What if the smallest shifts could lead to the biggest transformations?

In this LIVE episode of Think Out Loud With Me, I sit down with Colleen Avis, bestselling author of the Sacred Spaces series, the 3rd volume of which hit Amazon yesterday and is a #1 BESTSELLER IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES. When she's not leading such an impactful charge, she's an intuitive guide and space curator, and she's joined me to talk about how intentional environments shape our emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.

Says Colleen early in our exchange, "I always say, if you have a mess under your bed, you probably have a mess in your mind. If your car is cluttered, chances are there’s clutter in your thoughts too. Our spaces—internal and external—are deeply intertwined. The power of a subtle shift is that whether you make it in your environment, your mindset, or your body, it ripples through everything."

🌀 How subtle, mindful shifts create profound change
🌀 The connection between our inner and outer spaces
🌀 Soul-level work: Big P-Purpose or little p-purpose
🌀 Why decluttering isn’t just about your home—it’s about your energy
🌀 Simple ways to create Sacred Spaces in daily life

And I open up about my own healing journey—specifically, the deeply personal work of reclaiming my womb space—which I share in a separate expert collaboration, Shaman Heart: We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For (Chapter 26!), that is set for release on Amazon in early March.

This episode is a must-listen if you're ready to shift your space, shift your energy, and shift your life.

Connect with Colleen Avis!
🩷 Instagram @Colleen_Avis_Coaching
💙 Facebook @ColleenAvisSubtleShifts
🩵 Website colleenaviscoaching.com
💚 Email colleenavis@me.com

P.S. Brené, call us! 😉

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💥 What if your pain wasn’t the end of the story—but the beginning of something bigger? 💥

In this episode, I sit down with Leah Johnson. After 25 years in politics, she has leapt into a dream of living in Mexico with her family and fully embracing her calling as an artist and healer, she joins me to talk about the real, raw, no-BS side of transformation.

✨ We dive into:

✅ The hard truth: Healing isn’t about going back—it’s about evolving.

✅ One simple, game-changing tool you can use RIGHT NOW to reset your nervous system.

✅ The biggest lie about healing (spoiler: you’re NOT supposed to do this alone).

✅ How to turn your pain into a portal for personal growth.

✅ The one question that will shift your entire healing journey.

🎧 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a wake-up call. It’s for the seekers, the skeptics, the ones ready to step into their next chapter. Come think out loud with us.

🔗 Listen now: https://1qr.com/mp7qtdbb

💬 Your turn: If you'd like to get in touch with Leah Johnson and talk about her services, her book, her journeys, and all of the other ways in which you can experience her magic, visit https://www.findingfantasticjoy.com/ and follow her on social media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findingfantasticjoy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingfantasticjoy/

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Patty Nagle is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC in NM), Certified Grof Breathwork Facilitator, and Expanded States of Consciousness Consultant. She has dedicated her life’s work to facilitating transformative processes that foster growth and change, both at the individual level and within the collective.

Patty joined me from her home in Santa Fe to think out loud about

• Pushing the limits has its limits
• Beyond words: expanded states of consciousness
  • Substance-free alternatives: Grof (Holotropic) Breathwork
  • Psychedelics and other portals to becoming whole
• Different from surrender: choosing to allow
• Enabling the work: shaking up the Default Mode Networks

Patty's vision is to bring together a community of people who are dedicated to fostering meaningful conversations, sharing experiences, and promoting growth. Whether you're interested in mindfulness, mental health, personal development, ecopsychology, spirituality, or art, the process of Allowing is not only relevant but instrumental.

Book a 30-minute complimentary call with Patty by visiting her website or sending her an email.

Website: thegreatallowing.com
Email: healinghappens@protonmail.com

#thegreatallowing #allow #bedohave #breathwork #holotropicbreathwork #consciousness #grofbreathwork #energetichealing #natural healing #psychedelichealing #psychedelics #surrender #selflove #thinkoutloudwithme #psylocibin #magicmushrooms #medicinejourney #journey

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So much of the divorce process happens behind closed doors, out of sight. Navigating such a significant life transition can feel incredibly isolating and lonely. The shame, guilt, stigma, and judgment that often accompany divorce are rarely discussed openly, leaving so many to face it all in silence.

I asked my guest, Madisen Rose, Divorce Recovery Guide, Better Half to Whole, why she wanted to join me where others can listen in, "When I mention my work in divorce, it often feels like it sucks the air out of the room. My hope is to share a conversation that touches on divorce in a way that is honest and hopeful and helps others feel like they can share the messy parts of life after divorce and not be rejected or shamed."

Expect a heart-centered conversation full of reassurance that, if you are contemplating, in the middle of, or fresh from the experience of the end of a marriage or committed relationship, you are NOT alone. That and this:

• Some opening thoughts ask you to consider: Who are you?
• All the woo woo: Meet Madisen, a divorce recovery guide of a different kind
• You should talk to Madisen: What happens when 'forever' ends?
• Breaking up in the world according to couples: Madisen's story
• Core to recovery: Time to grieve, communicating your legitimate need for support, and more
• Madisen's mission: Online resources, support for the recently divorced

Here are ways to be in direct touch with Madisen:

• Website: www.betterhalftowhole.com
• Downloadable resources: https://www.betterhalftowhole.com/resources
• Instagram + Facebook: @betterhalftowhole
• Email: madisen@betterhalftowhole.com

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To each their own. But until you experience any length of chronic pain, it is quite difficult not to judge someone who is living day in and day out in physical and mental despair and what lengths they go to in search of relief. "Pain will drive you to try things," says my guest, Greg.

Greg just finished his first full year of micro-dosing and realizing complete relief from a near life-long struggle with chronic pain. His resume of injuries, accidents, surgeries, procedures, and attempts at relief commenced at the age of 4 when he was flung from a horse. Having kicked an opioid addiction and finally being informed even the most drastic original last option of spinal fusion and losing 50-75% of the motion in his back was NOT going to work, Greg was desperate.

This 67-year-old, well-spent rancher with xrays that make doctors pause, decided to try microdosing. Today, Greg calls himself "living proof" that how the body processes pain can be rewired with the help of such alternative remedies as psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics.

Greg and I visit about his simply astounding journey, the lessons, some particulars, the non-negotiables, his new life, and what the future of pain relief might look like if we open our minds to the idea of psychedelics.

And careful! Check your bias on the label. This isn't about spending your day baked. In fact, if you knowingly have that bias, put both earbuds in and listen.

Neither Greg nor I are in a place to tell you to micro-dose. Serious research, guidance, awareness, self-inventory, and continued patience are highly suggested as the next steps in understanding micro-dosing as a physical and mental health alternative.

There are over 40M in the U.S. alone struggling with back issues that have some degree of associated 'severe' pain. It's a new year of new ideas and new invitations to consider, and there's someone out there who needs to hear this.

Send me your thoughts. I'd love to hear them.

RESOURCES:
Greg mentions The Bonati Institute, where he had a procedure that gave him complete relief. He also mentions the University of Michigan's M-PsyC Research Department. Here is a recent article from Vox that is valuable. Psychedelic Spotlight News is a source to investigate.

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Orsi Veres and I shared a mutual interest in meeting several months ago, and I've since seen her results and witnessed her as a female business owner. I have grown a distinct respect for Orsi, and I'm happy to share my time with her thinking out loud 'bout a few things...

🐇 Introductionnnnnn (rabbit hole during which I decide to take over with a story of my own)
🚥 Set the Tone of Curiosity
🌳 Orsi's Origins
🌍 Orsi's Way of Being in Relationship with the World
⚡ The Buzz of Hitting Your Passion Point
✍️ Let's Journal About It in Real Time
🧑‍🏫 A VERY Cool Case Study of a Teacher Client
🛒 Shopify Sites That Sizzle
💟 Final Thoughts That Land

Get to know Orsi, a beautiful friend I've made this year. She is fresh, and she is smart, and she is honest! She is also a BADASS businesswoman who I recommend you consider for your next web design lift is upon you. Listen. And learn more by getting in direct touch with her. Here are your options!

WEBSITE https://designyouneed.com
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/design_youneed/
LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/orsolya-veres/

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I highly recommend throwing yourself a party. Your program gives the mic to beautiful individuals who have had a tremendous impact on your efforts to be a good human. Everyone basks and bathes in the yummy soup of LOVING, THOUGHTFUL, PRECIOUS, SOUL-LEVEL ENERGY.

💃 Stephanie Urbina Jones sings Happy Birthday, as well as a song from 30 years ago she wrote for her daughter
🔦 Ahriana Platten blesses our ears with a story of a woman who turns 50, the gates she walks through, and the lamps of other wise women joining the path
🪘 Laura Di Franco shares RECLAMATION, and yes, we are READY TO DANCE
🩷 Danelle Delgado challenges us all to GO BE GREAT
🌳 Tina Green, the Self Love Queen, creates and shares a poem about her and me called Finding Her Voice
🧵 Leah Johnson wraps a firm, warm, loving embrace around the room

Happy Birthday to me! It was awesome. You should give yourself some of this sweetness. 🎂

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Ben Story and I found each other in conversation at a networking event that started light but quickly went to a deeper level…that’s the kind of conversation I relish nowadays…to hell with the shallow and superficial…give me your feelings and thoughts and mental twists and turns…

Listen to our conversation about so much, the work we put into being busy, and the identities we craft around hustling and parenting, and still finding ourselves trying to figure it all out. Here are some chapter titles to get you oriented...

🐒 A Story About Monkeys
🧲 What's On Ben's Mind: Obsession
🏃🏻‍♀️ What's Taylor Chasing?
🎯 Self-Centered with Purpose
🎥 Parenting Projectiles
🛏️ From Under the Bed
🍯 The Sweet Spot of Surrender

How do you define Surrender? Where do you believe Surrender lies? Let Ben and me know. Here are some options to do so:

https://benjaminstory.substack.com/
linkedin.com/in/fcbenstory

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