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The music you hear at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Pattern" by SoulProdMusic (Oleg Fedak).
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A podcast examining the meta-story of your life, whether it is serving you, and how to change it for the better. ...Come for the introspection, personal growth tools, social philosophy, and compassionate re-frames...stay for the side quests into non-linear time, life in an attention economy, the ethics of Sauron’s gaze, and why genre is a dialogue not a category.
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Episodes
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Hot take: a "gratitude practice" is less about feeling gratitude, specifically, and more about finding the good in your life to counteract negativity bias. A quick overview of why and how to count your blessings in a way that will actually change how you feel about your life!
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Traditional New Year's resolutions set us up for failure, because they focus on using ego to control emotions. Align your resolutions to your underlying emotional needs, and you have endless fuel to stick to them because they will feel like gifts to yourself!
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Holiday traditions often feel less like joys and more like obligations if we haven't taken the time to curate them against our personal values and needs. What can we do differently, and why might we want to?
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
In the RPG of life we don't get to just kill off a character and build a new one once we understand the game...we have to build a change from where we are. How can we plan that out for maximum effectiveness?
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Change is one of those "simple but not easy" processes. Take a look at the underlying reasons it can be so hard with psychological math. Spoiler: effort, time, and degree all play a part in how to formulate an effective change!
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Our consciousness experiences time as one endless now...but not all nows are created equal! Explore some of the ways and whys we can get out of sync with time as kept by the clock.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Going back to the past to change the present is just science fiction...OR IS IT? Continue exploring the human relationship with time via healing practices that parallel time travel.
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
An extra thicc discussion that unravels and re-weaves the human experience of time as more fluid and multi-track than linear.
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Expanding upon the personal growth moral alignments chart with ways you can grow now that you know your starting point. Includes thoughts on why change AKA growth can feel scary and hard.
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
A personal example of how I formed an untrue belief and how I dismantled it by testing it against reality. Bonus: compassionate extrapolations about why performing that kind of test can be painful and confronting.
Mindset Mentoring in 30 Minutes a Week!
Changing your perspective on life, relationships, your past, and even yourself doesn't have to take hours at a time. Learning one concept and integrating it well creates real change the same as an intense immersion...it just takes a little longer. It's also more likely to stay with you! Sustainable change comes from making small, manageable shifts that build on each other over time. Just like 12 inches become one foot, 12 small mindset shifts can become a new thought paradigm.
If you can find half an hour a week to listen, you can start changing your mindset to have more flexibility, compassion, and curiosity ... and less judgment, criticism, and shame.
I hope you'll join me on this quest to let go of stories about who you "should" be and feel more like your authentic self!