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Episode 85 - Effort

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Episode 85 - Effort

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xfixt-169190f Join me in episode 85 where I talk about hopes best companion effort! There are four directions we can apply effort for our wellness. A starting point is to ask the questions: 1) Why do I say what I say when I say it? and 2) Why do I do what I do when I do it? These questions allow one to “get conscious” so we can start to think about the…

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Episode 84 - Hope and Openness for Healing and Recovery

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Episode 84 - Hope and Openness for Healing and Recovery

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hih7a-15c9c6b Welcome to another episode of The Hopeful Humanist Cafe. In this episode I attempt to tie a number of threads together from some of the pitfalls of self-care to the importance of hope, openness, and compassion for a healing or recovery journey.  Quotes: 1) “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without…

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Episode 83 - Pickleball Etiquette as an Allegory for Life

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Episode 83 - Pickleball Etiquette as an Allegory for Life

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rhbj9-151eb38 In this episode, I provide articles for listeners to access who might be interested in learning the unwritten rules of etiquette for Pickleball. I then suggest that pickleball itself might be the meaning of life and offer ideas about what might constitute the good life.  Quote: 1)  “Pickleball is cheaper than therapy” – unknown  2) “Pickleball…

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Episode 82 - Getting right with being wrong

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Episode 82 - Getting right with being wrong

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-htsbx-14f619b How well do you do with managing being wrong? Are you able to recognize internally when you are wrong? Are you able to acknowledge being wrong and take ownership for your thoughts and actions? Is there a difference between being wrong and making a mistake? Join me in this tip-of-the-iceberg conversation about one thread of the so many…

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Episode 81 - The Novel First Sentence & Journal Prompt Project

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Episode 81 - The Novel First Sentence & Journal Prompt Project

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9n9yp-14bc31d Welcome to another unedited, blithering episode of the Hopeful Humanist Cafe. In this episode, I share with you a leisure project I have been experimenting with on X (formerly Twitter) and Minds.  I believe that everyone has within them one book to write. Having said that, however, it should be noted that writing is something that requires…

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What is enough?

If in life, you are always one thing away from happiness, you'll never be happy.

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"At what a cost did I raise my eyes? Did I raise them? Rather did I not obliterate myself for an instant in order to be reborn in the following instant with my head thrown back and my eyes raised upward?" Sartre, Nausea

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"What if" - the optimist version

Stand up to worrisome thoughts by playing the optimist version of "What if" ...

-What if everything works out?

-What if I make the best decision I can considering the circumstance?

-What if I get a good sleep?

-What if I talk to someone?

-What if I go for a walk?

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Episode 80 - Dreaming about the Hero’s Journey

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Episode 80 - Dreaming about the Hero’s Journey

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vtqid-14249cf Salutations and welcome to episode 80 of the Hopeful Humanist Cafe. This episode starts with a question from Danielson about the Hero’s Journey – How far must one travel from one’s home before it is fair to call the experience a journey?  Can simply stepping outside one’s door of one’s home constitute a journey? Furthermore, can framing the…

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Episode 79 - Locating Dawn, Activating Empathy

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Episode 79 - Locating Dawn, Activating Empathy

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ymeve-140a0b3 This episode talks about an essential ingredient and starting point for being a “good mentor” for Dawn, the-every-young person-becoming-young-adult.  Before sharing one’s wisdom, one must know who one is sharing one’s wisdom with.  Hence the question, “Who is Dawn?”  Only after activating the empathetic sensibility and stepping into Dawn’s…