We map the real reasons holidays feel heavy—expectation, people-pleasing, money pressure, and old roles—and show how to choose connection without abandoning yourself. From elf anxiety to budget boundaries, we share scripts and steady practices that protect your peace.

• acknowledging holiday stress and why it spikes
• story poll insights on overwhelm and guilt
• kids’ anxiety around elves and Santa reframed
• choosing experiences over panic-buying gifts
• unspoken expectations and adult roles at home
• asking for support without mind reading
• estrangement as self-protection and grief
• boundaries that protect time, money, and energy
• simple scripts to say no and repeat limits
• holding duality of joy and grief with care

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We explore the Strength card as a practice of compassionate courage, moving from force to relationship with our inner lion. Through myth, psychology, and simple tools, we show how presence turns fear into a guide and courage into something renewable.

• key symbols in the Strength card and what they signal
• why strength grows slowly through cycles, not single acts
• inner lion as instinct, passion, and protection seeking contact
• IFS lens on exiles, managers, and integration
• presence practices that ground the body and quiet panic
• self-compassion skills from Kristen Neff and touch cues
• graded exposure to fear, including mirror work when safe
• the initiatory threshold and crossing from avoidance to contact
• hero’s journey vs heroine’s journey and Inanna’s descent
• reparenting without abandonment or attack of the self
• equation for renewable courage: compassion, courage, slow growth, self-trust

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We lay out a gentler path for the new year by trading resolutions for intentions and using vision boards as a steady, visual reminder. We unpack the brain science, the relief of externalizing mental load, and why community makes creative rituals feel safe and fun.

• how a single word guides daily choices
• what a vision board is and is not
• imagery, emotion, and the brain’s RAS filter
• easing the mental load with external tools
• ritual ideas including tarot and placement
• community sharing for clarity and belonging
• support for social anxiety in group settings
• progress over perfection as a practice
• event details coming soon and rough headcount

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Embracing Life’s Duality in the Chariot's Journey

Welcome back to 'Heart on the Table!' In today's episode, we dive into the seventh tarot card, 'The Chariot.' We're grateful for all your comments and feedback—it helps us shape our discussions. We also share results from some story polls we posted last week. Join us as we explore what this card represents: duality, balance, and the journey from inner work to outward action. We compare 'The Chariot' to previous cards, discuss the importance of values in guiding our actions, and touch on the idea of moving from 'I have to' to 'I choose to.' Plus, we reflect on cultural differences in finding meaning and joy in everyday life. Stick around for poll results and a reflective question for your journey!

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We share a candid archival recording and explore how intuition, creativity, and family rituals shape the way we move through changing seasons. Joy and grief sit side by side as we talk about expanding families, navigating “last firsts,” and finding courage in the unknown.

• plans shift from guest episode to archival audio
• intuition that shifts the room and guides decisions
• creative energy in early motherhood and postpartum
• grief for last firsts while loving the present
• honest talk about fear, risk, and recovery
• keeping the oldest a kid amid new routines
• small rituals that anchor family life
• learning our podcast rhythm and process
• gratitude for listener polls and community
• upcoming hopes for meetups and future topics

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We follow the threads of synchronicity through 11:11, a father’s passing, a song that kept returning, and a family healing ritual that would not run dry. Jung’s idea of meaningful coincidence becomes a tool for choosing, grieving, and staying close to intuition without losing agency.

• how 11:11 shaped career, trust, and direction
• Jung’s framing of synchronicity as inner–outer dialogue
• polls on coincidences, signs, and trusting symbols
• grief as a liminal space where meaning deepens
• the returning song as a compass for healing
• Saint Padre Pio oil as family ritual and anchor
• balancing awe with personal agency in choices
• inviting community stories and future guest plans
• pulling “Just Say Yes” and calling in soul family

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Love isn’t a lightning strike—it’s a conscious choice made with a clear mind and a steady heart. In this episode, we take The Lovers card beyond soulmates and fairytales into the deeper work of autonomy, attachment, and inner integration. Using the Rider–Waite imagery—the red-winged angel, the sun that burns through illusion, the Trees of Knowledge and Life, and the volcanic mountain—we explore how symbolism becomes practice: choosing with clarity, respecting edges, and allowing desire without chaos.

We unpack why so many of us mistake drama for passion and how our early experiences train the nervous system to chase what’s familiar, not what’s healthy. Through stories of postpartum shifts, grief for old versions of ourselves, and the changing rhythms of partnership, we talk about what it takes to build a love that can weather seasons. Expect grounded insights and gentle challenges—on calm intimacy versus volatile intensity, “what I need” versus “what I think I deserve,” and daily choice versus passive drift.

We also dig into projection: the parts of ourselves we exile and then battle in our partners, and how integration transforms conflict into connection. If you’re navigating big decisions, learning to trust your intuition again, or wondering whether your relationship still supports your growth, this episode offers both reflection and repair.

Pull a card, tune in to your body, and see what reveals itself when the sun comes out.

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What if the keys to your spiritual life already sit in your hands? We open the Hierophant card and follow its symbols—triple crown, gray pillars, and crossed keys—into a conversation about authority, lineage, and the courage to trust your own timing. Instead of treating tradition as a rulebook, we ask how wisdom moves when it’s offered with consent, when the body says yes, and when we let awe guide us more than fear.

We bring in your voices: childhood beliefs about who gets to hold spiritual power, whether happiness is found or built, and why perfectionism hides inside so many sacred spaces. From a therapist’s perspective, we explore how discernment is embodied—muscle, breath, and gut sense—and how shame-based teachings confuse control with care. The Hierophant becomes a mirror: is your practice opening the heart, or closing it? Is the ritual nourishing, or punishing?

Then we zoom out. The overview effect and Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot reframe everything: Earth as a delicate home, borders as imaginary, life as brief and breathtaking. That shift doesn’t make us small in a hopeless way; it makes daily awe possible. We talk grief and nostalgia as companions to growth, the privilege of goodbyes, and the quiet work of making meaning in real time. Spirituality shows up in the mundane—a sunrise from a plane window, salt air on the tongue, a memory that changes how you spend the afternoon.

By the end, the keys aren’t about gatekeeping. They’re about stewardship: choosing what matters, shedding what harms, and sharing wisdom when it lands. If you’re ready to question inherited beliefs, honor your body’s truth, and find the sacred in ordinary hours, press play and join us at the table. If this resonates, subscribe, leave a review, and share with a friend who’s reimagining their own path.

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