Peggy Freeh - Podcast Details

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Within with Dr. Vivian Carrasco Cultivate Your Own Mindfulness Practice with Peggy FreehYou may have a daily routine that you like to follow. Maybe it’s when you get up in the morning, when you go to bed, or maybe you don’t have one at all. Today’s guest, Peggy Freeh, interviewed 60 people on their daily practices and is now on her own personal journey to share that knowledge. Peggy and Vivian discuss what it means to have a mindfulness practice and how to discover yours. If you want to get past blocked thoughts and show up as your best self, tune into this insigh...

2020-10-2553 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Glenn Younger - Basic Activation of Divine Light Vibrations (practice)Resources to Connect with Glenn: Divine Light Vibrations website - courses, meditations, and one-on-one sessions Vibrational Voyages website - Go-To Guides for Spiritual Beings her book How to Make the Most of Your Earth Experience her class Meet the Infinite You Glenn on Facebook Divine Light Vibrations on Facebook LinkedIn Twitter

2015-06-0309 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Glenn Younger - Connecting with Her Divine Soul (interview)Glenn had been on a spiritual path for a long time. She started meditating in college with her roommate. She studied with amazing teachers, learning to trust her intuition more and more. She found herself letting go over and over again. She let go of control and listened more to her inner guidance. She let go of her fears and limitations. During one particular meditation, she let go of everything and met her Divine Soul. It had a profound effect on her inner and outer life. Inwardly, she experienced a deep love and...

2015-06-0339 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Toni Fraser Brennand - Meditation Before, During and After Pregnancy (interview)Toni just kind of fell into meditating. Her husband had learned to meditate and his teacher offered to teach Toni, too. The benefits were fast, clear and almost too good to be true. She continued to study, and soon became a teacher as did her husband. Her whole life shifted in many amazing ways. And when she got pregnant, meditation became a natural support both for her and her baby. Toni now teaches this meditation technique to pregnant women. It helps them bond with their baby during pregnancy. It can be used du...

2015-05-2739 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Nicole Liloia - Exploring the Many Forms of Journaling (interview)Nicole Liloia was given a beautiful travel journal just before a two month trip to Venezuela. She had just quit a stressful job, and it gave her a chance to step back and reassess her life. She didn’t continue journaling at home, but picked up the habit again a few years later. She started with simple things - tracking new habits she wanted to develop and noticing meaningful moments in her day. Journaling helped her keep to her new habits, and made her more aware of all the good things in her life.

2015-05-2028 min

CraftLit - Serialized Classic Literature for Busy Book Lovers 385: Chs 15-16 of Sense and SensibilityChapters 15-16 of Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen. Book talk starts at 05:50. Call in Line 1-206-350-1642 Call in and leave an audio comment! Please use SpeakPipe if you are outside of the US First S&S episode: 378 shownotes | Audio | Order of Operations | Book vs Movie podcast (the Two Margos!) Peggy Freeh's Simple Daily Practice podcast "The Yellow Wallpaper" on CraftLit - 3:07 And this came in after uploading the episode: Final Chop Bard Twelfth Night episode is up! Whole play will be posted soon! | Book Talk — 05:50 | Reminder of Deb's Chart: (Book and Whispersync of this one-->) Fanny Burney's books an...

2015-05-151h 12

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Alex Mill - From Zen Monk to Zen Life Coach (interview)Alex followed his girlfriend and her friend into a new age bookstore (someplace he wouldn’t normally be caught dead in). He felt called to pick up a book on Zen Buddhism and start reading. He was amazed. The author was talking about all the things he was dealing with in his life. He thought he had it all (the job, the apartment, the girlfriend), but he was still unhappy. He knew he needed more of this information, so he started to study and meditate. Eventually he entered a Zen monastery. He settled...

2015-05-1355 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Amelia Aeon Karris - Bliss Out Meditation (practice)Amelia Aeon Karris shares an 11 minute meditation to align you to the energy in the center of your heart. This mediation is done with your eyes closed, so please only do it when you can give it your full attention. Resources to Connect with Amelía: website Facebook

2015-05-0611 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Amelia Aeon Karris - Spiritual Teacher and Entrepreneur (interview)Amelía was a busy, successful entrepreneur when she met a couple from Japan during a business event. She felt a strong connection to them, so when they asked if she’d like to meditate with them, she gave it a try. Because of the language barrier, they would mostly sit together in silence. Amelía wasn’t quite sure what was happening, but she felt herself changing. After the meditations, the couple would teach her more about what was happening. After 10 years, she experienced a big breakthrough. She became clear that she w...

2015-05-0640 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Laura Licata - Bringing Forth Her Unlimited Potential with Chanting (interview)Laura had just moved out of her parent’s house, and was feeling anxious and depressed. On day, she heard her roommate chanting. When she looked in, her roommate asked Laura to come in and join her. Laura sat down and started chanting out loud with her roommate. She immediately felt a rush of energy in her body. She felt hopeful again and believed that she could overcome any difficulty she was facing. She continued to practice every day, sometimes just repeating the chant three times, sometimes practicing for hours. She experienced...

2015-04-2935 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Lizzy Hurwitz - Building Courage with Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (interview)When Lizzy’s brother-in-law was diagnosed with a terminal illness, it turned the family upside down. They had to learn how to care for him during his 12 year illness and ultimate death. They also had to learn how to take care of themselves with all these new and unexpected responsibilities. At that point, Lizzy had already been meditating for 25 years. She had teachers she loved and respected, but something was still missing for her. She had yet to find a practice where she could freely share all aspects of herself. She connecte...

2015-04-2239 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Sky Kier - Finding Ease with Transcendental Meditation (interview)Sky Kier was working hard in college. He was a psychology/theater double major with plans to go to law school. He would get up at 5:30 in the morning to run, determined to do whatever it took to be the best man he could be. One of Sky’s professors recommended a course on Transcendental Meditation. Because he respected this man so much, Sky decided to give it a try. Just like everything else in his life, he was determined to do it with everything he had. What he found was that it w...

2015-04-1545 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Wendy Battino - Weaving Vipassana into Her Life (interview)As a young adult, Wendy Battino went backpacking in New Zealand. She was intrigued when she met a group of people going to a 10 day retreat to learn Vipassana, so she decided to join them. It was a powerful experience for her, and she left feeling very connected to the people and world around her. When she got back home, she wasn’t consistent with her practice. She resisted the urge to force herself to do it and instead treated it like an experiment. She just kept coming back to it, and it gradually became a daily...

2015-04-0832 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Aine Mac Dermott - Resonating with Primordial Sound Meditation (interview)Aine Mac Dermott had been on a spiritual journey for a long time. She had a sense that she wanted to meditate, but she hadn’t worked out the details. She would try sometimes, going into her bedroom after work and tuning in, but she never found anything she would stick with. She went to a week long class at the Chopra Center, and learned Primordial Sound Meditation. She was given a mantra to repeat to herself, and practiced during the week of the retreat. In just that week, she could tell that she resonated with th...

2015-04-0135 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Peggy Freeh - A Passion for Daily Practice (interview)Peggy had been a stay at home mom for 9 years. She was at a breaking point, focusing all her time and energy on her kids and none on herself. She signed up for a life coach training program, and threw herself their recommended daily practice to notice and dissolve her painful thoughts. But after a year, she realized that it wasn’t very effective for her. Even though she learned the technique and could use it effectively with other people, it wasn’t causing many shifts in her life. So she tried ano...

2015-03-2547 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Patsie Smith - Embracing Many Forms of Meditation (interview)At the age of 20, Patsie was so depressed, she took an overdose of painkillers. She ended up in the hospital, floating in and out of conscious. During that time, she connected with something that astonished her - a profound sense of total peace and love, beyond thought. After she left the hospital, that peace was only a memory, so she started to explore meditation to find her way back to it. The first place she found it was practicing chi kung. She was able to let go of her mind and find that peace again.

2015-03-1850 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Vivian Carrasco - A Kinder, Gentler Approach to Daily Practice (interview)Vivian remembers the dark years. Between moving, changing jobs, her husband retiring and her sons leaving home, her life was turned upside down. She knew she needed to do something different so she decided to simply stop and pay more attention. She started with daily journaling, asking questions and listening for the answers. She sat outside every morning at sunrise, watching the light come from the darkness so she could trust that the light would come back into her life, too. While her practices were helping her, they came with a catch...

2015-03-1141 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Caren Baginski - Activate Trust Guided Meditation (practice)Caren Baginski shares a 5 minute meditation to clear the mind of worries and promote a deep sense of security and safety. This meditation also opens and energizes your root chakra. Resources to Connect with Caren: website all of Caren’s 5 minute meditations to activate your true spirit Twitter

2015-03-0405 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Caren Baginski - Yoga and Meditation to Heal Depression (interview)Caren had a long history of depression. During college, she kept very busy and her depression was lessened. After graduating, she got a new job, moved to a new city and started a new relationship. Even with all that, she had more time to stop and reflect and her depression came back. One night, she contemplated suicide. The next day, she went to a doctor and started taking Zoloft. While it helped with her depression, she felt anxious, nauseated, and she couldn’t sleep. She wanted to find a way to feel bet...

2015-03-0445 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Sarahjoy Marsh - Yoga to Recover and Thrive (interview)Sarahjoy’s first daily practices were not kind ones. She compulsively weighed herself, obsessed about food, and exercised all the time. Making art was her only escape from thinking about her body and food. She went on a solo backpacking trip. She struggled up the trail with an overloaded backpack. When she got above the treeline, she put down her pack. As she looked around, she experienced an expansiveness and freedom that she had totally lost touch with in her obsession with food. She started to move her body and connect with how...

2015-02-2549 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Chel Hamilton - Guided Meditation for the ReWire It Process (practice)Chel Hamilton provides a guided hypnotic meditation to support people in learning her ReWire It process. Resources to Connect with Chel: website Meditation Minis podcast - website and in iTunes Eckhart Tolle - nose focused breathing meditation on website and in

2015-02-1815 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Chel Hamilton - Practices to Get Off Autopilot (interview)Chel was a sensitive kid. For awhile, she ran away from that sensitivity. In her 20s, she found herself getting into trouble - partying too much, staying up too late. She ended up severely depressed and facing major panic attacks. She tried journaling and meditation, but they didn’t help. What did help was a micro practice - stopping to observe what she was thinking and feeling many, many times a day. And things started to shift. She was able to develop more awareness and was eventually able to stop her panic attacks. Che...

2015-02-1839 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Heather Strang - From Healing Crisis to Spiritual Path (interview)Heather couldn’t find a way to heal from a cystic tumor on her ovary. She had it surgically removed, but her symptoms still persisted. She tried alternative medicine, and she still had no relief. She met a woman who had been to see John of God, a healer in Brazil who channels the spirits of past doctors and saints. Immediately, Heather knew she had to go. She spent over two weeks in Brazil. By the time she left, her physical symptoms were gone. And she had started on her spiritual path. She...

2015-02-1138 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Britt Nemeth - A Year Long Photography Practice (interview)Britt Nemeth loves photography. To her, it’s an ineffable and heart driven experience. She strives to not just make pretty pictures, but to capture the essence of each particular person, place or thing she shoots. When she is taking photographs, she was deeply in that presence that makes photography so special for her. But running her photography business took her out of that presence much of the time. A friend asked her to the 5 day #blackandwhitechallenge. Britt agreed, not thinking too much off it. From the first day, she was hooked. ...

2015-02-0417 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Pernille Norregaard - Writing as a Daily Practice (interview)Pernelle has been writing professionally for 12 years, 7 years as her main job. The writing came in fits and starts. She would go through massive creative spurts and produce tons of work in no time. And then she won’t write for a few weeks or a month. Then she’d have another creative spurt. This way of working depleted her. She would have one of these creative bursts and then feel empty and think she couldn’t do it again. She knew she could write, but she didn’t know how to make it a sustainable act...

2015-01-2841 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Jenn Hand - The Healing Power of Journaling (interview)Jenn Hand knew she had issues with anxiety and depression. When she started seeing a therapist, she didn’t connect those issues to her difficulties with food. She had been alternating between restricting and binging - crazy eating was just her everyday experience. Her therapist asked Jenn to start keeping a food journal - just what she ate and when she ate it. Then the therapist asked her to add how she felt after she ate. That was challenging. Jenn wasn’t used to looking at her feelings. She had been stuffing them down with food inste...

2015-01-2142 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Claudia Olivie - A Breathing Practice to Reduce Stress (practice)Claudia Olivie explains the 4-7-8 breathing practice she teaches to reduce stress, and then guides you through a short practice session.

2015-01-1404 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Claudia Olivie - From Stressed Out to Blissed Out with Daily Practices (interview)In her early 20s, Claudia was going nonstop. She was in college and working, regularly going two or three days without sleep. Her body started breaking down and she got to the point where it took her 20 minutes to read one sentence. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder and her life came to a standstill. She used the scientific research skills she had developed in college and started looking for answers. She discovered how her chronic stress contributed to her illness. She found many, many ways to address stress, so she ca...

2015-01-1442 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Kelly Pietrangeli - Finding Time for Daily Practice (interview) Kelly didn't really realize how important quiet time in the morning was to her. Before she had children, she lived and worked in London and had at least an hour of quiet time to herself every morning. Even on the underground, she would have her eyes closed or bury herself deep in a book. Then she had her first baby. She was not prepared for that sudden lack of quiet morning time before she had to be with other people. Waking up each morning and jumping into mommy mode was incredibly challenging for Kel...

2015-01-0743 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Bailey Frumen - The Interplay of Morning and Evening Practices (interview)Bailey started with a twice weekly yoga practice. She was dedicated to it, because she needed it to survive her busy life as a burnt out therapist working 70 hour a week. She wanted to shift her business from working in person to working with people online. As she shifted her business, she reevaluated everything about her life, including her morning routine. She experimented with different activities, fine tuning what she did until she felt grounded and ready for her day. But that wasn’t enough. When she found herself working on her comp...

2014-12-3140 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Katie Dalebout - Journaling to Find Her Authentic Self (interview)At 21, Katie was a mess. She had been struggling with a severe eating disorder throughout college. She entered an outpatient treatment program to find a way out of the craziness. She connected with a mentor who helped her see what was going on - Katie wasn’t able to feel her feelings, and the disordered eating was her way to avoid her looking at them. Her mentor recommended Katie sit on a meditation cushion and feel her feelings. But Katie just couldn’t do it. She couldn’t sit still. She couldn’t quiet her mind.

2014-12-2443 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Andy Hayes - Finding His Life’s Work with Daily Practices (interview)On one hand, Andy’s life looked great. He had a great job abroad developing software. But after two acquisitions, the work environment turned toxic and he knew he had to get out. He started journaling, and connected with a new vision for his life. He knew he wanted to work at home and spend time writing, but he couldn’t connect to what his core message was. About a year after he left his job, his mom died of cancer. Andy reflected on her life and death, and found the message he most wanted to share...

2014-12-1744 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Cate Stillman - Ayurvedic Habits and Practices (interview)Cate had been working in global change politics in Washington, D.C. She was called to study natural healing to help people become more awake to their bodies and their ecosystems so they could make better decisions for their own health and the health of the planet. She connected most with yoga and Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science of health and healing. She went through an intense period of studying both, learning a very traditional approach. These practices revolutionized her connection to herself and the world around her. While she started out foll...

2014-12-1041 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Catarina Andrade - Practicing Laughter Yoga (interview)Catarina had been practicing Kundalini yoga and loving it. It helped her feel more grounded and calm. But she noticed that it wasn’t helping her feel more energized or joyful. And while she liked doing the meditation at the end of the Kundalini yoga class, she found it wasn’t something she liked doing on her own. She learned about laughter yoga while Googling for information on kids’ yoga. She had been facing some challenging times in the her life, and she was so intrigued with the idea of just laughing that that she signed up f...

2014-12-0332 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Catherine Just - Practicing with Her Son (interview)Catherine Just wanted to be a stay at home mom for her son Max’’s first three years of life. She knew she couldn’t get those years back, and she wanted to be as present as possible. And like most stay at home moms, she cherished naptime, her one chance to spend time alone and get some other things done. Max didn’t always want to nap, though. Catherine would try to rock him to sleep, and some days, he would just look at her and laugh. One day, she decided to do...

2014-11-2632 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Bridget Finklaire - Practice During a Life Transition (interview)Bridget had a regular daily practice for years. With her professional background in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and energy healing as well as her devotion to her own spiritual path, she experimented with a wide variety of spiritual practices. She struggled with the effects of an acrimonious divorce and adrenal fatigue. Then one day, she got an intuitive hit that she needed to go to Cape Town. At first, she thought is was just for a holiday, but as she got closer, she realized she was supposed to move there. She got rid of most of her belon...

2014-11-191h 01

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Shane Michaels - Finding Peace After Military Service (interview)In 2004, Shane joined in the infantry in the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Bravo Company. During the four years he served, he faced many challenging missions, including recovering bodies after Hurricane Katrina, evacuating 10,000 Americans out of Lebanon, and training Iraqi police and Army personnel. Months after his honorable discharge, he was coughing up blood and was rushed to the emergency room. He was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism and told that he would have to be on blood thinners for the rest of his life. He had gone from being strong and healthy to feeling weak and...

2014-11-1223 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Andrew B. Watt - Blogging about His Daily Practices (interview)Andrew learned tai chi fifteen years ago. He learned the whole form thoroughly, but he was busy with his life as a teacher, and he practiced haphazardly for more than a decade. He also started his own website in 1994, blogging on a wide variety of topics that inspired him. When he committed to practicing 100 days of Tai Chi in 2006, it only seemed natural to blog every day about his experience. He did a few 100 days cycles, blogging the whole time. Then, three years ago, Andrew saw some of his old blog posts...

2014-11-0548 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Tara Leaver - Creativity Rooted in Tai Chi (interview)Tara had lived in London her whole life. After one especially bad year (a big break-up, depression, and overworking to distract herself from what was happening), she decided to move to the coast and start again. She had always been interested in healing and alternative therapies. She found a teacher in her new city who taught her tai chi and she began to practice regularly. It was slow going. She didn’t see results right away, but gradually she began to feel better. The depression went away and she felt calmer and more patient. ...

2014-10-2929 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Amy Scott - 100 Happy Days and Beyond (interview)Amy had been seeing various gratitude practices and challenges going around social media. When a friend started the 100 Happy Days Challenge (take a photo of something that made you happy for 100 days), she was intrigued. She went to the website, and decided to do it. It felt doable to her. She was already taking and posting photos every day, and her schedule looked very stable for the next 100 days, so she dove in. She found that the challenge really did shift her viewpoint from what she didn’t like in a situatio...

2014-10-2229 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Laurie Hawley - Reconnecting Through Nature (interview)Laurie went through a series of losses. She withdrew from the world, isolating herself more and more. She continued to study with many different teachers, but she became more reclusive and isolated. She eventually saw how disconnected she was, from the world around her and from herself. She drew all on she had studied, and created a morning mindfulness practice. The core of the practice was going outside every day to the same spot and sitting there for at least 20 minutes. But sitting for at least 20 minutes was not Laurie’s problem...

2014-10-1547 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Ana Goncalves - Morning Renewal Meditation (practice)Ana Goncalves shares a morning renewal meditation. It will help you connect with who you are, so that you can feel lighter and brighter and believe that everything is going to work out wonderfully in your day.

2014-10-0809 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Ana Goncalves - The Healing Practice of Gratitude (interview)Ana was severely depressed as a teenager. She didn’t believe anyone loved her and that people were just out to get each other. She felt disconnected and unfulfilled. She found herself writing lists of what she was grateful for. She focused on what she was grateful for in herself, really allowing herself to savor her own positive qualities she would normally overlook. And as she wrote, it felt like a huge load dropped away from her. She felt deep love and connection. The world took on a different meaning, and she realiz...

2014-10-0836 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Peggy Freeh - 6 Insights from the First 24 InterviewsPeggy started Simple Daily Practice Radio as a way to talk about daily practice by having people share their stories of their own daily practices. After 24 interviews, she wanted to share 6 insights she’s received from these interviews. Here is an overview of the 6 insights. For more details for each insight, listen to the podcast. Peggy also gives uses specfiic examples from the 24 interviews to illustrate her points. You can also listen to the original interviews for even more details. Insight #1 - Follow Your Inspiration Insight #2 - Start Smal...

2014-10-0110 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Heather Rampolla - Body Love Guided Meditation (practice)Heather Rampolla leads a guided body love meditation for women you can use every day.

2014-09-2414 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Heather Rampolla - Supporting Health with Daily Practice (interview)Heather Rampolla’s career was taking off. She was climbing the corporate ladder, getting promotion after promotion, working all the time. She got married and became a stepmom to two teenage stepdaughters. And with all this, she was living on coffee and junk food. One night, she fainted when she got up to go to the bathroom. She ended up going to the ER and found out that she was severely dehydrated. That was her wake up call. She started to question how what she was eating was affecting her health and how she was feeling e...

2014-09-2435 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Heather Chauvin - Take Back Control for Mothers (practice)Heather Chauvin shares how meditation can be so vital for mothers, and then leads a guided meditation on the breath to help mothers feel more grounded and in control.

2014-09-1711 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Heather Chauvin - Two Deep Dives Into Daily Practice (interview)Many people start their daily practice when faced with a personal crisis. Heather Chauvin’s son was struggling, and even though she was a trained mental health professional, none of the traditional approaches helped. One day at a bookstore, she saw a book on teaching children to meditate. She bought the book, and started using the techniques with her son. The meditations helped him, but even more, Heather found she needed meditation and it became a daily practice for her. A few years later, Heather had another crisis - a Stage 4 lymph...

2014-09-1739 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Alexia Leachman - Finding Her Breakthrough Practices (interview)When Alexia was 30, her mother suddenly died of cancer, and her life spun out of control. She had focused her own life choices around what was best for her mother, and with her mother gone, she lost her center. She fell down a dark hole and had no idea how to get out. She tried many different practices, looking for the ones that were most effective for her. Some helped a little. Others were major turning points for her. She didn’t have any plan or guidance. She followed her intuition and just kept trying differen...

2014-09-1046 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Claire Hayes - The Healing Space of EFT (interview)Claire's daughter has been a sweet, loving girl, but the combination of hormones, autism and changes in her epilepsy had made her difficult live with, even dangerous. Claire was at the end of her rope, not even sure if she wanted to live. She knew something had to change, but she didn’t know what. A woman in her community was teaching a class on EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping. Claire was a trained shiatsu practitioner, and honestly, she thought the idea of bring an issue to mind and tapping on yourself while saying words out...

2014-09-0343 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Melani Marx - CCT™ Energy Session for Daily Practice (practice)Melani Marx leads an Crystalline Conscious Technique (CCT™) practice to help you find the daily practices that are perfect for you right now. To connect with Melani, you can reach her at her website melanimarx.com. For the complete show notes for Melani’s interview and practice, go to simpledailypracticeradio.com.

2014-08-2713 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Melani Marx - Deepening Her Connection to Herself (interview)Melani started writing lists when she was 12. Between being diagnosed with severe scoliosis and entering adolescence, she needed something to feel like she had some control in her life. That’s how her daily practice began. She gradually shifted from lists to journaling. She would take time for lots of physical movement - swimming, skiing, riding horses. When she had to wear a cast for a year after surgery, she added singing and playing the guitar to help her express all the feelings she was going through. When she became a single...

2014-08-2744 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Kendra Kantor - Ideas and Inspiration for Art Journaling (practice) Kendra shares some basic instructions to start an art journaling practice. She also walks you through some examples of her own art journal entries, and her process of working with different ideas, images and emotions in her work.

2014-08-2011 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Kendra Kantor - Art Journaling for Her Wellness (interview)Kendra struggled with depression and anxiety for as long as she could remember. A high school art teacher assigned a weekly art journal as part of her class work. Kendra wasn’t thrilled with the process. She didn’t like using other people’s journaling prompts and she felt inhibited knowing she was creating the journal for a grade. She moved a thousand miles away from home for college, and her struggles got worse. She turned to art journaling again, this time on her own to make sense of what she was experiencing. She ultimately decided to l...

2014-08-2036 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Anne Hayman - Grounding and Balancing the Root Chakra (practice) Anne leads a short practice to ground and balance your first chakra. Once you learn the practice, you can use it anytime you feel scattered, anxious or unsure.

2014-08-1302 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Anne Hayman - Creating a Spiritual Retreat (interview)Anne has a strong personal daily practice. She’s been experimenting with different practices since she was a teenager, often without even knowing that was she was doing one. Today, she blends together many practices throughout her day, feeling into what she needs in the moment and then choosing a practice to best support herself in the moment. But there are times when she wants to go deeper, to take more time and space to reflect, get quiet, and dive deeper than she can during her day-to-day life. Then she creates a spiritual retreat for hersel...

2014-08-1340 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Everett Young - Breaking Down a Guitar Practice (practice) Everett Young records how he does his daily guitar practice - how he breaks it down and what he focuses on. While he knows he wants to improve, he explains how to focus in the moment and find a calm, meditative state while practicing.

2014-08-0615 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Everett Young - Guitar as a Daily Practice (interview)Everett had always wanted to be a professional guitarist. He played the piano professionally, and recorded an album, but there was always the dream of being a guitartist. His musical career as a pianist stalled out and at the age of 31, he decided to get a Ph.D in political psychology and become a college professor. The guitar dream never quite went away. He got his Ph.D., and set out on his academic career. Four years ago at the age of 41, he took a temporary teaching position away from his family. With the extra time he...

2014-08-061h 06

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Jesse Gros - Travel as an Intentional Practice (interview)Jesse decided to travel the world for a year. He wanted freedom and adventure and to get out of his own little world. Unexpectedly, after a few months, he got bored. It wasn’t that beautiful fantasy of traveling the world and finding himself. Instead, he was listless and unfocused. At first, he found some other travelers who were listless and bored, too. They drank beers together and got to be right about how travelling the world wasn’t so great after all. That was fun for about a day. Then Jesse realized that if he stayed wi...

2014-07-3047 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Jen Trulson - A Guided Practice to Come Home to Yourself (practice)Jen Trulson shares a guided meditation practice to help you connect with the feelings you want to have from doing a daily practice. She then guides you through her own process of working with her feelings every day.

2014-07-2314 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Jen Trulson - Focused on Feeling (interview)Jen started her daily practice by looking at her thoughts every day. That was interesting for awhile. Then she learned another practice that focused more on noticing what she was feeling and then choosing how she wanted to feel instead. This sparked something in her. She began to focus first on her feelings, and she found it was a more powerful experience for her. But her practice didn’t stop there. After awhile, she realized it was still very mind oriented. She took a mind/body coach training program that emphasized connecting to the actual sensation...

2014-07-2347 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Sharon Alexander - Yoga Nidra to Connect to Your Heart’s Desire (practice) Sharon Alexander leads a 30 minute yoga nidra practice to connect you to your heart’s desire. It is a deep practice with no movement to help you withdraw your senses from the external world and focus on your inner experience. Please set aside 30 minutes where you will not be disturbed to do this practice.

2014-07-1631 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Sharon Alexander - The Evolution of a Yoga Practice (interview)In 1990, Sharon and a friend decided to take a yoga class at the local recreation center. Sharon was always very physical (skiing, running, biking), and yoga was another interesting physical challenge to explore. She ended up finding so much more than a physical practice. She studied Anusara yoga when she wanted to explore a more feminine path. She studied yoga therapy when she was called to work one-on-one with people to support them in finding and using the yoga practices that were best for them.. As she continued to evolve, so did her...

2014-07-1646 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Stevie Puckett - See The Difference Between Calm Mind and Mental Chatter (practice)Stevie Puckett leads a mini-meditation to help you see, feel and know the difference between your calm, intuitive mind and your mental chatter.

2014-07-0901 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Stevie Puckett - A Continuous Practice of Intuition (interview)Stevie was already kind of doing it her whole life. She would get some unexpected insight and share it. Lo and behold, it would be right. She wasn’t trying to connect to her intuition - it just came naturally. Over time, she noticed another part of herself - the one that liked to analyze things and solve problems. It said it was sensible, rational and important (at least in its own opinion). But Stevie noticed when she was connected to that part, she didn’t really feel her best. She felt pessimistic, worried, and anxious. S...

2014-07-0938 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Megan Potter - The Beauty of a Dynamic Morning Practice (interview)Ten years ago, Megan Potter created her own daily morning practice in a very simple way - making a cup of tea, sitting in her favorite chair and watching the birds outside her window. She was never good at doing the same thing every day, and she used that to her advantage to create a customized morning practice for herself. While she has settled on a few elements to help her enter into her practice time (like lighting incense and candles), her practice changes every day depending on how she’s feeling and what she’s needi...

2014-07-0237 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Kamali Minter - Practice on the Tantric Path (interview)Kamali was having a hard time connecting with her partner in bed. She wasn’t getting the intimacy, connection and depth she wanted, and she wasn’t able to find a way through it. She heard a tantra teacher speak about how tantra embraces everything, including sexuality, and something unlocked in Kamali - she knew this was something she wanted to pursue. She started with a home study course, learning the tantric meditations and practicing them at home on her own. She started feeling the changes in her body and she knew she wanted more. She and her part...

2014-06-2535 min

She Podcasts 002 Why She Podcasts Show 002 Quick-Guide Who is SHE who podcasts? :35 Why Jessica podcasts 1:11 Why Elsie podcasts 2:49 And then the phone rang LOUDLY (keeping it real yo) 3:35 Why Cleo podcasts 5:59 Jessica leaves in the middle of the episode!!!! 6:15 Why she left the episode and why’s she’s back 7:00 Why Fabiola podcasts 7:45 Why Megan podcasts 8:35 Why Stacey podcasts 9:35 Why Shawna podcasts 10:45 Why Sandy podcasts 11:53 Why @NowhereChrissy podcasts 13:20 - when it became an explicit episode Why @enesvy podcasts 13:37 14:00 Why Kristy podcasts 15:13 Why Reba podcasts 16:09 Why Shelia podcasts 17:01 The Podcast Movement 18:07 Links for the women in podcasting mentioned! Cleo from @talktocleo Fabiola Christensen or ‏@hejfabi...

2014-06-2023 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Natanya Lara - Light Meditation (practice)Natanya Lara shares a guided visualization, helpful for times when adults or children feel overwhelmed or scattered to help release their excess energy and find a place of calm and center.

2014-06-1808 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Natanya Lara - Living Parenting as a Spiritual Practice (interview)Like most people, Natanya found being a parent challenging. While she had wonderful intentions for how she wanted to parent her two sons, she would find herself triggered and not able to hold to those intentions. Add in a major crisis in her marriage, and she wasn’t able to be the present, calm, confident parent that she wanted to be. She started unintentionally adding simple practices to her day. She took a course in metta (lovingkindness) meditation. A friend taught her a short yoga routine she could fit into spare moments of the day. When the days se...

2014-06-1829 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Michelle Greenman - Life Inventory (practice)Michelle Greenman shares a practice to help you identify your one most pressing priority so you can create your daily “get it done” list. Be sure to get a copy of her Life Inventory handout at simpledailypracticeradio.com.

2014-06-1106 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Michelle Greenman - The Power of Deciding and Doing Every Day (interview)It all started with one decision - “I don’t want this anymore. I won’t let this happen anymore.” Michelle was a freshman at university. She kept all sorts of odd hours, hardly ever went out in the sunlight and didn’t eat well. She had a hard time even getting out of bed every day. She was seriously depressed. But once she made that decision, things started to change. She decided to create a list every day of the things she was going to get done, no matter what. Her first list - “wake up and brush my t...

2014-06-1144 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Cara Gubbins - Grounding and Centering (practice)Cara Gubbins shares a short grounding and centering practice, perfect to use in the morning, evening or anytime you want to come into the present moment.

2014-06-0402 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Cara Gubbins - Finding Her Ground (interview)When Cara started her Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology, she started a formal daily practice to take care of herself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It started with small things, like taking a vitamin and going for a walk. Each month, she would evaluate her practices and decide what to keep and what to change. Of all the practices she did, the one that she recommends to everyone is grounding. She does it herself twice a day and whenever she realizes she needs it. She starts new clients with grounding. She uses it with her children every night be...

2014-06-0434 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Laurie Foley - A Practice to Find God (interview)In June 2013, Laurie Foley was 11 months into her journey with ovarian cancer. She thought she would have been done with the treatment by then. She was bored and frustrated with the chemo and surgeries and found that her faith had been challenged by her whole experience. She describes it as being on a canoe trip and being in the middle of a long, flat lake - nothing to do but to keep paddling with no sense of being carried and no end in sight. She wanted to know, "Where was God in all this? Where was God on this long...

2014-05-2839 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Elena Lipson - Practicing Divine Self-Care (interview)Elena has done different daily practices since she was a teen, including exercise, yoga, inspirational ready and eating well. Even with that basis in place, things shifted when she become a mother. There was this new person to focus her energy on, and she wasn't clear how to show up as this new version of herself and care for herself and her child at the same time. She had already been coaching for many years, and was drawn to yoga to help her find her balance. She started a yoga teacher training. At first, she started with just...

2014-05-2117 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Hailey Terrell - Practicing to Get Her Life Back (interview)Two years ago, at the age of 35, Hailey had a stroke. She was in the hospital for five weeks, and when she was released, she had no idea how much of her former abilities she would be able to recover. She was sleeping 15 hours a day, and could barely walk without feeling exhausted. She gradually developed her own daily practices to support her recovery. She did physical practices to increase her stamina and support the healing of her brain. She did meditative practices to support her emotional and spiritual well-being. While her practices ultimately grew to two hour...

2014-05-1333 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Lisa Melli Gillespie - Opening to YES! (interview)Lisa was reading a magazine one day. The editors asked a simple question: "What was your most unusual goal?" One answer in particular stuck Lisa - have a 101 new experiences in 1001 days. Something about that just hit her. She had a busy family life and a career in transition. But this - this sounded like something fun, a lark, a "why not do it?" Lisa started her goal on January 1, 2010. It started simply. She was out taking a hike with her family, and they saw someone juggling tangerines. Lisa said, "That looks interesting." The man said, "Do you want t...

2014-05-0723 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Elsie Escobar - The Practices of a Mama, a Yogini and a Modern Digital Jedi (interview)Elsie is a full time mother of two girls. She is also working to bring her big work into the world: helping people integrate holistic living and technology. She has been providing free yoga classes through her podcast Elsie's Yoga Class since 2006, and she is a co-host of a podcast about podcasting, The Feed. So, how does she have time for a daily practice? Elsie shares the first practice she started with, even with two little girls to care for, and why it's so important. She also shares the other practices she's added into her routine...

2014-04-2928 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Kirk Bowers - Practicing Personal Breakthroughs (interview)Kirk read the book Talent is Overrated last year, and it changed his life. He had always believed that he was naturally good at some things (puzzles, problem solving) and not very good at some other things (piano, golf). What he read changed his perspective forever. Getting better at an activity depends on practicing in a certain deliberate way, not on your initial abilities. Kirk set out to test this idea. He had been practicing piano, always on the verge of quitting, expecting to never make much progress. He worked with his piano teacher to break down his pra...

2014-04-2831 min

Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh Marie Dotts - Learning to Flow from Center (interview)Starting as a teenager, Marie has been on a lifelong journey to answer the questions, "Who and what am I really?" and "How do I flow from that truer center within myself?" In this interview, she shares how that process has unfolded for her over the years, and how her two current practices support her in her ever deepening journey.

2014-04-2727 min