Podcast Episodes

BOO495 – Encore – Awareness Changes Your Life

Building our capacity to observe ourselves, builds our capacity to grow and change.  It can be uncomfortable to wake up to our the ways we limit ours…

8 months ago

BOO494 – How Much To Share?

How much do we share — and with whom? In this week’s Best of Ourselves episode, I explore the fine line between privacy and authenticity… and what it…

8 months, 1 week ago

BOO493 – Bad Luck – Maybe Not

Life doesn’t come in neat categories of good or bad. In this reflection, I explore how staying open to the mystery can transform how we meet whatever…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

BOO492 – Encore – Finding Community

We are stronger when we work together.  Reflections on finding community all around me.

Resources

Habits of the Heart by Parker Palmer

Full Parker Pa…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

BOO491 – Help, Please: Lessons from an IKEA Box

Some Assembly Required.
Turns out that’s not just a warning on an IKEA box—it’s a reminder about life. In this week’s show, I confess to my habit of s…

9 months ago

BOO490 – One Day At A Time, Sort Of

I used to think “living one day at a time” meant glowing serenity. But lately it looks more like noticing my cranky, overtired self and walking her h…

9 months, 1 week ago

BOO489 – Encore – Creatively Healing

Creating art has been shown to support healing. It has been shown to reduce loneliness, anxiety and mood disorders.  Art and beauty have also been co…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

BOO488 – Kindness Changes Everything

In this episode, I share how unexpected gestures of kindness have touched me more deeply than I ever imagined. From potatoes harvested to simple word…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

BOO487 – Widening the Lens

Life with uncertainty can feel like riding a seesaw with a 1000-pound gorilla—hope one moment, despair the next. In this episode, I share how “wideni…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

BOO486 – Resilience or What?

Resilience isn’t about being tough — it’s about living the “both/and.”
When life brings hard news, can we let sorrow and joy share the same moment? In…

10 months ago