Virtual Pause

Angie Winn
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  • MENTAL HEALTH

Virtual Pause Podcast - A brief guided meditation intended to integrate your body, mind, heart, and spirit so that you can live with resilience and stability in everyday chaos. Different topic each week - relevant to life. Open to people of all faiths and beliefs, and specifically for those working in high-stress environments with vulnerable populations. Most episodes are pre-recorded with a live audience. Found on most podcast platforms.

  1. Episode 154: Letting the Fire Out

    11/24/2025

    Episode 154: Letting the Fire Out

    November 24, 2025 Through some recent experiences, I have realized that there is a fire inside of me that desires to express truth, creativity, passion, and sight. But there has been a blanket ofcompliance that has shoved that fire down over the years, for fear it will kick me out of situations and leave me abandoned. But what happens when you don’t let fire out? You eat it, and eventually it eats you or blows up you and those around you. Today we will stir that fire up a bit through breath, try to identify its source and gifts by connecting it with holy fire, and let go of that which may be holding it back. I will be quoting an excerpt from Every Moment Holy: “Breathe out sorrow, Breathe in joy. Breathe out lament, Breathe in hope. Breathe out pain, Breathe in comfort. Breathe out sorrow, Breathe in joy. Breathe out joy.” (Adapted) A Liturgy for Embracing both Joy and Sorrow, Every Moment Holy V. II, Douglas McKelvey, 2021 Check out Numa Wellness Collective at NumaWellness.org Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash

    26 min
  2. Episode 153: The Roots of our Ancestors

    11/03/2025

    Episode 153: The Roots of our Ancestors

    November 3, 2025 Yesterday was All Saints Day, or All Soul’s Day, and in Mexico, The Day of the Dead. Sometimes we forget how our ancestors have shaped us. What positive attributes have we acquired?What has been passed down to us that we may not even recognize? In today’s episode we will root ourselves into our lineage – noticing the beautiful gifts we have been given that make us who we are, and the challenges, generational trauma, or fears that have been passed down that we need to tend to.

    24 min
  3. Episode 152: The Continuum of Groundedness

    10/29/2025

    Episode 152: The Continuum of Groundedness

    October 27, 2025 Today’s episode is a simple grounding practice using imagery and sound. Sometimes (like always) we just need to get out of our heads and back into our bodies and souls. We will assess where we are on the continuum of groundedness. Our reading for today is an excerpt from the poem Remember fromJoy Harjo, a Native American U.S. Poet Laureate from the Muscogee Nation. Remember, Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon, know who she is.Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundownand the giving away to night.Remember your birth, how your mother struggledto give you form and breath. You are evidence ofher life, and her mother’s, and hers.Remember your father. He is your life, also.Remember the earth whose skin you are:red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earthbrown earth, we are earth.Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have theirtribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,listen to them. They are alive poems.Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows theorigin of this universe.Remember you are all people and all people are you.Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.Remember language comes from this.Remember the dance language is, that life is.Remember. https://www.joyharjo.com/ Photo by Merri J on Unsplash

    27 min
  4. Episode 151: How are you being prepared?

    10/27/2025

    Episode 151: How are you being prepared?

    October 20, 2025 Sometimes we know where we are headed and can actively prepare for it. But more often than not we end up going somewhere we had no idea about, and we are being preparedwithout even noticing it. Let’s get curious about how we are being prepared, not what we are being prepared for. Today we will get grounded and curious about what we have had to let go of, to heal, a new skill we have acquired or strengthened, etc. Our listening portion today is a beautiful one… Above all,trust in the slow work of God. We are quitenaturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We shouldlike to skip the intermediate stages. We areimpatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet itis the law of all progress That is madeby passing through some stages of instability – And that itmay take a very long time. And so Ithink it is with you; your ideasmature gradually- let them grow, let them shape themselves, without unduehaste. Don’t try toforce them on, as thoughyou could be today what time (that is tosay, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make ofyou tomorrow. Only Godcould say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Godthe benefit of believing that God’shand is leading you, and acceptthe anxiety of feeling yourself in suspenseand incomplete. -PierreTeilhard de Chardin, SJ photo credit: Alice Donovan Rouse on unsplash

    27 min
  5.   Episode 150: Strength of Angel's Wings

    10/06/2025

      Episode 150: Strength of Angel's Wings

    October 6, 2025 Angels don’t fly around light and easy. They have heavy wings that require strength and power to move and go where they are directed. In this episode I will share about a terrifying hike, and then we will look at where we have gone and where we may be being beckoned to go, and what is required of us to do so. Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash

    25 min
  6. Episode 149: Getting Gutted

    08/26/2025

    Episode 149: Getting Gutted

    August 25, 2025 We have been remodeling a house and it has been ripped apart and gutted. I have found that I have also felt gutted over the past few years. But what happens when we gothrough times that challenge our very being? What is that process? What do we do with it? And what is on the other side? This is what we will pause through on today’s episode. Our listening portion is from Nan Merrill’s Mandalas and Meditations:  Simple Songs for the Spiritual Life May we slow down And learn once again The wisdom of silence The efficacy of simplicity The renewal of solitude That we might be co-partners with you In healing and re-creating the Earth

    24 min

  7. 08/26/2025

    Episode 148: Experiencing Grounding to Humanity and Connecting to Divinity

    July 28, 2025 We will have a dash on our tombstones - the time between birth and death. But what if we saw it as a plus? Where our life is about contribution? Yet the only way to do this with real impact and integrity is following that vertical line - grounding in humanity, being awake in reality, with all of its beauty and challenges, and connecting to the divine so we can be reminded who we are. Today we will experience a way to ground ourselves into humanity, into the earth, and connecting our soul to our creator.

    28 min
  8. Episode 147: The Dense Forest

    07/28/2025

    Episode 147: The Dense Forest

    July 28, 2025 "Note from Nature Do not try to save the whole word or do anything grandiose. instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your won cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue. "A Clearing" by Martha Poslewaite Our dense forest is our illusions - of control, of perfection, of acceptance, of security. If we move in the world without seeing and clearing these things, we will only be able to walk around in our small forest, where we cannot see and is full of darkness. Yet if we clear these things away, the sunlight can come in and new life can happen. Then, we can hear when we are being beckoned to participate in positive ways in this world.

    25 min
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Virtual Pause Podcast - A brief guided meditation intended to integrate your body, mind, heart, and spirit so that you can live with resilience and stability in everyday chaos. Different topic each week - relevant to life. Open to people of all faiths and beliefs, and specifically for those working in high-stress environments with vulnerable populations. Most episodes are pre-recorded with a live audience. Found on most podcast platforms.

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  • Creator
    Angie Winn
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    155
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Angie Winn
  • Show Website
    Virtual Pause