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Buffy records this episode in the midst of recovery from a bilateral mastectomy, and reflects on the defining moments like these which cause us to slow down and consider what truly matters. She explores the unexpected curveballs life throws our way, including the story of her friend Patrick and the flower farm that became an extraordinary new chapter in his life. We have more power than we might realize to change course, follow our curiosity, and build something we never could have planned. When life asks you to discern what matters, what if you let curiosity lead you somewhere new? 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Sometimes the things standing between us and what we want aren’t outside of us, but blockages we carry within us. Those blocks can show up in all kinds of places: money, love and relationships, asking for help. In this episode, Buffy explores how our own thoughts, behaviors, and patterns can create ruptures in our ability to experience what we are calling in. She offers four simple steps—clear, open, receive, integrate—that can help us notice these blocks and begin to move them. Tune in to recognize where you may be holding yourself back, and learn how to create more space for what you're ready to receive. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In this episode, Buffy reprises Beauty Marks, her current take on the small ways beauty is showing up in her life. These beauty marks invite us to stay open and curious, looking for all the ways grace can show up in the everyday (but only if we slow down enough to notice.)  🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

What is energy hygiene and why does it matter? In this episode, Buffy shares how we can care for the our energy (AKA our Life Force), which is a valuable currency that can be depleted and replenished. This episode follows last week’s “New Guardrails Will Help,” where Buffy talked about creating fresh, open space for possibility and allowing life to flow in. Energy hygiene is part of protecting and tending that space. This episode will help you understand this precious currency and offer you practical ways to keep your energetic field clear, protected, and full. With these tools, you can learn to hold the magic and center of your life with greater tenderness and intentionality. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In this episode, Buffy explores imagination as a doorway into a life that hasn't already been mapped out for you. Most of us imagine our future using a blueprint we inherited: beliefs handed down through our families, our culture, and the world we grew up in. Those guardrails once offered real protection and direction. But what happens when they no longer fit the life you're trying to build?  How do you unbraid the stories you've been told about yourself and the world? And what becomes possible when you begin forging a path that is unmistakably your own? 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

After attending Love Letter from the Afterlife at Red Rocks—a tribute to the late poet Andrea Gibson featuring their final performance alongside the Colorado Symphony—Buffy returns to one simple phrase from Andrea's work: try softer. In this episode, she explores what it means to meet life with less force and more presence. Through stories and reflection, Buffy considers how softening can become a daily practice for the body, heart, and spirit.  What changes when you stop pushing against your circumstances? What does softness look like when it meets your loss and grief? If you'd like to learn more about Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley's story, you can watch the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light on HBO.  🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

A murmuration is when a flock of thousands (or sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of birds move together across the sky like a wave, or a cloud of smoke. Buffy explores the surprising mechanics behind these breathtaking displays, where no single bird leads and yet the whole flock moves as one. She talks about the social and physical mechanics of this phenomenon, and what we can learn about connection and community from these birds.  🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In this episode, Buffy shares fresh observations and lessons from the workshop of her own life. She reflects on pleasure as a practice, the power of curating our attention, the value of invisible things, and the importance of shifting perspective, from chin-on-the-ground wonder at a ladybug to a wider view of the landscape. Tune in to explore the choices available to us in any moment, the art of waiting and listening, and how to cultivate a peaceful inner experience when the outer world is beyond our control.  🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Buffy begins this episode with a friend’s story about navigating a challenging work situation. Using the metaphor of an airplane, her friend described the inner shift that allowed her to rise above the turbulence rather than remain caught within it. “Cruising altitude” is the steady height an aircraft maintains for most of a journey, and this episode is a reflection on the places of steadiness inside of us, even when turbulence exists on either side. Tune in to access more equanimity in your inner world no matter what weather systems that surround you.   🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In the wake of Mother’s Day, Buffy reflects on mothers: what we are mothering, how we are mothered, and the creative shapes being a mother can take. She shares about experiencing her first Mother’s Day without her mom and weaves in stories of people in all stages and phases. This episode is a spacious offering for wherever you find yourself in relationship to mothering — whether you are grieving, nurturing, longing, creating, or becoming. Buffy closes out the episode closes with a grounding visualization and meditation. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Buffy and TTWH producer/editor Alex meet on the 6th birthday of Things That Will Help to reflect on six years of the podcast. They talk about the creative evolution of the podcast and their own practices, pleasure as a tool of the resistance, the age of AI, and why creativity is needed now more than ever.  🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Labor doesn't have to deplete or harden us. In this episode, Buffy explores the space between arriving and striving, and invites us into the magic and beauty of the process as we aim towards a specific destination - into the magic of holy labor. Buffy invites listeners to notice where the weight of “getting there” has eclipsed the quiet of being here. Where can you loosen your hold? Where can you ease the heavy lifting? This episode is an offering for anyone in the middle of something—creative, personal, or otherwise—and a reminder that the unfinished places might be where the light gets in. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

When something taps Buffy on the shoulder more than once, she’s learned to listen. Lately, it’s been color. In this episode, she explores color beyond aesthetic. Color is something our bodies subtly register and respond to every day, and she reflects on the emotional and physical impacts of colors. She offers simple, grounded ways to invite more color into your life. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

After a difficult week, Buffy shares a story of moving a bench a few feet so it could catch the sunlight, and what this simple shift can mean in our own lives. In a time when you are likely carrying both collective grief and personal grief, how are you taking care of yourself? This episode is an invitation to remember that even small adjustments can let a little more sunlight in. 🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH 🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here. 🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here! 🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. 🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod. Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.