Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening

We will learn: What happens to our brains when we’re in conflict. The archetypes of difficult people so you can better identify the root of their behavior. 9 principles for getting along with anyone. Sometimes people suck. They’re passive-aggressive, sometimes straight-up aggressive, they blame you for their wounds, they steal the credit for work you did, and that’s just at work. It makes you wond...

We will learn: How to identify your mom rage triggers. Strategies for coping with rage. How to build your village, even if virtual. My baby is only 18 months, so 90% of the time it’s cuteness and cuddles and I love it so much. But there have been these moments, already, where I can just see red, I feel like he’s doing it all on purpose just to fuck with me. And I know it’s early, but if these mome...

We will learn: How to engage different levels of listening. How to validate people in conversation.  Why we get pushed away when someone fights their pain.  Do you ever have moments where you just don’t feel understood? Why is it that some conversations feel disconnected while others feel like you’re completely wrapped in them?  I think it has to do with the space that someone holds for you. It’s...

We will learn: How to call upon your animal spirits. How legends and stories can connect us with our nature. Why we’ve lost the sacred and how to bring it back. We tend to think of medicine as pharmaceuticals. In reality, medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times and it was more like an art form of knowledge and skill.  But what if we expand our view of medicine even further? What if we...

We will learn: The common barriers that make it hard for us to look at ourselves in an unbiased way.  How to ask for feedback and respond non-defensively.  How to embody humble ambition.  Whatever happened to humility?  Everyone in the world seems to have their personal brand: this is who I am and what I’ve done and how I look and everyone should follow me. The algorithm feeds our narcissism and a...

We will learn: How we screw ourselves in free-flowing arguments.  How to break through deadlocked conversations.  How to bring in empathy in times of disagreement.  Do you shy away from arguments because it’s just not worth it? Or do you run toward them, get nowhere and then feel like crap wishing you hadn’t? What I’ve found is that so many topics have so much emotion behind them, or dare I say pr...

We will learn: How we self-impose our suffering.  How to choose “feeling it out” over “figuring out out”.  A process called “painting forward” that helps you integrate new choices.  Did you know that we make an average of 35000 choices per day? Look back at yesterday. How many of those choices were you actually aware of as you were making them? The thing about those subconscious decisions is, we h...

We will learn: The power of Irish keening for releasing emotions.  How to deal with fear around loss.  How to hold presence for grief, whether for yourself or a loved one.  There’s a huge spectrum for how people deal with grief. But it’s one of those things that I feel like we need a handbook for and we just don’t have one. We used to gather around to support one another for all major life events....

We will learn: The seven most common big feelings and how to move through them. How to put a positive spin on envy. How to bust through perfectionism by replacing avoidance goals with approach goals. Do you have big emotions? How do you feel about them? Are you ashamed of them? Overwhelmed by them?  If you don’t have big feelings, have you ever asked yourself why?  The problem is, we aren’t given...

We will learn: The dangers of identifying too closely with our reflections. How to transform your relationship with mirrors. 5 basic steps to start a daily mirror meditation. Most people know their flaws so well they practically identify with them. And many people can’t even stand to look in the mirror because the feelings of shame or repulsion are so intense. The good news is, with awareness and...

We will learn: What we got wrong about toughness that actually was toxic. How to create inner confidence. Four pillars of toughness that we need to step up and do hard things. Struggle is a powerful catalyst for transformation. Some of the strongest, most fascinating and complex people in the world are people who have survived big life-changing things. But does that mean that those of us on top of...

We will learn: How to recognize the “shoulds” that are at the root of your doubts, fears, resentment, and shame.  How to call out the BS stories you create and believe about yourself.  How to stop beating yourself up over the “should haves” and what already happened.  Do you keep shoulding all over yourself? The energy of words is a powerful force. And sometimes the way we speak about a problem, a...

We will learn: How to understand the defining moments that got you here without placing blame. How to find presence, even when the present moment isn’t where you want to be. The link between radical responsibility and mindfulness-based emotional intelligence.  Whose fault is it that you are the way you are? Or that you are where you are? We tend to get tunnel vision when things aren’t going our wa...

We will learn: How mental health can impact power dynamics in relationships. Navigating what’s you and what’s your disorder. How to talk about mental health with your partner. Cultivating a healthy relationship can be hard enough. . . but what if you also struggle with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar, or a spicy little cocktail of several together? If you have struggled...

We will learn: What the Magnetic Memory Method is and how it works. How frustration hinders memory and how to release it. How to create memories that stick not just in your short-term memory, but for years and years and years. How good is your memory? If you learn something new, does your brain recall associated information you learned a month ago? It may not seem like a big deal if you need a rem...

We will learn:  How to identify where you hold you’re emotions in your body.  How to identify your default movement patterns. How to challenge your movement in small ways to open yourself up for change.  What if I told you that the way you move impacts the person that you are? And if you consciously begin to move differently, your life could change? That’s what we’re talking about today.  Our gues...

We will learn: Surprising facts about lonely people.  How we can get better at reading people.  How to catch a liar.  Every über successful person I know is still most proud of their relationships. Relationships increase our life spans and even our health. Connection gives us meaning and purpose. So how do we master first impressions? How can we get a feel for someone faster? How can we figure out...

We will learn: How to say goodbye to unhealthy patterns of shame, guilt, and worry. The lies we believe when we worry. How to develop a realistic relationship with the present moment in a world full of distraction.  Wanna know what’s strange? The present moment is literally all we have, yet somehow it’s the most elusive place to be. Usually we replay things that have already happened, come up with...

We will learn: Why we find it so much easier to focus on some thing we consider play rather than something we consider work.  Why it doesn’t work when we try to enjoy something.  4 techniques he calls the “S Words” that help you to develop control over your practicing mind.  When was the last time you practiced something in order to get better at it?  If you’re into sports or musical instruments y...

We will learn:  The consequences of secrets and how to know when to open up.  The distinction between secrecy and privacy. The psychology of “positive secrets” (i.e. a proposal, a surprise party, a promotion).  On average we each carry 13 secrets. 13 things that we are just unwilling to share with people. This is so shocking to me because I know how secrets can affect a person… and I’ll give you a...

We will learn: Why your mental health diagnosis is not your identity.  Surprising questions to ask your doctor when you receive a diagnosis.  Why our conversation about mental health has stagnated and how to progress it.  Did you know that there’s absolutely no way to measure or prove that you have any of the common (or uncommon) mental health diagnoses? This has a ton of negative implications inc...

We will learn: Why our drives for outer and inner success usually clash. How to activate your five core energies. Our three natural states of consciousness. Are your goals for your outer world and your inner world aligned?  Either, in the pursuit for outer success– material wealth, or wanting to be liked and loved, supported and promoted– you ignore that quiet subtle voice of your spirit. Or in yo...

We will learn: The powers of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook.  Why our world is so blind to the value of our pain.  How to transform grief into healing, creativity, and peace of mind.  Life can be painful. We get hurt. Or scared. We lose people. We start over. So we feel the pain of fear or loss, grief or longing. Some say the highs of your joy are equal to the depths of your pain. So today we’...

We will learn: What happens to our brains on social media.  How narcissism on social media affects relationships.  How to spot narcissistic predators. Is Social Media turning you into a narcissist? The constant barrage of shallow rewards from social media rewires your brain to want more of that dopamine release, which leads to social media addiction. But here’s the thing, it’s not just that you be...

We will learn: How to question your unexamined assumptions.  How even neutral is one of your guiding sensations.  Step-by-step to feeling and following your internal guidance system.  We all have an internal guidance system, and evidence shows that our ancient ancestors were very much in tune with it. But because of the way our society functions, we seem to be a little more cut off. So today we’re...