Five Lemons Laughing

Morgan Lemly Turner
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Five women on a spiritual journey together. Join Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan and Penny, as they share their personal experiences of applying spiritual principles & practices in their daily lives... The lemons discuss their breakthroughs, breakdowns, insights, and challenges, always with lots of laughter & compassion. As authentic as it gets, these are the lemons making lemonade.

  1. 10 ago ·  Vídeo

    You Saw the Signs. You Stayed Anyway.

    There's a moment you know something isn't working. A conversation that keeps going sideways. A tiredness no amount of coffee touches. A gut feeling you keep talking yourself out of because you've already decided you're right. Then life stops whispering. Amanda had been going back and forth with Loki, her horse, for weeks. The pinned ears. The stepping in. The not-so-subtle "no." She noticed all of it (she's good at staying present) and she pushed anyway. Then he bit her. Hard enough to leave a bruise that's still healing. But the bite isn't the story. It's the punctuation. This week Amanda, Melissa, and Penny sit with the question underneath the bruise: what if life isn't happening to you, but trying to talk to you? What if the power struggle in your marriage, the exhaustion in your body, the tension with the one you love most are the same quiet nudges Amanda kept overriding in the arena? They get into the fantasy we project onto the people (and animals) in front of us instead of seeing who's actually there. The fear of connecting hard again after a loss. Knowing when to stand your ground and when to pause. And one line from Melissa that stopped the whole conversation cold: "It should have happened if it did." If something in your life has been whispering lately, this one's for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 Life happening TO you vs. life communicating WITH you 🔹 Why "you're not the boss of me" shows up in marriage, parenting, and a 1,000-pound horse 🔹 The fantasy we project onto our closest relationships instead of seeing what's real 🔹 What the Serenity Prayer has to do with when to speak up and when to be still 🔹 Coming to the people you love with an "empty bucket," and the rabbi's shoes that explain it 🔹 Practicing listening to your intuition when you can't tell the whisper from the ego ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 Wu Wei (the Taoist art of moving with life instead of against it) 🔹 The Serenity Prayer 🔹 The Telepathy Tapes podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STAY CONNECTED If any of this feels familiar, share it with someone who's been ignoring their own whispers. Subscribe so the next conversation finds you, and tell us in the comments: what's been whispering to you lately? Like • Subscribe • Share

  2. 10 ago ·  Vídeo

    I Was the Villain in Someone's Story

    Someone leaves your life, and it feels like they walked out with a piece of you. A friend drifts. A parent passes. A six-year friendship you always knew wasn't quite right finally comes to an end. And underneath the missing them, there's a quieter question that's harder to say out loud. Was any of it random? Or was every one of those people always going to find their way to you? 🍋 In Episode 189, all five Lemonettes sit with a single line: nothing is a coincidence. Every soul you meet is written in your destiny to teach you, to heal you, or to love you. Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan, and Penny hold it up against their own lives. The people who stayed. The ones who left. The ones who still take up space in their heads long after the relationship ended. Grief. Estrangement. The friend you keep answering out of guilt. The neighbor you're learning to love while she's suing you. They lean on A Course in Miracles, Jennifer Hadley's forgiveness work, twelve-step wisdom, and Human Design to ask what a relationship is actually for, and how you know when it's finished with you, or you with it. 🔹 What we tell ourselves someone "gave" us 🔹 Why some people are pure oil and water, on purpose 🔹 The difference between letting go and giving up too soon 🔹 What "there's no getting it wrong" really means for the people you've lost 🍋 If you've ever wondered why someone came into your life, or why they left, this is the conversation for it. Someone probably just came to mind. Come sit with them for a while, right here alongside us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 A Course in Miracles (the Manual for Teachers) 🔹 Jennifer Hadley's forgiveness work 🔹 Al-Anon and the twelve steps 🔹 Human Design 🔹 Archangel Michael and cord-cutting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 THIS WEEK'S INVITATION Think of one person who helped shape your journey. Maybe they taught you something, maybe they healed you, maybe they simply loved you when you needed it most. And maybe, without realizing it, you've been that person for someone else. Tell us who came to mind in the comments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 If this one meets you where you are, follow Five Lemons Laughing on YouTube and wherever you listen, and share it with the person who came to mind. Your transformation is our greatest joy.

  3. 4 ago ·  Vídeo

    Your Word of the Year Is Chasing You |

    Back in January, you chose a word. Maybe you wrote it on a sticky note. Maybe you said it out loud to someone you love. An intention. A promise to yourself about who you meant to become this year. We're halfway through now. Do you still remember what it was? And underneath that question is a quieter one: do you remember what it was pointing you toward? This week the Lemonettes check in on their words of the year, surrender, acceptance, love, empty, and find themselves circling an old Zen story about a finger pointing at the moon. The finger shows you where to look. But the finger is not the moon. And most of us, if we're honest, end up studying the finger. Judging it. Trying to follow it perfectly. Never lifting our eyes to the thing it was pointing at all along. So what happens when the practice meant to free you becomes one more item on the list? When "I should meditate, I should journal, I should be further along by now" becomes the very thing standing between you and the peace you were reaching for? We don't tie this one up neatly. But we go somewhere honest about the difference between practicing your life and actually living it. In this episode: A Zen parable about a finger, a moon, and everything we miss Why your word of the year keeps chasing you, even when you forget it The moment you stop practicing and realize you're already in the game Emptiness, zero point, and the awareness underneath every spiritual tool Carrying all of it into a busy 9-to-5 life, no monastery required Mentioned in this episode: The Zen parable of the finger pointing to the moon A Course in Miracles The Bhagavad Gita Ho'oponopono and the zero point Awareness Watching Awareness by Michael Langford Insight Timer WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com If this conversation found you at the right time, subscribe and stay close. New episodes every week. And remember, your transformation is our greatest joy. 💛

  4. 27 jul ·  Vídeo

    The Extraordinary Hidden in the Ordinary

    🍋 You're halfway through the dishes, or driving a road you've driven a thousand times, and your mind is already three steps ahead. Planning. Solving. Waiting for the part of life that finally feels good. And while you're waiting, an ordinary morning slips right by, unnoticed. This week the Lemonettes get into a question that sounds simple until you actually try to live it: what if the extraordinary life you keep chasing was never the point, and the extraordinary presence you bring to an ordinary one is? It starts light. A sunset on a dog walk. Wind moving through the trees. A hard phone call taken while shuffling through pain. Then it gets honest, when one of the Lemonettes admits she can't relax in her own home. Too big, too many stairs, too much weight. A husband who wants one thing, a wife who wants another, and two years of feeling stuck in the middle. What follows is a real, unscripted look at what being present actually asks of us, and whether you can long for change and love exactly where you are at the very same time. You'll hear what it sounds like when "we don't have a choice" quietly turns into "this is what we're choosing." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 A few things we get into: 🔹 Extraordinary experience vs. extraordinary presence, and why the difference changes everything 🔹 Why "I'll be happy when…" keeps the good life one step out of reach 🔹 What a real estate agent discovers when her hardest client is her own husband 🔹 How being present and still longing for change can live in the same body 🔹 Whether the extraordinary is available even to people with no way out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 Something to carry with you: Think back to yesterday. Who were you with? Was there a moment that didn't seem like much at the time, but looking back, you're so glad you didn't let it pass you by? Let that one linger. That's where this episode lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 If this resonates: 🔹 Subscribe so you don't miss what's next 🔹 Share this with someone who's been holding out for "someday" 🔹 Drop a comment: where did you find the extraordinary hiding in your ordinary this week? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES We're all coaches and spiritual counselors, and if you're moving through something tender, you don't have to do it alone. 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 Five Lemons Laughing is a weekly conversation about spirituality, personal growth, and finding the funny in being gloriously human. Pull up a chair. You belong here. 💛

  5. 20 jul ·  Vídeo

    When Strategy Becomes Fear: Letting Go of the Need to Control Everything

    Ever notice how much time you spend planning the thing... instead of just doing it? The Lemonettes are all back together this week, and they're pulling apart something sneaky — the moment "strategy" quietly turns into fear wearing a to-do list. Amanda has a camper story that still doesn't make sense on paper. Melissa's rental car kept getting cancelled in Italy — and she's convinced that was the point. Morgan spent weeks in a full-blown job-search panic over nothing. Penny can't seem to book a plane ticket she's already decided to buy. There's a reason for all of it. And once you see it, you can't unsee it in your own life. Stay to the end for the one question they're asking listeners to sit with this week — it might change how you plan your next anything.

  6. 13 jul ·  Vídeo

    What Are You Actually Practicing? (Despite Your Best Intentions)

    You have a morning routine. A meditation practice. Maybe a course in miracles lesson you read before bed. But that's not what's actually running your life. One of us skipped her routine for a single morning and by 3pm was googling trucks for five hours straight. Another spent a "wonderful" birthday replaying every word she said the night before — and couldn't figure out why until she named it out loud. A third called it a relapse. None of them saw it coming. That's the point. In this episode: The moment a five-day-old truck accident turns into something the family starts calling a "Swedish death cleanse" Why "I'm so glad you're not dead" is not the grateful thought it sounds like The single ACIM lesson one host calls her favorite — and what it has to do with never having to defend yourself again What happens when you ask "what did I practice yesterday" instead of "what do I believe" Awareness is curative. But only if you're willing to look at what you're actually doing on repeat — not what you meant to do. This week: notice what you're practicing. You might not love what you find. Resources mentioned: A Course in Miracles — Lesson 153, "In my defenselessness, my safety lies" Connect with us: Subscribe for new episodes weekly Leave a comment — tell us what you're practicing this week Leave a review, it helps more people find the show Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram

  7. 6 jul ·  Vídeo

    Are We Secretly Happy They're Failing?

    You saw the headline. Someone got caught, someone got fired, someone finally "got what was coming to them"...  and for one second, before you could stop yourself, it felt good. This episode goes looking for the reason why. Amanda, Penny, and Morgan follow that thread from a reflecting pool in Washington D.C. all the way to their own reactions to the current political administration, and land on a question none of them fully want answered: if your peace depends on someone else being wrong, how much peace do you actually have? 🍋 🍋 🍋 What We're Wrestling With 🔹 Why does someone else's failure feel like your win? 🔹 What happens when "karma's gonna get them" becomes your whole spiritual practice? 🔹 Is there a difference between having an opinion and needing someone else to be wrong? 🔹 What would it actually cost you to root for someone you disagree with? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Resources Mentioned 🔹 A Course in Miracles (ACIM) 🔹 Abraham Hicks and the Law of Attraction  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 A Note on This Episode This conversation touches on real, current reactions to the Trump administration and national headlines — held here not as a political stance, but as a mirror for where each of us gets to choose peace over being right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Loved this episode? 🔹 Subscribe so you don't miss what we get into next. 🔹 Drop a comment, and let us know if you can relate! 🔹 Leave a review.  It helps new listeners find us. 🔹 Follow along on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @FiveLemonsLaughing   🍋 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 🍋 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling):  morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com

  8. 29 jun ·  Vídeo

    The Cage You Built Yourself

    You've wanted more freedom in your relationships. More space to breathe. Less reactivity. Less noise in your head when someone does the thing they always do. You've done the work. You know the tools. And yet — the cage door closes anyway. What nobody told you is that your freedom and their freedom are the same thing. Morgan, Penny, and Drusilla sit with a question most of us are not ready to answer honestly: What if the freedom we're fighting for is actually the very thing we're blocking — by refusing to give it away? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 What happens in your body the moment someone disagrees with your values 🔹 The difference between the problem and the meaning you make of it — and why only one of those is real 🔹 How judging someone else's behavior quietly locks you both up 🔹 What it actually looks like to stay openhearted when everything in you wants to close 🔹 Why assumptions — not conflict — are the real thief of your freedom 🔹 The one practice that might be the hardest thing you do this week ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz — https://bookshop.org/a/94543/9781878424310 🔹 Abraham Hicks — abraham-hicks.com 🔹 Jennifer Hadley / Love Ministry — powerofloveministry.net 🔹 A Course in Miracles — https://bookshop.org/a/94543/9781883360269 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THIS WEEK'S PRACTICE Meet everyone without judgment. Not for a week. Try an hour. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda Snyder — Spiritual Counseling | amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla Talley-Williams — Spiritual Counseling | djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa Dugan — Business & Marketing Coaching | melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan Turner — Spiritual Counseling | morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny Herman-Polayes — Performance Coaching | coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STAY CONNECTED Subscribe | Leave a comment | Leave a review Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @FiveLemonsLaughing

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Five women on a spiritual journey together. Join Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan and Penny, as they share their personal experiences of applying spiritual principles & practices in their daily lives... The lemons discuss their breakthroughs, breakdowns, insights, and challenges, always with lots of laughter & compassion. As authentic as it gets, these are the lemons making lemonade.

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  • Creado por
    Morgan Lemly Turner
  • Años en activo
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodios
    190
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
  • Derechos de autor
    © 2023
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Five Lemons Laughing
  • Proveedor