Being Aloud

Send us Fan Mail I have come to learn that there are two ways of living this crazy life. We can choose to live our days in limbo, letting life happen to us and merely reacting; or, we can choose to live our days with intention—with purposeful awareness of the things that truly matter. We’re here for a short period of time guys. How do we want to live? Consider this episode your sign to pause for a...

Send us Fan Mail In a world where we're constantly bombarded with reminders of all the things we do not have--the clothes, the partner, the kids, the job, etc--gratitude can seem impossible. "What do i even have that i can be grateful for?". In today's episode, we shift our focus from the have-nots to the haves. Its a total shift in perspective, and i guarantee you can think of...

Send us Fan Mail Emotional minimalism is a crucial ingredient to letting go. Figuring out what is in our heart chambers, taking up space and maiming our movement. [In my opinion], emotional decluttering is a life-long practice. Something we need to turn into a ritual so that we can free up the space we need to love ourselves, and others, well. In today's episode we discuss three practical way...

Send us Fan Mail I love taking January to myself. A time of a very intentional easing into the new year: a time during which i can begin to set in place the systems and routines that will essentially ensure i arrive at my goals by the end of the year.  Goals don’t have to be set in stone. And we don’t need to be too hard on ourselves if/when we don’t accomplish the things we set out to accomplish....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the very first episode of 2023! I'm still amazed that i get to do this--use my voice to share my thoughts and feelings about this crazy messy life we're all living. I ended 2022 and started 2023 with a lot of dedicated time for contemplation and introspection. I did some true soul searching and heart digging to decide what things need to be left behind in orde...

Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode of this season! I am eternally grateful to you for joining me on the 'Being Aloud' journey in 2022. Its been so incredible to get to share this space with you, but now its time for me to take a break (until January 10th, to be exact)! And maybe you should give yourself a break as well. Recalibrate and digest everything that happened this year so...

Send us Fan Mail What if i told you that a catalyst to your healing journey could be COMPASSION for the person who hurt you? Healing is a long journey that requires a great deal of self-awareness and self-preservation. In today's episode we consider a brand new approach! Blog Post: Compassion Theory Support the show If you like this podcast, please leave a review, like, share, and subscribe....

Send us Fan Mail "Vulnerability brings vulnerability" is a sentence my sister always used to tell me. The more open and real we are with our communities about the imperfections of our lives, the safer other people will feel in doing the same. Just imagine how much warmer and richer our friendships would be if more people had the courage to show up as their authentic selves. In today&apos...

Send us Fan Mail If you know me at all (in real life or online), you know one of my FAVORITE  practices in the world is journaling. Journaling has changed me. It's gotten me through so many of my toughest seasons, and i want you to experience that same liberation as well. In today's episode we discuss :  How and why journaling is the safest space for your deepest darkest secrets  How jou...

Send us Fan Mail Its November! Which means the weather is slowly but surely getting colder and colder, making space for a brand new season to emerge.  But what if i told you that weather doesn't only happen on the outside? In this episode we discuss: How we can prepare our hearts for what comes next  Ways by which we can notice how nature mirrors our hearts  Things to let go in order to make...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discussed: The importance of building good habits that cast a vote for the people we want to become 3 habits that I've recently embedded into my life, and how they're already making my life better  The beauty of living within society, and getting to learn from other people's lessons and mistakes  A few new and creative ways to practice min...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we talked about:  Where i was while i was disconnected from the podcast and social media What it looks like to distance ourselves from the noise and information-overload that surrounds us in our lives A very simple antidote to anxiety And i closed the episode by reading you a prose piece that i wrote ☺️ Support the show If you like this podcast, please leav...

Send us Fan Mail How can we teach ourselves to perceive pain and loss as punctuation marks in the larger stories of our lives? Even the stories we only tell ourselves?  In today's conversation we discuss: The inevitability of pain in this life How we can begin considering pain from a place of humility, so we can see the beauty that it will eventually have to offer Punctuation marks make sente...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we expand upon the topic of empathy that we began last week. What a giant and bottomless subject! Here's what I know for sure: our communities could use SO much more empathy. I can only imagine how much safer and kinder our lives would be.  The main issues we discussed were:  We broke down the black-or-white society we grew up in. Black and white does...

Send us Fan Mail Empathy empathy empathy! What i believe is the key to safer and healthier communities. In this episode we discuss:  How our Egyptian/Arab society as embedded in us a humanized religious perspective on an 'upright life'.  How this humanized religion removes the fact of our fallen humanity, and strips us of an ability to relate to other people's painful stories.  How...

Send us Fan Mail I just came back from Italy, and boy do I have stories to tell you! My time off truly reminded me of the importance of looking outside oneself from time to time. Looking outside and into nature. Looking outside and into a completely different culture. I simply cannot be more grateful. Find me on: Instagram Blog Mailing List Support the show If you like this podcast, please leave a...

Send us Fan Mail We learn the most valuable lessons from our most difficult experiences. When we’re hard pressed on every side, our survival instincts are strengthened, and we make healthier and wiser choices all around. Choices that end up working, so we end up liking them and choosing to keep them!  My pain has taught me so much. Today’s episode is just a roundup of some of the most valuable les...

Send us Fan Mail Life is one giant fruit salad! And we cannot guarantee that all the fruits we get will be fruits we love. The good days come just are surely as the bad ones do, and the quality of the life we choose is largely determined by our perspective. Remember Covid? Remember all the lessons the collective human race learned? We go back to some of those in our episode today, because I believ...

Send us Fan Mail Oftentimes the way we're taught to respond to our suffering is by surrendering. The old saying "it is what it is" is tossed left and right as we learn to make peace with the way our lives are unfolding. But what if we could take this surrender to the next level? What if we could actually LOVE our fate? 'Amor Fati' is a Latin phrase that literally translate...

Send us Fan Mail Whenever we hear the word 'anger' it immediately translates in our minds as something negative. Anger is something to be avoided at all costs, because it disrupts our peace and leads us to say and do things that we later regret.  But what if we considered the infamous emotion from a new angle? What if I told you that anger can be a GOOD thing, if we changed our relations...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a little different. Rather than discussing a specific topic and coming out with takeaways, I've decided to share my heart with you. A heavy day unloaded, so that maybe, you come out of it feeling a little less alone.  My friend, we're all human in this messy life--broken, un-linear, confused human beings doing their best. Maybe, if we take a step...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been so overcome by pain that you feel unable to bear its burden on your own anymore? Well, even if you haven't, let me be the one to burst your bubble by telling you that you will...eventually. Because this crazy, beautiful life we're all living is unpredictable, and we're all bound to experience some degree of unexpected pain and disappointment at so...

Send us Fan Mail Life gives and it takes. It is constantly fluctuating between ups and downs, and it is up to us to decide how to receive both abundance and the scarcity with contentment. The invitation today is to make space for both gain and loss with humility and acceptance--a rare skill for this modern day. May we derive our self worth from things that are unchangeable; solid principals and ac...

Send us Fan Mail Our emotions are valuable and precious evidence that we are alive and have responses to the world around us. In today's episode we discuss the importance of acknowledging our continuous need for emotional healing. I got sticky and vulnerable by reading an excerpt of a personal journal entry i wrote back in January, revealing just how lonely and hopeless i felt. Trust me, you...

Send us Fan Mail For all my life I believed that boundaries were a negative thing– people with boundaries were unapproachable and intimidating to be around. I believed that the good people were those whose lives were open books. Who let others into their most intimate lives, and constantly put people’s needs before their own: emotional, energetic, mental, and physical. I believed that to place a b...