Mindful Pause Podcast

A few weeks ago, we took a drive up to Mount Rainier with the kids and on our way up, Hunter, my 5-year old exclaimed, "WOW look at the snow sparkling!" The bright white walls of snow piled on the side of the highway indeed were glistening in the sunshine like tiny crystals sparkling. I wouldn't have noticed it, but children are so present they notice every detail of Life. What if we could sprinkl...

The Holidays can be a special time but it can also bring a lot of uneasy emotions such as sadness and grief while missing a loved one. This meditation will help you be with all of your emotions and invite your loved one to be with you during this sacred experience to feel their love and presence. This meditation was vulnerable and you'll hear me tear up right there with you at the end. You are not...

Five easy Ways to be more intentional this Holiday so you can be more present, peaceful and enjoy this special time. Resist burnout at the beginning of the year and create a soft place to land at the end of the year, with these 5 easy ways:  1. Ask what is really essential ? 2. What can I say NO to? 3. Who is most important to me and how can I schedule quality time with them first before all of th...

The Holidays can be a time of excitment and full of love, but it can also feel really overhelming like we have to hustle and get everything done, end the year with a bang and shop, wrap, cook, enterain. Fill up your cup and nurture your heart in today's episode on Self-care...not what you think Self-care should look like or what it used to look like, but caring for your body, mind and spirit in th...

Sometimes we're in a period of waiting…. Waiting for our romantic partner Waiting for the right job offer Waiting to start a family Waiting to heal   Waiting can be hard. We want to rush through it. The inner work is to stay.   In today's meditation, we'll sit in the waiting to find ourselves.   Xx Audrey p.s. I hope you can join me in beautiful  BALI or Tuscany yoga retreat in 2024 . All details...

The holidays are HERE and we can easily get triggered by relatives who say things that make us feel uncomfortable, activate past conditioning and old beliefs, or people who make us feel guilty for not doing what they want or being who they want you to be.   Let go of any expectations, control and any judgment with this 1 affirmation in today's episode.   Affirming: "I am helpless over other people...

I was on a retreat shadowing my mentor and teacher, Jana Wilson who teaches how to love our inner child. As adults, we're typically interacting with each other from our wounded child - that part of us who hasn't learned to be with and manage our emotions to be the healthy, mature adult. So, when we get triggered, our wounded child acts out. We might act out in anger or rage, when beneath that is a...

Feeling disconnected from who you want to be? Maybe it's the change of seasons. Maybe it's that life is so fast, like we're on a treadmill we can't get off of making us feel ungrounded. Or maybe it's we've been looking outside ourselves for the validation, the love, the acceptance we're seeking. In today's episode, I'll guide you back to feeling connected with yourself in a short meditation to hel...

I hope today's meditation helps you release the chatter of your mind and let your mind rest in the  loving stillness of your heart.   Also, if you're called to go deeper, join me in beautiful Bali for magic, healing and connection in April 2024 or Tuscany to indulge, renew and deeply connect to yourself and your life's vision.   Details for my New Year's virtual workshop and retreats are on my web...

I remember in 2018, I was 6-weeks pregnant, totally sick and queasy, and in less than 4 weeks I was going to host a week long retreat for 28 women in Tuscany.  I hunched over the stove painfully grilling a cheese sandwich (because that's all I could eat at that time), then slowly shuffled my feet to the couch where I lay horizontally with my eyes closed, nibbling my grilled cheese sandwich like a...

Life can cover up our light. Isn't it a blessing to have someone help us excavate our light and help us remember our spark? In today's meditation, we'll reflect on that person(s) and call in future people who love us and support us, including ourselves. In addition, we'll give ourselves permission to remember our gifts and light, that only YOU have and bring to this world. namaste, Audrey p.s. If...

Especially in today's world that is so busy with our roles and responsibilities as well as all the different devices pinging us and grabbing for our attention, we often feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and unable to focus. Mindfulness is being conscious to the present moment, so that we can intentionally respond and act from our highest self, instead of unconsciously reacting from our lower self and o...

Life is so beautiful when we look for it The challenge is we don't see this flow and beauty because we're busy with our roles, responsibilities and immediate tasks. We're distracted in our mind with our thoughts. We create disconnect in our life. what life is asking us to do is to remember that we are an essential movement in this beautiful harmonious dance of life. I'll guide you through a medita...

*|FNAME|*, are you (or have you ever been) in a relationship where you want a lovingly connection, but are stuck keeping score, tallying up resentments and bypassing real feelings? Today's podcast episode we explore cultivating a ' spiritual partnership ' which is "a partnership between equals for their spiritual growth," according to Gary Zukav. This means each person takes ownership and responsi...

Hi there! I hope you had a wonderful summer and are feeling rested and renewed. I know I am!  It's so good to be back with you! This season, I'm sharing excerpts from my book: How to quiet the Itty-Bitty-Shitty-Committee coming out in 2024. This is vulnerable for me to share, but I truly hope each week's intention, lesson or meditation helps you on your journey to know and love yourself. **  If th...

Hi friends, today is a special treat to have my friend and mentor, Jana Wilson ! She is a meditation teacher, hypnotherapist and author of Wise Little One, a prescriptive memoir sharing her emotional, heart wrenching and oh so inspiring healing story of learning to listen and love her inner child. I hope you receive nuggets for your spiritual evolution and healing today. Also, RUN and buy this  bu...

This week, when you dip into scarcity thinking, invite the mantra "the love I give comes back to me." When you change your energy, you change your life. Thank you so much for being here each week, sharing and rating this podcast! I'm so grateful for you! xx Audrey p.s. Join me next year in Bali (April) and Tuscany (September) 2024!  CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Often times the things we know are good for us are the hardest things to do. This week's intention is to give yourself small moments of care each day to help you connect with what matters most.  You deserve to feel good. You are deserving of all that good. Share with me on instagram how you are caring for yourself this week. Thank you so much for being here each week, sharing and rating this podca...

Since the pandemic, many of my clients have a harder time focusing and ask me for coaching of how to be more present. Our face paced online world has many benefits and affords us with immediate (or very quick) gratification, but it harms our ability to concentrate We end up skimming for highlights, instead of taking time to digest the knowledge. are we 2Xing Life? This week's intention is to slow...

Imagine a beautiful lake. Our mind is like this lake. Our thoughts ripple across the water. But as the wind dies down, the water becomes still, so still it reflects the moon and the stars. The lake and sky become one. Similarly, meditation helps to quiet our mind and calm our emotions, so we can see with more clarity Life's reflections. When we are centered, we can see with clear eyes, not only ou...

Life can become so busy, keeping us overwhelmed with tasks and responsibilities, we miss life's lessons.  Life whispers messages to guide us on our path to who we're supposed to be. Can we get quiet enough to listen to its guidance, to see the signs and to hear it's wisdom? LISTEN TO THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION to help hear what life is telling you now. This week: allow for moments of stillness to get...

What if Life's real invitation is not: to experience joy only WHEN something good happens to us -or- be grateful AFTER we get what we want, - BUT  - to find joy and gratitude, now, despite our challenges and current circumstance?   By shifting our perspective of our experience we change how we experience it.   Listen to this weeke's meditaiton to shift your perspective  Thank you for being here, r...

Usually when we're happy, it's because we received what we wanted.   We're grateful AFTER something has happened to us.   But doing it this way (with cause then effect) is fleeting because it keeps us chasing the next thing that promises to bring us the elevated  feeling we want to feel.   What would happen if instead of waiting to feel joy when something good happens to us, we consciously choose...

Paolo Coelho said "the simple things are also the most extraordinary things. Only the wise can see them." Children have an innate sense of wonder and curiosity. But as adults, we lost our curiosity and would rather be right and know. Wonder opens our eyes to the magic within and around us. It invites a sense of interest, awe and reverence for the mundane as well as the miraculous. It's been shown...

Currently I'm training for a 10K. I've never done a race, let alone run 2 miles straight in my life. When I'm starting to feel empowered, my dark shadow, fat kid Freddy coerces me to go to the pantry to eat chips or swing through the drive through to "treat" myself. This self-sabotage is the device of my ego trying to lure me back to feeling those old familiar feelings of insecurity and shame – so...