The Kin Show

Today, I'm giving you  a book review / summary of What Happened to You?,  a book by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey. that blew my mind and helped me understand the neuroscience of trauma and suffering. Sounds dark, I know! But understanding these topics are my route to find healing, for myself and the people I love.LINKS mentioned during this episode:Book: What Happened to You? by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah WinfreySUPPORT the show?If you enjoyed the episode, I'd love it if you could show your support by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it. Email, text message, social media, whatever you prefer!You can also show your support by leaving a review on iTunes (★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

Welcome to episode 40 of the Kin podcast. On this episode, I discuss why I stopped drinking in September 2020. Truth be told, this is an episode about intentions and motivations disguised as an episode about alcohol.LINKS to support in case you are struggling with alcohol or substance abuse:National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismSAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

Welcome to episode 39 of the Kin podcast, all on capital s Suffering. QUOTES mentioned during this episode:“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.” — Victor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning “Our wounds, entrusted to the divine mercy, can become the stimulus to extraordinary growth.” - Rev. Cynthia Bourgeaut in Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

Welcome to episode 38 of the Kin podcast, all on self-worth. Thanks for tuning in to my rambles on life. I hope you perceive this episode as an invitation, not a criticism. As always, all my love to you.LINKS mentioned during this episode:Previous episode on self-worthSUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

Welcome to episode 37 of the Kin podcast. Thank you for listening in. :-)LINKS mentioned during this episode:Previous episode on post-weaning depression Previous episode on hyperemisis gravidarum SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

WELCOME to episode 36 of the Kin podcast.LINKS mentioned during this episode:Book: Happy Are You Poor on AmazonPrevious episode on Centering Prayer Previous episode on hyperemisis gravidarum My Goodreads profile SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

This is a podcast episode about Glennon Doyle's book Untamed.Read Untamed Learn more about author Glennon Doyle A huge thank you to Antonella Saravia for being on the show! Want to hear more from Antonella? You can find her at the following links:@tsaravia on InstagramPersonal blogQUOTES mentioned during this episode: “How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.” — C.S. Lewis “Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” — Glennon Doyle in UntamedLINKS mentioned during this episode:Book: Untamed on Amazon Previous episode on the Enneagram: One Test Worth Everything SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

A huge thank you to Ashlee Gadd for being on the show! Want to hear more from Ashley? You can find her at the following links:@ashleegadd on InstagramCoffee + CrumbsPersonal blogC+C Book: The Magic of MotherhoodLINKS mentioned during this episode:Harry Styles album Fine Line Taylor Swift album Lover Newsfeed Eradicator for Chrome and Firefox J. Crew Factory Slippers The kids toy we love: EzyRoller Enneagram account @JustMyEnneatype on InstagramBook: The Road Back To You Coffee + Crumbs podcast on Patreon Book: The Next Right Thing by Emily FreemanEssay: Momentum by Anna QuinlanEpisode on Process podcast: Serving others by creating with Ashlee Gadd QUOTES mentioned during this episode:"Create from love, not for love.""We grow with the damage, not with the years."SUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify

Thanks for tuning in to episode 33! Over six months since my last episode, I'm going to catch you up on what's been going on in my corner ... but more importantly, I'll tell you how I'm "turning on the light" during this COVID-19 darkness we have all been plunged into.LINKS mentioned during this episode:Episode about gratitude Episode about post-weaning depression Episode about pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum Father Richard Rohr's newsletter: Sign up Book: Miracles and Other Reasonable Things by Sarah BesseyBook: Untamed by Glennon DoyleQUOTES mentioned during this episode: "The darkness of the soul is no less spiritually punishing than is the loss of physical light to the psyche. We talk about faith but cannot really tolerate the thought of it. It’s light we want, not shadow, certainty not questions. The aphotic, the place without images, is no less an attack on faith and hope than those periods in life when nighttime brings nothing but unclarity, nothing but fear. Where am I going? the soul wants to know. When will this be over? the mind wants to know. How can I get out of this sightless place I’m in? the heart demands." — Sister Joan Chittister  “I wondered if my physical pain had been holding this despair at bay. Once my skeleton was healed, my soul finally was free to admit that she had taken a beating over these months as well.“ — Sarah Bessey “We’ve got to stop depending on other people or outside events to meet our needs. We need to reverse the flow and draw it from the inside out—based on the absolute union between God and the soul—instead of from the outside in.“ — Father Richard Rohr “We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by our sins (such as blindness, egocentricity, illusions, or pride).“ — Father Richard Rohr"Pray for the courage to admit that you are not fine. And that when you say those words aloud that you would be met by love and care. I pray that you would remain open to participating in your own healing, even if it comes to you in ways that you resent and fear at first. Just because it’s new to you doesn’t mean God isn’t already waiting there for you in the doctor’s office, in the therapist’s room, on the page, in the conversation, in the solitude. May you welcome the love of God to your most tender places." — Sarah Bessey “I can feel everything and survive. I can use pain to become.” — Glennon DoyleSUPPORT the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario and Tate Callejas for providing the music & intro for the Kin podcast! Check out Mario's music on Spotify.

Thanks for tuning in to episode 32! You might be thinking, "A Thanksgiving episode the week after the Thanksgiving holiday?" That's right, and there's good reason for it, too. Episode 32 is all about gratefulness: allowing it to spill over into the other 364 days of the year and also opening ourselves up to being thankful for the "bad" stuff in our lives.Links mentioned during this episode:Post I wrote in 2014: The undiscovered side of gratefulness Book: Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisQuotes mentioned during this episode: "You can tell a lot about a person by the way she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights." — Dr. Maya Angelou “We mature with the damage, not with the years.” — Anonymous“It’s not happy people that are grateful, it is grateful people who are happy.”Support the show?I'd so appreciate it if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin podcast! Check out his music on Spotify.

Thanks for tuning in to episode 31! I'm a bit behind on episodes because of a pesky cold, but I'll be up-to-date in a few days. For now, here's today's episode...Links mentioned during this episode: Photo of Juan José with the blue sunglasses Everyday Salt project I created with two of my best friendsArticle on NYTimes: At Goldman, He’s David Solomon. At the Club, He’s D.J. D-Sol. Harry Styles interview with Zane Lowe Kindred Spirits newsletter you can sign up for, if you'd likeQuotes mentioned during this episode: “Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen "You are not required to save the world, or anyone for that matter, with your art. It isn’t valuable only if it rescues or raises money or makes an enormous impact. It can be simply for the love of it. That is not frivolous or selfish in the slightest. If the only person it saves is you, that’s enough.” — Jen Hatmaker "Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes." — Khalil Gibran in his book, The Prophet “If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.” — Lily Tomlin “What a terrible waste of a life it is, to always take the easy path, to never know what it is to risk everything for what you love.” — Beau TaplinSupport the show?I'd be so grateful if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin podcast! Check out his music on Spotify

Thanks for tuning in to episode 30! My first real episode "back" from my HG break. It feels amazing to be behind the microphone again talking about my favorite topic: the intricacies of the human heart.Links mentioned during this episode:The Daily Meditations newsletter I read without fail, by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFMMy Instagram account: @kinthestudio Quotes mentioned during this episode: "It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" — Henry David Thoreau "To pray and actually mean 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must also be able to say 'my kingdoms go.'" — Fr. Richard Rohr, OFMSupport the show?I'd be so grateful if you'd show your support for the show by sharing this link with someone who might enjoy it on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (maybe a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others find and enjoy the show.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin podcast! Check out his music on Spotify

Thanks for tuning in to episode 29! It's been almost three months since my last episode, and today I'll explain why why I've been gone this long.Resources on hyperemesis gravidarum:HER FoundationAmerican Pregnancy Association Wikipedia (surprisingly good)BabycenterPrayer mentioned on the show:Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understanding, and all my will— all that I have and possess.You, Lord, have given all that to me.I now give it back to you, O Lord.All of it is yours.Dispose of it according to your will.Give me love of yourself along with grace,for that is enough for me.”Support the show?The best way you can support the show is by sharing this link to someone you know or on your favorite social media app.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (and hopefully a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

Thanks for tuning in to episode 28! This is a few days late because I was terribly sick last week with a nasty virus ... but I'm back! Alive and kicking! So, thanks for your patience. :-)Links mentioned throughout the show:Documentary: Minimalism (by the Minimalists) Book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Resources on minimalism:NoSidebar.comBecomingMinimalist.comTheMinimalists.comSupport the show?The best way you can support the show is by sharing this link to someone you know or on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (and hopefully a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

A huge thank you to Ashley Abramson for being on the show!Want to hear more from Ashley? You can find her at the following links:@ashleyabrmsn on InstagramContentlyWebsiteBlogIf you enjoyed this episode, hop on over to iTunes to give me a ★★★★★ review, which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

Thanks for tuning in to episode 26!Links mentioned throughout the show:Documentary: Won't You Be My Neighbor? Book: Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth Article: More on Sister Joan Chittister Quotes mentioned during the episode: "The contemplative life is not spiritual escapism." — Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. "And so must we do whatever justice must be done in our own time if we’re going to claim to be serious about really sinking into the heart of God." — Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. "If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear." — J.M. Barrie in his book, Peter Pan Support the show?The best way you can support the show is by sharing this link to someone you know or on your favorite social media channel.Another great way to show your support is by leaving a review on iTunes (and hopefully a ★★★★★ rating?), which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

A huge thank you to Josh Green and Liz Carver of JustMyEnneatype for being on the show!Check out their massively creative and popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype.Links mentioned throughout the show: Enneagram Institute (where you can take the test)Description of the Enneagram on Wikipedia The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Fr. Richard RohrFr. Richard Rohr's newsletter The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Suzanne Stabile & Ian Morgan CronAnd again, the Instagram account @JustMyEnneatype If you enjoyed this episode, hop on over to iTunes to give me a ★★★★★ review, which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

Things mentioned throughout this episode: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, S.J. "Instructions for living a life.Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.”― Mary OliverIf you enjoyed this episode, hop on over to iTunes to give me a ★★★★★ review, which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show and to his wife Tate for the intro! Check out Mario's music on Spotify.

A huge thank you to Shannon Evans for being on the show!Want to hear more from Shannon? You can find her at the following links:@shannonkevans on InstagramEmbracing Weakness book on AmazonWebsiteBlogLinks mentioned throughout the show: My Life with the Saints by James Martin, S.J. One Beautiful Dream by Jennifer FulwilerShannon's book Embracing Weakness on Amazon Enneagram InstituteIf you enjoyed this episode, hop on over to iTunes to give me a ★★★★★ review, which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show! Check out his music on Spotify.

Quotes mentioned throughout this episode: "The closer to God one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes." — St. Therese of Avila "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." — ShakespeareMy article from 2013: What breaks your heart? The Sure-Fire Way to Find Your PassionIf you enjoyed this episode, hop on over to iTunes to give me a ★★★★★ review, which will help others like you find and enjoy the show, as well.Special thanks to Mario Callejas for providing the music for the Kin show and to his wife Tate for the intro! Check out Mario's music on Spotify.