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Stone and Pine
by Garth Haslem
A podcast of soul reflections, recorded to remember who I am. If you’re a man on the path to healing, peace, or purpose—this space can be for you too.
Episodes
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Stone and Pine 19: The Manalizing Tribe Meeting Format
How to run a manalizing meeting. Includes the timeline and the tools a tribe leader needs.
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Stone and Pine 18: The Manalizing Tribe Leader Guide
For ease of access, the tribe leader guide is provided here as a podcast that can be listened to
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Stone and Pine 17: The Rope Master
At the summit of his mountain, Alden Elior reflects on the sacred task of holding the ropes for those he loves. Julie, Nate, Zach, Tara, and others each receive a line of connection — not for rescue, but for belonging, guidance, and peace. “Keeper of the Ropes” is a meditation on love without...
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Stone and Pine 16: Keeper of the ropes
At the summit of his mountain, Alden Elior discovers that mastery is not conquest—it is stewardship. From this place of peace, he looks down on the climbers below: his wife, his brothers, his children, and his grandchildren. With an infinite rope in hand, he learns that love is not about pulling...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 16: The Fire and the torch
Some moments aren’t lessons—they’re ceremonies. In this chapter, Alden Elior walks into the clearing with a torch in hand and a fire before him. One by one, he lays down the burdens that no longer serve: shame, anger, regret, expectation, and the ghosts of relationships long carried. This is not...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 15: Out on a branch
Sometimes love feels like a risk. In this reflection, Alden Elior explores what it means to trust again—after betrayal, after disappointment, after watching the branch snap beneath you more than once. He faces the ache of friendships that failed, the fear of being fooled again, and the slow...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 14: The order of Pine
If stone is the order of permanence, then pine is the order of presence. In this meditation, Alden Elior turns from mountains to trees—away from command and into companionship. Pine doesn’t demand reverence; it simply remembers you. It recalls your rhythm before the world taught you to rush. It...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 13: When truth is Love
Sometimes the most loving thing a man can do is speak the truth—gently, clearly, and without the need to be right. In this reflection, Garth explores what it means to bring truth that connects instead of wounds, to stand with someone rather than above them, and to let questions become invitations...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 12: Processing the pain
This chapter is both a guide and a confession—a sacred moment where grief becomes ceremony. Garth describes, in raw and practical form, the ritual he uses to mourn the unseen boy within him. What begins as a structure for emotional healing becomes a living encounter: sitting in his truck, holding...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 11 part 2: Owning my voice
This second half of Owning My Voice moves from public vulnerability to private healing. After the declaration “I Am No Longer Silent,” Garth faces one of the deepest questions of his story: What part of me still believes that being needed is more valuable than being known? Through that question…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 11 Part 1: Owning my voice
Garth steps out from the wings. After sharing his first book, Discovery, with his Manalizing brothers, he chooses radical vulnerability over protective silence—naming the old habit of shrinking when louder voices fill the room, and replacing it with a new creed: I am no longer silent. In this...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 10: The crowned builder
In this chapter, Alden Elior rises fully into his sovereignty — no longer a man fighting to be seen, but a man who builds because he is whole. The war is over. The sword that once defended him now serves as an instrument of peace. Through his Declaration of the Crowned Builder, Elior steps into…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 9: The man I was meant to be
In this powerful chapter, Garth—as Alden Elior—finally meets the man he was always meant to be. No longer defined by titles, applause, or performance, he steps into the quiet strength of peace, presence, and purpose. This reflection is both revelation and rebirth: the story of a man who once felt...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 8: The circle of return
In this chapter, Alden Elior moves from personal transformation to shared awakening. Having reclaimed peace and integrity, he now becomes a builder of brotherhood—a man who gathers others into the same light he has found. The Circle of Return is the first tribal ritual of Alden Elior, designed…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 7: Meeting Me
In this powerful chapter, Alden Elior confronts one of the deepest battles of modern manhood—the pull of pornography—and discovers that true freedom isn’t about resistance, but remembrance. This isn’t a story of control or discipline; it’s the story of a man who finally met himself and found…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 6: Exhausted
After a long day of canceled appointments, unmet expectations, and emotional fatigue, Alden Elior faces the tension every man knows—the moment when exhaustion meets relationship. In this intimate chapter, he wrestles with how to stay honest and kind when his tank is empty, and how to protect…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 5: The man who let go
In this chapter, Alden Elior reaches a sacred turning point—the moment when peace returns not as an idea, but as a lived truth. After releasing an old friendship through honesty and blessing, he learns what it means to truly let go. From the mountains of Bear Lake to the quiet chamber within…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 4: Nathan's Wrestle
In this deeply personal chapter, Alden Elior steps out of the Chamber and into a painful reckoning with friendship, loyalty, and loss. He tells the story of Nathan—a man he once called brother—and the slow heartbreak of realizing that love and effort were not returned. Through this honest...
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 3: Conversation with my Creator
In this sacred chapter, Alden Elior enters his stone chamber once more—this time to speak directly with Elohim. What begins as a reflection on an ordinary day unfolds into a divine dialogue about purpose, peace, and calling. Elior learns that his worth is not measured by echoes or outcomes, but…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 2: A Man I'll Be
Stepping out of performance and into embodiment, this chapter asks a simple, seismic question: What does it feel like to walk the world as the man you now claim to be? Garth (as Alden Elior) explores protective presence with Julie, learns to receive peace as identity—not reward—and finds his…
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Stone and Pine Book 4 Chapter 1: Standing in the Light
In this opening chapter, Garth Haslem—through the voice of Alden Elior—steps out of the shadows of shame and into the radiance of truth. No longer defined by the wounds of the past or the need to prove his worth, he declares a new way of being: one of peace, power, and presence. “Standing in the...
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Stone and Pine Book 3 Chapter 5: The Opposition
In this chapter, Alden Elior confronts the voice of opposition—the inner opposition that whisper old lies of failure, shame, and unworthiness. What once felt like repentance now reveals itself as self-condemnation: the voice of a frightened child mistaken for the truth. Through quiet awareness,...
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Stone and Pine Book 3 Chapter 4: Seen
In this chapter, Alden Elior steps into one of the deepest gates of becoming—what it means to be fully seen. Through a quiet conversation and a vivid remembering, Garth returns to the boy he once was: the one who sat alone in church, afraid to take up space, believing that men were dangerous and...
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Stone and Pine Book 3 Chapter 3: Married and Gone
In this chapter, our hero revisits the haunting phrases that once defined his marriage: “married and (de-dd)” and “life is hard and then you (dye).” What began as casual expressions of exhaustion reveal themselves as soul-level signals—quiet cries from a man lost beneath duty, silence, and...
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Stone and Pine Book 3 Chapter 2: Julie was a revelation
In this raw chapter, Alden Elior explores the moment that shattered illusion and awakened truth. Julie wasn’t a replacement—she was a revelation. Her presence became a rebellion against a life of quiet starvation, emotional neglect, and invisible suffering. Through her, he began to see that the...
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Stone and Pine Book 3 Chapter 1: Linda Psychological Makeup
This opening chapter traces the story of a marriage where love became manipulation, where survival meant silence, and where “married and dead” became a daily truth. Alden Elior reflects on how duty replaced desire, and how slowly surrendering identity can feel like a burial in plain sight....
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Stone and Pine Episode 10: What Fell Was The Burden
He asks no longer for others to prove he matters
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Stone and Pine Episode 9: The Chamber Inside Me
The chamber
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Stone and Pine Episode 8: Standing Alone
Standing alone
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Stone and Pine Episode 7: Back to the Light
Back to the light
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Stone and Pine Episode 6: Power, Peace and Purpose
Power, peace and purpose
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Stone and Pine Episode 5: I Placed My Peace Beside His Fear
The line bends towards me now
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Stone and Pine Episode 4: Your Healing is His Redemption
Your healing is His redemption
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Stone and Pine Episode 3: Standing with the Boy
Standing with the boy
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Stone and Pine Episode 2: My Weapon is My Peace
Not every place brings peace. In this episode, Alden returns to the mountains and pines—the sacred space where striving stops, and being is enough. It’s not escape. It’s return. And in the silence of stone and tree, he remembers: he is not chasing peace. He is peace.
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Stone and Pine Episode 1: My power is mine
A gentle but resolute reminder: your strength is not granted—it’s unearthed. In “My Power Is Mine,” Alden affirms his dignity, choosing presence over performance, light over darkness. Let it settle in like stone. Let it breathe like pine.
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Book 2 Chapter 7 - Protector and father
In this chapter, the journey turns inward to heal the oldest divide: the boy who once hid in the shadows and the man who now stands in the light. Through guided reflection and sacred visualization, Alden Elior steps into his own story—not only as the protector of the boy, but as his companion,...
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Book 2 Chapter 6 - What if I was worthy?
In this pivotal chapter of The Book of Alden Elior, the threads of invisibility, rejection, and fractured family bonds weave into the origin story of Manalizing. Alden confronts the lie of unworthiness that shaped his survival and dares to ask the question that threatens the walls he’s built…
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Book 2 Chapter 5 - When the room forgets you
This chapter strings together a lifetime’s worth of moments when the deepest wound was pressed—the feeling of being unseen, forgotten, or invisible. From junior high humiliation in a school newspaper photo, to a three-foot Valentine ignored in public, to being stranded in a conversation he wasn’t...
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Book 2 Chapter 4 - Alden Elior
In this intimate chapter, the conversation turns toward naming the voice that has been walking alongside the journey—offering insight, compassion, and protection. Through exploring the meanings of names like Alden and Elior, the choice becomes a reflection of the journey itself: grounded…
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Book 2 Chapter 3 - Bring him home
In this deeply personal chapter, Alden Elior returns to one of the most painful moments of his youth—the day in junior high when he was humiliated for simply wanting to belong. Through vivid memory, he explores how invisibility, neglect, and emotional absence shaped his early identity, and how...
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Book 2 Chapter 2 - The cost of silence
In this chapter, the journey of Alden Elior meets a hard truth: the loss of a friendship once thought unbreakable. What begins as a reflection on walking the path after the Inner Chamber becomes an honest exploration of betrayal, invisibility, and the deep wound of feeling meaningless to those…
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Book 2 Chapter 1 - becoming the man I am
In this opening chapter of The Book of Elior, we step into the man you never thought you could be—the one who holds not just love, but protection… not just presence, but peace. From quiet questions to sacred realizations, from the forest that steadies your soul to the Inner Chamber built by God...
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Discovery Chapter 12 and Summary: The Shape of Peace
This chapter is about peace—not as a concept, but as a lived, physical experience. After the storms of shame, grief, and self-doubt, what remains is quieter than I expected. In this episode, I explore what it feels like to stop striving, to be fully present, and to belong in your own body again.…
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Discovery Chapter 11: Letting love in: receiving without fear
This chapter revisits the challenge of accepting real, unconditional love—not as performance, not as reward, but as something deeply human and undeserved. I explore the resistance that rises when we’re finally seen, finally chosen… and why it can feel safer to push love away than to trust it. If...
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Discovery Chapter 10 - Accepting Love
This chapter is about the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to do: receive love without shrinking, deflecting, or doubting it. Real love—the kind that sees everything and stays—is a strange and disarming gift. I recorded this to wrestle with the part of me that still resists being chosen, even when I...
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Discovery, Chapter 9 - The weight of knowing
This chapter leans into the heaviness that follows clarity—the moment when something you’ve avoided seeing becomes impossible to unsee. It’s about standing in that new awareness, without flinching or turning away. There’s grief in it, but also power. This recording was never meant to impress—just...
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Discovery, Chapter 8 A quiet reckoning
In this chapter, I walk through the quieter edges of my story—the moments of reckoning that don’t come with thunder, but with silence. This is about the space between guilt and grace, where old patterns are exposed and new truths begin to take root. It’s not loud. But it’s real. I recorded this…
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Stone and Pine currently has 57 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Stone and Pine about?
A podcast of soul reflections, recorded to remember who I am. If you’re a man on the path to healing, peace, or purpose—this space can be for you too.
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Stone and Pine is created and hosted by Garth Haslem.
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