Awareness Sucks

Boredom is one significant underlining cause for several self-harming behaviors. What antidotes are there for boredom? How come some people are never bored while others experience boredom often? Ella and I discover that Boredom carries various messages, that once identified and handled can expand one’s life.

Ah, the non-ending torturous state when one carries regrets in life. How to resolve them? Linda brings questions leading to a dialogue where we discover surprising skills needed in handling regrets.

What are Emotional Boundaries? How do they contribute to harmonious relationships? How can the lack of boundaries open the door to resentment? Lynn brings questions leading to a dialogue about establishing and strengthening Emotional Boundaries.

The Right Way to Live, is there one? Kevin explores with me this theme during an enliven dialogue, reaching an unpredictable conclusion.

In this episode, Barbara and I delve into the states of Attachment and Detachment. We dialogue about the benefits of moving from attachment to detachment in both the psychological and spiritual realms.

Why do we hate? How does hate form? How can hate be transformed? The dialogue with Argy is revealing and honest. With such harmful consequences resulting every time hate is present, this has been a challenging theme to explore.

Having a tendency to keep Pleasing others carries amazing gifts and serious limitations. In this episode Lisa brings fundamental questions on how to reach a balance between pleasing others and pleasing one-self. Not losing one-self while pleasing others turns out to be quite a task.

Judgement can easily fuel anger and hate. Self-Criticism can become torturous and bring on self-doubt and even depression. However, self-criticism and judgement also carry useful information expanding self-awareness. In this episode the focus is on how one might gain self-awareness through discovering and interpreting their underlining messages.

What makes friendships last? How do you know when a friendship has come to an end? Is there a difference between companionship and friendship? Linda brings questions, wisdom and delightful dialogue during this episode exploring the theme of Friendship.

Is there a way to welcome aging? Dialoguing with Roxanne about helpful adjustments for an elegant and pleasant yielding into this last chapter of one’s life. Juggling regrets, memories, gains, losses, and efforts to remain visible during the process of Aging.

People are fearful, neutral, curious, dreading, or excited in anticipating the day of their Retirement. What is Retirement today anyway? Can one prepare? How? Patrick brings the right questions for dialoguing on the gains and losses that Retirement brings.

This has been a daring theme Sharifa brought to the podcast. The word Love is being misused and abused like no other. The state of Love has been defined and redefined since the beginning of time. Yet, it remains a mystery. Tune in to see how this mystery is being “handled” or “mishandled” during this episode.

Ah, the state we all pursue. Wanting to reach, grasp and hold tight. How do you know when “you are happy”? Is joy, satisfaction, and excitement the same as happiness? Satya brings challenging questions taking the dialogue in unpredictable direction.

Self confidence brings deeper satisfaction in life. If you were not able to develop it in childhood what are ways that you can use now to transcend self doubt to Self confidence.

Self-Love. What is it exactly? Do you need to have it before you can love another? What gets in our way? How do we develop this state of being and who benefits from it? Join Angela and Yolanda in a dialogue exploring these questions and more.

Worry - Looking at both sides of worry, how it helps and how it hinders. Then exploring ways to transform worry to free and re direct the immense energy it carries.

The drive to have more, do more, say more, earn more, learn more, become more, while inviting improvement, change, growth when one does not recognize when enough is enough it easily crosses over to dissatisfaction, anxiety, and disappointment. This episode offers practical ways in recognizing when enough is enough.

Ignorance is the root for much of the suffering in life. What exactly is ignorance and how can it be overcome? Mary joins us this week to discuss how we can answer these problems and overcome them.

This episode, through a dialogue with our curious guest Giannis, expands the awareness of why our spirit needs attention and care and offers specific actions to nourish and enliven the spirit so that our everyday life becomes more meaningful.

In this episode, Yolanda talks about awareness, awareness about awareness, and why it all sucks. Join us and make sure to send any questions you would like answered on the show to awarenesssuckspodcast@gmail.com