortable I become! The elephant in the room is the ANSWER to those questions… the answers or truths that you would rather not face let alone say aloud. What if the captor is the version of me that keeps choosing what feels good now over what would actually be goo...

Welcome to Plot Twist! A podcast to meet you if you're in the abyss between the life you expected and the life you're living. Plot Twist is a podcast intended to help you bring a little more kindness and honesty to your story while letting you have a moment to exhale. The Twist? It's You.