Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

All the LINKS: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 34- My Practices - Part 4 - My M.A.P. You can listen to this on my podcast  - 8:47 mins or click the  link here  for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) 2024 - Week 32 - My Practices - Part 2 - My MAP This is an episode about the  P  in my M.A.P. My M.A.P. How are you doing? How’s it crackalackalacking? Mom use say that and it always makes me...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 33 - My Practices - Part 3 - My M.A.P. This is an episode about the  A  in my  M.A.P. In last week's episode,  week 32 , I talked about the  M - meditations  from my  M.A.P.  I shared a grounding practice that is a short meditation to stay grounded when my life may feel busy. Pressing my feet down on the ground and saying  “I am on solid groun...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON My M.A.P. In last week's episode,  week 31 , I mentioned that we make around 35,000 decisions a day. Listen, that’s a lot of picking and choosing. lol. We may decide what to eat, what to wear, how to spend our day, and more. Any way you look at it, a lot of decisions are being made… ALL DAY LONG . If I don’t have certain things I do to manage my mind, I c...

All links: http://LINKTR.EE/barbarafaison 2024 - Week 30 - My Practices - LEGging (LEGging) This is an episode about my Learning Evolving & Growing My Practices Part 1 - LEGging Life is sooo much about what we focus our energy on. Dr. Wayne Dyer’s quote is one I remind myself of, “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”  Yep, it’s also one of my guiding principle...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 30 - How are You Sleeping? You can listen to this on my podcast  - 5:42 mins or click the  link here  for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) This is an episode about sleep! Have you ever had a night where you didn’t sleep well? I didn’t rest well for a few days because I had some pains in my body. It was rough. My left shoulder was bothering...

All the Links : LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 29 - Life’s Simple Pleasures! This is another episode about life’s simple pleasures! Life’s Simple Pleasures! Life is a journey. A trip. A deck of cards. Life defies a single definition because moment by moment, life changes. Life is different for each person every moment. Just as life changes, we change and grow based on our experiences. Treat y...

This is another episode about how CHANGE…the only constant in life. lol The only constant is change. Everything must change. Man plans and God laughs. These quotes remind me of how important it is to learn to go with the flow of life.  Have you ever made a plan, and just watched it completely fall apart? Yep, that's what happened to me over the long weekend last week. My hubby, TD and I were p...

All the Links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 27 - Silence and Letting Go This episode is about silence and letting go. This year I have taken a few road trips. I have traveled for anywhere between 3 to 9 hours at a time and allowed myself to be in silence for at least an hour. I worked my way up to this over the years. I would immerse myself in silence. I would allow my thoughts to do what t...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 26 - 2024 Mid-year Review You can listen to this on my podcast  - 8:40 mins or click the  link here  for the YouTube Channel version (audio only This episode is about checking in with 2024. We are halfway through 2024 so this week I decided to look back at some of the accomplishments and experiences I've had so far. I started doing this around...

All the links- LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 25 - What I Believe (Replay) NOTE: IF YOU NOTICED THE BLOOPER, EMAIL ME WITH WHAT I DID AND I'll send you a CARD DECK FOR YOU OR AS A GIFT. (FOR THE 1st three people) This episode is a replay of Week 51 from 2023, What I Believe Around this time I start to review my year and check in with what is important to me. I’m thinking about how I have...

all the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 24 - Feeling Joy! CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUB E 2024 - Week 24 - Be Joyful This is a podcast about FEELING JOY!  Joy - a few definitions include: a source or cause of delight and a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. When was the last time you experienced joy? I recently thought about what brings me joy now at this ag...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON This is a podcast about knowing yourself and having sustainable practices. Developing and sustaining a daily meditation practice for over 25 years helped me gain a deeper level of self-awareness. I have learned that the  more  I practice the  more  I gain a level of self-mastery with what I am practicing. Being self-aware and having personal insight allows me...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 22 - Pat Yourself on the Back You can listen to this on my podcast  - 8:36 mins or click the link above for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) This is a podcast about trusting yourself and patting yourself on the back. How are you doing? I’m feeling really proud of myself right now. Over the long weekend my husband and I did a lot of work ar...

All the Links: LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 21 - Stay Grounded You can listen to this on my podcast  - 9:39 mins or click the link above for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE This podcast is about staying grounded. This past weekend my husband, TD, and I went out to San Antonio, Texas to visit with his sister and her husband. When...

All the links: LINKTR.EE/Barbarafaison 2024 - Week 20 - Start with A Breath CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE This is a podcast about starting with one breath as the foundation for being present. Here’s a quick story about this week’s podcast. I received a download in bed yesterday morning and created a note in my OneNote file on my phone. Last night as I was about to email it...

LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON This is a podcast about trusting your Personal Guidance System. Guess what y'all? It’s  National Meditation Month … I get a little geeky about this because meditation has been such an important part of my life since the 90’s. I started meditating because I was struggling and tired of the struggle. Back then there was no YouTube or podcasts or any of the really cool tech...

All links - Linktr.ee/barbarafaison 2024 - Week 18 - Beach Day Trip Destin FL is one of my favorite places to go to the beach. The blue water from the Gulf of Mexico can be mistaken for beaches from other countries. I remember when I had pictures of Puerto Rico and Destin in my camera roll and I couldn’t tell them apart. 2019 was the last time I was at the beach, we were in Panama City, FL. It had...

2024 - Week 17 - Pinochle, Platelets and Resident Alien All the links: Linktr.ee/barbarafaison Doing new things is great for your brain. I am an  LL- a lifelong learner  and I’m grateful that for the most part I enjoy trying new things. I’ve been doing new things so long it really is second nature for me, most of the time. Watching a genre of a movie or a series you normally wouldn’t watch is doin...

All the links - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 16 - Take a Breath You can listen to this on my podcast  - 8:13 mins or click the link above for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) Wouldn't it be nice to have people do what we want them to do all day long? Good luck with that. We live in a society of free will. Every day we make choices. Each person takes a path that will be filled wi...

All the links - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 15 - Celebrations! This is a podcast about celebrating friendships and enjoying life. My dear friend Bonnie is celebrating her birthday and a group of us will go salsa dancing on Friday. When I was chatting with her earlier this week, neither one of us could remember exactly when we met. Well, we remembered when we met, we just couldn’t remember...

All the Links - Linktr.ee/barbarafaison 2024 - Week 14 - Staying Grounded This is a podcast about how I stay grounded. Last week I mentioned using your phone to remind you during the day to stop and check in with yourself.  Are you checking in with yourself? Are you noticing how you feel and paying attention to how you are moving through the day? I notice when I’m rushing or moving fast I drop thi...

LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON 2024 - Week 13 - Deep Breathing We are officially in spring. Yay! And there’s still a lot going on in the world. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to really have to remind myself to stop and take deep breaths during the day even more . One of my practices is to have my phone alarm at different times during the day. I change the word alarm to an affirmation or somethi...

All the LINKS - linktr.ee/barbarafaison You can listen to this on my podcast  - 9:11 mins or click the link above for the YouTube Channel version (audio only) This is a podcast about taking in all that is happening in the moment and flowing with life. When I have my live meditation sessions I often talk about the infinity symbol and how it is a lovely reminder to flow with life. The word infinity...

All the links - linktr.ee/barbarafaison This is an episode about patience and acceptance. Do you know the expression patience is a virtue? I never got that virtue. lol I must've been missing on the day that they were giving that out to people. I remember my father teasing me growing up, calling me his pet nickname for me, Doll. “Doll you just gotta be patient.” He would tell me. Yeah, me, not...

All the links: Linktr.ee/barbarafaison Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barbarajfaison Week 10 - Money This is an episode about money , content creation and online platforms . Money is not Evil Money is not the root of evil. Money or currency is a representation of what people think will make them happy. Being rich will set you free from all the demons of the world, right? Does money truly motivat...