Episodes
March 21, 2022
Ep 61 What’s All the Hype about Gratitude
Send us a text “I’ve been on a gratitude journey for many years. And I’m still not where I want to be. But I see change…” “I was up in the middle of the night, and I realized my brain was still working. I had to breathe. I had to slow down…” Life is a mix of good and challenging. Join us as we expl…
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. 21, 2022
Ep 57 The Spiritual Practice of Staying Steady
Send us a text For most of us, it’s easy to get tossed around by our circumstances. Conversations we’re in can throw us for a loop, and before we know it, we’re drowning in the emotion and struggle of it all. But today we talk about ways to get this thing that Scripture calls “Transcendent Peace” –…
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. 17, 2022
Ep 52 Dreams as a Spiritual Practice
Send us a text Dreams happen to all of us, even if we aren’t in the habit of paying attention to them. In this episode, we talk about how setting an intention to engage our dreams can be both informative and even transformative. Join us as we talk about the practice of allowing our dreams to become…
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. 27, 2021
Ep 49: Invitation to Year-End Examen
Send us a text In today’s episode, we take a look at a spiritual practice that can help us make sense of our lives. Whether the questions are big or small, whether we’re looking for themes or goals, whether we use paper or conversation, it all brings us to a space of reflection that can help us ent…
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. 22, 2021
Ep 44 Is Self-Care Just a Buzzword
Send us a text Our culture is always talking about self-care, and so today we ask: Can the contemplative life help me with this? Many of us are so easily plagued with self-doubt: Am I doing enough? Am I doing it right? Is this the meaningful life I was hoping for? And so today we take a moment to t…
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. 25, 2021
Ep 40 Three Ways to Engage the Enneagram
Send us a text Today we talk about the Enneagram as a way to help us understand how we - and those we interact with - show up in the world. We may hear ourselves asking sometimes: Where does that come from? Why does that happen? Or we may even feel confused about why so many of us aren’t entirely c…
Oct. 18, 2021
Ep 39 Running as a Contemplative Practice
Send us a text Today, Wendy Porterfield and Liz Kravitz join us to talk to us about how running has evolved into a spiritual practice for them – a place where they can release and let go, where they can process, and where they can connect with others in a sense of meaning and accomplishment. Join u…
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…