Wholehearted Loving

We tend to live most of our lives as intellectual endeavors: we know, we see, we might even understand, but we rarely take the time to feel the sensations that go with. Those sensations — good, bad a…

In this episode we walk you through a tapping and sounding exercise. Nourishing touch is a powerful tool for self-discovery, and self-support — you can use touch and sound to move and generate energy…

It’s standard practice to tamp our feelings down and push past bodily sensations — society teaches us that these get in the way of “doing”. Here, we know the opposite is true, and that the data our b…

Today's episode is built around this meme:

"If you want rest you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness. Make time to rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that's int…

We’re not all in the same emotional realm at the same time. How do we respond when we're up and our loved one is down? When we have celebrations, and others are in grief?

Seeing others experience thi…

When it comes to sharing what's "wrong", and what kind of changes we need to see in relationship, our apology languages are a key determinant. How do we change the patterns we've grown accustomed to,…

People tend to approach apologies from a place of fear and anxiety — because we want to make people happy, and we don't want our relationships to end or feel tumultuous. There's so much power in taki…

In today's episode we continue 'The 5 Apology Languages' quiz live — revealing all our shadowiest and most judgmental initial responses, and exploring more compassionate alternatives. This is the sec…

What you yearned for as a child will show up for you today in many ways — including what styles of apology feel true and complete for you, along with what expectations you have when the need to repai…

Lying doesn't mean we're bad or wrong — it's just a behaviour we develop to protect ourselves, or to stay in connection with people who are important to us. Bringing compassionate curiosity to this n…

We can't be everything for everyone. We know this, yet we unconsciously believe we must be more than we are a lot of the time — and we hold much guilt and shame about this without realizing it. Bring…

"Sometimes you have to let go of the same person many times." Maybe they change, or you do — maybe it's a whole new person, and it's old patterns you're letting go. In today's episode we have a trip…

There are always situations we could have handled better. Our capacities for compassionate connection are constantly limited by time, energy, and our personal programming. This is true for our parent…

When we're caught up in the beginnings of a potential relationship, our systems are easily hijacked by hopes, dreams and hormones. It's especially important that we make less meaning and observe more…

TFW when you're called into leadership, and you resent having to do it — but part of you is ready. You resent that it will interrupt your healing, and take your energy — and you're afraid it will set…

In part 2 of this series on Impact vs Intention, we move the conversation into the friend zone — where abandonment wounds can get just as activated as they do in romantic relationships. How do we han…

Someone's impact on us — the ways we feel in response to their words, actions, energy — often has more to do with us and our past experiences than it does with them or the present moment. For everyth…

It feels good to receive an apology, and it can be such a tempting relief to leave it at that — especially when asking for what we needed or sharing what hurt us was already so hard to do. But it's a…

We all face discomfort when we need to make a change: the discomfort of staying the same, staying where we are, staying with what we know — and the discomfort of moving towards newness, unfamiliarity…

Most of us were raised on pressure to perform and shame about getting things "wrong" — all while we're meant to be learning and discovering everything about ourselves and the world we live in. Gentle…