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Welcome to my podcast! In this space we explore life and all of its many layers through the lens and practice of accessing inner truth and clarity. We talk about navigating life's most difficult and curious experiences, from loss and death to being in aloneness and relationships. This is a space of vulnerability and healing, of repair and reconciliation. We grow here. Within.
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Message me! How often we take for granted our bodies and the ways they carry us. We do not necessarily focus on gratitude that they continue to withstand. I believe we need to. It's important. As strong as our bodies, is as fragile as our bodies, and the reality is, they won't last forever. Let's pause and contemplate this truth. Let's pause and gi…
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Message me! I am thinking about the Los Angeles fires and the many people whose lives have been completely undone, and am reminded of this nine-part series on the inevitability of death, and the nature of impermanence in general. There are many causes of death. So often we live each day going about almost in the blind not realizing how shifts happe…
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Message me! Where are you in this moment now? Have you given thought to how much of a gift it is? So often we wake and move through life as if the moments thereof are guaranteed. We seem to operate on a kind of autopilot that takes for granted the reality that our lifespan is not fixed, and that death arrives spontaneously. Join me today as we look…
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Message me! Death is inevitable and will arrive when it arrives. It needs neither invitation nor permission to enter when it knocks. Death has access to our lives whether we desire it or not, are prepared or not, and it requires nothing of us in order to reveal itself. The reality of this brings us to the question, what does it mean to prepare for …
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Message me! In her poem, The Summer Day, poet, Mary Oliver, asks "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Have you ever asked yourself a similar question, and not with the intent to be "productive," but rather from a place of knowing your lifespan is ever decreasing (mine, too)? Our time here is finite. Are we…
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Message me! Have you ever sat and gave thought to the truth that you are going to die? Have I? Death is inevitable, so what are we doing with the reality of that? This episode explores the first of nine contemplations on death that we are gifted from scholar and monk, Atisha (also Atisa) Dipamkara: Death is inevitable; no one is exempt. Holding thi…
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Message me! So often we live as though death is out there somewhere, reserved for other people. We neither see nor seize the moment to befriend the reality that we will one day die. Imagine sitting with it and giving ourselves the attention we need on the topic. Imagine turning toward the truth of death and how intimate we are with it, and seeing w…
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Message me! I am one of those authentic people in life. Anyone who truly knows me can attest to this. I believe in being true to ourselves, which often means having the ability to enter into hard or uncomfortable matters. I find authenticity to be the path of true connection and closeness. After all, how intimate can we truly be when we aren't bein…
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Message me! What are you thankful for in this moment? Who resides at the tender place of your heart that perhaps this time of year brings to the surface? How is your heart right now? I find myself thinking about the patients I've recently lost, and my father who died many years ago. I can't help but hold them with tenderness and warmth and with gra…
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Message me! As much as this time of year brings many joy and happiness, it is also a time of deep grief, loneliness, and sadness for so many. We just never know what a person is going through. So, as we go about our days in celebration this time of year, let's be mindful that the person sitting or standing beside us may not be having that same joyo…
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Message me! Do you ever think about dying? Have you planned for when that inevitable time comes? As someone with a hospice and palliative care background, I know how difficult it is for many to even begin consider the possibility of dying. Taboo, still, the topic of death that we treat it as if a plague rather than the period at the end of our life…
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Message me! We are at a time of great dismay for many. Our thoughts and feelings may be overwhelming, and so much so, that we find ourselves being pulled deeper and deeper into the dark of the injustices, disbelief, and great many disappointments. The reality of this has me thinking about where we are placing our thoughts and energy. I can't help b…
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Message me! It isn't always easy to receive feedback, yet it is the key ingredient needed to change. What do we do when we receive feedback, and if we truly feel sorry, are we willing to change? If so, are we taking that willingness and actually practicing change? Join me in this episode as I share a moment in my own practice of self reflection, an…
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Message me! When the rubber meets the road, who do you become? Are you someone who practices openly and fully expressing what is true for you, or are you someone who tends to shut down? I've been thinking about communication and how shutting down is a kind of shortchange; we lose out on the full experience of our lives and inadvertently abandon our…
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Message me! Feedback is essential to our growth and expansion. It's a key ingredient in change, yet it's one of the hardest things for people to practice being with. We are often concerned with not wanting to upset someone or fear their response, so rather than communicate our experience of another, we keep quiet and carry on. What we don't realize…
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Message me! As actor, Uzo Aduba releases her memoir, The Road Is Good, I am brought to reflect upon the grief that rests within me, a grief rooted in what does not exist between my mother and me: a connection. What do we daughters do with this kind of grief? Where do we place the tender spots that went missing as a child, and continues now? How do …
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Message me! Communication, and the many ways of its importance, has been in the air for me these days. I see how easily we miss opportunities when we choose not to communicate. We lose, and others lose because of us. How is there to be true repair when we do not communicate? How is there authentic connection and relationship, including friendships,…
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Message me! I am often in thought or conversation about time and how it's the one thing we do not get back. It's something I contemplate regularly in my practice to stay alert. I appreciate time, and yet so often it isn't given the presence of its due. We easily take it for granted until the hour glass begins to fill and what is being poured thins …
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Message me! Communication is important and yet so lacking. The consequences can be weighty, particularly when we aren't being seen clearly by those in positions of power and privilege. I've been dealing with this at work and it's rather unfortunate. Join me tonight as I share a personal experience navigating, and being with, the impact and effects …
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Message me! We're not always gonna be on the path. That's impossible. The nature of being human has a connection to imperfection. So we seek instead to be as aligned as we are able by way of being alert, awake to ourselves and our lives. When we find ourselves off the path, or teetering about, the inquiry and exploration becomes about our practice …
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Message me! Take a moment to pause the happenings and drop into yourself. It's far too easy to get swept up and away by the tasks and to-dos of life, that we give little to know thought to ourselves. It isn't sustainable. It just isn't. We may not yet see the effects or how grand a reality of the many things being compromised, but it's happening. C…
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Message me! Grief is such a little word of magnanimous power and presence. In the same way that it can bring us to collapse, it can crack our hearts so wide open that we see the beauty and gift of each moment. Grief is beautiful. It's devastating and heartbreaking, yes, and it is beautiful. I invite us to feel the fullness of our grief in the same …
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Message me! Yes, you read that correctly. This episode is about the experience of having an inner-ruption. It's that dis-ease or angst or unsettled feeling or stress or insert the very thing that is disrupting your inner. It's often that feeling we feel when something has happened and remains unresolved. Perhaps we feel slighted, unseen, disrespect…
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Message me! In 2017, I quit my job and career in hospice care and moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I did this without any real planning, plan, or financial abundance. I felt moved, called, and so I left. What you should know, is that the leaving was easy. Letting things go and walking away, felt normal to me for whatever reason. It was the r…
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Message me! Too often we do ourselves a disservice by keeping our wants and needs quiet, and not making them known. Interestingly, we somehow still manage to believe the other person should know. I guess it's easier to feel disappointed than it is to be vulnerable about our needs. A lack of communication, and I mean real communication, of the trans…
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Message me! Gratitude is such a game-changer. I have found the practice of gratitude to create the kind of openings in life that it's hard not to turn toward its way. Join me for this BONUS episode where I invite you to pause and take a moment for yourself. Take a moment to reflect on where gratitude may be present in your life, or perhaps where gr…
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Message me! What happens when we choose not to pause and look within in order to see ourselves and our lives more clearly? Well, for certain we are destined to miss a truth that needs to be seen. We may also cause harm that could have been avoided. Then there is the likelihood that we will repeat patterns of behavior that keep us operating from a p…
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Message me! Welcome to On the Path, your weekly podcast dedicated to exploring life, accessing truth, and finding clarity amidst the complexities we all face. I'm Kissiah Young, your grateful host. I come to you from the distinct worlds of hospice and palliative care, and the grit and beauty of death and dying. The reality of impermanence has culti…
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