Lucidesse - Inspiring Strokes of Genius
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Episodes
119 episodes
#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
#111 Porcelain Lives: The Sadness (Pt 1)
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 12
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13:25
#110 A Beautiful Day ~ AmWhole. HereBe.
Am Whole. Here Be. I found this tattooed into my pillowcase. So I began Cultivating a new relationship with Time & Space. Just finished reading “Kindred”, book by Octavia Butler, which revamps my ancestors from dead ghosts to alive and livi...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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1:06:49
#109 Hate - SeeLookKnow.ThenDecide. (Pt 3)
In my most recent EMDR session, I met hate again. Only this time Hate was grounded in the moment, Alice within the experience, felt by my body, acknowledged by my mind, and given room to breathe, to be, and …. Well, I’m still figuring out what....
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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16:31
#108 Carl Jung clarifies ego-Death: A Living Symbol of Wholeness
Carl Jung speaks to my Soul with teachings concerning ego-Deaths as necessary to become our whole and integrated selves. And of living as embodiment of wisdom, ‘a living symbol of wholeness’. He tell us to, “Stop asking ‘am I too much’ and begi...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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55:31
#107 My Interludes with Death as Teacher
These are three separate moments captured over a few days where I was experiencing the fullness of Death's lessons.
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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39:57
#106 Death Befriends Me after EMDR
I discovered an old friend after my latest EMDR session. We've met Death before, but never from a place of vitality and health. In the past Death has taught me much about fear and loss and sorrow and ashes. That isn't the story today. Today, De...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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25:46
#105 Richness greater than Perfection
I share the richness of each moment, gained through awareness, presence, experience, breathing, revealing, becoming, deconstructing, change, source, compassion, patience…in one word, Meditation. It’s more than sitting with eyes closed. It’s eve...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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17:28
#104 Hate - SeeLookKnow.ThenDecide. (Pt 2)
I continue to swim in a deep mountain lake, exploring Hate, both present and past. These waters have led me to Power, or lack thereof, the loss of personal power. And the reclamation. I’m widening, broadening, encompassing more of life, more of...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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37:22
#103 My .Toilet.Bowl.Scrubber. Meditation!
What's meditation really like? Like obsessing over a new toilet bowl scrubber, over and over and over... Truly. It's funny, absurd, crazy, humorous, ridiculous, compassionate, REAL REAL REAL. And always a gift I give myself. (and honestly, othe...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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13:36
#102 Hate - SeeLookKnow.ThenDecide. (Pt 1)
I share my recent experience and learning from the emotional teacher called Hate. It’s teaching me to feel hate, it’s ok, and to return to moments when I felt hate. To see hate. Look at it. Know it. Then decide. Hate is a powerful teacher for m...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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35:53
#101 Arc of Meditation, Fore Give, Growth
In the episode I share the many arcs of my meditation practice, along with Forgiveness as a clear waterfall of cleansing energy, and of Growth as a similar effervescent energy. I also speak to the uselessness of beautiful words when/if they don...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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34:06
#100 R Speaks. Need I Say More?
This episode is of a powerful life story spoken by a beautiful woman, who also happens to be one of resilience, honesty, strength, courage, and most importantly, Self-ness: she is her self, and her self is her --- together they are an inspiring...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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1:21:53
#99 A Labyrinth from Hate to Home
If you start exactly where you are, you will get where you need to go. I started in an ‘ugly’ place of hate and trusted the process of being in the immediacy of the moment…that’s how I found myself moving toward the center of a labyrinth...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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14:32
#98 Dismantle the Rape and Do No Harm
These are the words I wrote last week and I've been mulling them over since then...until I did a free-form journal session and found a few answers. But it wasn't actually until I was recording this episode that the fullness of these words came ...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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21:17
#97 Do One Hard Thing, The Rest Will Follow: Neuroplasticity
I'm learning to do hard things, again. I was much better at it when I was younger, before all my 'failures'. Well, I want to remember that it's ok to do hard things, and to 'fail' - whatever that means. So, I'm setting small goals, like picking...
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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14:37
#96 Binge = Fear + Uncertainty
I am on day 10 of not eating any sweets and treats, I want to understand why I feel like binging on them at times. What I share is what I’ve learned after 10 days! I’m curious to see what the next 20 will bring. 😊
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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8:26
#95 Truth, as the Body: Lies, as Energy
My 2 AM ramblings about the truth of the energy of the body, how to listen to the body so that they become the story that is your truth, the growing out from the seed of your being. And how lies sever the cohesive communication network within.
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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52:04