Adventurous Thoughts

Trying to find my true north this year was quite the labyrinth to navigate. If you're trying to quiet the noise of comparison, find your center, and embrace all the twists & turns along the way, you'll resonate with this week's Adventurous Thoughts musing.  It's never easy to pursue our dreams - honestly, even to hear our dreams or openly claim them half the time... but tha...

Part two of - I went to my first retreat! In part two of this series, I reflect on my experience and what's arisen in the integration process. I explore how my chart ruler Pluto (scorpio rising ayyyee), heavy Scorpio stack (5 placements) mainly stacked in the 1st house (ruled by Aries), led to some beautiful reflections on my feelings around power - where I've disconnected from mine and...

Last weekend I went to my first retreat and it opened up so many beautiful cans of worms. In part one of this two-part series, I reflect on my experience and takeaways. I also share more on my feelings with astrology and what you can expect here moving forward! ✨🌀 Book an astrology reading with me: https://www.porosastrology.com Support the show Whether you’re here for deep questions, unexpected...

Coming off the Pisces Lunar Eclipse Full Moon this past week, I'm sharing my reflections from the storm. The emotions were diverse - from rage to loneliness, hopelessness to peace.  Through all of that, two core themes emerged: life has been pushing me into my fullness (and I've risen to the occasion), and have I ever actually felt enough? Like good enough, as a human, to just be and exi...

Exploring the tricky ways the ego uses perfectionism to hold us back and nuggets of self-awareness wisdom I've found in my natal chart. This week, I share a glimpse inside my daily practice of giving myself grace and permission to be human, and where I constantly fail to do so. Let's dive deep! ✨🌀 Book an astrology reading with me: https://www.porosastrology.com Support the show Whethe...

Coming to you from the Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse, I share thoughts I'm pondering around astrology, the elements, and oceanography (weird combo, I know, but hear me out). I also touch on a few rocky emotional days and my real-time struggles to forgive myself, give myself grace, and accept my human nature. We're all just flopping our way through the mess, eh? My perfectionism really has g...

This week, I walk you through an exercise I did to discover my deeper needs (ones buried beneath the surface-level scraps I was okay admitting), and some of the steps I'm taking to meet those. I'm trusting life more than ever before to reflect that back and meet me where I'm willing to meet myself. Come along for another stream-of-consciousness conversation.  ✨🌀 Book an astrology...

Sit with me as I contemplate building consistency as a highly experimental creative (what's worked and what hasn't), which of course, spins off into asking deep questions about our soul, ego, and how this world works. Long story short... I'm just winging this whole life thing. Let's take a ride into the ethers.  ✨🌀 Book an astrology reading with me: https://www.porosastrology...

It's storytime with a vulnerable share about the mystical experience I had with God during Vipassana meditation, calming my OCPD/OCD, gaining weight and the healing revelations that have come from that, reading A Course in Miracles, along with embracing the shameless expression of my truth, purpose, and passions.  I've had a long, winding relationship with Christianity, and this is just...

Since we can fall and get back up again as many times as needed in this life, I'm happy to be starting again. I want this space to feel intimate, raw, fun, and inspiring - for myself and anyone tuning in. This week's ramble talks about the complexity of my relationship to social media, overcoming obstacles & limiting beliefs that kept me from sharing, and pushing myself to do all the...

The first story in my special series on this podcast, where I'll share pieces of my creative writing from over the years. Fictional short stories, poetry, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into my creative writing process. This story is called Inky Earthling Daydream, an empathetic musing on the elements and how they feel in their mutable existence. A magical little fable exploring water, earth,...

Maybe the antidote to our anxiety isn’t just another deep breathing exercise, but pretending anxiety is a strange little goblin who has to dance to bestow any panic or dread upon you… Stay with me. This week, we’re bringing back childlike wonder. In this episode, I’m exploring the surprisingly powerful world of playful mindset tricks. You know, the dorky, completely ridiculous strategies that diss...

An updated perspective on the heels of my previous episode on Internal Family Systems (IFS), which I hope serves as a cautionary tale. This is an intensive form of therapy that can tackle some very deeply rooted trauma, and I naively opened Pandora's box with it this past week. But, we live and learn!  In this episode, I share the importance of going slow and what I'm doing to step off t...

Confessions of a fearful avoidant, dipping her toes into IFS (Internal Family Systems) and trying to make sense of the complexity of parts she stumbles into.  The birds-eye view of Internal Family Systems is that it's an evidence-based psychotherapy model developed by Richard Schwartz. This perspective views the mind as a system of distinct "parts" or sub-personalities within each o...

Disclaimer: This episode contains mentions of self-harm and suicide.  Welcome to the inaugural episode of Adventurous Thoughts - here we go! In this introduction episode, I invite you inside my brain and the why behind this podcast - a space to wonder out loud about what it means to be human. I dive into my journey with romanticizing the dark and how the concept of non-duality has influenced my pe...