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Episode 284: Are Anger and Shame the Root of Depression and Anxiety? - Interview Bronwyn Schweigerdt Do you suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, even psychosis? My guest today, Brownwyn Schweigerdt may be the most evocative psychotherapist you’ve ever heard. Instead of fixing peoples messes, her goal is to elicit the feelings we’re most ashamed to have, such as hatred, betrayal, anger, shame. She knows that even though feelings are invisible they don’t evaporate - instead they sto...

Episode 283: You Must Be Present to Win - Revisited Join us in this audio remastering of one of our earliest episodes. I quote May Swenson, share my experience in the moon-soaked darkness of the Teton mountains in Wyoming, and we talk about how being present to our senses...slowing down just enough to tune into our experience with all it's color, texture, and noise, makes all the difference in living a good life. Thank you for being a listener of the Love Your Story podcast.

Episode 282: Quick Chat -"Yes...and"-The Destress Tool Welcome to the LYS Podcast. Have you heard of the “Yes…and” concept? It’s routed in improvisational theater, but for our purposes we are using it as a valuable approach to life. A life navigation tool. “Yes….and” does two primary things. The “Yes” creates acceptance. The “and” pulls us into the present moment - where we decide what to do next. Stay tuned for this quick chat that helps us move through hard things “Yes… and” is a building ...

Episode 281: Spiritual Alchemy Finding Inner Peace and Joy Interview Sohale Sizar Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast! Today we’re here for a dose of inner peace. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for? Some days we may have a taste, some days it’s a million miles away. Today Sohale Sizar, the founder of Soul, with the mission to illuminate the daily practice of gratitude for his rapidly growing online community, - which I”m a part of - is here and we’re talking about the practice of spiri...

Episode 280: Quick Chat - What's My Intention: Determining Your Intended Outcome Situationally Welcome to the LYS Podcast. Let’s talk about road maps! Ever wished you had a road map to help life go a little smoother? How many every-day situations do we just barge our way through? For most of us - that would be almost all of them. We head to a family party only to leave having gotten in a fight with a sibling because we got caught up in a reactive situation. We go on a walk with a friend and fe...

Episode 279: Life By Design: The Power of Positive Habits - Interview Amy Kemp Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee. Can we agree that our thought habits basically build our worlds? How small we stay, how big we become, what we allow, what we don’t allow, how much we sacrifice, how hard money is to come by, etc. etc. these type of thought habits are the spaces we function from. In today’s show we are talking about thought habits, with the expert Amy Kemp, author of “I...

Episode 278: Quick Chat - Beginnings, Middles and Ends Welcome to the LYS Podcast. These quick chats are written around an idea that stands out to me that I want to chat with you about. Something that we can discuss in under 15 minutes that will hopefully be as interesting to you as it was to me. Todays is about how our lives are not one big story, they are made up of a bunch of smaller stories - lots of beginnings, middles, and ends. And I especially want to talk a little about the messy midd...

Episode 277: Tips for Successfully Parenting Adult Children: Interview - Emily and Erik Orton How to get a Seat on your Adult Kids’ Board of Directors. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast! I’m your host Lori Lee and today we are talking about the complexity and balance of interacting with and influencing our adult children. My guests today are Emily and Erik Orton, You’ll remember them from Episode 133 - Seven at Sea, where we talked about the year they took their 5 kids and lived on a sai...

Episode 276: Quick Chat: The Power of "I AM" Statements - How to Shift Everything Welcome to the LYS podcast. Today is a Quick Chat - 1 inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. We are talking about I AM Statements and being creators. (insert applause reel) The other day I was listening to Oprah’s Super Soul podcast and her interview with pastor Joel Osteen a pastor from Houston, TX that is a very popular up and coming pastor. It aired on Sept 20 2022 if you want to catch it. They were talki...

Episode 275: Everything They Never Taught Us in School about Money - Interview Kristen Wonch Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee. Last year one of the favorite episodes was my interview with Dr. Amanda the money doctor. Money is a really big part of our lives, so of course people want to learn and de-mistify how to get it, how to grow it, how to remove blocks to it. So 2024 delivers as well. Today Kristen Wonch, a wizard with numbers and one of a handful of women to...

Episode 274: Quick Chat - Every Problem is a Thought Problem Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee and today you are here for a Quick Chat - that’s one inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. Today chat is: Every Problem is a thought problem. It’s a bold statement. But a true one. And one that sets us free. One that puts us in control, most of the time. So stay tuned as we discuss how much power ACTUALLY have, and how to solve the problems. Since you are a listen...

Episode 273: The Road to More Confidence - Interview Christina Lecuyer Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast, I’m your host Lori Lee. Have you ever met someone that brimmed with confidence? I can tell you that there is an energy behind confidence. There is a way you hold yourself, a mindset of expectation that doors will open for you, a presence that actually opens those doors. There are so many powerful concepts - gratitude, love, allowing, accountability - but today we’re talking about co...

Episode 272: What God Can Do with Loss Interview Nicole Holgreen Bridle Up Hope Every once in awhile I run across a story with lots of miracles. Stories, where for some reason, God, the Universe, Fate seems to really be backing up a person or a project. Today we are looking at one of those. We’re going to sit around this technological camp fire and listen to a story about how a young girl passing away from depression created a program that’s backed by miracles. We’re talking with Nicole Holgr...

Episode 271: Quick Chat - Reframing Happiness with Cortney McDermott Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee and you’re here today for a Quick Chat. That’s one great inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. Today’s show is about reframing happiness. Stay tuned for a quickie discussion with Corney McDermott, Author of Give Yourself Permisson, as we explore the idea of shifting the way you think about happiness so we can more easily find it. Join us in the audio program ...

Episode 270: How to Stop Self Sabotage - Interview Thais Gibson Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Have you ever self sabotaged? Are you aware of your own limiting beliefs? Today, Thais Gibson, the founder of the Personal Development School and I are going to talk in detail - get schooled on these topics. This is really cool to get to talk with Thais about this because this Ph.D. candidate has a decade of experience helping over 30K clients, and her private practice has a 2 year waiting ...

Episode 269: Quick Chat - Consciously Creating a Meaningful Life with Cortney McDermott Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee and you’re here today for a Quick Chat. That’s one great inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. Today’s show is about this thing Corney calls Dimensions of Design. In a nutshell. Today’s quick chat is on manifesting. Stay tuned for our quickie discussion with Corney McDermott, Author of Give Yourself Permisson, as we explore the ideas behind...

Episode 268: What is Success? Interview John Ply Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. John Ply is a successful business man who started his own company - twice - and made millions. His father - Ziggy - was a Polish immigrant who was captured by the Germans in WWII and survived the horrors of a POW camp and then moved to America with nothing but the clothes on his back. Both men personify different types of success, and on today’s show John Ply joins me to share stories and lessons learned f...

267: Quick Chat - How to Transform Your Perception of Wealth with Cortney McDermott Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast - Quick Chat: That’s one great inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. I’m your host Lori Lee. Today’s show is about how to transform your perception of money and wealth and our quickie discussion is with Corney McDermott, author of Give Yourself Permission. We explore the idea of shifting the way you think about something as crucial as money, for a different more abundan...

Episode 266: The Beautiful Life Designer Interview Edwina Murphy Doomer Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast! I’m your host Lori Lee. I’m reading a book called Change It Up. The entire premise of the book is a comparison of how scared we get of change, but also how much we need novelty and how refreshed we are by changes we choose - new hair cut, wearing a new color, going to a place you’ve never been, and even sometimes the shifts that happen after a divorce or or a loss. In the moment it’...

Episode 265: Quick Chat - Small Steps Big Wins with Sue Saller Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast. I’m your host Lori Lee and you’re here today for a Quick Chat. That’s one great inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. Today’s show is called Small Steps Big Wins. Stay tuned for a quickie discussion with Sue Saller, host of the Small Steps Big Wins podcast as we explore the idea of giving yourself a break because, as Van Gogh said, “Great things are done by a series of small things broug...

Episode 264: How to Tell Your Story - Interview Amanda Edgar Welcome to the LYS Podcast! Every person I interview on this show has a story. They share those stories with us - the wins, the losses, the heartbreak and the learning. Man! There are some great stories on this podcast. As I’ve spoken with people - in general - about their stories, often people say, “I don’t have a story. I just have a regular old life. Nothing to hear here.” My guest today is Amanda Edgar. After a life in academia...

Episode 263: Quick Chat - Making Something Beautiful from the Broken and Discarded Stuff of Life Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast. Today we are starting off the new Quick Chat series - this is the first one. Let me know what you think of it. It's one inspirational idea in 15 minutes or less. I’ve always loved thrift shopping. I think it started because I’ve carefully budgeting has been important to me and I love a bargain. I have no serious problem with sharing clothes that have been war...

Episode 262: Lost on the Slopes - Lessons Beyond the Mountain: Interview Nick Shaw Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today’s show takes us into the story of the death of a 9-year-old boy after a ski accident at Big Sky in Montana. The tragedy, as you would expect, brought his parent’s to their knees, on a path none of us want to walk. But Nick Shaw - today’s guest - sought meaning as the life-line to hold to as he moved forward, and part of his healing process involved putting it down in ...

Episode 261: The Best of 2023 Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast! As 2023 comes to a close it’s time for the annual “Best Of” episode - This is where we look back at which episodes of the Love Your Story podcast were the favorites of the listeners. Which ones did you guys like best? Tune in for the Top 5 Episodes, a clip from each, and if you’ve missed one of these favs - go back and listen to get all the goods. Coming right up…. the years top 5 favorites… Welcome to the top 5 Love Your ...