Shows
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever Show, Sept 25: Parenting Teens in Trump Times with Melissa Corrigan & Ally HamiltonNote: Please join us for The Daily Whatever Show tomorrow as we welcome the incredible Karen Attiah to the show to talk about citizen journalism.Today’s The Daily Whatever Show was a love letter to fierce, thoughtful women navigating the wild ride of parenting teens in late-stage America. Dana DuBois kicked things off with her matchmaking skills—because why stop at introducing one smart, fiery woman to the conversation when you can have three? So in came Ally Hamilton and Melissa Corrigan, she/her, and I gracefully bowed out so they could take center stag...
2025-09-251h 04
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 23: GenX Feminist Hot Takes with Ally HamiltonThe very best part of Substack is meeting amazing writers who feel like best friends.That’s how we both feel about Ally Hamilton. We first met Ally when she commented on Dana DuBois’ viral essay, “Middle-Aged Men Keep Ogling My 16-Year-Old,” offering her firm-yet-empathetic wisdom to a troll who in no way deserved it. What she shared in today’s podcast about her experiences with men while growing up in New York City was at times hard to hear—but so important. It’s the story of how many of us girls came into woma...
2025-08-241h 39
Come As You Are PodcastOff the Page with Kate MapotherDear Friends,If you’re a new subscriber, welcome! There are a lot of you this week, and I’m so happy you’re here. It truly means the world to me. You might be wondering what this Come As You Are Conversation is all about. Once a month or so I go live with a writer whose writing I love, respect, appreciate, and admire - to talk about - you guessed it, writing. Inevitably, the conversation turns to life, love, grief, inspiration, loneliness, connection - and what it is that draws us back to the page again...
2025-06-181h 18
Come As You Are PodcastGroup Chat, Who Dis?A talk about the Signal group chat, of course, but in the context of the larger experience of dealing with people who will never be accountable. People who will look you directly in the eye and lie to you, or deny wrongdoing and then attack you - or anyone else - when called out. People who will assert you did not see what you saw, or hear what you heard. Maybe you know people like this, I do. It is exhausting and disheartening to deal with them, because without honest communication and the ability to acknowledge mistakes, there’s no...
2025-03-2958 min
Come As You Are PodcastBreaking the FifthA reading of this week’s essay, and a talk about those relationships that devastate your heart because you’re in love with someone who leaves you no choice but to end things. When you look back you realize you were being tested from the start - you were being asked to tolerate things you never should have - and in the end the only choice was the pain that poisons you, or the pain that sets you free. And how that all ties into what’s happening in our country right now, the Fifth Amendment, due process, motherhood, and ho...
2025-03-2251 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Eagle Has LandedA talk about the pain of living in a country where half the people look at a set of circumstances and feel horrified, and the other half look at the same set of circumstances and celebrate. And the difficulty in communicating when all trust in facts has been eroded and people give the same credence to anyone with a YouTube channel as they do to medical experts - often more. Also the concept of turning your heartbreak into art, the importance of continuing to learn new things, and why you want to hold onto hope wherever you find it...
2025-03-151h 10
Come As You Are PodcastDivided We FallA talk about the pain and folly of trying to communicate with people who genuinely lack empathy, the frustration of feeling gaslit by people who claim to love you, and why it was so triggering for so many of us to watch a good man be double-teamed by two narcissists in the Oval Office … and walk away dealing with the most victim-blaming question of them all. What was he wearing? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/su...
2025-03-081h 15
Come As You Are PodcastHooters and BallsA talk about what it’s like existing as a girl or woman in this world, and particularly in this country if you’re in the United States. And when I say “woman” I am including women who have babies, women who decide they don’t want to have children, women who deal with infertility, women who have lost babies, women who have raised babies on their own, Queer women, Black women, Brown women, Indigenous women, Transgender women. How hard it is just to exist in a complicated body, made more complicated by the way the world (the government, the state...
2025-03-011h 19
Come As You Are PodcastThis Is Not an AuditA talk about what we’re living through in the United States right now, and how dizzying it is for so many of us who are devastated, outraged and heartbroken, to see people in this country who are still on board with what is occurring in real time. It is hard to exist, to have a “normal” day going about your business when your government is in upheaval, democracy is on the line, and you’re scared for your friends, your neighbors, your daughter, yourself. It’s also a talk about empathy, and what a meaningful spiritual practice looks like. If y...
2025-02-221h 08
Come As You Are PodcastSay the True Things Out LoudA talk about why it can take Herculean effort to advocate for yourself, to speak up when you’re hurting (or when you’re happy, sometimes), to put a value on the work you do - and why it’s worth it to push through, even though it can be so uncomfortable. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2025-02-151h 16
Come As You Are PodcastHappy Valentine’s Day, Let’s Say the True Things Out LoudThank you Cabot O'Callaghan, Danny Hoback, Prof's Progress, Rosie O'Regan, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2025-02-141h 17
Come As You Are PodcastAt the IntersectionYou know those disaster movies when a group of six people knows a cataclysmic disaster is coming, and they have hours to warn humanity? And everyone is at a picnic, laughing, or in a movie theater, or park, or just going about their business, and somehow these six people are racing around trying to save the world - and no one is really understanding what’s about to happen? That’s a little bit how it feels to be in America right now for a lot of us. Not all of us, of course, because I guess that would make...
2025-02-081h 21
Come As You Are PodcastSchoolyard Bullies and Kindergarten BuddhasYears ago, I was volunteering in my daughter’s kindergarten classroom and I found myself sitting next to a five-year-old girl who understood more about empathy and compassion than any spiritual teacher I’ve met before or since. This is a talk about where we are in this country and this world - it’s a conversation about DEI and a whirlwind of other issues some of us are working hard to defend in the United States, but underneath all of that, it’s a conversation about basic human decency. There continues to be a lot of gaslighting out there, a...
2025-02-011h 20
Come As You Are PodcastPlay It Again, Uncle SamKeeping us enraged online is a way of distracting us from being engaged on the ground. Dominating the daily news cycle is the way to win, keeping people spinning about the latest outrageous and reprehensible thing is the mission. Rage is a product, and it’s being manufactured by people who profit when we spend our time clicking on links and screaming at each other over the internet. We are playing their game, we are consuming their product, but we are also being consumed by it - and so is the planet we live on. There are better ways to...
2025-01-251h 08
Come As You Are PodcastThe Part That's Doing Me InThis is a talk about compassion, and how it doesn’t come with conditions. In an ideal world, if we see someone suffering, we want to help. We all understand this is not an ideal world, one has only to look at how many people on this planet are without shelter or food, or how much violence there is. We are becoming numb to the suffering of others. As the wildfires have raged throughout Los Angeles, as close friends have had their homes burn to the ground and their entire communities destroyed, as we’ve all watched an app to s...
2025-01-1849 min
Come As You Are PodcastEmbersA talk about what it’s like in Los Angeles right now as the wildfires rip through our communities leaving a wake of shock, loss, and devastation to a degree that is hard to fathom. A talk about the nervous system and the brain and what happens when you can’t make sense of a thing, even when you’re looking directly at it. A talk about grief, panic, and the importance of kindness. And an opportunity to think about what you would take with you if all you could take were the things that would fit in the trunk...
2025-01-1141 min
Come As You Are PodcastWhat do you want?If you could have whatever you wanted in your heart of hearts, what would it be? How would life look and feel? Where would you live? What would change? If you aren’t used to asking yourself those questions, then maybe now - at the beginning of a new year - is a good time to start. This is a talk about why it might be hard for you to think about what you want, because maybe you stopped doing that somewhere along the way, or maybe it was ingrained in you to think it was selfish to consider yo...
2025-01-041h 00
Come As You Are PodcastA Lively Holiday SeasonOh, the holidays. They can be wonderful or fraught, or a total mixed bag. Maybe holidays growing up were generally joyful for you, or maybe they were stressful. If you grew up with divorced parents, or you’re divorced with kids yourself, you may find schedules and logistics tough, and also all the emotions that can come up if your family doesn’t look the way you thought it would. It’s easy (and human) to get caught in the trap of thinking about how holidays “should” feel, or how you should feel during the holidays, but the fastest way to gua...
2024-12-281h 09
Come As You Are PodcastWildfire SeasonThe thing about grief is that one grief can open the floodgates to all the other grief you carry, as though a grief dam has broken in your heart, and now you’re flooded with feeling. Loss is never easy, whether it’s the loss of a relationship, a job, a way of being, or a person or pet you don’t know how to live without. It can leave you feeling untethered. It’s messy and it can be scary, shocking and overwhelming, but the more we talk about it, the easier it is to face when we lose tho...
2024-12-211h 04
Come As You Are PodcastSaved by the BellA talk about the lack of empathy, ethics, and decency in the U.S. Healthcare system, and the toll it takes when there is no safety net for the most vulnerable. I shared two very personal stories to illustrate what it’s like to deal with the trauma, violence and stress of a system that is supposed to be there when things are at the very worst, and the emotional, mental and financial cost that is incurred when that system is failing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ot...
2024-12-141h 04
Come As You Are PodcastThrough the Looking GlassA talk about Alice in Wonderland and how it’s a metaphor about the loss of childhood innocence, and the pain and awkwardness of adolescence on the way to adulthood. Alice is sometimes too big for the spaces she’s inhabiting, and at other times she’s too small. She ‘s trying to figure out the rules, and exactly how much space she’s allowed to take up. We dive into the White Rabbit quote, “Don’t just do something, stand there!” And how this story is also a metaphor for the times we’re navigating right now. We’re through the looki...
2024-12-071h 05
Come As You Are PodcastPeople Who Love YouA talk about the people who love us and want us to be safe. The ones who see us clearly and cherish us exactly as we are - and what an extraordinary blessing it is to have people like that in our lives. Special shoutout to those Grandmas (and Grandpas) who leave an indelible imprint of love in our hearts. And a dive into what it means to be grateful, the importance of boundaries, the pain of feeling betrayed by people who claim to love us, and how certain things should never be transactional.
2024-11-301h 17
Come As You Are PodcastOrigin StoriesA talk about Adam and Eve, and all the stories that permeate our culture, teaching us about who we are and how the world works. Some of these stories teach us things about girls and women that it would be very good for us to unlearn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-11-231h 12
Come As You Are PodcastDesecrationA talk about what to do when the truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes the best way to make sense of reality - as unfathomable as it may be - is to turn to mythology, folktales and fairytales. And then figure out how to rise like a phoenix, protect the people you love, and those who need protection, and remember that no one can ever take away the source of your power or your own brand of magic unless you let them. And we aren’t going to let that happen. This is...
2024-11-1659 min
Come As You Are PodcastYour Life for the Price of EggsA talk about the U.S. election for those who are feeling brokenhearted and appalled. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-11-091h 38
Come As You Are PodcastThat Isn't Part of This StoryA talk about the stories we share, the ones we tell ourselves, and the ones we’ll never know because we took a left instead of a right. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-10-2659 min
Come As You Are PodcastDances with ScorpionsA talk about not taking things personally. It’s really hard when people we care about - or even people we don’t know at all - behave in ways that are deeply confusing, hurtful, thoughtless, surprising or lacking in empathy. It can feel like some kind of reflection on us, especially if we’re talking about betrayal or rejection. If you struggle with this (and who doesn’t sometimes), the tale of the scorpion and the frog is a good one, and hopefully this talk will help make it a little easier next time you find yourself questioning your wor...
2024-10-1953 min
Come As You Are PodcastCircle TimeA talk about learning to take up space in a world that teaches you to be small, to second-guess yourself, to get everything right, and to question your value as a whole human being, worthy of respect, rights, consideration and kindness. Topics include the high cost of perfectionism, complicated mother-daughter relationships, the pain of a loud inner critic, and a path toward self-compassion. They don’t give out awards for being perfect, and being human is a lot more fun.Thanks for reading and listening to Come As You Are! Please share with anyone you like. An...
2024-10-121h 17
Come As You Are PodcastOrbital MotionThis is a talk about making friends with uncertainty. There’s no easy way to ride this ride if you can’t accept that part of being human is being vulnerable. Loving people means you are opening your heart as wide as it will go, knowing that you don’t know all the parameters. You don’t know how long you have, or how long anyone else has here on this spinning planet. Grief is baked into the mix, along with change, loss, and and the understanding that everything is always in flux. Learning to hold things loosely - ideas, p...
2024-10-0552 min
Come As You Are PodcastScents and SensibilityA talk about grief, loss, change, motherhood, the sandwich generation, the absolutely emotional milestone of dropping your kid off at college, and the very tumultuous political landscape we’re all navigating in the U.S. right now. Also a talk about things we learned in the sandbox, and why we really need to get back to something that is sane and decent, and remember we are all neighbors on a spinning planet, going through so many similar challenges and heartbreaks. Also, “scents” will only make sense if you read the essay!Thanks for reading and li...
2024-09-2833 min
Come As You Are PodcastHold It Against Your BonesA talk about love, loss and vulnerability. Seasons change, relationships change, people change - change is the one constant. It makes sense to think about your response to the ever-shifting ground underneath your feet, and the way you’re riding this ride. Are you trying to grip the steering wheel, or are you able to keep your mind, heart and hands open - and let things flow? This is a talk about grief as well, about losing people we don’t know how to live without, and about loving your heart out in the face of all the things you...
2024-09-2145 min
Come As You Are PodcastMoving ViolationsA talk about the state of the world for girls and women, growing up in a patriarchy, messages we absorb from the water we’re swimming in, male violence, assault, misogyny, sexual harassment, the male gaze, objectification, sexism - and the frustration of having to hurry and say “not all men” because of course not all men. But way too many of them. And we need them in the conversation.Thanks for reading and listening to Come As You Are! Your comments and shares mean the world to me, thank you. And thanks for spending some time w...
2024-09-1459 min
Come As You Are PodcastThoughts and PrayersA talk about grief, loss, child loss, school shootings, gun violence, violence generally, the cancer of rampant self-interest, the pain, rage and despair of having school-age children in this environment, vulnerability, mortality, the patriarchy, intersectional feminism, democracy - and how we can try to make this world a more compassionate, sane, peaceful place with the 80-100 years we’ve got. Not small talk. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-09-0750 min
Come As You Are PodcastBlessed Be the FruitDo you ever go to the wrong people looking for things you know they can’t or won’t give you? Things like approval, affection, acknowledgement - or an apology if the situation warrants one? That’s called “going to the hardware store for apples” - a phrase I heard in an Al-Anon meeting when I was seventeen. It’s a fruitless endeavor to seek compassion from people who don’t feel empathy, whatever the reason. It’s painful to love people who are in the grip of addiction, suffering from a personality disorder or dealing with any affliction that causes them...
2024-08-311h 10
Come As You Are PodcastThe Blind SpotA talk about perspective. We all see the world from our own personal vantage point, based on our own frame of reference. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what’s obvious to me will be obvious to anyone else looking out at the world. When I get in my car after my son has driven it, I have to move the seat forward and adjust all the mirrors because he’s a lot taller than I am, and literally sees things from a different angle. It would help if we remembered that’s everyone - we all n...
2024-08-2457 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Absence of PainA talk about intense pain, but also the feeling of incredible, joyous relief when pain releases its grip on us. This topic was brought on by a migraine, but it also applies to heartbreak, grief and rage. It’s exhausting to be in a conversation about a woman’s worth in 2024. It’s enraging to see women and girls in so many states having their lives put in peril. It is not right that we’re having to fight for an equal amount of respect and dignity, still. This episode is about the boiling waters we’re swimming in right now...
2024-08-1751 min
Come As You Are PodcastIt Doesn't MatterA talk about growing up as a girl and then a woman in a culture where violence against girls and women is so prevalent it’s normalized, and perpetrators are often given more consideration than the people they’ve hurt. “It Doesn’t Matter” is my answer to the questions: What was she wearing?How much had she had to drink? What was her sexual history?and also - What about his promising future?This is not an episode to listen to with small children in the bac...
2024-08-101h 04
Come As You Are PodcastSmileA talk about growing up as a girl and then a woman in a culture that teaches you to devalue women and girls, to accept that you are an object and that your value is determined by the way men perceive you, to accept that men will do what they do and take what they want, and you are only safe if a man decides you are safe, to deal with any confusion or rage about this on your own…and why we need to be doing a lot better than this for all of our daughters (and sons)…and...
2024-08-0359 min
Come As You Are PodcastAll RiseA talk about internalized misogyny, the patriarchy, the culture and what it teaches us about our worth as girls and women, sexual assault, the power of childless cat ladies, healthcare autonomy, the current election in the U.S. - and why so many things need to change, now. If you have small children, this is not an episode to listen to if they’re within earshot. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-07-271h 16
Come As You Are PodcastPass the KombuchaA talk about the difference between choosing to make yourself vulnerable, and having your vulnerability thrust upon you. Topics include a food poisoning episode complete with public mortification, Linda Blair, and the current political environment in the U.S. which is very much like dealing with food you wish you’d never eaten. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-07-2053 min
Come As You Are PodcastForsakenThis is a talk about the pain, confusion and grief of growing up with a mother who struggles to mother you, for any number of reasons. It’s also about the secrets we keep, the way shame can convince you you aren’t lovable - and the people who teach you nothing could be further from the truth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-07-1349 min
Come As You Are PodcastOh Say Can You See?This is a talk about the relief that comes with seeing things as they are, instead of clinging to a version of reality we wish was unfolding. Sometimes we work really hard not to see the truth of our own feelings, or the truth of someone else’s feelings or the situation we’re in, because if we see it, things will have to change or we will have to change, or maybe we’re walking straight into heartbreak. It’s also a talk about words and their definitions, and how sometimes we use the same words, but we mean ver...
2024-07-0648 min
Come As You Are PodcastThings You Can't KnowA talk about grief, loss, panic attacks, the illusion of control, traveling into the future, past and present all at once, the space time continuum, and how sometimes letting go is the only way to ride the ride. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-06-2937 min
Come As You Are PodcastI Hate GoodbyesA talk about endings, abandonment issues, attachment styles, not asking other people to carry our baggage, and why it’s okay to hate goodbyes as long as you work on the rest of it! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-06-221h 03
Come As You Are PodcastThe Right QuestionsThis is a talk about the big transitions in life. We can all get focused on the destination, but sometimes the shore in front of us isn’t clear, and the task is to swim in the waters of uncertainty for a while. You can tread water, swim against the current and exhaust yourself, or move with it and let things flow, trusting you’ll land on solid ground eventually. Asking yourself the right questions is one of the best ways to find more ease and strength when the weather changes and the current starts pulling you in a dire...
2024-06-1554 min
Come As You Are PodcastStrangers in the DayA talk about those “nothing” moments that are really everything, meeting love wherever you find it, allowing yourself to feel joy, grief, longing, gratitude, vulnerability, and fragility all at once, and recognizing if you want steadiness in life, you have to find it inside yourself. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-06-0846 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Big BangA talk about empathy -which, by definition - flows freely in all directions. A conversation about binary thinking, the danger of dehumanizing those who disagree with us, and where we might be at war within ourselves, since outward violence is a reflection of inward pain.Thank you for listening to Come As You Are. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com...
2024-06-011h 10
Come As You Are PodcastSea of RageA talk about the high cost of "othering" people, and the pain and exhaustion of swimming in rage-filled water, which is daily life right now. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-05-251h 02
Come As You Are PodcastAgainst the WallA talk about cognitive dissonance and the painful toll it takes. When we feel one way but act another for any number of reasons, when we know something is very wrong but are asked to go about our days like everything is normal, when we can no longer have nuanced conversation or express our heartache openly, the result is despair, confusion, depression, anxiety, overwhelm and loneliness. What's the answer? Have a listen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com...
2024-05-1854 min
Come As You Are PodcastMonosyllablesToday’s talk is for anyone who’s ever been in a relationship where you had to walk on eggshells, read the room, and make yourself small. It’s for anyone who ever hated themselves for not leaving, or not leaving sooner. It’s about the root cause of what makes us stay when we know we should go. It’s also for anyone with complicated maternal bonds who might feel the reverberations around Mother’s Day, and it’s for all of us who miss our moms beyond belief, flaws and all.Come As You Are is a reade...
2024-05-1139 min
Come As You Are PodcastTip Me OverToday's talk is about relationships, intimacy, trust, abandonment, betrayal, communication, ghosting, and the importance of the empty cup. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-05-0447 min
Come As You Are PodcastADHDThis is a talk about things that are so ingrained we don’t question them. Maybe it’s the way you’re going about your day, the process by which you get things done, or stories you have about yourself or other people that are so old, they feel like “the way things are” and not like something that needs examination. It’s just the water we swim in, until one day, we realize maybe we’ve been swimming against the current for a very long time.Come As You Are is a reader/listener-supported publication. To receive new...
2024-04-2754 min
Come As You Are PodcastJust driveToday's talk is about the value in doing the wild and unexpected thing sometimes. It's about our tendency to make plans, to stick to our schedules and set alerts in our phones, even as we know all our careful plans can be turned upside down at any moment. It's about motherhood and remembering who you were before small people started calling you Mom, and it's about getting to know yourself again when those small people grow taller than you. It's about perimenopause, uncertainty and embracing adventure when it comes your way. Thanks for spending some time with me.
2024-04-2038 min
Come As You Are PodcastDon't Feed the BeastThis episode is about the pendulum of the mind and how it swings into the past with longing and regret, and into the future with fear and anxiety, skipping over the present moment which is the only place where peace is available. It's about longing, insecurity, comparing and contrasting, obsessing, intrusive thoughts, our crazy culture, and how to break the cycle. Sometimes you have to break the cycle several times a day, but it's a worthwhile undertaking because there's so much beauty in the world, and it would be such a shame to miss it. This...
2024-04-1337 min
Come As You Are PodcastI'm Okay, Everything is OkayThis episode is for people who struggle to ask for help, and/or the people who love them. Why is it so tough for some of us to admit we're struggling and could use some support? What's the fear? I dug into it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-04-0650 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Room of Lost ThingsThis episode is about the things we lose along the way, like sets of keys, childhood toys, beloved pets, and most painfully, people. It's also about attachment, non-attachment, vulnerability, loss, and the insight gained by letting go. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-03-3041 min
Come As You Are PodcastAll at OnceThis episode is about loss, grief, uncertainty and time. It's about the idea that time is folding in on itself and every version of you that has ever existed is still running through the hallways of your mind and heart. Sometimes you catch glimpses of your younger selves when the light is just right. And sometimes letting go is the key to opening and surprising yourself so you can ride the waves with joy and curiosity instead of fear. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
2024-03-2359 min
Come As You Are PodcastHow to Break a SpellThis episode highlights the difference between loving people and trying to save them. If you've ever tried to save another person from their own internal demons, you know it can't be done. Love, support, kindness, rooting on and showing up certainly help, but if you start to think you can make everything okay for another person, you're in trouble, too. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-03-1647 min
Come As You Are PodcastAre You Mad at Me?This episode is about attachment styles, relationships, communication, and the particular pain that ensues when an anxiously attached person is chasing after a person who finds intimacy terrifying. It's a conversation about times when we've betrayed ourselves by accepting treatment that doesn't feel okay, or convinced ourselves to stay even when we know we have to leave. It's also about understanding yourself, and developing a relationship with all the younger versions of you that are still running through the halls. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
2024-03-0949 min
Come As You Are PodcastClubbingThis episode is about our collective state of fight or flight and the way it shows up on the internet. It's a conversation about the actions that help make the world a more peaceful place, and the actions that contribute to feelings of utter hopelessness and depression. And it's about the power of starting with the world that exists within each one of us, creating more peace, tolerance and compassion there, and turning all of that outward. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
2024-03-0258 min
Come As You Are PodcastTED, Fred and NedThis episode is about the stories we tell ourselves. Sometimes we have a story about why we are the way we are, why things are the way they are or why someone else is the way they are ... and our stories are wrong. Or maybe they aren't wrong, but they're old, they're a narrative we're carrying around that might have been useful at one time but no longer is. Sometimes people are casting us as the villain in their story or we're casting ourselves as the hero or victim. We're wired for stories, but sometimes it's good to take...
2024-02-2453 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Goodbye GirlThis episode is about goodbyes. They aren't easy, but they're part of life. We lose people through death, or because we come to a fork in the road and one person goes one way, the other, another. It hurts. If you have fear of abandonment or struggle with goodbyes, if you're dealing with grief due to the loss of a loved one for any reason, maybe this will help. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2024-02-171h 00
Come As You Are PodcastJagged LinesThis episode is about how far back you in time you have to travel to find the moment when you first doubted whether you were worthy of love, or wondered if something essential was broken inside you. It's about how you heal if the break began in your mother and was passed down to you, along with genes. It's about mother loss and mother rage and the pain of heading out into the world as a girl if your mother cannot or does not have your back, whatever the reason. It's also about predatory men, finding your voice and...
2024-02-1040 min
Come As You Are PodcastEverything HappensThis episode is about why I dislike the phrase "everything happens for a reason" or any other sayings that have the potential to make someone who is suffering feel alienated on top of it. We really love to make everything make sense, and sometimes we contort ourselves to try to cram everything that befalls us into the gratitude column. Spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, religious or spiritual beliefs that create division and pain rather than tolerance and compassion are all discussed. Ultimately it's good to consider what we think is happening here on earth and what we think happens next...
2024-02-0437 min
Come As You Are PodcastNo WarningThis episode is about change, and particularly change you didn't ask for or didn't see coming. It's also about the nature of life and its constant fluctuations, it's about all the loss we face as we enter the middle years or the middle of the story, and how to ride the ride without gripping the wheel. It's about letting yourself feel your feelings, and how best to navigate times of groundlessness and uncertainty. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous...
2024-01-2735 min
Come As You Are PodcastNever WaiverThis episode is about communication, and particularly, how to communicate with people who don't make it easy. Maybe you have someone in your life who can never be wrong, who can never say they're sorry. Maybe you love an addict or you have someone in your sphere who doesn't seem to feel empathy or is more attached to their narrative than they are to resolving conflict. If you've ever spent time trying to make a person "see the light" by writing the perfect email or saying just the right thing, if you've banged your head against the wall or...
2024-01-2152 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Heart of the MatterThis episode is about the gift of meditation and how it can be so helpful in bringing to the surface the feelings that might really need our kind attention. Sometimes those feelings are physical and sometimes they're emotional, but understanding yourself and having compassion for yourself are two ways to make the journey easier. This episode is also about the middle years, the Sandwich Generation, peri-menopause and hormones and vulnerability and loss ... and how all of this can be a gift if you open to it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
2024-01-1344 min
Come As You Are PodcastOverwatering the PlantThis episode is about the tendency to try to make everything okay for everyone else all the time, and about how futile, exhausting and sometimes annoying it can be. It's about overcoming that tendency and learning how to shift the focus back onto our own feelings, which are the only feelings we can truly manage. It's about trusting our loved ones to be able to handle some of the more uncomfortable feelings like disappointment, anxiety, etc, and learning how to be there without trying to fix everything or save anyone. It's also about parenting! This is...
2024-01-0647 min
Come As You Are PodcastThe Space Between UsThis episode is all about relationships. Intimate relationships, those we have with our closest friends, but also our relationship with time, with our own work, with people we meet in passing, and the one we're having with ourselves. It's a conversation about shifting the way we think about relationships so that there's less fear and more freedom. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-12-3157 min
Come As You Are PodcastFrank and the TutuThis episode is about relationships, dating, post-divorce dating with kids in the mix, overcoming the tendency to try to make everything okay for everyone else all the time, boundaries, holidays, dysfunctional family dynamics and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-12-2541 min
Come As You Are PodcastTiny StalkerThis episode is about longing and childhood wounds, and how they can wreak havoc in our adult relationships. Sometimes we tolerate love that hurts because it feels like home. If you've ever been in a soul-crushing relationship where you struggled to leave, or watched someone else grapple with that painful experience, this is for you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-12-1752 min
Come As You Are PodcastOut of TimeIs time linear or is it folding in on itself? What happens when you're pulled out of the normal timeline of your life due to tragedy? What tethers you? This episode is about trauma, loss and grief, but it's also about time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-12-1058 min
Come As You Are PodcastDaddy DearestThis episode is about complicated familial relationships and the complicated grief that can follow when you lose someone who wasn't always easy to have in your life, but whom you loved nonetheless. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-11-301h 03
Come As You Are PodcastHoliday Grit GuideIf the holidays are hard, this episode is all about the different ways to be gentle with yourself, and create boundaries and your own traditions when needed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-11-2635 min
Come As You Are PodcastA Failure to Communicate This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-11-1958 min
Come As You Are PodcastIf You're Looking for Signs This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-11-1249 min
Come As You Are PodcastHighlight/Delete This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-11-0546 min
Come As You Are PodcastWhen Everyone Has the Mic This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-10-2957 min
Come As You Are PodcastIn the Face of Loss This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-10-221h 18
Come As You Are PodcastAll the Heartache in the World This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-10-151h 04
Come As You Are PodcastIt's a Crying Shame This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-10-081h 01
Come As You Are PodcastWhat You Don't Know Can Hurt You This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-10-011h 05
Come As You Are PodcastDon't Stand So Close to Me This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-09-241h 12
Come As You Are PodcastGroomed This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-09-171h 02
Come As You Are PodcastExposed This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-09-101h 08
Come As You Are PodcastRed Flags and Stolen Cheese This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-09-0352 min
Come As You Are PodcastWhen You Don't Have the WordsThis week's episode is all about the perils of swallowing your rage, and the ways you can overcome that coping mechanism and start communicating freely. So happy you've joined me for a topic near and dear to my heart! May we all find the words when we need them. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/subscribe
2023-08-281h 05
Come As You Are PodcastReconciliationI'm Ally Hamilton, author of Open Randomly: Fortune Cookies for the Soul and Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth and Peace, and founder of YogisAnonymous.com. More than all of that, I am a mother, wife, stepmom, daughter, sister, friend. I've been practicing and teaching yoga for over 30 years. I meditate every day. I also drink coffee, say f&ck a lot (though not on the podcast because you might listen in your car, or while you're making a meal or doing laundry and I realize little people may be near you), and do my best to...
2023-08-231h 03
Gender Spiral with Ally Beardsley and Babette ThomasWait, I Think I'm Trans?? (w/ Jaylind Hamilton)Babette and Ally chat with artist and nutrition coach Jaylind Hamilton about tatooing, testosterone, and tending chickens. Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Find Jaylind via thier Linktree Follow Gender Spiral on Instagram and TikTok genderspiralpod.com (not genderspiral.com- thanks for flagging that Ax on Speakpipe!) audiation.fm
2023-06-2732 min
Chasing Progress PodcastEpisode 6: Putting yourself FIRST with Rae Hamilton of heyraehealth“Wherever you go, there you are.”Rae Hamilton is a CLT-based nutrition coach who is tackling the task of leaning into her passions AND her fears. From a small town in upstate New York— she found her happiness and self confidence in Charlotte, NC through setting difficult boundaries, facing her emotions head on, and healing herself from the inside out. Rae is working with clients to discover their “why” and pursue it with patience and self-compassion— while still enjoying a good red wine with plenty of carbs along the way. In this episode, Rae shares her journey fr...
2022-10-031h 02
Life Builders By Julie HamiltonEp 104 Ally Portee: From South Carolina to Serving Syrian RefugeesHow does a girl from South Carolina who doesn't like people grow up to work in the White House & Congress and then find her heart's passion serving Syrian refugees & working in the world of fashion in the Middle East? In this interview with Ally Portee we'll find out! Learn how her childhood influenced her heart for the nations and love for politics, what she treasures about the Middle East, the realities of Syrian refugee camps and how YOU can help most, what it takes to become a writer at Harper's Bazaar Arabia, why you should "let it go," and...
2019-10-1140 min
Josh Hamilton's musingsEpisode 21 – I am not an ally, and God doesn’t hate gay peopleHello, this week I am wading into some scary waters, trying to sort through what I think about whether or not it is good to be gay, gay marriage, and what I think christianity says about all of that. This is definitely a podcast that I am wrong about some stuff on, I don’t feel … Continue reading Episode 21 – I am not an ally, and God doesn’t hate gay people
2019-01-1921 min
Listen Legally to Popular Authors Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Motivation & InspirationYoga's Healing Power Audiobook by Ally HamiltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Yoga's Healing Power
Subtitle: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-08-16
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing...
2016-08-095h 25
Explore Into A Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook During Your Workout.Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace by Ally HamiltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316107to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: August 8, 2016
Genres: Meditations & Sleep
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace. Physical poses, seated...
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Title: Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: August 8, 2016
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace. Physical poses, seated...
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Title: Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: August 8, 2016
Genres: Meditations & Sleep
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace. Physical poses, seated...
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Title: Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: August 8, 2016
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace. Physical poses, seated...
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Title: Yoga's Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace
Author: Ally Hamilton
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: August 8, 2016
Genres: Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
Publisher's Summary:
Join popular teacher and blogger Ally Hamilton as she explores the eight limbs of yoga practice that are integral to the healing process. Facing yourself and doing the work to heal takes bravery and strength, but it's absolutely possible. Yoga's Healing Power shows you how to overcome patterns that aren't serving you and find sustained peace. Physical poses...
2016-08-085h 25023 Ally Hamilton – Teaching the Tools for HealingToday’s Guest Ally Hamilton talks about finding herself at the head of a global yoga community and teaching the tools for healing. Ally is a fan of taking what she calls “the short hard road” of facing your demons, rather than running from them and spending a lifetime struggling. It was a great pleasure to talkRead More
2015-06-1900 min
Yoga In My SchoolReflections 2010 with Ally HamiltonAlly Hamilton has a vision to build a unique community where joy, sharing and empowerment abound. To this end she and husband Dorian founded YogisAnonymous, a studio & website where serious yoga is taught in a fun and playful manner. YogisAnonymous turned yoga instruction on its head with FREE live streaming video of classes with master teachers. Get the inside scoop on all the fun from Ally herself as she shares the highs and lows of the past year. She'll also dish on what those of us who are addicted to Flight Club, Soul Flow and Ally's own Hurt's So Good...
2010-12-2433 min