114. Wanting Vs. Having or the Pleasure of De...

Does receiving feedback make you spiral into shame, anxiety, or self-doubt? In this Coaching Hotline episode, I answer a listener who struggles to separate her self-worth from professional critique. You'll hear why those intense feelings are actually avoided emotions showing up, ...  Show more

If you’ve ever eaten a sandwich when you really wanted dumplings, turned down help you needed, or stayed silent in a meeting because it felt safer to bite your tongue, listen in. Your brain focuses on the short-term pain of asking for what you want and the anxiety or shame that f ...  Show more

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This week is allll about desire. Childhood trauma doesn't allow much wiggle room for creativity, desire, and dreaming up what we actually want to do in our lives. Listen to today's episode where I break down why your desires are important and so so so w ...

Do you ever desire something and then think you shouldn't or that you don't want to? I can be frustrating when that happens and to make matters worse, it's not going to change your desire. So in this episode, I want to help you to stop judging your desires and stop shaming you ...

Desire can feel like an itch we’re desperate to scratch, promising satisfaction but leaving us restless. In this episode of Radio Headspace, Dora explores how craving shows up in meditation and daily life, and shares gentle mindfulness practices to observe desire without being ru ...  Show more

2010-05-12 - While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that ...  Show more