HeyJaredThe Stories That Sparkle
Shining a light on the disco ball of life so our stories sparkle in the dark.
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From Podcast to Road Trip: Chasing Women’s Stories (opens the original)
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What happens when you stop waiting for the perfect setup and drive across the country with a car, two mics, and a mission?To mark the one-year anniversay of the Discoball Tour, I am joined by my dear friend and guest host Laura Sweeney (writer, actor, and director of the documentary short Tiny Movements) who asked me how I turned a dream into a 30-day, nearly 5,000-mile journey to record 18 women’s stories in person. Totgether we explore the deeper stakes behind the project: fear, shame, anxiety
Room for the Good (opens the original)
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I had a whole plan for today’s post. First, to keep it simple because I’m leaving today for a ten-day road trip. Then I changed it to something more involved. And then I changed it again. Next thing I knew, it turned into a convoluted, complicated mish mosh of words and phrases that tried to do too much and say too many things. My head hurt. My eyelids drooped. And my whole body felt exhausted.I was forcing something instead of following the ease.The Stories That Sparkle is a reade
Unbind It (Patricia’s Story) (opens the original)
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Patricia Dalen, LMHC, CCEP, is a psychotherapist and Certified Core Energetics Practitioner who integrates relational psychotherapy with somatic and experiential approaches. Her work has a particular focus on chronic shame and the ways it can hide beneath anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, withdrawal, and the fear of being seen. Drawing on both clinical practice and her own lived exploration of shame, Patricia helps people understand the protective patterns held in mind and body and move t
Not Fully Baked (opens the original)
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At exactly 11:11am (you cannot make that up) Sunday morning, my friend, whom I have known since Kindergarten (which translates to about 50 years) pulled into my driveway. We have not seen each other in what feels like years, and she made the 1.5 hour drive to see me. To say that I was excited would be an understatement. Not just because I would get to spend time with her, but also because we would do that in the space I live in.Which is why, the minute I saw her car pull into the driveway, I flu
Connection Lost (opens the original)
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It is Thursday, 6:46pm. I am hunched over my desk, running several queries on Terminal (a tool on my computer) to dig into why one of my email accounts is not communicating with the server. With my queries to the help desk on one screen and the code I am running on the other screen, I go deeper and deeper down the IT rabbit hole. And the symbol next to my inbox, a grey exclamation mark within a grey outline triangle, persists. It lets me know, in no uncertain terms, that despite my many attempts
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