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Be. Play. Love.
FACT: The Framework That Turns Fear Into Freedom
Fear isn’t just a fleeting feeling that visits quietly. It hijacks your nervous system, clouds your judgment, and makes even the smallest decisions feel paralyzing. It’s a fog that clouds your decisions, disconnects you from your body, and shuts down your creativity and sense of possibility. Triggered by something unexpected, challenging, or painful, fear can make us feel stuck, but there is a way out. There’s a surprisingly simple but profoundly transformational framework we can use to regain clarity, agency, and aliveness, even in moments of deep uncertainty. FACT i...
2025-07-22
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
Your Body Knows the Family Secret, Use These Tools to Uncover It w/ Christina Trifero
What if the aches in your body aren’t entirely yours? The shoulder pain, the gut tension, or the sense of incompletion might not just be physical. It could be the echo of a secret held for decades, maybe even generations? Because here’s the thing: families hold secrets, but those secrets have a way of leaking out or leaving breadcrumbs. And if you’re connected to your intuition, you can sense that there’s something that’s not being said. Most of us were taught to look forward, to toughen up, to leave the past behin...
2025-07-15
51 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Making of Katie Hendricks: A Life Built on Curiosity and Embodied Wisdom
We all have secrets, painful experiences, and even childhood challenges that affect us to this day. What if keeping them is what’s keeping us unwell? Our culture teaches us to bottle in our truth, mask our emotions, and manage our image. But the body keeps score, and over time, that suppression turns into stress, disconnection, and even illness. What if healing is about processing these things through our bodies? That’s the lens Katie brings, not just as a psychologist or embodiment teacher, but as someone who’s lived it. Katie grew up in...
2025-07-08
44 min
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The Performer’s Gift: How to Awaken the Creativity in Others w/ Jennifer Blaine
Most people don’t think of themselves as creative. We say, “I’m not artistic,” or “I can’t perform,” and leave it at that. But the truth is, creativity isn’t reserved for the select few. It lives in everyone. It’s baked into how we think, feel, dream, and respond to the world. The problem is that most of us were taught to shut it down. We were told to color inside the lines, follow the rules, and keep things appropriate. Over time, we stopped expressing the weird, wonderful parts of ourselves...
2025-07-01
45 min
Be. Play. Love.
Your Creativity Isn't Dead...Here's How to Revive It w/ Laurie Shiers
In a world that worships productivity, we’ve traded our inner spark for efficiency and completely lost the creativity that’s vital to flow. For many of us, this disconnection with our creativity goes back to childhood. This is where we were taught not to be weird. Where we were trained to do things in one specific way, and forced to correct ourselves when we didn’t. For years, we’ve heard negative things that have shaped how we feel about our creativity, so no wonder we’ve suppressed it. But without play, coloring o...
2025-06-24
46 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Release the Old to Make Room for What’s Next
You’re standing in front of a mess…clothes, memories, identities…scattered on the floor. A rod gives out, a shelf falls, or maybe your inner structure does. It looks like chaos, but it might just be intuition telling you: it’s time to release the weight, it’s time to let go. Whether it’s a closet full of old identities, a childhood belief you’ve outgrown, or a lingering fear that you’re still “too much,” life finds ways to show us what no longer fits. But what if that collapse isn’t a failure but...
2025-06-17
41 min
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From Interruption to Inner Flow: How to Use Play As a Path to Wholeness w/ Alana Shaw
Creativity isn’t just a skill, it’s a lifeline in a play-deprived society. When young people feel unseen, unheard, and unwelcome, they shut down. Their development gets interrupted. Their story gets cut short. But give them the joy of movement, and a place to express their creativity, and something transformational happens. They come alive. Not because someone told them what to say or how to be, but because someone finally asked: Who are you? And what’s inside you, waiting to be expressed? In this episode, we explore what happens when w...
2025-06-10
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
Embodied Power: How to Stop Running From Your Emotions w/ Julie Colwell
The power-over / power-under / power-with dynamic isn’t just something we have with other people, it often resides inside us. When we override our emotions, suppress our sensations, and try to outmaneuver our discomfort, we manifest that dynamic. We see it when we push past our sadness, armor over vulnerability, or try to exert power in ways that are loud and forceful instead of connected and quiet. Maybe it’s thinking we need to toughen up and act like a badass in reaction to our sadness. That’s what we think being powerful l...
2025-06-03
41 min
Be. Play. Love.
When Love & Beliefs Collide: Repairing or Releasing a Friendship
Here’s an uncomfortable or even painful experience many people are having right now. Losing a friendship over differing political views or fundamental values. It hurts…but what if it’s also a window into something deeper? In today’s cultural climate, the divide between people often goes far beyond a simple disagreement or differing opinions. It can reveal a far deeper truth: when values clash, friendships can break. But what does that rupture reveal about how we relate, how we build trust, and how we stay open in moments that hurt? Most...
2025-05-27
40 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Fear-Driven Urge to Fix and How to Get Past It
Sometimes, the danger isn’t real, but our bodies still act like it is. You’re stuck in traffic, someone you love is upset, or a friend doesn’t text back, and suddenly, you’re spiraling. Your heart races, your thoughts scramble, and before you know it, you’re either fixing, fleeing, or shutting down. What’s happening? In a world that constantly pushes us to stay in control, we forget how to stay connected, to ourselves, to others, and to the moment. But our bodies remember. They hold wisdom, intuition, and the capacit...
2025-05-20
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
Psychedelic Presence: How to Heal the Places Words Can’t Reach
There are many ways we try to heal. Therapy, meditation, breathwork, movement, and mindset work - just to name a few. These paths are powerful, transformative, and often life-changing. But sometimes, despite all the tools and effort, there are places within us that remain untouched, places our intellect can’t quite reach. We’re exploring one such threshold, where healing stops being something we do and becomes something that happens to us at a cellular level. Where transformation drops from the head into the body through the quiet, mystical intelligence of mushrooms. Journeying with a...
2025-05-13
32 min
Be. Play. Love.
From Defensiveness to Discovery: How to Stop Assuming the Worst
We all do it. When there’s silence, ambiguity, or the absence of clear feedback, we fill in the blanks with stories. But here’s the problem: our minds don’t reach for generous interpretations. They default to criticism, fear, and doubt. Whether it’s giving a talk, navigating a friendship, or reflecting on ourselves, we often assume the worst, even when reality is far more kind. Evolutionary survival instincts, societal conditioning, and inner critics keep us stuck in fear-based thinking. What if there was a powerful alternative (spoiler alert, there is!) - reconnecting to the prese...
2025-05-06
28 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Reclaim Creativity in a World Obsessed with Productivity
In our world, productivity and creativity occupy two different buckets. The former is functional, necessary, and purposeful. The latter is frivolous, chaotic, and irresponsible. It should be put on the back burner so that we can focus on “more important things.” As a result, creative expression ends up as an afterthought, something we can only do after the real work is done. The problem is: so many of us end up feeling disconnected from our creativity, cut off from a vital resource for resonance. What if instead of putting off creativity for l...
2025-04-29
33 min
Be. Play. Love.
Working on Something New? Don’t Bottle Fear In, Blurt It Out w/ Naz Perez
Something most people underestimate about having a big vision is the process of bringing other people on board. Whether it’s an investment partner or a strategic collaborator, we’re required to communicate what we see, open ourselves up to their opinions, and invite them to join us on a journey to an uncharted territory. It’s a vulnerable place, so of course, old fears, old stories, and upper limits will come up. How do we get them to trust us and see what we see? How do we silence those old stories from past...
2025-04-22
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
Play-Powered Living: What It Looks Like and How to Get There w/ Rabbi Jessica K. Marshall
An aligned life filled with presence, playfulness, freedom and growth expresses itself in many ways. It shows up in our choices (and how we make them), our relationships, our words and how we live. In short, it’s highlighted in our ability to Be, Play, and Love. Most people miss the fact that the process of finding one's own alignment is an inner game. It has little to do with what’s happening outside of us, and rarely stems from finding the right routine, ritual, or life hack. It’s continuously dropping into our he...
2025-04-15
43 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Politeness Problem: How to Stop Withholding Your Truth
In the name of politeness, we often sugarcoat or dilute the truth, twisting it into something softer that we think the other person would rather hear. Instead of saying what we truly mean, we go out of our way to smooth over situations in hopes they’ll land better. Here’s the issue: when we start holding back our real feelings, we disconnect from ourselves and others. We step out of alignment with our inner wisdom. Though society teaches us that maintaining peace is more important than being honest, human beings are meant to express thems...
2025-04-08
32 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Make Up Your Mind By Listening to Your Body
One of the biggest barriers to us getting the things we really, really want are the mixed messages we send to ourselves. We want it, then we’re not sure we do. We want it again and then we don’t think it will work out. We definitely want it, but then we can’t do it because it’s risky. When we want to go in a certain direction, we won’t reach our desired destination this way. Instead, we need to be fully committed and completely in alignment - not shaky or wishy washy. The misse...
2025-04-01
32 min
Be. Play. Love.
Aging Playfully: How to Make Peace With Uncomfortable Experiences w/ Dr. Susan Campbell
If there’s anything our culture likes to collectively ignore, resist and hide, it's aging. And yet, aging happens to every single one of us - whether it’s aging parents, aging partners or aging selves, we all have an experience with it. With age comes the opportunity for nourishment and deeper learning, but aging also comes with some unpleasant emotions and experiences. Cognitive and physical decline and even loss are all parts of the process of getting older. How do we learn to treat these things as a learning adventure? How do we deal with l...
2025-03-25
45 min
Be. Play. Love.
From ‘Yeah, But’ to ‘Yes, And’: How to Embrace Life’s Flow with Wonder
In improv and in life, “yes, and..” are two words that allow us to receive what’s coming at us, integrate it and add to it in our own way. “Yes, and” has its own flipside which completely kills all play, wonder and joy, and it’s known as “yeah, but”. When people say “yeah but” when something happens, it makes them protect, contract and move away, instead of coming forward and connecting. Here’s the thing: life will always unfold in a spontaneous way and we can’t control what comes up. Adopting a “yes, and..”...
2025-03-18
28 min
Be. Play. Love.
Expand and Integrate: How to Successfully Navigate the Unknown
Anytime we head into the unknown and want to break past a limit, a question arises inside of us, “is it safe for me to be this big out in the world?” That’s because if we want something bigger, our ceiling has to rise to encompass that thing and that can be scary. Sometimes we’ll expand into that bigger thing but then shrink back into our familiar shells. If we don’t make our presence bigger than our fear, this process will keep repeating itself. What if, instead of expanding and contractin...
2025-03-11
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
From Pitchforks to Peace: How to Lead in Highly Polarized Times w/ Betsy Stix
One of the unfortunate truths about our society is that we’re more divided, vitriolic and operating from fear than ever before. When we look at how people interact, there’s no civility and mutual respect anymore. There’s this huge collective tantrum and so much anger in people and it’s completely polarized the culture. This is especially highlighted in the political sphere. From local government to the national stage, there’s more division, more contempt than collaboration, and that was never the original intent. At its very basic level, government is about creatin...
2025-03-04
39 min
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How to Use Melters to Turn Fear Into Flow
What’s the cure for fear? Fearlessness? Avoidance? Rationalization? The answer is…none of the above. Fear is something we all experience, and even though it dresses itself up as different things (anger, diminishing or attacking ourselves), the same thing happens. When we’re afraid, we make an enemy of everyone - even ourselves. We become internally gridlocked so we can’t problem-solve. We fall into whatever reactive pattern we learned early on to cope with our fears. Thankfully, there is a better remedy which we all possess. The only true solution for fear is presence...
2025-02-25
35 min
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Detoxification Before Optimization: How to Heal an Inflamed Body w/ Meghan Swidler
When it comes to transforming and healing our bodies, our culture is heavily fixated on quick fix inputs. Food, supplements, gummies, trading your coffee for that trendy new herbal tea, eating more protein, trying the latest sugar alternative…the works. People do just about everything to improve their health via what they put into their bodies, and it doesn’t work. Why? Because they don’t take the time to examine the environment they’re putting those things into. If your internal terrain is broken, clogged up, inflamed, contaminated and compromised, no amount of optimization or miracle...
2025-02-18
38 min
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How to See Infinite Possibilities Instead of Limited Options
“I had no choice”, “this is how it has to be”, and “it is what it is” - for some people these aren’t just statements, these are the basis of their entire reality. Rather than seeing themselves as architects with a wealth of choices to shape their lives, they feel resigned to the idea that things are fixed just as they are. No alternatives and no changes. This way of thinking goes back to the same place: the old stories we run in our minds become the cages that limit our own lives. It’s like we’re sittin...
2025-02-11
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
A Symphony Within: The Dance Between Energy, Mass, and Space w/ Gay Hendricks
Are we mass, energy or space? That’s the question many have pondered time and time again. The answer: we’re all 3 at the same time. We are not just bodies of mass, though we feel the weight of our flesh, the solidity of our bones. Beneath this, there is a huge symphonic panorama inside of us, and when we tap into it, we can experience true healing and freedom. Often we focus on the mass aspect of existence, but the energetic aspect has a lot more power. The ever-shifting flow of energy that rises and fa...
2025-02-04
33 min
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Willingness, Not Willpower: The Secret to Generating Endless Energy
The energy of connection knows no limitations. It has the ability to shift us from tired to fully engaged in seconds. It creates a magical space of discovery and joy where there was none. It also creates aliveness, and a limitless resource of energy that regenerates constantly. How do we find this energy for ourselves and tap into it? Accessing the energy of connection starts with a willingness, not a will. When we will ourselves to do something we’re forcing the energy, and that won’t create connection or engagement. Willingness, on the other hand...
2025-01-28
33 min
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The Age of Aquarius: A Collective Cosmic Shift Toward Unyielding Love w/ Danny Santos
As we shift from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, we are living through one of the most significant transitions in our lifetime - a collective rebirth that will define the next 20 years and beyond. This is a time of cosmic realignment, where the old structures of power, control, and perfectionism are being dismantled. On a collective level, we’re being called to yield to love in all its dimensions. The energy sweeping the world is one of devotion, forgiveness, surrender, redemption and the ending of cycles. This is the astrological weather, an...
2025-01-21
54 min
Be. Play. Love.
When Yes Becomes No: How to Back Out of An Agreement
Have you ever said yes to so many things and then realize you’ve overcommitted and now have way too much on your plate? Or maybe you agreed to something and then your circumstances changed and you just don’t have the bandwidth for it anymore? Or perhaps an initial ‘yes’ is now slowly morphing into a ‘no’ now that you have more info… Noticing and voicing a change in agreement is something a lot of people struggle with - something we really have to practice to maintain and increase our aliveness. We might fe...
2025-01-14
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
From Dysfunction to Delight: How to Remap Your Relationship Template
You meet someone, start a relationship thinking “this is something new”...and then it turns out to be the same old pattern repeating itself. What gives? Everyone seeks relationships that nourish them - we want to be with people who love us, see us, make us feel safe, and to be regarded with value and appreciation. But so many of us keep finding ourselves in dysfunctional relationships and end up picking the same type of people over and over again. How do we break this cycle and learn to pick the right people for us? How...
2025-01-07
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Upper Limit: How to Embrace Success Without Apology
Being told “don't be too much”, “don’t be full of yourself”, or “how dare you earn great money doing what you love?” Only looking for what’s wrong in your appearance. Feeling strange and squirmy when we get a compliment. Diminishing the accomplishments we should happily celebrate or even apologizing when we do something well. Achieving something amazing and then sabotaging yourself right after. These are all manifestations of The Upper Limit Problem, and in many ways, it’s the biggest problem almost all people face. At the heart of this issue is our inability to hold more positive...
2024-12-30
49 min
Be. Play. Love.
A Season of Wisdom and Wonder: Unwrapping Inspiration from Our Favorite People
In this wonderful, essence-filled space we’ve created with this podcast, we’ve been joined by some of our favorite people to Be, Play and Love with us! Our guests gave us the gift of their presence and we’re so excited to share that with you as a present of our own this festive season. It has been so delightful to share this space with you and our visitors, and experience first-hand, the powerful wisdom and insights that emerged. An actress brimming with creativity. Business leaders who are choosing to play at work. An author...
2024-12-23
1h 06
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How to Engage in the Holidays Without Abandoning Yourself
Holidays and family gatherings are the ultimate test of our ability to be with ourselves, and how well we’ve healed from our personal difficulties. When people come together, it triggers all sorts of challenges - unspoken tensions and tribal rules, old behavioral patterns, and people acting out because they can’t express their own wants. In these environments, it’s really easy to get outside of ourselves and get swept up by the drama of the dynamic, and stay there until it depletes us…but it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s a way for...
2024-12-17
37 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No
The word “no” is two simple letters, but it’s one of the hardest things to say, especially for women. We’re taught to always be agreeable, accommodating and automatically say yes to anything we’re asked to do. That’s why people can go their whole lives without actually knowing how to say ‘no’. So our default answer is “oh sure” or “yes, of course” even if it’s to our own detriment. Our place of ‘no’ is already inside us, we just have to find it and vocalize it in order to release our genuine power. It might fe...
2024-12-10
32 min
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How to Balance Deep Inquiry with Present-Moment Joy w/ Rahul Deedwania
Many of us live our lives at an interesting intersection. There’s the structure of life and things that need to get done, and the curiosity, inquiry and pondering of the meaning of everything. We’re constantly asking questions from a place of deep introspection. It’s the way we are, and perhaps the way we’ve always been. We just can’t help but immerse ourselves in every aspect of the richness of lived experience. We’re constantly balancing what’s coming through us and what’s coming at us from the rest of the world.
2024-12-03
45 min
Be. Play. Love.
You’re Not too Old For Play: How to Enrich Your Life With Creativity
When we’re young, we’re encouraged to play, learn new things and express our creativity in endless ways. As we grow up, we find out that we can’t carry that same energy into adulthood - that society places an expiry date on learning new things. If you’re a grown up, it’s time to be responsible, serious, predictable - there’s no room for play and discovery. Not only is that no fun at all, it also robs us of two things that make life worthwhile - curiosity and creativity. Meeting life with an attitu...
2024-11-26
34 min
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Drops of Love: How to Cure Self-Destruction and Self-Sabotage
The path from self-destruction to self-love isn’t a straight line. Often when we commit to a kinder relationship with ourselves, we falter and self-sabotage and that leads to guilt and shame, which leads to more self-sabotage. But shame will never fuel a real transformation. What if we could interrupt this spiral with something more friendly? What if we could tap into even the tiniest amount of self-love? Most people don’t realize that shame is actually a fuel, and our society conditions us to feed our souls that way, but it doesn’t work...
2024-11-19
32 min
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Compromise is the Enemy of Curiosity: The Best Way to Resolve Conflict
When two or more people find themselves at the crossroads of a fundamental decision, the advice they are often given is to compromise. But compromise doesn’t actually lead to a solution that fulfills everyone. More often than not, it leaves both sides feeling like they got robbed, and it kills the connection necessary to come up with something better. Good news - even in the most seemingly impossible choice, there is an option that honors everyone. Our “either/or” society doesn’t teach us to look for it, so we’re constantly working with limited crea...
2024-11-12
32 min
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How to Let Your Body Lead in a Crisis: The Power of Feeling to Heal
In the event of an emergency ... the body takes notice, but the problem is, people often try to ignore the body or stop it from responding. From panicking and hero-ing to pretending that nothing happened, we tend to come up with ways to avoid the healthiest response of all - feeling. Between a stimulus and a response, there’s this tiny and beautiful opening for us to go with the feeling. When we go with the feeling, it creates expansion, aliveness and a greater capacity to be with big and unexpected things. Ultimately, th...
2024-11-05
30 min
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How to Use (Not Abuse) the Medicine of Attention
Attention is one of the most important aspects of human existence, but also the most misunderstood and misused. When we give attention to ourselves in a nurturing and curious way, it’s a powerful medicine that supports our essence and self-love. When we seek it through external validation it becomes a destructive drug we can never get enough of. So many people get these two things mixed up and find themselves leaning more on the attention they receive for what they do and achieve. Of course attention and affection from people who love us is...
2024-10-29
30 min
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How to Pay Whole Body Attention in the Midst of Mayhem
In order to be, play and love, we have to become very intentional about where we’re placing our attention. Now, we might think attention is something we do from our critical and conscious mind, but true attention comes from our body wisdom. When we give attention to the right things, we get into the flow and that opens up so much aliveness. Even in the most chaotic situations, like a crowded airport during a busy holiday season, we can still create doorways of attention which increase our scope of awareness and our choicefulness. The more...
2024-10-22
30 min
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Grief In the Body: How to Heal Through Body Wisdom w/ Abby Hildebrand
As mothers, we truly get to experience the magic and miracle of the female body as we carry our babies. Growing another human being makes us bring attention to our bodies in a profound way. But at the same time, that beautiful experience gets interrupted in the birthing process, especially when it’s a traumatic one. Because the process of having a baby is governed so heavily by the mechanics and medicine of it, we can lose that connection with our bodies and struggle to reignite it. Perhaps you stop feeling safe in your body. Or you escape into your b...
2024-10-15
36 min
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Take Bites of Kindness: A Loving Way to Overcome Emotional Eating w/ Geneen Roth
For women, one of the biggest battles we fight is with the size of our bodies. Parents, media and society as a whole have conditioned us to believe that our bodies are wrong. Cue the deep-rooted lack of kindness towards ourselves, the spiral of suffering, the fraught relationship with food, and an endless pursuit of physical perfection. Every food choice we make - whether it’s healthy or unhealthy - is run by our relationship with ourselves. Each bite falls into one of two categories. We’re either confirming that we’re not enough or we’re...
2024-10-08
49 min
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The Gut Feeling Is the Way: How to Complete An Arc and Pivot Into the New w/ Jesse Israel
In life, relationships and business, big pivots are preceded by an internal pull towards something new. Your intuition is telling you it’s time to complete a cycle and follow the surge of expansion into the unknown. There’s an inner knowing that it’s time to leap into what’s next. This creates a rollercoaster of emotions - on one hand, you feel the peace and clarity that comes with honoring yourself. On the other hand, you have to deal with the fall out of parting ways with something you’ve been doing. Here’s the thing...
2024-10-01
54 min
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Generosity Is Easy, Receiving Care Is Hard...Here's Why
The whole point of living in true connection with others is the social exchange of giving and receiving love and care. Many of us don’t have any problem with the giving part - we do that freely. But when it comes to being the recipient of that gift? Not so much, and it manifests in many ways. You could be the caregiver struggling to carve out space to care for yourself. Or you’re the friend not sure exactly how to be there for someone in a vulnerable time.
2024-09-24
32 min
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Repair, Recommit and Reinvent: A Better Way to Deal With a Misunderstanding
In our relationships with others, there are going to be wrinkles, miscommunications and misunderstandings. Depending on how they are dealt with, they can make bonds stronger or break them down completely. A small dropped stitch of disconnection doesn't have to disintegrate the entire fabric of a friendship. There is a way to express how we feel without completely breaking down the flow of connection and irreparably rupturing the relationship. In fact, we can use these challenging moments to bring things to the surface, clarify our communication and ultimately move through the me...
2024-09-17
36 min
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How to Access Aliveness, Connection and Synchronicity w/ Alli Schaper
Human beings are on a constant search for synchronicity, connection, and aliveness, but those things are easier to access than we think. Those “oh my gosh, this is so wild” moments are all around us, but we can’t experience them when our own channels are clogged up with emotional debris. For most people, getting tapped into this channel of wonder comes on the back of a radical shift in consciousness often brought on by the notion of our mortality. Being reminded of our own impermanence has a way of waking us up. C...
2024-09-10
45 min
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The Unarguable Truth: How to Experience the Deliciousness of Your Realness
One of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger. In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions. That in turn dampens our spontaneity, disconnects us from our realness, and robs our relationships of the authenticity they need to be strong and fulfilling. It’s impossible to truly BE WITH...
2024-09-03
37 min
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How to Have Essence-Rich Relationships
So much of our existence is being in relationship with others. Partners, parents, children, siblings, friends, colleagues and even competitors on the pickleball court! We’re always dealing with people, and that’s why so many patterns emerge out in the wild when we’re with other humans. Relationships with others can be a source of stress and conflict or an opportunity for connection and shared essence. Before we can even begin to have healthy and nurturing relationships with others, we have to deepen the relationship we have with ourselves. When we’re th...
2024-08-27
50 min
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Reparent Yourself: How to Become Your Own Source of Love and Approval
There’s a reason why it’s so hard to silence or ignore our inner critic. It’s the same reason why we doubt our own experiences and body wisdom. It’s also why we often feel like in order to be lovable we need to do more instead of just being ourselves. Childhood is our most sensitive phase. We’re like sponges soaking up everything around us with no filter. Unfortunately, some of the things the adults did (or didn’t do) become wounds that follow us into adulthood. So many of us grew up pickled in...
2024-08-20
41 min
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6 Amazing Insights That Prove Your Body Is Smarter Than Your Brain
Our culture has taught us to put an emphasis on and trust only in the information we get from our brains. At best, we completely ignore what our bodies have to tell us, and at worst we treat our body and its sensations like the enemy. When we don’t tap into our body’s wisdom, we’re operating without the richest source of information available to us. Our bodies are our friends - they provide a level of wisdom we can’t get from our minds. They tell us what’s giving us life and what’s...
2024-08-06
58 min
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Don't Fight a Transition, Let the New Energy In w/ Gay Hendricks
Most people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger. We’re being given the opportunity for a completion so we can move into a deeper level of harmony with ourselves and others. It’s so easy to fall into the old programmin...
2024-07-30
41 min
Be. Play. Love.
Want to Expand Your Energy? Complete Your Incompletions
For most people, when our brains feel sluggish or clogged up, the first thing we do is reach for the coffee. But there could be an entirely different reason why your creativity and energy are getting all tangled up. From to-do lists that never end, to decisions we’re not making and actions we’re procrastinating on - incompletions are a drain on our energy. In order to open the pathway towards space, choice and freedom, we have to develop the skill of completion. Having incompletions is like ha...
2024-07-23
32 min
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Choose, Practice, Recommit: This Is What It Takes to Have Great Things
We live in an instant gratification culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to just skip to the good part. We’re looking for that button that will magically fix everything wrong with our lives. Well, the truth is, the journey is just as beautiful as the destination we wish to arrive at. We expect great things to just magically appear, but we don’t expect the same for athletes and musicians. Great things take work, commitment, practice and recommitment. Then you have to do it over and...
2024-07-16
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
Shift in the Moment: The Most Powerful Way to Diffuse An Inflamed Interaction
Whether it’s an aggressive interaction at pickleball or a misunderstanding at work, our biggest lessons often come from not-so-pretty moments…if we choose to shift and learn. When we feel attacked by other people, it might feel justified to have a knee-jerk reaction and kick back, but we can accomplish a lot more by making another choice. It might be easier said than done, but we have to work our way back to ourselves and towards something more loving. It’s okay to have a messy moment, but you can still re...
2024-07-09
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
I’m Sorry For Being Great: Tall Poppy Syndrome in Women
If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable and squirmy about celebrating your accomplishments, you have tall poppy syndrome AKA an upper limit problem. Unfortunately, because of how we’ve been conditioned to focus on others, women are more likely to struggle with this. You’ll often find us downplaying our greatness, making ourselves smaller, and having a lot of difficulty sitting in something we should be proud of. You might even go as far as apologizing for doing something well. We’ve been taught that if we rise up too high, we’re in danger of getting cho...
2024-07-02
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Build Your Inner House of Happiness w/ Marci Shimoff
Recent stats show only 20% of women say they are truly happy, so it’s clear that we’re in the middle of a huge unhappiness epidemic. For centuries, we have been conditioned to abandon ourselves, not pay attention to what we need and externalize our experiences. No wonder so many of us live in a constant state of angst. In order to make happiness happen, we need to shift to taking action on our own behalf and connecting with ourselves. Happiness is like a house, we can build it within ourselves and create a state that...
2024-06-25
40 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Regain Your Intuition If You've Lost It
Intuition is something every single human being has access to. That wise and timely inner voice that seems to drop information from nowhere and *just knows* something we don’t. Though it may feel like information coming from another realm, it’s actually coming from within. It’s just another sense we’ve been given, and it takes many forms. You feel an explicable pull to reach out to someone, only to find out they need you in that moment. You feel the gentlest nudge to do something and it ends up being the right thing to...
2024-06-18
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Become an Active Participant in Creating Your Health w/ Dr. Mary Pardee
In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place. For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what’s going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in the process. As a society, we’ve become so obsessed with biohacking and hitting the right numbers that we’ve ended up completely disconnected from our bodies. In...
2024-06-11
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Switch Your Inner Language From Criticism to Self-Love
Words have so much power, not just in the definition but also in the force behind them. Some of the worst things we say are to ourselves, and we often don’t even know it’s happening. There’s a reason why we’re so good at addressing ourselves negatively. Our culture teaches us to stay in check, not to get too full of ourselves and it also teaches us to elevate others. We’ve been taught that we can’t be “too much”, and sometimes we’re trained to feel like we’re not much...
2024-06-04
30 min
Be. Play. Love.
Conscious Ink: How to Solidify a Moment With Meaning w/ Frank Gjata
Whenever we make a commitment, set an intention or create an affirmation, we often need a little reminding, and words do that so effectively. Some people write words that remind them of the commitment on Post-it Notes or in journals. That’s because words can be a powerful anchor that brings us back to what matters. They can be metaphors we can apply to all sorts of contexts or statements that move us. Written words are something we can add to our consciousness toolbox, and printing them out on our skin - ev...
2024-05-28
35 min
Be. Play. Love.
Wellbeing Starts With Curiosity: How to Nurture Yourself Daily
Being kind to ourselves is an ongoing conversation, and one of the ways it expresses itself is through the things we do to nourish ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ultimately, our ability to fully experience and express our essence is hinged on our daily habits and practices of self-care and self-love. We can think of each of these daily habits, from the state of our minds to the foods we eat and the people we are around, as deposits and withdrawals to our wellness bank. What fills that wellness bank? What dep...
2024-05-21
39 min
Be. Play. Love.
Movement...the Most Powerful Way to Reclaim Security in Your Body w/Erica Hornthal
Our bodies are the vessels we occupy from the start of our lives, but so many of us feel disconnected in this home we have within ourselves. If we live in our bodies, how can they feel so foreign to us? For a whole lot of reasons, we’re taught to ignore body wisdom even though it holds the most potent information about ourselves and how we move through the world. How do we get acquainted with our body wisdom and why is keying into this innate knowledge so important? In this episode, we’re joine...
2024-05-14
45 min
Be. Play. Love.
When It’s Not a Whole Body Yes: How to Locate Yourself and Make a Choice
You’ve likely heard about the “whole body yes” and “whole body no”, and maybe even practiced using these to make your decision-making process a little easier. But choosing is really hard when we don’t feel that nudge from our body wisdom, and we just feel “meh” about the whole thing. When it’s not a definite yes or no, we’re stuck in limbo, and that’s a dangerous place to be. Learning to locate ourselves within a moment of indecision can be as simple as taking a breath. It interrupts the patter...
2024-05-07
35 min
Be. Play. Love.
Making Friends with Your Feelings: The New Way of Leadership w/Diana Chapman
The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no. The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy workplaces and great results. Today, we give our emotions a seat on the team, we tap into the intelligence of our feelings, and we are vulnerable when we feel afraid or...
2024-04-30
45 min
Be. Play. Love.
Moving House Can Be Magical: How to Play With Transitions
Moving house, they say, is one of life’s most stressful events, but it doesn’t have to be. Sure, it stirs up a ton of emotions and learned patterns, but with the right awareness and intention, it can be a magical time and a beautiful voyage to a new world. We can discover new parts of ourselves, deconstruct feelings as they come up, and treat the move as a trampoline to jump into the future with ease and excitement. Moving to a new home also reveals something deeply rooted in us. Th...
2024-04-23
40 min
Be. Play. Love.
Sense Foraging: How to Interrupt Fear by Feeling Into Your Wisdom
This just in: science has confirmed what we’ve known (and have been practicing for years) about the power of paying attention to our body sensations. In a world of doom scrolling, depression, anxiety and fear, the solution lies within - in the amazing treasure chest we have in our bodies. We have an inner garden of sensory data, feelings, embedded experiences, and subconscious communication but many of us are cut off from it because we live in our heads. When we make our bodies our friends and drop into that body...
2024-04-16
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
You Are the Canvas: How to Dress for Self-Expression
Don’t mix prints, you’ll stand out too much. Don’t wear horizontal stripes, it makes you look wider. Wear what looks good, even if it doesn’t feel good. Behind every woman is a rigid set of fashion rules that stifles our expression, creativity and keeps us from accessing the play that comes with fashion. What if we took the inside out approach to fashion - starting with our essence and letting our fashion choices flow from that? Imagine if we could stand in front of our closets every morning an...
2024-04-09
40 min
Be. Play. Love.
Coherence: The Most Powerful Nutrient for Any Great Game
In the world of sports, many people think that the energy of competing is the most powerful thing we can tap into. But there’s actually a higher level to play the game at, and that’s coherence. Instead of being reactive, and playing like we’re in a pinball machine, we can tap into presence, flow and connection, and that’s when everything just clicks. We get to locate ourselves, play at our highest level and contribute to the game in a big way. A great example of this powerful coherence...
2024-04-02
29 min
Be. Play. Love.
Hero-ing is Hurting You: How to Shift Into Your Own Genius
Seeking the approval of others, helping people without being asked, putting famous people on a pedestal. These behaviors might seem completely unrelated, but they are symptoms of the same thing - hero-ing. Anytime we’re not acting from our own inner value, we’re relinquishing our power to an external source, which is dangerous. Hero-ing ourselves, or being heroed by others, could be a way to run away from our own genius. And it can actually be a sneaky manifestation of the upper limit problem. Hero-ing actually exacerbates that drama triangle even further, and makes it ha...
2024-03-26
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
Let Yourself Be Visible: The Journey From Ghostwriter to Author
The shift from side hustle to entrepreneur, ghostwriter to author is in many ways, a shift from self-imposed obscurity to visibility and standing in our own worth. Many of us are conditioned to promote others, be in the background, obligate and accommodate to a point where we end up not taking up the space we deserve. When we become the face of something, we’re vulnerable to everything, and that’s a scary step to take. Letting ourselves become visible is the act of self-realization that brings forth our true genius. It’s easier said than don...
2024-03-19
49 min
Be. Play. Love.
Criticism is Always Destructive: A Kinder Way to Unleash Genius
Take criticism, they say…it will be good for you, they say. Our culture has led us to believe that criticism is the price we pay for genius and that it’s the only way to learn what we need in order to be great. There’s one problem though: no one learns and improves when they’re in fight mode. We can’t access flow or genius when we’re frozen up - it’s impossible to get better when we’re getting beat down. All it does is create a fear of not performing, being...
2024-03-12
33 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Experience The Nourishment of Your Inner Landscape
Connection is the ultimate antidote to loneliness and addiction, but in our world, it eludes so many. The rift between our inner landscapes and how we describe them to each other makes it hard for us to tune into one another, and so we’re stuck in small talk, restrictive words, and nothing that truly nourishes. We want to get our true feelings across, but the words we use regularly don’t describe them well enough, so we’re left with limited language. Could learning to use better descriptors of our inner wor...
2024-03-05
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
Money Follows Energy: The Intersection Between Impact and Wealth
When it comes to wealth, it seems like there are two camps our society tends to put people in: those who make an impact doing what they love, but don’t make a lot of money, or, those who make a lot of money, but don’t make an impact and hate what they do. It’s easy to get caught up in the paradigm that if you’re trying to earn money and work in your zone of genius, you’re asking for too much, that it’s simply not possible to have both. ...
2024-02-27
44 min
Be. Play. Love.
Bend Time With Essence: Lessons From Our Photoshoot
Photography can be used in many ways, but in its most magical form, it can formulate a different lens through which we can see ourselves. This lens can access our realness and beautifully reflect it back to us. When we look in a mirror, we might start to criticize ourselves, but when we look at a photo that truly reflects our essence, we can’t help but celebrate ourselves and see all the amazing things people see in us. When a photoshoot is set with this intention, it creates an energy that...
2024-02-20
37 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Upper Limit is the One Problem: How to Make Friends With It w/Gay Hendricks
In the journey towards our most expansive, genius self, one thing likes to trip us up - our upper limit. You’ll see it in every culture, no one goes unscathed. If you’ve ever noticed how your big mess ups happen after something good happens - you might have an upper limit problem. Anytime we grow, a loud alarm goes off in our subconscious. Our job is to integrate our “more-ness” so we can truly experience our own lovability, wholeness, and essence. We have the wonderful treasure of becoming tuned in to our...
2024-02-13
49 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Feel Happiness in the Face of Collective Sorrow
When the world is shaking and there seems to be suffering everywhere we look, it’s really easy to sink, to think “what’s the use” and shut ourselves off from joy and beauty. Experiencing our aliveness is the act of balancing the awful with the awesome, and learning to let different feelings flow through us. Our emotions come from one faucet, we can’t just turn off one without turning off all of them, so learning to carry opposites not only allows us to participate in life, but to also be of the hi...
2024-02-06
35 min
Be. Play. Love.
Adrenaline is Addictive, Actual Life Energy is Nourishing
Ever noticed how our bodies are these incredible, self-sufficient chemists? Adrenaline, our homemade super drug, rushes in when urgent demands and life's drama unfold. It's a potent surge, but it's a fleeting high that leaves us wanting more, every single time. But here's the real kicker – there's another player in town, often overshadowed by adrenaline's allure. It's what we call actual life energy. Instead of negativity, conflict and speediness, it brings calm, connection, collaboration and truly, deeply being in our bodies. For so many people, the cheap cousin of life energy is b...
2024-01-30
28 min
Be. Play. Love.
Play at Work: How to Spend More Time in Your Zone of Genius w/Tina Scala
When we’re squarely in our Zone of Genius, work doesn’t feel like work. It feels like play, flow, ease; we’re plugged directly into Source. Unfortunately, today’s world of work isn’t about play. It’s all process and productivity, “we’re doing serious, important work here, there’s no room for fun.” If it feels too easy, we must not be doing anything worthwhile. That’s how we end up slipping out of the zone of genius and into the zone of competence. The work starts to feel like an effort. But it’s not only a pos...
2024-01-23
43 min
Be. Play. Love.
Being the Hero Actually Isn't a Good Thing: How to Give Unselfishly
Being a hero is celebrated and even coveted in our culture, but if we dig into it, it’s actually not a positive thing. Humans have this magnificent impulse to share and give - the art of generosity. But this incredible ability can easily run up against the need to be the hero. Heroes swoop in and save the day, but it doesn’t actually come from a good place. Sometimes when we give in this way, we’re actually being driven by our puffed up, cape and Spandex wearing identity. True giv...
2024-01-16
40 min
Be. Play. Love.
Within is the Safest Place to Be: How to Create From Essence and Resonance w/Suzy Batiz
An idea - whether it’s a business, a book, or a brand isn’t just an object. It’s a living dynamic organism that has come to us, and us alone, for a reason. This beautiful thing chose us to flow through and co-create with us, and that’s a vision that needs no one’s approval to bloom. It’s a completely different way of doing business, yes, but it is a more sustainable approach. Resonance is two energy waves coming together - a Source-given match between creator and creation. That...
2024-01-09
44 min
Be. Play. Love.
New Year Energy: A Simple Process to Pull the Future Into the Present
The transition from one year to the next always stirs up all sorts of questions and the obligatory subject of resolutions. The problem is that we often go about it the wrong way. For starters, we don’t bring completion to the last year, so we carry old energy forward. Then we think about creating what we want in a way that feels more like punishment. As humans, our body wisdom can tell us a lot about what we really want. Surprisingly we ignore that part of ourselves when we set our...
2024-01-02
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
How to Make Self-Love Louder Than Your Inner Critic
Our inner voices can be the most loving, comforting and compassionate parts of ourselves. Unfortunately for many of us, they are the most critical, prickly, and unkind speakers. It’s like our worst insecurities and fears are being played on loudspeaker over and over again. It actually goes all the way back to the womb. Sound is the first sensation we experience - that’s why it’s so hard to shift out of that auditory world, even if it’s entirely internal. If only there was a way to cut that voice off and replace i...
2023-12-26
31 min
Be. Play. Love.
Presence Isn’t Just a Noun: How to Perfectly Practice the Art of Presencing
Presence…it’s a word most of us employ as a noun, but that strips it of its power and purpose. Presencing may not be a word dictionaries and search engines recognize, but it is how our essence is actually expressed. Presence in its truest sense isn’t a static state - it’s active, always expanding and shifting. It’s how we fill our reservoir of aliveness, how we fully experience the daily dance of being right here, right now. Presencing is how we not only locate ourselves within ourselves, and in the world, it’s also h...
2023-12-19
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
Reactivity is the Flip Side of Creativity: How to Get On the Delicious Side of Things w/Kirsten Vangsness
Creativity is the ability to let your beautiful internal hologram radiate out into the world, but it’s not easy. We’re taking the most innocent, precious part of ourselves and airing it out at the risk of opinions, judgment and rejection. There’s power in taking radical responsibility for our experiences. There’s significance in flipping every “no, but” into a “yes, and” and constantly choosing to find a beautiful point to every motion we make, whether life is charmed or not. All of this is antithetical to reactivity, a state in which many...
2023-12-12
49 min
Be. Play. Love.
Competition is Killing Us: How to Shift Into Celebration
Going from an average pickleball player to a champion should be a moment of celebration, but sometimes winning unleashes questions, doubts and stories we didn’t even know were there. “Am I a threat now that I’m doing well?” “Do people hate me now?” “Maybe I should have lost to make things easier.” Competition often activates parts of ourselves that aren’t nice, because it’s not how we should relate to one another. Our world runs on win-lose, up-down dynamics that hamper our collective creativity and progress. Survival of the fittest is antithe...
2023-12-05
37 min
Be. Play. Love.
Curious Attention: The Template for Self-Love & Cure For Manufactured Value
When we look at babies, no one’s thinking about how competent or productive they are. We find them lovable, valuable, and deserving of curious, nourishing attention, just as they are. Then we get older and a switch flips. We move away from being, and we start manufacturing our value through work, being highly competent, and producing something worthwhile. We learn that if we’re not doing something, we’re not worthy of attention and love, and we let that play out to our detriment. Why do you think so many people are working hard to stop...
2023-11-27
38 min
Be. Play. Love.
There’s No Rehab Center for Adrenaline Junkies …How to Find Your Scenic, Sunday Drive Pace
Faster cars, faster internet, faster technology and faster results…do you ever feel like you’re running on a clock going at 100X speed, or like you’re on a treadmill running on the fastest setting? That’s the culture we’re living in…it’s more acceleration, less appreciation. More pushing than presence. Here’s the problem: when we focus on speeding up, any sense of connection and presence disappears. Adrenaline is addictive, it’s like having Hershey bars as your only source of nourishment. And yes, shifting to another fuel source is a project...
2023-11-21
32 min
Be. Play. Love.
Are You Committing or Counter-Committing? This One Thing Will Make You a Magnet for Magic
Magic is all around us, and we can tap into it when our intentions are truly aligned. Imagine getting the chance to hang out with giraffes (your favorite animal), but being told “no” because of a time limit… then suddenly a kind stranger shows up and offers to take you to the giraffes. These goosebumpy moments are bigger than chance - they are directly tied to the energy we radiate out to the world. When we intend something, with openness and counter-commitments completely clear, we send out a signal for the magic to locate us. ...
2023-11-14
39 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Real Delicious: How to Feel Your Feelings and Stop Fleeing From Them
Feelings are a treasure trove of human essence. They tell us so much about our inner landscape and how we’re responding to what’s going on around us. Sadly, we’ve been trained not to feel our feelings so we shove them away, hoping they don’t surface again. How many times have we heard people say “you’re too sensitive” and “suck it up” when someone is visibly distressed or “I’m fine” when they clearly aren’t? We’ve been taught that our feelings are these dangerous, unpredicta...
2023-11-07
46 min
Be. Play. Love.
Your Weirdness is Welcome Here: How to Catalyze Showing Up As Your True Self w/Jennifer Pastiloff
Our world is starved of people showing up as their true selves - with our awkwardness, playfulness and realness front and center. The fear of being too much, too loud and too messy drives a lot of people to shrink themselves, and walk around with an injured essence. A powerful catalyst for realness is being in the presence of people who welcome all aspects of themselves, and live who they are out loud. This doesn’t just help us undo and unlearn the messaging that diminishes us. By osmosis, it allows who...
2023-10-31
44 min
Be. Play. Love.
When You Find Yourself Making Up a Story, Step Back Into Resonant Reality
One thing that sets human beings apart from other living things is our ability to make up stories. It’s a gift, but when applied to our relationships, it can often be a curse. When we have a disruption with a loved one or colleague, the stories we tell ourselves about that interaction create disconnection. In the absence of information, stories are how we fill in the blanks - unfortunately, those stories aren’t always kind to us. All connection leaves us. We bypass our thinking brain, and we flashback to that c...
2023-10-24
36 min
Be. Play. Love.
The Juicy Wonderfulness of Real Conversation: How to Make It Your Default State
“What do you do?” “Look what’s happening with the weather.” “How are the kids?” Canned and over-rehearsed small talk is what so many of us default to conversationally, but that’s where all connection and play go to die. What would happen if we allowed ourselves to drop into something deeper and just let the best nuggets emerge? If we let it, a lot of meaning can come through the conversations we have, but we can’t smother it by keeping things on the surface. We have to have the cour...
2023-10-17
32 min
Be. Play. Love.
Transitions Are Constant: How to Take All of You With You Through Change
A new season is a transition we’re all aware of. Time for warmer clothes, fall colors and pumpkin spice lattes. That’s not the only way change comes our way, though. There are transitions everywhere in our lives - from waking up everyday to moving from room to room. When we go from place to place without being present, we risk leaving some of ourselves behind. We become a lot more like human pinball machines, and not well-located beings moving smoothly between spaces. How do we give attention to how we’re...
2023-10-10
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
Stop Cringing and Hiding, Start Celebrating and Loving the Body You Inhabit
When we come on this planet, we all get these bodies to inhabit. Living in these bodies comes with its own baggage and that makes it hard for us to love ourselves and experience aliveness. Our bodies, how we sustain them, and how we dress them can be a reflection of how we see ourselves, or the distorted image of what other people see and say. We can either be, play and love within our bodies or feel trapped and restricted by them. How do we use fashion as a form of...
2023-10-03
34 min
Be. Play. Love.
Land Like Fred Astaire: Using Presence to Deal With the Unexpected
Hurri-quakes, falling over, water spills on our outfits and other unexpected happenings. Why can’t things just go the way we want? Dealing with the unexpected is sort of like finding your legs during an earthquake. When what you think is solid starts moving, what you trust becomes unstable. Our patterned response is to fight, control, anticipate and react. If we learn to go with what’s happening, we can sustain ourselves through the unexpected and fall with grace like Fred Astaire! In this episode, we talk about the true opportunity - learning to expect the un...
2023-09-26
33 min
Be. Play. Love.
Wiggle Your Way Through the Unexpected
When life hits us with the unexpected, we all have our own trained responses. From fear to thinking it’s our fault, this takes us away from the point of it all - being fully in our lives. Our culture teaches us messaging that doesn’t allow us to open up our hearts, in fact we’re trained to not feel at all. We have this expansive sensory apparatus available to us, but we don’t use it and that works against us. Can whole body thinking help us flow through the unexpected instead of being trapped in it?
2023-09-12
31 min
Be. Play. Love.
Be Play Love: A New Path For Human Connection
When we’re young, we respond to life with our whole bodies. As we grow, that liveliness gets trained out of us, leaving no room for the power of playfulness. Being, playing, and loving are inextricably linked. We can’t experience aliveness without all 3, but our culture often misses this important link, and pain is needlessly prolonged. There’s a better template for connection, not just with others, but with ourselves. In today’s episode, we introduce Be.Play.Love - a path to self-nourishment. Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode ...
2023-09-12
37 min