Coming to our senses with taunē lyons

This is the sixth and final episode of Season One of Coming to Our Senses. We talk about what it means to be in and belong in relationship and in community, not through erasing ourselves, but by attuning, resonating, and staying true. Relationship doesn’t ask us to clone each other. It asks us to listen, to notice, and to show up as ourselves in community, and for others to do the same. In this ep...

I have this theory about therapy, that it's really just about becoming safe enough to feel everything that we've learned to cut ourselves off from feeling.  That so much of our life is experienced from a strangled, constricted place that we think it's "normal" to half-live until we get a full, deep exhale and can look at someone eye-to-eye who is (hopefully) just as present a...

So often our hypervigilant nervous systems scan and ask: Do I belong here? This midweek mindful morsel offers a reframe, where we ask inwardly: What have we not been in relationship with inside? What have we not been accepting that's getting louder? And how, with this shift in perception, we can offer ourselves as a place of belonging to others by being more in relationship to our whole, falli...

Heartbreak is one of the most powerful initiations we go through as human beings. It strips us down, shatters our illusions, and demands that we feel, deeply and all the way , in a world that often teaches us to intellectualize and move on. In this episode, I explore heartbreak as a teacher: how it cracks us open, confronts us with our limits of intimacy, and reveals where we’ve hidden from oursel...

This week on  Coming to Our Senses,  we explore what happens when we stop telling ourselves what to do (or should-ing on ourselves, as it sometimes is called,) creating stories about our state, and start locating ourselves with curious presence to see what is most attuned to what is needed right now. Sometimes we're fast, and sometimes we're slow: navigating the ebb and flow brings freedom...

Welcome. This is an invitation to bring all your senses into one place. Less than 15 minutes an episode, for you to be with every part of you. Imagine this: we're sitting around a crackling fire, preferred beverages in hand - if it's up to me there's a brisk forested coast nearby and we're feeling real cozy - musing together on what it means to be a human in these times of great disconnection and...