Still Becoming with Monica DiCristina

We're back with a new Mental Health Check-In Episode! This one is vulnerable, and not without purpose, I am talking all about the inside story of turning in my book manuscript. I have benefited so much from hearing the true awkward and detailed stories of people pursuing things that mattered to them - and as I just turned in my book manuscript this week (yay!), I wanted to share some of the tr...

The Still Becoming Podcast is back! And I can't imagine a better guest to kick this return and season off with! I am so excited to have author Kayla Craig back on the podcast! You might know Kayla already from her beautiful book To Light Their Way, and as the creator of Liturgies for Parents Instagram account. Kayla has a new book out today: Every Season Sacred. It is SO good. There are so many re...

This episode is a first re-release! As I am working on my book, I am occasionally pulling up previous episodes that really resonated with listeners, this is one of them. Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minute...

I am so excited and honored to have author Marcie Alvis Walker on the Still Becoming Podcast. Marcie is the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends, as well as the newsletter Black Eyed Stories. We discuss her new book Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays. I have been a fan and an avid reader of Marcie's work for years now, and I always want to know what Marcie thinks or has to write about...

This episode is our first re-release! As I am working on my book, I am occasionally pulling up previous episodes that really resonated with listeners, this is one of them. Therapeutic Moments are a combination of some of the teaching of the Mental Health Check Ins, the calming of the Meditative Stories and the Guided Mediations. In this short calming episode put to music we are addressing the fals...

I am so excited to have therapist, author, and speaker Molly LaCroix on the Still Becoming Podcast. Molly was one of my very first Instagram therapist friends I made when I started sharing my work publicly, and I have always had admiration for both her presence and her clinical expertise. Molly brings great wisdom and nuance to our conversation about understanding the different parts of ourselves...

I am so excited to have Ashlee Gadd on the Still Becoming Podcast, talking about her book Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood. This conversation is centered around being creative while being a parent, however, I believe there is good wisdom about being creative that can also be applied in other contexts. It can be so hard to create in the margins of your life...

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. They are short and combined with very calming music. I wasn't allowed to use the word "sucks" when I was a kid, but I did anyway apparently - and I will always remember when my grandmother used it to sum up a hard time to me in her own life. This meditation is for when things suc...

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This episode are the things I tell my middle schoolers - and I h...

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. They are short and combined with very calming music. This meditation makes space for us to to remind ourselves of some simple loving truths. I think of this like a "note to self." We won't cover it all, but we will also make space for you to add your own personal notes to yoursel...

This is a special edition of the Still Becoming Podcast born out of several conversations between therapist (and my dear friend) Tasha Hunter and I. We identified that although there is a lot of talk about "loving yourself," many of us don't know what that actually means in real life. We decided to create a class to address this question: What Does it Really Mean to Love Yourself? And Tasha came u...

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. They are short and combined with very calming music. This meditation makes space for us to create a moment of emotional safety. It is a moment away from the world to exhale, learn a little about emotional safety, and most importantly practice it in order to lay the groundwork of...

I am so excited and honored to have Dr. Alison Cook on the Still Becoming podcast. In this insightful, helpful, and applicable conversation we discuss codependency, why people don't often know what they want, how we behave out of our conditioning, looking outside instead of inside of ourselves, and so much more. Dr. Cook's book The Best of You covers this and more. I am most excited about how much...

It has been awhile since we have had a meditative story. The Meditative Story episodes on the Still Becoming podcast are short essays, put to music meditative music, and a chance to pause and reflect on your own journey through story. It is like a therapeutic adult story time. In this episode we are talking about my recent move, and lessons I have learned from my dear neighbor across the street. W...

I am so excited to have Chanel Dokun, author, life planner, and relationship expert trained in Marriage and Family therapy on the Still Becoming Podcast. This conversation is so rich and so layered, and I know it will meet so many of you exactly where you are today. Chanel will meet you there, help you feel validated, seen, and not alone, and then give you the tools to start to from where you are...

Welcome to the first episode of Fall 2022 after a break! And a new logo! Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday...

I am so excited to have Kendra Adachi of the Lazy Genius Collective on the Still Becoming Podcast. This conversation is so rich. We talk about everything from cook books to therapy, and all the things in between. It is my favorite kind of conversation - one that moves from humor, to depth, to everyday life, In this conversation we talk about the power of starting from a place of self compassion an...

This guided mediation is a little different - but it is still a chance for each of us to practice a mindful moment away from the noise of the world to reset and ground ourselves. This week we have a brief, light, airy mental health moment for our meditation. We will practice some really solid mental health coping skills - grounding in the present by paying attention to our surroundings to get back...

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This episode we are talking 10ish things that I have learned as...

We're continuing with our new genre of Still Becoming episodes. Therapeutic Moments are a combination of some of the teaching of the Mental Health Check Ins, the calming of the Meditative Stories and the Guided Mediations. In this short calming episode put to music we are talking about all the ordinary everyday brave moments where we choose discomfort and do what we need to do. There are so many!...

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This episode we are talking about the idea of Interpretation is...

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This month we are talking telling yourself the truth - in a very...

Welcome to a new genre of Still Becoming episodes. Therapeutic Moments are a combination of some of the teaching of the Mental Health Check Ins, the calming of the Meditative Stories and the Guided Mediations. In this short calming episode put to music we are addressing the false narratives that can accompany painful experiences - when we are not only hurt, but are believing it is somehow our faul...

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This month we are talking about the idea of practicing calm. I f...

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. They are short and combined with very calming beautiful music. This meditation makes space for us to exhale and nurture our souls if we are feeling tired. It has been a long couple of years and many are reporting a lot of exhaustion. This mediation makes room for all of us to be,...