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Virtual Pause
by Angie Winn
Virtual Pause Podcast - A brief guided meditation intended to integrate your body, mind, heart, and spirit so that you can live with resilience and stability in everyday chaos. Different topic each week - relevant to life. Open to people of all faiths and beliefs, and specifically for those working in high-stress environments with vulnerable populations. Most episodes are pre-recorded with a live audience. Found on most podcast platforms.
Episodes
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Episode 154: Letting the Fire Out
November 24, 2025 Through some recent experiences, I have realized that there is a fire inside of me that desires to express truth, creativity, passion, and sight. But there has been a blanket ofcompliance that has shoved that fire down over the years, for fear it will kick me out of situations…
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Episode 153: The Roots of our Ancestors
November 3, 2025 Yesterday was All Saints Day, or All Soul’s Day, and in Mexico, The Day of the Dead. Sometimes we forget how our ancestors have shaped us. What positive attributes have we acquired?What has been passed down to us that we may not even recognize? In today’s episode we will root...
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Episode 152: The Continuum of Groundedness
October 27, 2025 Today’s episode is a simple grounding practice using imagery and sound. Sometimes (like always) we just need to get out of our heads and back into our bodies and souls. We will assess where we are on the continuum of groundedness. Our reading for today is an excerpt from the poem...
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Episode 151: How are you being prepared?
October 20, 2025 Sometimes we know where we are headed and can actively prepare for it. But more often than not we end up going somewhere we had no idea about, and we are being preparedwithout even noticing it. Let’s get curious about how we are being prepared, not what we are being prepared for....
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Episode 150: Strength of Angel's Wings
October 6, 2025 Angels don’t fly around light and easy. They have heavy wings that require strength and power to move and go where they are directed. In this episode I will share about a terrifying hike, and then we will look at where we have gone and where we may be being beckoned to go, and…
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Episode 149: Getting Gutted
August 25, 2025 We have been remodeling a house and it has been ripped apart and gutted. I have found that I have also felt gutted over the past few years. But what happens when we gothrough times that challenge our very being? What is that process? What do we do with it? And what is on the other...
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Episode 148: Experiencing Grounding to Humanity and Connecting to Divinity
July 28, 2025 We will have a dash on our tombstones - the time between birth and death. But what if we saw it as a plus? Where our life is about contribution? Yet the only way to do this with real impact and integrity is following that vertical line - grounding in humanity, being awake in…
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Episode 147: The Dense Forest
July 28, 2025 "Note from Nature Do not try to save the whole word or do anything grandiose. instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your won cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. only then will you…
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Episode 146: Practicing Gratitude
May 19, 2025 Gratitude works. It changes our body – our physiology. Itchanges our mind - our approach and attitude. It changes our heart – from onethat is closed to one that is open. It taps into our souls and transcendsnegativity, division, and isolation. Today we will slowly walk through...
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Episode 145: The House of Illusions We Build
May 12, 2025 I am frustrated and fascinated by how my ego, my false self,is dealing with the major transitions I am facing right now in my life. I am continuingto learn, through a translation of the Psalms by Nan Merrill, through MichaelSinger, and many other spiritual and psychological teachers,...
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Episode 144: Eyes Open and Heart Open – Tonglen Practice
April 14, 2025 It is tough right now to see all that is happening in our world.Many emotions come up for me that can be paralyzing – keeping me from positivelycontributing my gifts. Yet I can’t have my eyes closed and live simply byungrounded hope, because that is denial. I need to live with my...
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Episode 143: Stop, be still... even for a moment
April 7, 2025 I am findingit very difficult to quiet my mind these days. There is too much noise –locally, nationally, and globally. Yet I know that if I don’t find a way toquiet my mind, even for a moment, I will push myself into the world with fearand control, or hide away from it, and not be a...
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Episode 142: Catching our Breath
March 24, 2025 There aretimes I behave in ways I am not proud of and feel very incongruent to my soul. Thechaos of the world and the chaos into my head leaks into my thoughts andbehaviors. Coming back to stability may happen as an interior shift in us, oras an external shift in circumstances. The...
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Episode 141: Deeper Healing from Trauma
March 3, 2025 I am findingmyself stuck and experiencing physical stress responses to triggers, with no evidencethat warrants such a reaction. Trauma that I experienced decades ago issneaking up now in surprising ways. I feel I am being invited into deeper healingthat helps release and reprogram…
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Episode 140: Nonessentials
Letting of of non-essentials in life seems like a no-brainer if we see them simply as things that are unhealthy for us or are distractions. But our nonessentials can be anything, even good things, that we are entangled in and that keep us from our center. In today's episode, we will identify…
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Episode 139: Embracing Our Limitations
February 3rd, 2025 When we hide, grasp, push, shove, dominate, escape, or demonstrate other un-grounded behaviors, we are more than likely acting out of a place of self-protection, pushing down a weakness or limitation we have that we can’t bear for the world, or ourselves, to see. This…
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Episode 138: Stop Feeding the Beast
January 27, 2025 Most of us, if not all of us, are currently experiencing something in our lives that we want to change. Whether in us, our families, our communities, our nation, or our world. We have learned that the way for things to change is to fight – to fortify whatever is weak in our…
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Episode 137: Light in the Dark Crack
January 13, 2025 I noticed the other day the intense feeling that I suddenly got throughout my body when I was having a conversation with someone. That sense of flight or fight was real. My reaction to it was to protect – and that looked like judgment, anger, hiding, superiority, etc. But the...
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Episode 136: 2025 - Moving With One Foot Down
January 6, 2025 As I have reflected on last year, I realized that my intense external chaos bled into my internal state of being. I ended up being in my head, not in my body or heart. Like a whirling dervish, instead of both feet flying around through the chaos of life, we need to keep one foot...
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Episode 135:When We Can't Calm the Storm
December 16, 2024 How often do we find ourselves in a storm of life and we think we can actually calm the chaos of the situation? We want to control the person, circumstances, or outcome, yet instead of having the power to do so, we find ourselves agitated, depleted, and critical because we…
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Episode 134: When your “What” is in Your Way
December 4, 2024 With so much going on around this season, and my own personal transition period moving quickly into empty nesting, I am finding myself overwhelmed and anxious. I realized it is because I am focusing on my plans and goals and to dos, and those are ever-changing and often out of my...
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Episode 133: Where are you to go?
November 18, 2024 When we have to make an important decision, it is sometimes difficult to discern the direction to go. It may be a decision to take a job or what college to go to, or it may be how to deal with a challenging person or situation in your life. Often, we have our own agenda and may...
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Episode 132: Camino Part 3: Lemons
November 11, 2024 My Camino de Santiago journey continues with a story about me and a lemon and an old Spanish man….and how, without realizing it, I stole from him. We steal, everyday, without knowing. We steal time, attention, etc. from ourselves and others. What underlies this sometimes subtle...
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Episode 131: Transferring vs. Transcending
November 4, 2024 I have realized lately that for good reason I have built a wall of self-protection around my heart in a certain situation in my life. Yet my ah-ha happened last week when I realized that the feelings I have behind those walls and the reason I built them – fear, insecurity, doubt,...
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Episode 130: The Camino Part 2: Dreaming
October 21, 2024 Are you allowing yourself to dream? Or are you, as Paulo Coelho says in the book The Pilgrimage, killing your dreams by not having enough time, by not asking enough of life, by wanting things to be comfortable? Dreaming for me has been a way for me to escape the mundane and...
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Episode 129: The Camino Part 1: Joy
October 14, 2024 In this week’s episode I begin to talk about my experience on the Camino de Santiago in Spain and some of the aha’s I discovered along the way! The biggest and most surprising was joy! We will walk through what joy is and reflect on what keeps us from experiencing joy in our…
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Episode 128: Not “so that”, but “because”
September 30th, 2024 Off I go tomorrow to start my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. I reflected this week how much I am leaning on “so that” in order to trust that I am supposed to take this journey. “I am going, so that I can get a glimpse of what is next in my life, so that I can be…
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Episode 127: Carrying on the Camino
September 23rd, 2024 In a week, I am embarking on a pilgrimage called the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I am learning that the journey doesn’t start when I get there - I am being prepared for it now. In a desire to be open to what the pilgrimage has in store for me, I am finding that I am holding...
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Episode 126: Awake My Soul
September 9, 2024 When our minds are in the forefront, which is how all usually live our lives, our bodies are running around fulfilling the mind’s agenda, our hearts are in self-protective mode, and our minds tell our soul that it doesn’t even exist. We may take a break from all of that...
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Episode 125: Being a Pause for Someone Else
July 29, 2024 In this episode I reflect upon how I can see pausing, or being still, has had a long-term shift in me. I am in a place right now where I am trying to support someone in crisis. I am seeing how just being there for them, just showing up, is actually all they need from me. For our…
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Episode 124: Observe the Chaos, Choose Silence
July 1, 2024 Even when we find ourselves grounded and feeling stable, it doesn’t take long for our thoughts to be distracted and we are back into the chaos. Richard Rohr says that “silence precedes, undergirds, and grounds everything. We cannot just think of it as an accident, or as something...
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Episode 123: Grasping at Inner Tubes
June 10, 2024 “All men seek peace first of all with themselves. That is necessary because we do not naturally find rest even in our being. We have to learn to commune with ourselves before we can communicate with other men and with God. A man who is not at peace with himself necessarily projects...
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Episode 122: The Light Right Where You Are
June 10, 2024 There are times in our lives where we feel that we may not where we are going. We may be in a space of waiting, or not fully immersed into one thing. We may feel lost or purposelessness in the ordinary. Letting go of needing to know where we are going, being seen a certain way, and...
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Episode 121: Expanded Pause
June 3, 2024 Today we are going to do a longer pause – taking more time to settle our bodies, quiet our minds, open our hearts, and connect to our source. So if you can spread out we will be on our feet doing some movements. “Awaken us to the Oneness of all things, to the beauty and truth of…
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Episode 120: The Flux Factor
May 20, 2024 Sometimes when we are in flux – uncertainty – in one or more aspects of our lives, we begin to try and control something to alleviate the discomfort that flux brings. And that control brings chaos in our lives and the lives of others. That is the flux factor – the unintended...
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Episode 119: Shaking off the Suffocating Moss
April 28, 2024 Looking at an oak covered with moss this weekend, I realized that my current situation is like the clump of moss in the tree. And I am trying to solve the problem by staying inside the moss. As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”...
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Episode 118: Loving-Kindness Meditation
April 15, 2024 Sometimes we need a little help loving others and loving ourselves! Today I will guide us through an adaptation of a Loving-Kindness Meditation from John Kabat-Zinn to help us experience a sense of love for ourselves and our community. I will then follow it up with this…
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Episode 117: Holding Onto the Thread
April 8, 2024 From James Finley, writer of April 8th, 2024 Daily Meditation CAC.org. “The essential, that which is given to us in the metaphorical fire of this quiet oneness, never imposes itself on us, while the unessential is constantly imposing itself on us. We begin to wonder, “How can I…
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Episode 116: Stop Trying
April 1, 2024 When we exert our “will”, pull up our boot straps, and keep going and pushing, we often become depleted and depressed. Perhaps we are trying to make a path for ourselves that is not intended for us. Often when we let go of what we think we should be and do, then an authentic gift...
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Episode 115: Saying Yes
March 25, 2024 I am realizing how much I hold on to my self-concept, which makes it so that I am resistant to saying yes to something new. In this episode, we will identify how we are fortifying our self-concept and resisting, and then let go so we can say yes to the adventure that awaits for us....
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Episode 114: Discerning the Stirrings of Movement
March 4, 2024 Do you feel like you have some stirrings to do something – maybe noticing the shifts and changes in your soul or in your life, and wondering if you should pursue them? If we want to move throughout life with stability – peace, wholeness, and integration – we have to do some from a...
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Episode 113: Exploring Outside of Ourselves
February 26, 2024 Today I will lead us on a journey where we begin with identifying what is occupying our thoughts (to do list, worries, etc.), and moving out of our minds, through our surroundings, and in a different environment. We will notice what we experience in that environment, and then...
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Episode 112: Silence
February 12, 2024 Let’s stop the noise and the requests and trying to figure it all out in our heads, leaving our prayers to be ineffective incessant babbling. Let’s take just half an hour and let go, and experience the gifts and surprising answers in the midst of silence. “Deafened by the voice…
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Episode 111: Living out of our Fullness
February 5, 2024 What does it look like to live out of the fullness we were designed for? In today’s Pause, we will identify that seed or blossoming thing in us that is uniquely ours. We will look at what obstacles keep it from blossoming into its fullness and let go. We will see how our fullness...
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Episode 110: Figuring Out How to be Okay
January 29, 2024 If we are honest with ourselves, we deeply desire to figure out how to be okay. We want to design our lives so that nothing bothers us, but everything is structured so that we will be okay. We wander, we strive, we perpetuate our chaos trying to find our way to be okay. Instead…
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Episode 109: Snownado of Chaos
January 22, 2024 Have you ever experienced an actual snownado? It’s terrifying to watch – and you have no choice but to be in the midst of it. How often during chaos we resist, fight, or try to control the circumstances. Yet if we sit in the snownado and actually look up toward the light, the…
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Episode 108: New Year Roots
January 8, 2024 Instead of setting rigid “goals”, what is being cultivated in you? In today’s pause, grab a piece of paper and some markers, as I lead you through drawing a tree. We will review last year’s fruit we produced and look at the branches that needed to be lobbed off. We will look…
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Episode 107: Divine Guidance
December 18, 2023 We so often build our house in vain or toil in labor, yet as the Psalm 127 continues God “pours gifts on his beloved while they slumber.” In this episode we will identify what we are building or toiling after, and then focus on releasing why we are doing this, so we can…
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Episode 106: What yearning is underneath our chaos?
December 4, 2023 In this season of holiday craze, I am finding myself from time to time throwing an Angie tantrum. I easily blame my frustration and irritability on the chaos around me. Yet when I actually take the time to be still, I see that there is yearning underneath the chaos. In this...
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Episode 105: Getting that Turkey OUT
November 27, 2023 Thanksgiving Holiday can bring about joy and absolute stress and strain as we navigate family, locations, busyness, and chaos. These things can embed themselves in us, shaping the way we think and interact and move in the world. Sometimes these things are conscious, yet often...
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Virtual Pause Podcast - A brief guided meditation intended to integrate your body, mind, heart, and spirit so that you can live with resilience and stability in everyday chaos. Different topic each week - relevant to life. Open to people of all faiths and beliefs, and specifically for those working in high-stress environments with vulnerable populations. Most episodes are pre-recorded with a live audience. Found on most podcast platforms.
HOSTED BY
Angie Winn
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