Spirituality Episodes
April 11, 2022
Ep 64 Lifelong Learners
Send us a text Today we talk about how being a lifelong learner connects to the contemplative life. For many of us, adulthood brings with it the pressures of feeling like we need to know the answers. And over the course of months and years, we can begin to lose track of what can emerge when we see …
April 4, 2022
Ep 63 Spiritual Journey
Send us a text In many ways, the spiritual journey is about putting language to what is hidden in our souls. And in order to do this, many of us benefit from companions and mentors along the way. We need someone to help us ask ourselves: How do I leave “this” and move into “that?” And when we’ve re…
March 28, 2022
Ep 62 Evolving Faith
Send us a text Evolution is defined as the gradual changing of something from a simpler form to a more complex one. And what we’ve noticed in our spiritual lives is that faith, like all of life is evolving. How we experience the Divine in our lives, what that means to us…our understanding and exper…
March 7, 2022
Ep 59 Legacies
Send us a text Today we’re talking about what it looks like to live a life that continues to offer meaning and impact for future generations. Certainly, our culture seems to indicate that, collectively, we’re developing an increasing interest in this notion of legacy. But for many of us, this is al…
Feb. 28, 2022
Ep 58 Learning from Indigenous Wisdom
Send us a text Today we’re digging deeper into the wisdom of Indigenous populations from all over the world. And, in particular, we’re drawing inspiration from leaning into the power, meaning, and beauty of circles. The circle, for many of us, can represent a helpful decentralizing of power and a s…
Feb. 14, 2022
Ep 56 Limiting Mindsets
Send us a text Limiting mindsets can show themselves in so many ways: The Inner Critic, Imposter Syndrome, Feeling Stuck…and they tend to show up even more profoundly when we’re growing and changing. But that said, they can also occur in smaller ways, impacting our joy for entire seasons at a time.…
Feb. 7, 2022
Ep 55 How "Yes, And" Empowers Us
Send us a text “Yes, And” has been a powerful tool in the improv world for years. But recently, it’s been hitting the business world as a way to foster connection and creativity. And today, we talk about it from the perspective of the spiritual life. How can “Yes, And” help us remain in open and ex…
Jan. 31, 2022
Ep 54 The Gift of Self-Awareness
Send us a text Self-Awareness involves learning to recognize and understand things like our moods, emotions, and internal drives. And for many of us, self-reflection can be hard to get a grasp on or even want to engage with at all. But in this episode, we look at numerous ways to work on this found…
Jan. 24, 2022
Ep 53 The Great Shift
Send us a text It turns out there’s a big trend going on in our society right now. In 2021, over 1 million people left their jobs. And if the statistics are correct, over 95% of people have considered, or are considering, leaving their jobs. But, while some of these shifts may be due to the desire …
Jan. 10, 2022
Ep 51: Divine Encounters
Send us a text Today we talk about Divine Encounters and how it relates to Epiphany – moments of sudden revelation or insight that can come, sometimes, quite unexpectedly. Join us as we share the ways in which the Divine has broken into our very ordinary moments, changing us, blessing us, and bring…
Jan. 3, 2022
Ep 50 Celebration as Exhale
Send us a text Celebrations, whether big or small, take even the ordinary moments of life and make them special. It’s easy to feel anywhere from bogged down to outright traumatized by our lives. Celebration provides the exhale we need – that moment to relax, to look around, and say, “Yes! This IS t…
Dec. 20, 2021
Ep 48 Lessons from the Winter Solstice
Send us a text The Winter Solstice is an opportunity for natural pause. In today’s episode, we ask a lot of questions: How do we lean into the darkness and even enjoy it? What resources will we need? What’s the significance of community? What does it mean to immerse ourselves in a “deeper soaking?”…
Dec. 13, 2021
Ep 47 The Perennial Wisdom of Awe
Send us a text Awe is a universal emotion that we experience and has been paid attention to by both spiritual and scientific communities. It turns out that experiencing awe is (amazingly!) good for us. And when we are tuned in to it, we can find awe everywhere, from nature to – wait for it – shiny …
Dec. 6, 2021
Ep 46 Can Busy Be Balanced
Send us a text Is balance something we can achieve or is it just an idealized concept that we’ve made up for ourselves? And if it’s the latter, what else is available to us when we’re feeling the weight of it all? Today, believe it or not, we’ll visit some good news as it relates to stress in our l…
Nov. 29, 2021
Ep 45 Four Quadrants of Spiritual Life
Send us a text Most of us tend to have specific ways that we’re used to connecting with God, and those things serve us to some degree, giving us a sense of belonging and security. But in today’s podcast, we also talk about the benefits of exploring a variety of ways to connect spiritually. Join us …
Nov. 15, 2021
Ep 43 Living into Meaning
Send us a text We all come to those moments in life where we find ourselves asking: Is this it? What’s the most I can hope for? Thankfully, many people today are feeling evermore empowered to tackle these questions. Just because we’ve been headed down one particular path doesn’t mean we can’t make …
Nov. 8, 2021
Ep 42 A Compassionate Look at the Ego
Send us a text If ever there was a tricky situation to be in, it’s got to be this one: Sometimes, we’re operating out of our conscious mind – things we know we’re thinking about. And sometimes, we’re operating out of our unconscious mind – things we haven’t yet become aware of. And yet, our unconsc…
Nov. 1, 2021
Ep 41 Four Forms of Compassion
Send us a text A lot goes on, both within ourselves and in the world around us. And all of that can leave us feeling very unclear about how to engage. We often want to show up with a spirit of generosity, but we just don’t kn...
Oct. 11, 2021
Ep 38 Interspirituality
Send us a text Interspirituality is a new term for many of us, but broadly speaking, it’s the experience of finding the common ground between our faith traditions and appreciating the ways in which those traditions compliment each other. In this episode, we dive into four different ways of being In…
Oct. 4, 2021
Ep 37 Adulting
Send us a text It happens to all of us. We reach that fated moment in life where we’re expected to behave like “a responsible adult,” where all the mundane tasks of life suddenly become ours to do. Did “being an adult” sneak up on you? Do you find yourself agonizingly asking, “Why is this happening…
Sept. 27, 2021
Ep 36 Reframing Our Images of God
Send us a text Many of us have picked up ideas – and ideals – about everything and anything. Ways that we think people *should* be, the ways in which we think things *should* be done, even ways in which we think God is likely to act and behave. And when the world doesn’t act the way we want it to, …
Sept. 6, 2021
Ep 33 Processing Our Emotions
Send us a text We all know that how we process – or don’t process – our emotions can affect our lives in big ways. What’s more, many of us haven’t been given a whole lot of help in figuring out how to process what we might view as “negative emotion” in our lives. And so in today’s episode, we explo…
Aug. 23, 2021
Ep 31 Second Naïvetés and Spirituality
Send us a text Ep 31 Second Naïvetés and Spirituality Second Naïvetés are the act of returning to our experiences and beliefs with fresh eyes and new outlooks, and it’s a common story for many in seasons of questioning in particular. In today’s episode, we spend some time specifically talking about…
Aug. 16, 2021
Ep 30 Ex-vangelicals
Send us a text Ep 30 Exvangelicals Exvangelicals are people who come from evangelical traditions but who no longer identify as such. Many have begun speaking out rather than quietly moving on. And so today we talk about it: How do we live into new spaces as we experience change in our lives? Where …