Meanderings with Trudy

Ritual and storytelling… intertwined these are. And when conducted using the framework of the Enneagram, I have learned a great deal about myself that has supported my personal development and enriched my relationships. In short, this is what this kind of work is all about. As we’ve said before on these PauseCasts, the Enneagram gives us permission to pause, and in that pause, to look at who we be...

We start our meander with a reading from Richard Wagamese (Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) novelist, journalist, and mentor), a passage from his book "Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations" which I think is really about hope. How it’s not enough to be resilient if being so means bouncing back to the same place… what he wants for himself, and offers to us, is to reach Beyond resilience, to a new place of growth,...

In episode 2 on the enneagram, we tackle wholeheartedness, relationship and heart using the lens of the Enneagram. Angie and I also “show our work” here as we wrestle with the concepts, and how to keep things accessible to listeners at all levels of familiarity with the framework…. Not an easy task. In short, the Enneagram helps us see ourselves. It really is a practice of paying attention: to our...

Episode one: The Enneagram. I laid the table at the end of January 2023 with my genesis story of the Enneagram and today, Angie shares hers… and a whole lot more. So what is this thing, the Enneagram? Is it a tool or a model to make me “better?” Is it a map, or an app? Is this an alone thing or do I need community? If it supports spiritual development, does that mean it is religious? We meander al...

Today, we meander On Wonder, and wrap up the fall season in anticipation of our winter break. Like our previous topic, On Reverence, On Wonder came to us as a bit of a surprise. It felt like a natural follow on from On Reverence, and is deeply connected to joy, so… here we are. Wonder, like reverence, and grace, is hard to define. This is a particular problem in English as wonder means many things...

One of the things I love about talking with Melissa is that she IS a podcaster herself. Meandering with her is kind of like playing badminton…she so easily slips into interview mode, batts me the birdie giving me space to wonder about my past as a parent, for example, and then I batt it back to her and she gets to talk about Beyoncé! Such is the gift of talking with people in this big world of our...

Today, we meander On Reverence. We landed in this space unexpectedly in our previous PauseCast, when we explored On Worry, and Angie talked about how worry is a human response that takes us away from reverence. And reverence, well, last week Angie told us that “…reverence is a recognition of awe and wonder for all of life…” This week, she built on that saying that “…reverence is to see life as a g...

In chapter two of Dina’s book, we’re looking at reconciling loss. We start with last month’s exercise to look at our loss maps, and my extrapolation out, looking at belonging. It’s a great example of how to do the exercise and apply the learning to our own lives. Dina tells us that reconciling loss is about reasserting harmony in our experience, and with the insight from my loss map, I find more h...

Today we meander around Worry… what it looks like, feels like, and how it connects to joy. To be honest, there seems like a lot to worry about these days, maybe it has always been this way, I can’t say. But today, today’s days feel heavy.  In a nutshell, worry is about control of how we want things to be but are concerned that they won’t be. It’s about “should be” things… so, how do we find our wa...

Resilience... that's what lies at the heart of today's meander. Michelle is a career coach and what I noticed is how she used her recovery experience in her blog where she writes to people facing career transitions. “Find joy in the journey” is a guiding principle that helps her in both her life and her work. A big insight also came to her while she was in recovery – that people really did want to...

Today’s PauseCast continues our dive into the bigger topic of Change. Last session we looked at abundance and scarcity, and we often see these two as opposites. But… the opposite of abundance isn’t scarcity, it’s actually Enough. At least we think so.  This is a real wrestle folks… as we meandered around, we realized just how difficult a topic this is to get our arms around. How do we approach the...

In this second episode in our book review, we look at chapter one, which is all about grappling with grief. The starting point is understanding that we all grapple in different ways. And that is absolutely as it should be. But most of us don’t know how we grapple, and don’t realize that others ways can be different. So that is where we start, and we meander from there. I hope you find this both he...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored by the guests who give of their time, and by my company, Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is gratefully received and is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Live life j...

Today’s topic is held in a bigger topic: On Change. Our more precise focus today is on abundance and scarcity and how it shows up in our lives.  Abundance can be both joyful and a burden. It can mean safety and plenty of food, good health and social connection, many other things,  but pushed too far, it becomes too much… a need for ever-more of whatever it is that makes us feel safe. Grasping. Tak...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Leslie’s  website , and her book:  Coaching Life: Navigating Life's Most Common Coaching Topics Leslie’s  YouTube Channel and her  Song Stories Playlist . Played with permission in this episode, is her song Joy . Make sure you take some time and watch her uplifting video as well. She references “ Bag of Stones Song Story ” today and she tells the story of  Jill Bolte Taylor’s...

In this episode, this launch into season four, we return to a grade school practice of sharing about our summer vacations, and then lay the table for where we plan to meander this year. And we dip our toes in the topic of perspective… from the point of view of an old apple tree that lives on Angie’s property at Big Stone House. Perspective, and wisdom, from a 100+ year old apple tree. I hope you e...

In this first episode in our book review, we’re exploring the information in the Prelude of Dina’s book, “Grief Unleased: Moving from the hole in our hearts to wholehearted.” The Prelude sets the table for the book, sharing her “why” in writing…. which is to dispel the myths around grief, to demystify it in service of living a more full life, so we can better embody our experience and grow as a re...

Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored by the guests who give of their time, and by my company, Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is gratefully received and is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Live life joyfully, and alwa...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored by the guests who give of their time, and by my company, Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is gratefully received and is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Live life j...

We had a slow start to summer 2023 but we've made up for it with a very active August. Trips to Lac McGlashan, Toronto and a few other spots, with soundscapes for you here, fresh off the recorder! Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored b...

I hope you enjoy this soundscape. I’ll be back to you with fresh interviews in the first week of October. In the meanwhile, happy September… a new time of rebirth in the cadence of our lives. Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored by the...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Therese's FaceBook Instagram Her website As always, this podcast is sponsored by the guests who give of their time, and by my company, Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is gratefully received and is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Live life joyfully, and always let kindness guide you.

Chapman Coaching Inc. Visit Margaret Anne on Instagram And to see where she is teaching felting, visit the Saint John Arts Centre for her workshops   David Whyte poetry and Three Sundays workshops and leadership coaching Canadian poet rupi kaur Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Thoughts and comments, send to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponso...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Siobhan mentioned two mentors: visual artist Michael Goodson and Ottawa School of Art printmaking teacher Robert Hinchley (visual artist), as well as a few of the artists who have inspired her approaches to art making: Robert Rauschenberg , Jean Michel Basquiat , Jane Ash Poitras (art: National Gallery of Canada , interview ), and Delita Martin . Her exhibit of linocuts and i...

Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to  meanderingswithtrudy@gmail.com As always, this podcast is sponsored by the guests who give of their time, and by my company, Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is gratefully received and is called  Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Live life joyfully, and always let kindness...