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EP141: Hypervigilance and Setting Down What You’re Carrying

Consider what it might be like to not carry anything through time. To not carry your clung-to identities or problems around. To not be checking on, or  “working on” anything. Notice how often you check on your issues. How am I doing? How’s my progress? How’s my problem?   I want to suggest that none of this is

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EP139: My Relationship

It’s an episode within an episode! I’m sharing my conversation with Angus and Rohini Ross, when they interviewed me about my relationship with my husband on their incredible podcast, Rewilding Love. I talk about how this understanding has impacted our relationship, how many of the ideas and theories I used to have about what made for

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EP138: You Don’t Owe Anyone with Caroline Garnet McGraw

Caroline used to be terrified of making mistakes. She was the good girl, the one who tried to be perfect and hold everything together for everyone else. She did that until she couldn’t anymore. Life began showing her in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t working. As she says, she learned to “get past perfect, and

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EP137: What makes a person free?

The title of this episode was the topic of an incredible thread on the LSBC forum.buy cialis strips online buy cialis strips no prescription no prescription What makes a person free?What’s the difference between the people we hear from in the Changeable Change Stories, and others who have been listening, but who don’t feel the

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EP135: Getting It Right

I see a lot of people want to get it right the first time. We want to NOT fall into our habit at all, we want to NOT say that thing that starts an argument, we want to somehow PREVENT uncomfortable feelings from starting in the first place.Getting it “right”, as our mind defines it,

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EP133: The Impersonal Nature of Thought Part 2

In Part 2, I share two stories to illustrate how things tend to go when our experience looks personal, and how things can go when it doesn’t. Jane often experiences anxious reactions to her sometimes-unkind sister in law. Jane says the problem is that she’s too sensitive. She should be tougher. She should be able to

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EP132: The Impersonal Nature of Thought Part 1

This is one of my favorite topics. It’s something that has become increasingly clear and obvious in the past several years. Experience isn’t about us.What you experience–what your mind labels a thought, feeling, sensation, behavior, preference, aversion, any of it–has nothing to do with you. It is simply life arising. What’s also become increasingly clear and

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