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HeatherAsh Amara: Becoming an Artist of the Spirit

HeatherAsh Amara — March 8, 2016

HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci—the Toltec Center of Creative Intent—which is an organization devoted to the development of an authentic and aware global community through a blend of Toltec wisdom, European shamanism, Buddhism, and Native American ceremony. With Sounds True, she has created The Warrior Goddess Online Training: Becoming the Woman You Are Meant to Be, an eight-week training filled with insights, meditations, and question-and-answer sessions for embracing one’s divine womanhood. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and HeatherAsh discuss the concept of “stalking oneself” and how to explore the challenge of everyday moments. They also speak on the necessity of becoming intimate with oneself no matter the discomfort that may cause. Finally, HeatherAsh talks about her apprenticeship with don Miguel Ruiz and her days as a firewalking instructor—as well as how each helped her to embrace every aspect of her being.
(67 minutes)

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Caroline Adams Miller: Getting Grit

Caroline Adams Miller — May 2, 2017

Caroline Miller is one of the world’s foremost experts in positive psychology and the author of books such as Creating Your Best Life and My Name Is Caroline. With Sounds True, she has recently published Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Caroline discuss the concept of “grit”—the ability to stay passionate and persistent in one’s long-term goals even in the face of considerable hardship. Caroline explains the different kinds of grit, including “false grit” that encourages stubbornness or flatters the ego. Finally, Tami and Caroline talk about the startling fact that we don’t become happy when we are successful; rather, we become successful because we’re happy first. (56 minutes)

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Ep 7 Bonus: Seventh Generation Exercise

Joanna & Jess — May 30, 2024

This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 7: “We Are a Part of a River of Time” deeper into your life.

Jess will guide you through an adaptation of the Work That Reconnects exercise called “The Seventh Generation,” which she talks about in Episode 7. We recommend listening to the episode before doing this bonus. In this exercise, you will be invited to use your imagination and do some creative, guided role-playing with a friend, where one of you will speak as yourself, and the other will speak as a future being.

For this exercise, you’ll need a friend and a place that is quiet enough for you to sit face-to-face and talk freely.

We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.

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Valerie Gangas: In Deep Shift

Valerie Gangas — February 16, 2023

When our lives are unexpectedly overturned, how do we regain our footing and make something new and better of ourselves? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with author Valerie Gangas about her book, In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom, an empowering guide to help us navigate those times when life turns upside down and inside out. Give a listen as they talk about spontaneous awakenings and spiritual “emergencies,” the connection between deep despair and deep shifts, spiritual sensitivity and how to stay grounded, the power of complete surrender, the practice of transcendental meditation, “opposite land” and the discovery that nothing is at is seems, out-of-body experiences versus embodied presence, cultivating your intuition, manifestation and listening for that which wants to be created through you, removing the distractions on the path to living your purpose, and more.

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Raw Blueberry Cheesecake

Sadie Radinsky — February 25, 2021

Raw Vegan Blueberry Cheesecake

From the book, Whole Girl by Sadie Radinsky

Yield: 8 servings

INGREDIENTS:

CRUST

1 ½ cups roasted pecan pieces
2 Tbsp monk fruit maple-flavored syrup or pure maple syrup
1 Tbsp coconut oil, melted

FILLING

2 cups raw cashews or cashew pieces, soaked overnight in 4 cups of water, then rinsed
1 cup freeze-dried or fresh blueberries
½ cup coconut cream, from the top of a chilled 13 1/2-ounce can of full-fat coconut milk
2 Tbsp monk fruit maple-flavored syrup or pure maple syrup
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
2 Tbsp coconut oil, melted
1 cup fresh blueberries

INSTRUCTIONS:

CRUST

Line the bottom of a 6-inch springform cake pan with a circle of parchment paper and set aside.
In a high-speed blender, blend together the crust ingredients just until it forms a dough-like consistency. It might help to use your blender’s tamper, if you have one. Do not overblend or it will turn into pecan butter!
Press the pecan crust evenly into the bottom of the cake pan and place in the freezer while you prepare the filling.

FILLING

Without washing your blender, combine the filling ingredients (except for 1 cup of fresh blueberries) and blend until completely smooth.

Pour the filling onto the frozen crust and top with 1 cup fresh blueberries. Place in the freezer for approximately 5 hours, or until it’s frozen through.

Using a butter knife, gently swipe around the inside of the pan to loosen the cake. Remove the cake from the springform pan. Slice and serve. Store any leftover cake in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 1 month. Thaw for 15 minutes before serving.

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This recipe is featured in the young adult book, Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food by Sadie Radinsky.

Sadie Radinsky is a 19-year-old blogger and recipe creator. For over six years, she has touched the lives of girls and women worldwide with her award-winning website, wholegirl.com, where she shares paleo treat recipes and advice for living an empowered life. She has published articles and recipes in national magazines and other platforms, including Paleo, Shape, Justine, mindbodygreen, and The Primal Kitchen Cookbook. She lives in the mountains of Los Angeles. For more, visit wholegirl.com.

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Working with Difficult Emotions – free video

Karla McLaren
Robert Augustus Masters — December 22, 2013

Many of us struggle with the experience of difficult emotions, such as anger, jealousy, sadness, grief, shame, anxiety, and depression. In the face of such challenges, how can we keep our hearts open? What is the most skillful way to work with these difficulties in a way where we remain fully embodied and radically committed to our lives as they are? Is there such a thing as a “negative” emotion? How can we most powerfully grow from the experience of difficulty and view these challenging experiences as messengers and allies on the path of awakening and love?

Join Sounds True authors Karla McLaren and Robert Augustus Masters, two pioneering teachers on the healing potential of skillfully working with difficult emotions, for this inspiring dialogue, moderated by Sounds True publisher, Tami Simon.

HeatherAsh Amara: Becoming an Artist of the Spirit

Caroline Adams Miller: Getting Grit

Ep 7 Bonus: Seventh Generation Exercise

Valerie Gangas: In Deep Shift

Raw Blueberry Cheesecake

Working with Difficult Emotions – free video

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