Wholly Listening Podcast
with Megan Malick
A Sacred Pause for Body, Mind, and Spirit
Are you a burned-out and stressed-out helper, healer, and space holder? Join Megan for 9 short episodes that provide you with a practice to resource your body, mind, and spirit.
Episodes
Cultivating a Practice of Awareness
Awareness of what is happening inside of ourselves: our minds, our hearts, our bodies, and our spirits helps us shift our focus. It can help us clarify what is happening. It assists us in differentiating our thoughts from our feelings from our body sensations.
Noticing & Tracking Your Energy
It is not uncommon for people to get to the end of the day and feel completely exhausted, drained, or depleted. When they look back at the day, no specific moment may stand out. In fact, what replenishes and nourishes us one day or one time of the day may deplete us on another day.
Taking time track your energy and observe when you've felt filled and when you've felt depleted can assist you in becoming aware of your own energy experience.
Learning to Differentiate Your Stress From Your Stressors
What is the difference between stress and stressors AND Why is that important? Stress is our physiological body response to stressors–it’s what happens INSIDE of us.
The things outside of us–the fight we had with our spouse, the deadline we face at work, the news we hear or read–these are our stressors.
Becoming a Compassionate Witness…to Yourself
We begin by grounding and orienting together followed by identifying a common protective part that many refer to as inner critic or judge and learn ways to turn toward ourselves with kindness and compassion in these moments.
Grief is Part of Healing
For growth, change, and transformation to occur, we will let go and release some of how we have been and who we are. Although we may desire a new destination, arriving their means saying goodbye to the place you currently are. This goodbye activates natural feelings of loss that when faced and integrated lead to spiritual gifts.
Grief is Part of Healing, Part Two
Although we often associate grief with bereavement or loss like divorce or physical ability, there are other places along life’s journey where we encounter loss. Psychotherapist and soul activist Francis Weller identifies four additional gates of grief that we all pass on our human journey. Recognizing and going through these gates helps us apprenticped by sorrow and leads us to develop kindness.
How to Care for Ourselves as we Heal
We look at the Buddhist concept that pain is an inevitable part of life, but that suffering is an option. We look at ways to discern and assess if we’re in pain or if our pain is becoming suffering. Then we explore a practice for learning to be with ourselves in our pain and notice the effect of how we’re coping.
How do I Engage with Others on this Journey?
We look at the five touch points that can guide us in wholly listening to ourselves and to others in our lives. We look at examples of these touch points together and how this practice can help us cultivate growth intrapersonally and interpersonally.
From Monologue to Dialogue
We notice times when we have felt like others are talking at us rather than with us or that we have been listening in order to speak rather than to attune to the other person. Megan suggests that these are moments of monologue. We then look at dialogue as a dynamic process that takes time and practice. Megan shares a develop your ability to dialogue and ends with a poem.