Remixing Our Souls featuring Felicia Savage Friedman
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Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Improviding Life
Life should be livable. The Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Crawford explores how life can be more livable and adulting can suck less through applied improvisational comedy, embodying your emotions, and becoming more okay with being human.
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The 7 Types of Rest You May Be Resisting
Send us a text Last week I called myself in by realizing I have been energetically and literally short sheeting myself :p So for those moments we are feeling depleted what can we do? How about explore the 7 types of rest we may be resisting And a few ways we can go about filling those cups back up AND if you get your copy of the Clusterfuck Cheatsheet in the next week you'll get the inside scoop on my latest offering [mood: "thanks it has pockets" meets the carebears] before it goes public! Grab...
Jul 27, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 26
What To Do When You Short Sheet Yourself
Send us a text It's time I get honest'er with myself and you - I've been short sheeting myself (literally and energetically) - and you probably have been too! Being short sheet'd is part of our collective human experience - so what do we do about it?! Tune in for my genius improviding life hack for when you find yourself literally short sheeted (that means you're out of toilet paper, in case you didn't know the term) And for a nuanced exploration of how a habitat check in is more supportive than...
Jul 13, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 25
The Power of Perhaps Makes Possibilities Possible with April Dawn Scheffler
Send us a text April Dawn Scheffler is the subtly of service play pal that dreams are made of! This week we go deep and wide and wild and personal and everything in between as we play with Improviding Tool #5 - Build vs Invent. From body image to brownie points, we explore the power of 'perhaps' and how the lens of perhaps makes possibilities possible. Content warning - if you are navigating challenges relating with your body and/or have experienced bodily trauma, this episode may be triggering....
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Our Body Doesn't Consent to Everything Our Mind Demands
Send us a text This week we're riffing off of sign #3 from last weeks episode as I've realized how much overscheduling of my time I've been doing lately. Join me in exploring what role our mind serves in our relationship with our body and wondering if we would spend less time on autopilot if we're asking our body for consent with how we fill, use, and share our time, energy, and resources. I also announce the Clusterfuck Cheatsheet, a resource to help your day be decent even when life feels defe...
Jun 15, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 23
3 Signs You're In a One-Sided Relationship with Your Body
Send us a text Being in a relationship with your body can be a hard tog rasp concept, let a lone a practice that feels accessible. Today I share 3 (of who knows how many) signs that you're in a one sided relationship - and how to flip those signs into opportunities to reconnect with your body. As mentioned, the Yes, And Yesterday (YAY) course helps you go from 'what even is a body and why do I have to have one' to 'oh shit, my body might just be on my side' by exploring 3 quick and potent embodi...
Jun 09, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Healing Doesn't Have to be Heavy with Dr. Alexis Edwards
Send us a text As we explore expansion as the natural state of life, Dr Alexis Edwards, Mercuri, and I chat energy, remembrances, consent, and share a few full circle moments. Alexis gifts us with the idea that the Phoenix does not go to ash to reincarnate into its former self, but instead there’s a reincarnation into the newest version of themselves. I facilitate and impromptu Shit Shifting Session with Alexis as we clear some energetic clutter around money, shame, and guilt while making room f...
Jun 01, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Infusing Mundane Moments with Joyful Magic
Send us a text We all have that one (or dozen) Adulting task that just sucks. our. soul. to a shitty shitty low. Just the thought of having to do that/those thing (s) can meh the rest of our day. I call these joy poachers And I'm curious how life becomes more livable when joy poachers are paired with joy practices, those go to dance in your seat, chefs kiss moments that transport you out of your head and into your body, your inner kid cheering you on. This episode includes the joy poachers and p...
May 25, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 20
We are Re'Sources
Send us a text Shifting our perspective on what a resource is makes room to include ourselves as an extension of source. What if as adults we can re'up our youthfulness by reconnecting to our various sources that give us life? We explore how we can fill our inner energy reserves, our cups so to speak, by considering our 1. Cosmic source 2. Chosen family source 3. Youth source 4. Reparent source 5. Adult source Join me in tapping into playful ways to lighten your day to day load and feel more rev...
May 18, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Death is Not an Emergency with Carrie McCann
Send us a text Carrie is a death worker with a gracious gut-o-meter and is grand friend who continues to help me explore liminal spaces and the opportunity they hold for life becoming more livable. We demystify death as part of life, Carrie explores spirituality, dreams, death, and more as part of her human experience while so many quirky, juicy, informative gems are dropped. To learn more, visit Carrie at https://www.moonsetandco.com/ and on instagram http://www.instagram.com/moonsetandco Today...
May 11, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Sensemaking Through Relevance to Self featuring Keith Jamison
Send us a text Todays episode features one of my former mentees, a dynamic thought leader, Keith Jamison. Keith is a senior at Allegheny College and vulnerably shares his experiences as a Black man at a predominately white institution - and because of this emotional labor I am encouraging those who listen to this episode to compensate Keith for his emotion and energetic labor today. Keith's cashapp is $KJamison1 Discussion topics range from positionality and the present, physical dislocation wit...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 17
4 Steps towards Shifting a Limiting Story
Send us a text This tech dinosaur has hatched! In todays episode we explore the question "what part of my story wants to revisit which part of me?" What came up for me was the myth that I am a tech dinosaur - one that kept me frozen in place despite how badly I wanted to take steps towards my dreams. Grab a pen and paper or have your notes app ready if you like to get thoughts out of your head as this episode offers a 4 step practice for identifying and shifting a story that is stopping you from...
Mar 30, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Sometimes Our Stories Stifle What is Possible
Send us a text TW: This episode explores Lori's layered relationship with her body and how the first stories to take form around her body have continued to offer a complex and often challenging relationship with her body. This episode is shared with love and to model the hope that room for new evidence and kinder more accurate stories can be made and that relationships, especially those with bodies, can take root! Lori mentioned The Face Your Feelings Friendsy free embodiment mini-course and the...
Mar 23, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Building Supportive Practices Into Your Daily Life
Send us a text Sometimes we need new evidence that something else is possible as we can get caught up trying to invent the magic wand that will cure all woes. Yet what can actually be transformative is building supportive practices into our day as having moments where we actually matter to ourselves can help that new evidence take shape, and provide more ease along the way. For more hands on fun, emotional embodiment guidance, and peace of mind mentorship, visit me on instagram https://www.insta...
Mar 16, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Holding Space for Your Human Nuance featuring Sarah Steckler
Send us a text Episode 13 features Sarah Steckler, a Productivity Strategist and lover of all things cozy. While exploring how life can be more livable we realize the importance of supportive practices that let us feel welcomed and present in our day, be that cups of tea, picnics in the park, or checking in with ourselves. Sarah shares a brilliant take on the weather, the impact of revisiting what was once familiar, and shares about her incredible and free virtual event Productivity and Planning...
Mar 09, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Welcome to Season 2 Featuring The Barking Dogs
Send us a text Welcome Back! Season 2 is a legit blast and I'm so excited to share incredible guest interviews and impactful tips and tricks with you as we continue exploring how life can be more livable. This episode features The Barking Dogs - a live concert performance by my very own dogs who offer us a moment to tip toe into this seasons underlying theme - what I call the Control to Connection Pivot! So be gently warned - there is a sudden explosion of unplanned yet right on time dog barking...
Mar 08, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Tool #6 - I've Got Your Back
Send us a text This is part 6 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding AND the season 1 finale. In this episode Lori shares how she welcomed her first child the day episode 10 aired and has been cherishing the last 12 weeks of her maternity leave. During this time her and her babe co-created a pocket pal journal for postpartum support called the Body, Bottle, Breast Digest (linked below) as a way to have each others back while first meeting each other. Lori offers that tool#6, I've ...
Dec 29, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 11
What is Worth Anyways?
Send us a text Sometimes we hear, see, experience something in life that stirs our pot a bit and lets something 'new' bubble to the surface. In this episode, Lori shares an insight she received from a juicy Instagram Live by Rachel Onojafe about challenging the idea that letting your impact be known and making it easier for people to know how you can serve them means you are bragging - through the lens of having an undefined or open heart in Human Design (an energy blueprint system built upon an...
Oct 04, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Tool #5 - Build vs Invent
Send us a text This is part 5 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how Build vs Invent offers us room to reclaim our lived experience as a foundation for moving forward while challenging the way invention is positioned as something that is unfounded and comes from a place of lack. By identifying the faulty building blocks we've been given as a result of colonialist erasure of indigenous wisdoms, we gain access to building reality with more supportive...
Sep 24, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Playing with Possibilities featuring Shelby Melissa
Send us a text It's time for our first podcast party! Shelby Melissa, a money mindset coach, video game enthusiast, and a dear friend joins us this week! We start with the idea of playing with possibilities and venture to so many other spaces including community care, accountability based harm reduction in our day to day lives, and how we as coaches can remain coachable as we address our privilege's amidst a world with much systemic inequity - to quote Shelby, "we can't put out fires on our own ...
Sep 03, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Tool #4 - ID the Ship
Send us a text This is part 4 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how ID the Ship creates room for life to be more livable as we start to expand our awareness of what we are in relationship with and how many unspoken relationships we've been unknowingly navigating. We explore how being in reaction mode is a clue that there are deeper things coming to the surface. Lori offers 8 reflection prompts for how to explore the layers of our lived experience ...
Aug 26, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Shifting from Situationships to Relationships
Send us a text We're taking a break from the Tools of Improviding mini series to explore the concept Lori calls 'situationships', or the 'out of sight out of mind' approach we have to most things in life. In this episode Lori shares how an abundance of situationships makes relating with what is happening in our lives and with ourselves more difficult. By shifting through the energetic and emotional clutter of situationships into a space where active and interactive relationships feel possible, l...
Aug 17, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Tool #3 - A to C; A Tale of Smoke, Fire, & McFlurries
Send us a text This is part 3 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how A to C creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'A', or what might come first to mind in the moment, may not be the best, most supportive, or most accessible, while exploring other options, the 'B's, C's, D's etc.' opens doors for other reactions, contextual considerations, and outcomes to be possible while being human. For more hands on fun and emotional embod...
Aug 12, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Tool #2 - If So, What Else
Send us a text This is part 2 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how If So, What Else creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'If So' creates room to relate with what experience you're having as you human, while the 'What Else' opens the door for other reactions and outcomes to be possible while being human. For more hands on fun and emotional embodiment guidance, visit me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.l...
Aug 04, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Tool #1 - Yes And'ing
Send us a text This is part 1 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how Yes, And'ing creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'Yes' creates room to breathe while acknowledging what experience you're having as you human, while the 'And' honors your feelings and needs that come with being human. For more hands on fun and emotional embodiment guidance, visit me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.lori/...
Jul 28, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 3
How Improv Helps Me Human
Send us a text In this episode Lori unpacks improv comedy, how applying improv in life helps you relate more authentically with yourself and others, and how having a first step to take - Improviding - can be enough to shift through life's woes as they happen. For more hands on fun and emotional embodiment guidance, visit me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.lori/
Jul 19, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 2
What is Improviding
Send us a text This introductory episode offers room to explore what Improviding is and how it offers you more room to be okay with being human with Lori Crawford, emotional embodiment guide. For more hands on fun and emotional embodiment guidance, visit me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.lori/
Jul 19, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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