Rebel Buddhist

This week’s episode is short and potent reminder that joy is your birthright. In remembering our inevitable death and lack of control around it, we discover that we were ALL made for joy. I share a poem from the Persian mystic, Hafez, that is a mic drop moment you’ll want to hear, and invite you to begin to explore what fills your cup, and discover the special moments between despair and joy.  In...

In this week’s episode, we revisit my own story of creating my coaching business and how I learned the hard way that defining success and having enough wasn’t just some random number I could throw out and work to achieve. We’ll jam on how to find your own version of “enough” and how that can naturally lead to abundance. You will learn: // Can money really buy happiness? // Why do we correlate mone...

This week, we’re throwing it back to an episode celebrating our rebel minds ones. And yes - that means we’re celebrating YOURS, too! We’ll jam on some of my fave concepts and teachings from past episodes and why each one is a rebellious act on its own. Plus, we’ll review some of the most counter-culture concepts of all. You will learn: // Why the consumerist, materialistic world can never free us...

This week’s episode is about enlightenment. We’ll break down one of my current fave quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj and talk about the paradox of being both empty and full - nothing and everything, in our everyday lives. You will learn: // Why “nothing” isn’t a scary void, but a limitless place of freedom and wisdom, and how we can touch it // How realizing the illusion of separation can lead us to...

This week we’re going to dive into a simple - but not easy - experiment:mWhat if we assumed shit just might work out for us, instead of worrying it won’t? Join us as we explore this way of thinking that’s 100% available to all of us. You will learn: // Why we often struggle to control how things will work out // Why worrying about the future is useless // How we can begin to change our mindset //...

This week we dive into one thing that we all need to cultivate to really experience a good life: AWE. We’ll talk about all the ways we can experience awe (because it’s more than just sunsets and mountain splendor), and some practices we can do to cultivate awe in our daily lives. You will learn: // What awe is and why we need it to live a good life // The different types of awe we experience, and...

This week we dive into our Foundational Attachments, exploring our relationships with nature and humans, and why we might see them as separate in the first place. This impacts how we experience the world, as well as how we suffer unnecessarily, AND how we find joy. You will learn: // How we cultivate (and have wounds) in our foundational attachments to Humans and Nature // Why some people trust na...

This week, we dive into a truth that we often forget: We are the dreams of our ancestors. Join us as we explore the ways we can honor our ancestors in the lives we live today and how we can move forward in healing their wounds AND ours, not just for our own good, but for the good of our communities. Knowing this helps us get through anything, and this is the type of resilience many of us need righ...

This week I reflect on a recent visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, and how a simple experience of crossing the street turned into a very healing and eye-opening lesson in trust and interdependence. We’ll talk about how in the US, when it comes to navigating traffic and driving, we are taught to assume we are invisible. Drive defensively. Cross streets assuming no one sees you. In Hanoi, it was the opposite....

This week’s topic is all about judgment and discernment. We can often default to judging situations and people, especially if we've been through trauma and we’re on the lookout for threats. Add to this a history of being gaslit, and it gets even harder to trust our inner wisdom. But understanding the difference between judgment and discernment can completely change how we respond to life and to ot...

This week’s episode is about the importance of letting in what restores and realigns us so that we can let go of what no longer serves us. We’ll talk about the concept of crowding out and how we can use that as a framework to practice letting in wherever we find ourselves stuck in our old patterns. You will learn: // What “crowding out” is and how we can use to help us let go of what no longer ser...

This week we talk about the importance of showing up authentically in relationships… even when we are afraid the other person won’t accept us for who we are. I’ll share my own story about how my husband and I could have ended it… and how my choice to speak and act wisely changed the course of our relationship and our parenting forever (and for good)!  Things you will learn: // The truth behind why...

This week’s episode is all about Sacred Discipline - not the authoritarian, “I told you so” type of discipline, but a sacred discipline that comes from creating what WE wants. A Sacred Discipline that can set us free and help us live our Soul Purpose into the world (which, BTW, really needs it right now!). We will explore how Sacred Discipline isn’t anti-freedom at all, and jam on some ways to dev...

This week’s episode is all about forgiveness as a practice, and beginning again (and again). We often think of forgivensss as a singular act, but if you’ve ever tried to truly forgive, you likely know it’s a process. And if we succeed, it’s also something we might have to go through again when old wounds are reopened. We’ll be jamming on WHY we have to revisit forgiveness over and over again, and...

This week’s episode is all about breaking the rules - really! We’ll jam on why some rules should be broken, and the importance of breaking little rules every day. Plus I’ll tell you some ways you can figure out which rules should be broken in the first place. You will learn: // Why some rules are worth breaking // What “resistance calisthenics” are, and how we can apply them to our own spiritual p...

This week we’re going to dive into how discomfort doesn’t always mean danger. We’ll also explore how we need not look for guarantees of complete safety - because nothing can guarantee 100% safety and comfort for everyone. You’ll also learn about some ways we can practice stepping INTO discomfort when we’ve found our safe enough space. You will learn: // Why there’s no such things as 100% safe  //...

This week we talk about what we CAN do when - for myriad reasons - we can’t show up the way we’d like to in the world. We’ll talk about why we tend to ignore the not-so-awakened moments in our practice, and how that actually limits our growth. Plus I’ll tell you how we can look at our journey with a little more self-compassion and give you a super-special mantra from Larry Yang that can help us in...

This week’s episode is a reminder that safety, stillness, and connection are our birthright. We’re going to remember what’s possible, what’s available, and what we most need today, in this moment. And we’re going to explore ways we can tap into all of it, right now, wherever we are. You will learn: // Why safety, stillness, and connection are our natural birthright // What keeps us from experienci...

This week’s episode is all about being a Cycle Breaker. We’ll dive into our lineage of trauma and wounding, how we’re already doing the work to break the cycle of generational trauma, and what we can do to help others break the cycle for themselves. Yes, even in these times. You will learn: // How generational cycles and trauma get passed on to future generations // How to take creaking the cycle...

This week, we’re talking about how life is full of unpredictability and change and how resisting reality and clinging to the way we think things “should” be leads to unnecessary suffering. We also explore what we can do to learn to let it all BE, without losing our capacity to take actions for a better, more compassionate world. You will learn: // What the Bardo is and how we can shift our reactio...

This week, we’re diving into an essential topic for these times - how to stay through difficult experiences with others. I’ll talk about the importance of staying with discomfort for the benefit of our community and the more-than-human world around us. Plus we’ll talk about the key elements we need to help stay through the challenging times as well as when to say, “Thanks but no thanks!” and leave...

This week’s episode is all about the concept of KINDfulness and the way that being mindfully kind can have an impact on our world and our day-to-day lives… for ourselves, for others, and for the more-than-human world around us. After all, the world could use more kindfulness now, more than ever. You will learn: // What KINDfulness means, and why it’s important in our daily practice // Stories of K...

This week’s episode is an extra special one, as we talk about how we can help each other during a crisis or disaster. I'm sure you agree this is a good time to learn these skills! I'll teach you some super practical tools to use when others are processing a recent crisis, and I’ll tell you some things NOT to do - and why.  In this episode, you will learn: // Ways we can all help one another stabil...

Let’s take a deep dive into my word of the year: P A T I E N C E. Not the kind of patience like when we’re waiting in line or sitting quietly while our life happens TO us. I’m talking about the radical, world-shifting practice of patience that rewires how we engage with ourselves, others, and this messy, beautiful, unpredictable process we call being human. You will learn: // Why patience is such...

Today we talk about how to assess how “awake” we are in the various areas of our spiritual journey and the complexity of this process. This is essential because we can have made amazing progress in one area of awakening (like spiritual insight) but be still lacking in others (like ethics, or relational skills).  We enter into real danger when we mistake progress in one area with progress in other...