Listening Closely - Awaken Your Interior
I am here to guide you on your own path of reclamation. To live your life more fully, more authentically, and nurture your body and soul every single day. To be the voice that reminds you that you aren’t alone, leads you back into your body, and helps you remember how to fill up before emptying out. I am here to tell you, this life you are living is not how it has to be, if you are willing to simply listen closely.
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Every morning join me as I share my stories of discovery and insight from the previous day's reflection and tips to awaken your interior.
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Motherhood can feel like invasion of the body-snatchers. This vessel we use to transport our being through life is no longer our own. We get used to breathing through pain and discomfort and putting ourselves last, because everyone else needs something- right. now.
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In the end, we forget ourselves.
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We forget that we were a woman first. We forget all the things we used to love, that lit us up and we were passionate about. Hobbies. Remember those? No, not your kid’s. Yours. What did that feel like?
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We forget that we were a lover first and our bodies were made for pleasure. So much pleasure. Do you remember what that felt like? To want to be touched because we weren’t already “touched out”. To ask for what our body wanted and feel heard?
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We began to believe our body was our enemy and just a machine. We look into the mirror and don’t recognize the person standing there. The muffin top and stretch marks, the 3-day-old messy bun, the lines and cracks that tell the story of our motherhood.
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And if by chance we feel seen by the masculine, we assume it’s because we wore our pajamas outside… again.
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We look around ourselves and feel shame at the pillows and toys on the floor, the dishes in the sink, our laundry mountain and our dated decor, as if the state of our home is our parenting report card and we are failing everywhere we turn.
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We see the moms who have it all figured out. Who leave the house showered, stylish and with real shoes. Who have a spotless, gorgeous house every time you come over and feed their kids the perfect diet. How can you ever compete with that when your furniture is hand-me downs laced with toy explosions and you feed your kids whatever you can manage.
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I want you to know that is not your whole story. Who you are is so much more and this is not how your story ends.
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This is where you find out how to love yourself again... maybe for the first time. Where you tap back into that river of power inside of you. It’s finding what was lost and reclaiming it. It is seeing the beauty in the tiny moments of each day, in the spaces you live in, and in your exquisite body. It’s finding the love, sisterhood and compassion that you so desperately want, from all the other mamas who feel just like you.
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It is listening closely to your soul, because it is trying to tell you how to find your way back, but you keep telling it “maybe someday”.
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Your body is speaking to you. Isn’t it time you listened closely?
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Episode 16: Finding Our Edges
I have spent so much of my life settling for scraps. Being the jello that fits in-between what everyone else needs and wants. Telling myself, someday, it will be my turn. Today I am going to share wh…
Episode 15: Worthy of Being Seen
Most of us struggle with an inner battle. The fear of being seen, and the deeper one, of being invisible and forgotten. Often clients come to me, with a superficial need of help with their home, but …
Episode 14: Letting Go
Everything in our homes carries a weight. It might be the cost, or the physical space, or the maintenance, but if we aren’t listening closely, this weight can drag us down. Sometimes, it pulls us dow…
Episode 13: Creating Space for Everyone
Often clients tell me “She has the eye, not me. She picks it all, I am just the wallet.” and often with a side of “happy wife happy life”. But what happens when we let one person decide how our entir…
Episode 12: A Sea of Gray
Why are we finding the gray and white interior design trend so appealing? Let’s break it down and uncover the good, and… not so good, of this hot home style.
The song for today, is:
“Through the Eyes o…
Episode 11: What's Left Behind
Sometimes when loved ones pass away we can feel stuck. We have a hard time separating their stuff, from them and we mistakenly cling to all of it, impacting our lives in negative ways. Let’s talk abo…
Episode 10: Taming the Toys
At one point we had 6 kids living in our home. And shortly after, a preschool with another 10 kids. There are a couple tricks I’ve learned along the way to taming the toy tornado. Let’s dive in and g…
Episode 9: Another Ghost
We talked about the Ghost of Failure, and that one is a doozy. But there’s another one, and she’s a beast. Find out if she haunts you, too.
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Episode 8: Magic Wand
You might be asking yourself, what’s the point, Tasha? “Why does any of this stuff matter? I just want a nice house that I am proud of. This sounds like so much work. Just hurry up and tell me how to…
Episode 7: The Ghosts
Ever feel like everywhere you look in your home, you are failing? If your mother-in-law, or neighbor, or the parent of one of your kid's friends walked in right now, how would you feel? Let’s talk ab…
Episode 6: The Spot
I love uncovering my client’s unique style recipe. Hearing what they love, watching their faces, feeling their joy, and bringing it into their home. Listen in to find out how to uncover your sweet sp…
Episode 5: Lit Up
Wanna hear how we furnished a 3 bedroom house for $5,000 in 3 weeks, and created a home Poliana and her kids adore? Listen, to hear my secret formula.
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Episode 4: Beauty in the Bones
You know how it feels when you walk into a friends house and it looks amazing. You want your house to look like that, but you don’t have the budget for a designer let alone furniture shopping. Let's …
Episode 3: The Red Slipper Moment
Yesterday I shared how I started dancing and how it changed my life. But why does dancing in the dark have anything to do with your home?
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Episode 2: The Way Back
Listen to hear how I started dancing, what I was afraid of, and how overcoming those fears changed how I move through this world on a daily basis, and taught me to love my own body. For real.
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Episode 1: Dreaming and the Dark
How I discovered something called intuitive dance, and why dancing in the dark, in stilettos, changed my life. It can change yours too. Find out how.
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Episode 0: Trailer
Hi, I am Tasha Cleaveland, a mom of 3 teenagers, wife, interior designer, and a woman who found my way back to myself, through embodied dance. Hard to believe, I know. How can dancing do that? But it…