Tranquil Journeys

Cocoons

Release Date: 5/3/2021

Duration: 89040 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Cocoons. There are times in life when we must pull away from all else and spin ourselves a cocoon. We rest in cocoons even as we are transformed. In cocoons we shed what we have suffered through losses, assaults, and upheavals. We re-emerge as butterflies--ready for life's next unhindered flights. Episode Art: "Cocoon" by Awnen from website deviantart dot com

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Tenacity (part 2)

Release Date: 4/23/2021

Duration: 55020 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Tenacity. Plowing as a metaphor for preparing the ground for the sowing of life's healthy seeds. Borrowing a metaphor of plowing from Jesus of Nazareth for preparing the grounds in anticipation of bountiful harvests. The inevitability of ongoing plowing ahead of each new growing season. Ray Kroc. Episode Art: photo, public domain, photographer unknown, silhouette of mountain climber

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Tenacity (part 1)

Release Date: 4/23/2021

Duration: 72900 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. What do we begin in life and then let go of? What do we begin in life and refuse to let go of? Tenacity. Chi-Ning Chu. Amelia Earhart. Louis Pasteur. Maya Angelou. Episode Art: mountain climber silhouette photo, public domain, photographer unknown

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Confronting and Surviving the Upheavals with Your Sanity Intact

Release Date: 4/19/2021

Duration: 26940 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. The violence and upheavals are all around us and on the increase. You're a good person. You want to make a positive difference in the world. How do you figure out where to take hold of some kind of positive change process knowing that change will not come overnight? How do you engage without losing yourself in despair? How do you challenge with your own sanity still in tact? (Episode art: artist unknown, title unknown, public domain)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Unpredictability, part 1

Release Date: 4/11/2021

Duration: 26280 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+. Unpredictability is part of life. Ruling out the devastating options now, we have to work into how we live the reality that the unexpected is on its way--sometimes joyous unpredictability, sometimes frustrating unpredictability. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Composer Ella Laya. Life plans and unpredictability. (Episode Art: "Big Wave - Fugaku Sanju Rokkei," Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, public domain)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Unpredictability, part 2

Release Date: 4/10/2021

Duration: 20580 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Unpredictability. Life plans and unpredictability. The dreaded routines-ruts-rigormortis syndrome. Deepak Chopra. (Episode Art: "Big Wave - Fugaku Sanju Rokkei," Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, public domain)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Beauty and My Well-being

Release Date: 4/2/2021

Duration: 64740 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life coaching. LGBTQIA+ affirming. Beauty is about much more than diverting or even inspiring; it is connected to our emotional health in more ways than one. (Episode art: "The Color of Joy," Artist: Michael Durst)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

The Four F's of Life Functioning

Release Date: 3/28/2021

Duration: 78480 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Life is experienced in components; each component in a sense has its own plot. It may be great when all components function together at the same level, especially when we are at celebrative moments. But we can learn, and we need to learn, to live robustly when our different components are at differents levels of functioning. (Episode Art: GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO, "Four Seasons in One Head," c. 1590, Paul Mellon Fund, National Gallery of Art, Open Access Collection)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Truth to Power

Release Date: 3/27/2021

Duration: 36000 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ embracing. Saying who we are and what we're about, which is directly related to who we are. The risks and the reliefs! James Baldwin. Jerry Herman. Carl Sandburg. (Art: Uncertain origin, but collected from a public domain site.)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Gross National Happiness

Release Date: 3/22/2021

Duration: 67560 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Most of us are interested in the topic of happiness either because we experience it and want to celebrate it or because we long for more of it. It is probably necessary for most of us to learn how to be happy even when not everything in life is ideal. It is a fact that happiness can be cultivated. Here’s to your happiness! (Episode Art: public domain painting, “Happiness” by Emily Carr)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

Personal Empowerment

Release Date: 3/22/2021

Duration: 11940 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Personal empowerment is at the root of what makes it possible for us to achieve and to claim our fully deserved self-esteem. Efforts to diminish our power naturally diminish our sense of empowerment. The current efforts to keep certain citizens from voting, especially citizens of color and economically challenged citizens, is a step away or a half-step from limiting voting rights for LGBTQIA+ citizens. Empowerment SLAM! (Episode Art: photograph by Bill Westerhoff, used by permission)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

“If People of Means Can't Manage to Fight Off Suicide Demons, How about the Rest of Us?”

Release Date: 3/22/2021

Duration: 21300 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Suicide. Covid isolation and tragedies have made life harder and harder for more than a few who ultimately obeyed the suicide demons. Plan now never to let the demons convince you to do the same. (Episode Art: photo by Dan Meyer, used with permission)

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No

“If life gives you lemons, squeeze the hell out of those suckers!“

Release Date: 3/22/2021

Duration: 8640 Mins

Authors: David Albert Farmer

Description: Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. If life gives you lemons, don’t try to make lemonade with the lemons that caused you pain or discomfort or confusion. Use the lemons for something else. Lemonade lemons will come along at another time. Episode Art: “Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket,” Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649), The National Gallery, London, public domain

Is Closed Captioned: No

Explicit: No