Ep 56 – Stage One – Trusting Your River
A Stage One teaching on how to trust the river of your life, the universe or the divine, moving beyond the phrase ‘let go and let God’ with concrete exercises and practical advice.
Ep 55 – Complete Connection Means Connecting Deeply To The Bad Stuff Too
A teaching for more advanced students on the common mistake of pushing away difficult feelings, and why and how to connect deeply with the memories and situations you have avoided so they can pass in peace.
Ep 54 – Chaos And Order In Your Physical Space
A discussion of the effect of chaos versus order in the home and office, and how to create a sanctuary of peace that supports your self-development efforts.
Ep 53 – Attachment Is Expectation And Useful Life Hacks For Retraining Your Brain And Avoiding Attention Overwhelm
A teaching on recognizing and eliminating attachment by spotting the expectations beneath it, plus practical ideas for retraining the brain with spaced repetition and avoiding attention overwhelm.
Ep 52 – How People Create Meaning – Rituals Ceremonies Body Positions Hand Gestures And More
A discussion of how people create meaning through rituals, ceremonies, body positions, hand gestures and candles, and how to design your own for prayer and meditation routines.
Ep 51 – Stage One – Decluttering Your Time And Attention
A Stage One teaching on the first step of decluttering your time and attention as a foundational move toward self-understanding.
Ep 50 – Perfect Is A Nonexistent Destination But Amazing Is A Blissful Journey
A podcast episode contrasting the pursuit of perfection—an ever-moving future target—with reaching for amazing, a metric-driven appreciation of the present moment, and why the latter turns self-development into a more satisfying and achievable journey.
Ep 49 – Connection Is Not Attachment Plus Why To Start At Stage One
A podcast episode distinguishing genuine connection from attachment and how to recognize the difference, plus why skipping tasks in the early stages of the self-development roadmap breeds attachment—and why Kathryn recommends beginning at Stage One.
Ep 48 – Complete Connection To Your Partner [NSFW]
An explicit (NSFW) podcast episode on deepening partner connection across seven areas, with substantial discussion of sexual practices intended to increase emotional, intellectual, and physical intimacy, framed as essential to true partnership.
Ep 47 – The Truth In Dichotomy, Accessing The Infinite Peace Inside You And Practcal Hacks For Letting Go Into Deeper Meditations
A multi-topic podcast episode on how spotting dichotomy often reveals truth, how to physically access inner peace at the lower dantian, and practical techniques for letting go into deeper meditation amid everyday stress.
Ep 46 – Why We Are Prone To Self Sabotage And How To Use It To Your Advantage
A podcast episode exploring why humans carry both an innate drive to grow and an inner negative voice that sabotages that growth, and how to redirect that voice to your advantage and weaken it over time.
Ep 45 – Audience Questions About Dealing With Family
A podcast episode devoted entirely to audience questions about navigating family dynamics, prompted by a wave of holiday-season conflicts, offering perspective and practical approaches for dealing with difficult family relationships.
Ep 44 – Spiritual Fatigue And Needing A Break From All That Self Development Plus How To Recognize Burnout And Avoid Self Sabotage During Your Breaks
A podcast episode on spiritual fatigue and the need to periodically pause intense self-development, how to recognize burnout, and how to avoid self-sabotage and backsliding while taking a genuine break to live your life.
Ep 43 – Kathryn Is Taking Four Students In 2019 – Sign Up Now To Get To Stage 11 By November
A podcast episode announcing an experimental 2019 coaching program in which Kathryn personally guides four students through the self-development roadmap to Stage Eleven by year’s end, with a January 15th sign-up deadline.
Ep 42 – An Experiment With Samyama And The Writings Of Yogani
A podcast episode of commentary on Kathryn’s own experimentation with Samyama and the meditation writings of Yogani, covering manifestation, the structure of a solid daily practice, tantra, and related meditation techniques.
Ep 41 – Complete Connection – A Roadmap For Self Development And Finding Peace
A podcast episode introducing a roadmap for accelerating personal evolution through eleven distinct stages of being human, including tasks, recommended reading, precautions, and reflective questions to guide the journey toward self-development and peace.
Ep 40 – Impulse Versus Compelling And How To Spot The Difference
A podcast episode examining the grey area between impulse and compulsion—how to tell whether you are being genuinely moved by your soul or merely rationalizing an impulse you will later regret.
Ep 39 – The Importance Of Cultivating Boredom And An Audience Question On Spotting The Difference Between Struggling And Needing To Be Patient
A podcast episode on the value of deliberately cultivating boredom for creativity and self-development, what we habitually reach for when bored, and an audience question on distinguishing struggling against your path from simply needing patience.
Ep 38 – You Cannot Cure Suffering By Suffering, What To Do Instead And An Audience Question On When To Speak Up And When To Walk Away
A podcast episode on the trap of feeling undeserving of your own good life because others suffer, why you cannot cure suffering by suffering and what to do instead, plus an audience question on when to speak up and when to walk away.
Ep 37 – How To Stop Letting Worry About Your Kids Dominate Your Life And THE Perspective That Solves It
A podcast episode focused on chronic worry about one’s children, offering a shift in perspective combined with discipline to stop that worry from dominating daily life and to reclaim a sense of freedom.
Ep 36 – Your Favorite Misery, Addiction To Worry And How To Connect To Yourself To Stop
A podcast episode on naming your favorite negative emotion, the cathartic and addictive nature of worry and similar feelings, and how connecting to yourself can break the cycle.
Ep 35 – Oneness And Aloneness Plus Growth Through Challenge Versus Suffering
A podcast episode on the interdependent relationship between feeling at one and feeling alone, and a challenge to the belief that growth requires suffering—outlining, with examples, what an effective growth experience actually needs.
Ep 34 – Achieving Impossible Goals And Dealing With The People Who Discourage Them
A podcast episode on why impossible goals are worth pursuing and how to achieve them by breaking them into smaller, immediate goals and benefits, plus how to handle the people—including yourself—who discourage big ambitions.
Ep 33 – Tuning In – The Neuroscience Of Reading People Through Voice And Writing
A podcast episode on the neuroscience of listening—how our brains mimic a speaker’s neural patterns and brainwaves through voice and writing—and how what we choose to tune in to reshapes our own minds.
Ep 32 – The Capacity To Love And Be Loved – How To Assess Others And Grow Your Own Capacity
A podcast episode on the capacity to love and be loved, arguing that those who act unloving may lack the capacity to love others beyond how they love themselves, and how to use this to assess yourself and others and further your growth.