For Thought's Sake

We took a month off to reconnect as friends.   Our visual interpretations of going into 2023: Gymnasts and Cat's Dont Dance   Looking forward to Season 4 of For Thought's Sake starting up in January!    

Is trick-or-treating a dying Halloween tradition?   Feeling yourself in the way you dress and curating your wardrobe accordingly.   I want to feel this way in the clothes I wear, but I don't want to be perceived by others.    Region based wardrobe standards for the workplace and social events.   Validation when others witness your synchronistic, spiritual experiences.    Knowing when signs are spe...

Setting boundaries with spirits about when and how to communicate with you.    Hosting a dumb supper for deceased loved ones.   Grieving around the time of death anniversaries.     Samhain as a platform to use spiritual practices to navigate your grief as well as honor those who have passed.    How the deceased may try to get your attention through signs, synchronicities, and the five senses.   Fo...

Organized religion based trauma.   Guilt, shame, safety, trust.   The act of ritual in relation to compulsive personalities and addictive behavior.    Types of therapists and strategies used during therapy sessions.   Client led therapy. Trauma therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy.   Therapist as triage doctor vs. therapist as sounding board.    Ghostly interference in real time as we are recordi...

Identity conundrums revealed through everyday tasks like cooking.     Denying yourself of what you naturally gravitate towards for fear of judgement.   Linking daily activities to spirituality, mysticism and intentionality.   Ceasing to do tasks and activities that previously were a part of your identity.    What happens to friendships when you no longer have similar interests or lifestyle choices...

Wanting to be acknowledged for previous trauma or challenges in life so that it validates why we are where we are in life.   Trauma as qualifiers for bad behavior vs. sharing lived experience in order to connect and inform.   Don't Worry Darling and why Alex cried at the end.   Is being emotionally affected by a film indicative of a wound needing to be addressed and tended to? Or is it just an ack...

Consciously embracing seasonal changes.    Parts of self that only emerge in certain seasons.    Hearthwitch vibes during Autumn.   Flowing with what you know is true for you or serves you best in each season.    Curating an aesthetic for spooky season.    What kinds of scary movies we like or don't like and why.   Halloween happenings.    Wild Iris Collective candles in harvest aromas.   Follow u...

Family gathering shenanigans.   Reverting to a childlike mindset when with family. Unhealed inner child issues?   Different dynamics with different families and different challenges to navigate.   How do you recharge your batteries as an introvert when you are with guests or family?    Harder to "escape" for some alone time when you're with a smaller group of people.   The pressure of hosting or c...

Alex's complicated anniversary from her marriage that ended.    Being a "tapper outer" in relationships.    Sometimes it's not the person/relationship that needs to change, but other variables that are shiftable or fixable.   How do you meet your own needs while being in a relationship? How do you find balance between the two?    Taking the time to invest in yourself so you don't lose yourself in...

Learning your love style. To take the quiz do a google search for: NY Times what is your love style?   Possessive, unselfish, best friends. . . what's your style?    Bonding styles: one to one, one to many, many to many, solo.   AJ explains her path to figuring out her sexual orientation and gender identity.    Communication with a partner in navigating a change in bonding style.   Bonding styles...

Energetic, spiritual, & trickster magic.   Alex had magical, synchronistic experiences in relation to getting acupuncture.    Spirits contacting you through music.    AJ did an insane tarot card reading that blew her mind in accurate as well as unsettling ways.     "Oh this is so delicious I need a spoon."    Doing readings for other people and watching out for trickster energy intervening.    Car...

Reflecting on the first half of the year and planning for the second half of the year.   The Power of Ritual by Casper de Kuile. Finding connection to yourself and to others through ritual building.    Cultivating consistency in your routines.   Mental and emotional resources going into stressing about doing something are a greater detriment than to just engage in the routine you're stressing abou...

How to make decisions surrounding your pet's end of life transition.   What vets do and don't say when treating an animal that is reaching end of life.    Tracking your pet's symptoms vs their behavior.   Scheduling out and picking a date for euthanasia.   What happens when the vet comes to your house to perform the procedure.    Trusting your intuition as you navigate the entire process.   Synchr...

AJ has an epic story about trying to be social and meeting new people at a party.    Here's the setup: AJ is rocking a coven look as if she just stepped out of the movie The Craft. People over 40 reliving their youth by day drinking and punk rock moshing. Hosted at a haunted house.    How do you determine whether a social event is worth it?    "Drinking culture is f***ing my social life."   Why is...

Channeling rage into activism and community support.    Protesting - what is involved, how it happens.    Moving from a pro-life perspective to a pro-choice perspective.   Religious parroting. Adopting what religious leaders are saying in order to fit into the community.    Inquisition and critical thinking is not valued in religious spaces.    Holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously and se...

Final Maddie update.   Universe will give you reminders of how challenging something is to keep you from choosing it again or romanticizing it.    Problems with identity and whether you can identify as something when you no longer do it professionally.   Shame based narrative of feeling inadequate.   Not meeting your own expectations or living up to your potential. Wanting to be seen, but feeling...

Somatics as an integration of what you're experiencing and how it presents in the body.    Weird movements and positions we do with our body as we experience or try to process emotions.    Sometimes our body is yelling at us like an alarm saying, "Do you understand what is going on and how you are feeling right now?!"    Normalizing doing somatic practices in front of other people. Let the weird l...

The Maddie Saga. It's not good now, but it's going to be good later.     How do you follow your moral compass when you are in a seemingly impossible situation where no option is a good option?   People and animals need help and there are not enough resources operating effectively enough to help them.   Trying to help stray animals is similar to trying to help children within various social systems...

Maddie Update (Stray dog Alex is taking care of!)    When it comes to what our bodies need in order to function is it nature or nurture?    Sleep deprivation and how to handle the emotions that arise because of it.    When you're not in a position to experience the emotions coming up in the moment, how do you acknowledge and move through it?    Utilizing your five senses to redirect your brain and...

Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio near the South Node. Basically experiencing a bunch of f*ckery. Could be catharsis or a mental break.    Lunar Eclipse brought AJ some intense oversharing moments.   Lunar Eclipse brought Alex a stray puppy.    PSA - when you buy a puppy from a pet store, you are supporting puppy mills and dog breeders who grossly mistreat and abuse animals.   Dogs with separation anxiety....

Our first guest of Season 3!    Kristin Collier has 20 years of experience working in the behavior science field and teaching nonviolent communication. Her book Housewife got international attention and won four awards including a Nautilus (silver), awarded in the past to Barbara Kingsolver, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Dalai Lama. She teaches a new course called Core Alignment with Joy that AJ has al...

We took a few weeks off due to unforeseen circumstances. We got too close to the veil. . . spiritual veil and zoom veil.    Light box. Helps with seasonal affective disorder, depression, anxiety.   Do you wear sunscreen on your face on a daily basis?     Concerned about skin cancer? Or aging of the skin and face? Bit of both?    Starting to notice the aging process in our 30's.    Skincare from th...

The Gilded Age vs. Bridgerton vs. Downton Abbey   Personality tests: DiSC Type, Chronotype, and Enneagram   Are workplace personality assessments invasive or helpful?    Can personality tests be a tangible way to promote conscious communication about our strengths and weaknesses?    What are we projecting with who we are or who we think we should be when we take these tests? How does that skew the...

Does your hair mean enough to you to want to spend money on it?    Are people spending money they don't have on their aesthetic and appearance?    Are we trying to meet others' expectations of what our hair should look like?    If external expectations or standards were removed what would we choose for ourselves?    How do we figure out what we are doing and why when we are ingrained in capitalism...

Texting or emailing to help you get to the root of what you are intending before hitting send.   What response is actually true and what is just your ego being cranky?   People with a uterus problems.    PMDD - Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.   The intersection of mental illness, hormones, and behavior.   Period symptoms. We're getting graphic folx.   The learning curve is unbelievable for our ow...