Staying Aligned - with Jamie Roddy

Most of us spend our lives believing we'll finally feel peaceful once everything falls into place. But what if peace comes first? In this episode of Staying Aligned , Jamie Roddy explores the surprising truth that every goal we pursue is ultimately a search for inner peace—and why that peace is available long before our circumstances change. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, Zen, Mother Teres...

You did your whole morning routine. You were aligned. You were good. And then that one person opened their mouth and suddenly you were not a spiritually evolved person on a growth journey; you were a fifth grader who just got cut from the line. This episode is about the actual hardest spiritual assignment, the one the brochures don't warn you about when you decide to become a better person: other...

What if the brain you've spent years trying to fix was never actually broken? In this episode of Staying Aligned, Jamie Roddy makes the case that the entire conversation around ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and neurodivergence has become dangerously one-sided. We are experts in what's hard about these brains. We have almost no fluency in what they're extraordinary at. And that imbalance is doing real damage...

What if the most aligned move you can make has nothing to do with your five-year plan? In this episode, Jamie Roddy makes the spiritual case for side quests... not the dramatic ones, but the small inconvenient yeses that somehow change everything. She shares how a golden Buddha in Chiang Mai led to the founding of Eden LA Interiors, and how talking to a stranger on a flight to Colombia led her to...

What if your most irritating coworker is doing more for your spiritual evolution right now than your meditation practice is? In this episode of Staying Aligned, Jamie Roddy takes on one of the sneakiest traps in modern spirituality: using inner work as a reason to withdraw from the very situations that would actually grow you. The retreat, the sound bath, the sacred morning routine... all beautifu...

You've crossed finish lines and felt nothing. You've gotten the thing and immediately needed the next thing. That's not weakness — that's the hedonic treadmill, and your brain is running it whether you like it or not. In this episode, Jamie Roddy takes the false idol problem through five wisdom traditions across 2,500 years — from Laozi to Sikhism to Ram Dass — and pairs it with current neuroscien...

A senior monk and a junior monk come to a river. A woman needs to cross. The older monk carries her over, sets her down, keeps walking. An hour passes. Then two. Then three. Finally the younger monk can't hold it anymore: "We are not permitted to touch women. How could you carry her?" The older monk looks at him and says: "Brother, I set that woman down miles ago. Why are you still carrying her?"...

What if.....This IS your highest timeline. And you're completely missing it?? Not the one you're working toward. Not the polished, figured-out, promotion having, clean house having, soul mate having life. This one. Right now. In this episode Jamie Roddy takes you through a complete reframe of the comparison trap. We talk about why "elevating to your highest timeline" culture might actually be keep...

What if the person who made you furious... didn't actually cause your feelings? In this episode, Jamie Roddy tackles one of the most radical and liberating ideas in conscious living: your emotions belong to you. Not to the person who triggered them. Not to the situation that lit the fuse. Yours. And that's not about letting anyone off the hook... it's about taking back every bit of power you've be...