Big Love Hug
Best Friends and Love Warriors Amy Palatnick and Jess Donohue have been stockpiling self-love wisdom for decades. Amy is a therapist, coach, author, Nia instructor, meditation teacher, and professional potter. Jess is a yoga (and SUP yoga) teacher, massage therapist, photographer, group leader, and weight lifter. Together, they strive towards their best possible lives, and hope to inspire others to do the same.
Episodes
Amy and Jess discuss the importance of maintaining hope and positivity in challenging times, the need to cultivate ways to feel connected and hopeful, and the importance of self-care.
They explore the possibility of making conscious choices about the "stories" we believe in, and the need to nurture personal effectiveness and action in relationship and community. So often, people can get swept into states of fear...
In this Episode, Amy and Jess talk about Aging, examining our internal and culturally inherited biases against aging.
We would love to hear your own thoughts and feelings about aging and ageism, beauty and vibrancy, health and vitality, and how to be empowered around this issue as we inevitably age (unless/until we die).
We would also love to read your reviews and ratings, as we only have 2 so far :)
Jess and Amy talk about being Jewish and our associated complex feelings about Gaza, Israel, power, separation, how to be, how to help, what to do.
We had a great, challenging, heartfelt discussion about many of our thoughts and feelings on the topic, and hope it will touch some of your hearts.
Please let us know what you think and feel… we would love to hear: here, on Facebook, or wherever you listen to Podcasts.
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In this episode, Jess and Amy explore the question "What is trust?"
Some of the areas they cover are:
* Love everyone (even Putin?!)
* See everyone as a child of the universe/spiritual being/related to us
* The masks we wear/unmasking
* The "Winning formula" concept
* What does it mean to trust someone?
* The compelling desire to give our hearts away
* "Find my center...
Pleasure and the Inner (Internalized) Critic
In this Episode, Amy and Jess explore the concept of the Internalized Critic: a voice and energy in society that we internalize to our own detriment. Is it necessary? Are there ways to get it out of our heads? YES!
The Internalized Critic is like a parasite, sucking our life force, making us believe we don't like ourselves, and blocking our opportunity for peace, joy, happ...
This was a special episode in that—for the first time ever—we recorded the podcast together in person, sitting side-by-side...post-covid and pre-Amy's move to California!
Jess and Amy talk about the Weather and the Seasons: not outside, but inside.
The focus is on letting the "weather"—circumstances of daily life, and our responses to those circumstances—be the passing weather, separate from our de...
In this episode, Amy and Jess explore the difference between locating ourselves on the vertical line versus the horizontal line, where we form attachments to others.
This is a relationship game changer, a hack for a better, much happier and more fulfilled life!
If you enjoy our Podcast, we would love to hear from you! Please rate and review the podcast wherever you listen. We'd love to have you join our Face...
In this episode, Amy and Jess talk about the process of depression: how people can re-frame or understand depression more deeply, the beautiful and challenging power of emotions, and how we can support ourselves through depressive phases or experiences.
We both really enjoyed the conversation and hope you will too!
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Where do we have agency in our lives? What is in our power? How can we re-orient to a position of empowered choice? Join Amy and Jess for a dynamic exploration of the Power of Choice.
In this episode, Amy and Jess explore the ubiquitous conundrum with fear: it is wired in our biology, yet we reject it in ourselves (but, interestingly, embrace it in others).
What can we do about fear? There's a pretty simple hack!
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Amy and Jess discuss their personal opinions (sprinkled with a few theories) about menopause. We are curious about other womens' experiences and would love to hear from you in our facebook group, Big Love Hug Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/663065851665011
Included are some tips for making sex better as we age, the empowerment of menopause, and questioning the myth of women "drying up."
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What would the world be like if more people identified as spiritual beings? Amy and Jess explore this question, including the core culprit that keeps us from living our spiritual natures: FEAR.
You'll laugh along with these love warriors, and you may just walk away feeling more connected to yourself and your life.
"Have you thought about talking to them?" We have noticed (and laughed endlessly about) our own tendencies to avoid anything that might feel like confrontation, but these edgy conversations are almost always medicinal.
Amy's empowering theory: think of romantic chemistry in terms of scientific chemistry. True romantic chemistry is objective, not subjective: it's always mutual on both sides, matter-of-fact, and can't be faked or forced. Seeing chemistry this way makes dating much much easier, as it basically eliminates the entire concept of rejection.
Exploring concepts: being versus trying, gifts from buddhism, the stories that help and limit us, going with the flow, pain versus suffering, and internalized oppression.
We'd love to hear your feedback and requests!
Each of our podcast episodes is unscripted. (Can you tell? LOL)
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We actually know a lot more than we think we know, and by getting out of our own ways, we can access a huge amount of universal information.
We'd love to hear your feedback...and requests!
Each of our podcast episodes is unscripted. (Can you tell? LOL)
You can follow us, get freebies, and sign up for notifications and more at www.amypalatnick.com
Amy and Jess explore the edgy concept that you can actually be your favorite person.
This wasn't intended to be the first episode, but we recorded it and thought we'd put it out there. We're still getting our technology dialed in!
We'd love to hear your feedback and requests!
Each podcast episode is unscripted. (Can you tell? LOL)
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