Bridging The Gap Podcast with Marianne Rose

We have a natural response to suffering - often creating PTSD and chronic modes of flight, fight, flee and freeze. But we can find a way through that doesn't end in re-traumatizing ourselves over and over again. We CAN find peace in the storm.

When we invite wonder into our lives we can change the way we view and experience pain.

Embracing death as a part of life and redeeming our conversations about it.

How to separate your identity from your actions but still be accountable and open to unlearn/relearn.

Take off your (proverbial) mask!

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Loving. It's time to shift from hate to love.

Listen to the person holding the talking stick.

What response does anxiety require? How can we learn to live with something we generally resist? How can we recover from an anxious episode? Let's find out!

Truth. Trust. Confidence. Honour. Respect. Forgiveness. Unconditional positive regard. Your First Love where you were formed before the foundation of the world.

An invitation to explore what Christmas could mean or does or doesn't mean to many people around the world.

A 2nd year going into the holidays during the Covid-19 Pandemic has many people feeling worn down and uninterested in caring about whatever others think, even to the point of being hollowed out and rude about it. Can we get our Christmas Spirit back? How in the world are we supposed to even do relationships anymore with the immense differences between each other? Let's talk about that.

We grapple with our imperfections and mistakes "to the point of no return," but what if we could return? Can you even imagine it?

Explore the simplicity of a life of thoughtfulness towards yourself and others.

We want justice for so many things and it's critical that people serve it when necessary, but when justice is confused with boundaries in relationships and it spells THE END, it causes unnecessary pain. Especially with our current pandemic, relationships are ending at lightning speed, and that doesn't need to happen if we can learn how to love justly.

Quick fixes are usually temporary and can lead to disappointment, but you can find life significantly more satisfying by delaying gratification. In this (our 40th - WOOT!!) episode you'll hear some excellent mind training methods to embrace taking your time. 

Kinda like the saying "Silence is golden, but sometimes it's yellow," (i.e. if you don't have anything nice to say, don't speak, but if you're keeping silent on injustice... well, you get the drift). It's similar with willful ignorance being the opposite of bravery. It's not blissful if you can help it.

Helping people understand you, your personality, where they end and you begin. Helping you with your "NO" so you don't become co-dependent, but nurture interdependence in relationships.

Traumatic occurrences do not have to be the end all, but rather - education for the future!

You have before you life and death, therefore choose life!

Scientific reason or not, you have privacy rights and body autonomy. Some exceptions apply.

Love first.

We can bring the world to a higher place. We can change chaos with understanding. Love is the higher power. Bridging the Gap celebrates our 33rd episode and end of season one with a challenge to turn around from hate and strife.

Helping create good government by choosing political leaders from a place of empathy. Leaning in to understand political differences helps us make healthy choices by allowing people to struggle with different views and trust they'll figure it out without forcefulness.

Let's get naked (raw, vulnerable, open and honest). ;)

Psyching yourself up to follow through with day to day tasks doesn't exactly spell character, but faithfulness does, and it's way more important to surviving life than we sometimes realize.