Doggy Dutch Audio Stories

Have you ever found yourself measuring what was left instead of enjoying what was still there? Dutch finds himself wondering where this focus on scarcity comes from. What causes him to see this way. To move through life always oriented toward what is depleting, what is absent, what could be lost. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Before we can change our relationship with money, we must understand how our attention was trained. In this episode, Dutch explores the connection between scarcity, negativity bias, inherited sayings, financial stress, and the nervous system. Through a simple morning ritual and a cup of lavender tea, he begins to uncover how attention becomes organized around deficit—and wonders whether there migh...

This episode follows Dutch as he traces his fear of money back to where it came from — the sayings that sounded like wisdom, the systems that engineered the gap and blamed the person standing in it, the spiritual teachings that handed the verdict back dressed in different language. And then Dutch does something he has never done before — he authors his own relationship with money on his own terms....

Have you ever moved through a whole day with money and called it a good day — even when the bills were still on the table? This episode is that day. Dutch had been thinking about his relationship with money — and what it would look like to build a different one. This is the story of one ordinary day where he tends to that relationship — from the first greeting before he gets out of bed, through tw...

Dutch lay in a hammock one warm afternoon, feeling the money flow in — and feeling the fear arrive with it. He rocked with that. And what the hammock showed him changed something. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Dutch was making a collage when he noticed something. The pieces didn't lose what they were in order to belong. And he found himself thinking — that was not what he had been taught about growth. This week Dutch is sitting with his oracle card reading and reflecting on what systems teach about evolution, about assimilation, about perfectionism — and about the grey that the binary was always trying...

Have you ever done the work—planted,tended,waited— and still found yourselfstanding between the plantingand the harvest? This episode is for that in-between. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Dutch sat down to revise his affirmations. The words were ones he had chosen. Words he believed in. But when he read them aloud, his body had a different response than he expected it to. This is the story of what Dutch began to understand when he stopped trying to override his nervous system — and started listening to it instead. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack....

In this episode, Dutch begins to examine the posture his affirmations carry — and whether the grammar of his own practice had been quietly replicating the same hierarchy he had been finding in systems. This is the story of what happened when he looked through the glass at himself — and saw what he did not know was hiding in plain sight. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.su...

What if some of the sentences we speak most automatically are carrying more fear than fact? In this episode, Dutch sits by the lake with a blank sketchpad and begins noticing how ordinary phrases like “I can’t afford that” can hold scarcity, social conditioning, and quiet self-judgment. A reflection on language, systems, manifestation teachings, and the words that hold reality without collapse. Ge...

Have you ever said “I can’t afford it” — and then noticed how quickly that sentence closes something inside you? This episode follows Dutch through an ordinary grocery aisle moment where one candle, one price tag, and one card called Regal shift the language from lack to choice. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Sometimes the answer is no — not because the desire is wrong, but because reality is simply what it is right now. This episode explores what happens when Dutch asks, “What would it take for this to be my reality?” and realizes the deeper shift is not only in the words, but in the energy beneath them. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Dutch wanted to say yes. Reality said not today. What followed became a quiet lesson about wonder, softness, and why desire can remain alive even when the answer is no. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

An ordinary office. A vase of roses. And a quiet realization about manifestation, enoughness, ease, and how presence alone can ripple change. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack at myalchemyofme.substack.com/subscribe

Dutch decided to stop near a still pond and noticed how his own reflection met him there. He leaned slightly closer. The reflection leaned too. He lifted his chin. The water returned it without delay. Not altered. Not interpreted. Just returned. The water was not trying to improve him. It was not softening him, correcting him, or offering advice. It simply returned what met it. Dutch took off his...

Dutch wakes before sunrise and sits with a coloring page that unexpectedly mirrors his weekly reading. What unfolds is a quiet lesson: sometimes light begins before brightness, before proof, before anything outside has fully changed. Like the coloring page itself—once blank, now holding color with clarity and strength—something gentle begins to take form. Get full access to AlchemyOfMe's Substack...

The cards that came forward for his reading were:Rekindle flow with light. Integrate ease with enoughness. Surrender attachment and fear. Emerge free and fierce. For Dutch, the cards in the reading were helping him see that: sometimes the lesson is not to push harder. Sometimes the lesson is to recognize when momentum is already carrying him. To trust what is moving. To stop interrupting what alre...