If you used to dread the cold, dark months, this episode is your permission slip to soften. Today, Miranda breaks down the symbolization of Autumn, the Equinox, and the vital Yin energy that invites us to stop doing and start being. Learn how to navigate a fast-paced society while honoring your body’s natural rhythm, unlearn the guilt of ‘laziness,’ and discover how the darkness can actually hold the space you need for profound inner work.

Topics:

• The Symbolism of Autumn: Exploring the Equinox, the balance of light and dark, and how fall mentally prepares us for the winter months ahead.
• The Literal Shifts of Fall: How to use the visible changes in nature as a mirror and analogy for your own life, health, and emotions.
• The Yin Energy of Fall: Shifting away from a summer mindset of high action and big productivity into a season of energy conservation, rest, and deep self-care.
• Navigating Society's Fake Spring: How to honor your body's natural urge to slow down, even when modern society demands that you speed up, socialize, and take on new commitments.
• Rewriting My Relationship with the Dark: Miranda shares her journey of unlearning the guilt of "laziness" and discovering how seasonal slowing is actually the secret to lifetime balance.
• What Happens Inside Your Body: Understanding your body's physical shifts during fall—including metabolic changes, sleep cycles, immune support, and the traditional Chinese medicine elements of the Lungs, Large Intestine, and Metal.
• Seasonal Routine Tweaks: Why your summer routine won't work in the winter, and how to redesign your daily habits to support your current energy levels.
• 10 Practical Tips for Fall: Simple, actionable adjustments you can make right now to feel physically, emotionally, and energetically nourished as the days get colder.

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Capacity is viewed by Miranda Lee as a currency, something we are responsible for honoring, protecting, growing and building resilience with.

After experiencing hard chapters, living with expectations of self that led to burnout, and then recovering from it...she now using her experiences to help build her own 'instruction manual' on her capacity and how she takes care of herself.

Topics:

• Defining & Redefining Capacity- Changing the lense from our value and purpose being our productivity and capacity, and instead learning what it really means
• Creating Balance- Finding compassion and understanding of what is really in the 'in between' of full go mode and allowing rest and a 'full cup'
• Understanding the Feelings- Connecting with what aspects of health we hold the most capacity, the least, and how it feels when we are at either end of the bandwidth.
• Learning the Senses, Signals and Changes in Action/Behaviour- Understanding the physical sensation, what the mind and emotions show us, the changes in our behaviour, mannerisms and more that tell us where our capacity levels are
• The Different Seasons & the Demands they Require- A discussion on the aspects and demands in various season from 'Hustle', 'Running a Marathon', 'The Last Minute Trip', Burnout, and Recovery
• Power of Anticipating & Planning- The benefits of roadmapping your life, taking inventory of what ahead, and plotting seasons of recovery
• Building & Growing Capacity- The individual responsibility we all have to build our strength and resilience, as well as use our voice to protect our capacity and our ability to show up
• Navigating the Unseen Chapters- Tips on how to move through the inevitable and unpredictable seasons of higher capacity demands or challenges
• Building a Toolbelt- Build it, get familiar with it, and use it (and not only when things get hard or stretch you thin)
• Asking & Accepting Help- Not just during the fatigue, but when things are also going really well, and how we all need to invite help in.

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Another beautiful story of strength, vulnerability, and accepting the path before us.

An emotional sit down with a dear friend, about her journey with loving a partner with addiction, losing herself trying to save the relationship, and what happened when she finally realized she was worthy of her own love.

Topics:

• Prioritizing Everyone Else- the hard wiring for so many people, when we want to help and prioritize everyone else first and then somewhere along the line lose ourselves. And you just can't pour from any empty cup or teach our kids that this is okay
• Navigating and healing the blame, guilt and shame with a relationship of over 20 years ends due to addiction
• Control and Independence- how they can be/are our protectors, and how its not sustainable and needs to be unravelled after hard chapters where we lean into this
• Redefining what Matters- 'I can make more money, but I can't make more time'; how relearning success and redefining what really fuckin matters allows you to create space for yourself to find your peace
• Ebs and Flows- the absolute necessity to unlearn that we must always be good, and normalizing that life just had harder seasons and thats okay
• Breaking the Cycle- how incredible doing our own work, navigating the really hard shit, and coming out the other side (especially in-front of our children) really does heal pieces for them and end lineage cycles
• Relationships in Adulthood- being with someone who is also growing along side you, finding safety in a healthy relationship, and how things change in when you have done your work
• Aging Peacefully- when the lens changes in life, the things that you really need are easy, and you truly understand that life is a blessing and the beauty of being boring
• Everything ends- how things come into your life, and leave (on purpose) because that is just how things are intended to be, and how we must trust that process
• What the Body Holds- the importance of finding balance in how we care for self, expect of self, and meet self, including acknowledging our coping mechanisms and allowing change without it impacting your worth.

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Miranda is joined in this episode with Roxy, M. Ed & Certified Functional Health Practitioner and Nutritionist, and owner of 'Roxy's Nutrition.' They value the holistic lifestyle, share the journey of being mothers, wives, health practitioners, support some of the same clients in their community, and can both chat your ear off if you wanna dive into a deep chat.

And when you get two women passionate about helping and supporting themselves, their families and their clients through the depths of life, wellness and health...you get to cover alot in one episode!

From motherhood, raising littles, mental load, to navigating the hard chapters, and many depths of holistic health, wellness, nutrition, ovulation and more! Roxy speaks to her journey navigating miscarriages, raising her beautiful little humans and the struggles and growth that happened along the way to get there.

Topics:

• Motherhood- Raising Littles, Being Postpartum and Mental Load
• Less Fucks- The beautiful chapter of learning to give less fucks in all the areas of life, health, wellness and home
• Parenting- The layers of unnecessary bullshit we think is important with parenting, how basic and simple it really can be, and the value of leaning into the mess.
• The journey of meeting yourself during hard chapters- How we always seem to appear like we have our shit together, but the reality of friendships, and navigating the outside opinions and judgement (when they don't really know what is going on in your personal life)
• Not fitting the mold- Again, you are not the only one if you struggle with the small talk. They dive into how important it is to find the people and community that allow you to be just you.
• Roxy's Personal Experiences- From relationships in Nutrition, 90's Diet Culture, Body Building and more, as well as defining what the fuck 'health' actually means, because its personal.
• Relationship with Body Needs- Somatic connection, your relationship with the body, its needs and how it functions, and how important it is to support youth in maintaining this relationship as priority.
• Women's Health- The lack of understanding of menstration, ovulation, hormones, and the western band-aid of birth control as an answer
• Living holistically, and the journey of healing- Allowing yourself to flow, adjust, listen inward and how adjusting lifestyles is so critical to supporting yourself and finding what works for you! That there is no 'falling off the wagon'...and understanding signs vs symptoms, and things getting worse before they get better

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A super casual Q & A conversation with a young lady Miranda respects and adores.

This episode she is joined by her daughter, and her insight and perspective as a youth on challenges they face, how they could make and impact what she would change in the world.

They also speak to the journey they have shared in working to establish a close, real, vulnerable and emotional feminine relationship as mother and daughter.

Back and forth questions, reflection, emotion and growth as far as parenting, support, life lessons they have learnt, what has worked well for them (or could be different), challenges they have faced, what they value in each other and more.

A little mother daughter sit down with questions you may want to hold space for your own inner child, with your own mom, or to just reflect about your own feminine relationships.

Is their relationship perfect? Absolutely not. But they treasure it, hold space for each other always, and their communication and openness is what they strive for. The growth, vulnerability and learning curve is part of the beauty in the road of relationships.

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In a world with so many trends, modalities, tools, gadgets, practices, and avenues to support your health, wellness and selfcare... its can sometimes feel overwhelming. And it can become an abundance of appointments, create a stressful list of 'things you need to do', a shame cycle if you don't, stretch you financially and start to feel like health and wellness can only come from external support and sources.

In this episode, Miranda dives into (even as a studio/gym owner, Holistic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, and Life Coach herself), 13 FREE, back to basics, simple things you can do to care for self. And how important it is to let your intuition and gut be your guide. To allow pauses, shifts, breaks, and changes in direction. And to remember, you aren't a checklist. You aren't a routine that has to be kept the same and always followed to a T. And your needs are always changing.

We are all built from different cloth, with a different instruction manual that truly is only able to be read from our own inner guidance and wisdom. And in different seasons, we need different things. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. And that its beautiful to get guidance and support through training, other practitioners, and paid for services....but its also to go back to basics to reset.

Lets dive into bringing it back to some simple, free, easy and important things (13 of them to be exact) that are easy to sprinkle in starting today!

Take what you want, leave what you don't. Don't even try take them all in one day, because again, you aren't a to-do list! And...it's all within your reach...in fact, its part of your birth right.

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Guest Interview!

An intimate conversation with Kelsey Craig, a client and dear friend of Miranda's, as they dive into her very personal and intimate journey of long standing symptoms that eventually led to a diagnosis, treatment and now life beyond 'High Grade Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma' (Stage 1 Bladder Cancer) at the young age of 27!

So many take aways and heart warming messages (and validation) from Kelsey's story and amazing interview, including:

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS IS A PERSONAL STORY ON AN EXPERIENCE WITH A CANCER DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND THE VERY PERSONAL DETAILS AND EXPERIENCES. THIS IS NOT INTENDED FOR ANY MEDICAL ADVISE, AND IS SIMPLY TO SHARE A SOULS JOURNEY.

• Age is just a number- When the reality of facing a health concern approaches you so early in life
• The Lense Change- How the way you navigate and view life changes in a beautiful way after walking hard lines with life and health
• Navigating it All- From normalizing and downplaying symptoms, carrying shame of feeling like you 'did something wrong', disconnecting from your body and putting on a smile
• Advocating for Self- When you have had enough of the symptoms, need someone to belief you, GOOGLE for your own answers, and hope things will be 'bad enough' to get an answer and taken seriously
• Diagnosis- The vulnerability with self in facing reality and being emotional, facing medical procedures, and being 'rare' in the age and condition you are facing (and almost the one they will get answers from)
• Balance- The hard walk of being friends with sarcasm, positivity but also needing to connect and feel realism about your situation. Feeling it all, thinking it all, and coming back to the now.
• Keeping some Normal- Moving through your treatment options, your privacy and sharing, keeping some normalcy, accepting support, and sitting in your pity while also trying to be 'normal'
• Meeting Others- The balance of privacy and sharing the news, others opinions and comments, stupid comments that aren't meant to be ignorant, and keeping the 'elephant in the room' not the topic of all conversations
• Life on the Other Side- What changes in your relationship with self, views on life and how you move through your day, self care, and relationships with others, in marriage, and boundaries.
• Community- The importance of having the people who can support you, keep things easy and normal, and relatable community that is on a similar standpoint, treatment approach and headspace. How its great to have others walking the same path, and also keeping distance if its creating fear and negativity.

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