These 2019 sessions include focused teaching and open exploration, primarily facilitated by Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli with community contributors in some sessions.
Begin with one of the refined Guides below, or browse the original recordings chronologically. Each transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors.
Focused Guides
- Ask What Might Actually Be Possible
- Before You Decide You’re Overreacting, Find the Threat
- Body Image Beliefs Create Reactions, Not Just Thoughts
- Care About Someone’s Pain Without Taking It Over
- Co-Creating Relationships That Can Actually Last
- Conflict Does Not Have to Become War
- Emotional Freedom Is the Space Between Reaction and Response
- Fear of Intimacy Needs Skills, Not Shame
- Find Your Inner Voice Beneath the Negative Loop
- Focus on What Moves the Energy, Not Just the Metric
- Fun That Actually Feels Like You
- Hard Decisions Need Space, Not More Pressure
- Heart Connection Is an Essential Nutrient
- Let Your Holiday Desires Be Honest and Flexible
- Love Yourself When Things Go Bad
- Making a Decision Without Needing to Be Right
- Money Reactions Can Reveal Your Upper and Lower Limits
- Movement Can Be Play, Not Punishment
- Recover the Muchness You Learned to Hide
- Ride the Letdown Before You Fix the Disappointment
- Right Distance, Right Depth: Calibrating Closeness
- Separate What’s Real From What Your Mind Adds
- Shame Is Information, Not a Sentence
- When Other People’s Opinions Start Running Your Life
- When Positive Thinking Becomes Emotional Pressure
- When Spiritual Guidance Seems to Disappoint You
- When You Feel Trapped, Restore the Sense of an Exit
- You Do Not Have to Be Perfect to Be Lovable
- “I’m Not Good Enough” May Be a Protective Conclusion
Explore the Original Sessions
The sessions are arranged chronologically. Recording titles and topic notes, where available, can help you find a useful starting point.
January 2019
January 7, 2019 — Finding fun in an authentic way
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January 9, 2019 — I don’t have to be perfect to be lovable.
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January 17, 2019 — Indecision ~ Make a decision “I don’t have to be Right anymore.”
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February 2019
February 14, 2019 — Love is in the Air ~ How does it smell to you?
February 16, 2019 — Heart Connection as an Essential Nutrient
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February 19, 2019 — How am I Feeling about My Body? What is it asking for Now?
February 22, 2019 — Focusing Our Energy
Hosts: Rick and Jean; Grow a Healthy Relationship with Your Own Power with Anissa Centers; Hosts: Anissa Centers & Rick Wilkes Anissa’s TEDx talk:; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgsbNkhZj3Q.
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February 28, 2019 — Toxic Positivity
What Your Primitive Brain is Doing To You Around People!; Hosts: Rick Wilkes & Cathy Vartuli.
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March 2019
March 8, 2019 — Right Distance, Right Depth ~ Calibrating Closeness in Relationships
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March 12, 2019 — Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
March 19, 2019 — Playfulness and Movement (not just dance)
Hosts: Dave & Rick.
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April 2019
April 1, 2019 — Conflict!
Facing Disappointment ~ Feeling the Feelings; Hosts: Cathy Vartuli & Rick Wilkes.
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April 11, 2019 — Other People’s Opinions Running Our Life (Circle)
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April 25, 2019 — When SHAME Rises (Circle)
Eating Your Emotions; Hosts: Cathy Vartuli & Rick Wilkes.
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April 30, 2019 — Riding the Disappointment “Let Down” to See Where It Leads (Circle)
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May 2019
May 11, 2019 — Awww Mom! (Mother Joys & Frustrations)
May 13, 2019 — Spiritual Disappointments
Hosts: Jean & Rick.
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May 15, 2019 — Finding Balance When Reacting to Other People’s Pain
Hosts: Cathy Vartuli & Rick Wilkes.
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May 28, 2019 — Co-Creating Sustainable Relationships (Rick & Cathy)
Hosts: Cathy & Rick (on our 12th anniversary of knowing each other!).
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June 2019
June 5, 2019 — What makes something Possible?
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June 11, 2019 — The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters You ~ Rumi
Hosts: Jean & Rick.
June 21, 2019 — Intentions for This Summer Segment of Life
June 24, 2019 — Our Fear of Judgment
June 26, 2019 — Reacting with “I’m Not Good Enough”
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July 2019
July 5, 2019 — Emotional Freedom!
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July 11, 2019 — When did you lose your Muchness?
“You’re not the same as you were before. You used to be more … muchier. You’ve lost your muchness..” –Mad Hatter to Alice and Wonderland. Hosts: Jean & Rick.
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July 19, 2019 — Loving Yourself Even When Things Go Bad ~ Free Webinar
Hosts: Cathy & Rick.
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August 2019
August 2, 2019 — When I Feel Trapped…
Hosts: Jean & Rick.
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August 12, 2019 — Am I OVERreacting?
Hosts: Cathy & Rick.
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August 20, 2019 — Gut-Wrenching Reactions When Someone Has Done Us Wrong
Hosts: Cathy & Rick.
August 31, 2019 — Reacting to Body Image Beliefs
Hosts: Cathy & Rick.
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September 2019
September 6, 2019 — Finding Our True Inner Voice Amidst a Negative Loop
Hosts: Jean & Rick.
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September 14, 2019 — Money Reactions and Upper/Lower Limits
Hosts: Rick & Cathy.
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September 25, 2019 — Making Hard Decisions
Hosts; Cathy & Rick.
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October 2019
October 1, 2019 — Reacting to Fear of Intimacy
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October 19, 2019 — Being With What’s REAL
Hosts: Cathy & Rick.
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November 2019
November 21, 2019 — Healthy desires and those we might be ashamed of when thinking about the holidays?
Hosts: Jean & Rick; Gifts + Gaps = Me! (Guest Welcome).
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