As I grew from boyhood into manhood, I was handed a set of cultural beliefs that told me to go it alone, never ask for help, and to prove my manliness at every turn. Today, I'm here to call bullsh*t on all that.
A few doses of "Condensed Intimacy"
The word "tension" has been on my mind lately. Summertime often leads me to look at the tension between the time I put into my work and time spent resting, relaxing, and playing. Of course, I feel the tension that seems to be continually tightening around the political, climate, and economic realms here in the U.S. and around the world. I'm also in the middle of a 6-month course where I'm learning about somatic meditation practices and how to understand the way energy moves through my body. Or more to the point, how my body builds up tension when I don't let energy move through it. Over the past several weeks, I've been practicing how to release tension using some simple and powerful techniques. It feels amazing. So much so that I decided I wanted to give you an easy way to check it out for yourself via this short video: Did you try that out? Do you feel a little less tense? I hope so! Ok... let's do a speed round on this past month's episodes and how they help us understand where tension comes from to begin with and what else we can do with it. Starting with... Want to join the conversation? Or maybe explore other resources I have to offer to help you leverage the power of intimacy? Grab some time on my calendar--these are my favorite topics to talk about. New episodes will be dropping weekly at: https://www.thecenteredcoach.com/podcast.
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Jim Young
As I grew from boyhood into manhood, I was handed a set of cultural beliefs that told me to go it alone, never ask for help, and to prove my manliness at every turn. Today, I'm here to call bullsh*t on all that.
Condensed Intimacy - September 2023 Dispatches from the Expansive Intimacy podcast September brought many things--including my birthday. For one thing, I got to share an episode about the gifts of intimacy on my big day. Even better than that? I had three expert guests from very different walks of life join me in revealing how intimacy is a universal solution to what we need in the world. Before she hopped over to be on The Today Show, I got to interview Dr. Neha Sangwan. Neha is a two-time...
Condensed Intimacy - August 2023 Dispatches from the Expansive Intimacy podcast I didn't expect or plan for the words "power" and "courage" to be so prominent when I started a podcast on, of all things, intimacy. But the answers sometimes reveal themselves before we even know the questions to ask. And of course it now makes sense that those words would accompany a term that can be downright terrifying due to its powerful implications. To reveal ourselves intimately to another person--to share...