NatAndChat

I did this episode via email so that I could include my friend Melissa in my anger series. That makes this one considerably shorter than the others, but still helpful to me. I'm not a friend who asks for things, but having asked people for input and advice on Anger instead of a therapist, I'm starting to see a whole new perspective on the benefit of asking for help from those that know me best. I...

Nat Chats with her Friends on Anger. This series is so useful for me already, and I hope it has some gems for those of you also dealing with anger. As different as we all are, its sometimes comforting to know others have the same struggles. In this chat with Ann, we cover a lot of ground, and get a bit loud, sometimes giggly + loud. We talk about having a values list, ketamine therapy, using a whi...

Nat Chats With her friends on Anger. I tried therapy recently for anger...and it made me angry. I gave it 7 weeks...and now I'm trying something else: my friends. Recording this series has already been so useful for me, and I hope that it might be useful for you too if you need help with anger. If nothing else, I will always have these episodes at my disposal when I need them.

I asked my friend Jackie to sit with me and tell me about her favorite book that introduced her to Absurdism...and this is my introduction. Its an interesting philosophy...hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking.

I'm searching for a bridge out of anger. I've been trying therapy, but you know what really looks like is going to be the bridge...people. In this episode I ask myself yet again if its perspective...and thats absolutely part of it...but what I'm figuring out, and already working on since recording this episode here...is that the answer is Perspective + People. People who know and love me. People I...

Leadership is a hot topic on podcasts, and I end up listening to this subject often because people I enjoy revisit it. I have a peculiar view on leadership, and its come to my attention that what people like in their leaders -varies. I've been working a lot of years and I've had lots of leaders. Things I say here are because this stuff is on my mind a lot lately. I've been having a hard time with...

A friend recently introduced me to Stoicism which is a cool thing, but has also forced me to address something I've felt for a long time and never made the effort to articulate. The topic is that anger is a choice, and while I accept so many feelings are things we choose, I see anger differently. Its a complicated emotion and I think I've finally had a breakthrough in explaining why I think that.

I caught myself asking a question I don't normally ask, and more than just once or twice...it kept coming up at random times over various topics. So I started answering and analyzing not just the question, but what MY answer is. I feel like this was a break through for me in my journey of self-awareness.

I got caught up in upset, and I let myself down. Are there people who don't do that, and are they in Possession of themselves to the point they can't be pushed outside of their nature? When you do miss-step, is there still something good in that too? So many questions, so few certainties.

This is me feeling like I need to touch base because I haven't written, recorded, and uploaded since Sept 11th. I have been writing, but not much stuff I know I will share. But as always I'm thinking, and with the loss of my wonderful cousin; I am Dwelling. I think we spend life believing life is meant to be easy while we live learning: its not. How did that "easy" thing ever get introduced? Maybe...

I've been learning about EFT Tapping, and experiencing immediate results. Its fascinating while being so incredibly simple. Have a listen, do some tapping, and explore it yourself. I don't want to be dramatic, but its kinda blowing my mind.

Success, achievement, mattering, and being "something special" by the end of your life. Is any of this yours to experience? I think it might not be.

Have you ever considered...the things that make you YOU might not be things you should share or show just anyone? Do you have pearls? Do you know what your pearls are? To say "don't cast your pearls before swine" makes me imagine pulling out something valuable in front of a mob boss that he's now going to kill you for so he can take it. But it's not that...its really so much more tidy and everyday...

The Lack of self-awareness seems to be growing. No, nobody is perfect, but all of us can try to see what we are doing and consider possible consequence. Listen more to what you are saying, watch what you could be doing to contradict your own words, and maybe we need to start calling it out. If for no other reason than to put a pin in it so it can be pointed at later. Lots to consider in this episo...

I've changed my opinion on Longing. I think its a good thing. I think we need to do it often to keep us appreciating the Loving we do. Even the loving we do that won't equate to having. In fact...having is not a feeling we should grab hold of. I'll explain: *you pushing play*

I got thinking about how we have "gut feelings" and asking myself what that really is. I've learned to put so much stock in what my gut says because it's always a better guide than my thoughts. Then I remembered reading about morphic fields, the habit field, and quantum healing. In this episode I share from the books Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and Quantum DNA Healing by Althea S. Hawk. I also s...

Whether you have questions or you have opinions, your experience in a world with endless input is not going to be the same as another's. Perspective is the new word for "self" and no two people will be the same. We are going to need to learn how to grasp that fact, because the "teachers" aren't going to disappear.

I didn't know that being an enabler enabled my unhappy life of enabling. Its like a catch 22 I didn't know I was stuck in. It took the tenderness of a great friend to help me see my patters by relating times she had watched me being an enabler that had me finally able to see it. Here's the story of that realization.

It was in listening to people talk about friendship being an enigma to them and that they don't have many friends -that I found myself with so much I wanted to share. It was a podcast...so I couldn't share what I had to say with them, but it made me want to write a few things down and share them here. This is a short one, but its a topic I feel strongly about. :)

I need to pull wrap my attention more around paradox than I have been because I give so much of it to hypocrisy. The less self aware people are the more they become hypocritical. And for some reason I get more and more bummed about people as I hear them saying such stupid contradictory stuff. BUT what if I put my attention on paradox? Can I see less hypocrisy and more paradox with a beneficial out...

I had a class reunion this summer in 2021 and it was more than a reunion for me. It was a resolution and a healing. I didn't know I had so many unresolved issues related to my high school years until the night was over. I woke the following day feeling such a peculiar type of euphoria I wanted to try and find words for it all. This is still quite short, considering, but a long story is not what I...

In this episode you hear two people talking about super random stuff. We're telling stories, and admitting life is just a crapshoot of happenstance and we become the person we are because of it. I doubt we make any important points, but as always, I have fun talking to my friend Larry. I hope you find it fun too.

I don't tell people what to do, but if when giving advice to my friend I say "you should", I catch myself and acknowledge I'm just talking, and I add to it saying "Not that you need to do anything I say". But recently, when wanting to give advice to this friend blamed for everything by her family members, I thought of a new word to help me be clear. And that word is Refuse. Naturally, I decided to...

I dont think the question of "Where were you on 9.11?" is as much about knowing where you stood when nearly 3000 people were killed, as it is about how you felt in that moment when you were so shook that everything in your world froze. I know that America has a self centered view on world events, seeming to care far less about what happens outside its borders than in it, but this American was livi...

Who do you find comfortable? What is comfort? When are you comfortable? Where is comfort hiding? Why do we want to be comfortable? How conscious are we of these answers?