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So many of us go through life feeling out of touch with ourselves, others, and the world around us. We feel disconnected, overwhelmed, distracted, and uncertain of how to find the clarity, purpose, and direction we so deeply, so authentically, desire. The Living Centered Podcast in an invitation to another way of living.
Every episode, we sit down with mental health experts, artists, and friends for a practical and honest conversation about how to pursue a more centered life—rediscovering, reclaiming, and rooting in who we truly are.
Do you feel like the year is FLYING by? It’s already July, and we want to create a moment to reflect on the first six months of the year and how they can inform how we live out the rest of 2023. In this episode, Mickenzie and Hannah walk through a practical exercise to help you set intentions for the second half of the year. We’ve also got some exclusive and exciting updates about the podcast and an invitation to share your voice and shape the next season!
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What to Do When Your Life Needs a Jumpstart – Three Steps to Get Unstuck
Feeling stuck? In a funk? Like life isn't just working anymore? At one point or another, it happens to us all. We lose traction, lose direction, or even lose our sense of self.
Sometimes we can't trace down the reason why, or even put words to it—we just know that something needs to change (and preferably right now!)
The good news is, it's possible. We can break free of our funk and live a more optimized and purposeful life. It's what we've helped tens of thousands of people do at Onsite.
But where do we begin?
This FREE interactive online class will help you understand how you got here, get clear about where you want to go, and give you the jumpstart you need to move forward.
How to Skip the BS and Find a BFF – Three Steps to Making Friends as an Adult
Let's be honest—making friends as an adult can be really hard, not to mention a little awkward.
Many of us have lots of "friends," but we still feel pretty lonely. If you've found yourself wondering if close friendships exist in adulthood, you're not alone.
We all want deep, meaningful friendships—ones where we feel seen, known, and valued. But how?
This FREE interactive online class will equip you with a roadmap to build (and sustain) the friendships you desire.
How to Hack Your Emotional Health (And Why You Can’t Afford Not To)
Are you ready to take your emotional health to the next level?
One of the greatest ways to hack our emotional health and optimize every area of our lives is to incorporate the power of habits. Our habits, whether conscious or subconscious, are the way we embody the type of person we want to become. So ask yourself, are your habits reflecting the life you truly want to live?
This FREE interactive online class will equip you with a roadmap to build and maintain healthy habits and hack your emotional health!
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Do you ever feel like the world is breaking? This week Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with Jason Miller for a vulnerable conversation about suffering and hope. Together they explore Jason’s new book, When the World Breaks, and how facing the internal experience of our pain paradoxically makes way for our greatest healing.
Jason’s new book, When the World Breaks, is out August 1st. Preorder it today!
Join Mickenzie and Hannah for a powerful conversation with Award-winning author and holistic writing coach Nadine Kenney Johnstone. Together they explore how to tap into your innate wisdom to journal your story. Nadine gets practical and shares the journal prompts that changed her life.
Her latest book, Come Home to Your Heart, is an essay collection and guided journal that helps readers tap into their innate wisdom.
Today, Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with therapist and Onsite guide, Connie Lawrence, to talk about one of our absolute favorite topics – somatic therapy and embodiment. Together they explore the importance of coming into our bodies, learning how to recognize our feelings within ourselves, and how somatic movement and community can change our lives.
Today Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with our VP of Clinical Services, Heather Schnoebelen, to explore one of Onsite’s signature therapeutic modalities – group work. Together they share the magic that happens when we combine the power of community and experiential work.
On the final episode of our Stories of Healing series, Christopher and Nicole sit down with Milestones alum Brooke Scherer to further examine the effects of trauma on her life and the profound healing she experienced during her time at Milestones. While knee deep in what she describes as “the darkest years of her life,” Brooke decided to pursue healing at Milestones after gentle encouragement from her husband (and fellow Milestones alum) Jordan. Upon witnessing the major shift in him, she became hopeful that real healing was possible for her too. We close out this episode by welcoming Jordan back to illuminate the beautiful unfolding of Brooke’s “new enlightenment” and the newfound intimacy of their deepened connection.
Sleep (or lack thereof) can tremendously impact our physical, mental, and emotional health. Today Mickenzie and Janet sit down with sleep expert and Founder and CEO of Taking Cara Babies, Cara Dumapalin to explore not only why we need sleep but how we can find it in the most stressful and difficult seasons of our lives. Together they explore Cara’s specialty – baby and toddler sleep – and how we can create healthy sleep habits at any age!
Today Christopher and Nicole connect with Milestones alum Jordan Scherer to delve into his story and the work that changed not just his life, but the trajectory of his entire family. In this episode, we also invite Jordan's “soul partner” and wife Brooke, who after witnessing his transformation, came to Milestones in pursuit of her own deep healing. She shares candidly about the incredible change she saw in Jordan when he came home from his time at Milestones and the powerful impact of his ongoing commitment to growth and the undoing of his former unhealthy patterns.
For centuries we have thought of our minds and bodies as separate entities when in fact, we are holistically connected beings. The work we do at Onsite challenges this way of thinking and helps people reconnect with their minds and bodies to unlock a deeper level of healing.
In this episode, Mickenzie and Hannah sit down with Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, and Breathwork Meditation Guide, María-Victoria Albina. Together the three explore somatic practices, the marriage of science and the sacred, and how we can find our way back home to ourselves.
This week, we invite Montanna Christoffersen to share her healing journey with us. In this conversation, we examine the importance of really, truly revealing yourself to another to inaugurate the process of healing. Montanna describes that the moment she finally allowed herself to be seen was only the beginning of the journey, and that life on the other side of Milestones has encouraged her to help destigmatize the notion of “residential treatment” so that people might understand that healing is possible inside a safe environment like Milestones. Her hope is that we might reframe this environment as a beautiful place, or as she describes it, “a cocoon of healing.”
Full Show Notes: https://treatingtraumapodcast.com/ep015/
Growing pains—we all experience them, and we often become most familiar with them in the context of our most intimate relationships. Life’s greatest joys often lie on the other side of the choice to continue to show up in those relationships, no matter the circumstances. Today on Living Centered, Lindsey and Nicole sit down with couple Zach and Stacy Williams to dig into this theme of resilience—something they have each exhibited in their respective stories but also a quality that serves as a hallmark of their 20 year relationship. Together, they tell their story of choosing to create a life together and candidly share about the many ups and downs that have checkered the tapestry of their shared history. In this inspiring conversation, Zach and Stacy discuss the power of creativity to carry us through pain, the capacity of community to sharpen and propel us forward into new seasons, and the challenge and gift of living creative lives together.
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Healthy Love & Relationships
Welcome back to the Treating Trauma podcast! During the last 13 episodes of this limited series, we explored the nature of trauma and various healing modalities with our expert therapists and clinicians at Milestones. The series was such a helpful tool but in reflecting back, we felt like the story was incomplete without hearing firsthand from our Milestones alum about their personal experiences of transformation. In the next 4 episodes, we welcome past clients as they share the impacts of trauma on their lives, the pivotal moments that encouraged them to reach out in pursuit of a different path, and the transformative work they experienced inside the safe and nurturing environment of the healing hospitality at Milestones.
In this episode, Christopher and Nicole sit down with Tristan Trechsel to discuss his time at Milestones, the power of community, and his ongoing pursuit of healing.
Full Show Notes: https://treatingtraumapodcast.com/ep014/
In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, join Mickenzie and Hannah for a mental health check-in. Together they share the practices and rhythms that are working for them in this season as they care for and prioritize their wellness.
Sign up now for the newest free interactive online class from the Emotional Health experts at Onsite: How to Hack Your Emotional Health (and why you can’t afford not to) Are you ready to take your emotional health to the next level?
One of the greatest ways to hack our emotional health and optimize every area of our lives is to incorporate the power of habits. Our habits, whether conscious or subconscious, are the way we embody the type of person we want to become. So ask yourself, are your habits reflecting the life you truly want to live?
This FREE interactive online class will equip you with a roadmap to build and maintain healthy habits and hack your emotional health!
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Do you feel like a victim of your circumstances? Overwhelmed by things you can’t control and feelings of helplessness? You’re not alone. Today Mickenzie and Hannah sit down with therapist and Onsite Guide, Veronica Scruggs to explore the idea of reclaiming agency when our lives feel overwhelming, stuck, or out of control. Together they discuss the concept of moving from a victim to a volunteer and showing up wholeheartedly in our lives.
Friendship is a dynamic force that holds the capacity to mend some of the broken pieces of our stories. Today on the podcast, Hannah and Nicole sit down with writer, speaker, and mental health advocate, Chinae Alexander, to dig into the beauty and power of ‘chosen family’. As a content creator, Chinae shares a lot of her life with her online community, and together we discuss the nuances of this digital space in tandem with the nature of the community she has built with the deep personal friendships she has cultivated over the course of many years. We talk about the practice of presence, the concept of curiosity as a pathway to meaningful relationships, and how every moment shared together—from birth and death to our watershed moments and the simple, everyday mundane ones—carries the potential to move us from friendship to family.
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This week on the podcast, Hannah and Nicole sit down with certified life planner and relationship expert, Chanel Dokun, to dig into what it means to truly live the “good life.” So often we pursue this ideal by striving after external markers of success (building enviable careers and crafting the picture-perfect life to name a few) in an attempt to satisfy our longing to live a better story than the one we are writing. Through sharing her personal story with us, Chanel delightfully maps out the journey from stress and disappointment to joy and contentment as she has learned to walk into her unique power and purpose. In addition to her empirical experience, Chanel draws upon the wisdom gleaned from her coaching work and therapy training to frame the process of creating the life you’ve been waiting for. You won’t want to miss this inspiring conversation!
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Living Centered Program
Shame—we are all familiar with it. It can often take up residence in us, staking its claim and attempting to divert our attention and steal our power. Unfortunately, this often leads to great suffering. But what would it look like to notice our shame before it robs us of our joy? What if we tended to it? What if we gave it care and attention and allowed it to become our teacher? This week, Hannah and Nicole are delighted to sit down with Onsite Guide and therapist, Caroline Bravo, to unpack the intersection of shame and spirituality. In this conversation, Caroline speaks from a place of deep wisdom and shares practical tools to help us generate self-compassion and fortify the spiritual self on the path to healing.
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Living Centered Program
Today, Lindsey and Nicole sit down with writer and Onsite alum, Jonathan Merritt, to dig into a topic that’s not often discussed: trauma in spiritual environments. Through navigating his own spiritual journey and conducting extensive cultural research, Jonathan shares his unique perspective on spirituality as both wounder and healer. In this episode, Jonathan elucidates the significant impact spiritual direction has had on his life and the set of daily practices he has put in place to ensure his journey of healing is a lasting one.
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Living Centered Program
Today on Living Centered, Hannah and Nicole sit down with the wise, radiant, and heart forward Nicole Meline. A former writing professor at Columbia and Rutgers and one of the founding master instructors at Peloton, Nicole now leads people on spiritual journeys of embodiment as a wellness coach and mentor. If you are curious about embodiment work, this conversation explores the many places where body, mind, and spirit intersect. Nicole invites us to ask big, juicy questions of ourselves, of our bodies, of our hearts, of life, of Spirit…she even leads us into some embodiment work and invites us into a beautiful meditation. So if you want to center yourself a little bit—to become a little more grounded and integrated today, we’d love for you to join us for this expansive and delightful conversation.
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Living Centered Program
In light of the events that took place at Covenant School in Nashville last week, we felt compelled to address the collective grief and trauma reverberating through our communities. Onsite’s vision is an emotionally well world—humanity reconnected—and we long to see humans come together now more than ever. In this special bonus episode, Nicole sits down with Heather Schnoebelen, trauma therapist and head of the Clinical Services Team here at Onsite, to discuss how we might begin to move forward together in these coming days.
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At Onsite, we believe that in order to support their people, leaders need to practice presence, inspire creativity, and encourage trust. Empowering and instilling a sense of belonging in our teams is crucial for collective emotional health and for making meaningful contributions. This week on the podcast, Janet and Nicole dig into these ideas with LA-based life alignment coach, leadership trainer, and creative healing practitioner, Didier Sylvain. His life’s purpose is to create and hold transformative learning space for people to acknowledge, claim, and step into their power so they might bring their best gifts to the world. Didier uniquely embodies the power of presence and there is much to be gleaned from his—you do not want to miss this conversation.
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Emotionally Smart Leadership
This week, join Nicole and Janet McDonald, Onsite’s VP of Strategy and Business Services, for a conversation with Katherine Morgan Schafler, New York City-based psychotherapist and author of The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control. Katherine works with ambitious, perfectionistic, city-dwelling women that present externally as though they have it all together while internally, they are struggling. In this conversation, Katherine encourages us to reexamine our understanding of perfectionism and suggests that perhaps we need a massive reframe. She calls into question cultural language and societal norms and argues that we do not have to stop being perfectionists to be healthy, but rather we must harness the power of our unique and individual style of perfectionism. There’s a better way to live the lives we intend to and the methodology she shares is both simple and profound: real, authentic connection.
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Emotionally Smart Leadership
This week on the podcast, Lindsey and Nicole are joined by Jackie Brewster, certified Enneagram coach and author of The Enneagram and Your Marriage: A 7-Week Guide to Better Understanding and Loving Your Spouse. In this conversation, Jackie shares her personal story of how she came to know and learn about herself and others through Enneagram “awareness”. The Enneagram made such an indelible imprint on Jackie’s life and relationships that she knew she had to share her knowledge with others so they might experience lasting change in their lives as well. Jackie unpacks the Enneagram as a transformative tool that sheds light on the motivations behind our everyday behaviors and helps people facilitate empathy and compassion for others in their spheres, allowing them to foster deeper connections inside of meaningful relationships.
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Healthy Love & Relationships Program
The body holds far more wisdom than we give it credit for. This week on the podcast, Lindsey and Nicole chat with Kobe Campbell, LCMHC, about grief, trauma, and their manifold impacts on our physical experience. Kobe vulnerably shares her healing journey with us—from a childhood filled with unnamed depression and anxiety that showed up as utter despair when she became a young adult, to the power of her life-altering work with her own therapist and her epiphany that perhaps the entirety of her story was preparing her to become a healer as well. Kobe clearly and plainly addresses our need to return to the painful parts of our pasts to move forward from a place of freedom and holds space for the idea that healing power exists where trauma meets the divine.
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Living Centered Program
Treating Trauma Podcast
This week, Lindsey and Nicole sit down with artist and grief and trauma therapist Nita Andrews. Nita has such a unique and beautiful way of helping clients tend to the wounds of their past to bring about their healing in the here and now. She approaches the world with equal parts curiosity and creativity, and she humbly welcomes us into her process; whatever the medium, whatever the material, she is not afraid to use it to forge a path ahead. We are so grateful to Nita for sharing her own story of heartbreak and the ways she found healing and freedom through poetry, art, and music.
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Join Lindsey and Nicole for a conversation with Angela Popplewell, Co-Founder and CEO of non-profit 100cameras, an organization that equips youth worldwide with tools to process and tell their experiences in a way that impacts how they view themselves and their role in their community. We dig into the expansive nature of this work and the idea that every human – regardless of their background or circumstances – deserves the right to not just survive, but thrive. We talk about the power of storytelling and how important it is to not just to own your own narrative, but to engage with someone else's. Angela shares some of the invaluable lessons she's learned while leading this organization for the past decade and how vital it is to slow down, pay attention, listen, and embrace change in all aspects of life.
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Join Mickenzie and Hannah for a conversation with Dr. Elisa Hallerman, Depth Psychologist and author of the new book SOULBRIETY: Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul. In this powerful interview, Dr. Elisa shares her own journey toward sobriety and how after five years in recovery, she realized she was free from drugs and alcohol but felt disconnected from herself, her soul, and the wellness she really wanted. She shares how we can all benefit from the journey toward soulbriety.
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Treating Trauma Podcast
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This week join Mickenzie and Lindsey for a fascinating conversation with Certified EMDR Therapist Sarah Jenkins. Sarah is brilliant and a pioneer in the modality of Equine Assisted EMDR. Together the three explore how trauma impacts our bodies and how this profound therapeutic method can benefit individuals who have experienced adversity experience presence and healing.
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Few of us have a healthy relationship with money. Whether we grew up in scarcity or abundance, our earliest memories can determine how we approach money in our adulthood and, in turn impact how we show up in our relationships. Today, financial therapist Sonya Lutter, Ph.D., CFP®, LMFT sat down with Lindsey and Mickenzie to help us explore the relationship between mental health and finances. Together they explore how our family of origin, values, and the money scripts we carry into relationships impact our schema, understanding, and comfort with money.
Sonya is also the author of the new book, Love and Money.
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Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Mickenzie and Hannah sit down with Onsite Night Supervisor Keith Hays. In this rare conversation, Keith provides a glimpse into the safe container of Onsite and his role in helping guests pursue presence during their Onsite experiences and beyond. As a student of mediation and therapist in training, Keith shares his own personal journey and offers us a fresh perspective on mindfulness.
Full shownotes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/106
This week our friend, therapist and founder and executive director of Porter's Call, Al Andrews, sits down with Mickenzie and Lindsey for a beautiful conversation about grief and sorrow and their connection to hope. He invites us into a new understanding of the seasons of waiting and offers a path toward wholeheartedness, even ending our time by reading a poem! Don’t miss this incredible conversation!
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Family, for many of us, can be complicated. Even the healthiest families have areas of conflict, tension, and opportunities for growth. This week Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with therapist and Onsite guide, Crystal Nero, to dive into the topic of family systems. Together they explore how our families of origin can shape the relationships we have today, what to do when we need to set boundaries, and how to show up for ourselves within the context of our families and larger communities.
Full Show Notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/104
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with Onsite Clinical Supervisor, therapist Ryan Snodgrass for a conversation about navigating transition. Ryan offers incredible insight into how we can all reckon with the images of what we thought was, embrace what is, and regain clarity, agency, and purpose amid change.
Full Show Notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/103
This week on the Living Centered Podcast we’re rethinking how we do New Year’s resolutions and intentions! Join Mickenzie and Hannah as they sit down with therapist and Director of Equine Therapy, Megan Repass for a conversation all about habits! The three explore how habits show up in our lives, the science behind how to form new ones and break old ones, and Megan even gave us a glimpse into what horses can teach us about this topic!
In our brand new free mini-course, How to Hack Your Emotional Health (And Why You Can’t Afford Not To), we’re going to look at what it takes to establish habits that we can actually keep, ones that we don’t abandon after a week, and how they can help us pursue and live into the future we want to live in every area of our lives!
Today we're revisiting a few of our favorite conversations from throughout the year. This episode features interviews from fan-favorites Shauna Niequist, Caroline Bravo, Morgan Harper Nichols, Scott Erickson, Dr. Ed Barron, Erin S. Lane, and more!
Thanks so much for joining us this year—we can't wait to continue the journey with you in 2023. Sending you light and love this holiday season.
Full show notes and links to each guest's full interview here.
Many of us have had rock bottom moments, but it’s what we do next that defines the life we end up living. Today, Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with Blaine Hogan, writer and film and creative director, and author of the new book “Exit the Cave” Embracing a Life Courage, Creativity and Radical Imagination.” to talk about what he did when his life fell apart from years of addiction and painful cycles that kept him stuck. They explore how Blaine rebuilt his life to find more freedom, purpose, and creativity than he ever imagined possible.
Blaine’s new book Exit the Cave: Embracing a Life Courage, Creativity and Radical Imagination is on sale now!
Full show notes here!
On this week’s episode Mickenzie, Hannah, and Lindsey are joined by Onsite Director of Product Development, Candi Shelton, to dig deep into the topic of boundaries. Together they discuss the common narratives associated with boundaries, share what they’ve learned about setting healthy boundaries in their own story, and explore how boundaries can facilitate the connection with ourselves and others that we desire.
Get Onsite’s newest Emotional Health Master Class – Establishing Boundaries, available now! Use code PODCAST for 35% off through 12/18!
Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with psychotherapists and sleep specialists Heather Turgeon, MFT, and Julie Wright, MFT. Together they explore the emotional, mental, physical, and social implications of sleep and how we can create sustainable routines and rhythms for ourselves and the kids and teens in our lives to thrive!
Heather and Julie are authors of the popular book, The Happy Sleeper, and their newest book, Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens Aren’t Sleeping Enough, and How We Can Help Them.
Today Mickenzie and Lindsey get to sit down with Onsite team member Amelia Baldwin. After working in almost every department at Onsite over the last 13 years, Amelia is passionate about the Onsite experience and now helps individuals and their professional support identify the next right step in their healing journey as the Business Development Director. Join us for a beautiful conversation about the power of personal growth, leaning in, and the exponential effects Amelia has seen in every area of her life as a result of working at Onsite and doing her own “work” along the way!
And if you’re looking for the next right step on your healing journey, our Admissions and Business Development team would love to connect with you at 1-800-341-7432.
Most of what we encounter in life isn’t black and white. Instead, we find, that much of the best parts of us and life live in the grey. This week’s guest, author and founder of Happily Grey, Mary Lawless Lee, joins Mickenzie and Lindsey for a vulnerable conversation about embracing and living into the everyday wonders that are found in the in-between grey spaces. From living her life on the internet with over 2.5 million followers, building thriving and demanding businesses, walking away from a career in nursing, getting divorced and remarried, and becoming a mom, Mary shares the stories of her life and invites us into a new way of living.
Mary’s new book Happily Grey: Stories, Souvenirs, and Everyday Wonders from the Life In Between is on sale now!
Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/096
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Let’s be honest, the holidays are upon us, which can feel a bit complicated for many of us. What do we do when it’s NOT a happy holiday? Is it possible to both honor ourselves and what we’re feeling and still enjoy this season? Today Mickenzie and Hannah sit down with Onsite Clinical team members Laurel Powell and Kara Leigh Pritchard to help us all enter this season with intentionality, purpose, and authenticity.
This week we sit down with therapist, Onsite Guide, and author of the new book Seasons of Waiting, Barb Hill. She joins Hannah and Mickenzie for a conversation all about waiting. Let’s be honest, none of us like waiting, but in this interview, Barb offers a beautiful reframe for seasons of longing and transition and provides an invitation to deeper discovery and connection with ourselves and others.
Naming grief is hard. But not naming it doesn’t make it go away. Onsite's emotional health master class "The Ways We Grieve" will help you better understand grief and the path towards healing. Check out this resource at onsiteworkshops.com/grief and use the code PODCAST for 15% off!
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with therapist and Onsite Guide, Will Mooney. Together they dive into an essential therapeutic modality to the Onsite experience. Will shares his passion for experiential therapy and leads Mickenzie and Lindsey through an exercise to model this powerful form of therapy.
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On our final episode of this installation of our limited series, Christopher and Mickenzie sit down with therapist Tara Booker to explore how we can lean into a recovery lifestyle and pursue a healing journey. We round out this episode with encouragement from several of the voices you’ve heard from throughout the series.
Full Show Notes: treatingtrauma.com/ep013
Today Mickenzie and Lindsey got a master-level class in leadership with Leadership Consultant Dr. Ed Barron and Onsite VP of Entertainment and Specialized Services Debbie Carroll. As Onsite Alum, and facilitators within our first-ever digital leadership course, Emotionally Smart Leadership, Dr. Ed and Debbie dig into our pressing leadership questions, discuss why they think accessing and thoughtfully managing emotions is an essential skill for any leader, and make sense of the shifts and trends we’re seeing in our workplaces.
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Today we invite Clinical Supervisor Amanda Morrow and Admissions Director, Shannon Yates to help us explore how to determine if residential is the right next step in your recovery journey. They outline how the Milestones and Admissions teams collaborate to help people assess their unique needs and goals and make the right choice for their season and situation.
On this week’s episode, Mickenzie sits down with Psychotherapist Dr. Corey Yeager alongside special co-host Debbie Carroll, Onsite’s VP of Entertainment and Specialized Services. The three had an insightful conversation about leaning into curiosity and the importance of being someone who intentionally seeks courageous conversations with ourselves and others.
Best known for his appearance on Harry and Oprah's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+ Dr. Yeager is the author of the new book “How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have With Yourself, and also serves as the psychotherapist for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.
Full Show Notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/091
This week Christopher and Mickenzie sit down with Equine and Adventure Therapy Director, Megan Repass to take a deep dive into a uniquely powerful and connecting modality to address trauma. Together they explore how Equine Therapy can unlock healing and curate connection with ourselves and others.
Full Show Notes: treatingtraumapodcast.com/ep011
This week Lindsey and Mickenzie diving into the topic of vulnerability and honesty with the writer, speaker, and advocate Manda Carpenter. Many of us carry misconceptions about what it means to live authentically, and Manda shares from her own story how she has learned to discern when, how, and with who to let into the hard parts of her story. She also shares the intentional actions her family has taken to extend their circles and invest in people by living a “longer table lifestyle.”
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In this special episode, we’re getting a behind-the-scenes look into life at Milestone with team members Crystal and Matthew. They answer all our questions about the ins and outs of the residential treatment experience.
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This week Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with Erin S. Lane, author of the new book Someone Other Than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman’s Purpose and Making Meaning Beyond Motherhood. They share in a powerful conversation about the act of mothering, purpose, making big decisions, and living into our calling. No matter how you identify: single, partnered, childless, mothering, fathering, man, woman, nonbinary, this is an important conversation is for us all about the flipping scripts that hold us back and finding meaning outside those labels.
In this week’s episode, we sit down with therapists Tara Booker and Emily Carroll who help us explore how the therapeutic modalities of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can be effective tools in healing trauma. They both share how their unique specializations can be used to gently come alongside people in their recovery.
Full show notes: treatingtrauma.com/ep009/
On this week’s episode Mickenzie, Hannah, and Lindsey are joined by Onsite Director of Product Development, Candi Shelton, to dig deep into the all too familiar yet often elusive feeling of shame. Together they discuss the common narratives associated with shame, share what they’ve learned about shame in their own story, and explore a path forward into self-compassion and freedom. They also share recordings from other Onsite team members who shared their experiences with shame.
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Today we’re exploring how to support the people in our lives who have experienced trauma. Therapist Tara Booker kindly walks us through the best ways to show up for our loved ones and offer sustainable support. (Spoiler alert the best way to show up for someone else is to first show up for ourselves!)
Full show notes: treatingtrauma.com/ep008
In honor of National Recovery Month, we invited Onsite Vice President of Clinical Services for Milestones, Christopher O’Reilly, and Clinical Director Kathleen Murphy to join Hannah and Mickenzie. Together they broaden our understanding of the topic and share their personal and professional insights about what embracing a recovery lifestyle can offer us all.
Join us for "Rethinking Recovery" a free webinar, Tuesday, September 27.
Today we sit down with therapists Marie Turley and Bobby Chapman. Together they talk through the impactful modality of adventure therapy. They share their years of experience and their passion for helping patients get outside the therapy room and into their bodies with this unique way of treating trauma.
In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, Mickenzie and Hannah are joined by Onsite’s Clinical Supervisor, Emily Kadlec. Emilie invites us all to get honest about our comfortability with our own suffering and emotional landscape while creating a safe space to talk about a sometimes taboo and difficult topic. Our hope is that by talking about suicide we can all seek to show up better for ourselves and the people we love by fostering empathy and connection and broadening our understanding.
If you or a loved one are struggling with suicide, we encourage you to seek professional help. You can find support at TWLOHA.com or by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.*
Today Therapist Samantha Bishop is back to help Mickenzie and Christopher explore how trauma impacts our relationships with the people around us. We often say that we're hardwired for community, but the effects of trauma have real consequences on our relationships, in this episode, Sam helps us assess how we can regain a sense of connection and safety.
On this week's episode Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with therapist and author Dr. Kevin Skinner. As a leader and authority on sexually compulsive behavior, infidelity and trauma from sexual betrayal, Dr. Skinner helps us explore the ways to show up for ourselves and the people around us after betrayal trauma and infidelity.
In today’s episode, Mickenzie and Christopher chat with therapists Amanda Morrow and Ian Chapman to explore the therapeutic modalities of Brain Spotting and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Together they explain how these two forms of therapy can help people address their trauma and decrease panic and anxiety by utilizing neurobiology and a trusted therapeutic relationship.
Who is the best leader you’ve ever met? Likely it was a person skilled in the art of connection.
This week’s guest, Karen Hardwick a psychotherapist turned leadership consultant, sat down with Mickenzie and Lindsey for an authentic conversation about whole-heartedly leadering in every area of our lives. Together they explore the path to become our best selves as parents, spouses and leaders at work, and how getting it wrong can cost us. (Hint, we can’t connect with anyone else until we connect with ourselves!!)
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This week Christopher and MIckenzie sit down with Onsite Director of Medical Services, Psychiatrist Dr. Neil Bomar and Functional Medicine Doctor Dr. Sara Bomar to explore how trauma can impact our physical and mental health.
The four discuss how Dr. Sara and Dr. Neil partner to help clients better understand the mind/body connection and many of the things we often dismiss or overlook regarding our physical health.
Full show notes and additional recommendations: https://treatingtraumapodcast.com/ep004/
Are we all insecurely attached to our phones? This week Hannah and Mickenzie are joined by writer and Behavioral and Organizational Psychologist Bob Hutchins to explore this question. The three sat down for a fascinating conversation about technology, media trauma, attachment, and the impact the last couple of years have had on our collective and individual understanding of grief, loss, and connection.
But don’t worry, this isn’t another “throw away your phone” conversation; after years of working in media and studying psychology, Bob is actually hopeful that we can all use media to better connect with ourselves, others, and humanity.
In today's episode, Mickenzie and Christopher chat with therapists Samantha Bishop and Terence Smith to explore an effective experiential modality called psychodrama. Together they explain how psychodrama, coupled with the presence of a safe community, can help rightsize our past, gain insight into our present, and create a path toward the future we desire.
Full show notes: https://treatingtraumapodcast.com/ep003/
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This week Hannah and Mickenzie are joined by writer and psychotherapist Eric Minton. Eric brings a unique and fresh take on the mental health crisis we’re facing as a nation and the anxiety and depression that have been exasperated for most of us over the last two years.
In this episode, Mickenzie and Christopher chat with therapist Terence Smith to explore how traumatic experiences rewire and impact our brains. Terence explains the automatic response our bodies and brains go through when we encounter adverse events and outlines a few treatment methods that help the brain heal from trauma.
This week Lindsey and Mickenzie sit with the host and producer of the Adult Child, a weekly podcast about the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Through humor and transparency, Andrea shares how after nine years of sobriety, she realized that her next level of healing would require her to take a long look at the impact her earliest years had on her and her relationships. Andrea now helps other people explore the impact of being an Adult Child.
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In this episode, we’re pulling in voices from many of the experts you’ll be hearing from throughout this limited series to help us explore the question: What is trauma?
While it seems like a straightforward question, we find the answer is not so straightforward. This episode will help set the stage for the rest of the episodes to come and provide a glimpse into the incredible interview to come!
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We are so excited to announce the launch of a limited series podcast from Onsite! Join co-hosts Mickenzie Vought and Christopher O'Reilly as they introduce Treating Trauma. Together they provide a glimpse of the topics and questions we'll be exploring on this limited series from Onsite.
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This week Lindsey and Mickenzie sat down to hear the incredible story of Functional Medicine Doctor, Sara Bomar. Dr. Bomar shares how her journey as a patient, seeking a diagnosis and spending 14 years in a wheelchair, helped her become a better doctor and changed the way she approaches the mind/body connection for herself, her patients, and the clients of Milestones at Onsite.
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Today we're exploring how community can serve as an essential grounding practice in our emotional wellness toolkit. Join Mickenzie for a special bonus episode with therapist and Executive Director of Milestones, Christopher O'Reilly as they explore how leaning into safe community can ground us in times of anxiety, heightened emotion, and stress.
This week on the Living Centered Podcast, Mickenzie and Lindsey are diving into the deep end with Functional Neurologist, Dr. Jerome Lubbe. The three discuss the power of practices to rewire the patterns and defaults we operate in to ultimately change how we function and show up in the world for the better. Join us for a fascinating, approachable, and practical conversation! Check out our brand new class - Practice Makes Presence. Use code GROUNDING before 7/31 to get 35% off during launch week!
On this week's episode, Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with therapist Camille Logan to talk all about friendships. How to build them, how to sustain them, what happens when they shift and change, and why so many of us are feeling awkward in our friendships in this season. Join us for a conversation about building the community you really want!
This week, Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down to get to know new Onsite staff member Rebekah Milhoan. Rebekah is now serving our clients on our California campus and shares her journey to Onsite as well as how she cares for herself working in the helping profession. Rebekah has had an interesting journey and the conversation is rich with great takeaways for us about self-care, creating room for diversity, and rethinking the way we view our stories.
Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with therapist and Onsite Guide, Dondra Goldsby. The three reflect the overwhelming and prevailing emotion felt by most over the last couple of years – fear.
Dondra shares both a professional and personal encouragement of how we can acknowledge our fear without allowing it to take over. She also shares how the tools she teaches clients helped her as she walked through a particularly fearful medical diagnosis and recovery at the height of COVID.
Full show notes here.
Lindsey and Mickenzie are joined by Onsite Alumni and founder and CEO of Choice Media Communications, Heather Adams.
The three embark on a powerful conversation about owning our stories and the impact each and every one of us can have on the world when we do our work, lean into growth, and dare to share our stories with others. Heather shares what she’s learned from her years as a publicist, mom, wife, and friend about community, starting over, and dreaming big!
This week Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with therapist and Onsite Guide, Debbie Reid for a candid and enlightening conversation about a somewhat stigmatized and difficult topic: infidelity and betrayal trauma. No matter your relationship status, this episode illuminates the importance of doing our own healing work and the profound impact it can have in our most intimate relationships.
Today, organizational consultant Dr. Ed Barron joins Mickenzie and Hannah. The three reflect on Dr. Ed’s 30 years of experience and expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and how he helps organizations and individuals transform by leaning into the strategic advantages of diversity. Dr. Ed also shares about attending the Living Centered Program and why he calls it a “transformational experience.”
Full Show Notes – livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/073
Our lives are the sum of our habits and practices. Today psychotherapist, writer, and enneagram coach Katie Gustafason joins Lindsey and Mickenzie for a powerful conversation about mental health practices, rethinking self-care, and the power of radical self-compassion. In this vulnerable episode, Katie, a breast-cancer survivor, shares how the mental and emotional health practices that have been a part of her life for decades served her as she walked through a challenging and trying season and how the journey changed her for the better.
This week Mickenzie and Hannah sit down with Jessica Baum, LMHC, therapist, and author of the new book Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love. The three explore the science behind attachment, the dynamics that play out between partners with different attachment styles, and the steps we can take to find healing and learned attachment in our most intimate relationships.
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Today in the final bonus episode of Mental Health Awareness Month, Mickenzie and Hannah get practical about the ways we can sustainably take care of our mental health. They share the small, incremental practices that they’re implementing and explore the power of what Onsite calls the “Two-Degree Shifts.” Sometimes we overcomplicate mental health, and today we’re dispelling the myth that it’s all or nothing!
Thanks for joining us all month long! We hope these conversations have inspired you to have deeper and more authentic conversations about your mental health with the safe people around you!
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with Onsite’s Vice President of Clinical Services, Austin Houghtaling, to explore the mental and emotional impact of the last two years on many of us as parents, partners, friends, and individuals. Austin shares both the global trends he sees as a mental health professional and how he is navigating those challenges in his own life.
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Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/070
In the third installment of our Mental Health Awareness Month bonus episodes, Mickenzie and Hannah are diving into the practical ways we can all destigmatize mental health. Together they explore some of the stigmas they’ve had to overcome in their own stories, ways we can talk about our mental health in real-life terms, and the small things that help make this topic more approachable.
We hope these weekly conversations prompt you to engage in meaningful conversations with people in your life as we all join together to destigmatize mental health!
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This week on the Living Centered Podcast we’re talking all about living in the present, and what the last two years have taught us about ourselves, our relationships, and our ability to right where we are. Lindsey and Mickenzie got to sit down with Jeanne Stevens, founding and co-lead pastor of Soul City Church in Chicago and author of the new book What's Here Now? and talk all about how practicing presence has the potential to unlock the peace so many of us desperately desire.
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Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/069
Mickenzie and Hannah sit down for our second of four bonus episodes in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Together they explore why (now more than ever) we all need someone to check in with us, the things that keep us from doing it consistently, and practical ways to build rhythms of connection that lead to trust and vulnerability.
We hope these weekly conversations prompt you to engage in meaningful conversations with people in your life as we all join together to destigmatize mental health!
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Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Miles, Mickenzie, and Lindsey sit down with Onsite’s new Vice President of Entertainment and Specialized Services, Debbie Carroll. The four discuss the unique mental health challenges faced by those in and around the entertainment industry and the new offerings Onsite is developing to create sustainable and preventive care for this community. Join us for a special look into exciting things coming soon!
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Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/068
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Every Thursday in May we’re releasing a bonus episode in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month! Today Mickenzie and Hannah sit down to talk about the importance (and awkwardness) of asking for help. Together they explore what holds us back, practical ways to identify and ask for what you need, and a reframe that will help you show up better for yourself and the people around you!
We hope these weekly conversations prompt you to engage in meaningful conversations with people in your life as we all join together to destigmatize mental health!
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Did you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month? In honor of this year’s theme, “Together for Mental Health,” Mickenzie invited a few members of the Onsite team to join her for real conversations about mental health. During these conversations, team members shared what they know now that they wish they’d known when they started their journeys, the practices that keep them centered, what they would tell their 16-year-old selves, and more. In this special episode, we round out the conversation with a little encouragement from our team member to you, our listeners!
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Generosity changes the way we see the world. Today’s guest, Ben Greene, the Chief Development Officer of the nonprofit charity:water, has dedicated his career to connecting others to the power of generosity and their own ability to affect sustainable change. In his interview with Mickenzie and Lindsey, the three discuss the exponential impact of generosity for ourselves and the people around us. They also explore why it is important as a leader to do your own work, lean into conflict, and elevate all the voices at the table.
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Mindfulness is a topic that gets talked about often in mental and emotional health circles. However, while many of us know that it has benefits, practicing mindfulness doesn't come easy to everyone. Today Mickenzie and Lindsey sit down with Christopher O’Reilly, therapist and Executive Director of Milestones at Onsite, who shares the role of mindfulness in his recovery journey. He also gets practical about using mindfulness as a parent, partner, leader, and therapist.
Head to full show notes for a special Guided Mindfulness Practice with Christopher.
Today our friend, New York Times Best-selling Author Shauna Niequist, returns! She sat down with Lindsey and Mickenzie to talk all about starting over, being a beginner, and the journey she has been on for the last few years to create a quieter, deeper life. Shauna documents this journey in her beautiful new book: I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working. If you are in a season of transition (spoiler alert, we almost always are!), we hope this episode will inspire you to approach life through the lens of a learner!
If you want to hear more from Shauna, check out Episode 20 - "Living Centered in Authentic Community."
How do we overcome the voices telling us to give up when life doesn't turn out as expected? In this week's episode, artist and author Scott Erickson joins Mickenzie to discuss his new book: Say Yes: Discovering the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream. Together they explore the opportunity and beauty that lies just on the other side of failure, disappointment, disillusionment, and uncertainty.
During the conversation, Scott and Mickenzie talk candidly about suicide. If you or a loved one are struggling with suicide, we hope this conversation is encouraging and equipping. If you need help today, we encourage you to reach out for support. You can find support at TWLOHA.com or by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255.
This week Hannah and Mickenzie sit down with therapist and Onsite Guide, Brendan McCarthy to explore the impact of narratives and messages we may have picked up in childhood through the lens of "The Seven Rights of a Child." Together we explore the things we all needed to receive for emotional and psychological development and how not receiving them may show up in our lives today. Even if we had the most idyllic childhood, we can all benefit from revisiting our past to find healing and empathy.
Today Mickenzie and Hannah are diving into attachment science with licensed therapist and author Krispin Mayfield. The ways we learned to receive and keep connections in our earliest relationships create a framework from which we draw in every subsequent relationship. Krispin explains how our attachment style impacts how we show up in relationships and also explores what attachment science can teach us about how we understand and relate to a higher power.
Many of us are feeling heavy and burdened by the state of the world around us. If you feel like staying informed is coming at the expense of your mental and emotional health, you are not alone. In this special bonus episode, co-hosts Mickenzie and Lindsey share a few of the practices and rhythms they’ve been implementing to stay present, informed, and centered even when the world feels overwhelming.
Today’s guest, Leith McHugh, knows all too well how the health of individual family members can impact the entire system. But, she also knows the incredible redemption that can come on the other side of recovery. Leith joined Mickenzie and Hannah for an authentic conversation about the journey she and her family have been on for the last decade to find healing and reconciliation. On the other side of unthinkable trauma, crisis and chaos, the entire McHugh family is now thriving, but the process there was anything but easy.
This week on the Living Centered Podcast, Mickenzie is joined by Clinical Director of Milestones, Laura Ramey and Onsite's COO, Phil Stone. Together, the three take a unique look at the therapeutic modality Internal Family Systems (IFS). Drawing inspiration from Onsite's in-person framework, this episode invites you to cultivate healing hospitality for all "parts" of yourself—especially those that might feel hard to welcome with curiosity, connection, and compassion.
If you love this episode, you can check out Ep. 37 - “Living Centered and Exploring Internal Family Systems Work"
This week, Mickenzie and Hannah welcome back poet, artist, and writer Morgan Harper Nichols for an inspiring (and timely) conversation about peace. For many, Morgan's words and art have cultivated one of the most peaceful corners of the internet, despite the uncertainty, doubt, and chaos that has defined much of the last few years.
In this episode, the three explore how we don't have to wait for peaceful circumstances (spoiler alert—they may never come) to put peace into practice. Morgan bravely shares the deep work it took and continues to take for her to reexamine and redefine what peace looks like in her own life. We hope this conversation invites you to find a new rhythm for your life by cultivating peace as a practice.
If you want to learn more from Morgan's pursuit of peace, check out her new book: Peace is a Practice. If you love this episode, you can check out our first conversation with Morgan, EP. 13 - "Living Centered and Reclaiming Ourselves Through Creativity."
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Hannah and Mickenzie are joined by Onsite Guide and therapist, Amanda Eilola. Together, the three explore the topics of recovery, addiction, medicators.
Sharing from her own recovery journey, 18 years of sobriety, and almost 20 years working in the field of addiction, Amanda helps us understand medicators (the ways we all use external things to turn down the noise of internal pain), how they help us cope, and the warning signs we might miss when it comes to addiction. Throughout the conversation, she also shares how to address concerning behaviors displayed by people we love who are struggling.
If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, we hope this interview invites you to examine this topic with empathy, curiosity, and compassion. If you need help, we encourage you to view a list of resources we’ve compiled in today's show notes.
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Have you ever felt like your life is running you, instead of the other way around? Do you want to live more fully alive, but feel stuck just getting by?
Today’s guest, author, Youtuber, and podcaster Mallory Ervin is on a mission to invite people into a different way of living, one that embraces everything life has to offer: pain, struggle, joy, celebration, and everything in-between. Sharing her own story of addiction, heartache, and struggle, Mallory is confident that showing up for ourselves is a choice we can all make even in the hardest parts of our story. We hope this conversation inspires you to find and celebrate the resiliency in your story and encourages you to live fully right where you are today!
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On today’s episode, Lindsey and Mickenzie sat down with Onsite’s Associate Clinical Director, Kathleen Murphy, to explore the Poly Vagal Theory. Kathleen outlined how this unique paradigm helps us understand the role the vagus nerve plays in our daily emotional regulation, social connections, and fear responses. Through practice and greater self-awareness, this methodology can help us understand how trauma and adverse circumstances change the way we see the world, and how we can heal and regulate in the context of community and relationship.
If you're interested in learning more about the Polyvagal Theory, we've curated a list of recommendations in our full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/055.
Join us today for a special episode celebrating our one-year podcast anniversary! Thanks for joining us for a year of authentic conversations—we hope it has encouraged and equipped you in your journey towards living centered! To celebrate, we're giving away three $100 gift cards to the Onsite Mercantile. All you have to do for your chance to win is leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!
Today's guest, actress, author, and life coach, Lisa Whelchel, joins Mickenzie and Lindsey to talk about the beauty of letting go. Whether in our spiritual journeys, relationships, careers, or expectations, so many of us navigate life with a tight grip on how we think things should go— leaving little room for things to expand, change, and evolve. Yet, sometimes the best things in life are on the other side of letting go. Throughout the conversation, Lisa shares her own story about letting go and how embracing curiosity changed how she views the world for the better.
No one escapes adversity. All our stories are lined with moments of pain and suffering—and for many of us, these moments can be complicated, overwhelming, and challenging to navigate. Onsite Guide and Therapist Caroline Bravo joins Mickenzie and Hannah for a thoughtful conversation that might prompt you to rethink how you engage with suffering. Through her professional work as a therapist and her personal practice of Buddism, Caroline offers a unique perspective on ways pain, grief, and compassion help us heal.
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On this week's episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Lindsey and Mickenzie take a deep dive into the popular personality model the Enneagram with Certified Enneagram Teacher Evan Barbee.
In the last couple of years, the Enneagram has garnered attention from media and memes—often reducing it to a quick assessment or labeling system. Yet this ancient tradition serves as an invitation to slow down and tune in, in order to truly understand ourselves and others. Throughout this informative and rich conversation, Evan invites us to the life-long journey of self-discovery and wisdom that the Enneagram has to offer. Whether the Enneagram is new to you or you're well-versed, we hope this conversation will provide fresh insight as you continue on the rewarding journey of knowing yourself more fully.
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There comes the point in every life when we are invited to examine, question, and often deconstruct the narratives and worldview we grew up with. Whether conscious or unconscious, we all carry around a set of beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world around us—many of which we picked up from even our earliest childhood memories. For many of us, the process of looking at and making room for ideas, beliefs, and ideologies to change, can feel overwhelming or scary. However, today's guest, therapist, and Onsite Guide, Brent Campbell, believes that deconstruction is a healthy and necessary part of our journey that has the power to propel us to self-reflection, evolution, and growth.
Throughout this interview with Mickenzie and Lindsey, Brent shares his personal story and ways we can move through the process of deconstruction in a way that enables us to rediscover our truest selves on the other side.
"Life's most urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Today's guest, Tuere Butler, is continually inspired by this question and has committed her life to the empowerment and service of others—first as the longest-serving member of Congressmen John Lewis' team and now as the Director of Operations for Plywood People in Atlanta, GA. During today's interview, Lindsey and Mickenzie sit down with Tuere to talk about her time with the Congressman, her journey of finding balance and self-care while serving others, and the importance of truly seeing people for who they are, instead of the position or titles they hold.
How do we end a year like 2021? If you're experiencing mixed emotions as you head into the new year, you're not alone. Today we invite you to join our team for a conversation full of honest and (very) real reflections of the last year as we seek to answer the questions: What if the year didn't look like we expected? How do we continue to look to the future while also staying present? What gifts are we taking into 2022, and what are we leaving in 2021?
We hope this conversation leaves you inspired and filled with hope as you close out this chapter and step into the next.
Today we're revisiting a few of our favorite conversations from throughout the year. This episode features interviews from fan-favorites Mike McHargue, Carlos Whitaker, Hillary McBride, Shauna Niequist, Annie F. Downs, Rory Feek, and more!
Thanks so much for joining us this year—we can't wait to continue the journey with you in 2022. Sending you light and love this holiday season.
Many of us want a quick fix when it comes to mental health. Instead, sustainable change happens in what we call “two-degree shifts,” small adjustments that make a monumental impact over time.
Today’s guest, Laura Quick, is no stranger to be in process and implementing the two-degree shifts in her life. She sat down with Lindsey and Mickenzie to chat about her passion for mental health and the role “showing up and doing the work” has played in her life, marriage, businesses (3 of them!), and even her parenting.
Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/047
The middle of any emotional wellness journey is often uncomfortable, messy, and rarely linear. Today’s guest, Onsite Guide and therapist, Madison Lawn says that the messy middle is an essential part of the growth and evolution we all deserve. In this interview with Lindsey and Mickenzie, Madison shares her own story of navigating the tenuous process of growth and how she uses her experience to help her clients show up and honor themselves in their journeys and come out on the other side with more healing, insight, and power.
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Making a difference doesn't have to come at the expense of our mental health. When confronted with injustice, inequality, pain, and crisis, we have three options: become apathetic, overwhelmed, or inspired to do something about it!
Social impact consultant and the founder of Let's Give A Damn, Nick Laparra, is on a mission to help people pick the latter. Recently, Nick sat down with Lindsey and Mickenzie to discuss why he thinks more people need to give a damn and how we can actually make a sustainable impact on the things that matter most without sacrificing our mental, emotional or physical health.
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On this special episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Miles sits down with acclaimed artist and musician Chris Coleman. Chris recently partnered with the Onsite team to create a series of art pieces featured in our new video, Reconnect the World. During this interview, the two discuss the beautiful role the creative process has played in Chris's journey and his passion for helping people reconnect to themselves and ultimately reconnect the world.
Do you feel like the last two years have taken a toll on your professional life? You’re not alone. According to a recent study, 40% of workers experienced mental health issues this past year. But what can we do? What does a safe work environment that supports employees in holistic ways look like in practice?
Join Mickenzie and Lindsey for an authentic conversation with Onsite’s new Chief People Officer, Roy Day, about the role we can all play in creating cultures that prioritize and facilitate mental health, diversity, inclusion, and connection.
In a world where many of us are chasing power, money, and influence that can ultimately harm us, this week’s guest is passionate about doing the personal work he believes is necessary not to just avoid pitfalls, but live an authentic, fulfilled life.
Join us for an honest and impactful conversation with Steve Carter, pastor, speaker, podcast host, author of the new book: The Thing Beneath The Thing. In this interview, Steve gets vulnerable about his own journey chasing accolades and the importance of doing our own work, naming and examining our trauma, and leading with character when it means the most.
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We’re so excited to have the brilliant Kirsten Powers back on the podcast this week! As a USA Today Columnist, CNN Political Analyst, Best-selling author, and Onsite alumni, Kirsten is a powerful and needed voice in our current political climate. She joined Mickenzie and Lindsey for an authentic conversation about what she thinks is missing from the polarizing and divisive discourse surrounding us: GRACE. Tune in for a paradigm-shifting definition of grace and explore how this idea could radicalize your mental, emotional, physical, and relational health!
Kirsten’s newest book, Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts, releases November 2nd!
A lot of us are asking hard questions and making big changes in this season. Today’s guest, a self-proclaimed “unconventional therapist,” helps us explore making tough decisions, embracing change, and how to pursue wellness in the midst of uncertainty. Lindsey and Mickenzie are so excited to introduce you to therapist, podcast host, and founder of the Radical Wellness Collaborative, Elyse Snipes!
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In a world that is seemingly more divisive and divided every day, it can feel nearly impossible to stay in a relationship with those we don't agree with.
This week on the Living Centered Podcast, Lindsey and Mickenzie are joined by author, speaker, and podcast host, Carlos Whittaker for an honest conversation about staying connected and hopeful even amidst a divided world. Carlos is known for gracefully and intentionally exploring topics that so many of us often shy away from. Throughout the conversation, the three discuss mental health, race, injustice, and Carlos's hope for humanity as we all lean into, not away from, uncomfortable conversation about the things that keep us separate.
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In honor of World Mental Health Day (10/10), we’re bringing you a special episode of the Living Centered Podcast. For this episode, Lindsey and Mickenzie sat down with seven different Onsite team members to talk about their mental health journeys and the daily practices that keep them centered. It serves as a beautiful reminder that there is no right or wrong way to engage with mental health. We hope it inspires you to pursue the wellness you deserve.
Stay tuned throughout the episode for a bonus five-minute meditation.
Meet all our guests in the full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/038
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Many of us carry around the belief that therapy is about "fixing" the parts of ourselves that are broken or wrong. Here at Onsite, we say it's not fixing what's wrong with you, but rather about uncovering what is right with you. Today's guest, Laura Ramey, therapist and Executive Director of Milestones at Onsite, joins Miles and Lindsey to unpack a unique therapeutic modality called Internal Family Systems (IFS). Through curiosity and compassion, this modality creates room to connect with all the parts of ourselves—even the ones that we feel are "broken" or "wrong." Throughout the episode, Laura shares the practical ways she applies the modality of Internal Family Systems with her clients at Milestones and personally in every area of her life—including parenting, partnership, and leadership.
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When it comes to this topic of diversity, many of us grapple with the urge to “do more.” But what if it was less about what we need to do, and more about who we need to become?
Today's guest, Lead Pastor of the Southeast Raleigh Table, Lisa Yebuah, joined us for an authentic conversation about leaning into diversity, equity, and inclusion in our daily lives and the transformational impact of lament and grief.
Many of us have been told, "Don't dwell in the past." But the truth about trauma is that if we don't acknowledge, name, and honor our past pain, it will negatively impact our emotional, mental, and even physical health.
On today's episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Lindsey and Mickenzie sat down with Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel, MA, co-founders of the Allender Center in Seattle, to discuss their new book Redeeming Heartache and the power of engaging and examining the painful parts of our stories to find healing and redemption
Today on the Living Centered Podcast we welcome our friend, New York Times bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and host of the That Sounds Fun Podcast, Annie F. Downs. During this conversation with Lindsey and Miles, Annie shares what she's learning about loving the life you have, leaning into the full breadth of emotions, and chasing the things you're uniquely meant to offer the world!
Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/034
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In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, we invited Onsite’s Lead Clinician, Carlos Martinez to help us create a safe space to talk about something that affects so many people. During this honest conversation, Carlos shared his personal and professional experience to help us tackle a topic that feels too big to handle alone as we seek to show up better for ourselves and the people we love by fostering empathy and connection.
If you or a loved one are struggling with suicide, we encourage you to reach out for professional help. You can find support at TWLOHA.com or by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255.
No matter what we’re facing, there is a way forward. Healing is possible.
According to today’s guest, there is one four-letter word at the heart of all sustainable and holistic social good. LOVE.
Becca Stevens, speaker, social entrepreneur, author of "Practically Divine," priest, and founder and President of Thistle Farms is on a mission to spread and live out the message that love is the strongest force for change in the world. Join us for a profoundly impactful conversation with Miles and Lindsey about the undeniable power of love and redemption that Becca has seen in her decades of mission-driven work.
Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/032
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According to Psychiatrist and Milestones at Onsite Medical Director Dr. Neil Bomar, our deepest victories are actually a mirror to discovering our greatest wounds.
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Dr. Bomar to gain his personal and professional perspective on understanding, embracing, and overcoming the narratives that keep us from living centered and whole. In this conversation with Lindsey and Mickenzie, Dr. Bomar also touches on various other topics, including parenting, holistic healing, getting creative and curious, and his love for psychiatry. Don’t miss out on this practical and engaging episode!
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How do you make sense of the twists and turns of life when they don't seem to add up? Founder and CEO of Copper, Allison Trowbridge, knows a thing or two about leaning into (and finding meaning in) the different seasons of our life. She firmly believes that every new chapter leads us to exactly where we're supposed to be!
In this interview with Miles and Lindsey, Allison shares how her past work in the anti-trafficking movement, experience as an author, and time spent at Oxford Said Business School led her to disrupt the publishing world and start a new kind of social platform! Allison's journey, both personally and professionally, is nothing short of inspiring! Join us for a conversation about innovation, leadership, self-exploration, and coming back from the brink of burnout.
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Today on the Living Centered Podcast, we're bringing you an interview with Author, Speaker, and Pastor, Bianca Juarez Olthoff. During this conversation with Lindsey, Bianca shares her personal mental and emotional journey, including how she overcame the cultural and religious stigmas she grew up in around therapy and how getting healthy has impacted every area of her life for the better. Bianca is an Onsite Alumni, twice over, and her passion, zeal, and willingness to pull no punches is going to inspire and empower you to DO THE WORK in your own life!
When our newsfeeds, televisions, and even dinner table conversations seem dominated by bad news, it can be tempting to get discouraged. We hope today’s interview with Branden Harvey, Founder of Good Good Good and the Good News Paper, brings you a little hope and light. During this conversation with Miles and Lindsey, Branden shared his unique story of becoming a storyteller focused on telling stories of good all over the world. The way Branden lives his life extends an invitation to acknowledge the things that break our hearts and, instead of getting overwhelmed, become a part of the solution.
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, we welcome award-winning host, storyteller, and producer. Ashley Eicher for an authentic conversation about wholeheartedly showing up for our lives and embracing our stories. During this interview with Lindsey and Mickenzie, Ashley dives into the areas she’s working to own her space including setting boundaries, launching creative initiatives, going to therapy, and the joys and challenges of singleness.
Full Show Notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/027
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For today's episode, Miles is joined by New York Times best-selling author, speaker, and founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, Jamie Tworkowski. Jamie has dedicated his life's work to presenting hope and help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.
In this interview, Miles and Jamie talk about their shared desire to normalize and destigmatize the conversation around mental health. Along the way, they discuss the benefit and need of doing their own individual emotional wellness work as they lead organizations and missions dedicated to doing the same. Join us for a conversation that we hope normalizes asking for help, equips you to help the people in your life who might be struggling, and invites you to pursue the wholeness you deserve. Full show notes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/026
If you or a loved one are struggling with suicide, we encourage you to reach out for professional help. You can find support at TWLOHA.com or by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255.
Narcissism has become a bit of a buzzword. We passively use the word to describe the egotistical, vain, or selfish people in our lives, without much thought to the actual definition of narcissistic personality disorder and the weightiness that disorder carries.
For this bonus episode of the Living Centered Podcast, clinical expert Cindy Westcott helps us identify how the effects of narcissistic people and patterns play out in our lives and offers some encouragement to begin the process of recovering our sense of self.
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This week on the Living Centered Podcast, Miles and Mickenzie sat down for a thoughtful conversation with NYT Best-Selling author, entrepreneur, storyteller, and friend of Onsite—Jedidiah Jenkins. Jed lives an authentic, creative, and connected life that inspires many through his writing, his social media, and his exciting real-life adventures (like biking +7,000 miles to Patagonia). Throughout the episode, Jed shares about his journey of leaning into vulnerability, embracing his true self, and exploring what it means to fully show up to his life.
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Have you ever felt like your life was running you, instead of the other way around? Today’s guest, model, writer, and activist, Nikia Pheonix has an incredible way of living with intention in all areas of her life. This conversation with Miles Adcox sheds a light on the ways we can all incorporate a spirit of intentionality into our days and find the peace and groundedness that comes from living on purpose with purpose.
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You don’t have to look far to see our world is hurting. In our workplaces, our communities, our homes, even our own stories, hurt is all around us. In the face of pain, loss, and hurt, hope can be hard to come by. With over 40 years of clinical expertise today’s guest, Mary Bellofatto, MA, LMHC, NCC, CEDS, TEP remains convinced that hope is not only possible, it’s probable when we seek to connect and understand (ourselves and others). Join in for a conversation that will bolster your faith in the resiliency of the human spirit.
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Unlearning Shame: Pushing Back Against the Lies that Keep Us Hidden
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What can spending time with the kids in our life teach us about being a grown-up? According to today’s guest, Author and Illustrator, Brad Montague, a whole lot! Join us for a conversation about changing the world simply by choosing to see it through the eyes of kids (or as the kid we used to be!)
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Unlearning Shame: Pushing Back Against the Lies that Keep Us Hidden
Check out the newest emotional wellness master class from Onsite. This class provides helpful steps to stop shame in its tracks and keep it from running the show in our lives! Get this $69 digital resources HALF off this $69through the month of June when you use the code PODCAST. That makes it just $35!
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Relationships are messy, and when you throw in a global pandemic, they get even more complicated. As we all look to emerge from the last year and half, many of us could use a little of help re-engaging, and maybe even rebuilding, community.
Today’s guest, New York Times best-selling author, Shauna Niequist shares how she has leaned into the messiness of community over the last season even when it wasn’t comfortable or logistically easy and leaves us with some practical tips to do the same.
This week on the Living Centered Podcast, Miles and Lindsey are joined by Onsite's own Carlos Martinez. In the episode, Carlos explores the topic of inner-child work, and invites us to ask the important question, "Who were you before the world told you who to be?". Together the three unpack the concept, value, and journey of reconnecting with our inner child and remembering the wonder and child-like nature that may have gotten lost along the way. ----------------
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Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/019
We’re all multi-faceted, nuanced, human beings and none of us fit neatly into a single box. Because of this, it can be hard to reconcile the varying, sometimes dueling, parts of ourselves and we end up living as a smaller version of ourselves.
Today on the Living Centered Podcast Miles and Lindsey welcome best-selling author, speaker, and executive counselor Mike Foster for an authentic conversation about the power of not only acknowledging but embracing all parts of ourselves in order to overcome the pain of our past and live into the future we’ve always dreamed of.
Full show notes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/018
For months now, we’ve been mentioning Onsite’s world-renowned Living Centered Program. Today we’re offering you an inside look at one of the hundreds of transformational stories that come out of this five-day group experiential program. Join us for a special two-part interview with Stefanie Boyce, speaker, yoga instructor, spiritual director, and retreat facilitator. Sitting down with Miles before and after her Living Centered Program, these interviews with Stefanie offer a glimpse into her incredible story of resilience, followed by the personal insights she gained from her time at Onsite. This entire interview is grounded in Stefanie's profound belief in the collective healing and connection we can all bring to the world.
Full show notes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/017
Today for a special bonus episode we’re giving you a glimpse of our newest online emotional wellness class: Rightsizing the Wrongs: How to Recognize, Reconcile, and Repair Our Trauma.
We all experience pain and adversity, there’s no escaping it. During this episode, Onsite Clinician, Carlos Martinez speaks to the tendency many of us hold around labeling our adversity with the word “trauma,” and illuminates some of the negative day-to-day experiences that we might have never associated with trauma while offering an underrated, but highly effective tool for managing the effects of trauma.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/bonus-trauma
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For a special episode, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Miles hosts a panel with three of our Onsite therapists. Tune in as the panelists answer YOUR questions and discuss some of the topics that can feel especially intimidating when it comes to our emotional and mental health. (Like talking about mental health with your family or finding a therapist!)
So many of us struggle to love and appreciate our bodies. It isn't just an individual issue, but rather a collective, deeply-rooted cultural problem with the ways we were taught to view our bodies and their value. What if we could begin to not only accept our bodies but embrace them?
Today on the Living Centered Podcast, Miles and Lindsey sit down with Dr. Hillary McBride for an incredible, complex, and compassionate conversation about how the internalized messages we believe about ourselves not only impact our well-being but the interconnected healing of our communities and culture. Throughout the interview, Dr. McBride extends an invitation to pursue embodiment—reclaiming and remembering ourselves as bodies.
Who were you before the world told you who to be? We believe that when we rediscover that version of ourselves, we open ourselves up to healing, connection, and purpose.
Today on the Living Centered Podcast Miles and Lindsey are sitting down with one of Onsite’s world-class therapists and all-around incredible human, Kristine Jackson to discuss the power of reconnecting to the “us" we’ve always been. To help ground this conversation, Kristine ends our time together with a 5-minute mindfulness exercise you can do right where you are.
You won’t want to miss it.
Full show notes: livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/014
This week on the Living Centered Podcast Miles and Lindsey welcome bestselling author, artist, and poet, Morgan Harper Nichols. During the interview, Morgan tells the inspiring story of how she began creating poems and visual art from strangers' stories in an effort to foster connection and empathy. (If you're like us, you've likely been inspired on the internet by Morgan's creativity and the way she invites others to live vulnerably.) Throughout the conversation, Morgan also bravely shares the parts of her own story and identity that she is currently reclaiming as she seeks to live a more centered life.
With over a million followers on Instagram, Morgan’s unique approach to what she creates resonates with so many people and extends a beautiful invitation for us all to embrace and connect with the beauty and pain within our own stories.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/013
Today we’re releasing a special bonus episode of The Living Centered Podcast with a sneak peek directly from a brand-new digital offering from Onsite, The Ways We Greive: Understanding the Emotional and Biological Process that Binds Us All, taught by Onsite Clinician and therapist, Cindy Westcott.
Throughout this episode, Cindy shares the importance of “feeling our feelings” and honoring the array of emotions that accompanies grief—including our sadness.
Many of us have the tendency to minimize our hurts and therefore don’t allow ourselves the permission to fully grieve them—we’re afraid of what will happen if we let ourselves feel our grief. Today’s episode will invite you to explore how giving ourselves the understanding and space to move through ourgrief, will lead us to find peace, love, and wisdom on the other side of it.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/bonus-grief
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For this episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Miles is joined by Grammy-winning, country music singer-songwriter, Rory Feek. While Rory is widely known for his incredibly successful, multi-decade music career, he shares in this interview that he is most famous for loving his wife, Joey, who he lost to cancer in 2016.
Rory is no stranger to pain and despair and despite hardship, his story is lined with beauty and hope. Rory's life is a testament to the power of embracing joy alongside sorrow, and the impact that outlook makes on ourselves and ultimately the world.
We hope this conversation will create space for you to sit in the tension of your grief and joy.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/012
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At Onsite, we believe the best way to strengthen any relationship is to commit to our own personal growth. When we work on ourselves, we show up better in all our relationships, and especially for the people who matter most to us.
This week’s guests, Tyler (one half of multiple award-winning duo, Florida Georgia Line, husband, and dad) and Hayley (philanthropist, mom, wife, and podcaster) Hubbard sit down with Miles for an honest conversation about the importance of prioritizing our own emotional, mental and spiritual growth alongside our partners, even when the busyness of life gets in the way!
In our politically diverse world, it can be challenging to remain grounded amidst the influx of negativity, injustice, and discord that floods our newsfeeds. If we're not careful, we can be easily lured into the perceived safety of labeling, judging, and even demonizing those that do not align with our set of political beliefs. This week’s guest, journalist and best-selling author, Kirsten Powers is all too familiar with the harm this divide has on our individual health and our collective humanity.
Throughout the episode, Kirsten invites us into a frank conversation about how our past experiences and trauma often lead us to binary thinking and reminds us that it is possible to remain centered even amidst politically divisive seasons—leading to more empathy, grace, and understanding for self and others.
Full show notes: livingcentered.com/episodes/010
We’re all multi-faceted, full of contradictions, growing and evolving human beings. But sometimes we get stuck in a rut, living our lives as the victim, clinging to the selves that are no longer serving us. Today’s guest on the Living Centered Podcast, Donald Miller, NYT bestselling author and CEO, is a testament to the power of embracing our stories and leaning into the pivots and possibilities that can lead us to the person we’re meant to be. Tune in for Don’s incredible invitation to stop playing the victim and show up as the hero of our own stories.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/009
For this episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Miles and Lindsey are joined by life coach, spiritual counselor, meditation teacher, speaker, and friend of Onsite, Ryan Weiss. Ryan has dedicated his life's work to creating safe spaces for people both personally and professionally. He is passionate about helping others explore spirituality, health, and creativity in order to grow deeper in connection with themselves, others, and the world around them.
Throughout the interview, Ryan shared his incredible wisdom, insight, and personal experience and encouraged us to find the true healing and wholeness we all so deeply deserve.
Full shownotes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/008
Where do we turn when our faith background or the culture we grew up in has a complicated relationship with modern psychology, therapy, and emotional health? Can you hold both with respect and care?
If you've ever wrestled with this topic, we know you'll deeply connect with this week's guest—award-winning author and speaker, Jonathan Merritt. Jonathan is a popular thought-leader and writer on issues of faith and culture. Throughout the interview, he shares his professional expertise and personal experience regarding the intersection between faith and psychology and the deep healing that comes from authentically exploring and merging the two disciplines.
Full show notes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/007
This week, we are beyond excited to welcome illusionist, speaker, author, husband, father, and all-around incredible human Harris III to the Living Centered Podcast. After traveling the globe making over a million dollars by the age of 21, only to go bankrupt a year later, Harris began a decade-long journey to understand the stories we tell ourselves and how they drive human behavior. Together, Miles, Lindsey, and Harris discussed how to shake off the illusions that hold us back and embrace the magic that makes our lives worth living! Get ready to discover a little wonder today! Full show notes at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/006
For this Living Centered Podcast episode, Miles sat down with award-winning songwriter and producer Nicolle Galyon. Miles and Nicolle recorded this episode almost a year ago (which, thanks to the global pandemic, feels like a lifetime ago), but the truth of their conversation remains just as relevant today.
Throughout the episode, Nicolle graciously shares about her own emotional wellness journey and the freedom (and success) she has found due to living centered. Nicole genuinely lives from the truest parts of herself in every area of her life—as a globally recognized songwriter and producer, running her own music label, and in her personal life as a wife, mother, and friend. As with everything she does, Nicolle is unapologetically authentic and offers permission, encouragement, and an invitation to do the same. This episode is no exception.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/005
For this episode of the Living Centered Podcast, we are joined by therapist, empowerment speaker, podcaster, Onsite Guide, and wellness extraordinaire Courtney Leak.
Together, Courtney, Miles, and Lindsey explore ways to show up as our whole selves and lean into real (and sometimes hard) conversations around race and gender. Along the way, the trio discusses what our world is actually in need of right now (hint hint, it starts with us) and how to live centered through it all.
Courtney's honesty, passion, and expertise helps shed light on the injustices around us while simultaneously calling us forward to be and do better.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/004
On this episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Lindsey and Miles sit down with NYT Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and chief balloon inflator of Love Does, Bob Goff.
Bob, one of the most inspiring people we know, continually makes a big impact on the world just by the way he lives his life—embracing big dreams, loving without abandonment, and inviting everyone to have a seat at the table.
Throughout the episode, the three discussed taking bold risks, chasing dreams with friends, the power of authentic community, and finding people to speak truth—even when it's not easy. They also discuss Bob's experience at the Living Centered Program (spoiler alert—he didn't want to go!) and how living a centered life has impacted the way he connects with himself, those he loves, and the world around him.
Join us for a conversation that is sure to inspire you to find your people and start dreaming!
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/003
In this episode of the Living Centered Podcast, Miles and Lindsey had the honor of sitting down with one of our very own—the incredible Cindy Westcott. Cindy serves as the Senior Clinical Advisor for Onsite's residential trauma treatment program, Milestones. Together the three discussed what our brains and body go through when faced with adversity, why so many of us have increased levels of stress and anxiety, and how to live more centered and connected than ever before. With over 29 years of experience, Cindy brings her clinical expertise and heart to help us make sense of what we're experiencing and find a path forward even in the face of trauma.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/002
For the first (!!!) episode of the Living Centered Podcast, co-hosts Miles Adcox and Lindsey Nobles sit down with author, podcaster, host of the Cozy Robot Show, and friend, Mike Mchargue—whom you may know (and love) as "Science Mike."
Mike is not only incredibly brilliant but is one of the most authentic and feeling-aware humans we know. His uncanny ability to communicate complicated concepts in a practical, applicable, and matter of fact manner helps us bridge the 18-inch gap between our heads and our hearts. During their conversation, Mike shares how connecting deeper to his emotions and addressing his past adversity has allowed him to show up more fully human and make sense of the complex world we're all living in.
Show notes can be found at livingcenteredpodcast.com/episodes/001
Join co-hosts Miles Adcox, Onsite CEO and Lindsey Nobles, Onsite VP of Marketing as they introduce the Living Centered Podcast.
The Living Centered Podcast is an invitation to another way of living.
Every episode, we sit down with mental health experts, artists, and friends for a practical and honest conversation about how to pursue a more centered life—rediscovering, reclaiming, and rooting in who we truly are.