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#93 Have You Ever Lost Yourself in a Relationship? (:micro) Jan 25, 2023

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We all want to be wanted, but sometimes we become so enmeshed with others that we lose our sense of self. Our boundaries waffle, our preferences dim, and we play host to other people's emotions, feeling grumpiness or anxiety that isn't actually ours. Today's episode answers a listener's question about how to separate what's yours from what's theirs so you can connect from wholeness, not habit.

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#92 Guide to Be A Thoughtful Psychonaut (:micro) Jan 18, 2023

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Psychedelics blur where we bump against the limits of the self as an individual and something else begins. They inspire a sense of being connected to something larger than ourselves, of being one with each other and earth consciousness. How can we relationally and responsibly engage with psychedelics? So what's our responsibility to the plants and people and planet that make all transcendence possible?

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#91 Is it OK to Go to Bed Mad? (:micro) Jan 11, 2023

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Ever wanted to battle it out with your partner at night but they were too tired, and then the sound of them drifting off to sleep enraged you? Maybe you exchanged prickly words right before turning down the covers and wound up curled away from each other in fetal position, being careful not to touch. Rather than losing precious REM to talk things out, what you may need in these situations is a good night's sleep. Think I'm dreaming? Then listen to today's episode on how to shut your eyes—and mouth—for less processing and more peace.

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#90 To Build Better Habits, Get Comfortable Failing (:micro) Jan 04, 2023

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Change is hard, it can stress us out and disrupt our routine. It takes energy and sometimes giving up on a new habit is a guilty relief because we have a chance to recover from all that effort. But failing is part of the practice. So how do you pick yourself back up and try again? If you need a spotter, I got you, with six steps to a more compassionate, and realistic, approach to change.

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#89 A Prequel to Gratitude (:micro) Dec 28, 2022

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We've all heard about how beneficial it is to have a gratitude practices. It improves your mood, health, and relationships by focusing on the good rather than dwelling on the bad. But what if you aren't able to feel grateful? What if you're stressed out, disappointed or angry? If forcing yourself to feel grateful is aggravating your anxiety instead of alleviating it, help is on the way. I have a practice designed to help you take a small step back toward your center—instead of trying to pole vault into gratitude.

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#88 Is it Seasonal Depression or Just Our Grind Culture? (:micro) Dec 21, 2022

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In The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine it is said: "People and nature are inseparable. In nature the cyclical movement of the heavenly bodies produces atmospheric influences that exert control over the rhythms of the seasons and is responsible for change to the myriad living and nonliving things…the coldness of winter forces inactivity and storing." Do you feel like you've been inactive and storing this winter? Or do you feel like you're running around, doing too much, without enough daylight to get it all done? Of course the seasons affect us. The question is: what can we do when culture prevents us from responding to nature's changes?

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#87 Life Lessons from Wise One María Sabina (:micro) Dec 13, 2022

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The story of María Sabina, a curandera who helped bring psychedelic mushrooms to the west, shows the pleasure and pain that results when ancient medicine suffers a culture clash. So for all of you self-experimenting with entheogens to explore altered states of consciousness to be your best self, great! But…how are you helping those that help you help yourself?

Sara

:microdose host

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#86 A Guide For Facing Indecision (:micro) Dec 07, 2022

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Do you spend most of your time feeling indecisive, second-guessing yourself and stressing over the smallest decisions? Chill. That just means you're a human being responding to a world that's been turned upside-down. Still, we need to be able to figure out what to make for dinner, which jobs to turn down and who to build community with. In today's episode, I offer some general guidelines for how to make more satisfying decisions—big or small.

Sara

:microdose host

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#85 Six Core Needs that Drive Us (:micro) Dec 01, 2022

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We all have core needs, but each comes with its own potential benefits and costs. We build towards stability, but crave variety; in order to create authentic connection, we need our individual integrity. To create a life of purpose and meaning, we need to find our personal balance between these complementary, yet contradictory motivations. Luckily, some wise guides have created a map of the six core human needs to show us how we can choose our own adventures.

Sara

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Repost: MUD\WTR's Shane Heath on How To Hire, Journaling Techniques and How Not to Use a Hyperbaric Chamber (:macro) Nov 28, 2022

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FREEZE OUR FOUNDER: MUD\WTR's Shane Heath faces his cold plunge challenge TODAY at 4 p.m. PST. Place an order in the MUD\WTR store before then, and we'll add a little extra time to Shane's total plunge time. Tune in to watch it all go down on IG Live: @drinkmudwtr

We're also donating 5% of all new sales to the MINDS Foundation, a group that provides mental health resources in India.

While you're stocking up on mud, listen back to our conversation with Shane where he tells the story of how a hyperbaric chamber nearly killed him.

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