Things That Will Help

After attending Love Letter from the Afterlife at Red Rocks—a tribute to the late poet Andrea Gibson featuring their final performance alongside the Colorado Symphony—Buffy returns to one simple phrase from Andrea's work: try softer.In this episode, she explores what it means to meet life with less force and more presence. Through stories and reflection, Buffy considers how softening can become a daily practice for the body, heart, and spirit.  What changes when you stop pushing against your circumstances? What does softness look like when it meets your loss and grief?If you'd like to learn more about Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley's story, you can watch the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light on HBO. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

A murmuration is when a flock of thousands (or sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of birds move together across the sky like a wave, or a cloud of smoke. Buffy explores the surprising mechanics behind these breathtaking displays, where no single bird leads and yet the whole flock moves as one. She talks about the social and physical mechanics of this phenomenon, and what we can learn about connection and community from these birds. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In this episode, Buffy shares fresh observations and lessons from the workshop of her own life. She reflects on pleasure as a practice, the power of curating our attention, the value of invisible things, and the importance of shifting perspective, from chin-on-the-ground wonder at a ladybug to a wider view of the landscape. Tune in to explore the choices available to us in any moment, the art of waiting and listening, and how to cultivate a peaceful inner experience when the outer world is beyond our control.  🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Buffy begins this episode with a friend’s story about navigating a challenging work situation. Using the metaphor of an airplane, her friend described the inner shift that allowed her to rise above the turbulence rather than remain caught within it. “Cruising altitude” is the steady height an aircraft maintains for most of a journey, and this episode is a reflection on the places of steadiness inside of us, even when turbulence exists on either side. Tune in to access more equanimity in your inner world no matter what weather systems that surround you.  🌱 Find the accompanying playlist to this week's episode here.🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

In the wake of Mother’s Day, Buffy reflects on mothers: what we are mothering, how we are mothered, and the creative shapes being a mother can take. She shares about experiencing her first Mother’s Day without her mom and weaves in stories of people in all stages and phases. This episode is a spacious offering for wherever you find yourself in relationship to mothering — whether you are grieving, nurturing, longing, creating, or becoming. Buffy closes out the episode closes with a grounding visualization and meditation.🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.

Buffy and TTWH producer/editor Alex meet on the 6th birthday of Things That Will Help to reflect on six years of the podcast. They talk about the creative evolution of the podcast and their own practices, pleasure as a tool of the resistance, the age of AI, and why creativity is needed now more than ever. 🌱 Leave a tip in Venmo: @BuffyTTWH🌱 Become a supporter of the podcast on Patreon! Patreon members support the production of the podcast and in return receive embodiment episodes, bonus content, and more here.🌱 If you have a question for a future AMA or would like to hear Buffy work your question(s) into an episode, submit them here!🌱To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected].🌱 Follow Buffy on Instagram at @buffymiranda or @thingsthatwillhelppod.Contributors: Buffy Barfoot (Host and Producer). Alex Ammons (Producer and Editor). Matthew Cooper (Original music). Cover art by Ritual Made.