Shows
Living Fully Alive#7: Spiritual Bypassing with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her best friend Lindsley Brooks as they dig in deeper to talk about spiritual bypassing. When we experience emotions that feel “too big” or “too painful” we tend to find all kinds of covert ways to avoid “the work”. Many positive things that we incorporate into our lives with good intention can end up being used to help us cope and bring us comfort when life throws hard things at us. Prayer, meditation, astrology, spirituality, and religion are all things we might find ourselves turning to in order to bypass our emotions, pain, and struggles.The intention is good, but...2022-02-0350 min
Living Fully Alive#6: Emotional Dysfunction Inside Relationships with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her former part time co-host and best friend, Lindsley Brooks as they dig into how emotional intelligence affects your interpersonal relationships. We all learned in our childhoods emotional survival techniques. We learned how to be seen, get love, and gain approval. These emotional blueprints and patterns often come with us into adulthood causing us to abandon ourselves in order to attempt to get our needs met. How do we learn something new? How do we learn to be in a healthy relationship with another person? When we find ourselves stuck in these patterns it is time...2022-01-0648 min
Living Fully AliveConnecting To Your Energetic Body with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her part time co-host, Lindsley Brooks, as they talk about the power that we have when we learn to listen to our energetic body. Each of us puts off a unique energy or aura. This is scientifically proven. In Eastern medicine this is referred to as the subtle body. If you are wanting to live a holistic and healthy life, we have to become mindful of the subtle body and how to best support it. Our different energy centers, also known as Chakras, play a role in the function of certain emotions, organs, and parts of...2021-06-1056 min
Living Fully AliveWhy Self Integrity Heals Everything with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her part-time cohost, Lindsley Brooks, as they discuss the importance of building integrity with yourself. Self integrity and self worth go hand in hand with one another. When we don’t follow through with integrity with ourselves we not only start to lose trust in ourselves, but we are also willing to tolerate others treating us without respect and integrity. We may find ourselves abandoning self in order to be loved and accepted. This is the ultimate form of breaking self integrity and self sabotage. When we choose self integrity we boost our sense of self co...2021-05-2044 min
Living Fully AliveExploring Feminine Archetypes with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her guest co-host Lindsley Brooks as they explore feminine archetypes. Many of us are familiar with the zodiac signs, we may even know what our sign is, but many of us don’t know that we possess attributes of each of these signs within us. As women we have a lot of suggestions, expectations, and roles we are supposed to follow and fulfill. That often puts us in a box unsure how to integrate our whole feminine self. We aren’t encouraged to explore all aspects of who we were, and instead get stuck between only a co...2020-12-1048 min
Living Fully AliveCreating Rhythms Of Rest with Lindsley BrooksOn this episode, join Mary and part time co-host Lindsley Brooks, as they explore a new way of approaching our lives that includes rest. Sadly, we live in a culture that glorifies and rewards “the hustle.” And workaholism is a socially acceptable form of addiction. It is often rewarded with success, money, status, and acknowledgement. But when we cross the line from just being someone who works hard, to straight hustlin’, the rest of our life begins to suffer. Eventually our physical, mental, and emotional health starts to deteriorate. And the relationships with our loved ones become strained. This is our...2020-09-1045 min
Living Fully AliveYour Enneagram + Your Routine with Lindsley BrooksOn this episode, join Mary and Lindsley as they talk about how your personality is key to creating a sustainable aligned routine. This episode is one giant permission slip to be yourself. When thinking about the kind of routine you would like to create you should start by considering how you are wired. When you do this and build a routine based on it, you are setting yourself up for success. We do not have to work against our nature. The more we can give ourselves permission to be in our natural state the more we can create a...2020-08-1350 min
Living Fully AliveThe 411 on Adult Dating with Lindsley BrooksOn this episode, join Mary and Lindsley as they discuss their adventures in dating! Last week we talked about how to have intimacy with yourself first and then how to show up as your true self in order to create healthy connections. But what about dating? How many of us have bounced from relationship to relationship, seeing the same patterns showing up every time, and wondering how do we stop this? We are in a culture obsessed with dating. The thought of being alone for many is our worst fear. We find ourselves constantly looking for someone to fill...2020-06-1847 min
Living Fully AliveWeight Gain and Emotional Eating with Lindsley BrooksOn this episode, join Mary and her cohost Lindsley Brooks as they talk candidly about our most intimate relationship… the one we have with our own body. Mary and Lindsley share their journey through weight gain and emotional eating and offer ways to make peace with our ever changing bodies. Often when we have worked hard to cultivate love for our bodies it can bring on a lot of shame when our bodies "backslide" and the unconditional love goes into question. But it isn’t about never getting triggered, or never feeling anything but love for our bodies. It is a...2020-05-2048 min
Living Fully AliveDeveloping Your Emotional Maturity - A Conversation with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and Lindsley this week as they dig deeper into this month’s topic of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. How would you rate your emotional maturity? Do you fly off the handle? Blow up in anger out of nowhere? Get stuck in depressive thoughts that spiral down quickly? Or maybe you won’t allow yourself to feel anything. In order to be a healthy adult and self regulate, you have to develop emotional maturity. First step? Giving yourself permission to feel. 2nd step? Expand your emotional vocabulary to help you navigate what’s really getting stirred up. Mary & Lindsley will teach...2020-02-1242 minLiving Fully AliveWhat’s Your Money Mindset?Join Mary and her part time co-host, Lindsley Brooks, in this month’s 2nd episode on MONEY. Have you ever thought about your money mindset? Every wondered why money causes you to want to run and hide, shut down or maybe even rebel? In today’s episode, Mary and Lindsley share their personal journeys of how they went from a scarcity mindset to a mindset of abundance! This vulnerable conversation is an invitation into a deeper awareness of how your money mindset might still be controlling you and what you can do about it. With this new awareness, you’ll be...2019-12-1144 minLiving Fully AliveSelf Care For Working Moms with Special Guest Cherylanne SkolnickiJoin my part time co-host Lindsley Brooks and I in our final episode for this month's topic of SELF CARE as we interview our special guest Cherylanne Skolnicki. Cherylanne is a mom of 3 and one of America’s leading authorities on work life integration. From her early days at a Fortune 500 company to founding The Brilliant Balance Company, where she leads a vibrant community of high achieving women, she’s become a go-to expert and trusted advisor for women who want to get the most out of life. In this interview with Cherylanne we explore practi...2019-11-2046 minLiving Fully AliveHow to Find Your Body's WisdomJoin Mary and her part time co-host Lindsley Brooks in the second episode of this month’s topic of BODY CONNECTION. You’ve probably heard Mary use words and phrases like, “embody”, ”tuning into the body”, and “being fully in your body”… But what does that mean!? And what does the body really have to do with living fully alive?! Mary and Lindsley believe that our bodies are the missing link to the life we’ve been searching for… it plays a crucial role to our emotional and spiritual healing and overall well-being. In today’s episode Ma...2019-10-1647 minLiving Fully AliveGive Yourself a Pleasure Permission Slip - A Conversation with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her part time co-host Lindsley Brooks in the final episode of this month's topic of PLEASURE. Mary and Lindsley discuss how to give yourself a permission slip for pleasure. After all, pleasure is a tricky subject because we’re taught that it’s a reward after a job well done or after doing something perfect… We reward ourselves with pleasurable things and experiences like eating a decadent chocolate cake after a hard day or taking 4 days for yourself once a year with your girlfriends because you haven’t had a day off in months! … And while ther...2019-09-2536 minLiving Fully AlivePleasure: Why Are We So Afraid Of It?Join Mary and her part time co-host Lindsley Brooks in the second episode of this month’s topic of PLEASURE. Mary and Lindsley explore the underbelly of pleasure. They slow the conversation down to discuss the bad rap that pleasure gets, the fear around it and chat about what happens when pleasure becomes a way to cope vs a way to live fully alive. This is a deep dive into the shadow side of pleasure, and they get super raw in this episode. You won’t want to miss out on this conversation! Tune in to ex...2019-09-1849 minLiving Fully AliveHow to Make Adult Friendships: An Interview with Lisa WhelchelIs it just me or does making friends as an adult seem complicated?! When we’re younger it seems we have more opportunities to meet people or more time to connect and hang with our girlfriends… But then life happens… we marry, have kids, build our careers… who has time to make or invest in friendships?! And yet, we’re wired for community! So then why does it seem so complicated to make new friends as an adult? How do you make healthy adult friendships? Well, you’re about to fi...2019-08-2149 minLiving Fully AliveToxic Friendships - A Conversation with Lindsley BrooksHave you heard the saying, “You Are The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With”? … Does that terrify you or excite you!? When you look at your closest friendships, are they enhancing your life or enhancing the drama in your life? In today’s episode, Lindsley and I talk about Toxic Friendships - how to break up or “consciously uncouple” with a friend. You’ll learn… What is a toxic friendship? Why 95% of your success or failure in life is determined by the people you hang out with on a regul...2019-08-1447 minLiving Fully AlivePretending? Why Most of Us Feel Like Frauds - A Conversation with Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and her cohost Lindsley Brooks in the 5th episode of this month’s topic of IDENTITY as they have a candid conversation about Imposter Syndrome and feeling like a fraud. Do you feel afraid that someone will discover who you really are? Do you tend to feel like a phony? Are you afraid if someone knew the “real you” they wouldn’t want to work with you, love you, etc. Or are you terrified that someone will discover that you’re just “pretending” to care and you’re not as genuine as others might think you are...2019-07-3149 minLiving Fully AliveDo You Know What Your Unique Strengths Are? An Interview with Strengths Strategy Coach Kate PintorDo you love personality profiles and assessments as much as I do? I’m pretty much obsessed! If you are committed to Living Fully Alive it’s important to be self-aware. A good personality test can be an amazing tool to learn more about yourself! On today’s podcast episode, Lindsley Brooks and I are gonna introduce you to a woman named Kate Pintor and a personality assessment that will help you begin to own more of who you really are. There’s a theory that we should overcome and improve the parts of ourselves...2019-07-1740 minLiving Fully AliveWhy You're Having an Identity Crisis With Lindsley BrooksJoin Mary and Lindsley Brooks as they have a candid conversation where they dive deeper into this month's topic of IDENTITY. Have you ever considered who you’d be without the roles, masks and identities we wear as women? These roles as wife, mother, sister, friend, etc. … Have you ever considered who’d you really be without those cultural pressures on you? Tune in to learn: How many of the subconscious roles and masks we wear as women were inherited from our mothers, society and our culture. Discover how to give yourself permission...2019-07-1046 minLiving Fully Alive3 Steps To Creating A Sacred Space - with Special Guest, Lindsley Brooks"Whether you realized it or not, your space is affecting your thoughts, feelings, actions and ultimately directing your destiny. It’s either supporting your life goals or distracting you from it… its either blocking abundance or its allowing it to flow straight to you.“ - Lindsley Brooks Join me and my special guest on today's show to delve in how your living space is a metaphor for how you live you life. Lindsley will share her tips on how to cultivate a sacred space so that you can transform your life.2019-06-2041 min
Living Fully AliveLindsley BrooksSo many women shut down when they think about sex, sexuality, sensuality or their own femininity. This is a loaded topic, and can instantly spark shame, guilt, embarrassment, anxiety, and fear. We don't know how to talk about it. Join me and my very special guest Lindsley Brooks today to talk about sexual shame. We will explore where it comes from, what it looks like, and how we can move past it. I promise this is an episode you don't want to miss! --- Learn More About Lindsley Brooks: http://lindsleybrooks.com 2019-02-1444 min