Meditate with Tia

During pregnancy, I find that listening to guided meditations is the most helpful way to practice. It's a great way to receive in this season, allowing yourself to unwind and be nurtured by the words in the audio recording. Guided meditation can help us connect with our pregnant body and growing baby, show ourselves loving-kindness and compassion, and practice presence rather than getting lost in...

Exploration of the impact of craving and desire in one's own inner world is at the core of mindfulness and meditation practice. Dismantling the habit of desire can bring about some of the most profound inner transformation available within mindfulness practice. While acknowledging our greedy tendencies is a key component, this habit of craving in humans extends far beyond material and superficial...

Use this guided meditation to help calm the nervous system, reframe anxious thoughts and practice loving kindness towards oneself. This guided meditation is a visualization to help you nurture your inner child by adopting the view of a wise being from a porch swing. Inspired by a piece of prose from my book  Nurture: poems from motherhood.

Creativity is a way of life for me. It's prioritizing habits and environments that foster creativity, doing everything in my power to make space to create, staying open to ideas and being grateful when they come. It's finding new ways to create, seeking out the creative process in daily tasks and noticing art in everyday moments. It's returning to awareness of the magnificence of human creative in...

Here is a guided body scan meditation to deepen into the body and surrender to all that arises in your experience: Find a comfortable position, sitting or lying down. Closing down the eyes, beginning to drop into the body. Becoming aware of sensations of contact points of your body to the chair or ground. Using this time to get out of our heads and into our bodies. A time to cultivate positive ene...

When I think back to ten years ago, it makes sense that meditation practice offered relief when I felt at war with my own mind. It was a taste of an entirely different way of being. I did not have to fight the thoughts—I could surrender to what was arising, watch them, release judgment, accept them, let them pass and find refuge in the present moment. This meditation is really the foundation of me...

Is life leaving you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, stressed or anxious? Today, I'm joined by Rachael Kable, host of The Mindful Kind podcast who is passionate about empowering people around the world to live more mindfully in fun, simple and meaningful ways. Rachael shares how you can be present in the moment by developing an attitude of curiosity and open-mindedness and how to build a consistent...

How are you prioritizing yourself? As entrepreneurs, we can easily succumb to prioritizing our business, our clients and all the other things that it can be hard to put ourselves first. Today on Dream Big, Live Slow, I'm chatting with Kate Eskuri, creator of The Foundation Blog , a modern woman's guide to all things slow living, integrative health, and holistic self-care. Kate shares how you can c...

You are not your work. In today's intense work culture of working from home, we can fall into the trap of working 24/7 that we easily equate our job with our identity. But you need to see your worth as being innate and something that lives within your soul. Your job is a manifestation of your deeper purpose. Today, I'm sharing with you the tools that have helped me navigate through this and how yo...

Having a mindfulness practice allows you to slow down, create the space to check in with your mental health, spend more time in the present moment and be able to live a more virtuous, peaceful and happier life. But it's not easy to show up every day to practice taking these quiet moments. In today's episode, I'm sharing with you why it's important to have a meditation practice, how you can get sta...

When starting your business, the desire to grow quickly can be completely overwhelming. If you can build a solid foundation from a sustainable scaling strategy, then it can really drive growth in a meaningful manner. But you need to be intentional about scaling and become conscious of the areas that require your attention. Today, I'm bringing in the expert, Pia Beck, a business consultant and CEO...

Are you constantly feeling exhausted and just can't pinpoint why? In a world that asks us to prioritize progress and productivity over our own actual health and well-being, we are easily consumed by the pressures of trying to chase and live up to expectations causing us to burn out and eventually crash out. But how do you recover from it? How do you change things from that point on? My guest today...

The New Year is here which means it's time to make a resolution or two. We tell ourselves this will be the year I lose weight, gain more clients, launch that course, earn more money, gain more followers…go BIG! But as a dreamer and business owner, you feel this heavy responsibility and pressure to do something ground-breaking, life-changing to make a huge impact because you are looking at the big...

The holidays are a joyous time but it can also be a stressful time of year. And you want to be able to find a way to relax and not let all this stress consume you. But you need to release yourself first from this fight or flight mode. Today, I'm diving into the 3 foundational tools we've touched on throughout Season 1 of the Dream Big, Live Slow podcast of breathwork, compassionate practice and gr...

Many of us are feeling overwhelmed, stressed and have a sense of heaviness with everything that is going on in the world. And if you can find a way to stop living a life of fight or flight mode then you will be able to change the way your mind deals with adversity and better manage the everyday stressors of life. But you've adopted this go-go-go mindset to constantly keep going, to keep doing more...

When you are running your own business, you can easily find yourself rushing around prioritizing the demands of your business and putting the needs of your clients and your team members first before even thinking about prioritizing yourself. And if you can find the time in your day to put yourself first and your wellbeing then you are able to make better, informed decisions as an entrepreneur and...

Self-love is all about self-worth and when you learn to love yourself you will unlock the key to living your life in the way that you want to. But you're not putting in the inner work to learn to love yourself so you can build up your self-esteem, gain back your confidence and be more resilient to any challenges life throws at you.  Today on Dream Big, Live Slow I'm chatting with my dear friend, E...

When your home is also your office, being able to separate your work life from your personal life can be increasingly challenging. And you want to be able to create an intentional environment that encourages mindfulness so you can be more focused, productive and fully present and engaged during your workday. But you're viewing your living space as one that only meets your physical needs instead of...

When we are so focused on chasing our big dreams, we tend to be zoomed in on running after our goals and desires that we forget how to slow down in the process. It is so easy for us to lose sight of what is most important in our lives. Today is a short and sweet one for you. But I wanted to share this powerful mindfulness tool with you called the Zooming Out practice.  Being able to zoom out gives...

"People don't buy what you do or how you do it, they buy why you do it." We all started our business with a passion to chase our dreams and if you can dig deep into discovering the why in your business then it will help you stay committed to your dream and allow your business to flourish. But do you truly know why you do what you do? Why your business exists? And how you can stay focused on your p...

We each have this one amazing chance to build lives we love. And you know you deserve to live a life full of happiness, abundance and freedom on all levels - emotionally, spiritually and financially. You have this inner knowing that you deserve more than just a mediocre life. But how do you learn to trust yourself and find the courage to take bold action towards creating a life of your dreams? It'...

We're all trying to run our business and we want it to be successful. You want to make a difference in the world, be able to chase those big dreams and do what you love. But often you can get easily consumed by all the outside noise and external influences of the world that you lose sight of your vision, your confidence and sometimes even yourself. It's being able to tap into the truth of knowing...

Where does professionalism end and where does perfectionism begin? I believe the word perfectionism is just another fancy word for professionalism. You often feel like you have to do everything perfectly in order to achieve success in your life and business. You want to be the perfect human, have the perfect business, never make a mistake that when you do you are so ashamed of yourself. But your r...

Is modern marketing ethical? There are so many marketing strategies and tactics out there that are purely product-focused and sales-driven. And as entrepreneurs, we are taught all these different marketing approaches that we know are crucial for us to be able to sell our products, our services and our offers so that we can grow our business. But often, selling feels crummy and icky to you and it j...

We all go through our struggles in some form or another leading us down a hole of emotional turmoil and suffering. These struggles all stem from the same thing - attachment. It's human nature for us to hold on to things in an effort to find happiness and comfort. But how do you let go of these attachments when your mind is clinging so tightly, you don't want to let it go because you really want it...