Anyone else noticing an uptick in their own sense of rage? No, just me? Keeping access to our joy as the world becomes stranger and scarier is always important — but so is keeping access to our anger. As women, rage is generally not an emotion we’re “allowed” to express, but boy oh boy do we need to start. Tune in for important reminders about anger, ideas for safe and healthy ways to alchemize it, and the permission you’ve been waiting for to just let yourself be undone.

I accidentally didn’t publish anything for a month, and this episode is a peek into why. I share some life updates and a bit of what’s been going on in my mind and heart lately.

Whether you consider yourself a “creative person” or not, if you’re a human, you have the capacity for creativity. Today I’m sharing 5 ways that I believe developing a creative practice can be both life-altering and life-giving, from helping us reach new levels of authenticity, to transforming our relationship with uncertainty and imperfection, and lots more.

We tend to think of "mental" health/illness and "physical" health/illness as separate things, but are they? Nurse practitioner and naturopathic doctor Erica Matluck talks to us about the connection between our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts, and reminds us that all of our components are connected and cannot be decontextualized as easily as we may like.

The news these days is filled with atrocities and horrors, destruction and hate. Life can feeling daunting when we’re mired in doom and grief. So today I’m sharing some things that I have been practicing that keep me connected to joy, to people, and to all that is GOOD in the world — and I hope it helps you access that infinite well of goodness, too.

Am I making the right choice? Did I make a huge mistake? Is this where I should be? These are questions a lot of us consider when reflecting on the path our life has taken, or will take. Today I wanted to share a mixed bag of thoughts, metaphors, and reflections that will hopefully help us move from a state of regret or doubt, into one of trust, as we think about the path of our life.

Have your friendships been dwindling, feeling unbalanced, or difficult to maintain lately? Relational health educator Danielle Bayard Jackson is an expert on women’s friendships and today she’s sharing some easy ways that we can rekindle our existing friendships, deepen and strengthen them, and get better at forming new bonds — no matter what stage we’re at in life.

America LOVES to be in a hurry — we are always rushing from one thing to the next, multitasking everything and feeling completely burnt out and overwhelmed by trying to keep up. Whether you’re leaning into the tones of winter, have a goal to scroll less or use less tech, or are just interested in feeling more present, I’m sharing the simple things I do in my life to reject the capitalist forces of URGENCY and live a slower life.

It’s January, and the new year is here! But you’re exhausted, unmotivated, and feel like all you want to do is lie on a pile of warm laundry and eat bread. Is it seasonal affective disorder, or is it the capitalist culture you live in urging you to carry on like a machine when your body is responding perfectly to the change in your environment? Here’s an invitation to sync to the cycles of the natural world instead of the clock or calendar, where/when possible.

Breathwork and Somatic Experiencing Coach Conni Biesalski takes us on a tour of our nervous systems and teaches us how we can help our bodies move from heightened states into a calm, centered embodied presence. We cover how to spot activated energy, how to feel your emotions, understanding stress response cycles, and lots more, including a short guided breath work session at the end.

My relationship with my phone has been of peak interest to me lately, and I have been working on ways to rely on in less, and in turn, reclaim some of my humanness — and return to the present moment and world that surrounds me at all times. If you’re trying to use your phone less, tune in to hear what I’ve been doing on this front.

Our four years of sailing the world have come to an end, and I am kicking off a new chapter of life on land. Join me for a quick chit chat where I bring you up to speed on things and dust this show off, almost seven years to the day that I first launched it.

Alua Arthur is one of America’s most prominent death doulas and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning organization. She shares with us why and how we can explore our own relationship to death in ways that will help us reach a new, deeper, and more fulfilling level of living.

Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we want to rewild ourselves, then these are some places where we might want to stop looking to our screens and instead look up, or look within.

We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city.

How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness.

These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.

As humans, we all crave comfort and ease and safety, and it’s important that we establish these for ourselves through decisions and time. But for many of us, there is a point where the pursuit of safety or stability is no longer protecting us, and starts hurting us — turning into a cage that we become more and more scared to step out of.

In this episode I share a perspective shift that will invite more presence, gratitude, and gentleness into your daily life. Email me: hello@taylorgage.com

To start off our new year and new chapter, I wanted to sit down and chat with you about a few things, get honest, and also offer a chance to connect 1:1 with a few of you.