RETHINKING IT
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsConversations about changing our minds, hosted by mindfulness and mindset coach, Stephanie Kirylych. RETHINKING IT is focused on looking back at moments from our lives and forgiving ourselves for not knowing more or doing better. In these conversations, Stephanie and her guests explore how their behaviors, beliefs, and minds have changed, identify the places where they still have work to do and give themselves [and you!] permission to continue to grow and learn and rethink it all.
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16 | Rethinking Lyme Disease
May 31, 2020 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBMay is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and I am so happy to share this conversation with Courtney Schutze from Splash of Lyme. Courtney is hosting her second Crushing Lyme awareness campaign this month. In this discussion we discuss Courtney's journey to a diagnosis of chronic Lyme, how it has changed her life, and how tools like journaling, meditation, and acceptance have supported her healing. Lyme disease is often overlooked and misrepresented. I so admire people like Courtney who ...
Rethinking how to truly let it out with Katie Dalebout
March 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBI love this episode because it's two friends just talking about our lives. Katie and I explore our complicated relationships with social media, why mental health matters, and how we're both trying to live less in our heads and more in our bodies. This episode is brought to you by Let [a podcast] Out - Katie's DIY podcasting workshop. I created RETHINKING IT because of Let [a podcast] Out. By the end of the workshop, my first three episodes were recorded, edited, and released! I was...
14 | Rethinking wholeness + illness with Hilary Pearlson
May 24, 2019 16:02 - 1 hour - 136 MB"I have chronic illness and this is my normal. And that's okay." Hilary Pearlson is sharing her journey through a bone marrow transplant and healing from Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. Together we explore how to let go of our old lives and dreams and routines in order to surrender to the reality of living with chronic illnesses. Chronic illness doesn't have to mean that we can't live a whole and full life. It means, though, that we have to rethink what wholeness looks like for us given the ...
13 | Rethinking the promise of a diagnosis
May 09, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 75.2 MBIt wasn’t until the doctor told me that my illness was incurable and untreatable that I realized how much I was clinging to the hope of a “cure” for whatever was wrong with me. In this episode of RETHINKING IT, I am opening up about my recent health diagnosis and how it is forcing me to rethink my journey and what health and wholeness will look like for me. Closing music: Moby Long Ambients1 Calm. Sleep. | Track LA1 My writing on chronic illness
12 | Rethinking grief and loss with Lisa Nagel
April 18, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBIn this episode, I explore grief and loss with Lisa Nagel. Our shared intention for this conversation is to support anyone moving through grief and to create the space to invite healing. Lisa shares so many insights around the grief process, how our society treats loss and grief, and what she means when she says that grief is an invitation. She also helps me rethink how I look at self-care by sharing a question she asks herself and her clients. It completely changed my approach to c...
11 | Rethinking self-love with Jennifer O'Neill
February 07, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIn this episode, Jennifer O'Neill and I are tackling the concept of self-love. So often we think self-love is the all or nothing, romanticized concept that we see on social media. Jennifer and I disagree and are sharing our versions of self-love and self-acceptance relating to body image, chronic illness, and work. In my conversation with Jennifer, we share personal stories about rethinking our relationship to self-love. Self-love isn't about slapping an affirmation on top of our s...
10 | Body scan meditation
January 24, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBIn this episode I guide you through one of my favorite meditations for relaxation - a body scan. This is a great meditation to practice before bed or whenever you need to reconnect to yourself, your breath, and your body. Music: Moby Long Ambients1 Calm. Sleep. | Track LA7
09 | Rethinking our relationship with alcohol with Ruby Warrington
January 10, 2019 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBI'm kicking off the new year and season 2 of RETHINKING IT with a really engaging conversation with Ruby Warrington. Ruby just released her second book, Sober Curious, and together we share our personal experiences with alcohol, talk about the reasons we drank, feeling like not drinking wasn't even an option in a world that normalizes alcohol, and how being sober curious allowed us to be more present in our lives and stop hiding and get comfortable in our own skin by having sober fi...
08 | Rethinking our relationship with food with Isabel Foxen Duke
November 29, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSeason One Finale! Do you ever feel crazy around food? Like find yourself standing with the freezer door open eating ice cream as fast as you can because tomorrow you "can't" have the ice cream crazy around food? Or maybe you're always stressing about what you "should" eat or determining your worth based on what you did eat? Today's guest, Isabel Foxen Duke can help. She is on a mission to help you stop feeling crazy around food. In this episode we dig into why we even feel crazy...
07 | Rethinking activism, community, and what it takes to live a peaceful life
November 01, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBIn this week's episode Stephanie talks to Michelle Maros, mindfulness expert and co-founder and creative director of Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering inner peace, wellness, and equality. In our conversation we rethink activism, politics, and how to truly live a peaceful life. Michelle shares about her journey to Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life, what it's like to work with her mother (aka Peaceful Barb), and how the Parkland school tragedy l...
06 | Rethinking our goals
October 18, 2018 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week it's just me and you. I share a recent experience when I achieved a goal and realized that I actually didn't really want it anymore. It's an important reminder to check-in with yourself along the way to your goal to see if you still want it and why you're working toward it. I think it is important to allow yourself to change your mind. And follow your dreams. And live your life. And be enough as is. But sometimes those things are at odds with each other. In this episode ...
05 | Rethinking work you love with Aileen Axtmayer
October 04, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBIn this episode, Stephanie is talking with holistic career and coach, Aileen Axtmayer. Aileen shares her values, interests, personality, and skills (VIPS) model for finding work you love and how our health, happiness, and careers are intertwined. Aileen is Stephanie's career coach on speed dial and has helped her finally find work she loves. In their conversation, Aileen and Stephanie explore the messages they received about work growing up. Both share their personal journeys with...
04 | Rethinking me
September 20, 2018 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode Stephanie shares her story of identifying the stories she told herself - about herself - and how she worked to rewrite them. Links: Learn more about Stephanie Stephanie's health journey 30 ways to self-care
03 | Rethinking chronic illness with Emily Aube
September 06, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBEmily Aube, holistic life coach specializing in nervous system health, and Stephanie are rethinking chronic illness in this week's episode. They get real about their own, ever-changing, journeys with invisible illnesses. They talk about the part of the journey that often gets glossed over - the middle. We often hear about the beginning and the end of illness but we try to forget the middle because it's often hard and painful and all-consuming. Emily and Stephanie are in the middle a...
02 | Rethinking the "good girl" with Ashley Watson
August 24, 2018 00:32 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThis week Stephanie is talking to therapist and relationship coach, Ashley Watson. We're rethinking what it means to be a "good girl" and how we define our enoughness. We also talk love and Ashley shares how putting yourself in an adult timeout might be the key to a successful relationship. Ashley and Stephanie discuss how to prioritize relationships while also not losing sight of your own identity. We share how we navigate disagreements in our relationships [both successfully and ...
01 | Rethinking diet culture, feelings, and perfectionism with Simi Botic
August 10, 2018 00:28 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBI met Simi at Katie Dalebout's book launch for Let it Out: A Journey through Journaling. I knew immediately that Simi was someone special and we instantly connected. In December, Simi released her first book, Letting Go of Leo: How I Broke Up with Perfection. It's fitting that Simi is the first guest on Rethinking it because her book was a major factor in me moving from talking about starting a podcast to actually starting a podcast. In this episode, we look back at the moments in ...