The Power in Our Pain

Intuition got a bad reputation for decades, written off as the mystical magical nonsense in comparison to the logical thinking that has been so revered. Thankfully we are learning that logic is not always the best method for lving a life of purpose and passion. Reconnecting to your intuition could be jus the thing you are missing. If you are tired of learning the hard, second guessing your self an...

Our world is full of rushing, doing and planning the next thing. We have lost our rituals of silence and rest. Spending 7 days in silence is a favorite experience in my life.  Silence can bring us home to the truth of our reality with clarity and swiftness that can surprise. Being in silence can feel scary and intimidating but I assure you, silence is a much more natural state than we might rememb...

Why do we fear change even it we know it's helpful and healthy choice? What happens when we are afraid of both the life we live and the life we want to live. Where do you go? How do you move forward? How can you stop sabotaging yourself? This episode digs into the specifics around change, resistance to positive change, self-sabotage, vulnerability and vigilance.  If you are needing extra supp...

Shame is not just another emotion. Shame is  different and needs a whole new set of strategies for working thorugh and ridding your self of shame.  This episode will help you see the light from under the dark cloak of shame. You don't have to feel shame alone in your torture of suffering. Time to get serious about the battle to eliminate shame from not only your system but help others to rid...

Overwhelm is hard to avoid. Especially these days with the push for success and external achievement combined with uncertainty and an increase of fear, grief and anger. It can be helpful to understand the sings of overwhelm. Do your freeze, numb, get confused, have outbursts? Do you withdraw or do you dig in and work harder to overcome the feelings? Overwhelm is an intelligent expereince from our...

Anger is rising and growing in our systems, in the collective and in our world. It is important to know how to relate to anger and work with it instead of against it or letting it run or ruin your life and relationships. Whether you express anger openly or never, this podcast will help you gain perspective through relating to your anger from a different point of view. Included are helpful tips and...

Starting over can be really scary and heavy with emotions, self-loathing, grief, anger, shame, blame, anxiety and of course fear and even terror. I'm here to help you navigate this unknown and five you permission to take it slow. There is magic in allowing yourself to simmer in the goo phase before you become the butterfly of your next phase. Whether it's starting a new company, relation...

We all carry grief so why do we have such a hard time talking and feeling through this most basic of emotions? I get a bit fiery in this one so be warned there may be some real talk around feeling into our grief and becoming more mature in allowing others to experience their own grief. Grief is in our bodies, our collective, ancestral, inherited and experienced trauma. Grief is a fact of life. It&...

You left the relationship, or the relationship left you, but you can't stop feeling resentful, frustrated, angry, fearful, sad and jsut not yourself around your ex. Whether you are divorced and co-parenting, sharing a town or community or simply can't stay out of each others lives, there is no reason why you can't get yourself to feel, at the very least less awful around this person...

Needing to be needed can be a difficult pattern from which to remove yourself. This pattern is a self creating cycle of co-dependency with underlying patterns of neediness, superiority and caretaking.  Caretakers tend to collect those that need caretaking making it even harder to remove yourself from the cycle. this podcast will give you some insight into what is happening within this pattern and...

Healing journey can seem like such a scary endeavor. People talk about all sorts of crazy things like, psychedelic journeys, tantric retreats, darkness mediation experiences and then there are the infinite forms of therpay and movement. It is difficult to not feel intimidated. I am here to give you some relief and encouragement that you can walk your healing journey at whatever pace and with which...

Fear can be a constant struggle, keeping us from healing, living and loving at our full potential. Fear keeps us small, stops us from change and creates patterns taht perpetuate more fear. We actually can not heal if you are ruled by or unaware of our fear.  Fear can settle into our unconscious and rule our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual lives. Creating a healthy relationship with your...

Relationships come and go. Marriage, partnership, clients, careers and family. Our resistance to the truth of this can create, discomfort, resentment and pain. How do you know when to play in the learning or leave due to unhealthy and unsafe patterning? How do you leave a relationship before one or both of you are ready? How do you know it's time to leave? Learn from real life experiences how...

Staying sober throughout the holiday season is like the Mt Everest of challenges for you sobriety.  Don't worry! You do not have to go it alone. I've tips, tricks and lots of advice for surviving the holidays parties, family gatherings, questions, accusations and doubts.  Thankfully staying sober is getting easier and easier but that doesn't mean that your friends and family will be...

Few things are more terrifying than the prospect of dating post divorce but dating while sober and divorced takes the cake for terror inducing experiences. For many, alcohol, was used as a place holder for awkward pauses, a confidence booster and a social connector in our twenties. If you find yourself, no longer in your twenties, sober and are considering dipping your toe into the dating pool, th...

Worthlessness can undermine everything in your life without you even knowing it's there. Worthlessness comes into our lives in, usually in childhood and becomes the driving force behind both over-achieving and failure to launch. It can make you wildly successful in one area of your life and unable to manage in other areas. In this episode, we start our this new season with dipping our toes in...

What do you think of when you think of bravery? Do you think about facing your fears? Ignoring them? Burying them? What if I told you that bravery is actually becoming so friendly with your fears that you allow them to inform your choices. Bravery is not, in fact, acting without fear (which is impossible by the way) but acting with the deep understanding of your fears.  We often end up living a li...

Narcism is a pandemic, let's just be honest. We live in a world in which a narcissist can become quite "successful" and they have. We are surrounded by narcissists and people with narcissistic tendencies. This word gets throw around often because there is an excessive amount of this behavior gone unchecked. The problem is not the word or the over use of the word but the behavior its...

Over the years, I dabbled in sobriety bur never fully committed. I was scared of all the change that would come with sobriety, the responsibility to be myself. Turns out, I was wrong, very wrong.  Sobriety is the most liberating, empowering and self-loved filled journey. I have been the codependent to the alcoholic and the alcoholic with the codependent. The difference between this time and other...

Join me for another amazing conversation with Jonathan Boncek. Why is money so hard to make, find, cultivate and grow? We all could use more money and most of us are working our butts off to get more moeny and yet we constatnly feel like we are in the red, never have enough and generally feel shame and worthless as a result.  listen to this honest and vulnerable talk between two entrepreneurs who...

Should I stay or should I go. Answering the questions of to divorce or not divorce, separate or not is nearly impossible. Only you know the truth of your marriage and it's intimate details. This is why it can be so hard to figure out - do I stay or do I go? You have to make your own choices but you don't have to walk this path alone.  Many people have walked this path before you and ther...

Teens are starting with a blank slate when it comes to right and wrong, good and bad, honest and dishonest. What if you could help your teen find their own inner compass?  Your teen is going to question everything and challenge every rule. This is normal teenage behavior. They have to throw out every lesson we taught them and try them back on to see what fits. Let's stop fighting their natura...

We hear this all the time - negative and positive emotions, get rid of your negative emotions. I am here to dispel this myth and defend these poor emotions that are being blamed for immaturity and bad behavior.  There are no negative emotions - only negative behavior.  Your emotions are not the problem, its your lack of emotional intelligence and training that allows you to blame your emotion for...

I am trying something new with these wonderful conversations with my good friend Jonathan Bonceck - artist, photographer, yoga teacher, men's coach and hypnotherapist. Jonathan is an amazing father and husband, thoughtful human and excellent example of divine masculine.  Jonathan and I share our struggles and victories with parenting, mindfulness and attempting to live a conscious life as a p...

Are you easily triggered, nervous, anxious, afraid to speak out and overly pleasing to others? These behavior could be a sign that you are operating in your sympathetic nervous system; aka fight, fight flight freeze and fawn / appease. Most of of us think of the parasympathetic and sympathetic response as an extreme reaction to a threat or perceived threat but this nervous system state can be goin...