Things That Will Help

Happy Eclipse Season! Buffy welcomes TTWH editor and producer Alex Ammons - who also moonlights as a professional astrologer. Alex and Buffy talks about the two-week period of the eclipse season - which, on this episode air date, we are in the thick of. Eclipses are major moments in the collective and individually, and knowing how to best prepare for them can help us navigate the potential tumult...

This episode is dedicated to the power you contain and the practices that help cultivate your ability to stand more vertical, with less. What if the answers you seek don't lie in trendy workout equipment and the never-ending cycle of "self-help"? We go in to find out.     🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Learn more about how to work with/hire Bu...

Today's episode explores how we can cultivate joy, health, and happiness without turning our faces away from the pain of the world, which sometimes asks for our attention and other times demands it. Buffy recorded this at a time where a non-binary student was murdered in a bathroom, and where war ravages across the Middle East and beyond. These are times that, as Buffy teacher says, are &quot...

How do you make decisions? Swiftly and suddenly? Do you let ideas marinate before you move forward? Buffy's story about Tricia's buggy (southern for "shopping cart") illustrates the wisdom of our desires, and how sometimes pausing can give us the space to  hear them truly and clearly. Can we begin to normalize the practice of checking in with ourselves before we make decisions;...

Today's episode is a continuation of Episode 126, Ganesh Will Help. Buffy completes the birth story and shares more about the lessons we can learn from this buoyant deity. Ganesh's rich lessons include how to gracefully be in the middle of something, authenticity and intimacy, and how we can ask deeper and better questions about and of ourselves. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this...

How can we help ourselves feel safe instead of bracing for impact? We get curious. Just like we might be if we found ourselves in a new town. Entering a new place - physically, mentally, or emotionally - with a spirit of wonder and curiosity can create a completely different experience than defaulting to old patterns of fear, pain, and anxiety. Buffy talks about her ankle replacement recovery to e...

Buffy tells stories of the Hindu deity Ganesha, or Ganapati.  Mythology can be used as a tool to help us see ourselves more clearly, no matter our religion, prayer, or conversation we are having with the divine. This is a human conversation and an invitation into a deeper experience of yourself through the keeper of the threshold, Ganesh, and the wisdom he offers us. 🌱 Find the accompanying playl...

Calling all worriers! What if you could see how you spend your time in a visual form, like a pie chart? How big of a pie slice would be spent worrying, ruminating, or projecting into the future? Buffy opens this episode with this pie chart image and takes listeners immediately stories that illuminate how getting to the root - the truth - of a story can reduce our time spent fretting. She ties up t...

Autumn is a treasured time of year at TTWH, and in this episode Buffy gives some practical tips that will help you breathe life and intention the autumnal transition. Tune in for inspiration around food, practices, and even ways to adorn yourself that help the transition into colder months feel full of purpose. You can visit www.ayurveda.com for a dosha quiz, Ayurvedic recipes, and more. Betsy Coc...

All life, all ears, all heart, all love. This episode is dedicated to Andrew Clark, a dear friend of Buffy's who died last week. Buffy honors his life by collecting and transmitting some of the deepest lessons and wisdoms Andrew imparted over the course of his life and their friendship. May his memory be a blessing. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Visit...

Can "maybe" be a gift, rather than a liability? This is an episode about relinquishing control and deepening trust in the face of endless maybes. It begins with a special guest reading a family favorite book and asks you to consider what ways you could make the "maybe's" sweeter, easier, and more full of trust. "Maybe, just maybe, the world has been waiting for someon...

CW: Violence, LGBTQ hate crimes. Buffy opens the episode with the story of Matthew Shepard - a young gay man who was brutally murdered  - and about the gentle, magical animal presence at the scene of the crime. This is an episode about being a spacious, compassionate presence for the ones we love. Our kind attention - without judgement, advice, or solution-oriented actions - can be the most precio...

Buffy starts with a story about a hilarious toddler misunderstanding and moves towards the topic of visualization. What is it? How can we do it, and how can it move our lives in the direction we believe is true and beautiful? Visualization can help us become more conscious of the waters we're swimming in, and call in more of what we desire towards us. Listen for practical ways to integrate vi...

There are moments in our lives where we to be reconnected to the big picture, and there are moments where we need to look at our feet in order to take the next right step. How do we discern which tools we need? Buffy uses the metaphors of "the mountain" and "the magnifying glass" as different medicines that are available to us when we are feeling lost. She tells stories of kitt...

"What distinguishes rage that is harmful versus rage that is sacred?" Buffy moves listeners into this inquiry and will have listeners considering - or perhaps reconsidering- their relationship with rage as a transformative, powerful entity. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patre...

Buffy talks listeners through feeling "fragmented," from the tiny ways we feel misaligned to the big broken open moments. And wholeness - the opposite of fragmentation - it's possible. Buffy offers ways to bring ourselves back to wholeness and connection through stories of bandaids, physical pain, and how the method of "stop and drop" will help. 🌱 Find the accompanying pl...

Buffy responds to a listener's question about friendship: when to repair, when to leave, and how to build your own discernment and nuance for the in-between. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodime...

Buffy records on the solstice in an episode that speaks to the importance of discernment in the ways we help ourselves in the name of healing, peace, and harmony.  Buffy gets to the heart of "What works for some may not work for others" Listeners receive our favorite 7-year-old wisdom's and a deeper understanding of why having our own personal measuring stick for success and happine...

Buffy shares about an ongoing ankle injury and the complicated stories around it, including shame, pain, and neglect. She offers ways to break through the codified stories that we hold in our minds and our bodies. She explores the question, "what is possible for my life if I simply set down old stories?" and invites listeners into a softness with the present moment. Amie Belanger is the...

This episode starts with yellow cake from a box and winds through sourdough bread, marriage and death, in service to the beauty of being able to hold and welcome it all. What happens when we can let ourselves be soaked with the fullness of the fragility and the wonder of life? Otis' wise words captures it perfectly: "It's gonna be emotional, and that's OK." Learn more abou...

In this episode, Buffy provides practical and grounded ways to encourage deep restoration in your life. The tools range from the physical to the mental to the emotional, and each supports more rest. She runs through her suggestions in a list format, and it might be supportive for you to have a pen and paper handy while you listen! TTWH is taking a May break and we'll be back with new episodes...

What does it mean to create beauty in the world? Buffy talks about how often, placing our attention directly in front of us - and being in service - can be some of the most beautiful and important work we can do.   Today's episode starts with a story about a man moving rocks from the road to create more safety for other drivers, and initiates a conversation of what making a difference in the...

This episode is about internal knowing; what happens when it is lacking, and how to more powerfully and purposefully cultivate it. Buffy talks about the liminal space of being in a process (rather than arrived at a destination), and how a balance of structure & freedom can support us in being in listening to the whispers that move us forward. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week&apos...

Buffy's daughter Coretta uses the term "Last Day" to refer to any day other than today; a day yesterday, last month, last year. This episode is an homage to Buffy's version of Last Day - what Buffy would do on her own final day of life - and includes considerations of mortality. This episode will have you considering what's really important to you, and what you might prior...

Today's episode is meant to bring consciousness to things you've started but haven't finished. Buffy tells stories of wills and books, plus a personal list of loose ends that might jog your brain about some tasks you could finish that might just feel really good. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a suppo...