Join me for some space to breathe...together..however deeply or not. No instructions, no curriculum, no advice, suggestions, recommendations or prescriptions for developing inner or peace or how to build solidarity and unity (though we all know that is great). Just a place and a few moments to be, with yourself and what is present, rising, moving, needing your attention before you get on with your day, the work, the hoping and healing and building together. www.JulieinConversation.com...
Nov 06, 2024•13 min
Could you use a good time out, a few moments to pause, to check in, to be with nautre and yourself? Have a listen, nature included. www.JulieinConversation.com Wild Sounds of Canada https://www.audible.ca/ep/wild-sounds-of-canada
Oct 30, 2024•30 min
A brief invitation into this question. An invitation to join Nicole Schiener and I at our upcoming program Caring Without Carrying It All- A unique virtual program for A Special Virtual Group Program For Sensitive Helping Professionals, Caregivers, Creatives and Changemakers. www.CaringWithoutCarryingItAll.Com
Sep 26, 2024•22 min
A short audio experience to quiet the noise and return to the wisdom of yourself. www.JulieinConversation.com
Sep 05, 2024•21 min
What's needing to be refreshed, remembered, rekindled inside you? Take a few minutes to be curious and listen to what's emerging, even if it's not ready to surface (yet).
Apr 03, 2024•29 min
Discover some of the ways in which you think that are unhelpful and that when examined and surface into your awareness have the chance to alter your mood and well-being for the better. Join us to hear Rebecca Ashery, coach and psychotherapist unpack some of the 15 unhelpful thinking styles, such as polarized thinking, mind reading, catastrophizing, to name just a few. You will gain practical tips and find ways to enhance your self-awareness and overcome negative thinking as Dr. Rebecca Ashery ex...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Because just one epsiode speaking to Deborah MacNamara about her book, 'Nourished: Connection, Food And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love), wasn't nearly enough, I followed up with this episode. In this hour I savour some of the insight received and more content, highlights from my convesation with Deborah, content from the book and reflections on topics covered such as comfort food, how mazlow went wrong, love and caretaking, being the good provider, food as addiction, vulnerable f...
Jan 31, 2024•57 min
"Just because you eat food doesn't mean you're nourished." Deborah MacNamara returns to the podcast with podcast host Julie Cusmariu to discuss her groundbreaking new book, 'Nourished: Connection, Food, And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love). Deborah MacNamara takes us on a deep and insightful journey through storytelling, a fantastic riddle (the answer to which is revealed in this podcast at the end), provocative questions, developmental science and robust research to help us make ...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 23 min
When the opportunity arises and you can take a moment to tune ‘it’ all out, if you so choose, maybe this brief meditation (almost four minutes) might resonate for you; a ‘time out’ to slow down, to let ‘it’ go, to momentarily put down the overwhelm. I acknowledge and honor where you may be, the experience you may be living, what you may be navigating, who you may be caring for in addition to yourself. May you feel ease, some relief and care for yourself and each other (those who you know and tho...
Dec 22, 2023•5 min
And be sure to sprinkle in some curiousity, humor and always movement when you can. Though not a prescription, I would say an antidote to swirling emotions and times. Thanks for taking care of you and tuning in to you, first. Enjoy this meditation on carying without carrying it all. When the opportunity arises and you can take a moment to tune ‘it’ all out, if you so choose, maybe this brief meditation (almost four minutes) might resonate for you; a ‘time out’ to slow down, to let ‘it’ go, to mo...
Dec 13, 2023•33 min
Which best describes you? A. Are you a highly sensitive person? B. Are you an introvert? C. Are you a highly sensitive introvert? Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu help unpack what it means to be an introvert, how it does and does not relate to being highly sensitive and what you can do, and value about being one or the other, or both! Alane always provides such great practical tips and strategies that will benefit you at home and at work and in the world creating change. "We always say if a perso...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 24 min
a meditation. a moment to pause, to make room for what's moving inside you. in the wake of the most recent tragedy and tragedies continuing to unfold in Israel and Palestine. here is a meditation as a space for connection, internally whenever you may listen and however it may speak to you for where you are, what is going on for you and moving through you emotionally. www.JulieinConversation.com
Oct 18, 2023•24 min
Reflections on slowing down, tuning into our soma, creating space and building capacity with Flavia Jimenez. This week features a conversation between Julie Cusmariu and Flavia Jimenez about the Embodied Social Justice certificate program; take aways, insights gained and what remains to unpack and integrate into life, personally and professionally for them both. We each sought out collaboration on the project and found a connection point through our work as coaches interested in embodiment and s...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 27 min
It is I. Julie. Returning to the podcast after being away from the mic for 3 months. Inviting me, inviting you, as I return, to wonder, to welcome, to notice what and to whom you are returning. What and who did I leave? What is here now that wasn't previously? www.JulieinConversation.com Join the waitlist before doors open to 'Carying Without Carrying It All'- a 4 week online program with Julie Cusmariu and Nicole Scheiner. We look very forward to welcoming you and offering you a soft place to l...
Sep 13, 2023•53 min
What happens when you create a distance between yourself and that thing or that person? What happens when you take time to self-orient? Take a listen for some space and practice into letting go of the stronghold, loosening the grip, surrendering, even. What can then take space, breathe, emerge, be expressed? www.JulieinConversation.com
Jun 07, 2023•50 min
Alane Freund is a cherished guest on the podcast and we have had many conversations, always with a unique focus through the lens of High Sensitivity. In this episode, as Alane put it best, we have come together around “ the theme of Mental Health Awareness Month. We weave in and around many topics, including ADHD and Anxiety as overlays to HSP.” Let us know what you gain from this conversation. It’s been so nice hearing from listeners already around this topic as I have begun to share it in my s...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Nicole Schiener on 'Caring without Carrying it All' in conversation with Julie Cusmariu on the Julie in Conversation podcast. More of what we talked about in Part 2 of our conversation. -Women are socialized to devalue their time. @17:45 mins and we explored one the rules described in Eve Rodsky's book, FAIR PLAY ( A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have To Much To Do): Rule #1-ALL TIME IS CREATED EQUAL and how we have existed inside a construct in which men's time is treated as finite but wo...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This podcast inspired by the experiences of the Ice Storm April 2023 in Montreal. Take this time for you to listen and notice what's rising up, for you? To awakening and feeling all of your senses, alive, awake, on purpose. Between airing Part 1 of my meaningful conversation with @peaceandpossibility , Nicole Schiener, on “Caring without Carrying It All” and airing Part 2 of our conversation that was scheduled for the following week, we had an ice storm. It brought many things and people to a ha...
Apr 12, 2023•43 min
Nicole Schiener is passionate about fostering healthy relationships at home and work and is on a mission to liberate mothers from perfectionism and the pressure to do it all. Part 1 of my conversation with Nicole Schiener included the following: -Topics connected to Eve Rodsky’s book, FAIRPLAY- A Game Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live). i.e. the misconception that women have infinite time and men have finite time. As Eve Rodsky says in her book- -Recoverin...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Take this time to remember who you are, and what it feels like when you connect to yourself in this way. Thanks to for tuning in to yourself today. www.JulieCusmariu.com
Mar 15, 2023•55 min
Inspired by my conversation with Nicholas Janni, in this episode I use the questions he asks in his book 'Leader as Healer' to anchor us into the moment, to pupose and meaning and clarity and perhaps even joy. Take a listen and see what arises for you. Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and become a patron here www.JulieinConversation.com
Feb 15, 2023•45 min
May this be a soft place for you to land whenever you tune, as you navigate and move through your day, your week, your month. Allowing the emotions to move, giving them space, letting them talk, that's what this podcast is dedicated to. Bring, allow, be curious about what might be here for you, whenever you tune in. To hope and healing, restoration and regeneration. To all that it takes to feel and be human. The futility, the fragility, the joy, the pain, the agony and the ecstacy, the grief and...
Feb 08, 2023•45 min
"I don't know, but let me listen" inspired by my conversation with Nicholas Janni on the podcast. I did that today. It's a gift when I can just show up and be available to what is present and broadcast from that space. The unknown, the creative space, to step into a flow state. I trusted and together with some live listeners and you (for whenever you tune in), we listened, and breathed and danced. I pulled some oracle cards which were pretty out of this world neat and it was transformational for...
Feb 01, 2023•56 min
2023, hello. Goodbye, Lucy. Julie dedicates the hour to Lucy her beloved dog (2007-2015), and takes us on a musical meditative experience to connect to love and nature and our feelings. What is present for you now? As you listen? Then Julie shares parts of a conversation she recently had with Alane Freund, LMFT, International Consultant on High Sensitivity offering insights and practical takeaways about parenting as a highly sensitive person. Even if you are not parenting, this is really valuabl...
Jan 18, 2023•49 min
Some highlights shared from recent episodes and an interesting invitation to experience your exhale and the space that exists between your exhale and your next inhalation. Listen it to it to experience what it is for you. Also some other questions raised for your to answer about your year and where you are currently. May you benefit and know and feel your value, wisdom and potential to create. Thanks for listening. www.JulieinConversation.com
Dec 21, 2022•48 min
Nicholas Jannii's transformative work bridges the worlds of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a uniquely powerful, relevant and accessible way. www.NicholasJanni.com www.MatrixCoaching.net WATCH the conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6D5JV0WIBc Nicholas Janni works with CEO’s and senior teams globally and teaches at two of the world’s leading business schools, pioneering a new vision and practice of leadership. In his first career he was a theatre director,...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Leslie Tagorda helps spiritual entrepreneurs become the luminary leaders they were born to be. As a Hawaii-born, Filipino, Jewish brand astrologer, designer, podcast host and author, Leslie revealed her calling when a crisis in her business identity led her to her natal chart where the AstroBrand™ method revealed itself combining business astrology, branding and leadership. Today she shares this method to visionary entrepreneurs and changemakers globally to help them affirm, embrace and amplify ...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Amy Lang, MA, Sex Educator enthusiastically walks us through the ways we can speak to our kids about sex, what to say and when to say it (it's much earlier than you think, well it's much earlier than what I thought!) and oh so much more.... www.BirdsAndBeeAndKids.com BBKPros.com BirdsAndBeesAndKids.com Amy has an amazing podcast, check it out: Just Say THIS Podcast 7 Tips to Have Great Birds & Bees Talks — https://birdsandbeesandkids.com/free-tips/ Amy Lang, MA has been a sexual health educa...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Join me and step into what Laura Berman Fortgang calls "the land of possibility" on the podcast this week. This episode was inspired by astrologist, Leslie Tagorda's insight on Venus entering into Sagittarius. It’s dedicated to our imagination and dreaming into possibility. We stepped into what Laura Berman Fortgang wisely calls the “land of possibility”. Give it a listen and share if you’d like where you went and what you received. You'll relax and dream into what is possible to see and feel fo...
Nov 16, 2022•54 min
How can you use the wisdom of your body to take the next best step for yourself? Tune in for an experience in to this place inside you. The experience of feeling heard is precious AND transformative. I can attest to this as a coach, host of a podcast and as a human being. It’s a privilege to be both the listener and the one speaking in this precious space of feeling heard. Well-being is enhanced, creativity too and it’s simply yet powerfully healing. Also in this episode I talked about the work ...
Nov 02, 2022•51 min
