I’m so excited to welcome back Dr. Jody Carrington, our guest from episode 8, for a conversation about connection, relationships, and being brave. As the author of Kids These Days and newly released Teachers These days, we catch up on everything that’s happened since she last joined us and how her mindset and strategy have changed since writing her first book. Jody also shares why connection is more important than ever, especially as we’re adapting to life while the global pandemic continues, and gives us brave actions we can take to start reconnecting.

Our guest this week, Jules Evans, researcher, philosopher, and the person that inspired me to dive into this whole realm of mixing spirituality with conspiracy, joined me for a conversation to talk all things socratic and ecstatic, conspirituality, and creating boundaries in your own spirituality. Jules tells us how a freak skiing accident helped him heal from a life of misadventure with drugs, and led him all the way back to the Stoics of Ancient Greece and the work that he does. We chat about the concept of conspirituality and being able to enjoy spirituality without falling into these more darker areas.

A couple weeks ago, I read an Apple News article about California’s yoga and wellness community having a QAnon problem. This led me to dig even further into my curiousity surrounding conspirituality and I knew I wanted to share this with you. I want to know why a community that represents connection, love, and acceptance adopt an ideology opposite to that? In this post, I’m going to dive into what conspirituality is as a foundational whole as well as the human behavior aspect, and then I’ll share some action items and questions you can take away from this post.

If life feels heavy and you’re not sure when you’ll come up for air please know you’re not alone and continue reading this post. I’m not going to tell you to buckle up and press the gas pedal. To get thicker skin and strategize more. If that’s what you’re looking for then this post isn’t for you. I’m going to share the complete opposite of what popular practice would tell you. In hopes that you’ll feel relief and hope again.

We decided to try something a little different this week. And hopefully, for the coming weeks. We thought it would be fun to have little minisodes where I give thoughts or tips or things that I've been learning in hopes that it can also help you. It's something that I have done on Instagram, for many years actually, where I just hop on and share what I'm learning in my entrepreneurship journey, spiritual journey, I usually share things like okay, this is how I'm using affirmations in my life or here's a story about this spiritual principle that changed everything.

There’s a collective desire right now for us to strengthen our self-connection and trust. But many of us lose our voices because of the constant noise from “influencers” and other outside voices. This is why self-connection becomes so important, so I’m exploring what self-connection really is, why it’s non-negotiable, and three things you can start now to begin the journey of connecting to yourself.

Have you felt this way at any point in the last year? Like nothing’s working the way you want it to. Like the law of attraction isn’t working. You find yourself focusing on stress. Focusing on the desire for something. This post is for you. I’m going through a season of spiritual independence and a few listeners in The Good Space community told me they are, too. We’re tired of being spoken AT and are ready to start trusting ourselves more. Keep reading to see what 5 common beliefs sabotage your ability to trust yourself.