All the Same

We are one being.We look separate. We seem different. It appears as if there are solid boundaries that make you you, me me, and that that.But beyond those more-illusory-than-real boundaries, our sameness is massive, deep, and essential. Our differences are superficial and fleeting.Our habits are also all the same but for the surface-level ways they

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EP136: Missy’s Change Story: How Hives and Terror Woke Her to up to the Fact that Life is Impersonal

Missy used to push through life. When things didn’t work out her way, she tried harder. She thought low-level anxiety motivated and fueled her to do more. But in her mid 40s, Missy’s old ways didn’t work anymore. The hum of anxiety turned to terror and it manifested as hives and swelling that were impossible to ignore.

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EP135: Getting It Right

I see a lot of people want to get it right the first time. We want to NOT fall into our habit at all, we want to NOT say that thing that starts an argument, we want to somehow PREVENT uncomfortable feelings from starting in the first place.Getting it “right”, as our mind defines it,

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Relax

The word ‘relax’ has taken on many meanings for me throughout the years.As a kid with energy to burn, I heard “relax”. Stop being so full of life. The adults wanted peace and quiet.Then, relax felt unnatural.As an anxious 20-something, I heard conflicting advice. “Work hard, make something of yourself, what you do now matters”.

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EP134: Stacey’s Change Story: Doubling your Business while Remembering Who-You-Are

Stacey came across the New Paradigm when she was struggling with binge eating and depression. She saw a lot, quickly. She began to see that thought creates her entire reality. That she has a home base within her that is far closer and less conditional than she ever imagined. Without trying, her success at her mortgage business

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EP133: The Impersonal Nature of Thought Part 2

In Part 2, I share two stories to illustrate how things tend to go when our experience looks personal, and how things can go when it doesn’t. Jane often experiences anxious reactions to her sometimes-unkind sister in law. Jane says the problem is that she’s too sensitive. She should be tougher. She should be able to

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EP132: The Impersonal Nature of Thought Part 1

This is one of my favorite topics. It’s something that has become increasingly clear and obvious in the past several years. Experience isn’t about us.What you experience–what your mind labels a thought, feeling, sensation, behavior, preference, aversion, any of it–has nothing to do with you. It is simply life arising. What’s also become increasingly clear and

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Bean Boozled

Have you heard of this game?It’s disgusting.You spin a wheel that lands on the color of jelly bean you’ll eat. Maybe you spin yellow with red specks. That means the jelly bean you’ll eat is either strawberry banana smoothie…or barf.Yes, a barf flavored jelly bean. And it’s DISGUSTING. These jelly bean makers nailed the gross

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EP131: The New Paradigm and Religion: Are we all pointing toward the same thing?

Debbie Milam is one of the most inspirational people I know. She sees the best in everyone and everything. She’s full of love and gratitude. And it’s not because her life is easy. In fact, she’s been dealing with a huge string of life threatening health issues this year that she’ll discuss in this episode.Debbie

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EP130: Telling Our Secrets

Lea Wernli and Shailia Stephens had secret lives. Lea had everything she thought she wanted, but she was secretly drinking, eating, and shopping more than she wanted to.And Shailia was moving up the ranks in her marketing career, only to come home from work and be flooded with worry and anxiety. When they came across the

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