Henri Nouwen book mentioned in the episode
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Eps 58: Feed Your Good Wolf: Special Guest, Eric Zimmer
Today, I have a special guest. Eric Zimmer has one of the top podcasts as rated by iTunes. It’s called “The One You Feed” and I have personally gained a lot from listening to it.
(This episode was marked “explicit” because the word other word “rump exit” is used a few times. You can probably handle that, but I can only mark the thing “clean” or “explicit” –ugh!)
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SHOWNOTES:
MIN 2:00 Doing podcasting for the love of it.
MIN 4:00 Eric tells the famous wolf parable that he asks each guest on his show (120 guests so far) and answers what it means for himself.
MIN 12:00 Eric’s spiritual and religious influences.
MIN 14:00 His alcoholism and addition and 12 step program.
MIN 15:00 Spirituality is the recognition that the things on the inside matter too as well as the outside.
MIN 16:30 Bill Wilson of AA interacted with Carl Jung who said alcohol is also known as “spirits” and imbibing is a search for transcendence. A “turning on” of life somehow.
MIN 20:30 Eric answers: What replaces the drugs and alcohol?
“Ask why the pain?”
MIN 22:30 On getting better and getting healthier.
MIN 26:30 Gretchen Rubin – Happier
Moderators or Abstainers
MIN 28:00 On changing behavior
MIN 34:00 Having partial mentors
MIN 36:30 On his Meditation and noticing practices
MIN 42:00 Being where you are
MIN 42:30 The waterfall and the rock metaphor – distance from the chattering thinker.
MIN 44:00 Sound meditation and training to focus
MIN 48:47 Dan Harris
MIN 50:00 Question thoughts and have a recognition of the distortions. We are not objective. We symbolize. Interrupt and generalize and seeing things as all or nothing.
MIN 52:00 Steven Hayes – Cognitive Fusion
MIN 54:00 On assuming others people’s motivations.
The fundamental attribution error: Errors are attributed as character-based problems for OTHERS but only as circumstantial errors for ourselves.
MIN 58:00 Learn people’s stories.
MIN 59:00 Assuming that we don’t know a person’s backstory or reason they have done what they have.
MIN 60:00
We are telling ourselves stories over and over about what things mean. Our brains are meaning making machines.
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Eps 57: The Healing Process of Writing– Guest Rachel Toalson
Today my guest is a writer, a podcaster with her husband Ben, a very creative and productive woman, and also mother of 6 boys–including 3 year old twins:
Rachel Toalson.
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SHOWNOTES:
MIN 1:30
Rachel the writer and parent.
• In the boat with Ben – podcast
• WEBSITE for the podcast
Being creative and having a family.
Don’t give up your creative dream once you have kids.
Tools for pursuing dreams, intentional parenting and parenting with values.
MIN 3:30
Teaching our kids that parenting doesn’t mean we stop being who we really are but that we invite our children into a wonderful creative life.
MIN 5:30
What is Fairendale?
• Visit the Fairendale Page for a free Prequel
MIN 7:00
Our choices matter but they don’t define us.
9:00MIN
On storytelling
MIN 12:30
MIN 14
Exploring the difficult parts of life in memoir.
MIN 18
The healing process of writing.
MIN 19:30
Writer’s guilt
MIN 20:00
Resources and services for writers
MIN 22:00
Our lives are like stories
MIN 24:30
Documentation of your strength as a human.
MIN 25:30
Inoculating yourself against having your joy sucked away during good times.
MIN 26:00
Advice to parents from a mom of 6 boys
Parenting in an emotionally intelligent way and really knowing your child.
MIN 29
Brene Brown – whole hearted living (click to read the 10 guideposts)
Rachel’s twins that share their own language and partner in “crime”.
• Visit Rachel at racheltoalson.com
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Soul School – Lesson 25 – Why you are craving STABILITY
Welcome to Soul School!
Deconstruction and Reconstruction is a lifelong process.
After a season of growth and rebirth, things CHANGE and that means you will CRAVE stability and a return to “normal”. Today, is about that and what to do about it. I wish I had known this 20 years ago!!
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EPS 51: The women of Sacred Ordinary Days
Thanks for listening to the Spark My Muse podcast today. Each Friday is a conversational guest episode. Today’s episode is a Spark My Muse first–not one, but two guests–the women from the podcast Sacred Ordinary Days. Jean and Lacy have quickly grown a strong tribe as they help listeners understand the seasons and rhythms of the liturgical year. They have both launched some fascinating resources too you will want to hear more about.
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SHOW NOTES
MIN 1
Lacy (from Washington State) and Jenn (from Texas) intro
and how did you find each other and start a podcast?
MIN 6 What is the liturgical calendar exactly why do you find it meaningful?
• Playfulness, curiosity, exploration, tools for meaningful living.
MIN
8:30
Ritual can bring play instead of rigidity which is not what we think of with religion.
MIN 9 crafting a Rule of Life
“A rule of life offers creative boundaries in which God’s loving presence can be recognized and celebrated…” -Henry Nouwen
MIN 10:30
Ritual during Lent – Suggestions
Major theme:
Ash Wednesday the first day of LENT- remember who you are. Returning to dust and remembering your own mortality and your interior journey.
Not just about fasting.
MIN 12:00
Lent means “Spring” or springtime. Awake the true self and cast off the false self.
Fasting, prayer, alms giving bring us towards life. Death of the false self.
Preparation for Easter and it starts in the dark like a seed starts underground.
MIN 14:30 Lent is 40 days. Sundays aren’t counted because they are feast days.
40 days is a time of testing that leads us towards life.
Holy Saturday – the tomb day a day of despair.
MIN 16:30 The seasons covered in the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast
The church year, the Christian year, the liturgical year and learning alongside others.
Facebook.com/groups/sacredordinarydaystribe
MIN 18:30
Journeying in real time with everyone from all walks of life and in all age groups.
MIN 20
Lori Neff – Midday Connection – Lacy’s perpetual Calendar
Jenn’s Day Planner and KickStarter project
MIN 22
Liturgy means “the work of the people”
Reordering the days, minutes, and hours, and something to make it simple.
MIN 26
Lacy’s perpetual calendar and thematic seasonal prompts.
MIN 29
How the dates shift each year based on the vernal equinox and full moons.
The book of common prayer
LENT 2016 February 10 – March 26 (but not Sundays)
MIN 32
Season of disruption where you make space and grieving the sad things about life. It prepares you for other sorrowful times in life. And prepares us to truly celebrate the wonderful times as well. We can hold both together. There are paradoxes. Both/And
MIN 35 Being fully human.
MIN 36 “It’s all grace.”
MIN 37
The underlying season remains and we can return to it whenever we need it.
MIN 38
Where you can find them.