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The Allegory & Elm Shop is LIVE! https://allegoryandelm.com/shop/   It’s time to get balls deep into some Allegory & Elm swag. Rock a hat, a shirt, & nothing else. Do a pants dance, Shoot the Shit, & Be Real.  Check it out at https://allegoryandelm.com/shop/ We all have dreams.  We all have things we want to accomplish in this life.  Our actions are often not in alignment with atta...

The Allegory & Elm Shop is LIVE! https://allegoryandelm.com/shop/   It’s time to get balls deep into some Allegory & Elm swag. Rock a hat, a shirt, & nothing else. Do a pants dance, Shoot the Shit, & Be Real.  Check it out at https://allegoryandelm.com/shop/   Today on the cast Katie and I discuss some of Katie's biggest fears, Andrew's need to control things, and we disc...

One of my biggest struggles as a grown ass man, is finding meaningful male friendships.  I recently discovered that I am not alone in feeling this way.  I also learned this is far too common among men and that we all genuinely crave connection.  We often just mask it behind trying to be or become this "Mythical Man." Am I a Man?  What does that even mean?  We often hear phrases like &quo...

Are you living into your highest self, your fullest potential?  Or are you settling?  Are you an addict to the high highs and the low lows but struggle with the messy middle?  This is often where peace is found.  Today, on the podcast, we have Alex Matteo, Host of Pull It Together, here to talk about creativity and how it is key to untapping your highest self. Hosted by the charmingly neurotic Ale...

Who will you be in the future?  Will you be a total Dick, or will you be someone that your current self is blown away by?  Will you be so much better of a version of yourself that you are almost unrecognizable to your current self?  We can only get to our future selves, the Future Self we want to be (the idealized version of ourself) by planning and carefully crafting the human we want to become....

YOU ARE WORTHY!  That is what we are talking about today on the Podcast.  You are worthy of so much more than you think.  You are worthy of so much more than you allow.  You are worthy of your best and truest life and of becoming the exact person you want to be.  You are worthy.  I struggle with this.  I'm writing it just as much for me as I am you.  I believe that you are worthy, but self wo...

What does it mean to claim your life?  What does that look like?  Today on The Allegory and Elm Podcast we explore how claiming things can be a powerful tool in you determining the trajectory of your life.  You don't have to sit idly by and wait for life to happen to you.  Claim that shit! If you want to support the show and toss us a few bones, you can do so by visiting https://www.patreon.c...

What is The Inner Knowing?  Many call it god, some call it it spirit, source, and others just think of it as energy.  There are certain things that we just feel in our bones.  As a culture we are obsessed with fairness, rightness, and knowledge.  The inner knowing can be a guide to us.  Sometimes we access it during meditation, prayer, or even just being in nature.  We each have our own individual...

Are you living life on purpose?  Have you ever thought to yourself, is this it?  Is this all there is?  Do you feel like you were made for more, but don’t know where to start?  Embrace Yourself Whole is Katie May's coaching business with programs that are designed to help you reclaim your time, space, and energy so you can embrace who you are and live a whole, heart-centered life.  Check out...

There are things in this world, beliefs we have, that can either serve or NOT serve us.  Today on The Allegory and Elm Podcast we explore letting go of the things that are NO LONGER serving us, re-evaluating, and reinforcing the things in our lives that do serve us. A theme that kept coming up was relationships.  Your relationship to food, to alcohol, to social media, to politics, to even your fri...

The Trans community has been under attack essentially since its inception.  Sometimes people are fearful of what they don't understand.  Often fear leads us to being cruel because it gives us a pass from having to be introspective.  We can project our insecurity, our distaste, onto others because we are uncomfortable with what's different.  Trans people are people.  Let's try to see...

With everything going on in the world right now, we thought it would be a great time to talk about inclusion.  What is inclusion and why should we include people from different races, classes, sexuality, and gender identity?  Quite simply because it is right to do so.  We've all felt the feeling of being left out or excluded before.  It feels like shit.  We have the ability to treat everyone...

It is one thing to die healed, but to live healed is something entirely different.  We don't have to work toward an end goal of healing.  We can practice healing on a daily basis and live in a healed state.  We can practice healing in our relationships, in our differences, in our trauma and brokenness.  We do not have to be victims.  We can acknowledge the pain, honor it, but not let it hold...

Patreon Exlcusive Episode 1 - 2020 Is A Bag of Dicks (But It Doesn't Have To Be) Support the show Welcome beautiful soul! I am so glad you are here. Connection and community are my jam, so if you would love to connect more deeply, check out our Sacred Living Community for Women, The Sacred Year Project where we learn how to come back to the sacredness of life through cyclical and seasonal liv...

What Is An Unraveling? An unraveling means to undo twisted, knotted or woven threads.  And the threads were woven deep, even since childhood.  The threads of redemption, resurrection, the promise of hope, the failure of sin, the shame, the inadequacy, the guilt, and the never being enough. Your Story Matters... and so does Katie's.  This week on The Allegory and Elm Podcast, Katie shares her...

What Is An Unraveling? An unraveling means to undo twisted, knotted or woven threads.  And the threads were woven deep, even since childhood.  The threads of redemption, resurrection, the promise of hope, the failure of sin, the shame, the inadequacy, the guilt, and the never being enough.  In looking back at my journal entries, they reflect a very tortured soul, looking to fix a problem that was...

Failures are just opportunities to grow. This week on The Allegory and Elm Podcast we are dropping one of our most important episodes yet. Often we can remain stagnant and wonder what we are missing. It seems like we should be happy. We have all the things in our lives that "should" make us happy and content, yet there is still something gnawing at us. A growth mindset is a way of living...

It is so easy to become stagnant on your growth journey.  The siren song of mediocrity beckons and many follow its call.  But we don't want that fate for you.  So what is the antidote?  Consistency!  Today on The Allegory and Elm Podcast Katie and Andrew May discuss what it looks like to remain consistent in the face of adversity.  What does it look like to show up regardless of whether you f...

Expectations.  "Expectations are just premeditated resentments."  Often we put expectations on our partner, our children, and ourselves.  If we can learn the art of tempering our expectations, we may find that we are just a little happier.  Or at the very least that we aren't pissed off because someone "failed us again."  This week on The Allegory and Elm Podcast Katie and...

A special thanks to our guests from Fools in Love Podcast Brandon and Meghan Giegling for coming on the cast today to discuss embracing discomfort.  During a time in which we all seeking comfort in things like food, Netflix, and alcohol, we discuss what it looks like to go outside your comfort zone.  Vulnerability is a key ingredient when getting outside of your comfort zone.  We have to share our...

Who do we want to be in 6 months, a year?  Let's start being that person today.  We don't have to live our lives with regret from past decisions we have made.  Those decisions do not define us.  We can be the architects of our own journey.  We get to author our own story.  This week in The Allegory and Elm Podcast, Katie and Andrew May discuss what it looks like to live your life with in...

How do we cope with a global pandemic?  What toll is this crisis having on our mental health?  Nurse Katie and Andrew explore coping strategies that are currently helping them in this difficult time for our nation.  They also share the things they are doing to relieve stress and that are helping them while the whole world has been upended. Habits play a crucial role in our consistency and our abil...

With the coronavirus causing the nation and the globe to be in a pandemic, we thought we would break from what we had planned to talk about and bring about some of our thoughts surrounding the coronavirus.  We share more of the emotional side, how it is effecting business, and the economy.  Katie tackles things from a nursing perspective and Andrew comes at it as a small business owner and entrepr...

Many of us have sexual shame or baggage that we bring into our marriage and our relationships without even realizing it.  Katie and Andrew May discuss the power behind voicing sexual shame, repression, and allowing yourself to heal in the process.  Katie gives strategies for how to help cope with sexual shame through writing your younger wounded self a letter.  Andrew opens up about a porn addicti...

So many podcasts we've listened to talk about sex, but really don't delve very deep.  No pun intended.  Some may consider it too private, and that is okay.  We are trying to break down some of the stigma surrounding sexuality and that it's okay to be into what you're into as long as it is safe and consensual.  In this episode we talk about how vital COMMUNICATION is to our sexu...