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In this episode, Mary Lofgren talks with relationship coach and author LiYana Silver about divorce as a dark night of the soul, a rite of passage, and an opportunity to reclaim your true self. Together, we explore heartbreak, grief, shame, attachment patterns, self-trust, and the process of finding your way back to who you are after a relationship ends. We discuss how to stop defining yourself by a relationship's outcome, reconnect with your intuition, and make room for a more authentic way of loving and being loved. If you're navigating divorce, heartbreak, or a major relationship transition, this conversation offers a compassionate perspective on what it means to lose yourself, find yourself again, and discover what might be waiting on the other side. Liana Silver is a relationship coach and author of Feminine Genius and Waking Up in the Dark: Night of Divorce. She supports women and couples through heartbreak and relationship transitions, helping them break old patterns and reconnect with themselves. In this episode, we explore: Why divorce doesn't have to mean failureThe five phases of the dark night of divorceHow grief, shame, and attachment patterns shape heartbreakRebuilding self-trust and reconnecting with your intuitionWhat it means to reclaim your sense of self after a relationshipLearning to love without grasping or performingFind Liyana at LiYanaSilver.com. 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring more beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.  🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

When seeking more aliveness, expression, and embodiment, it's normal to meet numbness along the way. But what if, rather than a barrier to feeling, numbness itself is a feeling? What if rather than a detour, feeling numbness is actually a destination?  What if you could become so versed in the subtleties of your own body, you became a sommelier of your own sensations?  In this episode you'll learn how to:  Meet numbness as a feeling, rather than trying to force it awayUse a practice called “layer by layer” to gently explore sensationExpand your sensational vocabularyQuestion your preferences around “good” and “bad” body sensation, without invalidating your experienceFind the difference between protective fear and the fear of moving beyond the familiarHow to respond when body is shutting down in conflict and redirect your life force into flowLet's become more intimately acquainted with the full spectrum of sensation, and all the power and pleasure that lives inside of it.  LINKS FROM THE SHOW ✨ Download Mary's free Sensational Vocabulary Guide: marylofgren.com/sensation 🌙 Check out The School of Embodied Arts Coaching Certification  💫 Watch the layer-by-layer method in action on Mary's Instagram 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Autumn presents us with change, vibrance, and a vivid reset before we enter into the darker months of the year. This episode guides you through all the sensory, spiritual, and style pleasures that Autumn has to offer in her grand banquet of delight.  LINKS FROM THE EPISODE  🍂 JOIN THE SANCTUARY L.L. Bean Wool SocksQoya Inspired MovementFull episode homepage  🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

What do crispy roast chicken, September sunshine, your sleep schedule, and not knowing your tush from a pineapple have to do with sensual living? Quite a lot, it turns out. In this episode, Mary explores seasonal living as sensual living—and how a disconnection from time's natural rhythms can leave even the most capable among us struggling with the most ordinary aspects of being human. From following seven minutes of sunlight through Manhattan to savoring the last summer squash of the season, this episode is an invitation to let the changing light, food, and weather bring you back into your body, and back to life. You'll also hear a little love note to autumn, with inspiration to brew the chai, get out the craft bin, and let life love you through your senses.  🍂 Join us at The Art of Keeping Time - Saturday, September 19th to feel less like time is flying by and more like life is sinking in through exploring the seasons and the senses.  🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

In this episode, Mary shares three ways to slow down your September through sensory experiences. You'll learn how to relate to time as a wheel rather than a straight line, savor the firsts and lasts of the changing season, and create seasonal anchors through simple pleasures. From the last peach of summer to the first chilly evening of fall, this is an invitation to experience time through your body, not just your calendar.  You'll also hear about Mary's new, free salon: The Art of Keeping Time — a seasonal living workshop exploring how to make life feel less like it’s flying by and more like it’s sinking in through your senses. Reserve your free seat: marylofgren.com/time SHOW NOTES Join Mary's upcoming seasonal workshop: The Art of Keeping Time, September 19thAbacus Corvus Artwork🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

In this episode of Come to Your Senses, Mary explores a softer path into the present moment through ripe summer cherries, fragrant roses, candlelight, and the tiny sensory pleasures that make life feel sacred. You'll learn simple ways to weave more candlelight into everyday life, from gloomy mornings and nighttime rituals to the surprisingly satisfying art of rescuing a wax-covered candleholder. Enjoy this little invitation to stop working so hard to be present, and let beauty bring you there instead. Download The Little Book of Tiny Delights  🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Have you ever gone through a life transition you thought would last forever?  And during said transition, did you bury yourself in tubs of cool whip and binge watches? Sleep through your alarm daily? And then, did you terrorize yourself for not taking better care of yourself?  I relate.  As I approach two years after making a big move from east coast to west, I'm finally getting my spark back. I feel an aliveness reemerging I wasn't even aware was gone. And today's episode, I'm spilling the California raisins on what's been helping me come back into my body, and come back to life.  What Cool Whip, a meat stick, and self-compassion have in common When gentleness is medicine, and when it's notWhat happened when I asked Love to look at my to-do list Washi tape, fig jam, tiny collages—and my growing theory about bringing meaning to lifeHow I've learned to take life more lightly, and delight more seriously LINKS FROM THE SHOW Download The Book of Tiny DelightsSensing the SacredMy improvised song on following your dreamsEMKFIT with Emily ThorneLetters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Today you're in for a treat — a truffle called Savoring August: A monthly magazine created exclusively for members of our seasonal living community. You'll hear seasonal rituals, recipes, poetry, and an invitation to savor the last golden days before autumn arrives. Discover August's key dates (Lammas, the New Moon in Leo, a meteor shower, and a full lunar eclipse), a workshop on shifting from scarcity to abundance consciousness, and a closing original poem to help you linger and luxuriate in the honeyed gifts of August. Links from the Show:  Download the PDF version of Savoring AugustJoin The Sanctuary waitlist for our September openingFull episode and show notes here 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Ever hit that 3pm wall where you feel too fried to meditate but too wired to actually rest? In today's episode, we're exploring why the fourth coffee and doom scroll combo may offer short term relief, but ultimately leaves you more glassy eyed than you started.  You’ll discover how to infuse your afternoons with what your senses are really craving: a plump serving of full-bodied pleasure.  Four sensory truffles await in today’s episode. Hit play and let’s dive in.  LINKS FROM THE SHOW  Sensing the Sacred Guided Journal Inner Secret Garden Meditation Leave a review for the episode 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Have you ever been overwhelmed by a feeling?  It’s common wisdom to “feel it to heal it”, but what does that even mean?  Do you ever try to feel your feelings, but only end up feeling more anxious, more confused, and in more suffering?  In today’s episode, certified embodiment coach Mary Lofgren shares over a decade of experiencing in helping people become more embodied through bringing in the felt senses to feel their feelings (and not get stuck in them.) You’ll discover:  Four simple techniques to go from analyzing your emotions to feeling and confidently expressing them How to move stuck emotions through your body and return them to a state of flowWhy so many women and femmes question the messages of their bodies, and how to reclaim a sense of self-trustHow to access the wisdom inside the emotion, and allow it to reshape your life from the inside out Come learn how to become an embodied, emotionally expressed powerhouse in this mini-masterclass on how to actually feel your feelings LINKS FROM THE SHOW:  Learn more about Embodied Intelligence CoachingEpisode HomepageSusan Piver - Meditation Teacher🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

What happens when you've spent a lifetime trying to think your way through life, only to discover that more thinking isn't the answer? In this candid conversation, I sit down with my dear coaching client Natalie Angeloni to explore her journey through Embodied Intelligence Coaching.  This episode is for you if:  • You find yourself caught in cycles of overthinking and self-doubt. • You're navigating a season of change and feel unsure of your next step. • You've spent most of your life living from the neck up and want a deeper connection with yourself. • You're exhausted from pushing, striving, and trying to control every outcome. • You're ready to create meaningful change from the inside out. If you're feeling stuck, navigating a season of change, or longing to stop over-efforting and start living from a deeper sense of trust, this episode offers a powerful glimpse into what's possible. To learn more about Embodied Intelligence or schedule a conversation with Mary, visit marylofgren.com/coaching. To learn more about Natalie and her coaching practice, check out her website here.  🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

With over two decades as a licensed esthetician, if there’s one thing I know, it’s how to spa.  In this episode I'll teach you how to recreate a spa experience in everyday life through three sensory-rich gems. You'll hear gems on: Why spa rituals are not just self care, but a form of self-mothering and somatic restoration1–5 minute rituals that move energy, boost blood flow, and create real radiance from withinSmall sensory touches you can add to your home and workspace todayA loungewear investment that makes every morning feel like a hugEPISODE PAGE & LINKS Resources mentioned: Sanctuary MembershipDaily Rituals for Delicious MorningsFree 5-Minute Velvet Reset Asheville Salt CaveAcorn SlippersMy favorite morning robespa rituals at home, feminine embodiment, sensory wellness, somatic healing, beauty breaks, self-mothering, nervous system regulation, daily rituals 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

If you've ever experienced loss, been close to death or the dying, or just deeply pondered your own mortality, you know that turning towards death can be the key to truly living. In today's episode, Mary Lofgren speaks with Ned Buskirk.  Ned is the founder of You're Going to Die, a non-profit that holds space for grief, death, and living through creative expression and conversation. That night, I experienced what it truly means to Come to Our Senses: to wake from the trance of separateness, and be cracked open by the beauty of our shared humanity. LINKS FROM THE SHOW  Full episode show notes Learn more at yg2d.comThe You're Going to Die Podcast Alive Inside Prison ProgramA 5-minute practice to get back in your bodyHeart Healing Support Kit: A Balm for a Broken Heart🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Sometimes, the pressure to create an optimized morning routine can be so immense. Cold plunges. Tuning forks. Shots of liquids that smell like a turnip's flatulence. Me? I'm more of a buttered croissant, sliced apricot, bergamot steam coming off a cup of Earl Grey kind of gal. And if I had to guess, I'd bet you are too.  In a world of habit trackers and sleep scores, a morning worth savoring can feel like a lost art.  In today's episode, I'll teach you how to step out of the rush and into the lush with magnetic morning pleasure.   You'll hear gems on: How to make your morning more delicious How one breath, one sip, one moment creates a genuine shift from bracing to beautyThe hidden sensory portals already built into your morning routineMy analog alarm + mochi white noise machine The Sensual Sip, Barefoot Beginnings, the Queen's Walk, and moreLinks & Resources: ✨ Daily Rituals for Delicious Mornings album → 🎁 Free five-minute Velvet Reset practice 🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.

Just yesterday I was speaking with a dear client about the fear a woman feels as she gets older. The idea that we’ll arrive at a certain age, feeling full of regret over not having done enough, saved enough, risked enough, or made enough of our lives.  So this fear runs us, prodding us from behind like a pitchfork, pushing us further away from ourselves and our deeper, truer desires. But then something happens when we enter mid-life. The rushing outwards starts to spiral back inwards.  And while not always the case, we tend to arrive at the fearsome place feeling like we’ve arrived right on time, and in style.  Now all of this sounds great, until you start calling a woman a crone. 😮 Crone tends to conjure images of being dried up, withered. Oh, what a smear campaign.  What a poisoning of the water of a woman’s beauty, power, and pleasure as she moves through life.  One of the ways we (ahem) come to our senses around aging, time, and true feminine beauty is to see it modeled.  And today, I couldn’t be more proud and excited to bring you the most magnificent, gorgeous, radiant model I know: my Mom. You'll hear gems on: A special ceremony that changed how we both saw the aging processThe most important thing to do to prepare for Crone-HoodWhich Golden Girl each of us would beWise tid-bits and Mother/Daughter giggles you’re just gonna loveLinks from the Episode:  Meet my new pup, Little Man! Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk KiddClick over to the episode page  for full show notes, and to see a photo of my beloved Dad🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.