Circle Audio
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Body Image Study Group — Part II
Our relationship with the body keeps changing because life keeps changing. Aging, illness, pleasure, visibility, food, movement, family, work, grief, and the need for rest all bring new questions into the conversation. This continuation collects later conversations from the ongoing Body Image Study Group led by Cathy Vartuli and Rick Wilkes. Cathy and Rick alternated…
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Aging Without Rehearsing Decline
Aging is real, but the story we attach to every ache, change, or hesitation can make the body feel old before the evidence does. A sentence such as “I am too old for that” can quietly become an instruction to stop experimenting. We can respect changing capacity without treating decline as a foregone conclusion. The…
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Financial Abundance Study Group — Part II
Money keeps touching the rest of life. It shows up in the body as safety and alarm, in relationships as trust and responsibility, in work as value and visibility, and in creativity as both support and constraint. These later Financial Abundance Study Group conversations continue the exploration begun by Rick and Cathy. As the group…
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You Do Not Need Pain or Struggle to Steer You
Some nervous systems learned to move only when pain, fear, shame, or crisis becomes loud enough. Feeling good can seem dangerously unstructured: without the whip, what will make us act? Struggle may have helped us focus or receive care in the past. We can appreciate that history while building forms of guidance that do not…
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I Don’t Feel Popular
– Not popular because of my looks – Popular means numbers – Not as good as them – Afraid of too much attention – I didn’t fit in
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Your Body Is a Board of Advisors: Listening Without Letting the Inner Driver Take Over
Different parts of the body can offer competing information: the back asks for rest, the legs want movement, the mind demands a schedule, and another part wants the sofa. What looks irrational about body guidance often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With…
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Undercharging and the Fear of Not Being Chosen
You know your workshop, coaching, or service is valuable. You may even pay other people more for comparable work. Yet raising your own price makes your body contract. The fear is not always about the number. A higher price may mean more attention, more expectations, more people in the room, and a clearer chance for…