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As we progress in our inner development and spiritual growth, a helpful practice can be to “receive” a word for a time period. This could be done at the beginning of the year which we often see as a more common practice. It also could be used anytime in any instance, as a guiding touchstone to help support you to remain open and rise into any experience in a more confident, fully expressed and emb...

Have you ever heard the phrase, "everything in moderation"? Overindulgence, lack of moderation, can be painful and stressful. What causes us to overindulge? Unconscious consumption is one of the factors. Often times, overindulgence is a habit as the holiday season ensues. This podcast episode explores the topic of overindulgence, how we might get caught in habits of overindulgence, how it impacts...

Posing the question "what are you really hungry for?", we can explore different ways we consume but don't necessarily feel nourished or fulfilled. As consumers, it's can be easy to ignore what we really need, and instead take in what we want on a whim, or to attempt to fill an emptiness that has nothing to do with the real hunger or desire we are experiencing. In this podcast you'll look at d...

Use your imagination as you move through this 12-minute guided meditation to help you relax, open and gain a new sense of freedom and lightness. As move through this experience, you'll invite yourself to create an intention to bring more nourishment into your life. To live a fulfilling, meaningful and uplifting life, you can intend to bring that forth and then use that intention to remain open...

Nourishment isn't just about what you eat - it's about what you consume in all the ways. What you watch, what you listen to, whose energy you imbibe in, the company you keep, where you shop!, yes ... you constantly are affecting your physical and energetic state. In this episode you will hear about the many ways you can impact your own body, heart, mind, and spirit by choosing carefully and consci...

Daily practices become rituals when you decide to make them sacred and meaningful. Because we have the ability to do this with everything we do, thus creating a beautiful life, it is within our power to change the quality of our life by shifting how and why we do what we do. As often is recommended in this podcast, starting small, with something simple, making that change and making it stick, star...

Enjoy this 10-minute guided meditation to help you both connect with your chakras consciously, as well as align and connect them to one another. Your chakra are the portals to your energy centers that feed your spinal column and inform you energetically. We give and receive energy all the time through these portals, so refreshing them, connecting with them, aligning them, and otherwise growing fam...

When you have no solution to your problem, it's time to shift your perspective. When you are completely frustrated with a situation, person, or experience, it's time to shift your perspective. When you don't have the ability to make an impact that you want, it's time to shift your perspective. Shifting your perspective can be one of the most valuable tools for inner work and for outer contentment....

Shadow work is not for the faint of heart, but is for the person who really wants personal liberation from what binds them up or keeps them from the things they most want. Knowing how to identify or seek out your shadow is the first step which you hear about in this episode. Laurel and Laurel share personal stories as example to help the listener understand how to work with bringing shadow qualiti...

Quiet your mind, let go and relax, take time to go within during this 8-minute guided meditation. The focus is to connect with your creative nature as you set the intention of opening to a new ritual meant to support you at this time of your life. You’ll be guided to commune with your intuition and a sense of something greater than yourself to trust inspiration to create a ritual to support y...

Curiosity instead of judgment or negativity offers great opportunity to transform any difficult situation. Using curiosity as a practice rather than thinking of it as a quality, allows you to enter any conversation and discover new and interesting things in life and about people. In this episode, you'll be listening to ideas about how to bring more curiosity into your daily life as well as some st...

Do you have rituals, routines, and/or practices that are making your life meaningful and beautiful? If not, this episode may be what you've been waiting for. You'll be offered specific ideas about regular practices, some old and newly updated rituals, and simple routines that are ideas for how to elevate your life to a more interesting and meaningful level. Many of us want to take control of our l...

Give yourself the pleasure of taking 5 minutes to release tension and induce a refresh of your energy. In this guided meditation you’ll be focusing on your breath, including a quick self-massage for your head and neck if you choose, mindfully bringing breath to different parts of your body as you relax and release tension as you notice it in your body. Piano music by Robert Meunier accompanies thi...

Partnerships are how we live in the world in relationships whether we recognize that as a reality or not. Learning what would make a partnership beautiful for you is a worthwhile endeavor on the road to building your beautiful life. This episode brings many facets of inner work together as you explore with the hosts how to create your own successful, meaningful and happy partnerships througho...

Handling disappointment - well - in relationships is a skill you learn with practice. We often try to avoid disappointment and yet what we do is only postpone dealing with the feelings and often complicate them at the same time. In this episode, you'll explore the words disappointment, expectation, faith, trust, and boundaries, perhaps in new ways that will elevate your ability to handle your own...

Explore the power you have within to grow a more trusting relationship with yourself. What can you achieve, experience or grow in your life with a stronger sense of trust in yourself? How can you connect more deeply to the authentic aspects inside that make you who you are and who you want to become? Be guided through this 9-minute meditation and connect with the parts of you that can help aid a t...

Do you have relationships in which you feel known and understood? Do you have safe people with whom you can share your deepest truth? Trusting relationships are often the bedrock of a fulfilling and heartfelt life and most certainly of experiencing fulfilling connection. Knowing how important this aspect of life is, how do you build trusting relationships? There are specific elements that create t...

Why does authentic connection matter? Because we live in a world where a growing epidemic is loneliness. The remedy for this epidemic will come through experiencing authentic and more intimate connection both within oneself and with others in your life. We all long for belonging, love and connection and yet it's as if we've lost our ability to engage these qualities of connection in our own lives....

Feeling rooted to the Earth, grounded and present, and centered in your whole being allows you to connect more fully with others as well as with the natural power in your whole being. When we chronically live through our minds and in our heads, we often feel disconnected from our bodies and the wisdom, connection, and power latent in the lower parts of our being. In this meditation, the focus is o...

When your nervous system is stressed it becomes increasingly difficult to think clearly and make holistic life decisions. In this podcast episode, the hosts share personal stories about living with stressed nervous systems and how they recovered. You'll learn ways to identify the ways your nervous system responds to keep you safe and then becomes stressed with lasting impacts that disrup...

Do you fear change in your life? Do you trust yourself to make good choices for yourself? Do you feel like you have a good inner compass to direct you to fulfillment? And how can you change within so that all of these questions feel resolved and you feel confident to move through life with ease and grace? In this episode the hosts invite you to explore how to develop a strong inner guidance system...

Meditation can be a time to move beyond your thoughts, to still the thinking mind. One of the ways to accomplish this is to bring your full attention to your senses, to the sensations in your body and into the power you have to direct your attention within to elicit specific sensations. Listen in to this 8-minute meditation to relieve yourself of your thoughts and return to your deeper inner world...

Your inner critic can latch onto aspects of your life that you don't like, ways that you've showed up in the past that felt troubled, things you've said that you don't feel good about, anything that can be used as a source of self-disappointment, and create repetitive criticisms that become inner self-talk that are the self-created limitations to finding happiness and contentment. In thi...

Do you worry about fitting in? Maybe you have a deep desire to belong to a group or a community, a couplehood, or a family. Your "need" for this may come from not feeling like you fit in with your family of origin, or maybe you didn't feel like you found your "group" of peers when you were growing up.  As this podcast begins its third season, the focus of the first month invites you to consid...

How does a gratitude practice change you? How does it bring you a fresh attitude and perspective? It happens when you learn to cultivate the feeling of gratitude within you, in body, in mind, and in the heart. This gratitude meditation supports you in focusing inwardly to cultivate the feeling of gratitude and begin your day in peace. The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflow...