Here's what we're talking about in our first episode of 2025:

• why I think this is the mamajama of all practices

• why famed director david lynch says about meditation

• all the ways meditation is so so good for you

• how to stop talking about it + practice

• what does dynamic stillness mean.

go to sherisalata.com/freenetwork for free downloads to add to your practices + early access to the podcast. And I’m inviting you to a free event with brilliant best selling author Terri Cole-we are letting this be the year we stop the cycle of high functioning co dependency- save your seat at sherisalata.com/freeevent

In this episode, we're talking about our words of 2025:

• the practice of choosing your words for a new year
• how to determine what words would elevate your life in the new year
• what words I have chosen in the past + what happened
• the words I am noodling on for myself for 2025
• go to sherisalata.com/freenetwork for free downloads to add to your practices + early access to the podcast.

Today on The Practiced Life, we're flipping the script on generosity.

• history of boxing day
• traditional def of generosity unkind to women
• how we may have been trained to give ourselves away to be considered “generous”
• depleted. depressed. Resentful. The problem with generosity.
• what does real generosity look like? Here’s what I believe now.
• Head to www.sherisalata.com/freenetwork to get an invite to my free LIVE end-of-year event ……Align your inner compass for an inspired new year! Dec. 29th at 8 pm ET

We all have them—the empty chairs around our holiday table.

Moving through grief to joy, appreciation + loving remembrance is an internal journey. I’ll share mine with you around my most devastating, PTSD-inducing loss.

• I share my own holiday grief story in the sudden loss of my little brother John. And the very human journey to now.
• A practice you might want to try to bring the people you love who have made their transitions close this month.
  

Discovering the equinoxes + solstices has been such a boon for my ritual + ceremony game. Here's what we're talking about:

• bringing the solstice into your annual calendar of celebrations
• honoring the coming back of the light
• how to do my favorite fireplace/firepit ceremony
• use the solstice as your opportunity to connect to your earth home
• go to sherisalata.com/freenetwork to access my free workshop on December 29th at 8:00 pm ET-we’re getting ready for 2025 + blessing 2024 goodbye.

On today's episode I'm going to share with you:

• what I learned from my beloved Auntie Barb
• more women get alzheimers + dementia then men
• why your hearing needs to be checked
• follow @robertwblove-neuroscientist who specializes in helping people prevent Alzheimers
• learn a wonderful game to keep those synapses firing
• go to sherisalata.com/freenetwork to get access to my free workshop on December 29th at 8pm ET-Set Your Compass for 2025!

In this episode, we're talking about how to practice some new things for this holiday season that will help you create an uplifted, soaring holiday mood.

• how you program your life experience unconsciously
• do you surround yourself with enough delight?
• who are you letting in your inner circle?
• how to lean into the most important roles you can play in your life, the programmer, the bouncer, the decider, the chooser
• go to sherisalata.com/freenetwork to get my 2 holiday playlists-one is Christmas with some fun new songs-and one is instrumental winter mood music-cozy fireplace stuff.

Where do our limiting beliefs + codependent behaviors originate?

One of my biggies happened right under our artificial frosted popcorn-strung Xmas tree.

That's why today's episode is digging into "The Great Holiday Edit." We're going to talk about:

• the Christmas morning that had me knotted up for years
• first time I have ever said this about gift opening
• why your Holiday memories may be totally made up
• how to do The Great Holiday Edit
• how to make the rest of the season sing
• Head to www.sherisalata.com/free network and get my 2 holiday playlists-one is christmas with some fun new songs-and one one is instrumental winter mood music-cozy fireplace stuff. You’ll also find some other free gifts that might come in really handy this season.