In today's episode, I'm talking about something a workout instructor said to me that I couldn't shake — and a pattern I catch myself in that I think a lot of us share.

Fragilizing yourself. Deciding you can't before you've tried.

Parker Palmer writes that if we are to live our lives fully and well, we must learn to embrace the opposites — to live in a creative tension between our limits and our potentials.

Today's episode is about finding out what's actually available to you.

Question to carry into your day:
Where have you been treating yourself as more fragile than you actually are?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about Danny's first girls' night back — and what happened when my 75 pound lab mix couldn't find his ground.

A dog trainer taught me years ago that sometimes you have to hold the leash until the spinning stops.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes that our breathing is a stable solid ground always there to take refuge in — that whenever we're carried away, we can return and re-establish ourselves in the present moment.

Today's episode is about finding your leash.

Question to carry into your day:
What anchor do you reach for — or could you reach for — when you can't find your own stillness?

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In today's episode, I'm talking about the loneliness you can feel in a crowded room — and why I think it might be the most dangerous kind.

A client of mine hadn't left her house in weeks, completely convinced she needed to stay in her bed. I understood that completely. Because I know what it is to be right there, surrounded by people, with the ice forming around my heart and nothing getting in.

And then someone sparks up a conversation — and everything starts to melt.

Johann Hari writes that loneliness isn't the physical absence of people — it's the sense that you're not sharing anything that matters with anyone.

And the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.

Question to carry into your day:
What are you doing to keep people at a distance right now — and what would it feel like to just let one person in?

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In today's episode, I'm talking about a friend who asked her prayer circle to support her in her joy — and what that brave, honest request revealed about why joy is so hard to receive.

Glennon Doyle writes that she wondered if joy had as much to teach her as pain did — and that what the world needs right now is to watch one woman at a time live her truest, most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.

Today's episode is for anyone who has been qualifying their happiness instead of inhabiting it.

Question to carry into your day:
What are you afraid to fully receive right now because you're already bracing for it to end?

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something I learned in my SOS group that I had never heard named before — post-collapse syndrome.

My first sponsor told me years ago: it's not the event where the danger is. It's the exhale after.

And this isn't just about hard things — it's about any big expenditure. Amazing concerts. Dream vacations.

Finished projects. The body doesn't distinguish between good and bad stress. It just knows something big happened.

Wayne Muller writes that if we don't allow for a rhythm of rest, illness becomes our Sabbath.

Today's episode is about meeting the exhale before it meets you — with awareness and tender care.

Question to carry into your day:
What big thing have you just been through that deserves a conscious, tender exhale?

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In today's episode, I'm talking about a client who couldn't let herself be out of sorts until she could explain why — and what that pattern is costing all of us.

Tara Brach writes that pain is not wrong, and that the moment we decide something is wrong our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat it.

Sometimes understanding why you feel something is a real gift. But making understanding a prerequisite for feeling? That's where we abandon ourselves.

Question to carry into your day:
What are you feeling right now that you haven't given yourself permission to feel?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about something a friend said at dinner that I had to write down.

She called it driftwood — the idea that when you see someone else have what you want, it's not a sign it's not coming for you. It's evidence that it's real, that it exists, that it's on its way.

Tosha Silver writes that abundance is something to be, not seek or await — and that when you let the Divine take the lead, old desires often begin to hatch and be fulfilled anyway, as a gift from Love Herself.

Question to carry into your day:
What are you looking at right now that you could choose to see as driftwood instead of loss?

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In today's episode, I'm telling you about Grandma Bev — who just turned 100, sharp as a tack, the woman who opened her doors to my mom and me when we moved across the country — and the thing she said to me seven times over dinner that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.

Richard Wiseman spent a decade studying hundreds of lucky and unlucky people and found something that stopped me cold: people are not born lucky.

They become lucky by believing they are. Which means lucky is available to all of us — even after the hard things.

Especially after the hard things.

Question to carry into your day:
Where in your life could you start practicing the belief that you are lucky?

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