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This week Magenta dives into the inner game of leadership. Another way to talk about this is the oft-used term: mindset . What IS mindset, and how can we better understand it, work with it, and transform it? And how could our inner world of mindset actually shape our outer world? We break it down with some real-life examples.  “What  you think appears around you” and “what is coming to you is actu...

Magenta FM returns from a hiatus to take on the important topic of boundaries. As always, we have a unique take on the topic. We focus less on what one should say or how to assert yourself. Instead, we go upstream and discuss energetic boundaries and how creating strong internal energetic boundaries can eliminate most, if not all, boundary violations. We give lots of examples of places where you c...

Radical acceptance is a term that seems to be growing in popularity. Is radical acceptance really a good idea? Where should we apply this idea? And where might it cause more problems? When one is striving for inner mastery, won’t radical acceptance keep us short of our highest potential? The Magenta team look at radical acceptance in three different contexts: of reality, of the circumstances of ou...

Magenta dives into the topic of meditation and sheds light on what can actually happen within your inner life through certain practices of meditation. We also explore the dangers of popular styles of meditation that can have serious consequences for one’s mental health, spiritual development, and for our ailing world.  Meditation, as Magenta teaches it, is all about consciousness and working with...

How can you approach your personal development work with intense efficiency? And why would someone want to take a more rigorous approach to their healing and capacity building? In this latest episode, we’ll talk about why we need to shift our mindsets from self-help junkies to young Jedis. Because if you want to level up and reach your full potential, this is going to require a degree of effort an...

Are you longing for more purpose? If you want to make more meaningful contributions to the world, and connect more deeply to your purpose, this episode is for you. Louisa and Rachel kick off Season Three by answering the question, “Why is spiritual development essential for connecting to our purpose?”  It is understandable why we look to our outer circumstances as the place to make changes in our...

In this season finale, the Art of Mental Health Part Two, we bring some concepts and ideas that open up whole new vistas for us in preparation for our third season: The Art of Spiritual Development. There is a common assumption that the brain is the source of consciousness, and consequently our interventions are typically about fixing the brain – either through “rewiring” or drugs or other brain-b...

This week, we talk about what we call “the finished world creations of our mind” and why that is at the heart of what we experience in mental health challenges.  In this part one of two concluding episodes to our mental health season, we are going to talk about what lies at the heart of inner development when you really boil it down. And that is getting to know and transforming or healing the fini...

In this episode we get into an important subject in our work in Magenta: addiction. However we don’t talk about the much more common types of chemical addictions and substance abuse, nor do we get into other types of addiction such as to porn, adrenaline, shopping, and other examples of non-chemical-based addictions. Instead, we talk about a little known phenomenon of the soul where we become addi...

This week we dive into the topic of: attunement . How do we tune in to our inner life and why is that important?  Attunement is important for our inner development because to grow and transform we must follow the ubiquitous precept: “know thyself.” And how can we know ourselves if we are not tuned in to our inner world, specifically our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.  Attunement is something t...

In this episode, we delve into the topic of inner development and explore what it really means. As a school for inner development, Magenta believes that it's important to clarify this concept because understanding the terrain of our inner life and its development can make any intervention towards healing and transformation more powerful and effective.  Our consciousness is key to the healing...

In this episode, we get into the alchemy of healing our soul wounds. We explain the four archetypal stages of healing we go through when we put the work in to heal and overcome all that keeps us stuck, cycling, disempowered, and in pain. If we understand what those archetypal phases are, then we have a navigational tool for where we need to go, and what healing actually entails. We’ve got to have...

In this episode we do a deep dive into depression, exploring it in our typical unconventional style. We get personal with Louisa sharing her story of healing from dysthymia (a mild but chronic form of depression). And finally we lay out the path that Louisa used to heal herself.  We also cover the two main aspects of depression: how depression comes about via our creation of a “finished world” and...

In this episode we’re going to talk about the biggest danger in conventional approaches to inner work and therapy. We get into three main areas in conventional therapy practice that are problematic, and what we should consider instead.  We also get into an aspect of our nature that is completely spiritual, and in our age of reductionist materialism this is going to be very controversial for some p...

Anxiety. It’s a huge issue, especially for young people. This week Louisa and Rachel dissect the phenomena of anxiety and where it originates. Whether you suffer from occasional anxious states or full-blown general anxiety disorder, you may find some of the information shared here helpful.  We discuss the nature of thinking, and outline how we create a mental picture that, coupled with accompanyin...

In this first episode of Season Two: The Art of Mental Health, we describe in detail what a holistic human being REALLY is. We discuss why this matters and what society excludes in most, if not all, discussions about mental health. We get into the 4 main aspects of the holistic human being, and that we are so much more than just a physical body. We also talk about how each domain influences and ef...

This is our last episode of Season 1: The Art of Relationships. So if you have any lingering questions about how to have the kinds of relationships you long for, now is the time to tune in. And if you are wondering how to know if your relationship is a dead-end, this is the episode for you. First of all, we answer the question of what makes a relationship suck. Or, to put it more positively, what...

We are always feeling but seldom do we actually pay attention to what’s happening in our feeling life. This week, we outline a path for developing our feeling life from what is normal to something truly healthy.  Drawing from the work of Georg Kuhlewind, we outline two categories of feelings: cognitive feelings and non-cognitive feelings (also referred to at Magenta as “feelings” vs “emotions”). W...

Today we revisit the topics of NEEDS but this time we explore what actually drives our needs and what to do if we are facing a “Black Hole” of needs—needs that just never feel fully met!  We share a useful tool for tracing the issues that are triggering you in your life and relationships, down to the feelings, needs, and even below that to beliefs and worldviews driving them. And what does one do...

In this episode we get into a bigger definition of voice, where we tell Louisa's story of her struggle to find her voice, all the way down to her physical vocal cords, and what that looked like in daily life and relationship.  We talk about why it's so important to free your voice from shadow, and how it impacts the rest of your life if you don't. We go into the three main areas whe...

This week Louisa and Rachel explore concepts introduced in previous episodes but through real stories of conflict.  We tell personal stories of getting into conflict with significant others where things could have gone south, but didn’t, because of the insights we are sharing on this podcast. How can we take back our power in conflict, regardless of whatever is happening with the other person? And...

In this episode, we talk about needs versus strategies, and why conflating these two things can destroy relationships. We introduce Non-Violent Communication (NVC) as a starting point for understanding the definition of needs and strategies as a new language with which we need to become conversant — and how helpful and healing this can be. We tell some stories of the consequences of NOT knowing ab...

What are the fruits of us doing our inner work? In this episode, Louisa and Rachel dive into the many benefits of cultivating an elevated and authentic presence. They cover issues such as fragility and how we become addicted to our wounds.  What does true presence look like? And how does it help you become a leader in your life, in your work, in your relationships, or as a parent.   If you want to...

This episode Louisa and Rachel discuss: what is a dynamic? How do we take back our power? And why is it so hard to not take things personally? We go into why it's so freeing to understand how we each internalize the relationship dynamic we're struggling with — and why we should leave the other out of this analytic process. We build on the previous episodes in this deeper dive. Get a tast...

In this first episode of Magenta FM Season One, "The Art of Relationships," Louisa and Rachel dive into a difficult but liberating concept that we have more to do with relationship dynamics than we want to admit.  We believe our inner life is hermetically sealed from the world, like we can hide from the world our inner condition. But the opposite is true: the world is a mirror of our inn...