Category: love
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#8 What Can I Do Now? Practice
Today, I recorded a Seeds of Wisdom episode with Lair Torrent, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist). His episode is called, “Practicing Love.” It comes out on January 18, 2023. The name of his book is, The Practice of Love, and the podcast he does with his wife is called the Practice of Love Podcast…
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Seeds of Wisdom Series: Introduction to the Journey
I believe we each have gardens we are working on inside of us. I call them the gardens of our souls. Our challenging experiences give us the opportunity to let the weeds and dangerous plant life grow or do the WORK to keep our gardens healthy and strong. When we grow from our experiences, we…
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Ep.10 Listening with Love: Blaming Disempowers
Last week, I told you we would be digging more into why blaming is toxic to our systems and how it affects our ability to listen with love. The truth is we are actually doing a disservice to the people we are trying to help when we contribute to their toxic pattern of blame. Blaming…
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Ep.09 Listening with Love: Pay Attention to Emotional Triggers
(Podcast available on 7/29/2022) What’s interesting about this process is that every week I’m presented with challenges that keep me from listening with love. This week, I got to experience how having an emotional trigger not only kept me from listening with love, but I got to see how I projected my fears out onto…
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Ep.08 Listening with Love: NOT Insisting On Our Own Way
(Podcast available 7/22/22) I don’t know about you, but I struggle with not insisting on my own way sometimes. I get this thought in my head that says, “I KNOW what’s best for you.” That belief is DEFINITELY not a part of listening with love. That is me trying to control someone else’s journey and…
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Ep.06 Listening with Love: Forgive Yourself and Move On
Do you beat yourself up when you don’t feel like you did something right? Have you seen or read something and all of the sudden felt this extreme amount of guilt or shame over ways you’ve handled things in the past? I have. I used to use the stories of my mistakes to beat the…