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Ep 29: How to Stop, Drop, and Feel Mar 28, 2017

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There's a skill to relating to emotions. We've spoken a lot about how you should just "stop. drop and feel," but many of us were never taught how to meet our emotional experience in a healthy manner. We're prone to venting or repressing. Taking them out on others or taking them out on ourselves. If emotions threaten to overwhelm us or to create disturbances in our lives it becomes very hard to make space for them to exist. That's why in this episode we begin to explore the life changing skill of how to navigate your inner world of feelings.

Ep 28: Chasing Happiness Mar 21, 2017

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We are a culture of happiness chasers, as in chasing that thing in the future that is going to deliver happiness. But how is your actual life, your actual feelings, your actual shit- the stuff happening now and not in some magical future- the real path to contentment in our lives? As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche said "Are you trying to liberate yourself from yourself, or are you willing to really see yourself?" because.... You actually can't hide from yourself. We all want the same thing -which is for life to not suck! What we're saying is that the path to life sucking less is to get really honest and feel all the feels. As Vanessa says, there's no way through but in.

Ep 27: Healing a Broken Heart Mar 14, 2017

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A few weeks back we spoke about relationships with a spiritual twist and we realized that no episode on love could be complete without also addressing heartbreak. Ultimately we all want to feel connected, yet the fear of feeling heart break can be so fundamental that we create obstacles to the love we desire. In this weeks episode we're looking at how to recover from the loss of a relationship- from knowing your own resiliency, to releasing old pain from your soma that leaves you unable to tolerate more tension, to learning how to receive from a support system we're exploring how we can heal a broken heart.

Ep 26: The Gifts of Grief and Despair Mar 07, 2017

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In today's episode we dive into grief and despair- so cheery of us! But really it is cheery of us! We're talking about how our culture doesn't have a framework for how to really sit with and metabolize grief and despair and what the costs of that are. Nobody wants to experience these painful emotions, and so we find all kinds of ways to avoid them. Yet there is also something so alive about it. As Vanessa says in this episode, "Touching into temporality is a really potent wake up force if you let it be."

Ep 25: Where to Begin Feb 28, 2017

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In today's episode we're discussing teachers, sanghas and gurus behaving badly. Classically, in many spiritual traditions, you would begin your journey by following a specific teacher, but does that apply to modern times? In response to many listeners questions about how to find a path and/or a teacher we're discussing how we got started on our way, whether people need to commit to a path or a teacher, how we found our mentors, and of course some of the pitfalls to look out for along the way.

Ep 24: Love and Relationships Feb 21, 2017

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We got a great comment on social media asking us to talk about love and relationships asking, "What role does the ego play in relationships? Specifically attraction- how do I know if my true self is attracted or my ego?" Well we have, as usual, a lot to say about that! From spiritual concepts like pain bodies to psychological concepts like attachment theory and projective identification we try to tackle some how we choose a partner and how we can switch it up in the direction of sane, loving, easy, nourishing relationships.

Ep 23: Attachments and Desire Feb 14, 2017

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If you've been spiritually curious you've probably run across the word attachments at some point in your spiritual perusing. That's because thousands of years ago Buddha stated that attachments to desire were the main cause of human suffering. Which has led to the idea that desire is negative being trickled down into our collective consciousness, but is that the full picture? In this episode of Bliss and Grit we're breaking down our views on the pros, cons, and pitfalls of attachment and desire. From outlining the Buddhist "4 Noble Truths" to sharing our personal experiences we're decoding our views on human desire.

Ep 22: Groundlessness Feb 07, 2017

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In today's episode we're talking about groundlessness. In our personal lives AND in the global collective these days things are feeling quite a lot like there isn't much solid, predictable ground to stand on. We're so wired to want stability. To have something bedrock and constant in our lives… however Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said "The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.." Um… we tackle the good and bad news in the midst of our own groundlessness.

Ep 21: The Ego Jan 24, 2017

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In this episode we're on an Ego trip- what is it, why do we have it, and how does it stand in our way? Many teachers argue that the Ego is the primary structure that prevents us from knowing our true nature but are there benefits? And if we're born to know our own sacredness why is it so hard to let go of our ego stories and come into the present? As usual this conversation will goes on a journey covering Psychology, Anthropology, Neuroscience and multiple spiritual traditions.

Ep 20: Big Me vs. Little Me Jan 17, 2017

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Today's episode is another Dear Bliss and Grit show where we answer a listener's question. This listener is talking about how beneficial meditation has been in her life, and she asks about how she can keep that expanded state while off the cushion and not keep returning to what she calls the "littleness lie". I think it's a common feeling that many of us can bump up against and Vanessa and I are certainly not strangers to it! We talk about the insights we have gleaned, our own frustrations, with the twists and turns of the path and ponder, as usual, what are we even up to here?

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