Podcast Episodes

I’m bringing you an extra mini-series episode today to conclude what we’ve been discussing here on the podcast throughout the pandemic. I felt that the series was unfinished without this final piece: creating purpose. I’ve previously touched on the fact that our time on earth has always been uncertain, and my hope is for you to create a purposeful life with intention, instead of existing on autopilot and living a life you don’t love.

Many of you experience the cognitive dissonance between your contrasting beliefs that thought work would be valuable to you, but also that you can’t change, and so I hope that both of these students show you that it is totally possible for you to apply these tools to change your life too. We’re covering everything from parenting, body image, and more recently to how the work we do in The Society has helped them navigate our current climate around COVID-19.

Welcome to the last episode of this special series that I’ve been bringing you here on the podcast. I hope that the tools you’ve learned here have been helping you manage your mind around the pandemic, to deal with the challenging thoughts and feelings you might be experiencing. As we start to look forward to the future, lots of you may be thinking about things going back to normal and trying to figure out when that might be.

I’m bringing you recordings of three coaching calls I did recently to show you that many of us are going through a time of reckoning and confrontation of our own thoughts and emotions, as a reminder that you are not alone if you’re struggling to practice the thought work that you know you need to do right now. This is a time of questioning and being curious of your patterns, belief systems, and actions that you’ve been able to escape from before the pandemic, and you’re going to see how it shows up for three of my clients.

Nowadays, with the advancement of technology, the ability to distract ourselves is right at our fingertips. Gone are the days where you would have to tolerate boredom, and our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter because of how much technology we use. Constantly distracting yourself prevents you from gaining more awareness of your thoughts, so today I want to show you just how powerful it can be to learn to tolerate boredom.

As a culture, death is something that isn’t talked about openly, so we tend to shove down or push away the truth of our progression from birth to death, and the fact that our deaths are inevitable. It’s the one thing that we are guaranteed, and yet, we operate under this illusion that we have full control over our bodies and how long we live. With the existence of a new threat to our physical health, this reality is forcing us to see that we don’t have full control, and my goal today is to help you find the peace and calm that is available to you right now in this pandemic.