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Season 1 Episode 67
🎙️ Spill the Tea with D & E Episode Title: ✨ The Fire Within — Turning Desire into Compassion (Without Burning the House Down) ✨
☕ Tea of the Day: Golden Turmeric Chai — warming, spicy, and just the right kind of fire for a soulful morning.
💛 This week, Dominique & Erica sip their way through the spiritual science of transformation — how to turn desire into compassion, ego into awareness, and fire into light. With laughter, warmth, and a few golden truth bombs, they unpack what it really means to “wake up” without getting burnt out.
🔥 Expect wisdom, giggles, and maybe a few new words you’ll want to sprinkle into your next meditation circle.
🌟 Episode Highlights:
💫 1. Desire Transformed into Compassion — Why craving isn’t the enemy… it’s your teacher in disguise. 🧠 2. The Logic of Evolution — Your “Third Eye” didn’t disappear; it just went on sabbatical. 😅 3. The Meta-Problem (aka Spiritual Ego) — How to stop mistaking superiority for enlightenment. 🔥 4. Right Use of the Fire — Promethean mind power: handle with reverence or risk spiritual combustion. 🕊️ 5. Action for the Soul — Tapas (discipline), meditation, and the art of laughing at your own ego. 💎 6. Affirmations for the Fire Within — “I transmute desire into compassion and power into peace.”
💬 Vocab of the Day:
- Transmute — to change the nature of something; like turning envy into empathy.
- Concretization — when your thoughts get rigid (aka spiritual cement).
- Tapas — not the snacks 🍢 — Sanskrit for daily discipline that builds inner heat.
🥂 Tea Toasts: 🫖 “To transmuting desire into compassion — may our fire always warm and never burn.” 💛 “To humility — the secret ingredient in every cup of wisdom.” 🌞 “And to laughter — the spark that melts even the hardest heart.”
✨ Listen, laugh, and light up from the inside out. 🎧 Available now wherever you sip your tea and stream your truth.
Dominique: This podcast is done by us as volunteers, and all monies earned go to Santa Barbara Wellness Center, Inc. Our mission is to support kids and teens and our community in wellness.
Erica: If you’d like to support, donations can be made at SBWellness.org. Truly — every bit helps us lift local youth and families.
Both: Thank you, we love you, and we’ll see you next tea time. 🌴☕️
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