Archived Episodes
Living with c-PTSD with Special Guest, Caroline Sokol, Combat Veteran
In this episode my special guest, Caroline Sokol, and I speak openly about living with c-PTSD. She is an Army Combat Veteran who survived being blown up by bombs over in Iraq. Her story is...
Grounding yourself, not grinding your gears.
The intentions you set when you chose your resolution were strong and possibly motivated by emotional stimulus. How is that going for you? Let's keep a successful resolution in place, or let go of what isn't servin...
What's in your box, Pandora? With Christine Vibrant, Better Me Empowered Living Expert
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live a completely different life, and maybe it seemed an impossible dream? Join me, Christine Vibrant, as we discover what Waking Hope really is, how we can a...
Accessing Joy
Joy is accessible by choice. Being disconnected from joy can lead us from being stuck in spirals of inner worry to bowing out of opportunities for growth....
Encore: The Healing Power of the Four Elements - Episode 1 - Air - with special Guest Nat...
The Healing Power of the Four Elements is a brand new mini-series on The Empower Me Show. We will be exploring the energ...
The Healing Power of the Four Elements - Episode 1 - Air - with special Guest Natasha Mon...
The Healing Power of the Four Elements is a brand new mini-series on The Empower Me Show. We will be exploring the energ...
Encore: May is Mental Health Month!
May is Mental Health Month! Today let share our mental stories, struggles, and triumphs. We'll look at tools from Mental Health America or MHA. Share the wisdom and knowledge on your socials. Your mind and body nee...
May is Mental Health Month!
May is Mental Health Month! Today let share our mental stories, struggles, and triumphs. We'll look at tools from Mental Health America or MHA. Share the wisdom and knowledge on your socials. Your mind and body nee...
Permission slips
Do you keep your promises? Even the ones to yourself? Today we're talking about "permission slips". What do you give yourself permission to do? Lose weight? Love yourself more? Less time on devices? More me time? I...
Just one More
What's the place in your life--your heart, your mind, you body where you experience an emptiness that you cannot seem to fill? Or is there an experience you're chasing, trying to hold on to a particular set of...
Mindfulness is a scam? Or is this April 1?
My work as a life coach and this podcast encourage mindfulness so it might seem odd that my goal today is to explain the case against mindfulness. But being mindful does not mean giving up our critical thinking ski...
Digging through the past
No matter how focused we are on the present moment, we all have a past. Friends, relatives, photographs, songs, even smells can suddenly, unexpectedly, sometimes, unwillingly, take us on a journey into our past. Ha...
New Dawn
As I enter the next decade of my life I am awake to the opportunity, present in each moment. Who do I want to be in relationship to myself, others, and the world? How can mindfulness practices support me in this jo...
Happy Birthday to Me
It's not for a few days but I'm celebrating by talking with my wise, witty, wonderful friend Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Ph.D.
Difficult people
We all have them in our life. And we all probably are a difficult person to someone else! How can mindfulness help us understand what's happening when we are with, and when we are, a difficult person?
What am I to-doing?
I make a list every day, well almost every day. I sometimes add items I've already done just so I can cross them off. Is my identity, my sense of having a self dependent on what I get done each day? It so...
#BeYourOwnGuru
You are the expert on YOU! There's no person, entity, or body with the knowledge of who you are. After my breakthrough in 2016, I recognized that nothing outside of me is true; I determine my worth and destiny. Tod...
Your Brain Lied to You
Thoughts are things. What are you thinking about? Whatever it is you become. We rarely quesiton our thoughts which are repetitive, mostly negative, and loud. The inner critic (or mind) is in control or is it? Today...
Mending our Ways
The wind is howling, events are swirling, and many of us feel as if we are being torn apart. What can we do to repair the seams and patch the tears in the fabric of daily life?
Practice? You Talking About Practice? - Pt. 2
Happy New Year everyone - we made it! Now that 2021 launched let's talk about how we'll manage this new adventure. One way is to start meditating. We all know even 5 minutes a day increases peace and well being. To...
Encore: Back to the Basics of Mindful Living
Each day seems to bring more worries, more anxiety, more fear. In this episode, we'll focus on the basics of mindfulness as a way of reminding ourselves that mindfulness is needed more now than ever.
R E L A X
2020 am I right? Whew it's been a year and then some. Now it's the holidays and we're still busy in this new normal. What do you want most in your stocking? I'm asking Santa to bring me peace and relaxation. If I c...
Whose journey is this?
On our mindfulness journey we experience so many moments that challenge our capacity to remain mindful. A very common one comes from our perception of the other people in our life. It can take many forms but next w...
Encore: It's all about compassion
Jack Kornfield says, "Compassion that does not include the self is not complete." But many of us struggle to treat ourselves with compassion and may not see that our constant self-criticism undermines our compassio...