Then Again, What Do We Know?

Brianne Grebil & Mer Monson
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  1. 07/09/2020

    Episode 30 - About growth (and a pause in the show)

    Is growth up to us? What if we’re made to grow? What if growth doesn’t need to be pushed or forced? Expanding by looking, wondering and sharing Cool byproducts of exploring and expressing What if growth is a wider and wider lens of awareness? What if playing in the wonder is more than enough? Can we stop ourselves from growing? Tuning into inklings as a catalyst for growth A lesson from the flowers

    37 min

  2. 07/02/2020

    Episode 29 - About making decisions

    What if decision making is naturally effortless? What if we notice rather than decide? What if not knowing yet can be totally satisfying? The unhelpful pressure of finding the “right” answer What if we just overcomplicate decisions that seem more important? Noticing where all our “doing” actually comes from The millions of things happening beyond our conscious choices Playing in the mystery of free will The innocence of always doing what makes sense to us in the moment Our cool capacity to see more in any moment “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” - Rumi

    30 min

  3. 06/25/2020

    Episode 28 - About bodies

    How much we think about our body and how little we need to  Do bodies need managing and solutions?  Is our body in our way? What if bodies are REALLY not separate from the intelligence of life? Pinning our body up against the wall Presence and listening with our body, without agenda Riding the possibility of Alzheimers or cancer down the road… The rabbit hole of thinking about our appearance Rethinking the positive body movement What if exercise is play? What if our body isn’t us and isn’t ours? “You are a ghost driving a meat-covered skeleton made of stardust. What do you have to be afraid of?” -Anonymous “Out beyond all ideas of wrongdoing and righting there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”  -Rumi

    35 min

  4. 06/18/2020

    Episode 27 - About Brianne's book

    Why Brianne wrote the book now, in the middle of her Mom’s journey A look at the book’s title The first moment Brianne’s mom didn’t know who she was What about the worst part of it, the painful parts? How has Brianne’s relationship with suffering changed? Why love doesn’t care how you feel What about Brianne’s forgetting and remembering? Deeper intimacy and connection in the face of so much loss Brianne turns her mom into a metaphor of what life is Finding a newer, deeper center of balance Palm trees and wind storms What’s left when it all gets stripped away? Brianne’s hope for the book

    41 min

  5. 06/11/2020

    Episode 26 - About discomfort

    What if feeling uncomfortable isn’t a bad thing? What if discomfort isn’t personal? Being comfortable with being uncomfortable Listening without our shield of ideas What if discomfort is a side effect of life rearranging itself? Moving from coping to opening What if discomfort is an invitation, a doorway? Looking through discomfort rather than at it Being in conversation with life instead of ourselves What if discomfort is life’s way of asking, “Wanna talk about it?”

    33 min

  6. 05/28/2020

    Episode 25 - About progress

    We are always in progress The “It’s not fast enough” thought What if self sabotage isn’t a real thing? Grace with the unpredictable pace of life Marking progress as a tool in the game Respect and appreciation for the unknown Does life make it’s own progress? The dance of giving something our time and attention Suffering from an overinflated sense of “I”  Beating ourselves up with what we make up Why does nothing require our worry?

    38 min

  7. 05/21/2020

    Episode 24 - About giving up

    A look at the words, “giving” and “up” Giving up as a strategy versus getting to the end of your rope Does life work on stuff when we don’t? Genuine giving up, without strings or agendas What about the saying, “Never give up!”? Dancing between making stuff happen and giving up What if the only thing we can really give up is a thought? How recognition of truth soothes our soul The gift of awareness and noticing The Perfume of Silence by Francis Lucille

    31 min

  8. 05/14/2020

    Episode 23 - About faith

    Faith as an awareness of knowing  Faith versus desperate hoping Exploring faith through existential crisis and religion Faith in what’s behind and before “everything” What if faith is just a side effect? Why we can’t “do” faith Faith as sustenance The game of growing faith The gift of having less and less faith in ourselves Life moving us versus us moving life A fresh take on moving mountains

    42 min
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