Figuring Sh!t Out

VIDEO PODCAST TO THIS EPISODE IS LIVE ON YOUTUBE <3 (Shortened Version of the Full Podcast on the Channel: 20 mins)  Channel Name: @figuringshitout (Vanessa Fontana) Title: normalize confusion - you're not running out of time. wherever you are is okay. ---------------- Episode 11.  our incessant need to understand and make sense of our lives is the malignant cessation of the flow of our liv...

This episode is a walk-through my journey of awakening and some of the precious lessons I’ve learned throughout it.  Lessons not isolated to a journey of awakening, but lessons so intertwined with life, that we all seem to learn them at some point or another, in our own way.  We are not separate and we never were.  The light you see in others is too within you - and your access to it comes from a...

Covet your being and your breath for they have been with you since your birth into life. Center yourself back home. Step outside of your mind. Detach from, connect to.  You are the witness. “If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do,...

Knowing that there will always be more to know, more to learn means that every moment in your life has the potential to be transformative. Our drifting awareness, our tendency to take the path of least resistance by being less than fully awake to the present moment, creates a void. The time-bound mind, which has been designed to be a useful servant, compensates by proclaiming itself master. ------...

Free yourself. Find a treasure in knowing that you have been at the rise and fall of every single one of your days, that you have surmounted all aspects of your pain, risen from it, and are in a continuous evolvement of being. You and only you. You weren't given a voice to not use it. Let go of the need to please, to listen to the inner-critic in your mind and satiate it by staying quiet. By l...

There is a bundle of nerves in our brain-stem responsible for affirming our internal beliefs. It is called the Reticular Activating System. It is the neuroscience behind self-fulfilling prophecies, connecting our subconscious inner world to our conscious outer world. It is a feedback loop of incessant validation for your own internal belief systems. It is why we are able to sort and sift through m...

Part one of a series on Law of Attraction. You are a powerful creator. You may believe that manifestation, the law of attraction, and intentional creation is a spiritual concept outside of the binds of your brain. That you don't know anything about it, that you don't know how to do it, that you don't know where to start or how to learn. I have news for you. Every moment, of every singl...

People can only see you as far as they see themselves, and maybe that’s not their fault. Why do we attract the same people, the same pain, the same dynamics, over and over again? Why do we feel we need to strive for, work for, or sacrifice for love? Why is it so hard to walk away when you know you’re being hurt? This pain that can follow us through our relationships seems to be a right of passage...

To every light, there is darkness. An equal and an opposite balance that transmutes the most harrowing experiences into the ones filled with invariable growth. To embark on the journey of healing, we must ask ourselves - what needs to be healed? Where did it all start?  In this episode, I talk about what an inner child is - the deepest parts of ourselves, yet the most pure, which shoulder all of t...

How do we overcome the existential nature that is so much of this life? How do we find meaning in the presupposed meaninglessness?  Know that, the point is, most of the time - to simply not know.  Welcome to Figuring Sh!t Out - a podcast born out of a desire to conversationalize navigating the human experience. In this episode, the room is warmed for the dialogue to follow - soul consciousness, la...

To decide what kind of life you want to live and to step into who you want to be - start backwards.  Who are you living for? Where was this born? What is your ego? Why is acknowledging and accepting it a necessary part of growth? Why do you want the things you want? What's holding you back from loving yourself?  In this episode, there are a lot of moving parts, a foundational escrow of underst...