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What if our real work is just to trust what we already know, deep down? What we need to do is be very, very focused on our own knowing—that deep, essential knowing. I call it essential for two reasons: It’s absolutely needed, and it’s the essence of who you are, a unique flavor that’s only you. When you authorize that knowing, you start to receive ideas of what you want, and they seem to be collaborative with the world. They come from inside you, but they also come from around you, and then they

What if our real work is just to trust what we already know, deep down? What we need to do is be very, very focused on our own knowing—that deep, essential knowing. I call it essential for two reasons: It’s absolutely needed, and it’s the essence of who you are, a unique flavor that’s only you. When you authorize that knowing, you start to receive ideas of what you want, and they seem to be collaborative with the world. They come from inside you, but they also come from around you, and then they

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Martha Beck on the Importance of Finding Peace Within Yourself

Martha Beck on the Importance of Finding Peace Within Yourself

The Way of Integrity

The Way of Integrity

Dr. Richard Schwartz joins Martha for this special episode of The Gathering Room for a conversation about Internal Family Systems therapy and his latest book, YOU ARE THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. One of the things they discuss is the idea of spaciousness, and Martha shares a story about a scholar who goes to learn from a Zen master. “I have been studying my whole life,” the scholar says, “but I don't know enough to be enlightened. Something must be missing. Please teach me.” And the Zen mast

Dr. Richard Schwartz joins Martha for this special episode of The Gathering Room for a conversation about Internal Family Systems therapy and his latest book, YOU ARE THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. One of the things they discuss is the idea of spaciousness, and Martha shares a story about a scholar who goes to learn from a Zen master. “I have been studying my whole life,” the scholar says, “but I don't know enough to be enlightened. Something must be missing. Please teach me.” And the Zen mast

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Did you know there are three questions your brain is asking all the time? 🛟 Am I safe? 🩷 Am I loved? 🤓 What can I learn? The problem for most of us is that we don't feel safe or loved a lot of the time, and our brains never get to the “What can I learn?” question. However, almost all the time, we're actually physically safe. As you’re reading this, look around you right now: 🦁 No predatory animals… 🚂 No oncoming trains… 🪷 You’re safe. Now say to yourself, “May you be well. May you be happy

Did you know there are three questions your brain is asking all the time? 🛟 Am I safe? 🩷 Am I loved? 🤓 What can I learn? The problem for most of us is that we don't feel safe or loved a lot of the time, and our brains never get to the “What can I learn?” question. However, almost all the time, we're actually physically safe. As you’re reading this, look around you right now: 🦁 No predatory animals… 🚂 No oncoming trains… 🪷 You’re safe. Now say to yourself, “May you be well. May you be happy

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Do you want to become more mindful? In this episode of The Gathering Room podcast, Martha shares ways to cultivate mindfulness and equanimity so you can ground yourself in the present. She says to get in touch with your neuroception, with every feeling you have in your body, you start by simply looking around at your surroundings: 🧱 at the walls 🪟 out a window 🖼️ at anything beautiful in the room “Look at the glimmers,” Martha says, “the things that cause positive feelings, the way a trigger

Do you want to become more mindful? In this episode of The Gathering Room podcast, Martha shares ways to cultivate mindfulness and equanimity so you can ground yourself in the present. She says to get in touch with your neuroception, with every feeling you have in your body, you start by simply looking around at your surroundings: 🧱 at the walls 🪟 out a window 🖼️ at anything beautiful in the room “Look at the glimmers,” Martha says, “the things that cause positive feelings, the way a trigger

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Did you know your body is a compass? Many of us have been taught that logic is more trustworthy than our own perceptions…but in a rapidly changing world, logic might not help us. Luckily, there is wisdom in the body that is always available to you. In Wayfinder Life Coach Training, Martha Beck teaches you how to access this wisdom by using your body as a “compass” to find your way to a life you love. Our bodies patiently persist in telling us the truth, Martha says, and learning to listen to thi

Did you know your body is a compass? Many of us have been taught that logic is more trustworthy than our own perceptions…but in a rapidly changing world, logic might not help us. Luckily, there is wisdom in the body that is always available to you. In Wayfinder Life Coach Training, Martha Beck teaches you how to access this wisdom by using your body as a “compass” to find your way to a life you love. Our bodies patiently persist in telling us the truth, Martha says, and learning to listen to thi

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Martha is so excited about her brand-new community, Wilder, that’s just opened, and she’s telling you all about it in this episode of The Gathering Room! 📣 For a long time Martha has wanted there to be a way for everybody on the “Team”—the amazing group of people who were born to bring in the new consciousness—to talk to each other. And about a year ago, she discovered that the technology had been invented. 🧑‍💻 She’s been obsessed with it ever since, along with Rowan Mangan, her partner and c

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Humbled and proud. Thank you to each and every one of you who helped Beyond Anxiety an instant New York Times best seller! x-M | Martha Beck

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I'm on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast talking with @GlennonDoyle, @AbbyWambach & Amanda. We’re talking about intuition and knowing – tapping back into our inner guide after living lives by consensus and outer voices – and how to move toward what we love and what feels warm to us. Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-can-do-hard-things-with-glennon-doyle/id1564530722?i=100054961799 | Martha Beck

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Everyone wants to be safe—it’s a basic human need—and in this episode of the Gathering Room podcast, Martha shares our best strategy for staying safe: We have to go into a peaceful state and learn to anchor our brains in that state. As she reminds us: “What fires together, wires together in the brain.” 🧠 If we go into that stillness, Martha says, if we go into whatever calms us—and we do it over and over and over again—we're firing the brain over and over into peace, so it “wires” for peace. To

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Are you having trouble tapping into creative pursuits? First, be kind to yourself. And then be even kinder. Then when you’re really feeling kind, just ask yourself, “What do I like to make?” 🤔 After you’ve gotten kind and calm, the next step away from the anxious state is curiosity. Ask yourself, “What makes me curious?” 🦝 Go on some kind of social media platform and get an algorithm going that shows you things you love to look at. I’m on Threads, for example, and I follow: 🔬 Sciency things �

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One way to deal with the constant, terrifying changes in all of our lives is to choose the worldview of a pilgrim. That is, someone who doesn’t see life as a series of fixed positions but as a continuous, fluid process—a journey. 👣 And not even the journey is important—the way the journey changes you, changes us, is the point. That’s what we’re talking about in the most recent episode of Bewildered: Changed by the Path Itself. Have a listen! 🙉 You can listen to Bewildered episode 103: Changed

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I once read that the cognitive brain can process about 40 bits of information per second, which is very fast. 🧠 But your whole body—your whole neurological system—is processing about 11 million bits of information per second. 🤯 So when your head says, “Okay, I need to make a logical decision when to insert my voice and when to let things be,” the ancient compasses inside you will say, “We’ll tell you when we get there.” Compasses don’t draw maps! You have to walk forward to see where you’re go

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It’s no use staying scared once you’ve taken all the measures you can possibly take to stay safe, but a lot of people still feel scared anyway. That’s anxiety—and I’m talking about it on this “Listen Again” episode of the Gathering Room podcast. 🧟‍♀️ A lot of us are walking around constantly anxious… 🚨 Thinking that we’re alert… 🧭 Thinking that we can trust our intuition… …When in fact, we’re blotting out our intuition with anxiety! To hear what your intuition is trying to tell you, first you

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This is a spicy time in history, and in this episode of Bewildered we’re talking about our go-to strategy for steering our way through chaotic times—following our intuition! Don’t forget, especially in the times to come, that your intuition, your story, is poking at you. 🫵 And it’s trying to do it with: 🌞 joy 🦝 curiosity 🎡 and fun! And if it can’t get through to you that way, it will start to poke a little harder and things might start to go wrong… 😳 So pay attention to your intuition, whic

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When you are fully attentive and fully present, you get tremendous amounts of information warning you—in very subtle ways sometimes and sometimes in rather obvious ways—but not in a way that our culture would consider normal. 🕷 It’s not somebody coming and telling you something. It’s not that you see a clue on the ground. It’s that your “spider senses” go ding-ding-ding! 🕷 And that’s real, even though we don’t have language for a lot of the ways in which it arrives. Spider senses work as well

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One way that I think we defeat ourselves in today’s rapidly changing, often overwhelming world is with the idea that “the truth is out there.” Why? Because we only have access to truth through what's inside of us, not outside of us. When we go inward and find our own truth, we're able to make a path through the world. I call this Wayfinding, and it’s the basis of my Wayfinder Life Coach Training course where I teach you the tools for finding your own way. As you learn to live according to your T

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How can we create inner stability in this time of change? I like to use meditation or little visualizations, and in this episode of The Gathering Room podcast, I’ll guide you through one that can help you focus on space, stillness, and silence to connect with your center of calm. 📰 Before you look at the news… 🛌 Before you get out of bed… 🚦 Before you go out into traffic in the morning… Take some time to stop and feel the love that is pouring into you from the ocean around you, which doesn’t

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We always know the truth, deep down. But growing up in this culture teaches us to distrust what we know to the point that we no longer know that we know it. It’s like the best trick the devil ever pulled. 😈 That’s why our friend Dr. Lisa Miller’s phrase “authorize your knowing” resonates so strongly with us—and why we’re talking about it on this episode of Bewildered! Where does culture always tell us we’re supposed to look for answers? External authorities. “You should call the authorities.” “

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Sometimes in this crazy thing we call life… 😵 when you’ve had not enough sleep... 🎒 and you have a kid who’s having her literal first day of school ever… 🎙️ something in life prevails upon you to go off and make a podcast! This is Ro’s present situation, and on this episode of Bewildered, she’s using the podcast as an opportunity to receive some world-class life coaching on just how hard it is to care for people, do a job, do a life, and be a human. Tune in to hear Martha coaching about role

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A friend of mine just had her 70th birthday, and she said, “I can’t really fake it anymore. It’s a short runway.” The whole point of having a “short runway” is to use and experience every single inch of that runway, including things like: 😳 embarrassment 🤕 ill health 😔 failure 😄 joy 😐 and everything in between You’re seated in a body, in a set of emotions, and you’re able to become wise. And I actually believe you can start at any age. There is the push that comes when you’re looking at a s

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I learned to meditate from the recording called The Inner Art of Meditation by Jack Kornfield. He’s one of my favorites. And I also love the work of Byron Katie, who doesn’t do a lot of visualizations, but she guides your imagination. In her live broadcasts, Byron Katie will take you through your pain at a breakthrough, pull the wool from your eyes, and let everything material go poof! You become fluid and enter the space that she walks in and lives in, and you can feel it. It will pull you thro

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Martha’s new book is out! 📖 It’s called Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose, and in this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro are talking about how to use creativity to move out of anxiety and into a calm and fulfilling life. Martha acknowledges that there are a lot of problems that could legitimately be seen as fear-making in today’s anxious world. 🌎 The way to encounter a problem effectively, she says, is to go at it with creativity. 💡 “Create your way to

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Asian philosophies have a focus on the idea that human beings are not their bodies, minds, or personalities. 🌏 In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about the consciousness that inhabits and guides your human form and the idea of “training your human” to get along in the culture while staying true to its wild nature. 🪷 In Eastern meditation practices, the idea is that you become the “observing presence”— this entity that watches you affably from a short distance or from inside—and you d

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We’re living in a time that calls for a radical turning toward the integrity of the inner self. Goethe once said, “When you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” 🪶 When I was 30-something and began to trust myself to know how to live, I found that my body understood things before my mind did. As research has shown, the thinking brain processes about 40 bits of information per second, but the whole body-mind processes more than 11 million bits per second. 🤯 So when you’re surrounded by co

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Do you ever get stuck when trying to make decisions? Any decision, from tiny to tremendous, can be guided by what Martha Beck calls the “body compass,” one of the foundational tools of her Wayfinder Life Coach Training. As a Wayfinder, you’ll learn to stop consulting your logical mind for every decision. As Martha says, that's the last part of yourself you want to consult! Instead, you’ll tap into the wisdom of your body to see what you feel when you imagine yourself making a specific choice—whe

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We humans tend to go to the negative. In our culture, it’s considered maudlin, stupid, even sub-intellectual to not go to the most negative scenario. Optimism is dismissed as naïve while cynicism is treated as insight. But unless we are open to all scenarios—the good as well as the bad—we’re not really engaging with reality. As you may recall, the motto of the Bewildered podcast is: “Culture comes to consensus. Nature means coming to our senses.” When you move through the world with your senses

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Martha Beck Shares Her Favorite Ways to Tap Into Her Creative Side

Where do you go when you don’t trust what’s around you? In this week’s Gathering Room, I talk about how to navigate our chaotic, rapidly changing world by turning inward to the body's wisdom. I’ll guide you through a Wayfinder visualization to help you feel held in safety, and show you how this state can become your most trusted navigation system. Join me for the full conversation to shift from victim to hero, follow your inner compass, and wayfind through uncertainty with more compassion and pe

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