All Habits Die Hard My session with Holly yesterday brought up some important stuff in her life and in mine - and inadvertently perhaps, in yours! It's enough to say that, quite often, we habitually be and do things based on principles that aren't the ones we really want to live by ! :o Let me explain: Last night I had a dream. I was a facilitator of a retreat. The participants were busy doing what is theirs to do. What was I doing while the participants are doing their thing? I was frustrated, ...
Sep 04, 2019•12 min•Ep. 48
What Can a Fishpond Teach Us? I have a small fish pond with Koi and gold fish. The nine of them have been together for about four years. They've weathered some severe winters together and keep growing. I don't really know what I'm doing but something seems to be working, because they all seem to be thriving. The other day, I noticed that Whitey wasn't being his usual self. He was hanging out with his nose pointed down and his tail pointed up. As I moved around a bit, he moved a bit and looked ok...
Sep 02, 2019•9 min•Ep. 47
Letting Go Requires No Sacrifice Mike and Carol are in their 80’s. They realize that it’s time for them to downsize and find a home that is smaller with no stairs if possible. They’ve begun purging their home of what they know no longer fits in their lives. However, there is so much to consider that it all becomes overwhelming. I know people in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s that can also be overwhelmed with this process of letting go. Carol and Mike live in a four bedroom home with an office and stu...
Aug 30, 2019•11 min•Ep. 46
You Don't Have to Be Smart - You Only Have to Be Quiet One of the most challenging practice for most human beings is to be quiet with themselves, and to listen within the stillness for the wisdom of their inner guru. It’s even more challenging to be quiet when you’ve been stirred by someone or something, which leaves you feeling emotional, irritable and anxious. But, truly this is the very time required to slow down, quiet down, and be present to your wise-self. Prayer, Meditation and Listening ...
Aug 28, 2019•11 min•Ep. 45
Karma? What's That Got to Do with Aging? If you want to age like a guru, then the Law of Karma is going to be good to keep in mind. Why, you might ask? It promotes mindfulness of our intentions. It encourages accountability for what we do, what we say, and what we think. It empowers us to look at how we choose to choose what we choose. Yep, you read that right. Case in Point: People not showing up! Alvin is suppose to show up to do some work on the roof of my shed. He isn’t showing up when he sa...
Aug 26, 2019•11 min•Ep. 44
So, You Think You Are Losing Your Marbles, eh? Sliding into dementia, senility, Alzheimer's - call it what you will, is one of those fears that rates high on most people’s lists of Aging Worries. It's part of the fear of losing independence. People even in their 30's are worrying about dementia and losing their mental faculties. So what exactly is dementia? In a nutshell, it includes memory loss, disorientation, confusion and the decline in thinking and memory skills that may interfere with a pe...
Aug 22, 2019•12 min•Ep. 43
No Matter What Age, Life Is Hard - Oh No! It isn't uncommon, regardless of age, to hear people exclaim, "But it's too hard!" We don't like life to be hard. We avoid life circumstances when they are hard, unless those circumstance feed our soul and nourish our spirit, but even then we have to be in the mood for it. Most of our lives are spent attempting to be invulnerable from risk. When life gets hard we risk feeling vulnerable. We feel exposed, incompetent. We think that we should know how to d...
Aug 21, 2019•11 min•Ep. 42
Allow Play - Just for Fun The thing is, the longer you stay on the planet the greater degree is the possibility that you will experience stuff that grows you in ways you cannot anticipate. And, most importantly, be glad you stuck around long enough to have that experience. I just finished facilitating the “Loving Yourself Into Creation” retreat with my dear friend Margaret Lindsey. Margaret specializes in Conscious Creativity. Her specialization and mine meld beautifully in creating a space for ...
Aug 19, 2019•11 min•Ep. 41
The Aging Goddess - An Interview with Susie Verde Today I'm visiting with my friend Susie Verde. Susie is Brazilian, 50 years old, and passionate about helping creative women access their unique, authentic self and unleash their unlimited potential through a unique approach to personal transformational. She is an Ordained Interfaith Minister, a life purpose coach, a Positive Psychology Practitioner, and a professional astrologer. Susie’s interest in the wisdom of the Divine Feminine has led her ...
Aug 16, 2019•13 min•Ep. 40
Aging Parent Aging Children The relationship you have with your aging parents may not be any different than it was decades ago. There are a lot of assumptions and expectation hidden in any relationship, especially when it come to aging, but more often between parents and their children, who may be clueless about what's going to happen when their parents age. Sorting all of this out sometimes takes the courage to ask difficult questions and to begin difficult discussions. Otherwise there is a bur...
Aug 14, 2019•11 min•Ep. 39
What Am I Afraid People Will Decide About Me? Regardless of our age, each of us have some core fear about what people will find out or decide about us. And, because we don't want to be found out, we develop strategies so as to hide, pretend, or act the way we want people to see us. We do this dance of "be afraid and strategize" probably 92% of every day. That leftover 8% is the time within which we may experience freedom, playfulness, relaxation and contentment. Here' the scoop: Unless we become...
Aug 12, 2019•12 min•Ep. 38
Depression is So Depressing While scrolling through posts on my Facebook page the other day, I came across a photo of some my friends that was taken a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t seen them for about seven years but each of them in this photo was hardly recognizable to me. Most of them are in their 60’s. Each had gained at least 20lbs, and each appeared to have lost that vibrancy that made them unique and attractive. My instant response was deep sadness, as though these people were gone, died, ...
Aug 09, 2019•12 min•Ep. 37
Being the Expression of Our Essential Self Our egos love conflict; in essence, that is all it knows. It fights for survival; again, that is all it knows. The intention of these podcasts is to empower you to empower yourself to be more at choice as to who you listen to in your head. The part that says, "You shouldn't want that, you shouldn't like that, you shouldn't feel that way, you shouldn't think that way," counters every natural and authentic idea you have that is true for you. Did You Know?...
Aug 07, 2019•12 min•Ep. 36
Fear of Dying Makes Us Afraid of Living Death is one of the most influential concepts that seeps into how we live life. Death is a transition, much like the many transitions we experience throughout our lifetimes. When we look back, we can see all the times we've died - or at least our identity has died - and our attachments to what was got annihilated, by controllable and uncontrollable circumstances alike. Yet we have the incredible ability as humans to grow our capacity to transition graceful...
Aug 05, 2019•12 min•Ep. 35
I'm Not Afraid of Aging; I'm Not Afraid of Dying Part of aging like a guru is letting go of being afraid of aging, and letting go of the fear of dying. There is no aging of our Spirit. There is no death of our Spirit. Listen in to hear more! ACISTE - www.aciste.org Books: Testimony of Light by Helen Greaves Thy Son Liveth by Grace Duffie Boylan - - - - For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts....
Aug 02, 2019•14 min•Ep. 34
How Do I Choose to Choose What I Choose? We are constantly choosing what we choose. Did you know that?! Sometimes consciously, other times unconsciously-but we are always choosing! Most often, however, we tend to focus on what to choose and rarely focus on how we choose to choose what we choose. This podcast explores how each of us live in a process of choosing that gives us the results that are in front of us, which are not necessarily the results we'd like to have in front of us. - - - - For m...
Jul 31, 2019•12 min•Ep. 33
What Would You Do If You Knew You Could't Fail? Age! A long time ago, this question was popping up in self-empowerment materials: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” One particular day, I closed my eyes and felt into the question, “What would I do?” The answer came swiftly - not from my thinking mind but out of the depths of my being: “I would sail around the world by myself!” I was shocked with this answer, because, even though I sailed across the Atlantic in my 40’s, with my boy...
Jul 29, 2019•12 min•Ep. 32
The Courage to Change the Things You Can Through my group at the Senior Center here on Orcas, it has come to my attention that most individuals are aging with an addiction to thought patterns that actually create isolation, loneliness, hopelessness and dis-ease. This is no different than those of us who become addicted to substances and behaviors that create isolation, loneliness and hopelessness. In all cases there is a fear of abandonment or rejection if one were to share their authentic exper...
Jul 26, 2019•13 min•Ep. 31
Death by Aging: Failing to Thrive You are the culmination of all incarnations of life on Earth. You are the pinnacle of evolution of your ancestors. You are the highest evolution of all of your incarnations. What’s that like inside of you as you take that in? For me, when I read this for the first time, I thought “Oh no! I’m Doomed!” Then, I took a breath and began to sink into the goodness of this truth. You carry in your DNA the traumas of your ancestors. That’s why many of us are triggered ea...
Jul 24, 2019•12 min•Ep. 29
Be the Legacy You Wish to Leave Behind The topic of Legacies is a big one as part of the aging process. What will you leave behind for your family, community or the world at large? Wills, trusts, foundations, charities all are in line for your financial treasure. We all want to be remembered after we're gone. Personally, because I have children and a grandson, I want to leave a legacy for them. What will it be? Initially, I decided that I want to leave them a connection with nature, because for ...
Jul 22, 2019•11 min•Ep. 28
I'm Not Giving Up What I Have for What I Want So many people in the world - especially in the U.S., sacrifice their health and well-being for financial security, stability, and identity. One person in particular - Suzie, is having major health challenges. Despite all of the medical and alternative health practitioners that she has seen, nothing is helping her heal. What Suzie wants from our coaching sessions is to get healthy. Suzie's work-life balance is currently 80/20. In our coaching convers...
Jul 19, 2019•11 min•Ep. 27
"I Have No Time for Serenity...As If I’ve Got Something Better to Do” In a few minutes I have a meeting. I want my day to start as I usually start my day with reading and being contemplative - feeling into serenity so that I'm in it all day long. However, in this particular morning, there isn’t time for serenity. I have to make preparations for this meeting. “Oh, I’ll just do a couple of these things on my list, that should be fine, then I’ll get back to my serenity.” I grumped my way through ea...
Jul 17, 2019•12 min•Ep. 26
Stop Working So Hard at Trying This morning I had the delight to hang with my friend Joy for an hour. Joy is a joy-bunny. Her work on Earth is to play and create. She would be on the cover of my book Playing Like a Guru if I were to ever write that book. Joy is light, beauty, exuberance, and love, all wrapped up into one being. However, all that Joy is - light, beauty, exuberant, and love, lives within the armor of should, shouldn’t, worries and constraints. She has the wings of a butterfly, yet...
Jul 15, 2019•13 min•Ep. 30
Letting Go of What for What? Self-help materials all encourage people to let go of patterns, habits, and behaviors that aren’t getting them the results they want: more happiness, health, wealth, love. We hear it all the time: “just let go and good things will come to you!” When it comes to aging, the conversation is no different. We are continually barraged with ads and infomercials that tell us we have to let go of the ways we’ve been doing things, and we have to do them differently: eat right,...
Jul 12, 2019•11 min•Ep. 25
Dying - What Choice to I Have? "The Person Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins!" ~anonymous When you read a book, especially a novel, and you’ve stayed attentive and engaged to the very end, you want that last sentence to stay with you forever! A great writer might even craft the whole book around the very essence of this exquisite, rapturous moment. Each of us are crafting our lives consciously, and to some degree unconsciously. Throughout our days, years, and decades we create an undercurrent of ...
Jul 10, 2019•10 min•Ep. 24
David Bennett Interviewed David Bennett experienced numerous spiritually transformative events including a near death event that changed his life - as you can imagine. David experienced being immersed in an ocean of light, meeting his soul family, and receiving a life review, before getting kicked back into his human body. David tells his story in Voyage of Purpose: Spiritual Wisdom from Near-Death back to Life - one of my all-time favorite reads! David and I have been friends for many years. I ...
Jul 08, 2019•17 min•Ep. 23
Aging Isn't About Aging - What? "Be yourself - everyone else is already taken," . . . ever hear that quote before? In the previous podcast I mentioned David Bennett and Cindy Griffith-Bennett and their book Voyage of Purpose . I’m on my third read of this book. The stories of David’s Near Death Experience and the unfolding processes he grew through over the years always awakens something in me that I hadn’t heard in the previous read. I find that there are some books that stay on my bookshelf - ...
Jul 05, 2019•12 min•Ep. 22
Resonance is the Sweet Spot of Aging Gracefully What are you listening for? Where are you listening From? For those of you listening to this podcast or those I’ve previously broadcast, I suspect that you were attracted to something that resonated with you. Something engaged your curious mind. Something engaged a knowing, a familiarity, a resonance with a part of you that is looking for confirmation, looking for connection, that knows of your inner guru, or perhaps desires to experience collabora...
Jul 03, 2019•11 min•Ep. 21
Dropping Your Identity of Hope Today, I was imagining what it's like to be me with no hope attached to what I do or don’t do. What an interesting moment. I realized the degree to which so much of who I’ve been being and what I’ve been doing has been related to hoping that the outcome would be in my favor. Having lived in hope for so long, I can tell you it hasn’t been a fun and easy ride. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone! I grew up in a large Catholic family, my dad was a doctor, we belonged to...
Jul 01, 2019•12 min•Ep. 20
Who's Your Savior?! Everyday we put our faith in many, many people, organizations, and things such as banks, our employers, our families, our doctors, our cars, insurance company.... The list goes on and on! My question for you today is, "W hat's the degree to which you put your faith in you? How safe do you feel making choices that impact on your health and wellbeing as you age?" Here are some thoughts about that! For more blogs, books, videos, or if you are interested in coaching or training w...
Jun 28, 2019•11 min•Ep. 19
