137 episodes

Things That Will Help is a podcast that explores what it’s like to be human, and how to find tools to feel clear, grounded, and happier. Each week, an episode full of rich story-telling and embodied practices that bring the themes Buffy discusses to real life. These stories ahead do not negate the hard or the darkness, but rather point to the lighthouses along the way.

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Things That Will Help is a podcast that explores what it’s like to be human, and how to find tools to feel clear, grounded, and happier. Each week, an episode full of rich story-telling and embodied practices that bring the themes Buffy discusses to real life. These stories ahead do not negate the hard or the darkness, but rather point to the lighthouses along the way.

    Energy Currency Will Help

    Energy Currency Will Help

    Your energy and your time are some of the most valuable resources you have, and in this episode Buffy speaks to the ways energy currency relates to introversion vs. extroversion. How we can be more awake to the ways we nurture our reserves of energy currency? If each day were a love letter to yourself, how would you construct that day to feel the best and the healthiest in terms of energy currency? 🌱 Learn more about how to work with/hire Buffy.🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become...

    • 23 min
    Marking Time Will Help

    Marking Time Will Help

    Buffy reflects on four years of Things That Will Help and names the power of standing still, looking back, and marking moments in time as a way to measure our transformation. She shares stories of witnessing and being witnessed as ways to invite in wonder, peace, and trust. Marking time, and naming it, is an incredible way to feel the impact of this moment in your life and how you got here, before you move on to what's next.🌱 Learn more about how to work with/hire Buffy.🌱 Leave a tip in...

    • 25 min
    Radical Responsibility Will Help

    Radical Responsibility Will Help

    Buffy starts the episode with discussing the Bystander Effect, which says that the greater number of bystanders that are witness to an emergency situation or bully, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help for the person in distress. She uses this as a jumping off point as a call for us to take radical responsibility for our lives, even when it is inconvenient; even when it is difficult; even when it is easier to shirk it. Wanting it is not always enough - so what can w...

    • 21 min
    The Solar Eclipse Will Help

    The Solar Eclipse Will Help

    Buffy and Alex are back to talk about April 8's total solar eclipse - this is a powerful time for healing, transformation, and reflection on the ways we want to show up in the world. They discuss practical ways to work with the volatile energy of this current astrological weather, including potentially pausing major decisions, processes that can help us feel renewed, and ways to feel clearer than ever in our personal offerings in the world.You can book as astrological reading with Alex here.🌱...

    • 26 min
    The Lunar Eclipse Will Help

    The Lunar Eclipse Will Help

    Happy Eclipse Season! Buffy welcomes TTWH editor and producer Alex Ammons - who also moonlights as a professional astrologer. Alex and Buffy talks about the two-week period of the eclipse season - which, on this episode air date, we are in the thick of. Eclipses are major moments in the collective and individually, and knowing how to best prepare for them can help us navigate the potential tumult with grace and compassion (both for ourselves and others).You can book as astrological reading wi...

    • 29 min
    Less Equipment Will Help

    Less Equipment Will Help

    This episode is dedicated to the power you contain and the practices that help cultivate your ability to stand more vertical, with less. What if the answers you seek don't lie in trendy workout equipment and the never-ending cycle of "self-help"? We go in to find out. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here.🌱 Learn more about how to work with/hire Buffy.🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support th...

    • 22 min

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