Still Becoming with Monica DiCristina

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 becoming a better listener - to...

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 New Year pressure from a completely different lens - starting from unpacking where some goals come from, and how starting fro...

I am so excited and honored to have poet, storyteller, and author Tasha Jun on the Still Becoming Podcast. I have long admired Tasha's work, and I am so grateful to share this conversation with you. We start the episode off with Tasha reading her incredible poem, "Yellow is a Protest," I imagine you will also be left speechless at the power and beauty of this poem Tasha wrote and reads. In our con...

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 navigating complex, difficult, a...

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 touches on the idea of "unbecoming" all the old names to pick up your true name. It is a way of framing what happens with painful experiences: we often take on a shame based name when we have hard thin...

I am so excited and so honored to have Patricia Taylor on the Still Becoming podcast. Patricia is a wife, mom, friend, Anti-Racism Educator, Director of Programs for Be the Bridge and cohost of Upside Down Podcast. And she is a total delight and so incredibly wise, powerful, and insightful. In this vulnerable conversation Patricia lets us into how she came to do the important work she is doing in...

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.⁣⁣ In this episode, I am sharing a longer teaching that I gave to a...

I am so excited to have author Kayla Craig on the Still Becoming Podcast to talk about her new book: To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers and Liturgies for Parents. In this layered conversation we talk about the realities involved in parenting, the pressures and the needs we have. And we discuss the ways that prayer can be used as an exhale, as a comfort, even an anchor - rather than anothe...

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.⁣⁣ In this episode, we are unpacking the social constructs around a...

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.⁣⁣ I am so excited to have another listener request episode. The re...

Each month, the Still Becoming podcast brings you a Meditative Story episode. They 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. It has been a little while since we have had a meditative story episode. This episode tells a story to paint the possibility of holding together what may be...

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 is our first guided meditation based on a listener idea and question. I recently asked online what some topics are that you would like to hear more about and this response (my paraphrase) - understanding our wort...

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 concept of "burnout." This i...

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. This is a short meditation about accessing stillness. We may all agree that stillness is good for us, but in reality it can be really hard for some of us to find. In this short meditation we will go through the obstacles that may be keeping us from finding stillness, and practice...

I am so excited and grateful to have therapist, speaker, and facilitator Lea Lester on the Still Becoming podcast. This episode feels like a therapeutic journey to unpacking, understanding, and grappling with no longer playing small. Lea's incredible wisdom, and combination or both personal and professional insights will leave you feeling braver and inspired to begin, or continue, your own journey...

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 myth of balance, and how muc...

I am so excited and honored to have therapist and author Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW on the Still Becoming podcast. This episode in itself has the potential to be a very healing experience for some listeners. Tasha embodies the kind of safety she describes in this conversation. And her description of finding, and becoming safe people for one another is incredibly impactful, and a description you may h...

In this short guided meditation, we will walk through a short imagined picture, leading us to the discovery of being curious (without judgement!) of who we are made to be. This is similar to the other Still Becoming meditations in many ways, but differs in that it pulls on your imagination too. It is meant to be peaceful, grounding, and affirming of your worth. For more Still Becoming, follow Moni...

I am so honored and excited to have chaplain and author J.S. Park on the Still Becoming Podcast. I admire J.S., and his work in the world, very much. In this powerful and multi-layered conversation we talk about common humanity, seeing one another up close, holding space, believing the stories people tell about their own experience, and the different ways trauma and racial trauma can impact lives....

These short guided meditations are ones I wish existed. They are topical, easy to follow, and made to feel therapeutic. This is a short meditation all about "trying again." When we are kids, we have no choice but to try again as we learn new things. But the older we get, the more difficult this can feel. This is a short moment to accept yourself fully as you are, and to remember that trying again...

I am so honored and excited to have author, activist, speaker, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, Terence Lester on the Still Becoming Podcast. Terence shares so much wisdom, insight, and frames seeing and helping each other in a way that empowers each of us to find where we are a piece of the whole. We discuss the dignity of each person, and the Dignity Museum - the first museum highlighting the s...

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 I have put together what I like to think of a the "G...

I am so honored and excited to have therapist and writer Tiffany Rogers back on the Still Becoming Podcast. In this powerful episode Tiffany shares with us part of her journey out of a corporate America career to becoming a therapist. Tiffany redefines for us what the word "successful" can even mean. This episode is like an anti-5 step plan - this is a deep, heart-centered approach. Tiffany descri...

Each month, the Still Becoming podcast brings you a Meditative Story episode. They are short, meditative, put to music, and a chance to pause and reflect on your own journey through story. It is like a therapeutic adult story time. This month memories, versions of ourselves, people we were, and people and moments we've lost. Through the heaviness of this past year, I find many of us are even more...

I am so honored and grateful to have author, therapist, and podcaster Carl Binger on the Still Becoming Podcast. In this powerful episode Carl shares with us some of his personal experience, as well as his professional expertise about depression. This combination of the personal and the professional Carl brings is so illuminating, helpful, and hopeful. We talk about men specifically in depression,...