Send us a textWe encounter questions about our worth whenever we are thinking about investing time, money, or energy into ourselves. We wonder, "Is the experience going to be worth our investment?" The subtle question underneath this question is, "Am I worth the investment?" Today's podcast episode explores investment, possibility, and disappointment as I explore how to make decision about your own care that feel really (really) good.Tune in to hear me explore…Deserving your own time, attention, and cashNavigating possibility – including the possibility of disappointmentHow to mine your experiences for valuable information to make better decisions next timeAvoiding the trap of something only being “worth it” if it betters you in some wayLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 very special episode features two brilliant women I have been honored to work with over the past couple of years, Tanya Levy and Carrie Cox. During the interview, Tanya and Carrie share fantastic examples and real life anecdotes of how they care for themselves as they navigate their daily lives. From motherhood to boundary setting to honoring the creative process, this conversation highlights the transformation, ease, and messiness that happens when you begin prioritizing your own care and making space for yourself in your life.Tune in to hear us explore…Motherhood, boundaries, and having conversation about needs with our childrenRelaxing your expectations and allowing your needs to guide youThe magic and power of devoting yourself to being present instead of perfectHealing your relationship with your inner criticJoin TendDuring our conversation we refer to my 9-month online circle, Tend, which is currently open for registration! Dance on over here to check out the details and claim your seat for the next round.Love Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 textWe pour a lot of energy into identifying and asking for what we want and need,  but what happens when you have the opportunity to receive what you’ve asked for? I’ve found that this can be a sneaky and unexpected minefield for women as they learn to prioritize their needs. Today’s episode is devoted to the practice of learning how to receive the things that you ask for – including how to navigate potential pitfalls before they occur.Tune in to hear me explore…The anatomy of asking for what you want and needThe inner work of opening to receive the things you’ve asked forA few personal stories about how this has gone awry in my lifeHow to practice receiving – including the few (very important) things you need to let go ofLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 features freelance writer and photographer, Alisha Sommer. Our conversation focuses on the three essential questions she has been asking herself: How am I making meaning? How am I in relationship with my community? How am I in relationship with myself? Something that I admire about Alisha is her beautiful capacity for seeing the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Tune in to hear her powerful answers and a conversation about creativity, motherhood, and carving out space for herself in her daily life. Tune in to hear us explore…Protecting your time and maintaining your boundaries as an act of self-careWhat to do if you think that meeting your needs is boringConnecting with kindred spirits and overcoming the fear of disappointmentOwning who you are and having the courage to share itTending to your needs by grounding into your sensory experience as you move throughout your dayLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 textAs the Summer season fumbles through her bajillion retrogrades and eclipses, it seems that everyone I know is struggling through experiences of transition and transformation. Today's episode is dedicated to how to tend to yourself through big feelings and big personal changes. Tune in to hear me talk about my favorite tools you can use to support yourself right this second - even if you feel overwhelmed, stressed, or unsure of what you need. Tune in to hear me explore…What to do – first – when you don’t know what to doWhy you aren’t a big problem and you don’t require a big fixMy favorite toolkit for getting rest when my nervous system has trouble calming downPractices for enhancing your capacity for dealing with whatever life throws your wayLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 features Virgie Tovar! Virgie is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the author of You Have The Right to Remain Fat, which comes out TODAY. I have been reading her writing online for a long time and I am crazy excited for the opportunity to share her work with all of you. In today’s episode, Virgie reminds us that joy and fun do not have a weight limit. Her powerful words encourage us to care deeply for the bodies that we have right now, including unlearning many of the harmful messages that we have received about our worth as they relate to our bodies. Virgie describes the hierarchy of power and systems of oppression that impact our self-perception, as well as generously sharing stories from her journey to self-acceptance.Tune in to hear us explore…Fat positivity and the choice to lose hate not weightCaring for the body that you have right nowTuning into and caring for the body that you have right nowPrioritizing your JOYLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 textRaise your hand if you've ever judged your needs or seen them as incredibly inconvenient. (Me too.) You aren't alone. The truth is, our needs can be messy. WE can be messy. Today's episode explores the reality that we are deserving of our needs and having our needs met no matter how we might feel about ourselves in any given moment.Tending to yourself is the practice of being in relationship with your needs, so that you can show up for your life each and every day as whole and well-nourished as possible. This relationship is not a distraction from your life purpose. It is the energetic underpinning to your life purpose. Tune in to hear me explore…The process for getting into your body to identify your needsWhat to do with conflicting needs when they arise (like, all the time)What to do if what you need isn’t what you WANT to need or how you want to need itPerfectionism as a barrier to meeting your needs imperfectlyLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 features Michelle Ward, the When I Grow Up Coach! Michelle has been offering dream business guidance for creative women since 2008. You may have seen or heard her in New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Etsy, Newsweek, Freelancers Union, USA Today, the Forbes Top 100 Websites for your Career List or 150+ other media outlets. She’s the co-author of The Declaration of You, which was published by North Light Books, and the teacher of Create Your Dream Career and Ditch Your Day Job, which were watched by tens of thousands of people live on CreativeLive. When she’s not coaching, teaching or speaking, she can be found building a fort for her little girl, sitcom-binging with her husband, or belting out show tunes.  One of the things that I have always adored about Michelle is how direct she is with her advice. In today’s episode, she reminds us that we may need to say no to in order to say YES to ourselves and to our dreams in a way that feels both encouraging and spectacularly doable. Michelle shares about how her self-care has evolved through creating her business, getting married, adopting her daughter, and surviving breast cancer, twice.Tune in to hear us explore…Caring for yourself while you are in transition, instead of pushing it aside until you “get there”Eliminating things from your life that you don’t want to to do create space for the things you DO want to do (and how to say no – eep!)Being really honest with ourselves about our actual capacity while chasing our dreamsNourishing creative habits as a form of self-careLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 textRecently a listener wrote in and asked, How do you keep moving forward in your business when your heart is breaking, your life is chaos, you feel like a fraud and failure, and you just want to quit? Like, what’s the best self-care move? Do you set it aside for a season and rest, or do you keep taking small steps? How do you work on being kind to yourself when you’re so confused you literally don’t know what you want? Whoooooboy. Yep. I’ve been there! Today’s episode is about how you can support yourself in doing your best work through thick and thin, because the truth is, thin times can really knock you off your game.Tune in to hear me explore…Shoring up your foundation of self-care with these basicsTending to yourself by managing your expectationsDisentangling ideas of readiness and perfectionWhat it really means to show up messy – and why it’s worth itLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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 you are in for a special treat – a doubleheader of episodes featuring Dyana Valentine!Dyana is an oracle. She started doing Woke Up Knowing™ experiences in 2011 when she had a waking vision of being in a bed in an ancient castle with people sitting around her bed waiting to hear a dream she had. Years later, she has dreamt in several countries, in languages she doesn’t speak, for seekers, artists, scientists, and humanitarians. Dyana’s work is powerful, agitating, and deep. Over the time that I have known her, I have been inspired again and again by the dedication that she pours into her work and the people it is of service to. Today’s episodes feature a duo of interviews. First, I interview Dyana about self-trust, honoring the indicators that have paved the portal for her work as an oracle, and meeting her needs for racial justice. In the second episode, Dyana interviews me, asking me questions about race, sex, and money.Hear Dyana Ask Me AboutMy relationship with the activated process of breaking cycles of racial injusticeIntegrity – and questioning what I think I know as I work through layers of White Supremacy in my understanding of the world around meMeeting my need for sex – and how sometimes I’ve used food to hide out from meeting this needMy relationship with money and the story behind how we bought our homeLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, 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