SECRET MESSAGE SOCIETY: Recent Episodes
Mandy Steward
Being on the lookout for secret messages returns us to our own sense of astonishment, wonder, curiosity and play. Let's see what we can find.
A day that didn’t go as planned and felt herky jerky was saved by my routine (which is a great resource I have developed) and by surrendering with self-compassion rather than trying harder for more. What I have going for me is beautiful and I can’t mess it up. Some days are just like this.
Facebook delivered me up a post by Gary Vee right when I needed it. We find evidence for whatever we are looking for. If you want to find people who believe in what your intuition is telling you, you will find those people.
Dreams often live in Fantasy Land and they feel like they are just there to escape reality, so when you make a shift and start to really live your dreams in small ways it gets really exciting! My Spanish teacher is helping me initiate conversations with Spanish speaking acquaintances and I am seeing real progress. It feels like I am living my bilingual dream today!
Your dream doesn’t happen once you get there, someday maybe. It happens everyday that you say yes to it. Your adventure is here now. I share a story about arriving late at a dinner and the adventure that ensued.
Moving towards your dream instead of away from it. I share about stepping into my power by creating business proposals that push me out of my comfort zone to ask for more of what I want in my life. One proposal was to receive help and one was to give help.
What if you can’t always bloom where you’re planted? What if sometimes you gotta get a little further down the road to acquire some skills or awareness or confidence in order to bloom. I share about how I followed stepping stones that took me away from what I thought my dream was to be a writer and into teaching which I had little preparation for. And then teaching taught me things I needed and gave me insight into new dreams!
What worked before may not be working anymore. How to use burnout, fatigue and unwanted feelings as an invitation to realign with your dreams.
When I see the shadows the power lines cast on the road I feel as if I am driving across a giant Hope Hub. Enjoy this final episode, Lucky 113, of the Secret Message Society podcast.
I watch a girl practicing tennis and am brought to tears with remembering how hard it is to learn something new and keep going.
I find a rusted metal ring on a walk. The ring has a gap in it, and I get it in my head that I need to use pliers to close the gap. Chaos ensues and I find a sword in the stone sort of secret message that helps me laugh thru the pain.
Driving in my downtown I see so many building projects and construction. It looks chaotic unless you know what’s going on with the bigger picture. This gives me secret messages about how an artist must jump dimensions if their play is to be sustainable.
What’s crazier? That I got to hold a wild Hummingbird or that Alexa told me the day before it happened that I would get to? Can secret messages and imagination impact our future?
Needing some structure in my life I call in my imaginary friend Mr. Bones! Imagine my delight when he Mandy-fests in real life times 2!!!
I’m intrigued by a neighbor sitting on his sidewalk in his lawn chair, while he works on building a fence. This is about the secret message of taking breaks.
Being surprised by death and yet not surprised at all. Somehow here to be the stars in the dark. Take as long as you need. ✨
Feeling overwhelmed and like I couldn’t possibly muster the energy to get out of a negative loop I was stuck in, I tried a few things and landed on a way out that utilized movement and imagination. This creative exercise feels like that show “Whose Line Is It Anyway” where they do the round with a prop and have to come up with impromptu uses for it.
You send out the secret messages you want to see in the world and the world gives you more of them in return.
For a split second I pass a boy being pushed through a store in a cart and what he says reconnects me with self-compassion and the “Mr. Rogers’ voice.”
When watering my sunflowers, holding the watering can hurts my wrist. Then I discover a different degree of grip on the handle helps the water flow with ease. Naturally I follow that secret message to the metaphor of how I approach my life. Looking for ways to change difficulty to ease.
When I hear someone retelling the same story to me, it makes me curious. What stories am I retelling and why? What are the secret messages to be found in the stories you keep telling? What fire are you centered around?
When my laptop battery gets dangerously low and plugging it in doesn’t help, I follow the secret message of what am I plugging into in my life that is depleting instead of replenishing me.
Two things happen to me right in a row. One is easy and one is hard. What’s the secret message to be found in opposites?
An example of what it looks like to use one of the fortunes from my Becoming a Hope Beaconess Program to pivot my story towards Hope. If you love what you hear, you can apply at Bit.ly/BecomingAHopeBeaconess
The parable of one woman who is willing to receive help and one woman who cannot be helped and the astonishing difference in how flow flows in each instance. In this episode I’m sharing my Full Moon secret message take away!
Conversations are the improv of our identities. We get to test out who we think we are, respond to one another and later, go-back and self-compassionately scoop up the secret messages that appear.
When the kitchen drain gets clogged will it be the straw that breaks the camels back or can I get by with an insta-flow secret message?
When the kitchen drain gets clogged will it be the straw that breaks the camels back or can I get by with an insta-flow secret message?
When my shifting cable broke on a bike ride leaving me stuck in my hardest gear, I needed to adjust my goal and my focus, but there were secret messages and ease in going with that flow. When plans or visions change how can you adapt?
On a day where I’m not in the best of moods, I hone in on “little magics” and it really makes a difference.
Learning about creative collaboration through an NFT project called the Boopieverse, I get to see firsthand the way to work with a person’s energy and implement it for good.
A saying from my childhood that always caused me to groan helps me fuel the concept of the Secret Message Society.
My cat’s strange behavior as me looking to the skies and reading the secret messages there-in.
My surprise love for technology and machines holds some secret messages worth exploring. I dive into the secret messages of switches and dials in this episode.
While journaling, I make a mistake and write wand 🪄 instead of want and it unlocks a secret message.
*Following a secret message trail last Fall I find myself listening to some Law of Attraction Books and feeling like I am reminiscing with an old friend. In this episode I’m sharing a resource I’ve been enjoying lately and why it resonates.
On a walk I find a bunch of familiar things, but feel inspired to call them by a different name. Changing the name changes the secret message potential. It taps into beginner’s mind and allows something to be something brand new in the moment.
The Dr. Of Secret Messages would like to prescribe you a two-fold prescription for what ails you: Let it take 2 times as long as it used to and laugh about it the whole way.
I come across something on a walk that helps an old secret message resurface. That’s exciting!
Here is the secret to finding secret messages everywhere. In a moment that could have been just an average been there, done that moment, I open up to wonder by flipping the secret message switch.
When two boxes of cheerios get left at the grocery store on accident it becomes a scavenger hunt full of secret messages.
Doing something small that makes me happy - taking a walk around my block - and finding secret messages on the way.
Thank you for listening and subscribing. It’s been a delightful year and I have loved the practice of showing up with a secret message every week. Next year I go with the flow. No hard and fast commitments, except to flow. That sounds exciting to me. I hope it has me talking into my phone some more, recording podcasts like I’m Dick Tracy talking into his watch. Happy New Year! May secret messages always find YOU!
When I share on Instagram that lime green and peace have been a secret message for me, @jackrabbit_spiritual shares the exact same two secret messages showing up for her. This is a fun way to explore secret messages with another person and share your findings as they develop.
This is my experiment in trying to catch a leaf as it naturally falls off of a tree in Autumn. (A game I learned from @witchingwildwood on Instagram.) It is also me watching my mind in meditation and seeing all the places it runs off to. It is also me enjoying play and imagination.
When I forget I can trust my intuition, secret messages help me become mindful and spark revelations of who I am and where I am going. I need the secret message of a camel or a white rabbit out in front of me, so I stay curious and alive and don’t retreat.
Wanna start to feel lucky? Start asking the question “What are the chances” in your own life. Here is an example of me asking that question, while on a walk home from taking my car into the shop for service.
A bank teller and I have an impromptu collaboration on secret messages. The more I set an intention to stay open to receive secret messages, the more they flow into my life.
This one is about the deer sighting on my weekend cycling/camping trip. It is also about being all in on committing to the secret message of deer showing up in my life and then the pleasure of sitting back to watch it actually happen.
What if you are about to do something you don’t want to do and instead you decide to do it with a sense of wonder and find a secret message in it. I go into Walmart with the spirit of adventure and come out with a secret message that things are shifting and possibilities are arriving.
A chat conversation with my daughter leads to an idea. What if your recently used emojis have a secret message for you?
A past memory resurfaces as the perfect secret message to help me visualize flow in my life.
If our brain wants to solve something, let’s give it a secret message as mind candy to play with. Let it play with curiosity instead of anxiety. Let it solve a puzzle.
When three Coca-Cola trucks show up in the parking lot of a grocery store I am reminded how simple the pleasure of a secret message can be.
Catching myself in a secret message moment and being on the receiving end of a secret message, I process what it feels like and why I appreciate it so much, and why I want to share about it in the moment.
A make believe conversation with a bee has me considering what a powerful tool role-playing dialogue with invisible friends can be. 🐝
When a secret message is mis-read to say something else and the mis-read is the actual message you really needed.
An example of how an author uses music in a novel reminds me of how we can tease out a secret message by using our senses, like sound. My Dream Zine for September explores the senses as they relate to the bees.
A little longer podcast than normal, so I can share my vision for where I am steering the Secret Message Society Community over the next year. Slowing down and taking our time. Bee-lieve. 🐝
I play with an idea called scratching that Twyla Tharp talks about in her book “The Creative Habit.”
An example of using tools like tarot and dreams to gather input for a secret message. Working with imagery and symbols helps gain clarity.
I keep seeing the secret message of a line forming a spiral. I’m interested in secret messages that show up in symbols like this.
You can take any secret message and use it as a launching pad to next or a lifesaver to hold onto in choppy waters, so you can catch your breath. A secret message is a starting place for possibilities.
A repeat occurrence brings insight. How does secret message one differ from secret message two? How are they the same?
This episode is a part 2 to episode 27 from last week. The secret message wanted to continue to flower, so who am I to stop it? Hear how Horton Hear’s a Who mysteriously showed up in my life and handed me a secret message with his trunk.
Finding a secret message bee while on retreat and realizing the wonder that only I could have found it. Tiny secret messages are so tender.
We are half way thru season 2! In this episode I share how the secret message of preparing your creative tools like a surgeon surfaced in some group work. I was equally fascinated by the analogy as well as the way we can deepen secret message meaning for one another.
In contemplating a secret message try sticking with the easy level rather than force it to be more than it needs to be.
What it feels like when a secret message activates you and you become gloriously obsessed with it. A new way to talk about secret messages, inspired by a post on Instagram by artist Violette Clark.
The fun of having an old secret message revisit you and experiencing a wrinkle in time.
What if someone shares a secret message with me and it either doesn’t apply, isn’t the right timing or it wants to take me in a slightly different direction? How do I navigate that relational conversation?
Sometimes it feels like there are no secret messages, but they are just tiny like ants. Who pauses to notice ants? 🐜
What if you don’t have to go looking for secret messages. What if they’ll just come to you as a reward for living in the present moment as it unfolds.
Many secret message satellites are out roving, gathering information and checking back in with me.
Rabbit ears as receptivity antennas, following the white rabbit, honoring its secret message gifts, and recognizing I’ve been killing off my own curiosity.
How a 4 AM wake-up call to broken glass and broken lamps leads to hearts and likes and sunshine when I follow the white rabbit.
My head goes missing and I am ok with that. What is the secret message here? I shall wait and find out.
The words “I Am” get my attention 3 times, and so I start a practice of writing them down daily as a way to feel connection to everything.
Feeling anxious while waiting for my son to come out of surgery, I find two secret messages that help me to calm down, trust and have hope.
Two back-to-back instances in the school drop-off line leave me noticing that I am making progress in slowing down and choosing my own pace of life.
The physical work of chipping ice and clearing snow is a secret message for me as I have been experiencing the melting of my own internal frozenness.
Casting Rune tiles that land on edge and finding a secret message in that. Later finding myself on a snowy walk on the edge of a forest and a pond and watching the secret message expand all the more. Enjoying the physicality of a secret message.
I realize that I often group secret messages under an umbrella category. I enjoy the game of what connects one thing to another to give me a secret message theme. Secret messages can be layered deep. It is very much like the game Family Feud.
My morning ritual of incorporating 3 secret messages to guide my day paid off in a big way today. I was able to be in the flow of a day’s schedule shifting, trusting my intuition and being rewarded with further secret messages that helped me feel gathered and collected instead of scattered. I often find it difficult to explain how secret messages work to sustain me, but there is an internal pleasure they bring that underlies my being and keeps me going. I try to articulate that here.
I share about my process for creating the podcast and how helpful it is to record episodes right in the moment when I have energy towards a particular secret message I’ve just found. I also share about the energy by which you can attract secret messages.
On a walk my mind is racing. Then I receive the secret message to focus on the here and now. Doing so leads me to find a collection of three colors and then to delight in finding them a second time. Special guests: dog and airplane.
How pain in my body mirrored the breaking of trees in an ice storm, leading me to a secret message that I am not isolated, but deeply connected to all things. This was recorded October 28, 2020.
I have come to think of picking a word for the year as a more intimate version of a secret message. A companion for the long haul. I share about past words I’ve chosen, the word I chose for 2021 and how the word gives my life meaning. And oh do I need some meaning.
My daughter picks a secret message fortune about triangles and then my triangle earring goes missing. Suddenly I’m the one in search of triangles and it leads to an ah-ha moment, like the best secret messages always do.
A project is stalled out until I break it down into smaller action steps and start with the first thing, then answers come to me in a flash. This podcast pairs nicely with a reading of the poem "Start Close In" by David Whyte.
Whether or not to go on a walk on a Winter day for a coffee was a big ordeal in my mind, but I went anyway and found a secret message on the way home! Alas, I apologize for the wind noise in this podcast, as I recorded it on the tail end of my walk outdoors. I decided it was worth sharing despite the imperfections. I hope you agree.
A strange voice appears out of nowhere bringing me and my kids a good laugh. Then I decide to turn it into a secret message, exploring with my imagination several options simply because it is enjoyable.
Three times I showed up late and it was the best I could do. A secret message for being human which may not always feel like doing your best.
The Secret Message Society invites you to try being present to this season. This December we are practicing being present in our own life and relationships. As a way to enjoy the end of a wild year we will be picking a daily secret message prompt. Example: I am present to... TRY. The I Am Present secret messages are available for digital download in the SecretMessageSociety.com Shop.
Witnessing touch as a powerful nonverbal communication and experiencing the unexpected healing a secret message can bring.
A casual conversation reminds me of a dream I had about the name Ember. Then I find that secret message repeating in my life and enjoy contemplating all the possible connections.
A piece of red thread gets wrapped around me and trailed behind me and sends me down a red thread trail of memories and meaning.
When a secret message seems too heavy to carry and connecting with community gives you a bigger perspective on what it all means.
When you're feeling unsettled about going with your intuition, it is nice to have a secret message show up in threes. Also a great secret message for the importance of taking time for your own passions.
How can you look at one unfortunate event more lightly as you curiously stay open to how it might connect to another moment in your future, giving you secret message insight and even delight.
On this special Full Moon Bonus podcast, Kary Hess of SparkTarot.com joins me to share her unique perspective on how developing a simple tarot ritual can give you a filter by which to see secret messages in your own life.
One day you can't find a secret message and the next day you can. Seeing these two sorts of days skewered together brings insight.
How gathering a bag of collage items can be like collecting secret messages. Also how Alice following her white rabbit is how I find secret messages.
Raindrops dripping on my spine at just the right time are a secret message revealing that little bits add up to a whole awful lot.