Talking Joy - The Podcast

Pam leads a discussion about thoughtful decision making and leveraging intuition. Pam believes that discernment is about praying, listening, evaluating, sifting through possibilities, and then taking action.

Invite the childlike side of you to come out this summer! Pam and the Talking Joy Team invite us to become freer and more engaged with our kids. Try taking your shoes off, go for a gratitude walk or try sliding down the water slide at the pool. Often, we let everyday tasks get in the way of living the simple pleasures of the summer months. Take a listen and get inspired to go out and make lasting memories with the ones you love.

Anything that is fed energy will grow! The Talking Joy Team explores 5 exercises from the book, How To Train A Wild Elephant. "A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it."

Pam sent a journaling prompt every morning for 7 days to the Talking Joy Podcast team before they met for this recording. In this episode, we gathered the graces of this meaningful spiritual practice. Here are some suggestions: Jo-Ellen Darling in her book, Journaling as a Spiritual Path says, “make a commitment to try to journal every day even if you only have a couple of minutes, and even if you can only muster a sentence or two. Record the date and anything you notice upon waking, or from your previous day, or what lies ahead today.”

Inspired by Anne Sussman’s book, the Bliss Buddy Project, How Sharing Gratitude Increases Joy the team paired up and tried out the practice. Take a listen and see how sharing your everyday joys with someone helps keeps you accountable (we weren’t always consistent and that’s ok—it is all part of the practice and can make all the difference in your quest for joy!

Join the Talking Joy Team for a Guided Visualization Meditation followed by a great discussion! Seven Women Exploring the Spiritual Life Together!

Pam Robertson and Talking Joy's Ariane Pfaff discuss the transition from quarantine back into the business of our daily life. This past year we were forced to slow down and enjoy the simplicity of life, in nature, in our homes, and with our families. Hold on to the lessons you learned about yourself.

What will you say yes to this summer? What will you do to protect your peace of mind? Maybe it starts by not doing everything on your to-do list. Listen to how you can protect your internal pace and protect the ways you changed for the better.

Together we will look back over the last 24 hours with the prayer of examen. You can do this guided meditation any time of the day, then perhaps you can journal or jot down notes to reflect upon later. Discovering who I am and how to be more like myself.

The Talking Joy Team gets together to talk about sweet memories from childhood. A mother’s touch, the time we spent together, and how we felt loved with the homemade lunches and kisses.

We are listening to spring! A favorite time of year – a season of awakening, new life, and new beginnings. It is also a changing season, often reflecting the ongoing transformation of our souls. Join the Talking Joy Team for a listening practice that will help you awaken to spring after the long winter months.

Pam invites us to listen to a prayer by Thomas Merton followed by group discussion. Listen to how these moms are finding ways to help themselves and their kids navigate quarantine--one year later. It is wearing on all of us. Our conversation is a reminder that we are more alike than un-alike. Take a listen.

The Talking Joy Team of 7 is back together for a mediation and discussion on loving kindness--towards yourself, those you love, the person you feel ambivalent about, and that person you struggle with. Join us for a simple mediation followed by an inspiring conversation. Learn how these small intentions can overflow into your everyday life and change how you think, feel and live. Joy is sure to follow!

Pam says that when someone you know is grieving, don’t underestimate a small gesture of love or kindness. Threaded together they can be a lifeline for someone - just being there for them is needed most.

Together with Customer Experience Leader, Stacy Sherman, we talk about juggling work and kids from home during the pandemic. In addition, two young moms, Kelly Haire and Lindsey Garibaldi join the conversation and share some of the challenges they face and what they have discovered about themselves during the pandemic—they are stronger than they thought and have tapped into some inner resources that offered much needed resilience for these uncertain times.

What to do when you get that call from the school letting you know someone in your daughter’s class has tested positive for Covid? Suddenly your freedom is taken away again…you can’t see your friends, you cant go to school, no sports, Halloween, etc. This can leave us feeling shamed and pressured by other parents.

Are you walking around angry and resentful about life, current events? In this episode, we offer tips and ways to help you make better decisions. How we react in the moment when things aren’t going our way is an important noticing. If you can muster a “pause” in order to get clarity it will shift your reaction and help you move from chaos to clarity.

The Tapestry of Friendship - Friendships can be complicated. There is the Hi-Bye friend, the regular friend, and true soul friends, our besties who drive all night to scoop us up off the bathroom floor when our world is falling apart. Take a listen to the talking joy team as we come to understand the value theses different types of friendships bring to our lives.

Do you want to live a longer, happier, and healthier life? Let’s talk about ways that we can do just that! The Talking Joy Team discusses four key points from the book - UnDo It! by Dr. Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish.*Anne Ornish is Talking Joy Team member Katie’s step-sister!

As seen on the Oprah Soul Series, learn how simple lifestyle changes can REVERSE most chronic diseases if we eat ell, move more, stress less, love more.
Click here to watch: http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/dean-and-anne-ornish

In this episode, Pam asks her team, what is the one thing you get to do every day that makes you happy?" During our conversation today, we found that it is the simplest of things that make our days joyful. If we can pause just long enough to notice when someone smiles at us, expresses gratitude or how we feel in our bodies after working out at the Bar Method (Summit) These simple things are all that is needed to live a happy life.

It's been a month since our team checked in during our ten week quarantine in NJ. There is quite a contrast between these two podcasts. In the first one, everyone has mostly positive comments about slowing down and actually feels a little guilty about it. In this episode, there are many more struggles. I am sure you can relate, life has become a roller coaster of emotions.

The Talking Joy team goes Zoom! Since we can’t be together in person to record our podcasts, we thought we would check-in on Zoom to see how everyone is doing. Today we are talking about family togetherness and finding hope and comfort in the slowing down during the pandemic.

Twice as beautiful on the inside, Talking Joy team member, Jennifer gets personal about some big life transitions she is experiencing.

Feeling fearful? Today we offer helpful strategies you can start using now.

"Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into prison and slams the doors." ~Max Lucado

Self-compassion or loving-kindness skills - we are not born with them, they are a practice. During our time together we will talk about how we strengthen those skills.

During this podcast Pam talks about mindful parenting. She says to be kind. Your actions matter. How you make people feel matters. Our kids mirror everything they see us do. If you give generously, your children will grow up and be generous people.

During this podcast, Pam continues the conversation about Loving Kindness in the YEAR OF YOU. During our time together we will talk about random acts of kindness given to you by a stranger. Do you remember how good that feels?

Why is it so hard to extend the same kindness to ourselves that many of us gladly offer to others? Pam recently declared 2020 the year of YOP--the year of Pam. Make 2020 the year of YOU! You can start doing this by practicing self-compassion. Pam says that you can’t drink from an empty cup and practicing self-care isn't selfish--it's self-compassion. This practice helps us find the balance, peace, and joy we are looking for.

As a companion, today we are talking about the 10 Simple Spiritual Activities for Self-Care That You Can Begin Today by Spiritual Fit Club.  

Today Pam is beginning the talk with a parable, Useful Brokenness. Often it is in our brokenness that we can find the beauty in our flaws which can then turn into gifts.

How confident are you? In this podcast, we are talking about tips for redirecting our thoughts and paying attention to what we say to ourselves and our reaction to how others treat us.

Recently, Pam was asked to write up a list of things that elevate her vibration. During the podcast she shares some of her favorite things such as building an alter, her love of orchids and the spray she uses to clear her home and office space.