Are you constantly searching for clarity in the middle of emotional chaos? When anxiety floods your mind and the pressure to “keep going” feels overwhelming, stillness might feel like the last thing you need—but it’s exactly what this nature-inspired meditation practice offers. In this reflective and grounding episode, Meryl guides you through a mossy metaphor that gently invites you to stop, listen, and reconnect with your body’s inner wisdom. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why pausing—rather t...
Jun 19, 2025•15 min
Feel like the world is unraveling right now? There are moments when sitting down for a 20-minute meditation might not feel possible... When images from Gaza burn behind our eyes, when cruel immigration policies threaten dignity and humanity, when protest becomes our last resort—and even that feels like it's not enough. When our nervous system is too disregulated to be still. In this episode, we offer a lifeline. The SOS Calm meditation is one of the most immediate ways to return to yourself amid...
Jun 16, 2025•5 min
What if simply gazing at the moon could help you calm your anxiety? In this gentle yet grounding meditation aligned with June’s Strawberry Moon, you'll be guided to connect with the natural world around you and slow your breath—helping you release mental overwhelm and foster inner resilience. Through this full moon practice, you’ll discover: - How to create a calming ritual that supports your mental health - Techniques to release anxiety using breath, sound, and scent awareness - A powerful sens...
Jun 10, 2025•5 min
Just The Meditation! This episode offers a guided meditation inviting you to reconnect with nature’s rhythms — from moss lines to constellations — to ground your nervous system and deepen your meditation practice. Whether you’ve felt swallowed by the news cycle, emotionally flooded, or just spiritually adrift, you’ll discover how to locate your inner compass through timeless, tangible waypoints. You’ll learn: - A meditation technique inspired by ancient wayfinding and seasonal awareness. - How n...
Jun 09, 2025•9 min
What if the solution to your overwhelm has been outside all along? When anxiety surges and modern tools fall short, your body and breath might not be the only things guiding you. This episode explores how reconnecting with nature’s rhythms — from moss lines to constellations — can ground your nervous system and deepen your meditation practice. Whether you’ve felt swallowed by the news cycle, emotionally flooded, or just spiritually adrift, you’ll discover how to locate your inner compass through...
Jun 05, 2025•17 min
✨ Just The Meditation ✨ Today's meditation practice is a call to deepen your relationship with meditation—not by escaping your overwhelmed state, but by connecting with the wild, chaotic earth, by connecting to Spirit as your source of grounding. Using a gentle yet powerful breathing mantra and a perspective rooted in ancient wisdom, this practice helps reframe what it means to feel instead of think your way through inner chaos. 15 minute guided meditation - Let this episode help you ground your...
Jun 02, 2025•10 min
Feeling emotionally fried or frozen by anxiety? Modern life constantly pulls us between panic and paralysis—but what if your meditation practice could bridge that gap? This episode is a call to deepen your relationship with meditation—not by escaping your overwhelmed state, but by connecting with the wild, chaotic earth, by connecting to Spirit as your source of grounding. Using a gentle yet powerful breathing mantra and a perspective rooted in ancient wisdom, this practice helps reframe what it...
May 29, 2025•16 min
✨ Just the Meditation Join Forest Therapy Guide Eve Payor for a 5 minute Forest Bathing Experience you can do anywhere. If you are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected—despite your meditation practice - this practice is for you! Ready to ease anxiety and feel less overwhelmed? Grab your headphones and journal, and then press play to discover a healing form of meditation grounded in nature. Learn more about our upcoming Fall Forest Bathing & Meditation Retreat in North Georgia here: ...
May 26, 2025•4 min
Are you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected—despite your meditation practice? This episode explores how forest bathing—a mindful, sensory connection to nature—offers a profound way to release anxiety and return to balance, especially when traditional meditation falls short. Discover why simply being with nature—not hiking, not exercising—can be a transformative antidote to overwhelm and mental fatigue. In this calming episode, forest therapy guide Eve Payor will share: Why your overwhe...
May 22, 2025•17 min
✨Just the Meditation Join us for a powerful guided chakra meditation designed to restore your connection to self and refill your cup. Perfect for anyone experiencing burnout, emotional exhaustion, or feeling disconnected despite regular self-care practices. This episode includes a full guided meditation that walks you through connecting with each energy center in your body. Today's meditation is paired with the sounds of Spring in the Pacific Northwest. Typically a damp rainy season, this sounds...
May 19, 2025•11 min
In this episode, we explore why we often feel disconnected from ourselves despite regular self-care routines, and how mindfulness meditation can help us truly refill our energy cups. Join us for a powerful guided chakra meditation designed to restore your connection to self. What You'll Hear: The Self-Care Paradox Discover why traditional self-care activities sometimes fail to replenish your energy, and how even dedicated meditators experience moments of complete emotional exhaustion and depleti...
May 15, 2025•18 min
Experience the energy of May's Full Flower Moon in this peaceful guided meditation. When flowers are in full bloom, it's time for the Flower Moon - a reminder not to hold back but to let your full energy shine. This gentle meditation helps you connect with the natural world, inviting you to find a comfortable spot near a window or outside where you can sense the world around you. Through breath awareness and sensory observation, you'll tap into the energy of the Flower Moon while finding stillne...
May 12, 2025•5 min
Want to improve your mental health? One of the easiest and most effective steps you can take is to foster to CONNECTION But to what? And how? In this episode, Dr. Adam Dorsay, author and host of the podcast Super Psyched, joins us for conversation about the intricacies of connection. What You'll Hear: Understanding Connection Dr. Dorsay defines connection as "an internal emotional response that makes you feel alive" and reveals how disconnection appears in nearly every mental health diagnosis in...
May 08, 2025•20 min
✨Just the meditation In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, our May meditation series is going to dive into CONNECTION - to Self, to others, to the natural world and to Spirit - as a response to the mental health crisis of our time: disconnection. Experience a guided meditation that helps awaken your senses, quiet the overwhelmed and anxious mind, and build a resilient, connected spirit. Press play now to immerse yourself in a heartfelt meditation journey that strengthens your connection to ...
May 05, 2025•11 min
Disconnection is THE mental health crisis of our time. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, our May meditation series is going to dive into CONNECTION - to Self, to others, to the natural world and to Spirit. In a time marked by political chaos, rising loneliness, and emotional exhaustion, many are searching for ways to restore a deep sense of belonging. This episode explores how meditation can be a powerful tool to reconnect — not only to ourselves and to each other, but also to the natur...
May 01, 2025•18 min
Just the Meditation ✨ In times of burnout, uncertainty, or overwhelming responsibility, it’s easy to feel unmoored. This episode offers a grounding antidote: reconnecting with the Earth not just as a planet, but as a living, supportive force beneath you. Whether you're navigating stress, healing from disconnection, or simply craving calm, this meditation practice will anchor you. Press play to journey into the heart of Earth energy and walk away feeling more supported, connected, and calm than w...
Apr 28, 2025•12 min
Have you ever truly felt held by the Earth—not just standing on it, but supported in a deep, ancestral way? In times of burnout, uncertainty, or overwhelming responsibility, it’s easy to feel unmoored. This episode offers a grounding antidote: reconnecting with the Earth not just as a planet, but as a living, supportive force beneath you. Whether you're navigating stress, healing from disconnection, or simply craving calm, this conversation will anchor you. Experience how ancient trails, rock ou...
Apr 24, 2025•17 min
Honoring Earth Day ✨ In a fast-paced world where we often feel disconnected from ourselves and the earth, this episode offers a gentle yet powerful reminder that simple acts—like arranging flowers or walking in nature—can become profound spiritual practices that reduce anxiety and quiet the overwhelmed mind. Any yet, these elemental experiences aren't just calming—they reconnect us to something timeless and essential. Discover how three ancient texts across different traditions honor the Earth e...
Apr 22, 2025•5 min
✨Just the Meditation✨ In this episode, we explore the powerful lessons of the water element in meditation. Water moves with ease, follows the path of least resistance, and embraces the journey rather than the destination. If you’ve ever struggled with fear of the unknown or feeling stuck in life, this episode is for you. Press play now and discover how embracing the lessons of water can help you find peace, trust your journey, and move forward with ease. Sign up for my newsletter at https://mery...
Apr 21, 2025•12 min
Are you holding on too tightly to control, fear, or the familiar? What if the secret to peace was learning to let go—just like water? In this episode, we explore the powerful lessons of the water element in meditation. Water moves with ease, follows the path of least resistance, and embraces the journey rather than the destination. If you’ve ever struggled with fear of the unknown or feeling stuck in life, this episode is for you. Learn how water’s natural flow mirrors the path of mindfulness an...
Apr 17, 2025•19 min
✨ Just the Meditation ✨ Fire is perhaps the most often referenced element within sacred practices from around the world. In cultures near and far, the belly is seen as the home of our life force, our passion, our drive, our digestion {of food, thought and feeling}. When we work with the element of fire in our meditation practice, it is useful to reflect on the element of fire in the external world as well - In reading about controlled burns of forest, two of the most often cited benefits are Fir...
Apr 14, 2025•12 min
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by stress or weighed down by old stories that no longer serve you? What if fire—the element of transformation—held the key to clearing out the past and reigniting your passion for life? In this episode, we dive deep into the ancient wisdom of fire energy, exploring how intentional "burning" can help us release limiting beliefs, manage emotions, and create space for new growth. Just like controlled burns in nature prevent destructive wildfires, learning to work with...
Apr 10, 2025•19 min
✨ Just the Meditation ✨ When an ecosystem is healthy and thriving, we see the elements {Earth, Air, Fire & Water} working in tandem to promote the most prosperity and diversity possible. The same holds true within the inner landscape. We can use the elements both as an anchor for our meditation practice as well as tools for balancing anxiety, depression and overwhelm. In today’s mini meditation: Discover how the ancient wisdom of the elements can help you create inner harmony. Experience a g...
Apr 07, 2025•11 min
Have you ever felt stuck, weighed down by stress, or unsure how to move forward? What if the key to clarity and transformation was as simple as connecting with the elements? This episode explores the power of elemental meditation, focusing on the wind element as a tool for clearing, movement, and renewal. Through guided practices, you’ll learn how to tap into the natural forces within and around you to cultivate balance and mindfulness. Discover how the ancient wisdom of the elements can help yo...
Apr 03, 2025•19 min
✨ Just the meditation Emotionally exhausted? This meditation is for you. Crafted from the latest in PTSD treatment techniques this meditation offers a unique visualization practice that you can use on and off the cushion. Take a deep breath, settle in, and press play to immerse yourself in a meditation practice that will help you release exhaustion and regain a sense of calm and renewal. Today's meditation music is a nature soundscape from Olympic National Park as recorded by Nick McMahan. A cat...
Mar 31, 2025•10 min
Feeling emotionally drained and completely exhausted? Ever wondered if there's a way to restore your energy and reset your nervous system through meditation? Compassion fatigue and emotional burnout are all too common, especially when juggling the demands of caregiving, work, and personal life. This episode explores how meditation can not only help you acknowledge exhaustion but also actively restore your energy using a powerful visualization technique rooted in PTSD treatment research. ☑️ Learn...
Mar 27, 2025•15 min
Just The Meditation: Spring Equinox ✨ A Journey of Renewal & Healing Awaits - As light and dark come into perfect harmony, the spring equinox offers a powerful moment to pause, reflect, and realign with your true essence. Honored across cultures as a time of renewal and rebirth, this sacred season invites you to shed the old and embrace new possibilities. In this **special live-recorded meditation** from our retreat, you’ll be guided through the ancient symbolism of the golden egg—representi...
Mar 24, 2025•12 min
A Special Spring Equinox Meditation Retreat ✨ Are you overlooking the power of the equinox in your meditation practice? As day and night find perfect balance, this season invites us to reflect, reset, and realign with our truest selves. Ancient traditions recognized this time as one of possibility, creativity, and rebirth. In this meditation, we explore the profound symbolism of the egg—protection, potential, and prophecy—helping you connect with your inner wisdom and set intentions for the mont...
Mar 20, 2025
✨Just the Meditation Grief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. Today's meditation practice is an invitation to hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase them, but to nurture connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world. Experience a guided meditation practice infused with poetry, breathwork, grounding techniques, and the sounds of Glacier National Park to hold space for your emotions with kindness. Take a deep breath, find a quie...
Mar 17, 2025
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by grief that it seemed to erase every other emotion? In those moments, meditation might feel impossible—but what if it could become a space for tenderness rather than escape? Grief, sadness, and heartache can feel all-consuming, making it difficult to stay present. This episode explores how meditation can help us hold these emotions with care—not to fix or erase them, but to nurture connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world. - Learn how to recogniz...
Mar 13, 2025
