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Episode 72: Healing Alchemy
December 16th, 2025 | Season 1 | 13 mins 20 secs
alchemy, authenticity, healing, meaning, poetry, self discovery, suffering
Healing alchemy:
That load you struggle under—
Is it lead or gold?It’s an invitation to look at the weight we carry with different eyes—to see our struggles not as proof that we’re failing, but as the raw material for something deeper, stronger, and more meaningful. I brought in a line from Epictetus that has been sitting with me lately, and we explore what it means to transform our suffering instead of being crushed by it.
And as a way of saying thank you, I wrote this haiku in calligraphy, framed it, and I’m giving it away.
Giveaway details:
Email me at [email protected] with “healing alchemy” in the subject line.
I’ll put every entry into a drawing and choose a winner at random.Thanks for joining me.
“may I be I is the only prayer—”
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Episode 68: Go to the Limits of Your Longing
July 29th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 39 mins
authenticity, gratitude, healing, poetry, rilke, self discovery, suffering
I was joined this episode by Chris and Elise Jones and Ali Talbot. We gathered in the warm, book-lined library at Chris and Elise Jones’ home and just talked.
We read Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing, and from there we let the conversation unfold naturally. We talked about suffering — not in a heavy, hopeless way, but in the way you talk when you know that pain and beauty are woven into the same thread. We explored what it means to surrender to life’s difficulties instead of resisting them. We laughed about childhood memories, tofu meatloaf, and the glory of Saturday morning cartoons. We got real about trauma, caretaking, creating from heartbreak, and what it means to show up for each other when life breaks us open.
This episode is about sitting with what’s hard, about finding connection through vulnerability, and about how creativity — whether it’s poetry, baking, music, or just making something out of pain — can save us in quiet, powerful ways.