Core

9 minutes on translating our understanding of our body's physical core to our understanding of the core of our being by way of talking about gestating a baby

Metaphor LoverMay 21, 2017

Bike Ride

10 minutes using the metaphor of a bike ride to ask the question of whether we are overly concerned with our own pace

Metaphor LoverMay 19, 2017

Inner Outer Nature

8 minutes exploring the idea that maybe nature has such a balancing effect because it is the truest match to our inner world

Metaphor LoverMay 12, 2017

Right Lane Pass

6 minutes using a driving example to illustrate how we sometimes become our own problem

Metaphor LoverMay 12, 2017

Door Close

5 minutes on how watching a 2 year old slam a door can give insight into when things don't work because we are doing too much of the right thing.

Metaphor LoverMay 4, 2017

Toxicity Poop

10 minutes going further with a previous episode (Negative Emotion Poop) discussing how the fear of anger's toxicity can be treated the same way as the fear of poop's toxicity

Metaphor LoverApril 28, 2017

Care of Everyone

5 minutes on the definition of a powerful group being no different for a toddler than for a business

Metaphor LoverApril 21, 2017

Flower Women

11 minutes exploring the ways women are like flowers well beyond the most typically used versions of the metaphor

Metaphor LoverApril 12, 2017

Mine to carry

5 minutes on when it is fair to say something to someone without being mean by way of a hiking analogy

Metaphor LoverMarch 28, 2017

No injections

15 minutes on the childishness of refusing something that could save your life to avoid discomfort and how we do that every day even as adults in less obvious way because it is almost the norm.

Metaphor LoverMarch 21, 2017

Nature People

10 minutes on how we find nature intimidating, yet inspiring, but won’t settle in as being fully at home in it just like we do with people whose personalities are free and raw like nature

Metaphor LoverMarch 12, 2017

Until a fight

8 minutes on how we don’t really know another person until we experience a fight with them, therefore all the confrontation avoiding we do just leads to us never really knowing anyone or being known.

Metaphor LoverFebruary 28, 2017

Conversation Inside

28 minutes exploring the idea that there is a voice of the mind and a voice of the soul and how they might be conversing most effectively

Metaphor LoverFebruary 21, 2017

Negative Emotions Poop

14 minutes on how priding ourselves on not getting angry is like priding ourselves on not pooping

Metaphor LoverFebruary 15, 2017

Broken Arm

20 minutes on how mistaking a coping mechanism for a part of yourself can be as silly as thinking that your broken arm is just a special and unique type of arm that you have

Metaphor LoverFebruary 12, 2017

We all don't look good

15 minutes exploring how just like in dance, only worrying about getting your part right still won’t equate to things looking good because, just like in life, it isn’t written as a solo dance piece.

Metaphor LoverJanuary 22, 2017

Adult Child

14 minutes looking at how we often use the word “child” as an insult but many adults have lost a lot of the amazing attributes children offer.

Metaphor LoverJanuary 12, 2017

Dough and Flour

9 minutes on how dumping stuff on yourself without integrating it is as useless as dumping flour on a dough ball in order to make it more substantial without integrating it

Metaphor LoverDecember 21, 2016

IN Your Ideals

9 minutes discussing not merely standing BY your ideas but standing IN them

Metaphor LoverDecember 12, 2016

Seeds

18 minutes exploring three quotes having to do with seeds “ in order to become a plant, a seed must come completely undone”, “ shit can be the best fertilizer”, and “ they tried to bury us, but they didn’t realize we were seeds”.

Metaphor LoverNovember 21, 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.