The Path Home

Do you often categorize foods as "good" and "bad"? Does it feel like you're slowing dying when your child comes home with (another) bag of candy from a birthday party? Or perhaps you feel guilty whenever you crave foods deemed "unhealthy"? In this episode I interview Alissa Rumsey, a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, food and body liberation coach, and the author of Unapo...

There's a lot of conversation happening around deciding to no longer give a f*ck. Meanwhile, we are living in a world where we desperately need to START giving a f*ck about what's happening around us. The constant demands of where we should and should not be giving our attention can feel confusing, overwhelming and exhausting. If we are honest with ourselves, we may find that we often care too dee...

Whether you feel shame around sex, feel pressure to be more open surrounding sexuality, or somewhere in between... this episode is for you! Our sexuality plays a BIG role in being at home in ourselves. How much self-trust we have is a key component of breaking free from both a history of "Good Girl Conditioning," and the demands to be a modern woman who is sexually liberated and down for anything....

Welcome to Season 2 of The Path Home. The desire for certainty can cause us to hold ourselves to promises and unrealistic expectations we just can't keep.  Often, we have the best intentions. But what happens when our high expectations, constant reaching and desire to influence others' behavior through controlling our own, brings disappointment or hurt into our lives? On this episode, we talk abou...

How do we find calm in ourselves when we've been triggered? How do we find safety when everything in our body feels aflame and what does it take to come back when we feel lost?  Here's the thing. Rarely do we feel at home in ourselves all the time. And when we do have those moment of feeling lost, scared and disconnected it's important to remember that we can find home again when we've lost our wa...

How do we find home in our bodies while living in a culture that does everything it can to separate us from the skin we are in? Very good question! In this episode, Jamie talks about the 4 steps to finding home in our bodies after so many years of criticism. She discusses the slippery slope of commenting on other people's bodies and how body comparison can sneak into the most off-handed comments....

Do you secretly beat yourself up for not being more successful? If so, you're not alone.   Many of us believe we should be farther along, having already reached some particular level of achievement. And while it's easy to think we're just lazy procrastinators who need to work harder, more often than not it's our culture's definition of success that needs to change, NOT our actions. If your current...

If you're in a blended family, you know it's not always sunshine and roses. In fact, sometimes it's really f*cking hard. In this episode, Jamie shares her experience of being a BONUS mom and how it wasn't until she addressed her own childhood trauma that she was able to fully embrace her partner's daughter. Jamie discusses the rocky road that can often plague blended families and offers insight in...

Divorce. There are few experiences that crack us open and reorganize us like a divorce. In this episode Jamie shares her divorce story, beginning with her husband's request for a divorce the moment he arrived home from Burning Man. She then details the "unknowable knowing" she felt throughout their relationship and why she ignored it for years. Jamie also offers tools and insights on what to do if...

If you find yourself both tired of change and hungry for change, you are not alone. We're all so worn out by the global changes we've experienced in the last few years. And then there are things we are desperate to change, whether it's our work, our relationships or simply how much sleep we're getting.  In this episode, Jamie breaks down why change can send our brains spinning and how change can a...

Being sick is no fun, however one of the things that often gives us hope when ill is that the sickness won't last forever. Now imagine managing an illness for decades. In this episode, Jamie chronicals her 22 year auto-immune disease journey and the cyclical nature of healing. She confronts the role freedom plays when we're sick and also discusses the unique, and often challenging experience, of l...

Do you ever find yourself faking it in conversations? Faking it in meetings? Faking it in bed?!? We make all kinds of slippery moves to cultivate connection with other humans. In this episode, Jamie's goes in on the ways we fake it to find connection and belonging and what we can do instead to build more authentic relationships.   Follow Jamie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiegreenwood...

You know that gaggle of negative voices inside your head that's constantly telling you what you should and shouldn't do? That's your Itty Bitty Shitty Committee. In this episode of The Path Home, Jamie breaks down who the IBSC is, what they want and how you can begin to calm them down so they'll stop wrecking havoc on your inner and outer life.  Follow Jamie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

Doing "the work" of deep self- exploration and healing is no easy task. Because of that, when we're doing "the work" we often want our people to come along with us. But what if our people don't want to join? Take a listen as Jamie explores the tricky dance of what to do when we're doing the work and the people in our lives aren't. Follow Jamie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiegreenwood...

Comparison and judgement is so insidious that we often don't even know when we're engaged in judgmental/comparison thinking. In this episode Jamie breaks down how comparison steals our focus, our sense of self, our agency, our individuality and our power and how we can move away from comparison and judgement and towards acceptance of ourselves and each other.  Follow Jamie on Instagram: https://ww...

In this episode, Jamie talks about joy and how we can let it lead in our lives. Most people spend thier lives mired in "shoulds". What they should eat, what they should wear, what they should say, think and feel. We've been trained to let shoulds run our lives and yet what might shift if we let JOY to take the top spot? Take a listen and find out... Follow Jamie on Instagram: https://www.instagram...

We have a cultural and societal allergy to going slow. We believe slowness equates to laziness or being unproductive and yet constant speed takes a heavy toll on our systems. In this episode of The Path Home, Jamie dives into our revulsion toward and hunger for slowness and how we can practice slowing down without judging ourselves.  Sign up for access to Jamie's FREE resource library and her bi-w...

In this episode, Jamie talks about how, when we are dutiful to others without working ourselves into the equation, we can begin to feel resentful, irritated and like we are being scrammed into a tiny box of someone else's making.  Sign up for access to Jamie's FREE resource library and her bi-weekly newsletter, The Path Home: https://jamiegreenwood.co/resource-library-signup Follow Jamie on Instag...

There are many reasons why we don't let the truth fall from our faces. We don't speak because we're afraid of causing harm, being harmed or simply don't want to rock the boat. In this episode, Jamie breaks down why we don't speak and the price we pay for keeping our truth inside.  Sign up for access to Jamie's FREE resource library and her bi-weekly newsletter, The Path Home: https://jamiegreenwoo...

Meet Jamie Greenwood: self care and leadership coach, faciliator and teacher. In this inaugural episode Jamie sets the intention for The Path Home as well as sharing her own continual journey of finding home in herself. She also discusses upcoming topics for podcast including boundaries, finding joy, self compassion, naviagting self doubt, and how we live into a future we want to see. Sign up for...