Lori celebrates the sixth anniversary of "Improviding Life", reflecting on six years of business and personal growth. 

Transcript

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Outline

Anniversary Reflection: Year One - Tool 1 Yes, And

• (June 2019 to May 2020) emphasizes the importance of creativity and bravery.
• Lori highlights that beginners are brave and that tailoring talents to the times is crucial for sustainability.
• The pandemic's impact is noted, with Lori creating the "Commute to Community" series to provide connection during lockdown.

Year Two - Tool 2 If So, What Else

• (June 2020 to May 2021) focuses encouraging experimentation and engagement.
• Lori learns that supporters show strengths and that her unique approach is meaningful to others.
• The podcast's inception in 2020 is mentioned, marking its fifth year.
• Lori reflects on the importance of letting inspiration and ideas be good enough to lead to new opportunities.

Year Three - Tool 3 A to C

• (June 2021 to May 2022) is about transitions, with Lori transitioning into motherhood.
• Lori self-publishes the "Body Bottle, Breast Digest", a postpartum support guide.
• The year is marked by collaborations and guest appearances

Year Four - Tool 4 - The Ship

• (June 2022 to May 2023) is about recognizing overthinking and under-serving, leading to a more rigid business approach which is challenging due to her pathological demand avoidance.
• Systems like hosting sites and email platforms are beneficial, but the creative energy is still lacking.
• Lori celebrates with a snack while recording, symbolizing a business birthday party.

Year Five - Tool 5 - Build vs. Invent

• (June 2023 to May 2024) is about recognizing the importance of endings and limits.
• Lori launches and tests the "Shit Shifter Society," but closes it due to chronic illness and exhaustion.
• Lori reflects on the need to use her own tools for self-care 

Year Six - Tool 6 - I've Got Your Back

• (June 2024 to May 2025) is about recognizing the need for boundaries.
• Lori takes on too many grant clients, leading to burnout, firing herself from grant writing.
• The challenge of communicating needs to a distant community is noted.

Anniversary Celebration and Future Plans

• The episode ends with Lori wishing listener

ILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 3

Lori discusses a framework for achieving a fulfilling adult life, emphasizing that vision = goals + body cues + community. She explains how setting clear, achievable goals, such as reducing overwhelmed days or minimizing food waste, can help manage expectations and improve daily life. Body cues, like emotional responses serve as real-time metrics. Community involvement is crucial for collective care and sharing responsibilities, such as grocery shopping with roommates. Lori encourages listeners to apply this framework to their own lives, refining goals & body cues over time, & to consider how their actions influence & are influenced by their community.

Transcript

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Action items

• Identify a vision for an area of your adult life.

• Determine the goals, body cues, and community aspects that can support that vision.

• Share any insights or questions that come up from applying this framework.

Outline

Vision Equals Goals Plus Body Cues Plus Community

• Lori introduces the concept of vision = goals + body cues + community.

• Putting language to one's vision to make it tangible & relatable is highlighted.

• They share a personal anecdote about avoiding goals due to pathological demand avoidance (PDA) & the subsequent re-sentimenting of goals.

• Goals are likened to setting boundaries or "bumpers" in a bowling alley to manage expectations & avoid overwhelm.

Setting Realistic Goals and Sub-Goals

• Lori provides examples of achievable goals, such as reducing the number of days feeling overwhelmed & making more mindful food purchases.

• The process of breaking larger goals into manageable sub-goals is discussed, such as creating a clear list of work deliverables.

• The importance of having data & facts to advocate for oneself in meetings is emphasized.

• Lori shares her initial resistance to goals due to external expectations & the need for self-defined metrics.

Body Cues as Real-Time Metrics

• Lori explains that body cues can serve as real-time metrics for progress, complementing external metrics that take time to materialize.

• Ex. of body cues include feeling less emotional spikes when dealing with food waste & spending less time in the grocery store.

• Identifying & recognizing body cues  maintains motivation & belief in one's vision.

Community as a Support System

• Lori discusses the role of community in achieving one's vision, referencing the saying that we are the sum of the five people we spend the most time with.

• The concept of collective care & community care is introduced, highlighting  intergenerational & systemic nature of dysfunction.

• The importance of doing one's part & bringing in community to support one's vision is emphasized.

• Ex. of involving community in goals, such as sharing grocery shopping responsibilities with roommates, are provided.

Practical Steps to Implement the Vision Formula

• Apply the vision formula to different aspects of life, starting with defining an ideal day.

• The process of identifying goals, body cues, & community involvement is outlined.

• The flexibility of the vision formula allows for refinement & adjustment based on personal experiences.

Engaging with the Community and Reflecting on Personal Vision

• It’s important to acknowledge the collective influence on one's life & the role of community in achieving personal goals.

• Adulting on one's own terms emphasizes the interconnectedness of individual actions & community support.

• Ex. of community involvement empowering & shifting dynamics within relationships are provi

In this episode of the Improviding Life Podcast, Lori explores the concept of redefining "adulting" to align with personal values and desires. She encourages listeners to envision their ideal day, using a tool called "A to C" to delve deeper into their thoughts. Lori emphasizes the shift from a rigid vision board to a mood board, focusing on desired emotions and feelings rather than specific, curated images. She also announces her upcoming initiative, "Nurture November," aimed at fostering community, relationships, and personal growth. Additionally, she introduces "Live More with Lori," a personalized two-week life coaching program to help individuals curate their ideal adult life.

Transcript

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Action items

• Explore the idea of an "ideal day" and identify aspects of it that can be incorporated into one's current life.

• Shift from a "vision board" approach to a "mood board" to capture the desired emotions and experiences.

• Follow along with the host's "nurture November" theme across various platforms.

• Consider signing up for the "Live More with Lori" one-on-one coaching program.

Outline

Defining an Ideal Day

• Lori introduces the episode, focusing on redefining what it means to "adult" and how to practice it in a way that aligns with one's own values and reality.

• The first exercise involves contemplating whether an ideal day is possible .

• Go deeper by questioning if/why productivity must be a part of their ideal day and to dream beyond current constraints.

• Build a self-defined idea of an ideal day; ex. being responsible for only necessary tasks and using the rest of the time intentionally.

Exploring an Ideal Day

• Lori provides an example of an ideal day that includes slow mornings, visiting the park, working on a favorite project, socializing with friends, and relaxing at home.

• Listeners are encouraged to pause the episode and reflect on their own ideal day.

• The importance of micro-dosing the ideal day, suggesting small steps towards the ideal day  make it more attainable.

• Practicing these small steps helps in building a relationship with the ideal day, making it more accessible and achievable.

Transitioning from Vision Boards to Mood Boards

• Lori discusses the shift from vision boards, which focus on curated, exact images, to mood boards, which focus on desired emotions and feelings.

• The mood board approach encourages listeners to consider how they want to feel in different moments, such as having a slow morning, socializing, or working on a project.

• This approach allows for a variety of ways to achieve the desired emotions and moods, making the ideal day more flexible and achievable.

Practical Application and Personal Reflection

• Lori encourages listeners to practice the exercises and reflections discussed in the episode, pausing as needed to allow for deep contemplation.

• The goal is to redefine adulting in a way that feels humane and aligned with one's values, setting a positive example for self and others.

• Listeners are reminded that while constraints exist, there is still the ability to have choice and to create a fulfilling adult life.

Announcements and Upcoming Events

• Lori announces the theme for November, "Nurture November," focusing on nurturing communities, relationships, and the business.

• The goal is to slow down towards the end of the year while having a clearer and less crowded plate for the future.

• The episode includes a teaser for the launch of "Live More with Lori," a one-to-one life coaching offering opening November 1.

• The coaching program aims to help listeners live their a

ILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 1

Lori Crawford explores the concept of "adulting" on the Improviding Life Podcast, emphasizing the need to redefine and personalize it. She critiques traditional views of adulting as miserable, isolating, and unsupportive, rooted in outdated and harmful structures like capitalism and patriarchy. Crawford shares her own experiences, highlighting the generational impact on her view of adulthood and the challenges of student loan debt. She encourages listeners to reflect on their inner parental voices, media influences, and to question whether they believe in the possibility of a fulfilling, joyful adult life. Crawford also promotes her one-on-one mentorship program aimed at helping individuals live their adult lives on their own terms.

Transcript

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Action items

• [] Reflect on whose voice you hear first when you "mess up" and where your expectations of the "right way" to adult come from.

• [] Consider what character or persona you think has "their shit together" and examine the similarities and differences between that character and yourself.

• [] Explore whether you believe an "ideal" adult life is possible and if you feel worthy of receiving it.

Visit here to Live More with Lori

Our How Human Design Helps Me Human series continues with a solo episode exploring how I approach self-regulating through my undefined and open Human Design energy centers.

As a Mental Projector I have 2 of the 9 centers defined, which means a LOT of openness in my chart.

This episode clarifies the difference between having an undefined and an open center, and speaks to my experience with my 4 undefined and 3 open centers including how I look to those centers to clues to how I can best regulate my nervous system and take more humane care of myself.

Remember to send a “text” through the Improviding Life buzzsprout page so I can respond in our next episode!

Rachel Star is an Astrologer, Human Design practitioner, Cosmic Queen, and an overall ICON in the world of self-embodiment

And she’s this weeks guest!

We explore aspects of Astrology and Human Design natal charts that help us identify and life through our values

And how living life as ourselves not only makes life more livable, but makes us ICONIC!

You can join Rachel’s upcoming course on Human Design authority (decision making) types here!

Connect with Rachel on Instagram and TikTok

Grab your HD charts and note what centers you have defined (hint: they’ll be colored in!)

These are your super powers you’re meant to share with the world

And they also may be where you’ve been told your energy is big or too much by those around you

I’m sorry if that was your experience, it certainly was mine

And now that I know better, that my defined Head and Ajna are what make me me, I am absolutely re-sentimenting these energies for my own wellbeing and so you get the best of me

If something in this episode inspires you, share your thoughts with me through Buzzsprouts new Fan Mail feature where you can ask your questions and I’ll respond in our next episode! 

The Improviding Life Podcast welcomes Karyn Paige as our first guest for our How Human Design Helps Me Human series! We discuss our own entry ways into Human Design, how HD can support our anti-oppression and liberation practices, and how to be critical lovers by holding ourselves and one another accountable as we pursue being in right relationship despite the presence and heaviness of systemic oppression.


More About Karyn: Karyn Paige is a certified Informed Practitioner of Human Design, a facilitator, speaker and coach. Her work centers the experiences of Women of Color from an intersectional perspective. She is here to help people find alignment by blending energy work and self-compassion to imagine the possibilities of a liberated world for themselves and the collective.

Links:

Website

Free HD chart
Instagram

It’s Human Design season on The Improviding Life Podcast!

Join me for the upcoming How Human Design Helps Me Human Series where I will be sharing my personal experience with the Human Design energy system and inviting other HD practitioners and change makers onto the pod to share their own experiences, ways of serving, and change making magic through the lens of Human Design

To get your own Human Design chart, you can enter your birth time, date, and location here

Next week we have a delightfully robust conversation with a very special guest

Until then, enjoy this dive into How Human Design Helps Me Human

Ep 47 - Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik

In today’s episode we are joined by Isabel Bagsik, Creativity Wellness Guide and very nourishing human to share space with!

The TLDR:

Your Creative Calling is Medicine

-Why so many visionaries and change makers who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or as the child of immigrants feel like there aren't enough hours in the day for rest and self care, let alone creativity and play

-How toxic capitalist ideals need you to believe your creativity should "just be a hobby" or "isn't worthy if it's not productive" and how to rewrite this narrative

-Why the prioritization of rest and creativity is the secret to an abundant income that lets you help support your loved ones, donate to causes you care about, and travel the world

-How to connect with your inner child to experience liberated play that takes you from discouraged and unmotivated to overflowing with creative enthusiasm and momentum

More about Isabel and how you can work together:

Isabel Bagsik (she/her) is a Creativity Wellness Guide and art director who works with visionaries and changemakers ready to honor their inherent creative wisdom without the burnout.

She has a double Bachelor's degree in Design & Digital Media from UC Davis, founded the Brown Papaya Magazine, and designed for nonprofits, multi-billion corporations, and even your fave celebrities (ex: Target, Google, Michelle Obama, Stephen Curry).

With 10+ years designing, strategizing, event organizing, and space holding for 400+ folks of diverse backgrounds (especially women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+), she nurtures your creative spirit to finally get your ideas launched, get you compensated, and find your soul community.

She supports your goals through 1:1 mentorship, group programs, and intimate community experiences.

For more visit

unconventionalbliss.com

IG @unconventionalbliss

LinkedIn


And to learn more about The Girl Who Sees, visit here

Before you entertain thoughts about how you can do and be more next year or fart fart finish the year strong - what if you could identify who and how you are right now? Does this feel reflective of who you know you really are? Is this sustainable and is this way of being in line with the values you’re committed to living through? 

Identifying where the end of the year not enoughness has and continues to come from let’s you know where to be returning the urgency that does not need to continue pulling you away from that much needed nap

So instead of setting inhumane resolutions, let’s plant some seeds rooted in our sense of self to nurture so we give ourselves a chance to thrive day by day

If you’ve been feeling the weight of being the only person in your family, friend groups, and networks who is doing the hard work of healing from your past and choosing not to pass your pain along to others, The Shit Shifters Society (SSS) monthly membership doors are opening until mid January. SSS helps adults breaking intergenerational cycles of harm go from feeling depleted, isolated, and like a shell of themselves to feeling nourished, supported, and like their full ass selves.

This Winter’s SSS theme is “Hygge Hibernation For Humanity - A Guided Sensory Reset to Sustain Your Resistance and Repair Harm”

Become a Shit Shifter here

Gust episodes are back as we begin season 4 of the Improviding Life Podcast with a bake, I mean bang!

Decision Coach Kirsten Parker joins us as we play with the word "friendly" through the lens of Tool of Improviding #4 - ID the Ship

Take a listen if you want to explore what makes a one of a kind friendship so meaningful, how the daily decisions we underthink may actually fill our cup the best, and how life can be more livable when you know what values are a priority in your current season of life.

Kirsten can help you master your decision making at:
Decision Style Quiz: https://www.kirstenparker.com/quiz

Maximize Your Decision Style - Free Workshop: https://www.kirstenparker.com/decisionstyle

The Crash Course to Say No is on Kirsten's homepage: https://www.kirstenparker.com

IG: @kpcoaching

TikTok: @thedecisioncoach

Listen to The Decision Masters Podcast: https://www.kirstenparker.com/blog 

Y’all it’s time to Fake Less and Live More

Sometimes you have to wash your hands of the shit everyone else puts on your plate

Faking it til you make it has an expiration date, and that is whenever you wake up, sit at the edge of your bed, and wonder whether anything beyond the ho hum will ever exist again

Yes, this current season of life may be extra defeating

AND all seasons shift, and there are so many incrementally possible near futures

Where you’re faking being fine less

And you’re able to access living more

For some this looks like smiling and waving at the neighbors dog after years of wishing you could but always dreading being deemed “the weird neighbor” by your creepy window watching neighbors

For others this might look like telling your In Laws that you really don’t like that dish they always make for you because you once said it was good out of performative politeness when in reality being fed it every week has you considering changing your phone number

However living more looks for you, know that you don’t have to get there on your own

The habit of making yourself small and faking being fine took a lifetime to develop, for so many valid reasons

So it’s only humane to approach shifting the weight of that shit off of you with a tortoise’s sense of time in mind

Will 3 months in the Shit Shifters Society heal you from all the things that keep you up at night?

Nope, that would be a really gross and manipulative poison carrot to dangle in front of you

Might being a Shit Shifter equip you with the tools, community, and self literacy to sustain living life more as your full ass self?

Absolfuckinlutely. That’s my greatest intention and the standard I’m holding myself to.

If you’ve read this far, here’s the permission slip you’ve been wanting to give yourself:

Taking up space in your own life creates more room for being in right relationship

Your needs matter, and prioritizing them is one way to live more.

Live more for yourself

Live more for your dearest loved ones

Live more for your community

Live more because life is sooo worth living

When we’re doing it together

Join the Shit Shifters Society before doors close on October 8, 2023 (they reopen end of December, so no gross FOMO marketing is needed) 

The real problem with morning routines is that they all seem to force your into “overfunction” mode faster than your eyelids get a chance to open.

From your feet hitting the floor before you even turn your alarm off, to thinking a blaring siren phone chime is the only option

This episode is explores so much of what made me

Not a Wake Up Person

Until I realized that I, yes me, could in fact Wake Up Willingly

Tune in to hear a few of my insider tips AND be the first to join

Wake Up Willingly - the stay in bed a second and bat your eyes a few times alternative to your feet hitting someone else’s floor of overfunctioning

Learn more and say Yes, And to Wake Up Willingly

Welcome to the Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Love - this week we’re exploring how life can be more livable when we reflect on how our habits are helping or hurting our day to day life.


The brief brief:
Ask yourself these questions to know if a habit is helping or hurting:

• Do you even realize it’s a habit
• What feelings surface when you realize it’s a habit
• Did this habit begin with you
• If you were living your best life, would this habit be part of your day to day life
• Do you feel closer or further from your goals and values while doing this habit
• How would you react if this habit was no longer an option

If you’re like me and realizing that you’ve been adulting on autopilot a bit more than feels good, the Yes, and Yesterday (YAY) embodiment course will equip you with easeful practices to shift the weight of your day as it’s happening so you wake up with more capacity to adult tomorrow by relating with reality today.

Click here to learn more

This episode is a love letter to a dear friend who dazzles the world with her beautiful heart and hilarious way of human’ing. Once you listen, send to the ‘Diana’ in your life and share the love 💝

Feeling let down absolutely happens, AND sometimes I get swept up in the doom cloud for longer than feels good or kind to myself

I had a recent food travesty day (learn more about my ridiculously necessary concept of food based let downs in this episode) and much to my delight the following day was one of soaring sky high with unexpected food majesties

In this episode I’m sharing the 3 shifts that surprisingly made life more livable when I expected to be a miserable bish for at least a few days

And for those still considering joining the Shit Shifters Society for intergenerational cycle breakers, there’s still time! 

In the spirit of being humble and selfless, we’ve actually just gotten really good at not being ourselves, and maybe even “eww, bye b!tch”ing ourselves 😅

In this episode we explore what being full of ourselves could actually mean and look like and how doing so makes human’ing a more happening experience

Questions like “How much of “you” feels like you?” and “Are there seasons and cycles in life that feel more you?” guide this wondering.

If you’re asking yourself “where do I even being if I don’t know how to be my full ass self?!” the answer might be the Yes, And Yesterday course for feeling more supported in your day to day life. 

We’ve all been conditioned and expected to perform patience, and that can leave us feeling depleted. Practicing patience is rooted in context and a skill we can build through connection. 

What’s your current relationship with patience?

This week 6 whole human beings decided to prioritize themselves and attend the Postpartum Playcation event I hosted - and that feels like a huge fucking win for me!! 

It’s so easy to be like “only 6, oh no!” But that’s not how I feel, and I bet there are some wins that feel mighty to you despite what other unsolicited opinions are/were tossed your way.

So this week, I invite you to decide how big of a win something in your life is, and celebrate the shit out of it!

We’ve all been there - staring into the abyss that is our refrigerator and pantry - knowing we need to refuel but having no f*cks left to give by the mushy noodle in our noggin

Cue the Calorie Gallery - an already decided upon collection of edible nom noms and sipable liquids to help us nourish our body and our lovely neurodiverse brains with less woeverload  

This week we’re exploring how life is more livable when we approach adult friendships from a space of curiosity, asking questions like “what would you rather be doing today” and “what fun can we have together” instead of the meh “what do you do for a living” type ish we’re expected to meet and greet adults with

For the Funnin’ with Friends Bingo Board, visit

And if you or someone you love are a Pittsburgh area parent, check out the upcoming Postpartum Playcation Project events on March 24, 2023

Lori is on a quest to share playcations with the cosmos! Or at least see what’s possible when communal space is held to name, normalize, and navigate common adulting experiences - like the postpartum parent experience!

If you’re in Pittsburgh or love someone who is, you’re invited to the inaugural Postpartum Playcation Project sessions on 3.24.23 hosted at the jazzy Brew House Association

Learn more and sign up below -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/postpartum-playcation-project-tickets-560686487377?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Hello from the other side of an unexpected break! And welcome to season 3

I have an announcement- I’m an inner parent pal!

Resources mentioned:

Grab your Clusterfuck Cheatsheet!
https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9

Get more YAY in your day
https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1124327

Ways to work with me https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/

Have you ever been labeled a something based on someone else's unsolicited expectations or judgements about your body, personality, or even existence?

Yes, it sucks,

This episode shares my recent realization that grace is a practice not a trait, stemming from a childhood label of 'ungraceful' that was placed on me for having a larger and less coordinated body than was expected of me.

For more improviding musings, lets connect http://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.lori

Ways to work with me https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/

To support YogaRoots on Location by providing Yoga Teacher Training scholarship funds, click here:
https://www.yogarootsonlocation.com/donate

Last week I called myself in by realizing I have been energetically and literally short sheeting myself :p

So for those moments we are feeling depleted what can we do?

How about explore the 7 types of rest we may be resisting

And a few ways we can go about filling those cups back up

AND if you get your copy of the Clusterfuck Cheatsheet in the next week you'll get the inside scoop on my latest offering [mood: "thanks it has pockets" meets the carebears] before it goes public!

Grab your cheatsheet!
https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9

It's time I get honest'er with myself and you - I've been short sheeting myself (literally and energetically) - and you probably have been too!

Being short sheet'd is part of our collective human experience - so what do we do about it?!

Tune in for my genius improviding life hack for when you find yourself literally short sheeted (that means you're out of toilet paper, in case you didn't know the term)

And for a nuanced exploration of how a habitat check in is more supportive than 'life hacks' for when you're energetically short sheet'd

I also share the inside scoop for how my recent literal short sheet'd moment inspired my Summertime Sensory Reset Sabbatical away from creating instagram content while I re-spool some TP on my roll

As part of my sabbatical I am pairing down my summer offerings - check out this post for more deets on my 3 summer services https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4hP6guNEN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

April Dawn Scheffler is the subtly of service play pal that dreams are made of! This week we go deep and wide and wild and personal and everything in between as we play with Improviding Tool #5 - Build vs Invent.
From body image to brownie points, we explore the power of 'perhaps' and how the lens of perhaps makes possibilities possible.
Content warning - if you are navigating challenges relating with your body and/or have experienced bodily trauma, this episode may be triggering. Honor your needs and feel free to skip until you feel ready!

Explore and Support April's Gifts:
https://bio.site/aprilific

April referenced the Face Your Feelings Friendsy
https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/

I also announce the Clusterfuck Cheatsheet, a resource to help your day be decent even when life feels defeating!
Get your Clusterfuck Cheatsheet here!  https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9


For more fun, lets connect https://instagram.com/improvide.with.lori
For more about my vision and values, visit https://www.loricrawford.me
And for ways to work with me, check out https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/

This week we're riffing off of sign #3 from last weeks episode as I've realized how much overscheduling of my time I've been doing lately. Join me in exploring what role our mind serves in our relationship with our body and wondering if we would spend less time on autopilot if we're asking our body for consent with how we fill, use, and share our time, energy, and resources.

I also announce the Clusterfuck Cheatsheet, a resource to help your day be decent even when life feels defeating!
Get your Clusterfuck Cheatsheet here!  https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9


For more fun, lets connect https://instagram.com/improvide.with.lori
For more about my vision and values, visit https://www.loricrawford.me
And for ways to work with me, check out https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/

Being in a relationship with your body can be a hard tog rasp concept, let a lone a practice that feels accessible. Today I share 3 (of who knows how many) signs that you're in a one sided relationship - and how to flip those signs into opportunities to reconnect with your body.

As mentioned, the Yes, And Yesterday (YAY) course helps you go from 'what even is a body and why do I have to have one' to 'oh shit, my body might just be on my side' by exploring 3 quick and potent embodiment practices. Learn more and enroll here https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1124327

As we explore expansion as the natural state of life, Dr Alexis Edwards, Mercuri, and I chat energy, remembrances, consent, and share a few full circle moments.

Alexis gifts us with the idea that the Phoenix does not go to ash to reincarnate into its former self, but instead there’s a reincarnation into the newest version of themselves.

I facilitate and impromptu Shit Shifting Session with Alexis as we clear some energetic clutter around money, shame, and guilt while making room for money to booty call us with some scrumptious news!

We even consider what story money has about us *gasp*

For more of Alexis’ wisdom, connect with her on Instagram https://instagram.com/expansionprincipleinstitute?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Listen to the Seeds of Expansion Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6rNadqlDkTP0hjG4THbVl5?si=IiXDDhbyTHq6Tn1FgQ67bQ

And enjoy her first book here https://www.amazon.com/Expansion-Principle-Healing-New-Earth/dp/B08B386V8N/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1654026606&refinements=p_27%3ADr.+Alexis+Edwards&s=books&sr=1-1

If you'd like to be featured in a mini Shit Shifting Session, email me hello@loricrawford.me

We all have that one (or dozen) Adulting task that just sucks. our. soul. to a shitty shitty low. Just the thought of having to do that/those thing (s) can meh the rest of our day.

I call these joy poachers

And I'm curious how life becomes more livable when joy poachers are paired with joy practices, those go to dance in your seat, chefs kiss moments that transport you out of your head and into your body, your inner kid cheering you on.

This episode includes the joy poachers and practices that so many of you shared in my instagram stories - thank you for playing!

Here are 7 different joy poacher and practice pairings, curated to offer you a renewed sense of adulting that includes your inner bebe (read in Moira Rose' voice).

I'd love to hear which pairings you're going to play with!

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Shifting our perspective on what a resource is makes room to include ourselves as an extension of source. What if as adults we can re'up our youthfulness by reconnecting to our various sources that give us life?

We explore how we can fill our inner energy reserves, our cups so to speak, by considering our
1. Cosmic source
2. Chosen family source
3. Youth source
4. Reparent source
5. Adult source

Join me in tapping into playful ways to lighten your day to day load and feel more revitalized as you adult today!

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Carrie is a death worker with a gracious gut-o-meter and is grand friend who continues to help me explore liminal spaces and the opportunity they hold for life becoming more livable. We demystify death as part of life, Carrie explores spirituality, dreams, death, and more as part of her human experience while so many quirky, juicy, informative gems are dropped.

To learn more, visit Carrie at https://www.moonsetandco.com/ and on instagram http://www.instagram.com/moonsetandco

Today's exploration prompts:
What are some life taboos that you're ready to explore?
How can normalizing death help make your life more livable?

Todays episode features one of my former mentees, a dynamic thought leader, Keith Jamison. Keith is a senior at Allegheny College and vulnerably shares his experiences as a Black man at a predominately white institution - and because of this emotional labor I am encouraging those who listen to this episode to compensate Keith for his emotion and energetic labor today. Keith's cashapp is $KJamison1

Discussion topics range from positionality and the present, physical dislocation with emotional and spiritual location, lack of accountability from decision makers, and ancestral spiritual practices.

Three (of many) questions that arose during our chat that I wanted to offer as post listening reflection prompts include:
What is school [work, relationships, roles] actually offering you?
What happens if ideas and decisions don't go as planned?
How do moderation and reciprocation support balance?

This tech dinosaur has hatched!

In todays episode we explore the question "what part of my story wants to revisit which part of me?" What came up for me was the myth that I am a tech dinosaur - one that kept me frozen in place despite how badly I wanted to take steps towards my dreams.

Grab a pen and paper or have your notes app ready if you like to get thoughts out of your head as this episode offers a 4 step practice for identifying and shifting a story that is stopping you from feeling your best or taking supportive action in multiple areas of life.


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TW: This episode explores Lori's layered relationship with her body and how the first stories to take form around her body have continued to offer a complex and often challenging relationship with her body. This episode is shared with love and to model the hope that room for new evidence and kinder more accurate stories can be made and that relationships, especially those with bodies, can take root!

Lori mentioned The Face Your Feelings Friendsy free embodiment mini-course and the upcoming Yes, And Yesterday course - both can be explored here:
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Sometimes we need new evidence that something else is possible as we can get caught up trying to invent the magic wand that will cure all woes. Yet what can actually be transformative is building supportive practices into our day as having moments where we actually matter to ourselves can help that new evidence take shape, and provide more ease along the way.

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Episode 13 features Sarah Steckler, a Productivity Strategist and lover of all things cozy. While exploring how life can be more livable we realize the importance of supportive practices that let us feel welcomed and present in our day, be that cups of tea, picnics in the park, or checking in with ourselves. Sarah shares a brilliant take on the weather, the impact of revisiting what was once familiar, and shares about her incredible and free virtual event Productivity and Planning Week (PPW). PPW is March 14-21 and features 29 guest speakers. To learn more and register, visit productivityweek.com

Sarah is the host of the Mindful Productivity Podcast with new episodes dropping every Monday. Tune in anywhere podcasts are found. You can also find more resources, planners, and guides over at mindfulproductivityblog.com and connect with Sarah on instagram @mindfulproductivityblog

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Welcome Back!
Season 2 is a legit blast and I'm so excited to share incredible guest interviews and impactful tips and tricks with you as we continue exploring how life can be more livable.

This episode features The Barking Dogs - a live concert performance by my very own dogs who offer us a moment to tip toe into this seasons underlying theme - what I call the Control to Connection Pivot!

So be gently warned - there is a sudden explosion of unplanned yet right on time dog barking in this episode, hence the title, that allows us to explore how letting go of control allows us room for connection.

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This is part 6 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding AND the season 1 finale. In this episode Lori shares how she welcomed her first child the day episode 10 aired and has been cherishing the last 12 weeks of her maternity leave. During this time her and her babe co-created a pocket pal journal for postpartum support called the Body, Bottle, Breast Digest (linked below) as a way to have each others back while first meeting each other. 

Lori offers that tool#6, I've Got Your Back, is like the long awaited hug that improviding offers. By learning how to have our own backs we strengthen our ability to let others have our backs too. While it can feel uncomfortable to receive help from others, it can feel surprisingly rad to realize the ways you already are there for yourself. The more you yes, and yourself, the more you'll have your own back as the improviding hug is the way of life that only ends when you want it to, much like it's time for this season to end now that we have our own backs and a sturdy playful foundation with the 6 tools of improviding.

The Body, Bottle, Breast Digest: The Baby Feeding and Parent Refueling Pocket Pal is available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M5L43QH?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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Sometimes we hear, see, experience something in life that stirs our pot a bit and lets something 'new' bubble to the surface. In this episode, Lori shares an insight she received from a juicy Instagram Live by Rachel Onojafe about challenging the idea that letting your impact be known and making it easier for people to know how you can serve them means you are bragging - through the lens of having an undefined or open heart in Human Design (an energy blueprint system built upon ancient and indigenous modalities like the Chakra system, astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah (tree of life), etc). Lori shares her own open heart myth, that she'd be a one hit wonder, and also explores how only impacting one person is actually more than enough - thus prompting the title of this episode - what is worth anyways?

If you've ever felt like your sense of worth was something that can only be given from someone or something outside of you, and you're curious about how you can Yes, And being inherently worthy just by existing, this episode may be for you!

To explore Rachel's incredible astrology, human design, and coaching page, visit https://instagram.com/rachelonojafe

To get your own Human Design chart, visit https://www.jovianarchive.com/Get_Your_Chart

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This is part 5 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how Build vs Invent offers us room to reclaim our lived experience as a foundation for moving forward while challenging the way invention is positioned as something that is unfounded and comes from a place of lack. By identifying the faulty building blocks we've been given as a result of colonialist erasure of indigenous wisdoms, we gain access to building reality with more supportive practices, equitable resources, and alongside community.

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It's time for our first podcast party! Shelby Melissa, a money mindset coach, video game enthusiast, and a dear friend joins us this week! We start with the idea of playing with possibilities and venture to so many other spaces including community care, accountability based harm reduction in our day to day lives, and how we as coaches can remain coachable as we address our privilege's amidst a world with much systemic inequity - to quote Shelby, "we can't put out fires on our own when they're really lava". 

Shelby can be reached on her website at https://www.shelbymelissa.com and on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shelbymelissa


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This is part 4 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how ID the Ship creates room for life to be more livable as we start to expand our awareness of what we are in relationship with and how many unspoken relationships we've been unknowingly navigating. We explore how being in reaction mode is a clue that there are deeper things coming to the surface. Lori offers 8 reflection prompts for how to explore the layers of our lived experience and the stories we hold about them.

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We're taking a break from the Tools of Improviding mini series to explore the concept Lori calls 'situationships', or the 'out of sight out of mind' approach we have to most things in life. In this episode Lori shares how an abundance of situationships makes relating with what is happening in our lives and with ourselves more difficult. By shifting through the energetic and emotional clutter of situationships into a space where active and interactive relationships feel possible, life becomes more livable. 

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This is part 3 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how A to C creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'A', or what might come first to mind in the moment, may not be the best, most supportive, or most accessible,  while exploring other options, the 'B's, C's, D's etc.' opens doors for other reactions, contextual considerations, and outcomes to be possible while being human.

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This is part 2 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how If So, What Else creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'If So' creates room to relate with what experience you're having as you human, while the 'What Else' opens the door for other reactions and outcomes to be possible while being human.

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This is part 1 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how Yes, And'ing creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'Yes' creates room to breathe while acknowledging what experience you're having as you human, while the 'And' honors your feelings and needs that come with being human.

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In this episode Lori unpacks improv comedy, how applying improv in life helps you relate more authentically with yourself and others, and how having a first step to take - Improviding - can be enough to shift through life's woes as they happen.

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This introductory episode offers room to explore what Improviding is and how it offers you more room to be okay with being human with Lori Crawford, emotional embodiment guide.

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