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Dec 30, 2022

5 min

Faith - leap of.

Leaping into the future. Having faith in oneself and making choices. Spirituality. Thomas Aquinas- faith beyond reason. Letting go of needing answers, evidence, certainty. Every day leaps, big overarching life leaps.

What's the role of faith in your life?

Learning Practice features a 3-minute...


Dec 30, 2022

12 min

Happy New Year.  Laugh along with us as we explore three 'mustabtory' life lessons for this year or any year.

In this Resource pod, Maureen wants to introduce REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) by reading from a book.  No seriously.  And, Maureen tells Pierre:  this will be funny.  Pierre, ever the skeptic,...


Dec 24, 2022

5 min

Pierre gives the word today.  It's:  resentment.

What is resentment?  What makes resentment? Psychologically how does it develop?  Maureen elucidates.  

Pierre chimes in, suggesting somewhere underneath resentment is narcissism and it might be intractable. 

Maureen calls BS on Pierre.  Pierre thanks...


Dec 24, 2022

10 min

Maureen puts the word "empath" up for an "LP" Learning Practice.

The word is discussed a bit.  What it means to be empathic. What labeling oneself or others with word does.  

Very soon thereafter, Pierre drops into a self-disclosure vortex, which you can hear him try to escape multiple times.  Maureen plays...


Dec 24, 2022

12 min

Maureen and Pierre dive into Stoicism.  

Sam Harris's meditation app "Waking Up" has a section on the stoic path.  It's a series of mini-pods, about 8-15 minutes long that take you down the path of this philosophy with a view towards a better life.

Maureen picks up on that and introduces several resources...