Your inner compass is ready to guide you… Are you listening?
Many of us have buried our inner knowing under years of doubt, overthinking, and second-guessing. In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun talks about how to reconnect with that inner voice, cultivate self-trust, and act with alignment even when the mind is loud and life feels uncertain.
Elizabeth shares a personal story of a time she faced a challenging decision and discovered how listening to her body, rather than just her mind, helped her find clarity. She also dives into common barriers to self-trust, the lessons hidden in fear, and an inspiring story from the Pancha Tantra - The Lion and the Rabbit - that illustrates the power of awareness, discernment, and courage.
Key Takeaways:
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One moment in a 10th-grade classroom changed how Lyn showed up in the world. This episode offers the story of finding her way back to her voice.
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun talks with Lyn about her Unmuted Method, which helps people heal and feel safe to be seen. Lyn opens up about how she learned to regulate her sensitive nervous system, and the quiet courage it takes to let yourself truly be seen.
Key Takeaways
Join the Rooted & Resilient free workshop → https://www.thecalmingground.com/QuarterlyWorkshop
DM Lyn “ELIZABETH” on Instagram to receive Lyn’s free gift - a quick 5 minute Embodied Expression Activation
You can Find Lyn here:
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
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Welcome to a very special celebration of the second anniversary of the Calming Ground Podcast!
This week, host Elizabeth Mintun is honoring this milestone with a mini-episode series called The Nature Within. This is a journey back to the essence of why this podcast began:
✨ Reconnecting with your inner calm
🌱 Reclaiming your presence
🌊 Cultivating resilience through practicing mindfulness and connecting with the natural world
In this final episode of the series, host Elizabeth Mintun explores the sacred and cultural symbolism of the mountain. She shares how to embody stillness when life feels uncertain and offers a grounding meditation to reconnect with your inner strength.
Key Takeaways
Join the Rooted & Resilient free workshop → https://www.thecalmingground.com/QuarterlyWorkshop
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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Welcome to a very special celebration of the second anniversary of the Calming Ground Podcast!
This week, host Elizabeth Mintun is honoring this milestone with a mini-episode series called The Nature Within. This is a journey back to the essence of why this podcast began:
✨ Reconnecting with your inner calm
🌱 Reclaiming your presence
🌊 Cultivating resilience through practicing mindfulness and connecting with the natural world
In this fourth episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores how the moon has always held a quiet power. It governs tides, influences energy, and shines through reflection. In this episode, Elizabeth shares what the moon teaches us about honoring our natural rhythms and cycles, receiving instead of constantly striving, listening inward to our intuition and emotional wisdom, and finding peace in both light and shadow.
Key Takeaways
Join the Rooted & Resilient free workshop → [https://www.thecalmingground.com/QuarterlyWorkshop
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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Welcome to a very special celebration of the second anniversary of the Calming Ground Podcast!
This week, host Elizabeth Mintun is honoring this milestone with a mini-episode series called The Nature Within. This is a journey back to the essence of why this podcast began:
✨ Reconnecting with your inner calm
🌱 Reclaiming your presence
🌊 Cultivating resilience through practicing mindfulness and connecting with the natural world
These episodes are both a celebration of two beautiful years together and intended to offer a steady support in these uncertain times. In this third episode in the series, host Elizabeth Mintun explores how the wind archetype can help us create space and restore clarity when stress clouds our perception. In addition, Elizabeth talks about how wind has often been seen as a powerful messenger in ancient mythologies and Indigenous teachings and offers a gentle practice that can help you find your clarity using wind imagery.
Key Takeaways
Join the Rooted & Resilient free workshop → https://www.thecalmingground.com/QuarterlyWorkshop
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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Welcome to a very special celebration of the second anniversary of the Calming Ground Podcast!
This week, host Elizabeth Mintun is honoring this milestone with a mini-episode series called The Nature Within. This is a journey back to the essence of why this podcast began:
✨ Reconnecting with your inner calm
🌱 Reclaiming your presence
🌊 Cultivating resilience through practicing mindfulness and connecting with the natural world
These episodes are both a celebration of two beautiful years together and intended to offer a steady support in these uncertain times. This second episode in the series is intended to offer the natural symbol of the river as a helpful reminder of the wisdom in connecting with our adaptability and capacity to let go of our attempt to brace or control so that we can find ease and flow.
Key Takeaways
✨ Check out The Stress Resilience 6-Week Reset. A small-group coaching program where you’ll learn my C.A.L.M. framework and walk away with practical tools that help you feel steady, present, and resilient. Learn more here: https://www.thecalmingground.com/6-week-reset
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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Welcome to a very special celebration of the second anniversary of the Calming Ground Podcast!
This week, host Elizabeth Mintun is honoring this milestone with a mini-episode series called The Nature Within. This is a journey back to the essence of why this podcast began:
✨ Reconnecting with your inner calm
🌱 Reclaiming your presence
🌊 Cultivating resilience through practicing mindfulness and connecting with the natural world
These episodes are both a celebration of two beautiful years together and intended to offer a steady support in these uncertain times. This first episode in the series explores one of the most enduring archetypes of all: the tree - a symbol of grounding, stability, and endurance, and how the tree archetype can help us find steadiness in turbulent times of life.
Key Takeaways
✨ Check out The Stress Resilience 6-Week Reset. A small-group coaching program where you’ll learn my C.A.L.M. framework and walk away with practical tools that help you feel steady, present, and resilient. Learn more
here: https://www.thecalmingground.com/6-week-reset
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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What if peace is something already within you, waiting beneath the surface?
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun talks with psychotherapist and author Ashley Davis Bush, who wrote The Little Book of Inner Peace, The Art and Power of Acceptance, and others. They explore how to move beyond the endless “doing” of our culture and reconnect with the deeper wisdom of simply being. In particular, Ashley addresses how self-compassion and befriending your emotions can be a key to peace, as well as how nature can be a portal to grounding, oneness, and spiritual connection.
Whether you’ve been practicing mindfulness for years or you’re just curious about finding more calm in daily life, this conversation offers encouragement and gentle, practical tools for reconnecting with your center.
Key Takeaways
🔗 Learn more about Ashley’s work and books at: ashleydavisbush.com
✨ The Stress Resilience 6-Week Reset. A small-group coaching program where you’ll learn my C.A.L.M. framework and walk away with practical tools that help you feel steady, present, and resilient. Learn more here: https://www.thecalmingground.com/6-week-reset
✨ Free Workshop: Building Stress Resilience. Want a taste of the framework? Join me for a free workshop before the Reset begins. Choose your date and reserve your spot here: thecalmingground.com/stress-resilience-workshop
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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Before the holidays sweep you into full calendars, family dynamics, and year-end deadlines, fall offers a rare chance to pause and reset. What if you could use this season to strengthen your resilience now, before the holiday bustle?
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun shares why stress isn’t the enemy (it’s a signal), how resilience really works, and why now - before the holiday hustle - is the best time to put grounding practices into place.
Elizabeth offers a personal story of how stress showed up in her everyday life. She also explores the most common stress patterns we all fall into and simple tools you can start practicing today to build resilience that lasts.
Key Takeaways
✨ The Stress Resilience 6-Week Reset. A small-group coaching program where you’ll learn my C.A.L.M. framework and walk away with practical tools that help you feel steady, present, and resilient. Learn more here: https://www.thecalmingground.com/6-week-reset
✨ Free Workshop: Building Stress Resilience. Want a taste of the framework? Join me for a free workshop before the Reset begins. Choose your date and reserve your spot here: thecalmingground.com/stress-resilience-workshop
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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What are you ready to let go of? Autumn is nature’s reminder to refine and simplify.
In this episode, podcast host Elizabeth Mintun talks about how fall is a season of transition - a time when nature contracts, leaves fall, and we’re invited to distill what is truly essential. In Chinese medicine and Qigong, Fall corresponds with the Metal element, connected to clarity, refinement, and the wisdom of letting go.
Elizabeth delves into how autumn and the Metal element of Ancient Chinese Medicine can guide you through letting go with grace. She shares how the Metal element shows up in our bodies, emotions, and daily lives, and offers simple, practical ways to honor this season.
Key Takeaways
Podcast Episode The Empty Space: Grieving What Could Have Been: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-calming-ground-podcast/id1704337948?i=1000696134741
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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What does it mean to hold space for ourselves, for others, and for the tender in-between times of life?
In this conversation, host Elizabeth Mintun is joined by Heather Plett, author of The Art of Holding Space and Where Tenderness Lives. Heather shares her wisdom on navigating transitions with courage and compassion. She talks about how to live in liminal spaces - when one chapter ends but the next hasn’t fully taken shape, the role of grief, loss, and surrender in times of change, and why community and witness matter… especially when we’re in times of transition and change.
Whether you’re moving through change yourself or supporting someone else, this conversation will offer insight, encouragement, and gentle permission to trust the unfolding.
Key Takeaways
Website:https://heatherplett.com/
Heather’s books:
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What if ambition isn’t the enemy of calm…but actually its partner? In this episode, we’ll explore how ambition, when guided by soul and supported by rest, can actually expand your creativity, purpose, and vitality.
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun shares a personal story from early in her career that led her to a turning point: learning to discern between ego-driven ambition (the striving that drains us) and soul-led ambition (the kind that sustains us).
This episode delves into the hidden masks of ambition and how to recognize when it’s quietly depleting you. Elizabeth also offers practical ways to bring your body, not just your mind, into the conversation about growth and pace.
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
Find episode on Elizabeth’s ARROW Framework for Compassionate Accountability here
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Some conversations touch something so deep within us, we know we’ll never quite be the same again. This was one of those conversations.
In this powerful and poetic episode, host Elizabeth Mintun sits down with Mary Reynolds Thompson, an award-winning author, spiritual ecology pioneer, poetry therapy facilitator, and wild soul guide. Mary’s life and work invite us into a space of reconnection: to the Earth, to story, and to the sacred wildness within. From her enchanted childhood memories in a remote Italian fishing village to a life-changing encounter with the ocean while newly sober, Mary shares the deeply personal stepping stones that led her to her life’s work: helping others live their wild soul stories.
This is not just a conversation - it’s an initiation. An invitation to return home to your wild self.
Key Takeaways
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
Mary Reynolds Thompson Website: https://www.maryreynoldsthompson.com/
Links to Mary’s Books:
The Way of the Wild Soul Woman
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What happens when burnout pushes you to the point of numbness?
In this episode, podcast host Elizabeth Mintun is joined by Rachel Pradarelli. Rachel is the founder of Tranquilopa Wellness and she is a yoga and meditation teacher, and women’s wellness coach. Rachel shares her journey from working as a family nurse practitioner (where stress and emotional overload led her to a breaking point), to discovering the healing power of yoga, meditation, and nervous system regulation.
In this conversation Rachel also shares how she now helps women who feel stuck in cycles of stress by blending mindfulness, nervous system tools, body acceptance work, and deep self-awareness practices to help women build a more compassionate, connected relationship with themselves without needing to run on empty, “fix” themselves, or prove their worth. If you’ve ever felt caught in the cycle of giving to everyone but yourself, or if you’re curious about how to reconnect with your body’s wisdom, this conversation will leave you with both validation and hope.
Key Takeaways
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
Find Rachel Pradarelli:
Website: tranquilopawellness.com
IG: @TranquilopaWellness
Email: tranquilopawellness@gmail.com
The Compassionate Curiosity Podcast: The Compassionate Curiosity Podcast
Free Community to further explore stress relief, self-connection, and body peace: The Compassionate Curiosity Community
Rachel’s Book: Anxious Attachment Recovery Simplified: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2N8FXMF
Reflection Journal: https://www.thecalmingground.com/self-care-reflection-journal ($4.99)
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What are you taking in these days - food, conversations, commitments - and does it replenish or deplete you?
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun honors an often-overlooked season: Late Summer, the fifth season in Chinese medicine. Elizabeth explains how this season in ancient Chinese medicine is associated with the Earth element, and that it is a time of ripening, grounding, and nourishment - both physically and emotionally. Elizabeth offers reflective and meditative exercises throughout the episode to invite you to check in with yourself and notice where you might already be feeling replenished, and where you might need a little TLC.
Key Takeaways
Reflection Journal: https://www.thecalmingground.com/self-care-reflection-journal ($4.99)
Find the podcast Episode Mentioned in this episode “Artful Integration: The Healing Journey of Kelli Trinoskey here.
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
Whether you’re listening on a walk, cooking dinner, or with a quiet cup of tea, this episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and receive nourishment for body, mind, and spirit.
If this episode brings you grounding, consider sharing it with someone who might need a little Earth element sweetness too. 🌾
Your story holds incredible power. The story you tell about your past can shape your future - and your brain. What if you could rewrite it in a way that brings peace, strength, and freedom?
In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores how telling and reframing your personal narrative can help you process difficult experiences, release shame, and create a more peaceful future. She dives into how neuroscience explains the healing power of storytelling, why trauma can fragment memory, and how sharing your story in safe spaces can shift both your mind and body toward greater resilience. You’ll also hear real-life examples of people transforming their hardest chapters into sources of strength - and a simple exercise to begin reframing your own story today.
Key Takeaways
Reflection Journal: https://www.thecalmingground.com/self-care-reflection-journal ($4.99)
Find the podcast Episode Mentioned in this episode “Artful Integration: The Healing Journey of Kelli Trinoskey here.
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching here.
Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
Let’s be honest - manifesting is one of those words that stirs up a lot. For some, it feels empowering, magical, and full of possibility. For others, it’s become a buzzword, co-opted by hustle culture or watered down by oversimplified self-help advice.
In today’s episode, host Elizabeth Mintun takes a deep dive into exploring what manifesting means beneath the buzzwords. She looks at the deeper, ancient roots of manifesting across spiritual traditions. Elizabeth also explores how manifesting can be both mystical and practical, rooted in both intention, awareness, and aligned action.
Key Takeaways
✨ Reflection Question:
What desire or longing feels most alive in me right now and am I willing to receive support in letting it unfold?
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Contact Elizabeth: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com
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What if the richest, most meaningful moments of your life are already here, hidden in the ordinary?
In this episode of The Calming Ground, host Elizabeth Mintun explores “the sacred and the mundane.” Not necessarily religious or spiritual (though it can be), sacredness is that deep feeling of aliveness, wonder, or tenderness that makes you pause and think, this matters.
But most of life is ordinary, filled with tasks such as folding laundry, answering emails, and making the bed. Elizabeth talks about why we often miss meaningful moments and offers simple practices to invite more of the extraordinary - or the sacred - into your everyday life.
Key Task
✨ Reflection Question:
If you approached one daily task as sacred this week, what would you choose—and what might shift for you if you did?
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Does January feel like it was forever ago? If so, you’re not alone.
Mid-year is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and gently re-align with what truly matters for the rest of 2025 - and that’s exactly what host Elizabeth Mintun does in this episode. Elizabeth guides you through a calming mid-year reflection, celebrating what’s worked, gently acknowledging what feels heavy and ready to be released, and setting mindful intentions for the months of 2025 still to come.
Key Takeaways
Resources
Join the Stress Resilience Formula: 6-Week Reset – If stress has been running the show lately, this small-group coaching program will help you feel calmer, clearer, and more in control… no matter what life throws at you. Doors close Friday, July 25, and we start next week!
The Calming Ground Self-Care Membership – Get ongoing seasonal mindfulness practices, guided reflections, and self-care tools. Learn more here.
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching here.
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Whether you're feeling tired, invisible, or simply longing for more meaning in the everyday, this episode is a poetic call to return to what soothes you, delights you, and reminds you of who you truly are.
Key Takeaways
Resources
Unlock Your Resilience Style FREE Quiz: https://www.thecalmingground.com/resilience-quiz
Podcast Episode on the Healing Power of Music (Episode 72): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/72-the-healing-power-of-music/id1704337948?i=1000689185340
Explore the Self-Care Membership: https://www.thecalmingground.com/calming-ground-membership-waitlist
Learn more about 1:1 Coaching: https://www.thecalmingground.com/inner-compass
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