#148 "What do you want?"

#148 "What do you want?"

Author: Suzanne Andora Barron December 29, 2025 Duration: 5:06
Our habits often consume us more than our wants do. We stay up late, scroll, tell ourselves "just a few more minutes"—even when we'd rather go to bed. It sounds simple to just stop, but our habits feel like they have a mind of their own. That's because many of our habits once helped us. They soothed our nervous systems, which is why they're so hard to break. For me, staying up late gave me "me time" when my boys were young. After Christopher passed, it helped me avoid harder mornings. "What d...

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#094 Do You Make Others Wrong So You Can Be Right? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:32
Do you even realize you're doing it? What if we can listen to understand versus listen to correct or fix? Think about how much less stress we'll have? Listening to understand calms the nervous system and it creates conne…
#91 Guided Jin Shin Jyutsu Meditation to Recongize What's Going Right [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:26
Here's a meditation to take you to a higher vibration to help you recognize what's going right in your life. There's always something right, but we tend to look at what's wrong. Think about how much happier we would be i…
#089 Can't Figure Out Why Your Anxious? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:27
Do you ever find that sometimes you feel anxious or fearful and you can't figure out the reason? Sometimes there is no reason. A lot of times there is no reason. Often, it has to do with the feelings we've shoved down co…
#088 How Have Suppressed Emotions Affected Your Life? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:29
We all know that we push down emotions, both consciously and unconsciously. But have we stopped to question how that shoving down is holding us back in life? Dr. David Hawkins in his book, Letting Go, shares that we thin…
#087 Jin Shin Jyutsu Meditation to Ease & Shift Worry [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:06
Here's a meditation I taught on easing worry and connecting to the abundance within you. The Jin Shin Jyutsu that I teach is the long version to calm worry. You'll hold three fingers starting with thumb, followed by your…
#086 "Kindness, Your Super Strength," with Irene Solo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:21
Learn how to find the upside of any situation in today's episode: "Kindness is your super strength with Irene Solo." Irene lost her dad when she was eight and her husband when her children were young, but when you listen…