Send us a textTaking time away, especially time away abroad, can feel impossible when we consider our busy, demanding lives. But if all we are is busy and in-demand, are we really experiencing life?Today, I’m joined by Jane Reeves, and we discuss the importance of taking time away to have real, uninhibited, guiltless fun in a place where you can step away from the stressors of your daily life.Jane is an international retreat leader, author, yoga and meditation teacher. She is also the founder of Radiant Jane retreats. She and her team lead retreats to Italy where guests experience restoration through the culture of Italy, art history, cuisine, self love, pleasure, laughter, connection, yoga and meditation while being surrounded by beauty.Tune in to hear us discuss...How stepping away can show us how much support we really haveHow Jane has seen people change post-pandemicFood as a healing community experienceA bit about the experiences we’ll have on the Italy tripRe-learning to receive and create retreat in our daily livesHang out with Jane...Join us on the Italy Retreat!Buy Jane’s Book A Heart of GoldVisit Jane’s WebsiteFollow Jane on InstagramLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textSo much responsibility is placed on caregivers, including the heaviness of carrying the mental load. But you don’t have to be resigned to the overwhelm of domestic labor, and your family can be full of equitable relationships.Today, I’m joined by Laura Danger for a long overdue conversation about the burden of being the default parent, the challenge of meeting your needs while caring for others, and how to handle renegotiating household norms.Laura is a licensed educator coach, content creator, and certified Fair Play facilitator who has been facilitating and educating in Chicago for over 12 years. Laura facilitates workshops and retreats, coaches individuals and couples, and creates educational content in an effort to create a more equitable world.Tune in to hear us discuss...Routine as a foundation for taking care of yourselfBoundaries as relationship saviorsHow not asking is giving yourself a “no”Why both partners are responsible for the home, even if only one works outside itThe CIPE methodHang out with Laura...Visit Laura’s WebsiteFollow Laura on InstagramLaura's favorite resources...Nedra Tawwab’s book Set Boundaries, Find PeaceFollow Nedra Tawwab on InstagramFair Play Life — Website, Books, Documentary, and moreMother Brain by Chelsea CanaboyHow We Show Up by Mia BirdsongThe Mom Room podcast with Rene ReinaLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textIt can be tempting to lean solely on ourselves when we’re struggling and to hide what we’re going through from the world. But what if that’s the opposite of what we need? And connection is the medicine necessary for healing?Today, I’m joined by best-selling author Laura McKowen. Together we discuss how being honest about her needs helped her embrace sobriety and re-build her life.Laura is the founder of The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community. She has been published in the New York Times and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, and more. Her second book, Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety and Everything Else releases on March 7.Join us as we discuss...How connection can help us work through addictionHow neediness can reflect back to us the truth of what we areBeing the piece of shit at the center of the universeThe strength in saying “I need you”Laura’s upcoming book and how it felt to write it with her needs in mindHang out with Laura...Visit Laura’s WebsiteFollow Laura on Instagram Pre-order Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety and Everything ElseLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textToday’s episode is a little different than usual… To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs & Claim Your Sovereignty, I’m stepping into the interviewee seat! And my friend Jennie Alexis joins us as interviewer to ask me questions about needs and wants, writing my book, parenting, and more. Jennie Alexis is a marketing strategist and podcast host who works with trailblazers, leaders and creative entrepreneurs by helping them share, promote and talk about their business in a way that honors their humanity before anything else.Join us as we discuss...How to accept compliments & offers of supportWhere the desire to write Needy came fromOur histories of suppressing needs to avoid rejectionThe importance of wants in relation to needsThe issues with idyllic self-careQuestioning why being “needy” is considered embarrassingWhere to start if you want to begin tending to your needsHow guts, hormones & glucose are teaching me about my needs latelyRaising needy childrenResources: Pre-order Needy hereFollow Mara on InstagramHang out with Jennie Alexis: Visit Jennie’s websiteListen to Jennie’s podcast, This is Jennie AlexisFollow Jennie on InstagramLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textUnderstanding our needs, especially the need for safety, can be challenging. So in today’s episode, I am talking with Jake Ernst about the personal and social experiences of our needs, safety, and more.Jake is a therapist, writer, educator, and content creator. He's the Clinical Director of Straight Up Health, a mental health clinic for young people and their families. He's also the host of his own podcast called This Isn't Therapy.Together, we have a deeply insightful and honest conversation about what’s happening in our brains as we move through our lives every day.Tune in to hear us also discuss:Mapping our brains as it relates to various levels of needsThe myth that everything needs to be solvedThe hard work of clarifying what’s true from the past and what’s true in the presentThe eight routes to safetyBalancing the competing needs of safety and stretchThe things we will always carry with usThe system-strengthening power of breath workLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Hang out with Jake:Visit Jake’s WebsiteFollow Jake @mswjake on InstagramListen to the This Isn’t Therapy PodcastJoin Lately.Learn More About Straight Up HealthSupport the show

Send us a textWhat are the things we do to feel safe that ultimately don’t serve our true selves?Today, I'm sharing my 2023 intention: It is safe to be who & how I am. And I’m reflecting on how often I’ve weaponized my competence to make myself indispensable to others. As well as how doing that disavows my own worth and reinforces the idea that I can make myself “safe” by earning my way into relationships.Tune in to hear more about...Weaponized incompetence & the things we pretend we can’t doWeaponized competence & the many ways we wield our strengths to earn social capitalThe illusion of earning “safety” by being goodThe experience that forced me to receive without givingHow our competence robs us of levity & joyThe “shoulds” that came up in my book writing processReleasing our fear that we’re not good enough as we areLearning to feel safe enough, even amidst discomfortLinks:Preorder my book Needy & claim your delicious bonusesLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textLiving in step with what our bodies are trying to tell us can be a difficult thing to learn. How do we trust the feelings in our body? And how can we practice tracking those sensations and be present with the language our body is speaking?Today, I’m joined by writer and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Molly Caro May. Together, we discuss how to tune in to ourselves, so we can commit to the things that excite us most and leave the things that don’t behind.Molly is the author of two books, teacher, and the holder of space for 13 plus years. She has facilitated personal story workshops for more than hundreds of people across the globe. She is trained in somatic experiencing and focuses on where language and voice and the animal body meet each other. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore in good company the healing alchemy between story and nervous system.Tune in to hear more about...The growth edge of uncomfortable but tolerableHaving a working understanding of yourselfThe stories we carry about our needsBalancing the consequences of divesting from grind cultureDelighting in your own pace and timingHang out with Molly...Visit Molly’s WebsiteOrder Body Full of Stars and The Map of EnoughJoin Molly’s Bi-Monthly NewsletterJoin Molly’s Membership, The LoamLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textWhat does it look like to live collaboratively with the world around us? And how do we get in touch with our inner magic?Today, I’m joined by Mimi Young for our final guest episode of 2022. Mimi is an Animist Spirit Medium and owner of Ceremonie, a brand focused on intuition and spirit connection, reawakening us to embodied living with the visible and invisible. She offers a variety of courses, readings, and products with a focus on increasing one’s understanding of and connection to psychic language.Together, Mimi and I discuss animism, spiritual healing, being rather than doing, how we invite our children to live more collaboratively, and even a bit about Mimi’s muggle home. Tune in to remember how to rebuild your relationship with yourself and why our inner and outer worlds are deeply interconnected. Tune in to hear more about...Searching for safety in quiet, solitude, and natureRebuilding relationship with ourselvesCultivating a rich inner worldThe beautiful basics of animismKnowing yourself, getting lost, and finding yourself againLearning to trust the intangibleNeeds as alliesHang out with Mimi...Visit the Ceremonie WebsiteSign Up for Mimi’s Mailing ListFollow Ceremonie on InstagramLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textHow do we stay connected to what we want to create and what we need to take care of?Today, I'm continuing to pull back the curtain on how we hold dreams, make decisions, and move forward with a nod - always - to our own capacity.Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned about maintaining a sustainable life, and giving myself what I need in order to fulfill my inner desires. Tune in to hear more about...The importance of role models for this kind of thinkingGetting clear about what we want and need by building a robust relationship with ourselvesPrioritizing by desire & circumstanceSaying “yes” with sustainability in mindThe story behind the creation of my enjoyment-focused Tuscany RetreatIntroducing my new course, Roost, and what inspired its conceptionDeciding what your life is actually forLinks:Retreat with me in TuscanyJoin me for Roost in 2023 Check out my other coursesLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show

Send us a textSome days it feels like we’ve been collectively burnt out since 2020. So how do we find our way back to ourselves after more than two years of distraction and dissociation? And how do we create under these conditions?Asha Frost is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) Medicine Woman, and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is the bestselling author of You Are the Medicine and has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation. She is from the Crane Clan, the totem of leadership, and believes in holding space from vision and heart as an energy healer, homeopath and mentor.In today’s episode, Asha joins me to discuss collective and individual care in the face of capitalism, colonialism and everything that pulls us away from ourselves. She also shares how she cultivates creativity under less-than-ideal conditions, and why she returns to the medicine wheel to learn to flow with the cycles of creation.Tune In to Hear More About:The grounding practice of a daily walkThe damage residential schools have on Indigenous children & their familiesFlowing with the cycle of creationFinding beauty in the death & rest phases of the cycle of creationThe challenge of knowing when to say “yes” and “no” to thingsHow to listen to our bodies when they tell us enough is enough Hang Out with Asha:Visit Asha’s WebsitePre-order the Sacred Medicine Oracle DeckFollow Asha on Instagram @asha.frostOrder You Are the MedicineLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Courses, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.Support the show