Integrity and Joy Podcasts
Integrity and Joy (the podcast) is finally here! Join me as I explore how to live a good life, including living with integrity, healthy relationships, managing your career and your finances, and more! I'll have guests with inspirational stories sharing how they are trying to figure it all out, too.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and wherever else you get your podcasts.
I've also been on some other great podcasts recently:
Guided Meditations
I am thrilled to be a meditation teacher on Insight Timer and Aura. You can establish or deepen your meditation practice with my guided meditations. Meditation is a powerful tool in building your mindfulness, expanding your focus and patience, and reducing your stress and anxiety. Please leave a rating and review for each meditation you try.
I also have a group ("Living with Integrity and Joy") on Insight Timer and a Community ("Integrity and Joy") on Aura.
Click here for a FREE 30-day guest pass to Aura!
There is a lot of great research on the impact meditation has on our brains. These sources can help you better understand how meditation can help you live a better life.
How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains | Richard J. Davidson | TEDxSanFrancisco
The Science of Meditation - Mindful
Here are some ways you can reflect on the previous year so you can start the new year with greater focus, clear intentions, and lots of gratitude.
Book Recommendations
These are books I have found enlightening and useful over the years. The links will take you to Bookshop.org* so you can join me in supporting independent book stores.
*Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
In this New York Times bestseller, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
We all experience negative emotions from time to time. But in a world with as much frenzy and pressure as ours, it's incredibly easy for these same emotions to become destructive. Now, by blending Eastern tradition with Western science, Why We Meditate effortlessly helps you embrace and understand meditation as never before.
This seminal book, which has been called "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought" by Carl Rogers and "one of the great books of our time" by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than fifty languages and sold over sixteen million copies. "An enduring work of survival literature," according to the New York Times, Viktor Frankl's riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love--that's the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?
In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner--starting today.
"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, MSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.
"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves an inspirational and forward-looking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a fast-moving modern world. With its revelatory lessons and exercises, Happiness is an eloquent and stimulating guide to a happier life.
Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances--a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
Videos to Inspire and Motivate
In addition to one-on-one Integrity Coaching, I try to find other ways to be of help to people seeking a better path. I hope you find these videos helpful in your journey to create a life of integrity and joy!
