Category: Podcast

EP270: What we teach young people about emotion

I often hear parents say these things to their children about emotion:  “You decide how you feel.” “You choose your reactions.” “What other people say has no meaning except the meaning you give it.”We can ask ourselves: Are these things we heard somewhere that seem helpful, or are they our direct experience? Do you–mom or

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EP269: Looking toward the mysterious with Violet Synergy

Today’s episode is taken from a recent guest speaker call with The Little School of Big Change graduate community with Violet Synergy.  Violet talks about looking toward the mysteries in life (and how everything is a mystery, really), leaning into what’s arising and the most obvious thing we can do, meeting life from a place

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EP268: This is all there is (from LSBC Spring 2023)

This episode is an excerpt from a The Little School of Big Change 6-week course call that took place in March of 2023.  I talk about how this–what’s being experienced right this very moment–is all there is. There is no better place to find or arrive at.What you’re looking for is so much closer than

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EP267: Smoking the Veil

Are you examining the nature of experience in order to see through the illusion of you as a separate, limited self?  Are you trying to “smoke the veil” that has you feeling separate from life? I’ll talk about the ways we do that, plus share a couple stories of how my husband successfully “smoked the

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EP266: Why is my bodymind so sped up? A question from a listener.

A listener asks:  “My family and work colleagues describe me as a ‘speedy’ person and many times I get asked to chill out or calm down. I try to calm myself but I’m still not getting to the root reason why I can’t seem to slow myself down!  …I’m wondering if I am avoiding something

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EP265: Freedom from OCD with Samantha Miller

In this episode, Change Coach Samantha Miller shares her nearly lifelong experience with OCD and how it has changed over the years, especially in recent years. If you have experienced OCD in any form or duration, I know you’ll relate to so much that Samantha shares.And if you would like some support around OCD from

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EP264: What do you mean by “welcome the unknown?” A question from a listener

A listener asked to hear more about “welcoming the unknown”. What does that mean? How do we do it? It seems that an important first step is looking at what we think we do know, and considering that perhaps knowing isn’t all the mind makes it out to be. Thinking we know feels safe…but is it?

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EP263: Terror Management 

When faced with death…whether it’s the death of the physical body or the “death” of the dream of being a separate me…the mind will grab for something, anything, to hold onto.  It often grabs at false identities, trying to solidify a sense of ‘me’. It does this by clinging to personal identities, group identities, and

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EP262: Nothing is Continuous

In truth, nothing is carried through time.  Because there is no time. Time is a thought.In the thought-world, everything refers to time. There is clear and obvious continuity, a clear and obvious past and future for a clear and obvious ‘me’. When thought is not projecting this world, there is none of that. Zilch. Not even

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EP261: What’s true must be always true with Razmik Sargsyan

In this conversation with the amazing Razmik Sargsyan, we discuss how what’s true must always be true. If it’s true that we are okay in any experience, that must always be true. In the East and in the West, for people in luxury and comfort as well as for people in the middle of war.

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