Category: Podcast

EP58: You Have No Idea How Safe You Are

Years ago, I wrote an article about how my little dog Buddha dug into my lap during fireworks season. She’d claw and scratch and burrow her way into me, running for her life from the loud booms all around.Except, she obviously wasn’t running for her life. She had no idea that she was 100%, perfectly

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EP55: Emillie’s Change Story: Binge Eating

Emillie has been around this understanding for a while.She was in and out. She’d hear something profound and helpful, then fall back toward her long-time disordered eating habits and assume she had lost whatever it was she heard.But after a while, something interesting began to happen. Even though Emillie was still binge eating–worse than ever,

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EP54: Hunger

In this episode, I talk about the feeling of hunger.As I experiment with feeling of hunger (as opposed to quickly trying to “satisfy” it so that it will go away), things have opened up that I never imagined.I feel stronger. Safer. Far more peaceful and less shakable.My capacity to feel anything and everything feels as

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EP52: You’re Going to Suffer and Die

Are you ready for some light, summer listening? You’re in the right place! Because this episode is all about the fact that you’re going to suffer in life. And you’re going to die.It’s a given.It’s also a given that you’ll not suffer in life. You’ll feel lots of stuff…some you like and some you don’t

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EP51: What’s There When You Stop Moving with Lisa Esile

You might know that I’m a huge Lisa Esile fan.Lisa was essentially silent for a year or more of her life. In that time, she did very little and very little “input”.What she saw about how her mind works, and what’s there beyond her mind, is pretty awesome.I especially love the affection she has for

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EP50: We’re Lived. And then We Think. (Life is not a Riddle)

You are lived.Stuff occurs to you and you act on it, with very little input required by you.You see things. You know things.And, at the very same time that you’re being lived by life, your mind is narrating the whole thing in that opinionated way it often does. Your mind is making it all about

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EP49: A Day in the Life of an Anxiety Coach with Nicola Bird

This episode is a little different than most.In this episode, I talk with Nicola Bird. And we’re not talking to you.Nic and I have a conversation, practitioner-to-practitioner, about what it’s like to do what we do. Our “jobs” are essentially to point people toward an invisible realm.To gently turn them away from the physical, psychological

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