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Oh wowie, more medical musings! I had caffeine and sugar and I get on a rolllllll. If you don't like medical musings wait until the next episode - hehehe! All in all, I ask the question, when and how do you attend to your pain? What do you need now? Sending you lots of love!

Did you ever have a snow day as a kid? The world seemed to pause and pick up the next day where it left off. When do you experience a full pause without concern of missing anything or getting behind? What is made possible if collectively we decide to have a snow day, or hour or 10 minutes? What insights, information, inspiration, might emerge to help us connect with our deepest humanity and build...

Two stories today.. healing lessons of acceptance and flexibility. Sending you love!

Wow, 2-2-22 what a day! As we launch into the new lunar year, let's take stock... what are the areas you feel that you are experiencing groundhog's day, a repeated pattern that you would like to shift? Let's approach this with compassion and curiosity, which for me have served as the beginnings of an exit ramp from a pattern. Sending you lots of love! And.. Happy Birthday Mary Randall Marchese!

Pickles, origins of words and phrases, and the power of metaphor to learn about ourselves and our lives. One podcast pickle only please!

there are big and small ways we are limited in our ability to minimize the pain and suffering of others. How do we witness pain in those whom we love? How do we witness our own pain?

Sometimes when a relationship or community or situation doesn't feel right we think there is something wrong with us. It may just not be a fit. Listen to your body. When we can accept and honor the truth (not easy!) we liberate ourselves. I did that recently and today felt some new lightness, joy and energy. Also, I had fun playing wordle, that helps!

"To truly and freely grieve as an entire people can revive an entire culture just as much as it can bring back to life an individual." Martín Prechtel, author The smell of rain on dust. Let's learn to honor our grief in ourselves and one another. To purchase this book from Kina Reed's bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/the-smell-of-rain-on-dust-grief-and-praise/9781583949399

Listen to your voice and heart about how to live and to be. Let those ideas live, you don't have to decide yet. You don't have to have it all figured out. One day at a time. Sending you so much love. 

Finding humor in daily life, especially now.

Reflecting on process, assumptions and experimenting with different ways of being. 

how about we close our eyes, go inward. Explore your heart and information. Visit restful and rejuvenating places through visualization. 

When do you take on great challenges to prove you can do it? Maybe now isn't the time for that? Why not take the simple route when we have a choice?

If you can rest, rest. How often do you feel the urge to "be productive"? Let's reflect on our relationship to productivity. 

have compassion for yourself. consider giving yourself permission to consider simplifying your life.

Getting back into the year can feel mushy. I share thoughts about zoom, wasteful meetings, and how to be true to ourselves, while icing my arm. Happy Friday! :)

Heading into a new year can feel overwhelming because of the pressure to make a "plan" for everything. Let's question this assumption, and explore what feels right for you!

Let's take up space! Not apologize for being! 2022 here we goooo!

Getting back to the swing of things and feeling overwhelmed? How might you show gentleness to yourself this week? What kind of soup will you eat? :) immieats.com is the plant based instant ramen I reference.

Kicking off the year strong with sending some returns in the mail, FedEx, UPS, AND USPS, boom! Also, some thoughts on routine and learning to kick off the year. Sending you many well wishes!

Heading in to the New Year can bring up all sorts of feelings. Validate your feelings. There may be an opportunity to create a new relationship to the New Year, if that feels appropriate for you, if it does, start with asking different questions. 

What would you like to experience more of? Less of? Maybe we aren't meant to be at a 10 in all areas of life at the same time. We move through seasons. What season is this for you? What is appropriate for you now? How might you say "yes," to what is yearning to emerge?

As we bring 2021 to a close, I share my perspective on intentions vs. resolutions. And this might not be a year to put pressure on yourself, it might be a year of patience, compassion, gentleness and understanding. Ask yourself. Wishing you more space, knowledge and expression of you in 2022, in any area, in any amount. Sending you love!

Receiving a box of pears from my aunt this year was meaningful, and brought up an old memory of my "coming out" Christmas 13 years ago that I share in this episode. When it is all said and done, you are whole, beautiful and wonderful, exactly how you are. Here's to holding our pain gently and lovingly. Here's to creating friend and family environments which honor and celebrate our authenticity, id...

Our life is made up of some highs and some lows and many in-betweens. How might we sho up to our daily activities with gratitude and presence? When we aren't able to.. let's give ourselves some grace.