If your emotions shape every decision, every relationship, and every result… what emotional state are you living in? In this powerful episode, we explore how your emotional "home" - the feelings you return to most often, creates the reality you experience. Drawing from Tony Robbins’ life-changing insights, we unpack how to reclaim your power, break out of negative patterns, and condition yourself for lasting joy, gratitude, and resilience. If you want to feel better, live bigger, and love deeper: START HERE.

We spend our whole lives doing. Nevermind that we are called human BEINGS, for most of us, all day, every day is do, do, do. But WHY do we do anything at all? This episode explores the often elusive, subtle nature of our doing that can bring us to an utter sense of peace and contentment: doing because the act itself is sufficient unto itself.

We spend so much of our time trying to find balance, equilibrium, center. As someone who has dedicated myself to a process of growth and self-compassion, being in balance has always been a target. This is episode is all about the epiphany that has changed the balance game!

Just about anyone who talks about mindfulness will inevitably talk about learning to hold ourselves. I, personally, have been talking about and teaching this for the last 10 years. But in recent years, the power and true meaning of this practice and concept has transformed into something deep and unexpected. In this episode, journey with me through the concept changes and evolution or REvolution of what it means to truly HOLD OURSELVES, and why it is the path to ultimate freedom.

Welcome to 2024! On this episode we explore the "aha" moment of not making our minds our enemies. From how we're raised to view and judge ourselves naturally to even the language we sometimes hear on our spiritual paths, making the mind the enemy: putting it in its place or "controlling" it sometimes seems the ultimate goal. So today we work through the transformative possibility of making the mind our friend even during meditation.

Living in a society that glorifies goals and the idea of "more," this poem explores the idea of the question "what's next?"

This is the first offering of a new series on the podcast called Spoken Poetry. They are not "episodes," if you will, but rather offerings of words written in moments of inspiration and deep feeling. May they serve your spirit and awaken you to love that you already are.

In the first episode of 2023, I have a conversation with entrepreneur, spiritual enthusiast, and conscious living explorer Ash Geary around FEAR. What IS fear? How can we navigate our moments of fear in a way that brings us closer to the truth of who we are? This episode explores fear from tools and practices to lessen the pain all the way to the root of fear itself: death and the loss of everything we know and love. Such an honor to learn and explore with Ash and share his wisdom with you all.

We live our lives in a perpetual state of "doing." Every day is comprised of moving from one task to another: one thing to accomplish after the other. While this is necessary to live and survive, this episode explores untethering our worthiness from our productivity, success, and all our doings. Where can happiness and satisfaction come from if they are only attainable through what we accomplish? WHEN is it enough, and what MIGHT it feel like to define our worth by HOW we are rather than WHAT we do?

Often we devote so much energy, conscious and unconscious, to anticipating the outcomes of experience. How is something going to go? What do we want the outcome to be? What outcomes are we afraid of? We become anxious with the reality that the outcome, no matter how much we prepare, is unknown until we find ourselves alive in it as it unfolds. This episode explores the idea that WHAT we have been focusing on in the hopes of preparing and easing our suffering is actually the wrong thing. If the outcome is largely out of control, what would it be like to focus on how we want to FEEL regardless of how things play out?

We are unconsciously conditioned throughout our lives to protect ourselves. Of course we are! Being in pain...well...HURTS. This episode explores, however, the possibility that the ways we have unconsciously learned to protect (things that served us in the past) may actually be creating more harm and pain than protection. We look at a new possibility for the greatest protection imaginable (at least the greatest I've ever experienced as of yet!).

We often have experiences in our lives that "bring us back to ourselves" or some in way grant us a feeling that we had "lost" part of ourselves. For those of us on the spiritual or self-help paths, we tend to lean into feelings of needing to be better, to grow, or to constantly be moving toward some healthier version of ourselves. This episode explores what may feel like a paradigm shift toward recognizing that we already are everything we seek: already whole, never lost from ourselves. What would our experiences with ourselves and one another look like if we could trust our innate wholeness?

Most of us move through our lives with a sense of seeking. Whether it's happiness, success, satisfaction, love - it seems in all our seeking, throughout our whole journey we just have never quite found "it". This episode explores the possibility that we already ARE that which we seek. That all our seeking outside is perhaps just a confused quest because we have simply been removed from what we really need, which has been right here waiting for us all along. If you reflect on the best moments in your life, what is the one thread that weaves through them all, and could THAT possibly be the answer to all our searching?

Life is NOT under our control. Our emotions are not under our control. Often even our minds are not under our control. Yet we have given our minds the impossible task of controlling everything in lives in order to avoid hurt and pain. This episode explores the possibility that it's actually our need for control that hurts us more than anything else. By trying to control, we remove ourselves from ourselves and from our lives because we think we need ourselves and life to be a particular way in order to be happy. What would living feel like if we were capable of staying open to all of life rather than tensing against it and trying to control what we feel and experience in every moment and where we go and get to in our lives?

What is TRUE freedom? Is it having everything we want and nothing that we don't? No, then we're either dead or an awakened being. So how do we find it while still alive and fully human? This episode explores a depth of being WITH ourselves and our experiences that is REAL and accessible to us all. It is a radical awakening to the truth of ourselves and what creates our suffering and our freedom. This episode is also offered with a hopefulness that we can even learn to hold ourselves through our learning and growth until we taste this freedom for ourselves.

We live in a society that tells us we are worthy, we have made it, we are successful when we experience less and less suffering, hurting, moments of pain. Though this is a quiet undercurrent, social media and what see all around us paint a picture that to suffer means we are in some way bad or failing. This episode is all about breaking that concept - recognizing that to be human is to suffer, but suffering doesn't have to be BAD, doesn't have to be the end of the story.

It seems only human to wonder, "What gives life meaning?" Though we tend to consider this question on the larger scale, something more like "How do we lead a meaningful life?" It often does not occur to us to wonder what creates meaningful moments, the meaning we experience in people, places, and objects in our world. This episode explores just that - is there "inherent" meaning in anything at all? This episode is also dedicated to a dear friend who is constantly an emblem to me of living fully, a wild fascination with learning, and the purest outpourings of love. Scott Steiner, thank you for being you.

In this episode we explore the difference between experiences that are uncomfortable and those that deeply cause us pain. Together we tease apart the opportunities that discomfort offer us in terms of growth, leaning into our edges, and discovering new truths and wisdom in the breaking of our concepts and shells. What's your growing edge?

Welcome to our Welcome Back episode! It's been several months since the last episode, so I wanted to come back in a way that honored those of you who have shared this journey with me. This episode is an honest exploration of the experiences that led to the space between the last two episodes. I'll talk about my personal experience with depression, fear, and anxiety as well as what helped me reconnect to the beauty of the life right in front of me. We can't forget that no matter how far along this path we are, we're all still invariably human. Hardship comes, hardship goes - how we treat ourselves and others along the way is what becomes paramount.

This is episode is the second in our inter-podcast series called Happiness Hacks. Rather than giving away the hack here, you'll just have to listen to how to radically bring more happiness into your life with this hack. Learned through living, tested through experience, every Happiness Hack is (almost) guaranteed to bring more moments of joy into your wellbeing.