As Winter rolls around, life usually slows down too: more time indoors, less time at work, and more time to ourselves. For our final episode of 2023, Mory and Melissa talk about how the season is a chance to spend more time looking inward. The intensity of our internal emotions makes it easy - necessary even - to distract ourselves with the external world. It can be nearly impossible to reflect inward when we feel like we’re always on the clock, as though every moment has to be productive in order to be good. Whether we like it or not, this repression is unsustainable. Mother Nature offers an opportunity to reflect, realign, and listen to our inner wisdoms as the business of life finally slows down in the winter months. Tune in to hear more about how you can take a pause without making it productive, why community is left out of the conversation, and what we’ve got planned for 2024! Thank you all so much for listening, and happy holidays!

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Every year, more American adults say they believe in reincarnation, a concept that has existed throughout human history and across the globe. But, for a philosophy so famous, not much is known about the inner workings of past lives. How can we connect with our past lives? How do prior life experiences show up in our current lives? And the question on everyone’s minds: is reincarnation something we can prove? This week, an optimistic Mory and an undecided Melissa trade personal stories, thrilling case studies, and a sprinkling of scientific research to show that the debate on reincarnation is far from settled. Mory recounts how her meeting with esteemed Past Life Psychic Ainslie MacLeod helped her make sense of guilt (and also proved her eternal love for Paris). Melissa narrates the real-life story of James Leininger, a toddler who recounted the plane crash of an American pilot with inexplicable accuracy. If you’re convinced, curious, or even skeptical about the possibility of a karmic world, there’s no better place to be.

• Rose Bridge Farm: https://rosebridgefarmsanctuary.com/
• NPR Interview with Jim Tucker: https://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259886077/searching-for-science-behind-reincarnation
• Past Life Regression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAgcbBW1dnM
• Ainslie MacLeod’s Soul Types Quiz: https://ainsliemacleod.com/soul-type-quiz/
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Some experts believe that there might be close to 10,000 cults in the United States alone. What draws so many people into cults? How exactly do they work? And most importantly - what counts as a cult!? Melissa and Mory trade stories on some of the big names in cult history, including Charles Manson and Jim Jones, who offer a glimpse into the collective delusions and infamous crimes that have excited popular imagination. But, there’s something about cults that’s almost universal. Can we really blame cult members for craving a sense of belonging, especially when the world outside is sometimes unbearable to live in? And, wouldn’t it be fair to say that our political systems and religious institutions thrive off of dominating those who are disconnected from their intuitive wisdom, much like cults themselves? In this week’s episode, we hear about how (not) to become a toxic cult leader, why tootsie rolls are actually to die for, and Melissa’s growing - but misguided - suspicion that Mory might be trying to start a cult of her own.

• Read the New Yorker article here: https://www.peopleleavecults.com/post/statistics-on-cults
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This week, Mory and Melissa have a more serious conversation about serious conversations. Why is it so hard to have disagreements with each other while maintaining empathy? How can we have respectful conversations in which we’re hearing each other? The two, fresh off of their own hard conversation, tackle both sources and solution to our discourse problem, particularly in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Find resources here:

• "Conversations with Coleman: Debating the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Yousef Munayyer ": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-coleman/id1489326460?i=1000632943622
• Consider donating to support humanitarian aid: https://fortune.com/well/2023/10/13/how-to-help-victims-israel-hamas-war-charities/
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If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could be the kind of person that meditates,” this episode is here to tell you that you already are. Mory and Melissa get into the history of meditation, what can make it so hard to get into, and why it’s worth doing anyway. Mory shares practical tips for lowering the barrier to entry to start meditating. Both ponder whether or not cavemen were better at meditating than modern humans. Find resources mentioned in the episode below!

• Tara Broch’s RAIN meditation: https://www.tarabrach.com/rain/
• 4-7-8 Breathing: https://www.healthline.com/health/4-7-8-breathing
• Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/
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