Barriers to Happiness: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome Them This episode is about unlocking the keys to lasting happiness 🗝️🌈 True contentment isn't about fleeting moments of joy, but about overcoming both inner and outer challenges with a positive mindset and proven methods. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. #Happiness #PersonalGrowth #Mindfulness #Gratitude #MentalWellbeing Click here to read the article by Chris Shea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to boost your emotional strength and resilience? Tune in to our latest podcast episode where we explore practical tips from Chris Shea’s article, "10 Mindful Resilience Practices to Boost Your Emotional Strength." Learn how simply labeling your emotions can calm your brain and how embracing imperfections can be incredibly freeing. Plus, we'll share tips on creating a mindful morning routine to set the tone for a resilient day. This episode is packed with actionable insights and is perfect for anyone looking to navigate life's challenges with more grace and ease. Give it a listen and let us know your biggest takeaway! Check out the full article by clicking here. #resilience #emotionalstrength #mindfulness #podcast #wellbeing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tired of feeling like chronic pain is running your life? Join us in this podcast episode as we explore Chris Shea's powerful blog post, "Finding Peace Amidst Chronic Pain: A Personal Journey of Acceptance and Resilience," and discover practical strategies for not just managing pain, but thriving despite it.  Tune in and discover how to navigate the river of chronic pain and find moments of joy along the way! Click here to read Chris' full blog post. #chronicpain #painmanagement #acceptance #resilience #mentalhealth #CBT #mindfulness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finding Spirituality Leads to Peace and Hope Find your path to inner peace through Spiritual Hope. It's more than just wishful thinking, it's a deep-seated belief in something greater, guiding us towards resilience. Daily practices like journaling, visualization, and nature connection can help nurture this profound hope. Dive into this soulful journey with us. Click here to read Chris' article for more insights and details. #SpiritualHope #InnerPeace #Resilience #Transformation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris are tackling the concept of verbal processing. Communication is key to any healthy relationship, but how each person processes verbal communication affects the overall value of the communication. Is the difference gender related? Can we even ask that question today?  The hosts ponder the origins of verbal processing back to cave people and wonder if how we internally process verbal communication hasn't evolved too much over the millennia. Is there a right or wrong way to process? Is it a learned behavior from childhood?  The "answers" from the hosts aren't conclusive, but they agree that for communication to take place, each person needs to understand and respect the process of the other. What are your thoughts? If you like this content, please consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee. Please click "like" and share this podcast on your social media. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Chris and Missy talk about flexibility in life. How best can we daily be flexible and why even try? The simple answer: flexibility offers inner peace and less stress.  When we "go with the flow" instead of fighting against the current we reduce our stress since we are no longer striving to control that which we can't control in the first place. Flexibility has everything to do with letting go of control and getting out of our own way.  If you like this content please press like and share with your friends! Please consider buying the creators a Cup of Coffee to enable more content. Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris explore the power of words, and how we can use them to change our lives for the better. Words are incredibly powerful. They can shape our perception of the world and ourselves, and influence the way we interact with others. Our self-talk – the things we say to ourselves inside our own heads – is particularly important, as it can have a big impact on how we feel about ourselves and our lives. Fortunately, we have the power to choose our self-talk. We can choose to focus on the positive or the negative. We can choose to believe in ourselves or to doubt ourselves. It’s up to us.  If you enjoy this content like and share it with your friends. Please consider buying our creators a Cup of Coffee. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris are talking about staying grounded. Many of us feel overwhelmed by life and aren't sure what to do to again find our inner peace. We talk about ways that we maintain our peace when life is just too busy and chaotic. Missy shares her wisdom about "staying in my own lane" and Chris shares his approach of "not caring". Listen to find out what Chris means by that! The bottom line, the hosts agree that we need to learn to control what we can control while avoiding what we can't control.  If you like this content please like and share it with friends. Also, consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee by clicking here. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being emotionally available is not easy for everyone. In this episode, Missy and Chris talk about what it means to be emotionally available and why some of us struggle with this.  Emotions are our guidance system in life, yet the unknown of the future causes us anxiety, in turn causing us to close off emotionally. Missy and Chris talk about the emotional walls we put up, recognizing that walls both keep things out and keep things in. It's our responsibility, or "my response" to either wall off or share our emotions.  Missy reminds us that emotions are "energy in motion", challenging us to reflect on how we can change our behaviors, in action, to effect a healthy emotional response to life. There is no right or wrong when it comes to emotions, but Missy and Chris share a bit about themselves in the hope that you can learn from them and so create your own inner peace.  If you enjoy this content please share it with your friends and consider buying the creators a cup of coffee here (plus get extras and merch). Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addiction is typically associated with substances, but many of us deal with daily addictions other than substances. Missy and Chris share with us some daily addictions we may have and how we can learn to cope with them.  If you are coping with substance addiction this episode is helpful, but obtaining professional treatment for your addiction will give you the opportunity for a new life.  If you like this content please consider buying the creators a cup of coffee here (and get merch). Missy website Chris website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris turn to the wisdom of Gary Chapman from his work "The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate".  Finding inner peace involves relationships; relationships with both self and others. Missy and Chris share with us their love languages and the issues they see in relationships when people don't know their love language.  The ideas we talk about revolve around communication skills, expectations, and trust. Check out Chapman's book here. If you like this content please share it with your friends and consider buying a cup of coffee for the creators by clicking here. Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find Peace Of Mind Through Progress Not Perfection To find peace of mind we need to change our perspective to "progress not perfection". Many of us seek to have a perfect life, feeling like a failure when we fall short. In our search for perfection, we miss the journey, or the progress, along the way.  In this episode, Missy and Chris speak about their journey and search for perfection as they learned to change their perspective while being true to themselves and living in the moment. Peace of mind is found when we stop using "should" as we live in the progress of the moment. We need to refocus our thoughts away from "good" or "bad", reflecting rather on "healthy" and "not healthy".  The listener challenge is found at the 24:30 mark and Missy challenges us to go for a week and look at everything as perfect in the moment. Remember, that inspired action leads us to our perfection. If you like this episode buy the hosts a cup of coffee and share this with your friends. Missy's website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Judgement Judgement is what we do on a daily basis. We are constantly judging ourselves and others based on how we feel we or they should be. Therefore, judgement is all about perspective and our expectations. Using the word "should" sets up an expectation that may or may not be reasonable. So when we judge, we are taking our perspective, combining it with our expectation, and placing it on others. This is unfair to us and them as our expectations of others may not be their expectations for themselves. Living this way takes us away from our inner peace and happiness.  Missy and Chris talk about their opinions on judging others and share how they avoid judgments so to live in inner peace.  The listener challenge is located at the 22:27 mark. Missy challenges us for the next 2 weeks to sit in our awareness of what we're judging and how it makes us feel.  If you enjoy this content please share it with your friends and consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee (you'll get merch if you do). Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support Do you feel supported by others? There are times in our lives when we wish we were supported more, or better, especially by our loved ones and friends. How does this happen, that those closest to us aren't always our best supporters? Support from others, according to Missy and Chris, is all about expectations. Our expectation of how we "should" be supported, and our loved one's expectation of how well they feel they are supporting us. We need to self-define support as that influences our expectation of support. By eliminating the "should" and accepting each other as we are in the present moment, we may realize that we are supported! Yet, maybe not in the way we "expected". The listener challenge is found at the 27:50 mark when Missy challenges us to find a way that we can support another person. For it is in giving that we receive.  Please share and "like" this podcast. Consider buying the hosts a Cup of Coffee. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love changes everything! In this episode, we discuss how love, our life force, gives us freedom while taking away feelings of conflict. The lack of conflict combined with the presence of love leads us to inner peace and happiness. As Missy states: "Love is not a feeling but a decision." The listener challenge is at the 30:05 mark where we are challenged to discover how we choose love in our daily life. Share with us your reflection and how you acted on this.  If you like this content please buy Missy and Chris a cup of coffee here. Also, like and share this podcast with your friends. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Releasing My Guilt Guilt is a powerful emotion that tends to hold us back from not only moving forward but also from feeling our inner peace. Guilt is a feeling from the past, yet we live in the present. We can't change our past, but we can influence our present. In this episode, Missy and Chris share how they, and how they guide their clients, through the feelings of guilt into a place of release and peace. The listener challenge is found at the 27:00 mark where Missy challenges us to let ourselves fall apart and feel what we feel in the present moment. Share with us your reflections. If you like this content please share it with others. And if you want merch and behind the scenes extras buy us a cup of coffee here. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking Care of Yourself Taking care of yourself is vitally important to living with inner peace. Yet, so many of us don't take the time in our busy schedules to take care of ourselves. Missy and Chris are in the same boat. The busyness of their lives makes it difficult to care for themselves, yet they make it happen. As stated in this episode "if my glass is empty I have nothing to give." Listen in to learn how Missy and Chris take care of themselves on a daily basis. Also, the listener challenge is back! Find it at the 29:00 minute mark as Chris challenges us to "live our best life" for 10-15 minutes each day. Share with us how you do it! If you like this podcast share with your friends and consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee while getting yourself our merch. Click here Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leaving the Past In this episode, Missy and Chris talk about the relationship we have with our past. What is the purpose of the past and how does it influence my future? They talk about the importance of acknowledging the past, yet not dwelling there. They provide stories of their own struggles with the past, guiding us listeners to learning how we can make sense of our past to peacefully live in our present.  The listener challenge took a vacation this episode but will return rested and refreshed. Share with us your topic suggestions for future episodes.  If you like this podcast, please share it with your friends, and think about buying the hosts a cup of coffee. In exchange, we'll give you gifts! Click here Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Value of Now What do a dog and a caterpillar have to do with the value of now? Listen to this episode to find out. The value of now, or the importance of living in the present, is what Chris and Missy are discussing in this episode. We hear this message all the time, yet many of us still struggle with living in the moment. This is why Missy and Chris share their tips on how they daily practice living in the moment and how doing so has changed their lives. The listener challenge is located at the 28 minute mark where Missy encourages us to observe nature, the creatures big and small, observing what they do. Simply focus on the moment. Let us know how it works for you, and send us your pictures of the nature you observed. If you like this podcast please buy the hosts a cup of coffee and get yourself free stuff and merch! Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Belonging Belonging. So many of us struggle with the feeling of not belonging. In this episode, Chris and Missy share with us their views on belonging, providing tips to us in our quest to belong. Belonging is similar to wanting someone to care about us. Part of our challenge is to learn how to move outside of yourself in your desire for belonging.  The listener challenge is found at the 24:00 mark. Missy challenges us to reach out to someone who is nothing like you and try to form a friendship through dialogue and learning about each other. Let us know how you did in the comments.  If you like this episode please buy the hosts a cup of coffee in support of their mission. In return, you'll receive perks and merch. Click here to buy the coffee. Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices