Podcast: Thriving Now

  • Apprehensive – I Feel Apprehensive About the Future

    We genuinely can’t control the future. We are often afraid because: Bad things have happened in the past, so we expect bad things to happen (and attract them). We don’t trust ourselves to deal with what occurs, good or bad. We either don’t know or doubt our ability to create abundance and safety

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  • Mother Issues: Finding Calm Around Mother’s Day and More

    We’ll look at some of the issues around Mother’s Day and help you tap through pain that might be in the way of having a better relationship with your mother (or at least feeling calm when you think of her).

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  • I Am Unforgivable

    How much punishment do we need to inflict before we can forgive ourselves? How will we know when we can forgive ourselves? What would we need to do to be forgiven?

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  • Unwanted – I Don’t Feel Wanted

    Many people who carry this belief learned it when they were very young. As adults, we may not need a particular caregiver, but we are aware of needing our social network to receive the abundance we have (electricity, telephone, transportation, medical care, social connection). When we have a “not wanted” wound, any form of rejection…

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  • My Pain Is Beyond My Control

    We can control how we feel about it and what we tell ourselves about it- which can relieve suffering. When you feel pain in your body, what does that tell you about yourself?

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  • I Don’t Understand… Why Me?

    WHY ME? That question often brings disempowering answers, “because I’m not worthy”, “I’m bad”, “I’m a pain in the ass.” More empowered questions: what is my body trying to heal? what needs to heal?

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  • Everything Would Be Better… If I Just… (Lost Weight, Felt Better, Got a Better Job)

    A lot of us have something we focus on as holding us back. Something that limits our happiness, abundance, feelings of self-worth, and connections to others. Having something big and obvious to direct most of our pain at is one way of coping. It does “protect” us from other issues.

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