Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

Week 36 - Sharing Your T.A.G.S. You can read AND see pictures on my blog - barbarafaison.com/blog All the links are here - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON Greetings! I’m Barbara J. Faison, Your Meditation Ambassador, and if you are new here, welcome! In January I started a weekly newsletter which also serves as a blog post on my  website , barbarafaison.com and the audio is my podcast called the  Why Stru...

Week 35 - Take Three or Ten You can read AND see pictures on my blog -  barbarafaison.com/blog All the links are here -  LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON My mission is to use my voice to heal, educate and inspire by sharing tools to help people live life better. I’ve mentioned before that I am an LL, a lifelong learner, and an LS, a lifelong sharer. My mother was an elementary school teacher, my father, a...

Week 34 - A Stress Relief Breath Practice You can read AND see pictures my blog -  barbarafaison.com/blog All the links are here -  LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON On Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting a  De-Stress with your Breath Program  for Teens at the Henry County Library, in Stockbridge Georgia. I get extra excited when I am able to share simple practices that anyone can do to reduce stress!...

Week 33 - Finding JOY! You can read AND see pictures my blog -  barbarafaison.com/blog All the links are here - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON What is joy? According to the dictionary, it’s a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. When was the last time you felt that feeling? I mean PURE JOY? On Friday night, my friend, Bonnie and I went out salsa dancing. On the way to the club, The Sanctuary, Bonnie...

Week 32 - Appreciating and Celebrating! You can read or listen on my blog -  barbarafaison.com/blog 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.  Life simply is. Being alive is cause for celebration! Take a moment...

Week 31 - More New Things! All the LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON I’m Barbara J. Faison, Your Meditation Ambassador, and if you are new here, welcome! In January I started a weekly newsletter which also serves as a blog post on my website,  barbarafaison.com  and the audio is my podcast called the Why Struggle podcast with Barbara J. Faison. So weekly you can read or listen.  My intention is to o...

Week 30 - Knowing What's Missing All the LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON When I woke up on Sunday morning, I felt a little off, like something was missing. I’m doing my daily meditation, mindfulness, trying new things and other practices. Still, something didn’t feel right.  It’s been a busy month. Between having car issues and regular life, things have been very active. Last week, I talked ab...

Week 29 - What do You Believe? All the LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON CHECK OUT OVER 33 SHORT MEDITATIONS ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL What do you believe about yourself? Your abilities? Your family? Your beliefs are like seeds planted in soil – when nourished in the proper environment, seeds grow into beautiful foliage. As children, our belief system is based on the world we live in. Once we are grown,...

CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE Week 28  - Celebrating Being On the Road Again! You can read this and more on my blog - ⁠barbarafaison.com/blog⁠ Remember the song  On the Road Again  by Willie Nelson? If you don’t Google it. lol That’s how I felt on Saturday. A few of the lyrics are: I can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've ne...

Week 27 - New Things Again with Old Friends All the LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE I met Regenna London in 1995 when I was doing some freelance writing. Didn’t know that, did you? Ha ha… Gotta keep you guessing. At the time she was co-owner of The Source Bookstore in Decatur GA. I interviewed Regenna and her husband for a local Black magazine...

All the LINKS - LINKTR.EE/BARBARAFAISON Week 26 - Music and Lasting Friendships On Friday night I met two friends, Bonnie and Jartu at  Volare Bistro  for dinner. The food was delicious. We laughed so much thinking about how much fun we had dancing salsa and traveling together. Yes, I met these lovely ladies while I was out dancing salsa. Bonnie reminded me we are at a club called The Duplex on a...

Week 25 - My M.A.P  All the links are at ⁠⁠ https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠⁠ ⁠CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE⁠ Dear God, what positive, creative, constructive, thought, word, attitude, or action is the next step to move us forward in life? This is the prayer my husband, TD, and I say before he goes to work at oh dark 30. About 5:15 AM most days. It is adapted from one by Ca...

Week 24 - More New Things? All the links are at ⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠⁠ ⁠CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE⁠ I’m back reminding you to try and do new things. In week 14 I shared my Float Spa experience, you can check that out on my blog at  barbarafaison.com . This weekend I did quite a few new things. On Friday night Kym, Artis, and I went to a story telling event...

Week 23 - It's June, What's Next? All the links are at ⁠ https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison ⁠⁠ CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE Well, May is a wrap! Can you believe it? We are almost half way through 2023! So now that National Meditation Month and Mental Health Awareness Month are over, what’s next? How do you continue if you started doing the meditations from my YouTube...

Week 22 - How's Your Journey Going? All the links are at ⁠ https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠ CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE Over the decades I have heard many ways to describe meditation and one of my favorites is that meditation is mental hygiene. You brush your teeth daily (I hope) and groom and prepare yourself for the day. So if I brush my teeth, wash up, pick out th...

Week 21 - My Meditation Journey Part III - When the Body Speaks All the links are at ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠ CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE Mother’s Day weekend I had plans that would keep me busy all Saturday which included my monthly crochet group and a brunch. I went to bed Friday night feeling a little bit icky. I waited to see how I felt the next morning befo...

Week 20 - It Starts with a BREATH All the links are at  ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠   CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL MEDITATION PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE I would say we are back in the business of the "busyness” of life after the pandemic. Time is a premium for most of us and we all have the ability to make choices about where and how we spend our time. When I say that I use my voice to heal, educat...

WEEK 19- My Meditation Journey - Part 2 All the links are at  ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠   I hope you’ve had a chance to check out my playlist for  National Meditation Month  on my YouTube channel. I’ve really enjoyed creating and posting some simple daily practices that are less than 10 minutes and I will continue posting through the month of May. When I started practicing in the 90s, peo...

WEEK 18 - My Meditation Journey - Part 1 All the links are at  ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠ 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 c...

All the links are at  ⁠https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠⁠ Week 17 - The Power of Books I have had a love affair with words since I was a child. I suspect being the daughter of a teacher and a librarian, I got it in the womb. Communicating has been my go to my whole life: writing, speaking, the performing arts. I found out that world book day was yesterday, so happy belated world book day. I don’t t...

All the links are at https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison⁠ Week 16 - Nope. Dancing Goats. Power. What do these three things have to do with each other? Come with me to find out. Working is what We people do, right? Werk. Werk. Werk. Werk. Werk. In my best Rihanna voice. I’ve had some type of business since 1999 when I self-published my book,  Why Struggle? life is too short to wear tight shoes . In 201...

Thank you for joining me on a mindful walk. Download my affirmations to Affirm Your Life pdf with over 100 affirmations .   Barbara LIVE Session will be on Wednesdays - 4.12 & 4.19 -- 8 - 9 pm EASTERN. ALL THE LINKS - https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison   My mission my voice to heal, educate and inspire as a professional voice actor and meditation guide Check out my Patreon Page - https://bit.ly/3...

Enjoy this bedtime tale to help you get to sleep... let me know if your thoughts. All THE LINKS - ⁠ https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison ⁠ Check out my Patreon Page - ⁠ https://bit.ly/3hhiJJe ⁠   Check out my YouTube channel for more break breaks, inspiration and longer meditations - ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/c/BarbaraFaison ⁠ Social Media -FOLLOW ME! ⁠ https://linktr.ee/barbarafaison ⁠

All the links are  ⁠here Week 15 - A Delightful Day! As a young child I was confused about a lot of things regarding religion. it made no sense to me that there was only one way to get to what we called God. This weekend and about every 30 years there is a rare crossover of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Guess What! Warning...THIS post is NOT GOING to BE about any of that. I am going to share how f...

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