It’s Road Riff time – Ease from the Inside Out. I’ve had some really interesting, unusual resistance around content creation and I didn’t have an “episode,” but I did have a drive into town  Stream of Consciousness with a Purpose and More at Ease I want to be more at ease this year from the inside It’s one of the core goals of how and who I want to be  This riff is inspired by Gabor Mate, Authenticity & Internal Family Systems Love,  Allison   _______________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Yikes – Is it Procrastination or Parts- I’m jumping back into making podcast episodes for you!  I’m just going to allow myself to be imperfect in getting back into the routine I love creating content for y’all  I’ve always loved creating content for y’all and I’ve had some procrastination parts come up lately I had all these plans and was taking no action – Highly unusual for me.  After a couple of weeks of this procrastination, I sat down to do my parts work practices as I normally do, and my shoulders were aching and I decided to see if it was a part.  I slowed down and connected with myself and my body. Hello, shoulders. I see you. Hello, tightness, stiffness and pain. I see you What is it you want me to know?      Enjoy this episode and a few of the deeper things I’ve learned from this thing called life over the last few months. Love,  Allison   Prefer Video? Watch this episode on my YouTube Channel here: _______________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Hello Hello Humans! I feel like a little kid getting back on a bicycle, It’s been a couple of months since I podcasted.  Bug Soup is the time during chrysalis when the caterpillar disintegrates and devolves  and physically, materially turns into an gooey mess before it regenerates into the butterflies that bless us all.  It’s a metaphor for a stage of creation and a stage of life.   Who else is in and has been in Bug Soup? I have been for quite some time.  It feels like whack a mole and it is just life.  I just want to acknowledge the humanity of seasons of Bug Soup no matter what causes them.  Love,  Allison _______________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Hello Humans! Thank you for your grace while I took some time and space.  For the last four years I have been in writing practice with my publisher and write as a group One of my former clients and now friend and fellow author colleague has released her book with Compassionate Mind Collaborative Publishing. I want you to get her book and let it touch your heart.  Art is About Being Whole: A Memoir By Cindy Ingram It is a visual and word soulful treat.  Love,  Allison _______________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Hello Human Podcast Listeners! Today I want to share a little behind the scenes ADHD update. This is kind of personal. It’s a behind the scenes episodes of being a small business owner, being a coaching practice owner who is also navigating the Wild Edges of Being Human. Many of you know the diagnosis of my ADHD over 18 months ago and the acclimation to that both education, identity, meds, the support I need has been way different journey then I would have ever imagined. The diagnosis label is one thing and the aftermath is interesting.  This morning I woke up feeling more ME then I have in a long time.  Love, Allison Other ADHD Episodes and Posts: EMOTIONS, ADHD & MOTIVATION – A CONVERGENCE OF IDEAS * ADHD JOURNAL UPDATE – MED CHANGES AND INSIGHTS * BEHIND THE SCENES OF ADHD   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human  

Hello Humans, another Road Riff Episode! I use to consider myself an optimist.  I still tend to have some of these qualities. I tend to see the best in people. I’m able to see the best in people. Sometimes to my detriment. My identity for many many years was built around making other people feel good.   As I allow myself to be more human, as I drop the masks that I lived in to be save, I no longer claim to be an optimist. Here’s why and what I claim to be instead Love, Allison The ACA Bill of rights I mentioned in the episode * Allisons ACA Bill of Rights Journal Pages _______________________________________________________________________________________________  Resources: * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Emotions, ADHD & Motivation – A Convergence of Ideas Hi Y’all! I’ve been meaning to do an ADHD podcast for over a year and I saw this quote today by Tami Simon from Sounds True, “Sometimes only the answer is found through living life.” When I give myself the time and space to live life, the connections reveal themselves. And unmixing my internalized-for-51-years identity as it overlaps with ADHD has been a bit of a rumble for me lately.  While not solely about ADHD, I have had some recent insights that really landed as I continue on my learning and practicing of IFS, some  deeper study of the Enneagram (because those dang test never tell me the same number). This episode is a grand convergence of ideas connecting emotions, ADHD, and motivation–seen from a deeper than usual lens.  Love,  Allison   * The Enneagram Insights I’ve gained have been from listening to Suzanne Stabile’s podcast, The Enneagram Journey, and reading her book The Path Between Us.  * I’m also reading Sari Solden’s Book (the revised and expanded version) Women With Attention Deficit Disorder Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life  ____________ * Visit: Website: www.allisoncrow.com * Find out more about 1:1 coaching with Allison * Internal Family Systems Coaching and a brief IFS Model Overview * Get your copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human  

Episode 204 Heather Doyle Frasier: The Practice of Compassionate Writing Writer, Coach, Renaissance Woman, Lover of Books Publisher of Compassionate Mind Collaborative and a singer.  After having worked in the traditional publishing industry as a development editor, Heather saw the humanity missing from the industry. Meet my book coach, publisher, and friend.  Writing is such a vulnerable raw experience. Even when you feel like you have this covered something is going to come up during the process that is difficult and challenging.  Merging her industry experience with coaching based in Compassionate Mind Training, Heather creates a space and a loving mandate in her own publishing company. Love,  Allison ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: Heather’s Info: Website Home:  https://www.cmcollab.com/ Offerings for writing and publishing  https://www.cmcollab.com/writing-your-book Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/compassionatewriter Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/cmcollaborative   Get a copy of UNARMORED: Finding Home in the Wild Edge of Being Human

Episode 203 – The Practice of Connection over Control   Another road riff episode! It’s Sunday morning, 8:23 am as I record this and I’m heading out to my therapeutic horseback riding lessons. After a difficult week, I’ve got some insights and lessons settling into my bones.  There might be a few tears!  Y’all know everything has an analogy, right? It’s not even an analogy, life just repeats itself in so many patterns and I see and experience the patterns and love sharing these connections with you – so that we can all SELF-connect a bit more deeply in our lives. (PS…seeing and making connections is an ADHD thing).  Today’s episode topic is control or connection and lessons the horses, and life are teaching me. The skills of connection over control and protection are new for many of us and they require compassionate practice.  Time on task gives us the experience of moving from controlling a situation to connecting and moving through it. It takes us from trying to do something to becoming one with doing something.  I hope you enjoy the episode – from my tender heart to yours.  Love, Allison Crow   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Resources: Elizabeth Gilbert: Creative Living Beyond Fear * Website and things to see and read * 1:1 Coaching  * Book you will love Unarmored: Finding Home in the Wild Edges of Being Human     

  Hello Humans, I’m here with one of my mentors and teachers Chris Zydel. She is the Wild Heart Queen of Creative Juices Arts and has a wonderful book out,  Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart Today we’re having a specific conversation about Becoming Crone in the context of being a business owner.  Crone. Menopause. Reinvention. Business. Love, Allison ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Resources:  CreativeJuicesArts.com Keep Painting Cards Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart