In this episode, we hear (Barbara solo) speaking about her own sense of what is happening in the world, what is needed and what is important for us all to understand at this time. This is only one opinion of what it will take for us to prepare, . . . to build the scaffolding needed to bridge our past with our future. These are the important conversations that we need to be having at this time - I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks too to everyone who responded to S2E2. Your messages are meaningful and help to ground me in my intent. You Rock!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

Please give this a listen and help me understand more about how my ideas & ideals are landing. I need feedback now more than ever because when the FEAR kicks in, it can undermine our confidence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

Welcome Back / Thanks for Joining Us / Leave us a Message Season 2 is offering a different spin - same podcast / same direction - New format and commitment. I aim to publish 20 min or less every 2 weeks. If I'm blessed by a guest "interview" they'll do the virtues pick with me, and have an extra 10 minutes to talk about themselves if they choose to. -- There are many ways to bring focus to our lives. In 2022 I want my LENS to be looking at what's good about us. What's right in the world.  This week we focus on Fidelity and I (Barbara) reflect on how fidelity speaks to me about personal responsibility & the betterment of the whole. Thanks goes to The Virtues Card Pick on The Virtues Project website. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

🎙️ I have been on an exciting adventure that culminates into this time: here & now. This amazing experience brings everything I AM - the experiences that have lead me to now & what I have always envisioned for myself, working with indigenous people, their teachings, healing, arts & the human potential - together. More - soon... 🎙️ My Poem: "One Voice" - For obvious reasons, this poem seems to rise up in Autumn. It was one of those poems that began with one line, "when autumn leaves me bare, I know"... That line repeated in my mind (for weeks) until I put pen to paper. Then the rest came pouring out as if it had just been waiting this whole time to write that opening line. Here is a link where you can enjoy a few of the other poetic gifts that my Spirit downloads onto me to scribe out. https://sites.google.com/view/barbaraspoetry/pages/one-voice 🎙️ OMG and then there's the infamous Steve HACKETT Interview - I was privileged to meet, host & provide tech support for owner of the Peter Gabriel Fans page Facebook group, Warren Vlass along with Cody Brockway. We spent an hour with Steve Hackett, former lead guitarist & ex band member of Genesis. This interview inspired me to create the "pinch me" playlist on my YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/JgutwZojTeg which I hope will be filled (one day) with extraordinary videos of wonderful humans like these 3 guys. In Joy, B  https://hackettsongs.com  Thanks to everyone involved. 🎙️Upcoming Episodes with Anja Sagan - How her healing journey lead to create the independent film company, Miracle Walker Productions. 🌈↩️ I'd love to hear from you. Leave me a message. Join me on Facebook.com/courageousconversationspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

To wrap up this Season of Courageous Conversations, I turned to my list of 12 solo topic ideas. Each of them is saved by topic & title and touch on yet another aspect of who I am and how I think. Some topics carry into the next but other topics don't. All in all and in the end, it comes together to describe my motto, "trust the process". I am so curious what it says to you and/or how it inspires. What is yet to come is still unknown and at this point I know that I am taking a break to process my life & plan for the future. That hopefully includes a next episode but I cannot say at this point. I will be back so 💖 stay tuned! (List pending) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

What were you doing 20 years ago when 9/11 brought North America to it's knees‽ In this episode I talk about the toxic soup we live in and how we can help ourselves to cope & thrive? Who we are, is a direct reflection of our environment. History got us here, how do we get out of here? We get to set the parameters and the roles of genders and vocations. We are living our ancestors dreams. I am the woman I envisioned I would be when I thought forward in my youth. In the 60's, I knew I would be an artist and a teacher that didn't have children or a class. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

In this episode, I'm still talking about our brain & body but this time it's about LISTENING 🙃 --> and what we don't necessarily know about how or why we listen the way we do. We dive into what I am learning about how our brains are listening. As well, I share on the practice of deep listening called "Companioning" which is one of The Five Strategies of The Virtues Project. Ways to Connect: --> JOIN our private FB group | Leave a "Message" | Become a Patron/Sponsor References: --> Wikipedia  --> The Virtues Project  --> NICABM National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

Today I'm still talking about brains and offering a 20-minute meditation straight from Anna Runkle's free program, which everyone should try. 🙃 In this episode, I am connecting to our breath, meditation & how much of a role EGO plays in our peace of mind.  YOU can JOIN us in our private FB group. https://facebook.com/group/courageousconversationspodcast OR leave a "Message" to let me know how this episode touches you.  References: --> Norman Doidge, M.D. - The Brain That Changes Itself --> Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. - Whole Brain Living --> & Janene Cummings Meditation adaptation from The Crappy Childhood Fairy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

Today I'm reading (excerpts) from books of highly functioning brains, about brains. These 5 experts' work helps me reflect on me, my Self & I. The Brain is a topic I've been fascinated with since I heard comforting voices soothing me as a child. I understood more when I began studying alternative medicine in 1980, the human energy system & human emotion. I knew then, that the right & left hemispheres functioned independently, had their own memory banks and each process information & experience differently. By understanding & working my process through art over the last 40 years, I've managed to engage w/& exercise the right side of my brain. In this episode, I try to connect what really matters so I can come to a place of the clearest understanding. The least understood organ in our body might be our brain. 🙃 I'm also setting up next week where I highlight & show practices to help drive new pathways in my brain. There's an ongoing theme rising as I produce this podcast: that seeking (Peace) can sometimes mean diving head first into the rabbit hole on purpose and trusting that we're doing that together. Join a conversation in our private group. https://facebook.com/group/courageousconversationspodcast OR Tune in -- and leave a "Message" to let me know how this episode touches you. Reading References: -->Betty Edwards - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/42010.Betty_Edwards -->Norman Doidge, M.D. - The Brain That Changes Itself -->Gabor Mate, M.D. - Scattered Minds -->Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. - Whole Brain Living -->Dr. Stuart Shanker - Self-Reg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message

In this episode I'm connecting with Janene Cummings - The Divine Nurturer who shares honestly & openly about surviving her childhood trauma and how she learned to be thriving now. We go in deep & get right up close with the courageous conversations about rescuing her inner child. We talk about what helps Janene to heal, blossom & bloom as a whole being. I share more of my own story as we connect deeper too. This episode includes GIFTS: a poem by ME and an original song by Janene (also public on YouTube) and we chat about how the gifts came to be. The editing of this episode was hard - hence the longer version - because it's important, a powerful topic for all of us & because it's time.  I trust you find something helpful & healing about our talk.  If you need to talk - find us at https://facebook.com/groups/courageousconversationspodcast Tune in -- and leave us a voice "Message" https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message -- let me know how this episode touches you. Find ME, Barbara at https://www.synergyetc Find Janene at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEv7VhEiAQXr7tOkwhJ62OQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/barbsworld/message