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

Send Mara a quick text love note here! There is so much power in your reclamation. Taking the time to pause and give yourself a break is a real gift that allows you to have the capacity to pour into others. In this episode, I was joined by Dionne Ruff-Sloan. Dionne  is an Elemental Wisdom Mentor and Oracle Reader here to help you learn to trust your inner wisdom and kick your insecurities to the c...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Society has a funny way of teaching people to loathe themselves. For so long, we’ve been conditioned into thinking that accepting ourselves as we are equals becoming stagnant. But that’s not true. You can accept yourself fully while also making room for growth. You don’t have to choose between the two. In this episode, I explored how you can reimagine how you...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Pleasure is a big part of our needs and it comes in many forms. Tending to your need for pleasure can be connecting with yourself or someone else in an intimate way, or it can be nourishing yourself with a delicious meal or taking time to relax and do something enjoyable for you. You might tend to your need for pleasure by massaging your skin, surrounding you...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you handle your dreams and visions for what might be possible for you? In this episode, I shared a book by Kobi Yamada called What Do You Do With an Idea? This book is something that I believe we can all take something away from. The message behind it is critical for bringing your needs to the forefront of exploring the ideas that you have for the life...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you ever taken the time to truly connect with your deepest desires? It can feel daunting to do so, but has the potential to unlock so much delicious goodness in your life. In this episode, I had the honor of interviewing Sarah Flick about her experience of connecting with her deepest desires.  Sarah Flick is a psychiatrist, a spiritual director, and a wr...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! We are conditioned to only appreciate ourselves during our ‘highs’ — our expansions when we are completing big projects, pulling off heroic efforts, or securing culturally significant milestones. We learn to associate our value as a human being with these bright shiny moments where we are making things happen in our lives in big, sparkly, wonderful ways. It m...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! We all deserve to trust the bodies we’re in and to feel fully liberated as we are. In this episode, I was joined by Nicola Haggett, a Body Liberation Mentor and Intuitive Eating Coach. Nicola helps you to heal your relationship with food, unlearn body shame, and live your fullest life right now in the body you’re in. She is a professionally trained coach and...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! What are you really waiting for? What is stopping you from starting to take better care of yourself? What keeps you from knowing that you are worthy of care? A lot of times, we bargain and come up with reasons why we don’t deserve care yet. But without caring for your own needs, you will be depleted of energy. In this episode, I talk about energy leaks that a...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you ever struggle to bring up difficult or awkward conversations? Or even if you know you need to do it, you’re unsure of where to start and feel overwhelmed with the thought of it? For today’s episode, I was joined by Michelle Anthony LaCroix. As a writer, program facilitator, and a life-long sensitive person, Michelle aims to help conflict avoiders and o...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! For so many of us, the idea of tender stewardship is a complete paradigm shift. Fully embodying your tender stewardship of your body, life, and relationships is difficult because we’ve been taught that what’s right, best, or good is to be last on our list. In this episode, I talk about the pressures of the never-ending to-do lists and the pain that can come f...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Sometimes loving yourself means holding yourself accountable for your self-care, even when you’re too tired or don’t feel like it. This is something that today’s guest, Jessie Harold has discovered in her own life through tending to herself and her needs. Jessie is a coach, women’s mentor and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transforma...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! You matter. No matter what anyone else does or says. You matter and you don’t need anyone else’s permission to take up this space in your own life. If your needs aren’t being met, you might be getting caught up in a cycle of neediness, where you don’t ask for what you need, your needs don’t get met, and, ultimately, you internalize this as your needs not matt...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Saying yes to all of the parts of you are and really investing in who it is that you want to be is critical to living a life that is filled with joy. In today’s episode, I had a delicious conversation with Tiffany Han about how to say yes to yourself with a greater sense of ease and grace. Tiffany is a coach, writer, speaker, and podcast host who teaches smar...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! When the shit hits the fan or the pain is too much to bear, we sometimes let our needs fall to the wayside. But, despite the circumstances, you still need to take care of yourself. This care might look remarkably different than your care during regular times, but it is even more important. A lot of people I know and love are grieving right now so I wanted to...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! In today’s episode, I was joined by Bethany Webster. Bethany helps women to understand and heal their mother wounds. We discussed her new book, Discover Your Inner Mother and how learning to tend to your needs often involves reparenting yourself.  In 2013 Bethany Webster published an article entitled “Why it’s Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound” based...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Often learning how to tend to yourself includes learning to embrace your inner child and exploring what lights you up. That’s something that today’s guest Bear Hebert has learned to do as they have explored how to tend to their own needs. Bear Hebert is a radical life coach, social justice educator, and anti-capitalist business consultant with a deep understa...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! A lot of times, people experience shame when their actions don’t compare with that idealized version of who they’ve imagined themselves to be. Truth bomb: You’ll never be able to meet the expectations that you have for the idealized version of yourself. The idealized version of yourself is just a figment of your own imagination and a result of your social con...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Your body is a key aspect of your healing journey when you navigate mental health challenges. That’s what led today’s guest, Jennifer Sterling to the work she does as a Registered Dance/Movement Psychotherapist and Holistic Nutritionist. Jennifer is also the creator of Bodyful Healing, an initiative that offers support and resources to Black women living with...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Over the course of the last few weeks there has been an enormous uptick in conversations about race both online and off — specifically, the systemic, institutional racism that the Black community has faced in the United States for hundreds of years. The recent tragic losses of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade have moved this conver...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Loss is constantly occurring in our lives and in the world around us, and learning how to tend to these painful, grief-soaked, and transformative moments is an incredibly powerful and necessary practice. Here to help us explore and unpack that practice today is the brilliant Lucy May Taylor. As a Death Awareness Educator and Writer, Lucy’s work and words are...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! CW: This episode discusses miscarriage and birth trauma. Our bodies hold memories of our painful and traumatic experiences, but the way that you tend to yourself and lean into what you need can help you to heal past wounds. By acknowledging what you’ve been through whether it be grief, trauma, or whatever else that lives within you, you’re able to move forwar...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! When you think about being in “right relationship” what comes to mind? In this episode, I had the pleasure of being joined by James-Olivia Chu Hillman. James-Olivia (they/them) is a Relational Life & Leadership Coach and a mediator, facilitator, and enthusiastic advocate of necessary, uncomfortable, and life-changing conversations. They work with people w...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! When was the last time you celebrated something you did? For a lot of us the thought of celebrating wins, big or small, can feel a little uncomfortable. It requires us to embrace our enoughness. It requires us to validate and approve of ourselves — whether or not other people deem us worthy of celebration. In this episode I am urging you to rethink how you ce...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you tend to your need for belonging? In today’s age we are all so connected, but there are still so many of us who feel a sense of loneliness and disconnection. In today’s episode, I had the pleasure of discussing belonging with Becca Piastrelli. Becca is a writer, womxn’s coach, and host of the Belonging podcast. She holds space for womxn to explore a...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Do you have boundaries with yourself? A lot of people might not consider this, but we have to put boundaries in place with ourselves to make sure we’re tending to our own needs.  Creating boundaries with yourself will bring your energy back. You’ll regain the energy to tend to the parts of your life that you’re truly responsible for maintaining.  Your energy...