NatAndChat

I've been doing lots of writing and recording, but questioning myself about sharing. Life feels kind of intense lately, and that stops me from following through on sharing what sometimes feels like too much vulnerability. It's also true to say that sometimes I wait for things to settle that I've made a podcast episode about -before I share. Sometimes that wait time makes me see it'...

I decided to sit down and chat with my friend that I dedicated my book (14 days & 40 years) to. What a joy it is to watch her grow into an amazing woman. I met her when she had just turned 20. Watching her mature so much in 4 years makes me wonder how it has only been 4 years. I feel like I've known her so much longer because I know her much like a lifetime friend. I hope we get to be that...

As with many things, I'm not fast, but I always eventually get there. :) It took a while to be content with it all, but I've finished, and my Audiobook of 14 Days & 40 Years is available! You will find it on every Audiobook platform eventually. I want to do another episode talking to the friend who the book is dedicated to. I think that will be better than me and my little announcement...

What is it to be a pee-on? Why am I happy to be one? In this episode I pull together a few life-lessons reached by choosing to be a witness, choosing to feel empathy, and by watching others struggle with greed/power/cognitive distortions and these things related to NOT being a pee-on. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe power and money somehow benefit your soul. Or maybe the story they do is all you need f...

I personally feel like the more people become self aware, the less they feel they need religion. That's not saying the less they need "God", but the less they need to be told what God is and what God "wants". And isn't that really what religion is all about? Being told all these things by "MEN" that they say is from that all knowing being in the sky. In fact,...

I thought I'd share my personal experiences with Craniosacral Therapy and Somato Emotional Release from 20 years ago. It's actually terrifying to think 20 years have passed since my initial reading of the book The Inner Physician and You by Dr John Upledger. I wish I had done more with the knowledge in that time, and shared this information sooner. I feel like I have a thousand stories, an...

MTHFR is a Gene transcription error with an estimated 44% of people having it. That would be no big deal if it didn't directly affect your health in BIG ways. Finding out I have this issue, I'm having to learn more, and it's not fun. I thought an episode about it might be a starting point for some and prove to be somewhat useful. This is also a story of my health over the last few mont...

I'm going to continue doing these for a while, it feels right for me. I will create another podcast and call it NatAndChat Sleep Stories. You can find them there shortly. This will be the second and last one I upload here on my Self Awareness podcast. Eventually you will be able to play them back to back without interruption there. I look forward to writing fiction getting easier :) Keep an eye ou...

Some gifts can only come from some people. This feels like a complicated thought, and I hope I explain what I mean in these few minutes. I chose this image because sunshine in the evening always feels like a gift especially when petals or leaves get to be even more beautiful. It's like I'm witness to their gift of sunshine.

If you know me, you know I don’t write fiction. So this is an exception. I wrote and recorded this for a friend who is in a very stressful part of the world. She is a new mother, and both her and her baby are struggling to sleep. I personally find sleep even more vital to my health than eating. So, because I can’t do anything to physically help her, I decided to make her a sleep story. -Fu fu and...

Working on many things I want to share on my podcast...and continually interrupted by my upset over what's happening in our world. I am uploading the least in the history of my podcast, while feeling the most. I have not walked away...its actually the contrary. Im also working on getting a sleep story (or a few) for those I love also struggling through this. Bless you, if you are too. Today, this...

I spend so much time questioning the lack of humanity I see, and feeling desperate to find the humans. Could we all be different alien species, or is being human more like a decision? I know this is a short one, but its a great question to ask. Shout-out to the band The Killers for helping me make a point. And to my beautiful friend Carla for dancing on the beach at sunset; providing me the perfec...

I finished a book I've been working on for for a very long time, and the best way to tell you about it is to share the back cover, the Preface, and the Prologue. I hope this sounds like a book worth reading.

Everything in life is an equation with a sum. It depends on what sum you are looking at, that tells you what it took to get there. I'm in a position of currently needing to think differently because not thinking and just expecting an outcome was a bad experience.  I'm seeing that intention, and caring is the way to achieve so many things in life, and when you pay attention to the 1 AND the 1, it's...

I've been working on a book for many years about self esteem, self respect, confidence, and self awareness. It's finally finished and available. This is a short episode reading the back of the book, and the preface. I hope it sounds worth your time.

In the recent past I started watching YT on my TV. Without being logged in-YT suggested a chanel that I started watching, and now have watched more than any other chanel EVER on that platform. Its called YES Theory. Their motto is Love Over Fear, and they fund their chanel with a clothing line that is also a motto of theirs: "Seek "Discomfort". (Its also a second YT chanel for them....

I didn't have heroes when I was young. In fact, I didn't look up to anyone with eyes of adoration. I'm not sure why that was, but the older I am the more heroes I have, and lately I feel like the heroes are too many to count. I have social media to thank for it because most of my heroes are everyday people sharing the world around them. Which has also made me notice how little my opinion is for so...

My friend Andrea the Glow Guide recently said to me "I'm going to share ebooks about the things I've been feeling so passionate about lately". Then barely a week later she asked me to look at her first draft of her decluttering guide for spiritual growth. Andrea is a go-get-er and I can't say that about many people I know. She is full of ideas, inspiration, creation, and goodness. And her executio...

I never knew asking friends for input could be so valuable. I've learned that sometimes its the smallest thing that someone says that ends up tipping the scales. Man, I love my friends. I've had to analyze my childhood a bit further to get this one, but I've learned something huge.  I also had a hard time explaining this one because its cyclical. Its true that my own conditioning puts me in a plac...

Many people don't seem to know they can choose who they are. And that includes choosing to be someone you like! Don't be one of those people who can't see the person they are presenting to the world. What is your "MO"? And if you don't know, now is the time to decide. I have to give credit to Nicotine Dolls for helping me make a point so easily...its like the song "W...

It was bound to happen that one of my friends would also be struggling with Anger, and we didn't realize we had this in common. It's interesting for me to hear how hers presents, and she does struggle with a combination of anxiety and anger. If you can ignore the dogs that want to be as near Kristine as possible, you will hear two old friends laughing and realizing things they didn't know about ea...

Not only the old are wise. The old souls in young bodies are also full of perspective and experience we can all learn from. Katelyn shares some things with me that I knew I needed as soon as she said them. And isn't it cool when someone less than half your age can validate your experiences and feelings with the same perspective? This woman will go far in life, its inevitable.

This is a short but fun episode; we don't do an amazing job staying on the topic of anger, but we cover the necessary bases. You'll learn some new things in this episode that I might not have anywhere else. Andrea knows me so well we talk about everything and anything. So I really did have to try and cut out a lot of my rambling. I hope this series is a good one for you, I only have two more episo...

I have smart and loving friends...not that I didn't already know this, but in the sharing of my friends and the smart things they have to say in this Anger series; I am feeling pride at how loving, helpful, and willing they are. What a grateful friend I am in return -to have these people in my life. This episode makes you want to put attention on perspective. And even made me want to reconsider th...

My friend JT is moving to New York to get his Masters in Couples and Family Therapy. Just as much as I want my female friends' input on anger, (because it feels like a different struggle for women), I equally want JT's thoughts because he's a friend that always makes me feel understood. Honestly, I didn't know he was going to say so many things I needed to hear. With every friend I sit down with I...