If you are on someone else’s expected journey for you, you are not on YOUR path. In this episode, we explore how your path is YOUR path and you are exactly where you need to be. Sometimes our paths overlap or travel alongside those of others. It’s time to take back our own authenticity to walk on our own path… in our own time; without comparison or judgment. Listen and remember with us, how to let go of what does not serve you and embrace your own power. We can be the example or we can be the warning…there is wisdom and healing in both. It’s time to let go of comparison and live free of the expectations of others.

There are so many things going on in the world that are ’stealing normal’. It may be more important now than ever to ask ourselves: What is normal anyway? What do we want to keep? What needs to go? How can I cultivate an experience that most represents the life I want to live? In this episode, we open the door to these questions and the idea of ‘micro’normals and how there are gifts in the chaos and uncertainty if only we are willing to explore the edges.

In this jam packed episode we explore our edges and the concept of ‘balance’. What it is, what it is not, and permission to carve your own path. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? We are here to help you find your new ‘normal’ and create harmony between being a human ‘doing’ and a human ‘being’.

This past year has certainly touched all our lives in various ways with respect to limbo, impermanence and uncertainty.. While hard on the human brain and the nervous system, these things can also play a necessary transitional experience to get all the juice out of life. Join us in this episode where we unpack what it is to experience these states: the trials, the tribulations, and some real strategies for harnessing the power and the lessons in them all.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Carla and Juliet are taking a little sabbatical from Riffing on Realness for the next couple of months. We may peek in here from time to time, but, overall, we won’t be recording. Have a great summer! In this episode Carla and Juliet riff on getting real around emotions. What they’ve noticed about emotions while both going through some deep water. They get curious how we can seem to hold contradictory emotions within the same day or even hour.

In this episode, we explore what's going on when we want to help others or when others want to help us. Sometimes, well-intentioned advice can feel irritating or disempowering. In turn, we may find ourselves trying to fix other people's problems. When we look deeper at what's going on, do we need others to be okay so we can feel okay?

In this episode, full of laughter, we explore decluttering, not just our physical space but our inner emotional and psychological spaces. We get curious about what's going on when our minds or spaces are full of stuff we don't really need or want. How might we recognise what's going on and what helps us let go of the clutter?

In this episode, we explore burnout. Carla shares how she experienced burnout towards the end of last year and how she consciously took a 'sacred pause'. In practice that looked like stepping back from blogging and social media posting and focusing solely on taking care of her clients and herself. Although she had some misgivings, she realised it is perfectly acceptable to take a sacred pause when one needs to. And she sees how her business, rather than suffer, has actually grown.

In this episode, we explore how sometimes our reactivity, eg irritability, pettiness, and frustration can be disguising a deeper emotion. Carla tells the story of how grief about her mother showed up recently but she didn't recognise it at first because it's not usual for her to feel this and initially she felt petty, dramatic, and reactive. Can we get eyes for and accept what's showing up internally?

In this episode we explore interruptions. Carla's dog Pedro is poorly today and Carla has taken time out to attend to him. She's noticed how along with the distress comes irritation and getting snappy with others. She sees how comical it is that we get so easily upset by interruptions. Maybe we should accept the fact that interruptions happen and maybe we need a little more understanding and compassion with ourselves and others.