345: Protect Your Peace Until the End of the Year
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We have exactly 42 days until the end of the year. What can we do now to keep our peace from now until then? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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344: How to Find Low-Key Closure
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What kind of endings are you facing and what practices can you engage to help you as you navigate them? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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343: A Grounding Practice for Anxious Times
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Today's episode is a little bit different. We're going to engage in a grounding practice for an anxious time. You may likely recognize this as the 5-4-3-2-1 method. Even if it's familiar, I invite you to keep pace with me and follow along. You can do this while driving, walking, in a crowded space, alone in your office or room, or even while you're laying down to sleep at night. All you need is to stay present with me and with yourself. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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342: A Liturgy for Election Day
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As we approach Election Day in the United States, I wanted to provide a simple liturgy as a resource for us as we make important decisions about our elected officials at the local, state and national levels. This is a liturgy you can use as you prepare to walk into the voting booth, either physically or if you're voting by mail metaphorically. Hopefully it will be a grounding exercise for you between now and next week, perhaps one you can listen to on your way to the voting booth or anytime before. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide...
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341: The Spiritual Practice of Loving Anyway
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Fall schedules are in full swing, but beneath the surface of all your activity, perhaps you're concerned about how the choices you're making now will impact your life in the future. And not only your life, but also the lives of those whom you care about. When we meet at the crossroads of core values or belief systems, do we engage or retreat? When we have lost something or someone and we become acutely aware of the risk of trying again, how can we move forward? When we have that moment of clarity and realize that this conversation, this relationship, the situation, is never going to change...
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340: What’s Saving My Autumn Life
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When it comes to naming what we love this fall, everything counts. So what's saving your life? Here's what's saving mine. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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339: Making A Plan with Kendra Adachi
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I'm so glad to have your friend and mine, the laziest genius there is, New York Times bestselling author, Kendra Adachi. She's been teaching us to be a genius about the things that matter to us and lazy about the things that don't, for nearly a decade, she taught us the 13 Lazy Genius principles in her first book, The Lazy Genius Way, and How to Be a Lazy Genius in the Kitchen, in her second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen. Now she's back with her third book, The Plan: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius. Today we're going to get into both the mindset and the strategy of how to plan a day....
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338: What Every Good Listener Knows
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How can we become better listeners for the sake of our own formation and for the good of those around us? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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337: How to Engage the Quiet
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How can we practically integrate quiet into our everyday lives and why would we want to? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room
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336: The Quaker Practice of Silence with Carrie Newcomer
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My guest today is internationally known as an Emmy-winning songwriter, recording artist, educator, activist, and poet whose work centers around finding beauty in a world that often feels broken. As a practicing Quaker, Carrie Newcomer's albums include Betty's Diner, The Gathering of Spirits and A Permeable Life, which has an accompanying book of poetry and essays. I'm so glad to speak with Carrie today on what we can learn from Quaker practice about silence, about discernment, and our next right thing. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download the free discussion...
info_outlineWhen we meet at the crossroads of core values or belief systems, do we engage or retreat? When we have lost something or someone and we become acutely aware of the risk of trying again, how can we move forward? When we have that moment of clarity and realize that this conversation, this relationship, the situation, is never going to change or that it's changed beyond recognition, what is our next right thing? This week, we're exploring the simple practice of loving anyway. Listen in.
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