The Citrus & Sun Podcast

Figuring out my core values has truly changed so many pieces of my life in a positive way. My relationship with myself is stronger, I am able to be more authentic with others, and decisions are a little easier to make when I am keeping my values at the core! Join me in this week’s episode for a short chat about the importance of values as I recap a little of what we talked about in episode 15! The...

Taking a risk can be scary and so exciting at the same time! This past week I asked listeners to share a risk that they have taken in their lives, big or small! Reading these stories has been truly inspiring and I had so much fun sharing them in this episode. I hope you are as inspired as I was as you listen to each one! I will see you in the episode!! Wishing you zest & light, Stephanie Reach out...

Citrus and Sun Moments is a new monthly series on the pod where I will be sharing five moments from my month that stood out to me in some way. Citrus and Sun is all about finding zest and light in each day and sprinkling energy on our present experiences. I would love to hear your citrus and sun moments from July!! I hope this series helps us inspire each other to find zest and light every day. I...

We all have a creative spark inside of us! In this episode, I sit down with my brother Jonathan to chat about what creativity means to him, how he stays inspired and motivated to create, his ideas on receiving feedback on your work, and setting your intention for sharing your creative spark with the world. We also explore his own creative project, The Ghostly Hotel, a collection of short spooky st...

Inspired by Enchanted (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift, this week's podcast is all about finding more enchantment in our daily lives💜. We will start this episode off with a chat (of course!) and talk about what it means to feel enchanted, and how we can look at the world with more curiosity and wonder. Then we will meditate! Join me in a meditation/visualization as I guide us down the p...

The only moment we have is now, but what happens when something is getting in the way of us truly living in the present? In this week's episode, I am going through a list of seven things that can get in the way of us living fully in the present, and how we can begin to overcome some of them in order to get back to living a full, joyful life. I'm excited to chat about these with you! I will...

Citrus and Sun Moments is a new monthly series on the pod where I will be sharing five moments from my month that stood out to me in some way. Citrus and Sun is all about finding zest and light in each day and sprinkling energy on our present experiences. I would love to hear your citrus and sun moments from June!! I hope this series helps us inspire each other to find zest and light every day. I...

Happy Summer, my amazing friends! ☀️ Like every season, summer arrives with its own unique puzzle pieces.  The music, the feel of the air, the holidays, the food, and the activities fit together to create memories from this distinct time of year. Growing up I remember feeling so excited for the next one to begin! Summer has its own song, its own feeling, its own  language . There is a certain sens...

Summer is right around the corner!☀️Let's welcome the new season together by taking a moment to reflect on summers of the past and daydream about summers of the future, including this one! Take a moment to breathe and be still with me as we ground ourselves in this year's changing of the seasons as spring fades into summer. Find a comfortable space, settle in, and join me for this guided m...

Sweet summertime calls for more adventures, right?? I always look forward to going on vacation, and then that time always seems pass by in the blink of an eye. In this episode we will be chatting about how we can use mindfulness to take in all of the moments of our next vacation, from weekend getaways to trips across the country. I will see you in the episode!! Wishing you zest & light, Stephanie...

In this episode I am highlighting the second half of my mental health challenge that I did on TikTok throughout the month of May for Mental Health Awareness Month! In this challenge I chose something that I wanted to do for my mental health each day beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. Check out part 1 for letters A-M! In this episode we will be chatting about my ideas for letters N-...

If you follow me on TikTok, you know all about my Mental Health Challenge of May where I have been doing one thing each day for my mental health beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. In this episode, I am shining a light on that challenge and going through the first 13 letters of the alphabet and sharing what I did for my mental health each day. Doing little things each day to keep ou...

We could all use a moment out of our busy days to give ourselves a little love, right? This episode is a special guided meditation that continues our chat from last week about self-celebration and loving every piece of ourselves! I hope you will join me in taking a few minutes for yourself today to breathe and acknowledge all of the wonderful pieces that make you so unique and such an important pa...

You are made up of so many puzzle pieces that all fit together to create the unique and special person you are in this world. Sometimes when we are having low moments in life it is not always easy for us to see all that there is to celebrate about ourselves. I know that I am personally very hard on myself when I am going through a difficult time in life. In this episode, we will chat about differe...

How do you feel about rainy days? 🌧 I think that sometimes a rainy day can be refreshing. Rejuvenating. Peaceful. A rainy day can give us permission to slow down from our busy lives and use a little more mindfulness as we listen to the raindrops fall outside. This episode was inspired by the rainy weekend I had this past week! I think if we pay attention we can learn a lot from the weather, especi...

Life is a ray of sunlight. It’s bitterly cold. It’s windy and destructive. It’s calm and breezy. Life is all of these things, and that’s what makes it life. In this week's episode, we are chatting about the weather patterns of our lives and how we can experience them as they come and go! This episode is all about living through the sunshine and perfect temperatures as well as the rain, snow th...

Happy Earth Day! There is so much to celebrate and appreciate about nature and our Earth! Join me in this special bonus episode as I lead us in a guided meditation that will help us take a few moments to appreciate our planet that we call home! Wishing you zest & light, Stephanie Reach out and say hi! Email me at citrusandsunpodcast@gmail.com. I can't wait to hear from you!

Happy Earth Week! 🌎🌍🌏 Earth Day is this Saturday and we are celebrating our planet together in this special Earth Day episode! In this episode, I will be reading some of your comments from one of my TikTok videos that posed the question, "What is your favorite thing about nature?" We all have different pieces of our Earth and nature that bring us joy and that have helped us heal in so...

"Do what you love, love what you do." We've all heard this phrase at least once in our lives, right? This week we are talking all about passions in life, why they are important, and unique ways we can look for them throughout our day! When we are living a life with passion, we live a life with purpose and intention. I can't wait to find our passions in life together! I will see you in the episode!...

Happy Unbirthday to you! 🥳 (Unless it's your real birthday, of course! Happy Birthday!!🎉) Our birthdays are the bookends to each chapter of our lives and hold the moments from our 364 UNbirthdays between each one. In this episode, I will be sending you 3 unbirthday wishes that will shine a light on those 364 days and make them even more memorable and celebrated. I will see you in the episode...

Welcome to the last episode of our Mindfulness Series!! I am so excited to welcome back my brother Jonathan as a special guest on this episode! Join us as we chat about Jonathan's journey with mindfulness and ways he has used this practice in his everyday life. I will see you in the episode!! Wishing you zest & light, Stephanie Reach out and say hi! Email me at citrusandsunpodcast@gmail.com. I can...

Spring is such a beautiful time of year to practice mindfulness! In this episode we will be talking about some ways we can practice more mindfulness in spring in order to take in all of the changes that subtly happen throughout this season. Spring can come and go in the blink of an eye. Practicing mindfulness can help us notice and enjoy all that is happening in nature as we move through this seas...

Welcome to the third episode of our mindfulness series! This week we will be talking about emotional mindfulness and how we can expand our emotional vocabulary in order to label our emotions and understand how our bodies respond to emotions in different ways. Below are some resources that I talk about in the episode!  At the end of the episode I invite you to join me in a 5 minute guided medi...

Welcome to the next episode in our mindfulness series! This week, we will be talking about what it means to be ✨mindfully lucky✨ and discover that we have so many amazing pieces of ourselves present within us at all times. Being mindfully lucky shows us that we don't always need to look outside of ourselves to feel lucky. To talk about these inner pieces, we will be attaching each one to a diffe...

We are on the first episode of our mindfulness series!! In this episode, we are talking about The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh and how this book has changed the way I think about time. We will talk about 6 parts of our day where we can incorporate more mindfulness in order to gain more time back in our day as our own and live our lives with more presence. I will see you in the episode...