THE YUMMY WAY PODCAST
THE YUMMY WAY — Wouldn't you like to feel yummy all the time? The Yummy Way is simply saying Yes to what’s happening, here & now and feeling good, or yummy about it. Each week we serve a delectable menu of what makes life truly scrumptious and how you can enjoy all of it. You can look forward to powerful insights, inspiring stories and actionable tips on living consciously mindful and Yummy, so you enjoy the delicious banquet of your life — the simple things as well as the challenges with grace and joy! As connoisseurs in practical spirituality, Danét and Parker or Lar share funny antidotes & satisfying ways you can love yourself, lighten up your life and make equanimity the foundation for living a yummy and fulfilling life. Learn what your personal Yummy-Stat is and how to use it to navigate that crazy mind-field in your head. Discover how to neutralize external triggers and overcome internal glitches that highjack your happiness, so you are free to be you. If you’re sick of the heavy, unhealthy menu of negative self-talk & self-sabotage— if you’re ready to kick fear-based thinking to the curb, take a seat. You're in the right place. We'll share how we do it and you can too! With insights and practices you can take on the go, we invite you to have a yummy mindset meal with us each week.
Episodes
70 episodes
Ultimately—You Are Your True Authority
In today’s episode we talking about how we find and live from each of our own integrity to true self verses out of obligation or deferring to some perceived authority. It’s amazing how quickly we can defer to a so-called authority, when...
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Living With Uncertainty
We’re always living with uncertainty. We just think we have control. None of us really know what’s going to happen next. We only have now and we have the ability to be fully present and actively alive and awake to what is happen...
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41:06
Reality vs What You Think About It
In today’s podcast episode we’re talking about how we’re constantly getting derailed from presence in the moment we’re in, by jumping into reacting to the stimuli in front of us as if we’re actually part of it. We leave our presence in favor of...
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066_Living With Cancer — Living in the Emotional Rollercoaster
In today’s episode we’re talking the emotional journey we’re experiencing living with cancer and about staying in the conversation as emotions shift and change. Low grade depression, grief, moments of elation and the constant acceptance of life...
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31:58
065_#2 My Beta Readers Talk About My New Book — Baptized By Love: How I Found Present Joy and Never Let It Go
Lyn Gregory — my experience of reading the book —the comprehensive and cohesive elegant way you strung together the moments of your life created something that is really just such an exquisite memoir … You toss off nuggets that are ...
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064_#1 My Beta Readers Talk About My New Book — Baptized By Love: How I Found Present Joy and Never Let It Go
Keri Maughan — the overarching theme of redemption, underpinnings of reconciliation and redemption with the other characters; mother, father, children. Each character has their own redemption story. The tapestry of life is being rewoven. ...
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063_Miracles & MIRACLES — Living With Cancer
Today we thought we’d talk about miracles. We’ve heard that word thrown around a lot since we started living with cancer in our lives. Especially since we decided to discontinue treatment and let cancer take its natural course. There is this id...
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062_Living with Cancer
The crux of the yummy way philosophy is accepting life just exactly as it is, however it is showing up in each present moment — no matter what arises. And loving every aspect of it — because that’s what you’ve got! It is really recogn...
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061_Cultivating Self-reflection to Live a More Self-aware Life
In today’s podcast we’re discussing the importance of cultivating self-reflection to increase both self-awareness and dismantle old patterns of reaction that no longer serve us. You’re going along feeling perfectly fine, peaceful, ...
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060_The Upside of Vulnerability
In today’s podcast we’re talking about vulnerability. How often do we enter encounters with others from a preconceived idea of what we think the situation requires of us and then play the role we believe we need to play to get approval...
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38:34
059_You Have Epiphany Moments of Enlightenment. Why, Then Do Certain Things Keep Bothering You?
Life happens. It is the ever flowing energy of creation appearing as everything happening. It’s not personal. But we make it personal by bothering ourselves — by deciding we don’t like what’s happening.If we like what’s happening w...
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058_What is success?
In today’s episode we’re talking about what our criteria for success is, and how that effects our present moment happiness. When we compare how we see our lives to how we see the lives of the icons we revere, we are bound to come u...
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057_Shame & Authenticity
What keeps us from staying present in the actuality of what’s happening, moment to moment? In today’s episode we’re talking about shame and recognizing it for what it is — a program in our mind which discounts the actuality of our ...
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34:38
056_Inevitability & Present Moment Choices
Okay first off —get this out of the way … We experimented with using video this time around and uhm, the video didn’t take. Ultimately we decided that what feels yummy, for now, is to stay with our regular format for the podcast. I...
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28:02
055_Giving & Receiving — Living a Life of Abundance
In today’s episode we’re talking about giving and receiving. It’s really a matter of where we’re coming from, both in the giving and receiving. Are we coming from love, joy and the natural extension of sharing that comes from that? Or are...
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054_Failure IS an option — or The Amazing Potentiality of Failure
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston ChurchillToday we’re talking about failure. When the topic of failure came into my email. I immediately noticed a resistanc...
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053_If You Had All Unlimited Money, How Would You Be Living Your Life?
Today we’re talking about what we value and why. What do we believe makes us happy? Do we have it attached to things like money and status?Money plays a huge role in the collective belief that more will make us happy. We spe...
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34:47
052_Old Neighborhood — New World
Lar and I recorded this on Father’s Day. Lar’s in New Mexico and I’m in Utah. So saying Happy Father’s Day, Lar, looks like me filling him in on the latest events happening with our kids and grandkids and the appreciation we have all been expre...
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35:39
051_AGE — It’s Just a Number — Right?
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!" - Ingrid BergmanLar and I are just arriving at the ‘prime’ of our lives as far as I’m concerned. It’s funny how as we...
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35:34
050_Are You Waiting Until You Feel Ready?
Have you ever spent more time getting ready for something than you did actually doing the something? You have this great idea. You want to start or create something. You want to try something and ...
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24:53
049_Be Your Own Superhero by Being YOU!
“We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be” ~ Grant Morrison<...
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048_Being a Love Based Human —The Now Normal
In today’s podcast, as sort of an update, we begin by sharing how we’ve unleashed our creativity by recognizing when the tension created by our ‘inner-perfectionist,’ by dismissing its dictates, softening the tension, and unleashing our creativ...
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32:57
047_Is Perfectionism Getting In The Way Of Your Creativity?
I borrowed this title idea from an inspirational book I recently read called Creativity Over Perfection by
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046_True Listening & Speaking Your Truth: Choosing Love over Division
Today I'm being joined by Emma and Genevieve. Today's podcast episode came out of a conversation Emma and I were having about how we deal with diverse perspectives in conversations with others. She brought up her relationship with her daughter ...
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