Peaceful Journey Podcast: Short Meditations and Musings

Deb Phelps
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Welcome to Peaceful Journey, where I share short meditations and musings to help you relax, recharge, and find balance. I’m Deb Phelps, a meditation practitioner and teacher since 1980, sound and energy healing practitioner, yoga teacher, aromatherapist, and spiritual guide. In each episode, we explore mindfulness practices for the mind, body, and spirit to release stress and bring harmony into your life. Visit my website at peacefulwellness.org for more, and be sure to check out my other podcasts on your favorite platform. debphelps.substack.com

  1. 1d ago

    Giving Yourself Permission — Guided Meditation

    How often do we put our own needs aside because there’s always something else that seems more important? In this gentle guided meditation, Deb invites you to notice the expectations you’ve been carrying and explore what it might feel like to set some of them down. Through mindful awareness, a peaceful visualization, and compassionate affirmations, we’ll practice giving ourselves permission to pause, honor our needs, and make choices with greater kindness. A supportive practice for anyone feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities, expectations, or the pressure to do it all. Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community: https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Continue Practicing with Me Meditation libraries and Live Classes: meditatewithdeb.org Listen to this podcast and more at https://palette.audio/@meditatewithdeb Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 2d ago

    Why Is It So Hard to Receive?

    We’re often very good at giving our time, energy, kindness, and compassion to others. But why can it feel so uncomfortable to receive those same things ourselves? In this week’s teaching, Deb Phelps explores the beliefs and everyday habits that may keep us from accepting help, allowing rest, and acknowledging our own needs. Drawing from mindfulness and Buddhist teachings on generosity (dāna), we’ll reflect on the relationship between giving and receiving, the pressure to always be productive, and how self-compassion can help us soften these patterns. This talk also includes a brief guided reflection to help you consider what you might be ready to receive in your own life. This week’s invitation: Notice one opportunity to receive kindness, rest, or support—and allow yourself to consider saying yes. Details on the website: https://meditatewithdeb.org Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community:https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Oct 27

    Resting in Receptive Awareness

    Resting in Receptive Awareness is a short guided meditation for softening effort and allowing the present moment to come to you. Through breath awareness, sensory noticing, and a period of quiet open awareness, this practice invites you to receive what is already here without needing to search, fix, or create a particular experience. Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community: https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Continue Practicing with Me Meditation libraries and Live Classes: meditatewithdeb.org Listen to this podcast and more at https://palette.audio/@meditatewithdeb Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Oct 26

    What Happens When You Stop Reaching?

    In this week’s Sacred Pause reflection, What Happens When You Stop Reaching?, we explore the practice of receiving and what can become available when we loosen our grip on constant effort, striving, and the need to move toward the next thing. Receiving does not mean becoming passive or pretending everything is fine. It can be as simple as allowing ourselves to notice the support, rest, kindness, beauty, or quiet that may already be present. This reflection invites us to experiment with a little less effort and a little more receptivity, both in meditation and in everyday life. If you’d like to explore this theme through practice, you’re welcome to join me in my live meditation classes throughout the week. Details on the website: https://meditatewithdeb.org Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community:https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Oct 21

    Pause, Notice, Trust Meditation

    In this week’s Free Meditation Moments with Deb, Pause, Notice, Trust offers a gentle practice for creating a little space between what you notice and the urge to immediately explain, question, or change it. Through body awareness, quiet reflection, and several minutes of silence, you’ll practice acknowledging what is present without needing to know exactly what it means. Sometimes trust begins simply by allowing yourself to notice your experience and give it a little time. A quick note: This meditation was recorded during last night’s live Tuesday Community Meditation & Connection. The live Tuesday gathering is now on pause, but I’ll continue recording and sharing these free meditations each week as Free Meditation Moments with Deb. Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community: https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Continue Practicing with Me Meditation libraries and Live Classes: meditatewithdeb.org Listen to this podcast and more at https://palette.audio/@meditatewithdeb Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

  6. Oct 19

    The Pause Before You Second-Guess Yourself

    In Week 3 of Sacred Pause, we explore what happens in the space between noticing something and immediately questioning it. The Pause Before You Second-Guess Yourself looks at self-trust as something quieter than certainty, giving ourselves room to recognize what we feel, sense, or notice before deciding what it means. You’re also invited to join me for our Free Community Meditation on Tuesday at 6:30 PM CT, where we’ll practice together. Details on the website: https://meditatewithdeb.org Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community:https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

    The Pause Before You Second-Guess Yourself

  7. Oct 15

    A Moment of Reflection

    Sometimes, a little pause is all we need to reconnect with ourselves and listen to what may be asking for our attention. This morning, I shared a collective reading from my new Aromatherapy & Crystal Oracle Deck, and I’d love to share that experience with you. In this gentle 15-minute session, I introduce my newest deck, guide a brief grounding practice, and draw a card for reflection and intuitive guidance. Together, we explore the card’s crystal ally, aromatic ally, reflection, and affirmation, along with how its message might speak to our everyday lives. I also invite you to choose a single word to carry with you into the coming days—a simple reminder of whatever feels meaningful to you. I’d love to hear from you: After watching, what word came to mind? Did the card’s message offer a new perspective or something to reflect upon? ✨ Explore my Aromatherapy & Crystal Oracle Deck If you’d like to work with the cards yourself, the deck is available at https://scentering.com and includes access to an online companion guide with additional reflections and mindfulness practices. I hope this little moment of reflection offers you an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and listen inward. With peace,Deb You’re warmly invited to join my free Skool community, where we explore meditation together and connect with others who are building a more mindful life. You can also access my Audio Meditation Library on Palette for $5 a month, with meditation recordings from the past 60 days available anytime you’d like a practice to return to. Details on my website: meditatewithdeb.com Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

    A Moment of Reflection

  8. Oct 14

    The Listening Pause

    This short Sacred Pause meditation invites you to step out of the noise and practice listening with greater presence. Through awareness of sound, breath, body sensations, and inner experience, you’ll explore what it means to notice without immediately interpreting or responding. The practice includes generous quiet and an extended period of silence for simply listening. Join the free Peaceful Wellness Skool community: https://www.skool.com/peaceful-wellness-6341 Continue Practicing Meditation libraries: meditatewithdeb.org Live classes: peacefulwellness.studio Free Community Meditation on ZoomTuesdays at 6:30 PM CentralSchedule: https://www.momoyoga.com/peaceful-wellness Listen to this podcast and more at https://palette.audio/@meditatewithdeb Get full access to Meditate with Deb | Peaceful Wellness at debphelps.substack.com/subscribe

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Welcome to Peaceful Journey, where I share short meditations and musings to help you relax, recharge, and find balance. I’m Deb Phelps, a meditation practitioner and teacher since 1980, sound and energy healing practitioner, yoga teacher, aromatherapist, and spiritual guide. In each episode, we explore mindfulness practices for the mind, body, and spirit to release stress and bring harmony into your life. Visit my website at peacefulwellness.org for more, and be sure to check out my other podcasts on your favorite platform. debphelps.substack.com

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