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This week on the Tiny Pod is all About Grief. Grief is found in the everyday, it begins in birth with that first loss of connection from the safety of the womb and compounds throughout childhood with every lost micro connection, trauma, neglect, and moments of rejection and humiliation just for being ourself. We learn early to carry it silently, to adapt, to cope using all the coping mechanisms we can find- denial, avoidance, fantasy, illusion, repression. We get so familiar carrying grief it becomes “normal” and “familiar” in our nervous system. But unfelt grief is heavy, exhausting and impacts us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. When we allow ourselves to feel our grief, to acknowledge our losses and witness our past hurts, we free ourselves from being run by the past. We step into presence, and power. There is so much collective grief in the world now it can feel debilitating if we are still carrying our own unprocessed personal grief. As we heal, we create space and capacity to connect, to love, to act and to experience joy fully, deeply, now. See you next week week, Miranda x

In honour of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and every single human who has courage to stand up to injustice, this week on The Tiny Pod is all About Courage. The word courage comes from the Latin word ‘cod’ meaning heart. Courage comes from the heart. Our heart is the source of our power, it is the strongest electromagnetic field, it generates our energy. Broken hearts, hard hearts, act from fear. Cowards hide their faces behind masks, their malice behind power and authority. They are hiding from themselves, from their accountability, from their heart. A regulated person stands, shows their face, and has nothing to hide. Historically it has always taken courage for the world to change - the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the civil rights movement were all acts of great courage. Courage is whole hearted, and it asks us to heal our own hearts, to open our hearts and to live wholeheartedly. In a world of terror and violence, there is a temptation to close, to harden. The revolution is to soften, to remain open, to feel and to love. Those who love power forget the power of love. Love overcomes, love wins. Amor Omnia Vincit, M xx

.. And Illegal Alien, and inalienable rights and alienation. This week on the Tiny Pod is all about neutral, natural words immigrant and alien becoming charged when media-political narratives were created as a distraction for power to hide behind. Dehumanising language removes dignity and protection. Labelling a human being an “illegal alien,” criminalises the person, and strips them of their humanity. Power uses law to enact violence under the cover of impunity. Immigration is ancient, biblical, natural. We are all immigrants, moving from town to town, from emotional state to emotional state. From life to life. We are all One Human Race. One Humanity. One Love, Miranda x

This week is all About Liberal. The word liberal comes from the Latin word Liber, meaning free. Liberal first found its way into politics in 17th Century England around the time of the “Glorious Revolution.” John Locke, often called the founding father of liberalism, wrote about life, liberty, happiness and self-ownership of property. Thomas Jefferson later took his philosophies and adapted them for the Declaration of Independence- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and modern democracy in France is founded on liberty, equality and fraternity. It is therefore ironic when people use the term liberal to insult, denigrate or mock another, while using the democratic privileges that liberalism affords them - free speech, platforms, and individual rights. Woke is not about moral performance, it is moral courage, awareness of social injustice, and staying awake to oppression and corruption. When people attack liberals, left and woke, they are trying to poison the values inherent in the words - fairness, equality, individual rights and freedom. Only politicians who maintain power and control through domination need to vilify conscience with courage and love that refuses to stay silent in the face of injustice, oppression and harm. May all beings be free 🙏 See you next week, Miranda x

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🌟 Welcome to Season 5! As we look back at the year past, and look forward to the year ahead, we have the clarity to see where we are, and to clarify who we are. Clarifying is a process, it involves heat, pressure, time and patience. We often want to skip the process to get to the result, we imagine results will fulfil us- wealth, love, achievements. But it is the process of clarification that builds strength, resilience, and the capacity to hold all we are moving towards. To clarify is to strip back, to remove impurities and allow the fog to be cleared so that all that remains is true. Clarifying is simple, quiet, and purifying. It does not promise ease, but it promises honesty, and honesty lived consistently is peace. See you next week, Miranda x

This week is all About Capacity. As the year draws to a close, we reflect on all that has past, and what is to come in the New Year. We make New Years Resolutions, and believe in new possibility. Capacity is the inner structure that allows beliefs to take form: love, money, purpose and change, without collapsing. Beliefs are the initiator, capacity sustains quietly, through steadiness, regulation and trust. Belief, and resolutions invite us forward, capacity expands, is patient in discomfort, and steady in change. Capacity is built in repetitive, moment-to-moment regulation in face of external challenges, emotional vulnerability, and humility. Capacity enlarges us so that when the life we are building arrives, it lands. See you next week, Miranda x

This week is all About Perfection. The original meaning of perfection was all about wholeness, completion, and the word implied nothing essential was missing. Our modern world, shaped by religious and capitalist ideas has replaced this completeness with flawlessness. Perfection is the enemy of the good. Needing every thing to be perfect is a signal the nervous system is deregulated, and essentially the body feels unsafe. Seeking perfection is an unconscious form of control, and creates discomfort, anxiety and stress in the body, and the rooms we inhabit. Perfection is unattainable, elusive and therefore unsatisfying to pursue. When we chase perfection, we miss out on presence. This Christmas, I encourage you all to relax into the now, to enjoy the truth of being human in all its imperfect, beautiful unpredictability and to focus instead on authentic connection, presence and one another. Joy cannot exist with perfection, so at this time of year when we want everything to be perfect, instead choose joy. Choose each other. Choose love. Let peace reign in your homes and in your hearts. Happy Christmas to you and yours 🌟❤️ Much love, Miranda x

This week is all about how we try to quantify our life to find meaning, comfort and a sense of control. Our modern world celebrates quantity - how much money, power, achievements, titles, friends we have. We measure the success of relationships in the length of time couples are together. It is in the quality, not quantity, that true value is found. See you next week, M x

Transaction originally meant to drive something through, bringing something to fulfilment. It was complete in and of itself. Over time, transaction became about exchange, commerce, giving and receiving, and it is this modern understanding that has become contaminated by fear, greed and ego. Transaction from scarcity is a trauma response. When you are in survival, transaction is about trying to win. Overflow transaction is about living in a state where you can’t lose. When you are whole, you give from fullness without need for return because you are already complete. Giving is a natural extension and expression of your fullness, and sovereignty. You can give love, energy, resources and time without any expectation, and this is where true freedom, trust, and alignment live. It is from our own fullness that we are able to build and nurture true, authentic connection with others fearlessly. See you next week, Miranda x

Today on The Tiny Pod is all About Dominance. Dominance is a survival mechanism, it is primal- whoever had resources, territory and control survived. Dominance is built on the nervous system of the traumatised. Our modern world today continues to reward dominance: those who perform, control, force and strive garner attention, wealth, power and influence. Dominators have to win at all costs because their identity collapse without the win. True Power doesn’t need a victory to know its worth. Dominance is loud, it shouts, true power simply is. Dominance is outward: force, performance, ego, spectacle. True power is quiet certainty, alignment, conviction, presence, grace and humility. Cultivating true power and breaking free of domination systems requires nervous system regulation, emotional maturity, and alignment. It is a shift from “I must dominate to be worthy,” to knowing you are inherently worthy and therefore do not need to dominate, prove or fight for control. See you next week, Miranda x

This week is all About Money. Money is used by the wealthy to disempower, to distract us away from our self and to create shame that exhausts us to enslave us to a broken system that thrives on the oppression of others. Capitalism needs us to spend, to serve and to remain in a constant state of lack so that we forget who we truly are. Alignment is our natural state, and nothing pulls us out of alignment faster than centralising money and the pursuit of wealth. Sustainable wealth is built through alignment in our bodies, regulation in our nervous system, consciousness in our mental chatter, neural programming and openness in our hearts. When we value love, generosity flows. When we value money, we hoard, defend and protect our money at the expense of our integrity. True wealth is found internally, through aligning our body, heart, mind and soul. Abundance flows when we live in alignment, when we value relationship with others over competition, and when we give freely, rather than frantically consuming, and fearfully hoarding. Money cannot buy peace, safety, security or dignity. Consciousness is the way to true, lasting wealth, because when we know who we are and we value ourselves, we cannot be bought for all the money in the world. See you next week, M x

This week’s pod, in honour of World Kindness Day on Thursday 13th November, is all About Kindness. True kindness is not actions, gestures, donations. It is the intention behind them. It flows from your heart, it is your inherent nature. When we are in survival, competition, proving our worth, seeking favour, we cannot be truly kind because we are seeking a return “in kind,” recognition, social favour. When we are seeking praise, we are giving conditionally, and kindness becomes performative and transactional. True kindness is both who we are in our essence, at our heart, and a learned, life long practice of generosity and empathy. True kindness needs nothing, seeks nothing, asks nothing, and is freely given. Kindness heals, kindness creates trust and safety both in our own selves and in the community around us. Kindness is who we are, not what we do. See you next week, M x

This week is all About Peace, in honour of Remembrance Day. Our government, political and financial structures were built on war, violence, inequality, oppression to control society, and enrich the few in power. War is big business, the government increases its annual spend on defence year on year. And even peace is commodified, the very companies that supplied the weapons of mass destruction now fighting to win contracts for reconstruction of what they destroyed. War becomes a toxic loop of power, money, destruction and construction. Even the wellness industry tries to gate keep peace, and sell it back to us. Peace, true peace, is here with us now. It is found in the courage to hold truth, to know injustice and to honestly see the world as it is. Peace is found in rest, and it is found in surrender. War is control through external force, and peace is self control built internally. Peace is found in presence, now, it is not waiting for us . We do not need permission from anyone to have peace, we just need to let ourselves remember. As we remember those who have fallen, and the cost of peace, may we remember the peace we owe to ourselves. See you next week M x

This week I talk About Love. The word ‘love’ is misused to describe all manner of actions, behaviours, feelings and desires that are not love at all. We use ‘love’ to manipulate, control, survive. When we fear, whether we fear losing someone or something, fear being alone, or fear being known, we cannot love, truly. Courage is from the heart, and from the heart, love casts out fear. For further reading on the quotes I referenced today: 1 John 4 1 Corinthians 13 See you next week, LOVE Miranda x

Truth can be divisive, polarising . We risk losing belonging to a family, a community or a collective built on pretence and performance when we speak truth. This threat of rejection can keep us stuck in dishonesty, and silent out of fear. Truth is uncomfortable for those who have not built the capacity to hold it. Truth is the enemy of oppressors and systems that thrive on our ignorance, complacency and fear. Truth is a muscle we grow into. As we open to truth, and allow the discomfort of truth to move through us, we grow into our capacity to know ourselves, form true relationships and be an active part of true, meaningful community. Anything lost when we speak truth and live by truth was false, fleeting and illusory. Truth cannot be lost, it is a firm foundation upon which we can grow, and it is an anchor on which we can depend, and deepen into trust. See you next week, Miranda x