Powerful BE-Longing

Today's show is a shorty - about 20 minutes or so, and it's off the top of my head...unscripted and pretty organic, so you'll get to hear me in all my spiral-ly glory.

What can I say...sometimes I just want to say the words instead of writing them (but you can always subscribe to Sunday Muse, my email newsletter, for the bigger picture). What I offer in this episode is a phrase that I want you to consider: ...

Today’s show is a conversation with my friend and coach Bridgette Boudreau. I’ve had Bridgette on the show before to talk about her mosaic approach to being guided toward our purpose and joy, and if you didn’t get a chance to listen to that one you can find it as Episode 12 of this podcast.

Today’s conversation is about wayward coaches. Intrigued? I hope so, because whether you’re a coach or not... or if you are a coach, whethe...

Hello Beautiful Souls! 

 I’m bringing you a special conversation between myself and my good friend and colleague Dr Sonia Wright, The Midlife Sex Coach (TM). 

We’re talking all about something exciting that will be happening in the world in Spring 2023: our upcoming project the YES (Your Empowered Sexuality) Sexual Intimacy Coaching School.

Sonia has a goal to impact the sexual intimacy of millions of women around ...

Today's episode holds an announcement I'm proud to make about a collaboration between my friend and colleague Dr. Sonia Wright (The Midlife Sex Coach) and myself, and then I get down to business talking about cutting cords.

We all tether ourselves to things that, whether they were necessary, fabulous, "right" for us at the time or not, are now tying us down in ways that feel oppressive and constricting....

Today's show is brief and simple - a gift from me to you that you may reject.

And that's okay.

Because *simple* is not a concept we love.
Oh, we love the thought of simplicity...and then we buy a shit ton of books and classes and magazines and sessions from a simplicity mentor to simplify our life; in essence pre-undoing how we want to be.

Even today, as I was recording this, I wanted to ma...

On this week's episode, we return to the stew pot for a chat about identity. crisis, whether you know it as a mid-life crisis (mid life is NOT the only time these crises can happen), "the river of misery," being "person soup," or simply "what the FUCK is happening to me?"

Picking up on the kettle of boiling soup metaphor from last week, I unpack some of the "why" behind the pain...

Today's episode is all about being boiled alive, and as gruesome as that sounds, it's something we go through many times in our lives. It the pain of identity shifting when we are losing something that has been super important to our ego-ic self, but is imprisoning our actual self. Our soul.

So, bring some ice water along for the ride and...enjoy.

Poem read on today's show:
Chickpea to Cook

Pretty much every story arc of the myths and fairy tales and stories most loved by humanity starts with the idealistic innocent - the one who operates by the principals of simplicity - and this isn’t wrong or bad, it just is, because we ALL start here. The Innocent then goes on a quest where every single one of those simple principals is challenged. At the end of the story arc, the innocent has reached their nirvana, but they have ...

Welcome to Powerful BE-Longing - formerly known as Prairie Visionary Soul.

While most of us balk at the thought of conformity or changing ourselves to be more like another person or a group of people,  most of us also spend a good deal of time feeling verrry uncomfortable and exposed when we don't fit in to a social group we either have to be in (even when it's our family of origin) or want to be in.

We...

I return from my July hiatus  ready to share some of my own thoughts on what I do and why.  I announce that Prairie Visionary Soul will have a new name, beginning with the next episode: Powerful Be-Longing.

If you've been following this show, you don't need to do anything - the show will continue to show up in your podcast feed, but as Powerful Be-Longing. You'll also be able to access full transcripts of ea...

Today I share some heartfelt words that are as honest as I can possibly speak them, about my need for pause and rest, and I share them in hopes that if you need the same, you'll summon your own beautiful and righteous courage to give yourself that.

Prairie Visionary Soul will be on hiatus for a few weeks while I regenerate, and I'll have so much love and goodness for you upon its return and mine.

In the...

I've been so excited to bring Joanna Lindenbaum back to the show to unpack a topic that's both intriguing and also a little mysterious and sometimes misunderstood: Shadow.

Joanna teaches master level facilitation and coaching skills to coaches, healers and speakers, drawing on her extensive background with human behavior, archetypes and Jungian shadow, and I'm so grateful to be one of her students, beginning...

In today's show, I begin a new tradition I'm calling "Sowing Wild Grass"...an every-other-episode feature where I field and unpack a question from you, and/or share a potent but brief ramble from my own life. It felt completely right to premiere this new feature with humble and heartfelt words of gratitude for my listeners and a personal share around the painful experience of believing you're shouting into ...

Let me count the ways I've tried to dodge rejection in my life.

Actually, don't. It would take a long time. Also, you yourself may be pretty familiar with the art; most of us are.

Rejection hurts. Sometimes it just stings, and sometimes it feels as though the ground has opened to swallow us up forever. It triggers a core wound in us: maybe I'm not enough, and if I'm not enough, I won't be ...

In this episode I lay down some personal truth about disillusionment and invite you to see this relatively painful state in a different way, and even be grateful for it.

I also thank and invite anyone who attended my Re-Membering workshop or took my Create a Personal Manifesto to share their insights with me, and invite anyone who wasn't able to sign up before the workshop but still would love the free mini-course to ...

Why does "being honest with ourselves" sometimes make us squirm and avoid being honest with ourselves?

The answer is our fear of our shadow. What we judge (and perhaps...just maybe...we've picked a bit of this up from our family, our society, mass media, our religions of origins and other predominant systems....hm? Hm? Maybe?) to be wrong about us and therefore refuse to be conscious of.

Which then ...

Hey loves! Today's episode is the last show of Season One of Prairie Visionary Soul. It's been amazingly delicious to be able to connect with you all in this way, and even more delicious to be able to connect you with some of my own teachers and colleagues who are brilliant, loving, incredible forces for good in the world. 

I'm taking a short hiatus before the Season Two launch in mid-April. I'll keep y...

Today's conversation is with master coach for people who give a damn  Bridgette Boudreau, and our hot topic is purpose. Life purpose, to be exact.

I suspect we all - at least to some extent - have a sense that there is a meaningful purpose unique to us...meant for us...and if this is something you're sensing, and yet you don't know, for sure, what exactly that purpose is....you're not alone, friend. Th...