Pretty Spiritual Podcast

Being Patient, Practicing Patience

Is being patient possible? Of course we talk Axl Rose and Botox, but mainly this episode explores how impatience shows up in our spiritual life, our physical bodies, our mental health, our day-to-day lives, and the suffering it causes. Then, we share tools and stories of how we're practicing patience to cultivate more love in ourselves and the world around us. Join us as we talk about how to be patient—at least our attempts—and patience as a spiritual practice. It's lighthearted, serious, and full of love. xo

Self Forgiveness

Forgiveness is usually focused on forgiving others. Here, we discuss the powerful act of forgiving oneself and share tools to help achieve this goal. We share intimately about our own areas that need self forgiveness, including: exploring self hatred; critical judgments; regrets; and unrealistic expectations. By practicing soothing phrases, empowering mantras, and meditation we learn the value of self forgiveness. We can hone our skills of self forgiveness as a pathway to greater self love. 

Setting Intentions

Our first 2021 episode explores the intentional mindset we want to embody and how we hope to grow in the coming year. We’ll talk choosing a one-word theme to help us focus on our intentions, and what we envision it providing for us over the year. We also share personal goals for 2021and healthy paths towards acheiving those goals. We’re all about intentions, not resolutions. This spiritual journey requires gentleness and a focus on progress, not perfection. Be kind to yourselves. xo

Finding Wholeness Within

This year we've practiced, prayed, tried, failed, and tried again. Let's pause to acknowledge our growth and integration. By integration, we mean how we've incorporated new tools, behaviors, habits, perceptions, intentions over this year. As we integrate, we merge the old and new to become ever more whole. As the year ends, we look back, recognize, and celebrate our aspirations and intentions and our hard work on our journeys to wholeness. Join us! 

Healing From Exhaustion

In our newest episode, we are waking up to our mental exhaustion and applying tools to find rest in all areas: spiritual, mental, creative, and sensory. We are hopeful to untuck the idea that there are moments of rest we haven’t tapped into yet . We are going to ask the question, where are we not resting? Where are we tiring ourselves out in moments we could find the sacred pause? The restful ease of knowing we can put our thinking minds down and attempt to rest in that space of simply being? Through this practice, could we heal our mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion? We supply the tools to help us all find out how to practice to get the much needed healing and rest we all deserve. 

Affirmations For Self Love

Welcome! Let's talk affirmations for cultivating self love. Hurray, right? We talk the science of affirmations, recognizing and counteracting negative self talk, and filling our self-love well when it’s running empty. You read that right, we're talking mind magic. We share about our previous skepticism with the practice of affirmations, how emotional pain brought us the willingness to try, and—lo and behold—how they actually work for us, too! Join us for spiritual tools, earnest attempts to grow, & a shared sense of humor about it all. We love ya!

Less Stress 2020

Struggling with stress in 2020? This podcast episode shares practical tips and spiritual tools for easing anxiety in a year filled with stressors. We have a very special guest, Anika, who along with Annie and Lindsay discusses her current experience with stress and tools we all can use right now to reduce stress in our lives. Be gentle with yourselves everyone, this is a hard year! We love you, we hope this episode provides you some tools to give yourselves much deserved comfort and ease.

Dear Diary

Dear Diary! Journals aren't just archives of our junior high crushes. They're also amazing tools for self reflection, spiritual connection, anxiety relief, and tracking personal growth over time. We share our experiences with journaling over the years and practical ways to use journals on your spiritual journey. BONUS! We share journaling techniques from our very special listeners who wrote in with their favorite ways to journal. Join us on this special episode! We love ya. xoxo 

Owning Your Power

Today we have our first guest, Kelly! In this episode we discuss not knowing your own power, giving away your power, and finally learning tools to help own your power. In a world where so many people struggle for power, we explore what it means to connect with and reclaim our own inner power. From somatic experiencing to body scans to breathing and prayer we offer different ways for you to get rooted in your power. Want to share your experience or tools with us? Find us on Instagram, Facebook, Insight Timer, Google Play, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, and Stitcher (or our Contact page) and share your feelings, thoughts, and anything else! Thanks for listening to our spiritual podcasts. We love ya!

S2 E1. Then And Now

2020 changed things. From global pandemic to Black Lives Matter to shifts in this sweet podcast. We've been on pause for months as Pretty Spiritual Podcast reflected on our role in this new landscape. Dear Ella will not be participating in Season 2 of the podcast, but Annie and Lindsay Poni are here for you—sometimes with guests—to share experience and spiritual tools, laughs and tears. This episode will talk these transitions and the spiritual tools we’re using to navigate huge change. Join us, we missed you!