The Morning Share

The Morning Share
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A podcast born out of a simple morning rhythm—where two friends, share what’s stirring in their hearts, minds, and bodies. A blend of spiritual musings, raw honesty, deep conversations, and playful creativity. Sharing stories, sharing space and sharing ourselves with you. www.themorningshare.com

  1. 6d ago

    You Can't Navigate What You Don't Name

    If you don't know who you are, how do you know which way to go? The October series ends with the practical episode we promised: how to actually move through change. Deanna and Ang start in the center of the compass (the needle, which is you) and then walk through four directions: North, Name the threshold. East, Express gratitude. South, Spot resistance. West, Welcome change. Along the way: what throws your needle off, three kinds of change (including the one nobody sends flowers for), the "thank, grieve, welcome" practice, why one step forward and two steps back is normal, mapping your skills, values, people, and strategies, and the smallest step you can take this week. The episode closes with a short guided walk around the compass. CHAPTERS 0:00 Never Eat Soggy Waffles 0:44 If you don't know who you are, how do you know which way to go? 4:42 Every hero needs a compass 12:46 How to recalibrate: people who don't flinch 16:07 NORTH: Name the threshold 19:41 Three kinds of change 23:05 EAST: Express gratitude 28:01 Thank, grieve, welcome 31:14 SOUTH: Spot resistance 34:28 One step forward, two steps back 37:47 Resilience and the next generation 40:41 Map your resources: skills, values, support, strategies 44:55 WEST: Welcome change 48:24 The smallest step this week 49:25 Peers, guides, and witnesses 52:00 Guided pause: walk the compass 53:56 Comment COMPASS COMMENT "COMPASS" Comment COMPASS on this episode (or message us) and we'll send you the four directions and the resource map. RESOURCES MENTIONED William Bridges, the Transition Model (endings, neutral zone, new beginnings): https://wmbridges.com/about/what-is-transition/ Nancy K. Schlossberg, transition research (anticipated, unanticipated, and non-event transitions): https://www.transitionsthroughlife.com/ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces: https://www.jcf.org/learn/joseph-campbell-heros-journey How a compass works (Earth's magnetic field, NOAA): https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/earths-magnetic-field-compass-needles/ The Feeling Wheel (from last week with Sara Amos, LCSW): https://thefeelingswheel.com/original-fw/ The Season Check worksheet (Episode 10): https://www.themorningshare.com/season-check The Threshold Pause worksheet: https://www.themorningshare.com/threshold Every Hero Says No resistance guide (Episode 11): https://www.themorningshare.com/every-hero-says-no CONNECT WITH US If you or someone you know is facing any kind of change, listen, then share and pass it along. Website: https://www.themorningshare.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themorningsharepod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMorningShare Substack (including The Table): https://themorningshare.substack.com/ Email: info@themorningshare.com Next month, we come home to ourselves.

  2. Oct 19

    Let It *Grow*: Navigating Change Through Grief and Loss

    What makes letting go so hard, and what do we grow when we finally open our hands? Deanna and Ang get honest about what they're releasing right now: youth and the body that carried them, a last child about to graduate, friendships that are changing, and the losses no one sends flowers for. Then our friend Sara Amos, LCSW, owner of Sparrow Creek Counseling in Nashville, explains what grief does to the brain and body, why anxiety so often follows loss, why grief can return years later, and how to show up for someone who is grieving. CHAPTERS 0:00 Little could we have known 2:42 Letting go, letting grow 5:52 Seeing our parents' hands 11:44 Seasons of friendship 17:07 The losses no one sends flowers for 18:40 The hope buried in the grudge 31:00 We don't lose the experience 37:04 Caring for yourself in grief 41:29 Meet Sara Amos, LCSW 47:20 Why anxiety follows grief 53:33 The emotion wheel 58:51 Why grief comes back years later 1:04:29 How grief shows up in the body 1:10:01 When to get professional help 1:14:38 How to help a grieving friend 1:24:52 It's okay to take a break GUEST Sara Amos, LCSW, Sparrow Creek Counseling https://www.sparrowcreekcounseling.com/ Instagram: @sparrowcreekcounseling RESOURCES MENTIONED The Feeling Wheel by Dr. Gloria Willcox: https://thefeelingswheel.com/original-fw/ Emotional granularity, Lisa Feldman Barrett: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/category/emotional-granularity/ On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: https://www.ekrfoundation.org/5-stages-of-grief/on-death-and-dying/ The vagus nerve: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22279-vagus-nerve John 12:24 (the seed that dies): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012%3A24&version=NIV Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (a time to mourn) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%203%3A1-8&version=NIV Toy Story (Pixar) https://www.pixar.com/toy-story Missed last week? Get the free Every Hero Says No resistance guide: https://www.themorningshare.com/every-hero-says-no NEXT WEEK We bring the month together with Navigating Change: practical ways to move through change and the thresholds in front of you. CONNECT WITH US If this episode named a loss you've been carrying, send it to someone who needs to hear it. Website: https://www.themorningshare.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themorningsharepod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMorningShare Substack (including The Table): https://themorningshare.substack.com/ Email: info@themorningshare.com Sara shares her perspective as a licensed clinical social worker. This episode is not a substitute for your own care. If you are in crisis in the U.S., call or text 988.

  3. Oct 12

    What Are You Protecting? Understanding Resistance to Change

    EPISODE DESCRIPTION Why do we resist change—even when we know something needs to shift? In this episode, Angela and Deanna explore the “guardian” within us: the protective part that keeps us attached to what is familiar. From active pushback to quiet avoidance, they unpack the different ways resistance shows up, the hidden commitments beneath it, and how to meet change with curiosity instead of shame. HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 - The question: why do we resist change? 01:25 - Change, seasons, and the cost of letting go 06:00 - The hero’s journey and the call to change 14:18 - Active vs. passive resistance 17:36 - Meet the guardian at the door 18:34 - Four resistance patterns: unqualified, runner, homebody, responsible one 23:28 - Why familiar can feel safer than change 25:00 - Status quo bias and the path of least resistance 28:19 - “I’m not ready” is not failure 31:00 - Hidden commitments: what are we saying yes to instead? 38:22 - The heroine’s journey: coming home to yourself 46:45 - What happens when we keep holding on? 52:00 - Why community makes change more possible 55:01 - Guided pause: notice the guardian at your door 56:08 - Free companion guide and next week’s episode Show Music: Just Like Me by, ThruLine The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. Socials Website: themorningshare.com Instagram: @themorningsharepod Substack: themorningshare.substack.com RESOURCES MENTIONED - The Odyssey by Homer https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0135 - The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell https://www.jcf.org/works/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces/ - The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock https://maureenmurdock.com/books/the-heroines-journey/ - Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey https://www.immunity-to-change.com/ - “Status Quo Bias in Decision Making” by William Samuelson and Richard Zeckhauser https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055564 - “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk” by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky https://www.jstor.org/stable/1914185 - Liturgies of the Wild by Martin Shaw https://www.martinshawltd.com/books - Metanoia Framework https://metanoia.pub/ - Falling Upward by Richard Rohr https://cac.org/books/falling-upward/ - The Ritual Process by Victor Turner https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3633872.html

  4. Oct 5

    Navigating Life Transitions: What season are you in?

    What season of life are you in—and what might it be trying to reveal? In the first episode of our series on transitions, D and Ang explore the rhythms of change: beginnings, endings, grief, growth, discomfort, and the in-between places that are often difficult to name. From autumn leaves and wide-open North Dakota horizons to Carl Jung’s “two halves of life” and Richard Rohr’s image of the “container and contents,” this conversation offers language for understanding what may be shifting within you. A season is not proof that something is wrong with you. It may simply be information about where you are. In this episode, we talk about: • How to recognize when a season is changing • Why more than one season can exist in your life at the same time • The difference between common transitions and your unique experience of them • What nature can teach us about letting go and revealing what is already inside us • Carl Jung and Richard Rohr’s framework for the first and second halves of life • Why identity, roles, and achievement can be necessary—but are not the whole story • How to hold gratitude for what is beginning while still grieving what is ending This week, take a moment to ask yourself: What season am I in right now? If this episode resonates with you, like, subscribe, and share it with someone navigating change. The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. CONNECT WITH US Website: ⁠themorningshare.com⁠ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themorningshare/ Join us on Substack at themorningshare.substack.com⁠ for more, including The Table. RESOURCES MENTIONED Ecclesiastes 3: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%203&version=NIV Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation: https://cac.org/ C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago: https://jungchicago.org/ Wintering by Katherine May: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609133/wintering-by-katherine-may/ Stanford Center on Longevity: https://longevity.stanford.edu/

  5. Sep 28

    Why Change Feels So Hard: Thresholds & The In-Between

    What threshold are you standing at—and what do you need to set down to cross it? Angela and Deanna explore life’s in-between spaces, the resistance that can keep us there, and the possibility waiting on the other side. Highlights 00:00 - What threshold are you standing at? 01:01 - Becoming leads us to the threshold 02:13 - Defining the threshold and liminal space 09:42 - You’re not behind in the in-between 11:00 - Common thresholds and lifequakes 24:31 - Personal growth, identity, and being seen anew 31:19 - Healing, recurring thresholds, and feeling “stuck” 39:04 - What nature teaches us about letting go 44:01 - Five ways we resist crossing over 52:00 - Why we need community to cross Show Music: Just Like Me by, ThruLine The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. Socials Website: themorningshare.com Instagram: @themorningsharepod Substack: themorningshare.substack.com Resources Mentioned John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between UsBruce Feiler, Life Is in the TransitionsBruce Feiler’s Substack, The Nonlinear LifeVictor Turner’s concept of communitasMartin Buber on community and being “with one another.”

  6. Sep 21

    Re:Awakening: The Threshold Is Here, Now.

    Is the dream something out there, or could it be the embodied next step of the life you're already living? Deanna and Angela sit with the word threshold — the honest pause between who you've been and who you're becoming, the courage it takes to cross, and why reawakening isn't the same thing as reinventing yourself. Third week of BECOMING. Timestamps: 0:00 - Cold open 2:27 - What do you think of when you hear "dream"? 3:41 - Defining our terms 7:40 - Threshold: the liminal space 9:46 - A side porch and an honest question 15:02 - Reinventing vs. becoming more fully you 19:55 - The dream we were sold 24:02 - "This is my life" 28:27 - Attention has to come first 36:45 - What keeps the light from getting through 41:56 - Attention, light, and yes 47:21 - An embodied reflection The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. Socials Website: themorningshare.com Instagram: @themorningsharepod Substack: themorningshare.substack.com

  7. Sep 14

    Re:Claiming: No Longer The Edited Version

    What does it actually look like to claim your whole story—not just the parts that are easy to understand or explain? This week, Angela and Deanna return to the stained-glass metaphor to explore the pieces we’ve painted over, the contradictions we carry, and the freedom that can come when we stop trying to make every chapter neat, consistent, or meaningful. Together, they talk about acceptance, forgiveness, embodiment, and learning to let the light shine through a fuller, more honest version of who we are—and who we’re still becoming. Highlights 00:38 — From remembering to reclaiming03:58 — Can you know yourself and still hide from yourself?12:29 — When we believe people only want the “edited version”23:47 — Holding the “both/and” of our stories33:18 — What embodiment looks like on a random Tuesday43:18 — Acceptance, forgiveness, and allowing the light through Show Music: Just Like Me by, ThruLine The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. Socials Website: themorningshare.com Instagram: @themorningsharepod Substack: themorningshare.substack.com

  8. Sep 7

    Re:Membering: Every Piece Belongs

    What if becoming isn’t about creating a better version of yourself, but learning to belong to every part of the person who is already there? This week, Angela and Deanna explore re—putting the pieces of ourselves back into relationship, including the ones we’ve hidden, edited, painted over, or simply wished weren’t part of our story. Through the image of a stained glass window, they wonder what becomes possible when we stop requiring every piece to make sense—or even look beautiful—and allow light and life to move through the whole story. Highlights00:00 — Becoming without becoming someone else01:35 — What does it mean to re ourselves?07:21 — How we dismember the parts that feel unacceptable16:20 — Who taught you which pieces of yourself belonged?25:36 — The stained glass window metaphor39:45 — Holding acceptance and change together Show Music: Just Like Me by, ThruLine The Morning Share Podcast is produced, edited, and mixed by Angela Boeckman and Deanna West. Socials Website: themorningshare.com Instagram: @themorningsharepod Substack: themorningshare.substack.com Resources Mentioned Ordinary Mysticism, by Mirabai Star

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A podcast born out of a simple morning rhythm—where two friends, share what’s stirring in their hearts, minds, and bodies. A blend of spiritual musings, raw honesty, deep conversations, and playful creativity. Sharing stories, sharing space and sharing ourselves with you. www.themorningshare.com

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    The Morning Share
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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