Meanderings with Trudy
144 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Take a meander with me as I explore joy from various places... through the lives of regular people; through the ingredients that make life joyful; through the lens of grief and the personality framework called the Enneagram. We hear good stories: the ones that show-off human nature to our shining best. Storytelling showing people living lives of meaning and how they got there. Please, join me!
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Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 3: Desire
April 23, 2024 04:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBAs winter turns to spring, we're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy-filled lives. We're on chapter three, which dives into finding your heart's desire. Today, I meander with you from the hot tub, the site of my daily meditation practice. Truth be told, I've bee...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 2 Truth
April 16, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBAs Angie is taking a pause from the PauseCast, due to her move to Phoenix and her new job, I am taking a little time to do a book review with everyone. We're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy-filled lives. Today, we’re looking at chapter 2, called “Truth.” Th...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 2: Truth
April 16, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBAs Angie is taking a pause from the PauseCast, due to her move to Phoenix and her new job, I am taking a little time to do a book review with everyone. We're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy-filled lives. Today, we’re looking at chapter 2, called “Truth.” Th...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 1: Nothing
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBAs Angie is taking a pause from the PauseCast, due to her move to Phoenix and her new job, I am taking a little time to do a book review with everyone. We're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy full lives. We are starting this week with habit #1: do nothing. I...
Meanderings with Trudy, Sound from the 2024 Solar Eclipse
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.9 MBI was able to view the 2024 solar eclipse totality and captured the sound. It’s a little windy later in the tape, so pardon that part. You’ll note that the geese and the birds do not go silent as the moon obscures the sun. And the crowd, as was the case all over, the crowd are jubilant! As I listen to this, I am transported back to the experience, and feel the excitement and the wonder all over again. I hope you enjoy this bonus piece from my experience of this amazing event. Episode link...
Meanderings with Trudy: Studying Joy, chapter by chapter
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBAs Angie is taking a pause from the PauseCast, due to her move to Phoenix and her new job, I am taking a little time to do a book review with everyone. We're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy full lives. We are starting this week with habit #1: do nothing. I...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," chapter 1: Nothing
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBAs Angie is taking a pause from the PauseCast, due to her move to Phoenix and her new job, I am taking a little time to do a book review with everyone. We're going to move chapter by chapter through a book by longtime life coach, Martha Beck. We're always told to live our best lives, but what does that really mean? In this book, coach Beck introduces us to the 10 daily practices that she believes will help us live more joy full lives. We are starting this week with habit #1: do nothing. I...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 4, with Dina Bell-Laroche
April 02, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBIn chapter four of Dina’s book, we’re looking at this idea of continuing bonds, of continuing our relationship with people who have died, by way of better owning, embodying, and coping with, our feelings of loss. The thing about death is that we often can’t accept the reality of our loss. Continuing bonds normalizes our desire to maintain a relationship with those who have died, and for this to be seen as a healthy way of coping. Continuing bonds can look like different things for different...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Change
March 26, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBChange is in the air… this is a special PauseCast with Angie as she prepares to move to Phoenix, Arizona from Almonte, Ont… from Canada to the US. And I am visiting family in Vancouver, BC. So, we sound a little different today, which is fine, and good, and as it should be. Angie and I explore joy in the concept of change, which probably resonates for each of you, as change is one thing we can count on in life. Change can bring grief and anxiety, doubt, and also, joy. And the thing about m...
Meander with the Salmon Stream, a soundscape
March 19, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBI always love visiting nature, and here in Vancouver, nature is truly just outside the guest bedroom door at my sister-in-law's place. Here, the sounds of a salmon stream that runs through the property are ever-present, and sooth my soul. So, I thought I would share with you some of that beauty on this holiday week, in March. Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Returning, and other Rs
March 12, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBToday, we pick up some of the threads we left before our break. We start with an exploration of what it means to return – to family, to relationships, to places we used to know – all in the context of stitching reverence and resilience into a cloth that fits us now. Yes, there’s a lot of “R”s in today’s episode – returning, reverence, resilience, ritual, repenting, re-membering, reminding… so many Rs. I hope you’ll enjoy this episode; it’s so rich, and pulls together the threads of meanders...
MwT: Grief Unleashed Chapter 3 with Dina Bell-Laroche
March 05, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBIn chapter three of Dina’s book, we’re looking at the ways that we attend to our broken hearts. In this meander we show the shifts that Dina is still making in her own grief journey. How, after 22 years, she is finally making space for herself in this journey. It is such a beautiful way of appreciating how we embody grief and it nourishes our own experience in the world. And irrevocably changes us in the process. Invitations: Out of each episode this season, we are offering people ways to ...
Meander with Me in the forest!
February 27, 2024 05:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBI hope you've enjoyed re-exploring joy as seen through the lens of the Enneagram. We covered a lot of ground from wholeheartedness, rebirth, community, ritual, storytelling and a whole lot more. And on this meander, I shared with you a bit about what I've learned about myself as I revisit my "two-ness" this time around. As I look ahead to the end of winter and coming spring episodes, I can tell you that we'll continue to meander through Dina's book, "Grief Unleashed: from the whole in our h...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, how the Enneagram can change the world
February 20, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBToday we do a little recapping, and also reflect the Enneagram into our lives moving forward. How we can play with the characteristics of our type, and begin to learn how to choose how to respond to situations as opposed to simply react in our age-old way. This can create some unease in our relationships because we are acting outside of how others expect us to be… in our personal lives, and in our work lives too. In short, the Enneagram is both information (what’s my type, what are the gift...
Meander with the Wind
February 15, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Soulfulness and the Enneagram
February 13, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBSoulfulness…what is it? How does it differ from spirituality? Why does it matter? And how does the Enneagram support it? In this meander, we explore how the Enneagram is both a tool and a practice… a tool of information about my type and the other personality types, and then the invitation into awareness, so that when I slow down, I can know myself, and see where my gifts lie, and also how I trip myself up… and a practice, an ongoing intention, to pay attention to how I show up and catch my...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on expectations and the Enneagram
February 06, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBWe kibbitz around a bit to begin with around unexpected connections in the supermarket, and that old game from the 1990s, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon… which was really about just how connected we all are in this great big world. We wrestle with expectations, the ones we have when coming new to the Enneagram, how the first level of exploration is seeking information, that’s all. The next level is about understanding those types, and those types in us….each of those types, not just our own home...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Hope and Flow, and the Enneagram
January 30, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBWhat is hope? And what is flow? Back in 2022, Angie and I explored these things… we said that hope is our background program that helps us get up in the morning. It’s actionable and intentional; it empowers us to do what we are here to be. And flow… flow happens when we let go of aspiration and just be who we are at our essence, in this very moment. And when we apply the lens of the Enneagram we ask: how does this framework help us explore our spirit, our very souls, and find our way into th...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on ritual and storytelling and the Enneagram
January 23, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBRitual and storytelling… intertwined these are. And when conducted using the framework of the Enneagram, I have learned a great deal about myself that has supported my personal development and enriched my relationships. In short, this is what this kind of work is all about. As we’ve said before on these PauseCasts, the Enneagram gives us permission to pause, and in that pause, to look at who we be, in service of the Greater Good… or Life… or God, whatever your preferred language is for this...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on rebirth and community and the Enneagram
January 16, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBWe start our meander with a reading from Richard Wagamese (Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) novelist, journalist, and mentor), a passage from his book "Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations" which I think is really about hope. How it’s not enough to be resilient if being so means bouncing back to the same place… what he wants for himself, and offers to us, is to reach Beyond resilience, to a new place of growth, each day. Angie and I wrestle with “resilience” and from this place I ask a few basic questions:...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Enneagram and Wholeheartedness
January 09, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBIn episode 2 on the enneagram, we tackle wholeheartedness, relationship and heart using the lens of the Enneagram. Angie and I also “show our work” here as we wrestle with the concepts, and how to keep things accessible to listeners at all levels of familiarity with the framework…. Not an easy task. In short, the Enneagram helps us see ourselves. It really is a practice of paying attention: to our habits and long held beliefs, those we have inherited and those we have nurtured ourselves thr...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt... on the Enneagram
January 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBEpisode one: The Enneagram. I laid the table at the end of January 2023 with my genesis story of the Enneagram and today, Angie shares hers… and a whole lot more. So what is this thing, the Enneagram? Is it a tool or a model to make me “better?” Is it a map, or an app? Is this an alone thing or do I need community? If it supports spiritual development, does that mean it is religious? We meander all over the topic of what the Enneagram is, how it outlines types of personalities but so much m...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Wonder and fall wrap-up
December 26, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBToday, we meander On Wonder, and wrap up the fall season in anticipation of our winter break. Like our previous topic, On Reverence, On Wonder came to us as a bit of a surprise. It felt like a natural follow on from On Reverence, and is deeply connected to joy, so… here we are. Wonder, like reverence, and grace, is hard to define. This is a particular problem in English as wonder means many things: one type of wonder links directly to awe, and another links to control, expectation, and fear,...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Reverence
December 12, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBToday, we meander On Reverence. We landed in this space unexpectedly in our previous PauseCast, when we explored On Worry, and Angie talked about how worry is a human response that takes us away from reverence. And reverence, well, last week Angie told us that “…reverence is a recognition of awe and wonder for all of life…” This week, she built on that saying that “…reverence is to see life as a gift… It is a mindset.” At its most basic, I think its a way of being open to the rawness of the ...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 2 with Dina Bell-Laroche
December 05, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBIn chapter two of Dina’s book, we’re looking at reconciling loss. We start with last month’s exercise to look at our loss maps, and my extrapolation out, looking at belonging. It’s a great example of how to do the exercise and apply the learning to our own lives. Dina tells us that reconciling loss is about reasserting harmony in our experience, and with the insight from my loss map, I find more harmony inside myself when issues of belonging come up. Belonging, and so much more, is part of t...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Worry
November 28, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBToday we meander around Worry… what it looks like, feels like, and how it connects to joy. To be honest, there seems like a lot to worry about these days, maybe it has always been this way, I can’t say. But today, today’s days feel heavy. In a nutshell, worry is about control of how we want things to be but are concerned that they won’t be. It’s about “should be” things… so, how do we find our way through this? How do I keep my heart open, no matter what is happening? It won’t surprise you...
Meander with Michelle Schafer
November 21, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBResilience... that's what lies at the heart of today's meander. Michelle is a career coach and what I noticed is how she used her recovery experience in her blog where she writes to people facing career transitions. “Find joy in the journey” is a guiding principle that helps her in both her life and her work. A big insight also came to her while she was in recovery – that people really did want to help her, all she had to do was make her needs known. In a very real way, asking for help, an...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Enough
November 14, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBToday’s PauseCast continues our dive into the bigger topic of Change. Last session we looked at abundance and scarcity, and we often see these two as opposites. But… the opposite of abundance isn’t scarcity, it’s actually Enough. At least we think so. This is a real wrestle folks… as we meandered around, we realized just how difficult a topic this is to get our arms around. How do we approach the concept of enough? How much enough is actually enough? And yes, Angie brought the movie “Willi...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 1, with Dina Bell-Laroche
November 07, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBIn this second episode in our book review, we look at chapter one, which is all about grappling with grief. The starting point is understanding that we all grapple in different ways. And that is absolutely as it should be. But most of us don’t know how we grapple, and don’t realize that others ways can be different. So that is where we start, and we meander from there. I hope you find this both helpful and informative. Invitations: Out of each episode this season, we are offering people wa...
Meander with Sound: Kayaking on Lac Monroe
October 31, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Abundance and Scarcity
October 24, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBToday’s topic is held in a bigger topic: On Change. Our more precise focus today is on abundance and scarcity and how it shows up in our lives. Abundance can be both joyful and a burden. It can mean safety and plenty of food, good health and social connection, many other things, but pushed too far, it becomes too much… a need for ever-more of whatever it is that makes us feel safe. Grasping. Taking more than our share. So, what if we redefine abundance? What if abundance, disconnected fro...
Meander with Leslie Rohonczy
October 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Leslie’s website, and her book: Coaching Life: Navigating Life's Most Common Coaching Topics Leslie’s YouTube Channel and her Song Stories Playlist. Played with permission in this episode, is her song Joy. Make sure you take some time and watch her uplifting video as well. She references “Bag of Stones Song Story” today and she tells the story of Jill Bolte Taylor’s TedTalk, a renown researcher on the brain, who she speaks about being aware of what was happening to h...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Perspective
October 10, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode, this launch into season four, we return to a grade school practice of sharing about our summer vacations, and then lay the table for where we plan to meander this year. And we dip our toes in the topic of perspective… from the point of view of an old apple tree that lives on Angie’s property at Big Stone House. Perspective, and wisdom, from a 100+ year old apple tree. I hope you enjoy this heart-swelling meander. Please, share our work widely, give us a review or a drop us ...
MwT: Grief Unleashed the Prelude Chapter with Dina Bell-Laroche
October 03, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBIn this first episode in our book review, we’re exploring the information in the Prelude of Dina’s book, “Grief Unleased: Moving from the hole in our hearts to wholehearted.” The Prelude sets the table for the book, sharing her “why” in writing…. which is to dispel the myths around grief, to demystify it in service of living a more full life, so we can better embody our experience and grow as a result of it. At the core, Dina knows that grief is an internal response to a severed attachment. ...
Meander with Me: Intro to fall 2023
September 26, 2023 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.03 MBEpisode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Sound: Thunderstorms at Mont Tremblant
September 19, 2023 04:00 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Sound: Active Surf of Lake Ontario
September 12, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBWe had a slow start to summer 2023 but we've made up for it with a very active August. Trips to Lac McGlashan, Toronto and a few other spots, with soundscapes for you here, fresh off the recorder! Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Sound: Returning to Lac McGlashan
September 05, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBI hope you enjoy this soundscape. I’ll be back to you with fresh interviews in the first week of October. In the meanwhile, happy September… a new time of rebirth in the cadence of our lives. Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander Again with Thérèse Boisclair
August 29, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Therese's FaceBook Instagram Her website
Meander Again with Margaret Anne Smith
August 22, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Visit Margaret Anne on Instagram And to see where she is teaching felting, visit the Saint John Arts Centre for her workshops David Whyte poetry and Three Sundays workshops and leadership coaching Canadian poet rupi kaur Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Thoughts and comments, send to [email protected]
Meander Again with Siobhan Arnott
August 15, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Siobhan mentioned two mentors: visual artist Michael Goodson and Ottawa School of Art printmaking teacher Robert Hinchley (visual artist), as well as a few of the artists who have inspired her approaches to art making: Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jane Ash Poitras (art: National Gallery of Canada, interview), and Delita Martin. Her exhibit of linocuts and installation art being held at the Lee Matasi Gallery, Ottawa School of Art. While the exhibit ends ...
Meander with Sound: A Walk on the Beach in Newfoundland
August 08, 2023 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.37 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander Again with Diane Merpaw
August 01, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBAs always, you can find more from me, including blog posts, at Chapman Coaching Inc. Diane would love you to join her on Facebook and Instagram! You can also see her beautiful creations on her website. Diane mentioned the work of Shiloh Sophia as pivotal to her artistic journey. Shiloh created a program called "Intentional Creativity" that helps people find their way into the soul of their art, and of themselves. And the creative writing class she mentioned is "Firefly Creative Writing"...
Meander Again with Lara Wellman
July 25, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Her company is called The Biz Studio. Her free FaceBook group is called Building Your Next Level Biz And her not-for-profit is called Kids in the Capital
Meander Again with Emily Chen
July 18, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBChapman Coaching Inc. mchen wears You can see more of her illustrations on her FaceBook page.
Meander Again: Bernard Funston, Guitar-maker
July 11, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Funston Guitars Guitar clip from Bernie’s site of Ottawa musician Al Brown testing one of Bernie’s creations Allen Sapp, Indigenous artist from North Battleford Saskatchewan is the artist that inspired 13 year old Bernie to paint Bernie mentioned listening to music as a child on legendary radio station 89 WLS in Chicago IL from his home in the North West Territories using “ionospheric bounce” Bernie apprenticed with renowned luthier Sergei de Jonge, in Chelsea, Qu...
Meander with Sound: Thunder and Rain
July 04, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBChapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Me! Wrapping up season 3
June 27, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBWe’ve covered a lot of ground what with my meanders with friends around joy in their lives, a deep dive into the Enneagram and another deep dive into the myths around grief. Whew, what a season it has been! I hope you’ve enjoyed it all; we’ve tried a few new things while still “colouring within the lines.” If there is something you liked or didn’t like, or would like me to explore next season, feel free to shoot me a note and I’ll consider it. Please share this podcast with your friends, dr...
Meander with Melissa Park
June 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBMelissa works in IT by day but has what she calls a “side hustle” helping people organize their homes… a thing she’s loved to do since she was a child. Organizing her family home brought her a sense of security and safety when she was a wee girl, and now she likes to help people create space for living, clearing away clutter and making space for life. Kind of a lovely thing, really. She also talks about her life growing up on Staten Island, yes, near to the Statue of Liberty that most peopl...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, how the Enneagram can change the world
June 13, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBToday we do a little recapping, and also reflect the Enneagram into our lives moving forward. How we can play with the characteristics of our type, and begin to learn how to choose how to respond to situations as opposed to simply react in our age-old way. This can create some unease in our relationships because we are acting outside of how others expect us to be… in our personal lives, and in our work lives too. In short, the Enneagram is both information (what’s my type, what are the gift...