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Episodes
136 episodes
#136 Septua Sanguis / The Eight Temptations: Chapter 2
This is the second chapter in my novel about The Eight Temptations, which evolved into what we now call The Seven Deadly Sins. But this is so much more than these powerful characters, in fact, they are not even the major players!
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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43:05
#135 Transform Eating into: Full, Calm, Enough
I began a new eating habit while at my ten day meditation retreat BUT it has become so much more! I am learning what it means to be calm, content, whole, full, enough! I am experiencing fullness, abundance, enjoyment, and satisfaction whi...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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13:12
#134 Healthy & Balanced begins with Crayons & Patience
Over the last six months I've used colored paper and simple phrases to help build a daily life where my habits are healthy and balanced. You can do it to! All you need are crayons and patience! I'll show you how to create a weekly calendar that...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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15:30
#133 After 10 Day Silent Meditation ~ Vipassana
I just finished another 10 day silent Vipassana meditation course. I share three main takeaways from it. First, my strong reaction to any change! Second, my habitual reaction to make things more intense than they already are. Third, the synchro...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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26:25
#132 Refined by Loss, Not defined by Loss.
I share my latest understanding of allowing loss or failure to refine me in the present moment, but not define me, nor my future. My heart also wishes me to learn this so it can have the space to participate in my life, in my refinement, in my ...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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29:18
#131 Build A Structure. Not Boundaries.
It’s time to build a structure that is capable of being you, and of doing what you feel called to do. As you build this structure, you reclaim parts of yourself, parts that have been serving as boundaries, in order to protect you. But once you ...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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19:16
#130 How to Make the Best Altar 🕯️
There is only one thing you need to make the most amazing altar ever and that is your awareness. The second thing that’s helpful to remember is that your altar is alive. It is a living growing changing being. It needs to be cleaned, it ne...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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8:51
#129 My Parts-Work in Action
I share two different experiences of doing parts work, one was brilliant! The other less so. But both taught me the importance of recognizing the part that is iron-fisted, inflexible, because they need immediate attention. I also surprised myse...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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24:06
#128 things NOT happening are NOT loss/failure
I realized I have an absurd relationship and understanding of things NOT happening in my life. I think they are loss or failure. But how can something NOT happening be a loss, how can it be taken away, or, how can it be a failure, if I never di...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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12:27
#127 The Morning After. What Now?
The morning after I found out my rape trial is 'cancelled'... What now? How do I live again? Love again? Relax my nervous system? Think beyond all that I've known for three years? And put down the burden?
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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18:05
#126 When It’s Over. Begin Again. (Rape Trial Conclusion)
Had a call today with the prosecuting attorney. (I didn’t see this coming… even though I have felt for the last few weeks that I just need to live and not worry about the trial.) After 3.5 years, the State of Utah has decided to withdraw the ca...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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15:24
#125 Dying to Live Again (again!)
Dying is a process. I takes more than saying words, or feeling emotions, or even enduring the chaos of the mind as its old structures die. It takes a process, day to day to day, the messy, mucky, even miserable. I'm in that process and I want t...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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28:13
#124 Jekyll & Hyde In Me :)
Well, here goes shame! I am admitting there has been more than one me in here, and possibly more than two, but let's stick with two for today, namely, Jekyll & Hyde. Those two lovables have been here for a bit but I haven't wan...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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36:37
#123 Body Lockdown=Misunderstanding
My left hip spoke to me recently, told me that it locked-down 15 years ago because of a misunderstanding, my misunderstanding; I did not understand the situation, my self, others, and healthy responsibility. Today, my left hip is cautiously unl...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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19:43
#122 Patience before Hard Conversations is Magic
I have worked my whole life to have healthy, healing, strengthening conversations, the ones which require each person to dwell in the discomfort of their vulnerability, their authenticity. I’m finally doing that. And not just doing it, I’m unde...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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29:21
#121 The Golden Thread of Resilience
I am resilient. But not all the time. It happens best when I find the golden thread of my journey, and follow. I don’t just find this thread lying around, I align with it, resonate with it, listen and feel for it. And then, when I find it, I se...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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29:45
#120 Love Letter To My Nervous System
After 15 years of having a very active nervous system, and so faithful, like Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, I’m done. This is my love letter of farewell to this habitual triggering, and also an invitation to harness all that energy ...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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13:05
#119 Fighting to Live & Dying to Live
I know 'fighting to live' very well. What is new to me is 'dying to live'. I thought it would be a less active process but it requires much of the same, namely, awareness, acceptance, allowance, but with less outward physical, and even mental, ...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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49:42
#118 The Bookends Of My Mother's Life
My grandmother is one bookend. I am the other, or one of them. And it wasn't until I spoke my grandmother's words about my mother, at my mother's memorial service, that I began to understand just how deep the ties are between generations, not s...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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25:33
#117 Streams of Grief into One Grieving
We have many sources of grief and they flow like streams into one pool. When a great loss comes, that pool is given an opening and the waters flow for ALL the streams of grief. We are given the gift of grieving, for not just the current loss, b...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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10:11
#116 Sorrow. Grief. Loss. Affirmations. (Pt. 2)
More musings, thoughts, experiences of grief, sorrow, loss, death, and the natural yet overwhelming (at times) waves of these energies, emotions, teachers. The dark purple robes of Sorrow came to me nearly 20 years ago, I know Her well, and hav...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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7:14
#115 My Mother's Passing...
A few days before my mother passed, I wrote her a letter. And then she wrote me back - immediately! Such a sweet surprise. I Love You, Mom. Miss you already. Wish you the safest travels. Call as soon as you can, I'm here, waiting...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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10:21
#114 Septua Sanguis / The Eight Temptations: Prologue
A novel about humanity, divinity, time, space, and why we do what we do...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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13:54
#113 Pressure Is A Privilege
“Pressure is a privilege.” ~ Billie Jean KingLife is an athletic event, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. To feel, hear, listen, respond, and grow through that pressure is our greatest privilege.
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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9:30
#112 Porcelain Lives: The Sadness (Pt 2)
Porcelain Lives lives is a book I began writing in 2015 as I was helping care for my father as he passed from Alzheimer’s. I didn’t realize I was writing a book at the time, I was merely capturing what was happening in my fathers passing, until...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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10:36