Mary Hayes Grieco is the author of The New Kitchen Mystic and Unconditional Forgiveness, and the director of The Midwest Institute for Forgiveness Training in Minneapolis, MN.
Erin Warhol is an award-winning TV producer, radio programmer, filmmaker and talent coach in the Greater Twin Cities Area of Minnesota. Erin lives with her husband and her two teenage children in Stillwater, Minnesota.
As the winter holidays approach, we might be anticipating our time with our extended families with mixed feelings.
This time of year offers a prime opportunity to amp up our ability to live the powerful attitudes of unconditional love and forgiveness.
Our families are ours for a lifetime, to learn from, to accept and appreciate, or to avoid and set limits with, as the case may be. If you already are aware of what some of your uncomfortable family dynamics have been and are likely to be, you can practice “pre-emptive forgiveness,” and enter your family situations in a new way, surprising yourself at how much better this can go for you this year.
It only takes one person who is consciously bringing forgiveness and good will into a family system, to start a gentle trend towards real transformation of outdated family dynamics.
I hope you will make this special time of year a time to grow spiritually, in the most practical way possible.
In this conversation, Erin and I discuss the power of choosing to forgive yourself, a family member or a family situation, before the next time you are with them.
Then we can open up to the light of Spirit to enter in and do its quiet magic: reflecting to us everyone’s basic goodness, and giving us renewed ease in our own skin when we’re with our tribe. God bless us, every one.
Thanks for the comments we’re getting these days, that our podcast is serving you well as your upbeat weekly spiritual classroom.
With each of these conversations, it has been our fond hope that we will deliver a “golden nugget” that you can carry in your pocket during the week, and that nugget will continue to help you discover new insights in your path.
Back to INTUITION now, with “Discernment for Dummies.” (No disrespect intended! It’s how we received the request from a listener.)
Erin and I will review the 5 kinds of intuition, and then hone in on a few tricks of the trade of spiritual discernment.
In other words,
how do I know this is an accurate intuition? How do I trust this?
Our first favorite clue is, “The ego speaks loudest and it speaks first, with a spirit of drama, glamour, or anxiety. True spiritual guidance is simple and has some silence wrapped around it.
Even if you don’t like what your guidance says, it feels right, and there is some peace in that.”
We hope this show kicks off some fun experimentation for you, as you throw down your willingness to the Universe to be in loving service to all,
and to become a completely fulfilled version of yourself,
with the help of your wise guidance.
Enjoy! Love, Mary & Erin ____________________________________________________
EPISODE 132: DISCERNMENT FOR DUMMIES
Intuition is your soul’s GPS for your personality and your path through life to personal fulfillment.
How do you develop an accurate intuition and trust it? Are you being guided, or is it wishful thinking? Which of the 5 kinds of intuition is the one most natural for you?
In the classroom of your soul’s lessons, are you an enthusiastic student or a resistant one?
Mary and Erin explore some helpful tricks to enhance the fine art of spiritual discernment.
Learn how to ask the brave questions and hear the truth, even if you’re afraid you won’t like it. Work with the elegant orchestrations of the Universe – sensing when to come and when to go, and discerning when a door in your life is open and beckoning to you, or closed – because something is over.
Mary says, “If you desire to be of service and bring good to the world, your intuition will accelerate!
The Universe wants to put you to work, and bring about your thriving and fulfillment. It will guide you with intuition.”
We hope you’ve enjoyed our recent podcasts about ghosts and our life with the spirit world, and that this year Halloween will be pleasantly meaningful as well as the usual kind of spooky fun.
The Day of the Dead/All Soul’s Day, is coming up, so remember to tune in to an ancestor on the other side, and say a little “hello there,” if you want.
Switching gears, because of a listener request,
Erin and I will happily circle back around to go deeper into some questions from earlier podcasts:
1) How do I restore my vital energy when I feel so drained from circumstances beyond my control? and 2) How do I know if I am understanding and following my your intuition correctly? Or, Discernment for Dummies.
There’s a lot more to be said on both of these fronts, so please join in on our jam this week and next.
Do you feel sometimes, like I have, that “my life is a worthy organization that is understaffed and underfunded, and I’m tired before the day begins …?”
Do you wonder, “Where on earth will some new energy come from?”
Tune in! Lots of good ideas for you are flowing here in these next two conversations.
Peace, friends, Mary and Erin
Have a listen!
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EPISODE 131: RESTORING OUR VITAL ENERGY
Learning how to restore our vital energy when it’s drained, is a life skill that we need to develop and employ from time to time.
Certain life situations are draining and exhausting
– grief during a time of loss, or
– dealing with a loved one’s medical crisis, or
– working in a company that is going through stressful changes, or
– being in a stage of family life that asks you to keep showing up to do a lot with very little…
At times like these, we are tempted to be
– snappy and irritable, or – judge people around us, or prop ourselves up with an unhealthy addiction.
– we might even get sick, just to get ourselves some space and rest.
In this episode, we find Erin at an all-time energy low from a combination of these things: a trip for a family medical crisis, a busy time at work, and an unexpected flood in her home.
She’s hit a wall and is ready to fall over, wondering if there’s anything that can be done besides collapse or “soldier on.”
Mary feels in the pink and perky due to her recent discoveries about managing vital energy during demanding times, and she shares some simple ideas.
Listen in, and remember to give yourself the easy breaks you need,
starting with 15 minutes of quiet time
and a full glass of water,
and opening up to luck and magic to step in,
