50 Days: Recent Episodes
Nicoleta Helén
This is podcast is an experiment. I’ll make 50 consecutive days of short episodes, but I want to leave room for discovery - sitting in unfilled space, sometimes by myself, sometimes with a guest or two. Experimentation is messy, this won't be a polished podcast where we can fall in to a rhythm together, you won't know what to expect from each episode, because I'm going to do my best to show up everyday ready for something unexpected to happen.
I used to think of compassion, specifically self-compassion, as weakness.
Gentleness seemed flaccid. 'Be gentle': It seemed like a consolation prize to offer to someone inept and fragile.
I heard it as a veiled insult.
Be gentle with yourself. (.....because you can't handle anything more than that, you poor, pitiful thing.)
Now I know better.
Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love
Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love
An introduction to a journey of personal fragments engaging with and reflecting on paradox, daily practice, expectation, discomfort, and embracing the space between 'what is' and what we think 'should be'.
Reflections on my 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love
Reflections on Day 1 of a 75 Day Project Defining, Practicing and Documenting Unconditional Self Love
Part 2 in Form as Metaphor conversation. This episode looks at social forms as an invitation to get off autopilot.
Pablo Neruda, 'Alliance Sonata'
- NERUDA, P., & STAVANS, I. (2003). The poetry of Pablo Neruda. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
I want to address yesterday's episode along with those feelings that come when you allow yourself to be less than your idea of perfect.
This is a pretty vulnerable episode for me about Anxiety, as I do my best to explore it authentically, in the moment...
What does it mean to be intentional? How can we use that as a way to create intentions in our everyday life?
An impossible and un-identifiable question that comes up for me is, "What is Art?" Today I begin exploring thoughts on this question as I continue on in this experimental journey.
Every episode, thus far, I have invited you to check in. Today I want to talk about my reasoning behind that.
What exactly is a Podcast? As part of my own discovery in this experimental process, let's dive into the "what" behind a podcast!
Disappointment: Getting friendly with this most confrontational, unpleasant, and unavoidable emotion.
This experience is going to be a mystery for me and for whoever's listening. This experimental "art-cast" will not be a polished podcast because I am going to do my best to show up everyday, ready for something totally unexpected to happen. This will probably be awkward, it may even be boring, sometimes it may be confusing and funny, and maybe even insightful. I hope it will be a mix of all of those things. I am unashamedly excited abut the full spectrum of "human-ness", my own and everyone else's, and more than anything that's what these 50 days will explore.