Aliveness: Technology, love, money, sex, soul, governance

Anxiety is a multi-layered phenomenon.  It’s also overdetermined — many different experiences and combinations of experiences can be labeled anxiety. One aspect of anxiety is the relationship between how we are living our life and our true feelings.   This could look like trying to keep a parent or employer happy or being in a relationship that isn't working for you. Living in this...

Last year, I flew to Hawaii to attend a retreat with Eckhart Tolle. The entire time, I kept getting these signs that I was out of the zone of tolerance. I was triggered again and again in major ways that I hadn’t experienced in years, despite turning to my tools and practices to bring myself back to presence. I’m sharing my experience with you here so you can witness the value of recognizing your...

Building our capacity for juice and pleasure is a central part of healing. It breaks apart the conditioning that life is hard, that we have to push, and that we have to obey. None of those things are juicy. When we’re leaning into what’s juicy, we’re ultimately moving towards a life of overflow that comes from touching the heart of love and life force energy. In this episode, I’m sharing what juic...

What keeps us from being present is the inability to experience the present fully.  We experience the present when we feel emotions, experience physical sensations and are aware of what is happening. When we are unable to be present we are in a traumatic reaction — a separation from our life force energy. When we’re holding trauma, we can’t see that within ourselves. Sacred medicine, along wi...

There are two different stages we go through when we are healing trauma. If you’ve done a lot of inner work — therapy, meditation, journaling, etc. — but feel as if you’ve hit a healing plateau where you have awareness of your patterns, but can’t quite step into the power of who you are by doing the things you know you have to do to get there, you’re likely coming to the end of the first stag...

Trauma is the only thing that separates us from everything we desire. Trauma is separation from our life force energy. It’s what happens when we have experiences that we don’t have the capacity to be present for. There are obvious traumas — the things we all know are difficult. And then there is the moment-by-moment way that life nudges us out of our own power, our own authenticity. Ultimately, we...

When you're doing deep transformational healing work, big emotions can come up like sadness and anger, and our first instinct is to want to feel better. Riding the waves refers to a relationship to our emotions where we accept and even welcome our feelings as they come and go. Alison sees riding the waves as offering an opportunity to open and to hold more. Riding the waves allows us to flow throu...

We tend to compartmentalize our sexual energy. Some of us see it as strictly physical. Some of us see it as dirty or bad. Some of us see it as mostly emotional. Many of us don't think about it at all. In this episode, Alison is going to show how connecting with your sexual energy can support you in creating the life you desire. You’ll discover: How sexual energy goes beyond the physical act of sex...

Fostering spirituality in our life fosters our connection to life, aliveness, and all that we desire. As we develop and nurture this connection, we have the passion to move forward, to take deeper and broader steps into the fullness of the life that we want to create. In this episode, you’ll discover: Why a lack of spirituality can hinder your ability to create the life you want How fostering spir...

We often think of certain emotions as negative, and thus we're taught early to repress them. Usually, it's sadness, rage, and jealousy. It's exactly this imbalance that makes it challenging for us to change our behavior. When we have traumatic experiences— experiences that are too much for us to emotionally withstand at the moment— because we can't feel our emotions because they get locked away. T...

We tend to think that our blocks are in our heads, but often they're actually in our bodies. As we start to do personal work, we can see this because we know that logically we shouldn't be scared of this, there's nothing to worry about, we want to be a certain way, or we want to speak up for ourselves, because we know that's how we're going to step into the next level, and yet we can't do it becau...