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Rise and Thrive Show
by Finding peace and joy in life even when it feels impossible.
Life’s not easy for anyone. We all experience disappointing stuff. It can really hurt and bring us down or show us new and better ways. There are choices when times are tough and we feel like we’re going to explode, meltdown or give up. Some of us opt for another glass of wine or big piece of chocolate cake to relieve the pain. But there is a price to be paid for "eating our feelings" or drowning them in alcohol. We really don't want those extra pounds or a headache in the morning. Our podcast is full of better ideas to help turn disappointment into hope and melt pain away for good. It's fun conversations filled with inspiring real-life stories, fresh attitudes and new ideas. It's friends helping friends get through and get over negative emotions and crappy feelings and heal the wounds they leave behind. It's all about living a healthy life full of peace and joy. We hope you'll give one of our episodes a listen. Were pretty sure you'll discover something that will put you on a new path
Episodes
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A LONG STORY, THAT WILL END WELL, AND A HELLUVA MOTHER’S DAY TALE
Mary continues her thoughtful journey of engaging the unfolding story of destruction that is all around us in these times. Is kindness to others, and occasionally marching in the street enough? We don’t know, because we are in the middle of a very long story, which for avid readers is the best...
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ENCOURAGEMENT – Steady presence to good people, and the winter medicine of crows
Sometimes the best remedies in life are the simple ones: you can take time to be with a favorite old friend, and take delight in your pets or the wildlife near you. Step out of your head and drop into your heart, as you seek the nourishing company of a special person who has inspiring qualities....
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MAKE PEACE WITH CATASTROPHE
Mary leads us in a thoughtful reverie about the place that the experience of a catastrophe has in our life and growth. From personal catastrophes like a bad accident or a debilitating illness or the sudden death of a friend – to collective experiences like fires, floods, terrorist attacks and...
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Everyday Sacred: A Thought, a Prayer, and a Story
At the time of the Inauguration, Mary invites you to join her in continuing to process her deep worries about the nation, and to find the way forward. What is the medicine for this, she asks, and how do I wake up to a good and hopeful day? The answer: A renewed commitment to powerfully living her...
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WHAT DO I BELONG TO, NOW?
Mary emerges from some winter snoozes and from her election disappointment, to a fresh burst of energy available to participate fully in … what? Something. Cozy up and spend a little time together as she entertains a poignant life question: “what do I belong to, now?” She also shares a few...
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Time to Rest?
Mary invites us to join her in her enthusiasm for more rest and quiet than usual, at Winter Solstice. Enjoy her musings about the importance of taking charge of our time for rest and for personal pleasures during the busy holiday season. Brain science supports the importance of silence! Mary…
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Moving Beyond Disappointment – Here’s My Plan
Mary continues to share her thoughts about going beyond her disappointment about the American election. Once again, she renews herself with her pathway of Unconditional Love and Forgiveness, and shares some comforting nuggets of wisdom from a soulful level, about the wish to do something,...
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Hello again – you good?
Mary returns to her podcast with a warmhearted flourish after a period of fallow silence, to address the need of re-weaving a sense of “we” in American society in these post-election times. It’s simple. Be ready to see the good, say the good, foster the good in the lives of those we meet, no…
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Loss, and Getting Up Again
Mary Hayes Grieco is back with you again, in this new solo era of The Rise and Thrive Podcast. Today Mary reads two essays from her perennial book, The New Kitchen Mystic: “Loss” and “Getting Up Again.” These pieces are like vitamins or a soothing balm for your resilient heart, because the...
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And Then She Went Home
This is a story that Mary tells from her recent experience with opening her heart to a homeless woman. Choke-up Alert! This is a sweet and sad story – enter in with your own brave and kind heart.
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Here comes the new season of the Rise and Thrive Podcast!
Hey, we’re back! Well, um, we mean – Mary’s back, flying solo this season because Erin is busy in her new leadership role at MPR News. Say hello to Mary Hayes Grieco again as she invites you into the next season of thoughtfulness, kitchen mystic philosophy, and delicious storytelling. Mary…
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Modern Psychology – A Field on a Journey with Darla K. McEnroe, LMSW, NBCC
We continue exploring the explosive new growth in modern psychology, as Mary jams with Darla McEnroe, a busy therapist. Darla employs a number of new growth technologies with people in her busy practice. After 25 years of showing up to healing human pain in her daily work, Darla remains fresh and...
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Weird Times Self Mastery Series: Part 3 – Greeting the Friendly Unknown
In this episode, Mary and Erin discuss the ways that we re-set our attitude in the long weird times we’re in. Take comfort from some of the best ideas from Eckhart Tolle’s work, A New Earth, which explains to us what higher consciousness really is, and how our own energy and attitudes improve our...
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Weird Times Self Mastery Series: Part 2 – Masters and Morons
During the height of the pandemic, Erin and Mary both had uncomfortable encounters with “people who are not doing that well.” Friends, family, strangers – how do you handle it when someone nearby you explodes with irrationality because of the built-up pressure of our weird times? Hear some tips…
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Weird Times Self Mastery Series: Part 1 – Companions in the Uncertainty of Now
The pandemic is waning… rising…changing? We don’t know anymore, but we do know that with all the pandemic debris still around, and with world situations quite chaotic and worrisome, times are weird and people are not at their best in this present uncertainty. How do we walk through this scary…
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Exploring the Promise of True Freedom
What is true freedom? As Mary and Erin tell it, the healing experience of forgiveness delivers the promise of freedom because freedom is an inside job. You become free, as you dissolve the heavy weight of a bad old story, and something sparkly enters you instead. In the moment of forgiveness…
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Modern Psychology: A Field on a Journey – with Sharon Stein McNamara, Ed.D.
Since the pandemic and the upsets of 2020, the word “trauma” has found a foothold in many conversations, and we see today that mental health issues abound all around us. Many people are seeking therapy for the first time, and psychologists are more than busy these days. How is the modern field of...
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Julie’s Forgiveness Story: Healing the Pain and Rage of a Cheating Spouse
Erin and Mary are joined this week by Julie, a dedicated forgiveness student who swiftly transformed her misery about the surprise revelation that her husband had been having an affair for a full year. In the process, she realized there were important things about her husband’s personality and...
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Incorporating Light into Your Beautiful Life
Did you wake up in hell this morning, or did you wake up in your beautiful life? Or somewhere in between? Mary and Erin reflect on the most valuable takeaways from the recent My Beautiful Life class, and muse on the power we have to choose our attitude and the challenge of living through...
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Pro-Tips from Mary – Relief is on the Way!
Are you ready to give Mary’s 8-Step method for forgiveness a try? First, listen to this episode where Mary shares tips on preparing to do the steps. And how to care for yourself afterward. You got this! Relief is on the way! (This is another revisit of a previous conversation).
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Self-Forgiveness mini-review + Guided Exercise
In this new episode, Mary leads listeners through a brief review of her Self-Forgiveness method. The guided exercise begins at TC: 18:45. Pause and re-start the recording as needed. Relief is on the way! Learn more about Mary’s method on her website at: www.forgivenesstraining.com Or read Mary’s...
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Forgiveness mini-review + Guided Exercise
In this new episode, Mary Hayes Grieco gives a brief review of her 8-steps to freedom. The guided exercise begins at TC: 17:00. Pause and re-start the recording as needed. You got this! Learn more about Mary’s method on her website at: www.forgivenesstraining.com Or read Mary’s book…
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Accessing Healing Energy – Steps 6 thru 8 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
Mary and Erin discuss how forgiveness is refreshing and healing, and by doing it, you can feel better and brighter, by accessing Spirit’s healing energy. Mary explains how in steps 6, 7, and 8 of her forgiveness method, you can experience a spiritual cleansing, a reset in your life, that brings...
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Opening Up to Life Again – Step 5 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
Step Five is a key ingredient of Mary’s recipe for healing. In this episode, Mary and Erin go deep on what it means to “open up to life again” and how to do it. Mary explains how this turning point helps us connect with the goodness of life. And she explains how to draw on your higher power to…
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Restoring Your Boundaries – Step 4 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
Mary and Erin revisit this conversation, where they reveal the liberating act of setting boundaries in our lives. Drawing lines between what is ours and what isn’t. What we will and will not do. What we will and will not allow to happen to us. How we do and don’t want to use our time and energy....
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Releasing Expectations from Your Mind – Step 3 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
We naturally expect people in our life to be good, smart, and do the right thing. We rightly fuss and fume when they do bad and stupid things that hurt and disappoint us. We wish they could and should be different than they are, but we can’t control that. Mary and Erin reveal how to stop…
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Venting Your Emotions – Step 2 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
Getting out the bad memories, negative emotions, and crappy feelings that have been haunting you, is the beginning of the healing process. Honoring and expressing your true feelings passionately and out loud, is key to your emotional healing process. Don’t be afraid to have the messy cry! Or to...
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Asserting Your Will – Step 1 of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
So you’ve decided it’s finally time to ditch the anger, resentment, disappointment, and sadness from a bad experience with someone or something. You want to be done with the pain once and for all. We revisit this conversation, where Mary and Erin help you define the change you want and help you...
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Getting Ready to Start – Mary’s Forgiveness Method
If you intend to heal a big wound from a bad experience and find relief from the pain of it, you will be making a significant change in your life. Are you ready for a change? Change isn’t easy for most of us. Fear can hold us back from making changes, even those we know are good for us. Mary and...
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Overview of Mary’s Forgiveness Method
We revisit this conversation where Mary introduces her awesome recipe for getting through and getting over the inevitable losses, disappointments, and mistakes we all experience, and for peacefully coexisting with annoying and difficult people. Mary’s “Eight Steps to Freedom” is an indispensable...
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Pandemic Times: We’re Playing a Long Game
Can you move forward yet, post-pandemic? How do we deal with the changes, uncertainty, and psychological rubble and debris that is still in us and around us? Mary and Erin take the long view today and discuss the gifts of a pandemic in human evolution, the current rise of people willing to view...
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The Mindset of Abundance and Success
You don’t need a lot of money to be rich and to experience great abundance in your life, starting today. Enjoy this meaty and encouraging discussion as Erin and Mary explore “the mindset of abundance and success” and the simple and transforming thoughts and attitudes that chase away the…
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Understanding Humility
Do you worry sometimes that you are playing “too small” in your life? Or do you hold yourself back from your fullest self because you were raised to be a humble and modest person and told not to call too much attention to yourself? Mary says, “If the Universe is asking you to step up and shine...
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Boundaries – Say yes, Say no, According to Your True Purposes
When we feel stressed, overloaded, or scattered, it’s usually because our boundaries are not in place. A boundary is the line we draw and maintain that delineates what we do and don’t want in our lives; it’s that important line between who we are and what we intend, and who we aren’t, and what...
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The Paradox of Purpose: “Relax… and Get Going!”
Explore the delightful “playground structure” of Mary’s framework about how we recognize and empower our purposes: the paradox of relaxing AND getting going at the same time … the different levels of purpose that inform the song of our life, whether simple like a piano sonata or majestic and...
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Your Wild Self, Your Confident Self – Is it Time for You to Break Out?
Even for a moment? Our wild self is the part of us that does the unexpected – acts goofy, initiates a harmless joke, breaks a rule, leaves routine to go “Walkabout,” or submerges spontaneously in a wild river or a beautiful rain. Erin and Mary celebrate the breakout moments that refresh us and...
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Self-Forgiveness: The Key to Loving Yourself
Do you have any idea how wonderful you are? Or did you forget how good you are somewhere along the way when life got hard? Stop beating yourself up and depriving yourself of “your beautiful life,” and join Mary and Erin again this week as they explore the power of a commitment to self-love and to...
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Intimacy and Healthy Vulnerability – Do They Make You Feel a Little “Sweaty”?
Erin and Mary lean in a little closer, a little deeper, into matters of the heart. Our capacity to know and accept ourselves enough to be transparent and trusting of another person is one of the essential abilities to cultivate in “your beautiful life.” Let your heart be nourished by this...
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Self Love, Perfectionism, and Joy, Anyway!
The Beautiful Life class moves ahead in Module 2 into the vital and tender territory of Self-Love. What are the behaviors of healthy self-regard? Do you dare to firmly plant the new belief that you are “a cherished child of the Universe,” and experience the goodness that grows from that? What is...
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Creativity, The Invisible World, and The Magical Earth
We continue our exploration of the topic of Intuition this week, with gusto for the subtle magic that abounds in everyday life; Erin and Mary give each other encouragement to let the magic be real, let it be good, and open up all of your perceptive senses to enjoy it. Hang out with them soon in…
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Intuition: Your GPS for Ease, Safety, and a Purposeful Life
In this episode, Mary and Erin chomp into and savor one of their favorite self-mastery topics – Intuition. What is it? How does it operate in you? Is it scary? Can you trust it? Can you figure out if you’re interpreting it accurately, and can you make it clearer and stronger? We explore some...
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“I Want to Be Like You When I Grow up!”
Erin and Mary hang out after class together, and jam on some of the ideas taught this week in the My Beautiful Life class, an ongoing zoom class with Mary that focuses on aspects and tools of spiritual mastery and living purposefully. Today we explore the power of role models, and the opportunity...
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My Beautiful Life – Self Mastery and Life Purpose
The “My Beautiful Life – Self Mastery and Life Purpose” class series begins this week with Mary Hayes Grieco and students from near and far on zoom on Saturday mornings this winter. Mary and Erin take time after class to jam on the podcast about a few of the highlights, the “golden nuggets” in…
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Sparkle! Part 2 “Thoughts for Women on Building New Confidence”
Mary Hayes Grieco continues her Spark your Sparkle 2022 talk and riffs off on some of the astonishing data about women and confidence in the book, “The Confidence Code” by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. Reflect on the value of acting and failing and acting again without getting lost in rumination...
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Sparkle! Part 1 “Be a Big Picture Person Performing Small Acts with Great Love”
Here’s an excerpt from Mary Hayes Grieco’s talk at the recent New Year’s Workshop for Spirited Women – “Spark Your Sparkle for 2022.” These good thoughts about what we are learning together in pandemic times transcend gender, so come on in, everybody, and enjoy Mary’s simple and inspiring point…
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Your Beautiful Life sparkles in 2022 – upcoming classes with Mary Hayes Grieco
Mary and Erin enter the dance of the New Year together with their Word of the Year (what’s yours?) Kick-off 2022 in good company with these two friends who support each other to become “soul-illumined people.” And hey! Mary’s got two classes coming soon on zoom: Spark Your Sparkle New Year’s...
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What’s in a Word? Your “Word of the Year”
It’s the New Year! Such a great time for the re-start, the re-boot, the re-set … but how do you stick with it for the long term? Maybe you gave up making a New Year’s resolution a while ago because you always fail at sticking with it. (Doesn’t everyone? How is it that we can FORGET our best...
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Universal Christmas-ness – What is “Christ Consciousness”?
At this time of year, as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus, it’s a great time for seekers of all stripes to reflect on the consciousness that Christmas time is holding and renewing for all of us, year after year. Gain support for a renewed sense of human unity. This episode is…
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Church or No Church – Spirituality and Religion – What’s the Difference?
Home-grown philosopher Mary lets it rip as she and Erin explore some definitions and clarity regarding the distinctions between spirituality and religion. Enjoy taking some time for new thoughts and increasing your intention to grow this winter in steady spiritual practice. Build a space inside…
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Are You a Kitchen Mystic?
You are if you can get a glimpse of the Divine in ordinary things. Mary sees God in onions, and Erin sees it in light glinting in the landscape. Despite the challenge, conflict, and gloom of our pandemic times, and despite the fact that church attendance is decreasing, non-affiliated spirituality...
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Life’s not easy for anyone. We all experience disappointing stuff. It can really hurt and bring us down or show us new and better ways. There are choices when times are tough and we feel like we’re going to explode, meltdown or give up. Some of us opt for another glass of wine or big piece of chocolate cake to relieve the pain. But there is a price to be paid for "eating our feelings" or drowning them in alcohol. We really don't want those extra pounds or a headache in the morning. Our podcast is full of better ideas to help turn disappointment into hope and melt pain away for good. It's fun conversations filled with inspiring real-life stories, fresh attitudes and new ideas. It's friends helping friends get through and get over negative emotions and crappy feelings and heal the wounds they leave behind. It's all about living a healthy life full of peace and joy. We hope you'll give one of our episodes a listen. Were pretty sure you'll discover something that will put you on a new path
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