Episode Title: Finding Strength in Compassion, Joy, and Mistakes
Reflect on how your experiences, both painful and beautiful, shape your connection to yourself and the world around you.
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A sacred land shaped by time, wind, and presence—like the canyons within us, carved by experience, resilience, and connection. In this episode, I sit by my canyon’s edge, watching the morning light carve new stories into the rock, reflecting on what healing truly means. Healing is not about leaving. Healing is about inhabiting.
I explore the Brahmaviharas—Metta (loving-kindness), Karuna (compassion), Mudita (sympathetic joy), and Upekkha (equanimity)—and how they weave through my personal journey. Through the lens of the Canyon Model and the wisdom of Ubuntu, I uncover the ways in which love, presence, and interconnectedness shape our healing and growth.
Join me in discovering how kindness does not always announce itself, how compassion lives in the unseen crevices, how joy flourishes when shared, and how equanimity teaches us to trust the path even when control is an illusion. Ubuntu whispers through every moment: I am because you are.
Poetic Reflection: We Are Because
This episode also includes a special reading of my poem, We Are Because, a reflection on belonging, love, and the unbreakable threads connecting us all. Through imagery and rhythm, the poem invites you into a space of deep recognition—of yourself, of others, of the shared breath between us.
Lessons in Mistakes: 50 mg of Mistakes
I once believed mistakes defined me, carving regret into my ribs and mistaking survival for silence. Yet mistakes are not tombstones. They do not bury us. They are stepping stones, guiding us toward understanding, resilience, and transformation. I share a personal reflection on how each fall has whispered a new truth—not failure, rather flight; not ruin, rather rhythm.
Closing Reflection & Invitation
This is why I write, why I share my stories, and why I reach out my hand. Because we do not walk alone. Because the breath between us matters. Because somewhere, in the hush before dawn, in the hush before breath, we already belong to each other.
We are because we are.
Glad to have you walk beside me.
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