Every Day Stories: Recent Episodes
Aletheia Research Institute
Every Day Stories explores the stories we tell ourselves about what's true in our lives. Every week we examine a new story - where it came from, how it impact us, and what we can do to change the story for ourselves.
Every Day Stories is a production of the Aletheia Research Institute: www.aletheiaresearchinstitute.com.
An interesting proposition leads to an exploration of our every day story about commitment.
This week we examine the question: are our gestures and turns of phrase our own, or do they own us?
This week, as we discuss last week's challenge of being in alignment with ourselves, we discover how our every day stories of knowing and unknowing influence our behavior.
This week we share our stories about breaking the 'rules' we had established for ourselves around certain activities.
This week we explore our experience trying our deer and coyote challenge. In our discussion, we examine our every day story about partnership.
Sharing stories from last week's challenge led us to examine the many ways our every day stories about 'going it alone' might not always serve us. We also discuss an inspiring true story involving deer and a coyote.
In this episode, we share how we used last week's challenge to motivate ourselves through some of life's most difficult situations. Sometimes there is nothing more powerful than simply going for it.
Continuing our conversation from last week, special guests Ritika and Josh share their perspectives on how our every day stories limit our abilities. Josh also shares a mindset that enables him to achieve seemingly impossible physical feats.
This week we have a special guest! Ritika Singh talks about the limitations of her 'I'm not athletic' story and shares her experience of breaking out of her comfort zone - twice -while snowboarding.
One of the easiest ways to recognize that we are on autopilot most of the day is to observe ourselves saying 'thank you' and asking 'How are you?' Is it possible for us to be aware in these moments of social interaction?
"I just want enough to be comfortable." In this episode we conclude our series on money with our every day story about wanting to be comfortable.
We continue to examine our every day stories about money this week. We move from the story that money gives us freedom to the story that money gives us security. This is a popular every day story, but is it true?
Money = Freedom, or so we say. In this episode, we examine the purpose of money and share a new perspective on freedom in order to evaluate whether this every day story about money is true.
This week we're taking a brief detour from our usual format to share a perspective on illness that might be useful.
Is it possible to learn to love something? In this episode we explore our every day story about learning to love our jobs. In what ways does this story benefit us? In what ways is it limiting?
One of our most influential every day stories is about our job, i.e. 'what we want to be when we grow up.' This week we examine the ways this story can be limiting and how we can shift our perspective to be in a place that is far more open.
Welcome to Season 2 of Every Day Stories! In our first episode of the season we examine our every day story about risk.
'Do what makes you happy' is advice we commonly give to one another. But is it useful? Or is it actually limiting?
This week we examine the limitations of the every day story that teaches us to turn the other cheek.
This week's episode is based on a question from one of our listeners: do you ever wonder if you're in pain or uncomfortable and you just don't realize it?
Why is it so difficult for us to exercise? This week we discuss the history of exercise and how our every day stories make it hard for us to move.
What does it mean to eat healthy? This week we explore our every day stories about healthy eating.
This week we continue our conversation about labels, and, importantly, how to remove them.
This week we look to the lobster for inspiration, both as a model for growth and as an example of our good species/bad species story.
In this episode we explore our stories about convenience as a solution to the 'too busy' problem.