Plant Medicine

19 minutes using examples of the use of medicinal plants to show how extremism in one direction just creates a pendulum swing back towards the other extreme….in biology as well as in life.

Metaphor LoverNovember 12, 2016

Change

8 minutes considering how saying “everything in the world moves” instead of “everything in the world changes” might give us a deeper understanding

Metaphor LoverNovember 1, 2016

Emotional Hygiene

13 minutes talking about how the concept of emotional hygiene is just as important, if not more important than physical hygiene.

Metaphor LoverOctober 21, 2016

Heart Rate

10 minutes noticing that just like with your heart rate, a strong reaction isn’t a bad thing if you also have a fast recovery from that reaction.

Metaphor LoverOctober 11, 2016

Letting Go

14 minutes considering how the term “Letting go” is, as with stretching your body, actually more about finding a balance between force and total release.

Metaphor LoverSeptember 21, 2016

Support Mats

19 minutes on how finding the right emotional support in your life can be like mattress shopping….how much firmness or softness works best for you.

Metaphor LoverSeptember 12, 2016

Blindspots

9 minutes noticing how easy it is to see how your car being in it’s own way creates the blindspot when driving, but it isn’t as easy to notice when we are creating the blindspot in our personal lives

Metaphor LoverAugust 21, 2016

Agitator

12 minutes noticing how, even though there is a negative connotation to the word, the agitator is the part of your washing machine that gets all the deep cleaning done.

Metaphor LoverAugust 12, 2016

Food Expanding

13 minutes on how not being exposed to various tastes in food can create a narrow range just like not being exposed to various experiences in life can create a narrow range for a person

Metaphor LoverJuly 21, 2016

Body Anchor

10 minutes exploring the idea of our body being our anchor…both positive and negatively

Metaphor LoverJuly 12, 2016

What About

10 minutes on how worrying what something says about you gets in the way of you actually saying something about yourself by taking action

Metaphor LoverJune 21, 2016

Untouchable Zone

13 minutes on how finding the untouchable zone where no one offers what you offer in business can be similar to a place we need to find for ourselves in life as well

Metaphor LoverJune 12, 2016

Adventure is Within

14 minutes exploring the quote “adventure is not outside us, adventure is within”

Metaphor LoverMay 21, 2016

Breathing

15 minutes exploring how breathing intentionally instead of passively can have dramatic effects just like living life intentionally instead of passively

Metaphor LoverMay 12, 2016

Doctor's Office

18 minutes questioning the idea of being told what to do with your body by people who aren’t caring well for their own bodies

Metaphor LoverApril 28, 2016

Bad

22 minutes asking why we need the tired and overly polarized “good” and “evil” themes all around us

Metaphor LoverApril 21, 2016

Muscles

13 minutes on how you can tend towards emotional tightness just like muscular tightness and it takes stretching and range of motion exercises.

Metaphor LoverApril 12, 2016

Practice

17 minutes trying a physical balancing exercise to bring up metaphors about balance in your personal life

Metaphor LoverMarch 28, 2016

Kid Shoes

14 minutes on how asking your kids to put on their own shoes and allowing them the chance to take that responsibility yields insight in other areas of life

Metaphor LoverMarch 21, 2016

Comedy

11 minutes exploring how what is funny is often the unexpected, the negative or the flip side…and it isn’t a bad thing.

Metaphor LoverMarch 12, 2016

Hi! My name is Amy. All of the things I love the most have to do with DEEPENING CONNECTION: with myself, my body, my food, my world view, playfulness, and ultimately with Life itself.