Narrative Responsibility
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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The music you hear at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Pattern" by SoulProdMusic (Oleg Fedak).
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Episodes
Jan 8, 2024
Jan 8, 2024
18 min
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!
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
25 min
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!
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
33 min
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?
Dec 11, 2023
Dec 11, 2023
39 min
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?
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
32 min
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!
Nov 27, 2023
Nov 27, 2023
26 min
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.
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
27 min
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.
Nov 13, 2023
Nov 13, 2023
36 min
An extra thicc discussion that unravels and re-weaves the human experience of time as more fluid and multi-track than linear.
Nov 6, 2023
Nov 6, 2023
29 min
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.
Nov 3, 2023
Nov 3, 2023
25 min
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!