Latest Meander Podcast Episodes
Meander Again: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 2 with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - July 16, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutesIn 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 l...
Meander Again: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 1, with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - July 09, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutesIn 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 w...
Meanderings with Trudy, Kayak on Canada Day
Meanderings with Trudy - July 05, 2024 04:00 - 9 minutesCanada Day is a delight here in the Great White North… the first heat of summer hits us, hard, and we settle into the dog days of summer, which are often too few but usually well appreciated. On this Canada Day, I went for a kayak with my brother Steve on a tributary of the Ottawa River. Green’...
Meander Again: Grief Unleashed the Prelude Chapter with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - July 02, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutesIn 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 dem...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet" Chapter 10: Feasting
Meanderings with Trudy - June 25, 2024 04:00 - 24 minutesFeasting… author Martha Beck tells us that feasting has three essential elements: celebration, nourishment and gratitude. That’s what we talk about today in this final episode of the book, and of this 2024 spring season. I will be on break until October, but offering a “Meander Again” set of ep...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet" Chapter 9: Connection
Meanderings with Trudy - June 18, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutesConnection! This is the chapter where I really feel like the rubber hits the road. We see how the practices support us in our relationship with ourselves, and then we can apply these skills to our relationships in the bigger world. That’s what we cover in this next to final chapter in the book. ...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet" Chapter 8: Laughter
Meanderings with Trudy - June 11, 2024 04:00 - 9 minutesLaughter! That’s the focus of today’s meander, as we explore the third last chapter in Martha Beck’s book, “The Joy Diet: 10 daily practices for a happier life.” We visit a laughter yoga class from 2023 on Australia’s sunshine coast and hear from two laughter yoga teachers about the benefits of ...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Postlude, with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - June 04, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutesIn our final meander together with Dina, we explore the final chapter in “Grief Unleashed: Moving from the hole in our hearts to wholehearted.” This Postlude explores the work that Dina is confidently and humbling stepping into, the work of a Grief Doula, which she defines as companioning people...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet" Chapter 7: Play
Meanderings with Trudy - May 28, 2024 04:00 - 24 minutesIn this chapter on play, I feel like I have really “shown my work.” I liked this chapter, and the invitation to make all that you do in your life feel like play. The exercises are great, and I walk through my answer to what my real career actually is and if I am living into that in my every day....
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 6: Treats
Meanderings with Trudy - May 21, 2024 04:00 - 12 minutesTreats! Everyone loves treats... and they can be a crucial tool in supporting you in the joy diet. They can help offset the inner challenge of taking a risk, and they can reinforce good habits. I hope you enjoy this meander as I share some of the things that I think of as "treats." It's more th...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 5: Risk
Meanderings with Trudy - May 14, 2024 04:00 - 13 minutesAs the saying goes, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Risk is the pathway through something that you fear, which paradoxically, helps you grow. Risk is a skill you can practice, and this chapter helps you find your way through. I hope you’ll enjoy this episode. Please, share my work widely, ...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 5 with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutesIn chapter five of Dina’s book, we’re looking at the gifts that come out of embodying our grief, of healing the wounds in a healthy way. I found this chapter a wonderful way of pulling together all the threads of learning in this book. In fact, the invited homework from the previous chapter on c...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet" Chapter 4: Creativity
Meanderings with Trudy - April 30, 2024 04:00 - 16 minutesCreativity is this week’s focus in chapter 4 of “The Joy Diet.” I found this chapter really helpful and I encourage you to grab a pen and a piece of paper so you too can work through the exercises she offers. She doesn’t as much talk about creativity as much as invite you into a few practices th...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 3: Desire
Meanderings with Trudy - April 23, 2024 04:00 - 22 minutesAs 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 mor...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 2: Truth
Meanderings with Trudy - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutesAs 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 do...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 2 Truth
Meanderings with Trudy - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutesAs 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 do...
Meanderings with Trudy, Sound from the 2024 Solar Eclipse
Meanderings with Trudy - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 5 minutesI 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 l...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," Chapter 1: Nothing
Meanderings with Trudy - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutesAs 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 d...
Meanderings with Trudy, "The Joy Diet," chapter 1: Nothing
Meanderings with Trudy - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutesAs 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 d...
Meanderings with Trudy: Studying Joy, chapter by chapter
Meanderings with Trudy - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutesAs 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 d...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 4, with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - April 02, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutesIn 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. Conti...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Change
Meanderings with Trudy - March 26, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutesChange 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...
Meander with the Salmon Stream, a soundscape
Meanderings with Trudy - March 19, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutesI 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 beaut...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Returning, and other Rs
Meanderings with Trudy - March 12, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutesToday, 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...
MwT: Grief Unleashed Chapter 3 with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - March 05, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutesIn 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 appre...
Meander with Me in the forest!
Meanderings with Trudy - February 27, 2024 05:00 - 11 minutesI 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 "tw...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, how the Enneagram can change the world
Meanderings with Trudy - February 20, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutesToday 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 rela...
Meander with the Wind
Meanderings with Trudy - February 15, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutesChapman 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
Meanderings with Trudy - February 13, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourSoulfulness…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...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on expectations and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - February 06, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutesWe 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 th...