The Jack Kornfield Heart Wisdom hour celebrates Jack’s ability to mash up his long established Buddhist practices with many other mystical traditions, revealing the poignancy of life’s predicaments and the path to finding freedom from self-interest, self-judgment and unhappiness.
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Welcome to the MMTCP Podcast. This special podcast series is exclusively available to MMTCP trainees, offering timeless wisdom teachings from Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and our guest teachers from previous years of the teacher training. Each episode offers a unique opportunity to expand upon what’s covered in the curriculum, guiding you to explore the various styles and applications for offering mindfulness in the world.
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Susan Stiffelman is a family therapist, parent coach, and one of the country's premiere parenting experts, and the author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence (an Eckhart Tolle edition.) Susan's podcasts feature conversations with guests including Dr. Dan Siegel, Janet Lansbury, Dr. Kristen Neff, Dr. Mona Delahooke, Glennon Doyle, Dr. Jane Goodall, Jack Kornfield, Martha Beck, and many others.
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Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. His depth of insight, classical training, and creative expression all combine in a wi ...
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Welcome to ”Holding It Lightly,” where comedians and spiritual seekers Brad Stuart and Lauren Douglass share their transformative journey through life’s darkest depths to the light. Drawing inspiration from wisdom teachers like Richard Rohr, Liz Gilbert, and Jack Kornfield, the hosts discuss how these teachers have helped them release attachments and discover their own inner ‘Enoughness’. This isn’t a Christian podcast; it’s a candid exploration of what most holds us back from happiness, a d ...
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Enlighten your life with Lama Tsultirm Allione, an iconic woman in Buddhism and champion of the Sacred Feminine. Her fascinating life story and deep well of compassion and wisdom informs her interviews with myriad of guests including: Deva Premal, Jack Kornfield, Robert Thurman, and more.
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Kimberly Johnson was mentored by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She loves sharing her experience of working through the tough things that come her way in life. She hopes you enjoy these vulnerable and honest accounts of life and dealing with life. If you want to reach Kimberly you can @ kimberlyallysejohnson@gmail.com
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Sometimes deep, often amusing, therapeutic chats touching on philosophy, spirituality, religion, consciousness, culture, music, dating, and life. Join Sam, Joe and Ali as they discuss the 10,000 illusions that make up “reality”. Musical theme by Ehsan Gelsi - Ephemera (Live at Melbourne Town Hall)
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Features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]
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Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India. He leads backpacking retreats, natu ...
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I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion
Meditation and mindfulness daily practice to remain interested in, and remember, being present in every day life and living
Sit down with Alan for guided mindfulness Meditation, talks, and questions answered to keep up a constant connection and reminder to be present. Each meditation contains tips, tweaks, new and surprising approaches to how we can pay attention, with many new takes on familiar practices like breath meditation, body awareness, loving kindness, and spiritual inquiry. It is perfect for a meditator looking to pick up new tools to investigate their experience so that we stay interested and inquiring ...
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The Sharon Salzberg Metta Hour features Buddhist philosophy in a practical, common sense vernacular. Sharon’s natural wisdom, sense of humor and the ease with which she translates these teachings forge an intimate connection with the listener. From everyday experiences to pithy revelations, each podcast is a journey on the path of self-discovery. Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulnes ...
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Sometimes piano, sometimes guitar, sometimes spoken meditation. Thanks for listening. If you have questions, comments, or feedback of any kind, email darkoindex at gmail dot com. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jonah-hall/support
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Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.
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Join Pat Croce and his guests as together they explore how a healthy lifestyle, mindfulness, and a strong community can make all the difference for individual on the cancer continuum. Each episode features guests who discuss their cancer journeys either as survivors or caregivers. In this new limited series podcast, Pat is also joined by American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen for a mission moment to discuss topics such as prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship. Together ...
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Ep. 237 – Discovering Peace Within Yourself
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Uncovering how to find joy and freedom in any situation, Jack shares the roadmap for discovering peace within yourself. Learn the Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield in this online masterclass cohort starting this June! Learn more and register at bit.ly/InteractiveCohort This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Giv…
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What we take to be a self is tentative, fictitious, constructed by clinging, a temporary identification with some parts of experience. Self arises, solidifying itself, like ice floating in water. Ice is actually made of the same substance as water. Identification and clinging harden the water into ice. In a similar way, we sense ourself as separate…
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Episode 642: JACK KORNFIELD & TRUDY GOODMAN (2015)-Sages, mentors, friends-Reflections on mindfulness in the US
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Earlier this year my dear friend, meditation teacher, TRUDY GOODMAN, experienced a medical emergency that almost killed her. Another reminder of the preciousness and fragility of life and friendship. Here’s my 2015 conversation with TRUDY and JACK KORNFIELD on the occasion of an event at Insight LA, the mindfulness mediation center founded by Trudy…
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Ep. 237 – Fireside Chat with Jack Kornfield
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For episode 237, we are launching the Fireside Chat Series on the Metta Hour. This series features intimate conversations with longtime dharma teachers about the early days of their practice and the most impactful moments with their own teachers. Hosted by IMS Online, the launch of this monthly series is a conversation between Sharon and Jack Kornf…
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Ep. 239 – Duncan Trussell and Raghu Markus
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For episode 239, Sharon chats with friends Duncan Trussell and Raghu Markus about their new audiobook Moving from the Movie of Me to the Movie of We. Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, and actor. He is most known for his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. He produced and starred on the Netflix series The Midnight Gospe…
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The Essence of Meditation with Eckhart Tolle
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This episode was recorded in December 2018 featuring guest teacher Eckhart Tolle discussing the essence of meditation.By Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield
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12. How to Have Faith & to Learn to Trust Yourself
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Tune in to this week's episode of Holding It Lightly, where Brad and Lauren explore the powerful themes of faith and self-trust. Join us as we delve into how to cultivate genuine faith in ourselves and in the universe—not the cliché wooden home decor sign kind of faith, but a deep and authentic trust in the natural flow of life. Discover how faith …
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Ep. 236 – Sacred Reflections with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Frank Ostaseski
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Jack and the ‘Grandfather of Gratitude,’ Brother David Steindl-Rast, delve into sacred reflections on death, where Buddha meets Jesus, the power of compassion, the positive side of grief, and beyond. Stay up to date with Jack and his stream of free offerings by signing up for his email newsletter teachings at JackKornfield.com/newsletter “The proce…
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Thinking back on favourite films, it becomes clear what they say about us. Cinema, the Psyche, unveiling Inner Heroes It's always therapy and psychoanalysis around here, movies are the vehicle. Favourite films reflect deep psychological themes and evolving personal identities. What we once found aspirational in a character, we might later rethink, …
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Pascal Auclair: Be ever mindful Mogharaja
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Pascal Auclair: Is consciousness mine?
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Pascal Auclair: Qualities we develop for life and for liberation
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“I have really found when I look around that the romantic love I see is this ideal, the anima. The anima is the ideal that you carry within yourself that you put onto the different entities out there and you unite with that. Pretty soon you see through the projection. And then what happens?” Transcript: That's Joseph Campbell from an interview he d…
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Pascal Auclair: A different relationship to thoughts
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Pascal Auclair: The rich exploration of feeling tones II
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Pascal Auclair: The rich exploration of feeling tones I
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11. Somatic Healing & The Body with Lyssa Mandel
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Welcome to this week's episode of Holding It Lightly! Join hosts Lauren and Brad as they dive deep into the world of healing and self-discovery with special guest Lyssa Mandel. Lyssa, an incredible somatic healer and astrology guru, joins the conversation to shed light on the intricacies of our bodies and share invaluable insights on the path to he…
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Pascal Auclair: Three important questions, three essential messages
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Ep. 235 – From Psychedelics to Mindfulness with Louie Schwartzberg
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Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/heartwisdom and get on your way to being your best self. “You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield…
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Pascal Auclair: Visiting the national parks of the heart/mind
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Do most straight men reserve their truest love and romance for other men? Marilyn Frye thinks so, and today we consider a quote from her classic book of feminist essays The Politics of Reality We found ourselves in agreement with Frye's observations. But we debate and detail the angles: Is heterosexual male culture (always) homoerotic? Do men save …
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Episode 641: ASTRA TAYLOR-Digging into Democracy, Debt, Insecurity and Solidarity
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In 2020, I talked about democracy with filmmaker/writer/organizer/activist, ASTRA TAYLOR. Four years later, following a pandemic, waves of protests, an insurrection, and a couple of ongoing wars, we revisit our fragile and threatened way of political life. She’s been busy - working with the Debt Collective, a union of debtors she co-founded, and wr…
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Pascal Auclair: How far can mindfulness take you
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Pascal Auclair: First morning instructions
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Ep. 238 – Lovingkindness Audiobook Excerpt
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For episode 238 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are releasing a special extended excerpt of the brand new Lovingkindness Audiobook, set for release by Shambhala on April 23rd, 2024. This thirty-minute excerpt includes the forward of the book, written and read by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the introduction of the book, read by Sharon and a portion of the first c…
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Episode 640: What would nature do? JANINE BENYUS, BIOMIMICRY: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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Earth Day 2024 is April 22nd. Here’s my 2011 conversation with JANINE BENYUS, who coined a term and invented a field called Biomimicry. After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failures are fossils. What surrounds us in the natural world has succeeded and survived. So why not learn as much as we can from what works? Nature has already solved …
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To be a loving person is to wrestle with a profoundly improbable idea: that however modest our position in society might be, however much we may have been maltreated in the past, however mesmerised we are by the deplorable behaviour of powerful individuals, however shy and frail we are, we are constantly capable of causing other people significant …
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3:12 Restless and Fidgety Kids with Susan Stiffelman
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In this episode, Susan explores the challenges children face with restlessness, fidgetiness, and hyperactivity, particularly in the school environment. She emphasizes the importance of movement, play, and imagination in child development, noting that traditional classroom settings may not always accommodate natural developmental needs. Susan sugges…
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10. Metamorphosis: Exploring Life, Death, and Rebirth with Florence!
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Welcome to Holding It Lightly! This week, we're thrilled to introduce our very first guest, Florence Friebe. Florence wears many hats as an improviser, healer, and spiritual seeker, too. Join us as Florence shares her journey of confronting mortality head-on and experiencing a powerful rebirth through plant medicine. In this episode, Lauren, Brad, …
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Ep. 234 – Guided Meditation: Mindful Loving Awareness
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Inviting in calm, strength, and steadiness, Jack leads a guided meditation into the heart of mindful loving awareness. This guided meditation was originally recorded on 2/19/2024 for the Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk and Meditation. Register to join Jack's next livestream at JackKornfield.com/events "Feel the weight of your body, gravity, an…
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Moving from Fear, to Joy of Missing Out and beyond both. FOMO arises from projection and fantasy, as does a lot of the imagined enjoyment of the imagined pleasures. We might imagine that: everything we want is outside ourselves pleasure, meaning or peak experiences must be mediated by something: people, substances, or outside events that we have to…
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All that is necessary then is to rest undistractedly in the immediate present, in this very instant in time. And if we become drawn away by thoughts, by longings, by hopes and fears, again and again we can return to this present moment. We are here. We are carried off as if by the wind, and as if by the wind, we are brought back. When one thought h…
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Exploring the great mystery of life and existence, Jack shares enlightening insights on the playful nature of wisdom. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to recieve 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/heartwisdom "The beautiful thing is, wisdom is gracious." – Jack Kornfield Fresh fro…
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Episode 639: The Myths of Poverty & the Role of Luck-MARK RANK-The Random Factor
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Why does our society produce more poverty than other wealthy countries? Why don’t we or why can’t we change our incentives? I speak with MARK RANK, about his books, THE POVERTY PARADOX and POORLY UNDERSTOOD: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty, and his latest, THE RANDOM FACTOR: How Chance & Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives & the World Around Us. …
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Join hosts Lauren and Brad as they fearlessly dive into one of the most provocative concepts: hell. In this episode of Holding It Lightly, they embark on a thought-provoking journey to unravel the layers of meaning behind this age-old notion. Delving into the origins of the concept, they examine its historical roots and how it has evolved over time…
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Is Attachment Theory the new Myers-Briggs? No Is it helping? Yes! Is attachment also about friendship, family and self relationships? Yes! Is it the magic bullet? Kind of, if you study Attachment Styles in depth, and do the work It's The Dance of Attachment in Relationships! In our return to podding for a new season, (sorry to disappear, reasons!!)…
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3:11 Attachment Instincts with Gabor Mate, MD
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In this episode, Susan talks with Dr. Gabor Maté about attachment instincts, peer orientation, and the importance of parental presence in building a strong parent-child relationship. Dr. Maté explains how children's attachment to peers can affect their behavior and relationships, emphasizing the need for parents to maintain primary attachment with …
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Episode 638: CHARLES EISENSTEIN (2019), Climate - A New Deeper, Fuller Story - People connect more with nature than policy
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I describe the goal of my engagement with what we call the environment as “a healthy relationship with the rest of nature.” In this 2019 conversation, CHARLES EISENSTEIN asks: Have we become too focused on climate change? and reminds us that holding rivers, forests, and creatures as sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply as carbon credi…
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Ep. 232 – Stop Being Loyal to Your Suffering
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Offering compassion for our human flaws, Jack relays how to stop being so loyal to our suffering, and helps uncover the heart of the Buddha living within each of us. Learn to live beautifully with Jack Kornfield and Dr. Dan Siegel in their new online journey, Living Beautifully: Transformative Science and Mindfulness Practice to Cultivate a Wise He…
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3:10 Rest Is A Sacred Act With Robyn Posin, PhD
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In this episode, Susan talks with her friend and colleague, Robyn Posin, PhD. They discuss Robyn's book, "Go Only as Fast as Your Slowest Part Feels Safe to Go: Tales to Kindle Gentleness and Compassion for Our Exhausted Selves." They explore the importance of slowing down in today's fast-paced world, the need for rest as a sacred act, and the sign…
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Even more enough! Tune in to this week's episode of "Holding It Lightly" as hosts Lauren and Brad dive into insightful discussions sparked by the second episode of "Enoughness." Delve into the complexities of dating and the pursuit of feeling "enough" even when seeking a partner with differing desires. Explore the theme of travel and the profound r…
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Radical Friendship from the Teacher's Seat with Kate Johnson and Tara Brach
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This episode was recorded in April 2022 featuring guest teacher Kate Johnson interviewed by Tara Brach discussing radical friendship from the teacher's seat.By Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield
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Transforming Our Values into Reality with Xiaojing Wang and Christine Cordero
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This episode was recorded in November 2017 featuring guest teachers Xiaojing Wang and Christine Cordero from the East Bay Meditation Center discussing transforming values into reality.By Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield
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7. Enoughness: How to Feel Like You Are Enough
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Join us as we explore why society constantly bombards us with messages that we're not enough, and how these beliefs shape our lives. In this week's episode, Brad and Lauren take a deep dive into the pervasive feelings of inadequacy that plague so many of us. We turn the spotlight on the root causes of our collective struggle with self-worth. From s…
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