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Live Well. Be Wise
Deepening the well-being conversation---the podcast that finds the Gold in your stories of hardship and the connection to Wise action and lived Wellness!
Hosted by Kari Lyons-Price & Dorrinda Carlson
"Hey Dorrinda, let's do lunch."
"Ok, any special occasion?"
"Nope, just wanna connect and feast in your presence." (oh and I also have an idea for a podcast?!)
I waited until lunch was settling into our bellies before hitting Dorrinda with the idea. She was in! The brainstorm began and while we both work in the field, we quickly ruled out a Wellness podcast because of how overdone they already are. Besides we felt they were only skimming the surface with the repeat loop of ''expert" advice, gimmicks and trends. We wanted to go deeper.
What's the real story I wondered, "how do some people manage to be well amidst all kinds of hardship and others with every resource known to humankind, can't even catch the tail of wellness."
All my life I've been fascinated by thoughts, beliefs, mental states and the general power of the mind (also because I'm a trained therapist)! Especially in its relationship to our health and well-being.
What is that thing within us that motivates us to be well? We're not talking about a health goal or a number, a state that is achieved. We're talking about wellness as a state of mind; contentedness, balance, or an optimal state of being.
And then the vision fully landed...
Here at Live Well. Be Wise, we are on a mission to engage with people beneath the "doing" and the products, to find out how wellness is a living, breathing, personal thing that gets shaped through life itself!
Told directly to you by the individuals who have lived it. No experts, no products, and no judgment. Raw, powerful, real life stories told by everyday people about how they met the challenges and hardships of life and came out the other side.
At Live Well. Be Wise we answer the questions:
- how do we learn and grow through the storms of life?
- what is the wisdom process? how do we cultivate it on purpose?
- And...how does our wisdom process inform our wellness?
Live Well. Be Wise is based in North Central Washington State and is a community-based podcast. This is a place to hear the stories of your neighbors. To celebrate diversity in all ways and to bridge the divide between us; culturally, economically, politically and personally.
Value Driven:
- We feel our most profound learning is from one another and that we are not alone on this human journey. We are fueled by that belief and the deep desire to reconnect the divide within us and between us. Seeds of wisdom are inside every one of us, and when we share that learning out, it expands, sparking inspiration and possibility for us all.
Through the shared human experience called, "story" we hope to connect each of us to one another. To recognize parts of ourselves in our neighbors story. And to allow this shared humanity to be an anchor for building connection, community and goodness, one day at a time.
Reach out, share your story, be inspired to cultivate your own wisdom path through hard things. We are 100% in this together!
Kari & Dorrinda
Live Well. Be Wise
"Learning to Relax into Discomfort" with Kelly Condefer
In episode #7 we are honored to sit down with community member and healthcare provider, Kelly Condefer. You may never get this much authenticity from your own doctor, but you will in this episode!
She tells about her experience of seeking happiness in achievement and her life-long battle with depression. With humor and humility she shares what she found at the top of "the ladder" of success and what it took to break through this myth and mindset.
We unpack the cultural and familial beliefs and values that build a false mindset of acquiring happiness and how growing up this way caused her deepest wound. The wound of not belonging. Hear how she walked through her own dark night of the soul and came to know "happiness is within you, you can't acquire it."
Dr. Condefer also shares her wellness practices that have allowed her to re-train her nervous system. She says, "The cold water has trained my nervous system to relax into the discomfort, and accept that it's there."
A story filled with inspiration, and hope that could leave you pondering your own path to happiness and who knows, even considering a cold plunge!!
She leaves us with several powerful questions as prompts for our own path to Wellness & Wisdom:
1. Can you embody a feeling that you want to have in your life?
2. Feel, in your body, what it means to be well?
3. Do you know what your deepest wound is and can you be with it?
Bio:
Kelly has been a practicing neurologist in Wenatchee for the past 15 years. She is fascinated by the mysteries of the nervous system and the challenges she helps her patients face in dealing with neurological conditions. One of her greatest joys is making heartfelt connections with her patients, and she has a strong interest in helping people understand the connection between experienced traumas and functional neurological disorders. When not serving as a doctor, she is a dedicated animal lover and plant cultivator, and lives with her partner Neal and scrappy pup Scout (AKA Pupcup), and sweet kitties Nellie and Fitzpatrick.
Resources:
1. Book "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.
2. Teresa of Avila, The golden palace
3. The “Ice Man,” or Wim Hof Method
