Pretty Spiritual Podcast

Do you struggle with identifying feelings or experiencing emotions? Maybe it's hard to be happy or impossible to sit with anger or sadness. In this LIVE podcast recording Lindsay and Annie discuss their experiences with denying or avoiding emotions, and then share the tools they're using for identifying, allowing, + tolerating a range of emotions. You're doing a great job being human! 

Do you struggle with identifying feelings or experiencing emotions? Is it hard to be happy or impossible to sit with anger or sadness? In this live podcast recording, Lindsay + Annie share experiences then the tools they're using for identifying, allowing, + tolerating a range of emotions. Note: please be patient with sound in beginning, this is a recording of a LIVE event. Also note: the phrase Annie mentions is actually "Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria," not "Rejection Sensitivity Dysmorphia." Oops! Thanks for listening! xoxo

Tangled in the compulsive knot of codependent behaviors and thoughts? You're not alone, you are worthy, there is hope, and it can get better. We look at how codependency affects our emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health. We share our own experiences with how codependency harms us, then share tools for recovery that help us find balance, a sense of self, and the courage to find a new way. We love ya, you're doing so great! Apologies for imperfect sound, we're fine-tuning equipment!

Live recording! Our Insight Timer Live Stream Podcast on Aging. This 30-min episode is all about facing, and maybe even embracing, aging with spiritual tools. From Botox to prayer we bare it all.  Apologies for the low volume in one section due to being a live recording. We love you and you're perfect exactly the age and way you are TODAY. Listen and let us know what aging is like for you these days. xo

Are you trapped in projection? This episode explores the negative traits and unwanted emotions we project onto others, resulting in pain for all involved. Today we look to our shadow sides to help find our unconscious projections. Then, we share tools we're using for self awareness so we can begin to unravel the painful narratives we have believed for so long. Our hope is for freedom! Join us! 

Can creating inner safety hold and nurture us in our outward facing lives? Could we provide the calm and serene states we so desire and try to gain in our outside worlds? Join Annie and Lindsay as they explore what it feels like to live in unsafe zones within yourself. Learn to bring safety and care to yourself from yourself.  Have you ever thought about your internal surroundings? What makes you feel safe in your body?What anchors you spiritually? How do you create emotional safety in the face of internal or external disturbances?  When do you notice yourself feeling unsafe?  Has harsh inner criticism, past hurts, perceived failings, and longing- constructed an absence of safety? Join us as we dismantle internal hazards and cultivate inner safety.   

This is a special guest episode starring Sara Longacre. Sara is a health advocate who is passionate about educating others about what Obsessive Compulsive Disorder actually is. We get into lesser known OCD characteristics and explore what it was like for Sara to be diagnosed. We also tackle new vocabulary terms for our regular traits instead of misusing OCD as a state we can go in and out of.  Join us!

Embracing your inner critic, healing the inner critic, naming your inner critic. You name it, we dive into it during this Inner Critic episode. First, we share how our inner critics are present in our lives today—and how they came to be. Then, we talk about spiritual tools we’re using to cultivate inner safety and soothe that harsh, internal voice. Join us for this special episode! We love ya!

We need all the help! We talk self advocacy, taking suggestions, choosing a therapist, talking to doctors, navigating mental health, and—of course—some laughs and a few tears. Annie + Lindsay share their experiences and tools for how to get help. Remember, you’re not alone. If you need help, we hope you feel empowered to get it. We love ya. We hope you love you, too. 

Struggling with boundaries? Setting internal boundaries makes it easier to have external boundaries with friends, family, work, lovers...you name it. Internal boundaries help us define ourselves to ourselves. They help us know what we like, don't like, how we feel, what we believe, our emotions, our spiritual sense. When we can clearly take responsibility for our internal physical, emotional, and mental experience, we can navigate the world easier. DON'T PANIC. We don't have this all figured out, either. But we do share our current experiences and terrific tools to help you set and maintain internal boundaries. We believe in you. You're doing great!   

Is being patient possible? Of course we talk Axl Rose and Botox, but mainly this episode explores how impatience shows up in our spiritual life, our physical bodies, our mental health, our day-to-day lives, and the suffering it causes. Then, we share tools and stories of how we're practicing patience to cultivate more love in ourselves and the world around us. Join us as we talk about how to be patient—at least our attempts—and patience as a spiritual practice. It's lighthearted, serious, and full of love. xo

We all deserve self forgiveness. Forgiveness is usually focused on forgiving others. We discuss the powerful act of forgiving oneself. Why would one forgive themself? We share intimately areas that need self forgiveness exploring self hatred, critical judgments, regrets and unrealistic expectations. Practicing soothing phrases, empowering mantras, and meditation we learn the value of self forgiveness. We can hone our skills of self forgiveness as a pathway to greater self love. 

Our first 2021 episode explores the intentional mindset we want to embody and how we hope to grow in the coming year. We’ll talk choosing a one-word theme to help us focus on our intentions, and what we envision it providing for us over the year. We also share personal goals for 2021and healthy paths towards acheiving those goals. We’re all about intentions, not resolutions. This spiritual journey requires gentleness and a focus on progress, not perfection. Be kind to yourselves. xo

This year we've practiced, prayed, tried, failed, and tried again. Let's pause to acknowledge our growth and integration. By integration, we mean how we've incorporated new tools, behaviors, habits, perceptions, intentions over this year. As we integrate, we merge the old and new to become ever more whole. As the year ends, we look back, recognize, and celebrate our aspirations and intentions and our hard work on our journeys to wholeness. Join us! 

In our newest episode, we are waking up to our mental exhaustion and applying tools to find rest in all areas: spiritual, mental, creative, and sensory. We are hopeful to untuck the idea that there are moments of rest we haven’t tapped into yet . We are going to ask the question, where are we not resting? Where are we tiring ourselves out in moments we could find the sacred pause? The restful ease of knowing we can put our thinking minds down and attempt to rest in that space of simply being? Through this practice, could we heal our mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion? We supply the tools to help us all find out how to practice to get the much needed healing and rest we all deserve. 

Welcome! Let's talk affirmations for cultivating self love. Hurray, right? We talk the science of affirmations, recognizing and counteracting negative self talk, and filling our self-love well when it’s running empty. You read that right, we're talking mind magic. We share about our previous skepticism with the practice of affirmations, how emotional pain brought us the willingness to try, and—lo and behold—how they actually work for us, too! Join us for spiritual tools, earnest attempts to grow, & a shared sense of humor about it all. We love ya!

Struggling with stress in 2020? This podcast episode shares practical tips and spiritual tools for easing anxiety in a year filled with stressors. We have a very special guest, Anika, who along with Annie and Lindsay discusses her current experience with stress and tools we all can use right now to reduce stress in our lives. Be gentle with yourselves everyone, this is a hard year! We love you, we hope this episode provides you some tools to give yourselves much deserved comfort and ease.

Dear Diary! Journals aren't just archives of our junior high crushes. They're also amazing tools for self reflection, spiritual connection, anxiety relief, and tracking personal growth over time. We share our experiences with journaling over the years and practical ways to use journals on your spiritual journey. BONUS! We share journaling techniques from our very special listeners who wrote in with their favorite ways to journal. Join us on this special episode! We love ya. xoxo 

Today we have our first guest, Kelly! In this episode we discuss not knowing your own power, giving away your power, and finally learning tools to help own your power. In a world where so many people struggle for power, we explore what it means to connect with and reclaim our own inner power. From somatic experiencing to body scans to breathing and prayer we offer different ways for you to get rooted in your power. Want to share your experience or tools with us? Find us on Instagram, Facebook, Insight Timer, Google Play, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, and Stitcher (or our Contact page) and share your feelings, thoughts, and anything else! Thanks for listening to our spiritual podcasts. We love ya!

2020 changed things. From global pandemic to Black Lives Matter to shifts in this sweet podcast. We've been on pause for months as Pretty Spiritual Podcast reflected on our role in this new landscape. Dear Ella will not be participating in Season 2 of the podcast, but Annie and Lindsay Poni are here for you—sometimes with guests—to share experience and spiritual tools, laughs and tears. This episode will talk these transitions and the spiritual tools we’re using to navigate huge change. Join us, we missed you!