HeyJaredMaking Meaning: Deep Conversations on Life, Purpose, and The Human Experience
Why are we here? What's the meaning of life? What's the meaning of your life? Exploring these mysteries often results in more questions than you began with. So how do we move forward living meaningful lives? Making Meaning by The Cohere Collective explores this exact question.
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Finding the Lesson in Every Trigger: You Owe it to Yourself to Heal with Tracy Smaldino (opens the original)
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Trauma is something we all experience and are called to integrate and grow through, and no one’s journey exemplifies this strength of the human spirit more than Tracy Smaldino. ****CW: SA, Physical Trauma, Car Accidents A near-death auto accident at 12, group sexual assault at 15, and a lifetime of repression and suppression led Tracy to a moment where she realized it was time to start living life on her terms. From meditation and reflection to MDMA therapy, Tracy has dedicated her life to herse
The Intersection of Grief and Growth: Holding Pain to Create Healing with Angela Clement and Kevin Hughes (opens the original)
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It’s difficult to be told, or to tell ourselves, “everything happens for a reason.” Not only can it undermine and invalidate our feelings, it can also unhealthily minimize extremely tragic events and experiences. Conversely, grief is often looked at as a set back in our lives, but what are the ways that grief and other hardships actually support our personal growth and spiritual evolution? There has to be a middle ground between looking at life’s most difficult experiences as purely constructive
From Half Half Cakes to Whole Lives: Redefining Success and Presence with Jim Sabellico (opens the original)
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On his son’s 6th birthday, Jim came home late from work to find half of a birthday cake, presents already opened, and the realization that everything he had been taught and believed about success led him to act in contradiction to who he wanted to be. Throughout his life, Jim worked tirelessly to provide for his family, and though he provided financially, he realized he wasn’t providing the most important aspects of parenthood; patience and time, a strong example of healthy masculinity, and pres
The Sacred Art of Hunting: A Journey of the Land and the Self with Christie Green (opens the original)
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Christie Green is the author of Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food and Freedom published by The University of New Mexico Press (UNMP) in 2024. Christie is a land and water steward, landscape architect, local food activist, educator and hunter which attracts passionate audiences in these fields. She represents a fundamental missing bridge between polarized audiences and cultural extremes. During our conversation, Christie and I discussed the ethics of food consumerism, feminist hunting prac
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