Heart Of Life Podcast

Brooke Small and Jesie Steffes
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Welcome to the Heart of Life podcast, where therapists Jesie and Brooke invite you into an unscripted space for healing. Through their lived stories and candid conversations, they explore the depths of the human experience with curiosity and permission. Join Jesie and Brooke as they share their insights, experiences, and wisdom, empowering listeners to find freedom and bravery in their own journeys. While not a substitute for therapy, this podcast offers a sense of healing, belonging, and an invitation into becoming.

  1. Apr 13

    S5 25: A Closing Chapter: This Is Where We Leave Our Shoes

    In this final episode, Brooke and Jesie reflect on the past five seasons and how grateful they are for the podcast in their own lives and for all the ways listeners have come alongside, companioned the work, and let this podcast mean something truly special. An invitation to leave you with: Remember that you are already whole. PODCAST STATUS: After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’ve closed the Heart of Life podcast. We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next. Thank you for being part of this with us. We want to stay in touch. We know new and beautiful things are to come:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: ⁠⁠@jesie.steffes.healing⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠Sated Soul⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠jesiesteffes.com⁠⁠   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: ⁠⁠@riverbendtherapy⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠⁠From Inside the Circle⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠riverbendcolorado.com

    25 min

  2. Apr 6

    S5 24: Where We Find Delight

    In this episode, Jesie and Brooke dive into the benefit of delight, even in dark seasons or cold currents. Can we anchor into moments that bring levity, not as escape from reality, but as an essential part of being alive.  This week’s invitation: The invitation to you is to find delight. Let moments be light, even when the times are heavy. Make your mark. Where will you leave your shoes?  PODCAST UPDATE: After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’re closing the Heart of Life podcast. We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next. As we prepare for our final episode on April 13, we’d love to hear from you - anything you’d like us to revisit or share with us before we close. We’d love to hear from you by April 10th.  Thank you for being part of this with us. ⁠brooke@riverbendcolorado.com⁠ / @riverbendtherapy ⁠jesiesteffes@gmail.com⁠ / @jesie.steffes.healing Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: ⁠@jesie.steffes.healing⁠ Substack: ⁠Sated Soul⁠ Website: ⁠jesiesteffes.com⁠   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: ⁠@riverbendtherapy⁠ Substack: ⁠From Inside the Circle⁠ Website: ⁠riverbendcolorado.com

    27 min

  3. Mar 30

    S5 23: Staying With What’s True

    In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore how moving with the current of life can allow questions of control and presence to emerge. How can we choose to be most softly present in each moment, even the ones that are difficult, for these are proof of life.  This week’s invitation: In the current that you’re in, see if you can find a moment where you can be present with what is true. Whether you find yourself in a really strong current or something more gentle notice a moment that makes you feel fully alive. PODCAST UPDATE: After five seasons and 140+ episodes, we’re closing the Heart of Life podcast. We’re deeply grateful for this chapter and for all of you who listened, reflected, and grew with us. We’re trusting this ending and turning toward what’s next. As we prepare for our final episode on April 13, we’d love to hear from you - anything you’d like us to revisit or share with us before we close. We’d love to hear from you by April 10th.  Thank you for being part of this with us. brooke@riverbendcolorado.com / @riverbendtherapy jesiesteffes@gmail.com / @jesie.steffes.healing Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    27 min

  4. Mar 23

    S5 22: Trusting the Current

    In this episode, Jesie and Brooke continue the discussion of unlocking and consider what it feels like to open doors, the other side of which we cannot predict. How fluidity and movement allow us to meet unexpected challenges with resilience.  This week’s invitation: This is an invitation of rest and flow. Can you identify the currents in your life and consider what it would be like to move with them and surrender to them?   Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human. Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    29 min

  5. Mar 16

    S5 21: You Hold the Key

    In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore why the risk of holding the paradox is a valuable investment. How times of bravery can unlock the rest of our lives, truly making our investment in our own authenticity deeply, truly worth it.  This week’s invitation: You’ve done the hard work, you’ve come to the middle place and allowed for the and/both. You hold the key. What are you ready to unlock?   Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human. Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    27 min

  6. Mar 9

    S5 20: When the Story Changes

    In this episode, Jesie and Brooke explore how releasing stories, or being released from stories often come with a level of discomfort or pain. However, this process of release invites us into deeper integrity with the emerging self.   This week’s invitation: This is an invitation of integrity. Can you, with compassion, identify the places where you have changed your mind or where you no longer want to contort yourself to fit the story that you once told of who you are and what would it take to gently begin to come back into integrity?   Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human. Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    27 min

  7. Mar 2

    S5 19: The Paradox of Others

    In this episode, Brooke and Jesie explore how difficult it can be to hold the paradox of others. The temptation of either idealizing or villainizing people in their own paradox, and how our work is to anchor into ourselves in order to be in healthier relationship with others.  This week’s invitation: What are the stories that you were telling about who people should be to you and can you release them from that story?   Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human. Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    27 min

  8. Feb 23

    S5 18: The Wisdom of Paradox

    In this episode, Jesie and Brooke continue the discussion of the converging space between the “light and shadow” parts of self. Identifying the felt sense of contradiction in that space as a form of wisdom.  This week’s invitation: In the convergence between light and dark, can you identify the paradox? What seems to be contradiction can become and/both where a deeper truth can be found.   Thanks for listening to The Heart of Life podcast, where we explore what’s real, tender, and true in being human. Interested in working with us or following along with what we offer?  You’ll find our latest work, invitations, and ways to connect here:   JESIE STEFFES Instagram: @jesie.steffes.healing Substack: Sated Soul Website: jesiesteffes.com   BROOKE SMALL Instagram: @riverbendtherapy Substack: From Inside the Circle Website: riverbendcolorado.com

    25 min
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Welcome to the Heart of Life podcast, where therapists Jesie and Brooke invite you into an unscripted space for healing. Through their lived stories and candid conversations, they explore the depths of the human experience with curiosity and permission. Join Jesie and Brooke as they share their insights, experiences, and wisdom, empowering listeners to find freedom and bravery in their own journeys. While not a substitute for therapy, this podcast offers a sense of healing, belonging, and an invitation into becoming.

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  • Creator
    Brooke Small and Jesie Steffes
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    144
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Brooke Small and Jesie Steffes
  • Show Website
    Heart Of Life Podcast