Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you routinely set resolutions for yourself in January, only to completely lose track (and steam) by March? Does it feel like 2021 is FLYING BY and you've been considering waiting until 2022 to finally get down to creating the life you've been wanting for yourself? Do you keep pushing your care off to next week, hoping it will be better, but that...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! As a recovering people-pleaser myself, I am so delighted to bring you my conversation with Johanna Bogart.  Johannah is an internationally recognized coach for people pleasers, certified in trauma-informed care and by Erickson Coaching International. She studied sociology and comparative sexuality studies at the Ohio State University while managing projects f...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s conversation with Tunja Morton is close to my heart. As someone who comes from a family of teachers, and after the pandemic year teachers endured and all they’ve made happen, I know intimately how needed Tunja’s work is. Tunja is a life coach for educators, but the core of her work is about deepening self-care for your own well-being and enjoyment of...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you believe that being an adult means muscling through, doing hard things, and putting your needs on the back burner? Have you been ignoring your body in the name of scratching just a few more things off of your to-do list? Today's episode is for you. One thing is clear, the concept of "adulting" needs colossal rebrand. Tune in to hear me di...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! For today's episode I am thrilled to interview writer and grief expert Breeshia Wade.  Breeshia helps clients uncover the ways that fear of loss and avoiding the reality of impermanence shape us. She's the author of the Grieving While Black: An Anti-Racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow (North Atlantic Books).  In 2018, she deepened her Buddhist prac...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you ever felt as though you carry more than your fair share of the emotional and mental labor in your relationships? Do you find yourself resentful that no one in your household appreciates everything you do on a daily basis? Today's episode has your name alllllll over it. Tune in to hear me sharing my best tips and structure for tending to resentme...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! If you’ve ever wondered about how to bring your whole self to your workplace, this conversation is for you.  On today’s episode, I interview Liz Wiltsie. Liz supports people to become sustainably human at work by naming their needs, becoming accountable, and practicing generative feedback. Liz reminds us that while we might be infinite, our capacity is finite...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Recently, I saw a meme that said “Your mind set is a skill set” and I thought, “Yes, and/but…”. There are so many layers to cultivating a supportive and nourishing mindset. In today’s episode I pull back the curtain on the multitude of ways we can practice developing a supportive mindset, how our social and cultural conditioning impacts our self-image, and cr...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! I am so excited to bring you this conversation with Nina Manolson, M.A. NBC-HWC. Nina is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body – as it is. She brings her 30 years experience as a therapist, Body-Trust ® Guide and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a positive relations...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Her practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Marlee’s Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times,...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is back with season 4 today! HUZZAH! Did you know that your energy isn’t actually meant to be constant each and every day over the course of the year? What might be different for you if you understood how to organize your efforts over the course of the year to best align with your energy instead of constantly feeling like you are working aga...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “Advocating for Your Needs in Your Relationships ” featuring the brilliant Pace Smith. Pace is co-host of The Dervish and the Mermaid, a podcast about living wholehear...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “Emergency Self-Care vs. Consistent Self-Care” with yours truly! Have you been using every last drop of your energy without giving any thought to how you are replenish...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “Self-Care & The Creative Life” writer, editor, and creativity mentor Anna Lovind. Anna helps feminist creatives and change-makers go from dreaming to doing – with...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “The Self-Care You Need vs. The Self-Care You’re Sold'” with yours truly! Are you exhausted of quick fixes and one-sized fits all solutions when it comes to your...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “Motherhood, Connection & Self-Care” with Tara Pringle Jeffereson. Tara is a writer, speaker, and self-care coach with a lifelong passion for creating community. S...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, including today’s podcast episode, “The Promise of a ‘Good Body'” with yours truly! Have you ever caught yourself believing that your life would be better if YOU were “better”? As in, if you had a...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is on a much-needed hiatus as I prepare for season 4. During this time I am bringing you my very favorite episodes from the last four years, starting with today’s episode which features Amber Karnes, founder of Body Positive Yoga! Amber Karnes is the founder of Body Positive Yoga . She’s a ruckus maker, yoga teacher, social justice advocate,...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you check in with yourself when you wake up in the morning? Or, do you wake up and immediately dive into tackling the things on your ever-mounting to-do list? Today’s podcast explores the practice of connecting with your mind, body, and spirit as a daily tool to bolster self-partnership and self-trust. So many of us have been raised and conditioned to see...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Self-trust and self-awareness are the building blocks of a cultivating a supportive relationship with yourself, but they rarely happen accidentally. Instead, they require compassionate attention and practice. But… what does that practice really look like on a daily basis? In this episode, I was joined by Lisa Olivera. Lisa is a writer, therapist, partner, for...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Are you aware of how the messages you receive about your body impacts your relationship with it? In this episode, Dr. Joy Cox and I are getting deep and talking about weight stigma, fat acceptance, and what it really means to respect and care for your body.  Dr. Joy Cox is a body justice advocate using her skill set in research and leadership to foster social...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you expect your energy to be constant every day, 365 days a year? Do you beat yourself up or judge yourself harshly for not consistently not living up to your expectations for how much you “should” be able to get done each day? This episode is for you.  Tune in to hear me talk about how understanding and aligning with our personal energy rhythms is one of...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! It’s no secret that our bodies need movement. However, many of us are recovering from abusive relationships with exercise that keeps us from being able to move our bodies lovingly and sustainably. We might be experts on the kind of exercise that the diet and exercise industry deems “right” and “best”, but we aren’t sure how to connect with what OUR bodies nee...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! There is no way around it — you are responsible for your needs. There’s nothing more lonely than not being in relationship with yourself and abandoning your needs.  In this episode, I talk about reclaiming your neediness and allowing your needs out of the closet. This topic is a critical part of our journey of taking care of ourselves in the way we deeply yea...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Are you giving your thoughts too much control over you? Our thoughts are so powerful and have the ability to manipulate how we feel about a certain situation or person. They can even impact our health, physiological symptoms we experience within our bodies, and the level of safety we experience while navigating our lives.  In today’s episode, I spoke with Vic...