Monthly Archives: November 2017

Thanksgiving Special Episode

November 21, 2017Podcastcelebration, family, family traditions, giving thanks, gratitude, holiday, reflection, ritual, Thanksgiving, tradition, United StatesDianeMcDaniel

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in United States and a number of other countries. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It’s a day for gathering with family and family friends and for engaging in family traditions and rituals.

To mark the day this is a special episode of the REAL podcast. This crowdsourced episode is comprised of reflections on gratitude and of how we celebrate Thanksgiving from Philippe Browning, Catherine Davidson, Laura Diamond, Tanya Ward Goodman, Chris J Rice, Laura Silverman, and others.

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Chris Rice: Becoming the Author of My Own Life

November 15, 2017Podcastartist, belonging, Bible Belt, book, burden basket, California Institute of the Arts, Cherokee, community, epigenetic, epigenetic trauma, foster care, foster girl, librarian, Little Trespasser, Los Angeles, Missouri, mother, observer, Oklahoma, outsider, reader, renegade, research, Sixkiller, social work, Southern California, suffering, trauma, visual artist, writerDianeMcDaniel

Writer and visual artist Chris Rice talks about growing up on the road, traveling between the Bible Belt and Southern California as the oldest of nine children and caretaker of her younger siblings. Witness to the legacy of epigenetic trauma and suffering, Chris became an outsider and observer of the imagined lives she might inhabit in the future. Chris also talks about the healing power of love and the importance of community to protect and foster the vulnerable.

Find Chris’ work at chrisjrice.net.

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Celeste Young: A New Relationship to Experience

November 7, 2017Podcastanxiety, attention, Buddha, compassion, contented, contentedness, device, Dharma, experience, iPhone, meditation, mindfulness, pain, relationship, relationships, silence, silent, solitude, stillness, stress, suffering, teacher, teaching, technologyDianeMcDaniel

Mindfulness meditation practitioner and Dharma teacher, Celeste Young, talks about her search to lessen her suffering and develop a new relationship to experience, as well as the joy she now feels in sharing what she loves with students who are dealing with anxiety and stress. Celeste also talks about developing a balanced relationship with the technologies that both claim our attention and connect us to community and how being silent and practicing mindfulness can be a doorway into compassion for oneself.

Find information on Celeste’s events, corporate wellness, and individual sessions at celesteyoung.com.

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