The Pain Of Uncertainty Isn't Proof That Anything Is Wrong
Release Date: 07/25/2025
The Key To Finding More Joy in 2026: Right Sizing Our Problems
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Every year brings challenges, uncertainty, and problems that can feel overwhelming. While it is not possible to control how many problems arise, it is possible to change how much space they take up in daily life. This episode explores the practice of right sizing problems and placing them back into their true proportion so they do not drown out peace, clarity, and joy. Through a personal story and practical reflection, listeners are guided to recognize how fear, uncertainty, and discomfort can quietly expand suffering even when much of life is still working. Listeners will learn simple...
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Manifesting Our Dreams In 2026: Reducing Fear, Stress, and Self Doubt In The New Year
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
How can you manifest your dreams in 2026 while reducing stress and anxiety? This episode of Ten Minutes to Less Suffering offers a grounded self help approach to manifestation that focuses on mindfulness, intuition, gratitude, and emotional resilience. Listeners explore how fear, uncertainty, and the need for control can increase suffering and block clarity. The episode explains how pausing, listening to inner guidance, and staying present can support better decision making and personal growth. A simple “maybe” practice is shared to help quiet self doubt, reduce anxiety, and restore hope...
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Chop Wood, Carry Water in 2025 and 2026: What Is The Moment Asking?
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
This episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering explores the Zen teaching “Chop Wood, Carry Water” and what it means to meet life as it is. The focus is on coherence, staying present without fragmenting yourself, and responding to each moment with steadiness rather than fear or control. Listeners will learn how this teaching applies to everyday challenges, success, loss, and uncertainty. The episode offers a simple, practical exercise to help reduce stress, stay grounded, and stop abandoning yourself when life feels overwhelming or unpredictable. This episode supports anyone seeking more...
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How To Keep Perspective When Life Feels Stressful
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Life can feel heavy when stress, worry, and daily challenges take over our perspective. In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, I talk about how easily we lose the larger view of our lives and how that loss of perspective can quietly steal joy, peace, and appreciation for what we have. When we are caught in the moment, even small problems can feel overwhelming. I share simple, practical ways to hold a larger perspective, including acceptance, working with uncertainty, and remembering that everything is always changing. These practices can help daily stress feel lighter and allow space...
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Self Love: A Key To Getting Over Heartbreak And Letting Go Of The Past
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Do you ever feel that if you understood your past better, especially the heartbreaks, breakups, or painful relationships, you would finally feel at peace? Many of us believe that if we could gather every detail of what happened, why someone acted the way they did, or why love fell apart, our stress and anxiety would disappear. While insight and processing our feelings are necessary, emotional healing also requires self love, acceptance, and the courage to let go of what we cannot know. This encore episode explores how releasing the need to know and the need to be right is an important part of...
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How To Stay Aligned When You Feel Like Everything Is Pulling You Off Center
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Feeling pulled in a million directions? In today’s fast-paced world, it is easy to lose your center, your clarity, and your sense of who you truly are. This episode explores two powerful concepts that can help you reconnect with yourself: resonance and coherence. You will learn why certain people, ideas, and experiences resonate with you, and why resonance alone does not always mean something is healthy or aligned. You will also discover the deeper state of coherence, where your mind, heart, body, and energy move together in harmony. This is the space where grounded decision making, calm,...
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Nice or Kind? Seeing The Difference and Living From The Heart
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, explore how shifting from being nice to being kind can reduce stress, support emotional healing, and create more authentic and mindful relationships. Listeners learn why niceness often comes from fear and people pleasing, while true kindness grows from compassion, honesty, presence, and an open heart. What you will gain from this episode • A clear understanding of the difference between nice behavior and true heart based kindness • Insight into why some relationships feel inconsistent or disappointing during stressful moments • Support for...
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How Can We Change Our Lives When We Feel Stuck?| Overcome Fear and Trust the Unknown
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
In this inspiring episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, author and life strategist Allison Carmen explores the question so many of us ask: How can we change our lives when we feel stuck, afraid, or uncertain? Through deep reflection and real-life stories, Allison shares how embracing the unknown can open the door to transformation, healing, and possibility. You’ll learn how to quiet fear, trust your intuition, and use The Maybe Practice to find hope even when life feels impossible. If you’ve been struggling with stress, self-doubt, or major life changes — this episode will...
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Just Because A Thought Is Real Doesn't Mean It's True
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
Our thoughts are real, but not always true. This episode invites listeners to look beyond the stories the mind creates and find freedom from worry, stress, and self-doubt. Through mindfulness and gentle awareness, it offers a path to calm and clarity in uncertain moments. Listeners are encouraged to trust that every thought can be met with curiosity and compassion, opening the way to inner peace, resilience, and a deeper sense of hope for what is possible. Poem: Our Thoughts Are Real, But Not Always True Our thoughts rise like waves on an endless sea, shaping the shore of who we think we are....
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Do You Think Life Is Against You?
10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING
When life takes an unexpected turn, when a relationship ends, plans fall apart, or disappointment appears out of nowhere, it can feel like everything is working against you. But what if life is still on your side, even in those moments of heartache and uncertainty? This podcast episode invites you to see challenges in a new way and find peace in the middle of change. When you stop believing that life is against you, you begin to open to the quiet rhythm of possibility, where healing and hope can start to grow. Even in pain there is movement. Even in loss there is life still unfolding with you....
info_outlineInspired by a talk from spiritual teacher Guy Finley, this episode explores the idea that “the pain of uncertainty is not proof that something is wrong.” We often resist the unknown, assuming discomfort means danger or failure. But what if uncertainty isn’t the problem—what if it’s the path?
This episode invites you to shift your relationship with not knowing, release the false comfort of control, and discover the peace and possibility that live in presence. The unknown isn’t the enemy—it might just be the beginning of something greater.
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Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.