Field Notes Podcast

Are you stuck in an emotional funk? This episode is a guide for when things feel confusing, you feel full of "emotional stuckness," or you're just feeling weird or off and can't shake it. In this episode I offer suggestions for beginning to expand your field of awareness, shift your energy, and unravel your emotional "funk," focusing on three core points: Awareness, Resourcing and Unravelling. 

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You know that moment on your healing journey where you start to look around and be like... "Wait... I've done a lot of healing... but it seems like this may not ever end!?!?" Like, "What is even the point or end goal of this!?!?" Or worse, "Is 'healing' ALL that there is to life!?"

You may have wondered... is it time to double down on the healing circles and cacao ceremonies!? Quit "...

Why is it so hard to make a decision? Trying decide between two different paths or directions can be confusing and exhausting. In this episode we discuss how to approach the feeling of being torn in two directions. We talk about navigating indecision with consciousness and how indecision can be an invitation into growth. Listen to learn how to approach paths symbolically when considering a major decision, how to unpack the unconsci...

In this episode Jungian psychotherapist and shadow expert Dr. Connie Zweig joins us to illuminate shadow-work. 

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is the author of several books on the shadow and Dr. Zweig teaches how to do shadow-work in relationships, families, religious or spiritual communities, and aging beyond midlife. 

In this episode we discuss:

• How personal shadow forms and it's relationship to the ego
• The role of family and culture...

In this episode me and psychotherapist Rayna Epstein explore: What do I do when it feels like the Universe is testing me? As long-time members of To Be Magnetic (TBM), Rayna and I discuss how the TBM concept of tests has impacted our lives, how we personally have navigated tests, the notion of spiritual tests more broadly and what to do when we can't access Inner Knowing.

If you're not familiar with TBM, don't worry. ...

Gain a basic understanding of the paradigm-shattering view of health offered by German New Medicine (GNM). GNM offers a radical new view of symptoms, disease and healing, revealing how the body's way of adapting to specific biological conflict shocks.

In the episode with former board-certified Integrative Health Practitioner and GNM educator Abigail Puccioni we talk about:

• How Ryke Geerd Hamer discovered GNM while ...

In this catch-up episode we chat my latest wellness and life obsessions including:

• My current love fest with marketing and messaging and shortening the name of the podcast to "Field Notes"
• Finishing The Americans, Keri Russel is an INFJ and I can't stop thinking about it
• Non-propaganda sources of news
• How to make simple, fast, inexpensive sourdough pizza and my fixation on yellow mangoes
• How I'm re-patterning my ...

In this episode I have on Kyra Marie Miller, a beautiful space holder I've been blessed to get to know from my local yoga studio! In this ep we chat about her growing up with a reiki master mom, her journey to becoming a multi-passionate spiritual-preneur, and the ups and downs of running an in-person wellness studio. 

We also chat about each of our respective next chapters with getting engaged, moving across the coun...

In this episode I talk about doing shadow work with the people who trigger us on social media. We chat about:

• Why doing shadow work allows us to reclaim more energy and gives us access to more of our innate capacities
• Social media and middle school/high school social dynamics
• Why uncovering shadow ISN'T literal i.e. the things that bother us in others aren't always a direct correlation to what's in our shadow
• How sha...

It's a new episode format this week where I run through what I've been listening to, watching, eating/drinking, thinking, and more! We discuss:

• Why I deserve a Breville more than other people do
• My coffee obsession and drink I've been stuck on for a year
• Homemade electrolytes
• The citrus spritzer I've been making DAILY
• Lauryn Bosstick and my favorite podcast episode I listened to this week
• Watching The Americans an...

In this episode I talk about the experience of feeling stuck in a cyclical pattern, way of being, and recurring emotional triggers or situations. I share a few perspective shifts for re-orienting to our patterns in a way that actually fosters transformation! We talk about:

• Understanding the context around where our patterns come from
• Releasing the shame around the patterns we "keep repeating"
• The importance of having rel...

In this episode I discuss why we sometimes get stuck in "endless healing spiral" or a bottomless pit of shadow work and how to get out of this vortex.

There comes a time on the healing journey where many of us need to discover a greater meaning and purpose to life than just healing and transformation, even if that is still an important part of our lives (as I know it is for me)!

We'll talk about som...

Here are some of the selfish reasons you should create content: it builds confidence, forces you to confront your shadow, helps you find your voice, leads to developing really valuable skills, holds you accountable to something, and SO MUCH MORE.

Yes, create content because you can monetize it, build a business, etc. etc. etc. but you should also do it for your own self-expansion (if you feel called).

These are 4 ...

In this episode we discuss the pitfalls with manifestation, why I've moved away from manifestation recently, why it can seem like manifestation "stops" working for you and the relationship between healing, spirituality and manifestation.

• 8 reasons manifestation stopped working for me
• My current beef with the spiritual paradigm / popularized practices of manifestation
• Why manifestation doesn't always lead to gre...

In this solo episode about navigating times of evolution, transition, and change as a content creator or creative person, we discuss:

• Why it's so uncomfortable to change the way you show up or switch niches
• The difference between being an authentic creator and an entreprenuer (and how many of us are both)
• Why there have to be times of ebb as an authentic creator
• How to navigate a "creative depression"
• When what you&ap...

In this episode I have on ICON Chelsea Dickinson, aka the Sabotage Queen to talk about life after healing, being *now engaged!* to a "normal" man, alchemizing patterns in an artful and comedic way, and sooo much more.

• Her journey starting personal development work at age 11
• Being in a relationship with a "normal" boyfriend and healing in relationship
• How to invite a playful spirit into your healing process
• Getti...

In this episode I talk about how to not be triggered by fall/cold weather and seasonal transition. I also talk about , perspectives on "seasonal depression," the theme of transition throughout the day, seasonal cycles, and in general, and four of my favorite go-to "wellness practices" (aka deep spiritual tools) I've been leaning on lately.

We discuss the sacred ritual of gua sha, mindfulness medit...

Join me for a candid conversation with content creator Josh Czuba about being a creator on the internet, personal development shame spirals, how to stay in the flow of your creativity amidst the algorithm's feedback, reclaiming social media for good, and so much more.

We discuss:

• Recovering from the personal development vortex
• Josh's content creation origin story
• Why creating content is harder than it looks and ...

In this solo episode I explore the juncture between being a "spiritual" person while also tending to your human self. We discuss:

• How to hold your spiritual journey and your human experience at the same time
• Orienting to loving the human that you are as the goal of the personal development journey
• The "trying to outrun yourself" pitfall / thinking the spiritual, healing journey is going to "help you stop b...