Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

Latest Episodes:

Listening to Your Inner Voice Jun 26, 2018

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Tending to your needs requires knowing what you need to begin with, but so many of us are moving through our lives without feeling connected with ourselves. Today's podcast explores the many ways that you can begin fostering a deeper, more confident relationship with yourself each day. By meeting your body's needs consistently and creating boundaries with technology, you are able to find YOUR voice beneath the many (many) voices vying for your attention each day. Ask yourself: What makes me feel seen and heard? Do that. Start there.

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Physical, mental, and emotional conditions for hearing your inner voice
Disconnecting from your devices to reconnect with yourself
Finding your voice underneath the many (many) voices in your life
Gathering data about how you like to be seen and heard – and putting it to use

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Making Self-Care Accessible with Rosie Molinary Jun 19, 2018

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Rosie Molinary is a radical self-acceptance champion. She is the author of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance and Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina.

I have been inspired by Rosie’s work for over ten years and I am incredibly excited to share her brilliance with all of you. In today’s episode Rosie shares how our relationship with ourselves can get in the way of us living our purpose – and how to course correct this by creating self-care rooted in giving ourselves what we need.

Rosie urges us to ask ourselves: "What do I need right now that I can provide for myself?"

Tune into this conversation to hear us talk about

Shifting your mindset from “everything is a judgement of me” to “everything is information”
Creating your unique wellness prescription
Bringing self-care to your tiniest moments
Laying off your inner critic and how to have a growth mindset that isn’t rooted in criticism

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How to Rebuild Self-Trust Jun 12, 2018

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Self-trust is an essential element to a building a life that you feel grounded and safe in. This episode teaches you how to rebuild self-trust through consistent, terrifically imperfect action. You don't have to do everything "right" in order to know that you have your own back, because your relationship with yourself requires presence not perfection. Listen in to hear me turn conventional self-help advice on its head to help you create a more trustworthy relationship with yourself right this second.

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Why building self-trust and having your own back is so incredibly important
How caring for yourself helps rebuild self-trust
Hanging out in the grey zone black and white, all or nothing thinking
Managing your expectations to create a sustainable relationship with body

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Accepting the Body You Have Now with Anna Guest-Jelley Jun 05, 2018

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Anna Guest-Jelley is the founder of Curvy Yoga, an online yoga studio and teacher training center that helps people of all shapes and sizes find true acceptance and freedom, both on and off the mat. She is the author of Curvy Yoga: Love Yourself & Your Body a Little More Each Day and the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body. I have been lucky to have known Anna since the very inception of Curvy Yoga, and I never cease to be inspired by her gentle, kind, and deeply powerful approach to accepting the body that you are in right now. In today’s episode Anna touches upon so many of my favorite topics – including how accepting our bodies is not in fact the death sentence so many of us worry that it might be, but instead is a pathway towards greater levels of growth grounded in self-love.

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Caring for the body that you have instead of waiting until your “new body’ shows up
Letting go of your magical thinking and surrendering to the present moment
Focusing on how your body feels instead of how your body looks
Using your yoga practice as a place to practice body acceptance
How acceptance is not the same thing as stagnation (at all)

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On Being Needy: Lisa Lewis Interviews Mara Glatzel May 29, 2018

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The more that I take ownership of meeting my own needs, the less "needy" I am for external validation or for someone else to swoop in and save me from myself. In today's episode, career change coach Lisa Lewis turns the tables by interviewing me about my relationship with my needs, reclaiming the concept of what it means to be "needy," and the personal power generated when we take responsibility for caring for ourselves as if we are deserving of our care.

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Prioritizing the things that make you feel good
Loving yourself… even when you may not particularly like yourself
What building a relationship with yourself truly looks like
Finding the grey zone between giving yourself a free pass and holding yourself to your commitments to your self with gentle discipline

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You Are Not (Just) A Complicated Houseplant May 22, 2018

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Perhaps you've seen some variation of the meme telling you to get some water, food, and sunlight, because you are little more than a complicated plant. And, one one hand that concept is totally spot on, but on the other... you, being delightfully human, require more than water, food, and sunlight in order to feel TRULY fulfilled and nourished.

In today's episode, I explore what a need actually is, how you can figure out what you need, and where to focus your self-care right this second.

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Expanding your understanding of a “need” vs. a “want”
What your feelings have to do with your needs
How to build your stamina and capacity to create the world you want to live in
Presence vs. Perfection (Oh yesssss.)

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Motherhood & Self-care with Graeme Seabrook May 15, 2018

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Graeme is a maternal mental health expert, advocate, and community leader who helps moms remove their capes and reconnect with their whole selves. As a certified life coach and founder of The Mom Center, an online community exclusively for moms, she’s coached over 2,000 mothers on how to place their names at the top of their priority list, without guilt or shame.

The Whole Human Mama approach to this work includes a methodology that sits at the intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and self-care. Her message moves beyond the traditional themes of finding balance and improving productivity for moms, and takes a 360 degree look into strategies that encourage their complete mental and emotional wellness.

Described as radical, honest, and uplifting, Graeme’s work is inspired by her experience with recovering from a traumatic birth and battling postpartum depression, when she became a mom for the first time. Her goal is to put moms in the spotlight and celebrate them for their courage to stand boldly in the truth of who they are – with or without capes.

Tune into this conversation to hear more about

Putting yourself on the calendar and holding yourself to your commitment to your own care
Asking for exactly what you want and need
How your self-care might look different than everyone else’s (and that’s TOTALLY ok)
Committing yourself to truly manageable and fulfilling self-care

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Real Self-Care & The Bigger Pitcher May 08, 2018

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If only you could just be less needy, everything would be great. You would be more productive and everyone would love you. You would fit in so much more easily…. Right? In this inaugural episode, I introduce myself, the intention behind creating Needy, and dispel a few crucial myths you’ve been told about self-care.

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