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The Motion of Gratitude®
✨ The Motion of Gratitude Podcast | Hosted by Shannon Missimer
There’s more to life than going through the motions.
Welcome to The Motion of Gratitude Podcast, where we explore what it truly means to live with intention, reconnect with yourself, and create a life aligned with your values.
Join Shannon Missimer, holistic well-being coach, breathwork facilitator, and mindfulness expert, as she brings you real conversations, science-backed strategies, and transformative insights to help you:
✔ Cultivate daily gratitude for a stronger, more resilient mind
✔ Regulate your nervous system and break free from stress & burnout
✔ Reconnect with your intuition to make empowered life decisions
✔ Shift out of autopilot and into a life of presence, purpose, and fulfillment
Each week, we dive deep into personal growth, nervous system regulation, mindful living, and emotional resilience, with inspiring guest experts, powerful solo episodes, and practical tools you can apply immediately.
✨ Whether you’re an educator, entrepreneur, parent, or anyone craving more connection and clarity, this podcast will help you stop merely existing and start thriving.
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The Motion of Gratitude®
Okayness: Finding Freedom Where You Are with Caverly Morgan
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In this episode of The Motion of Gratitude Podcast, Shannon sits down with spiritual teacher, author, and nonprofit founder Caverly Morgan for a conversation about what it really looks like to live a practice—inside a monastery, inside a school system, and inside everyday life.
Caverly shares her unexpected path into meditation (and eight years of Zen monastic training), how practice became something she could filter her entire life through, and why leaving the monastery was both liberating and deeply challenging. From there, we move into the origin story of Peace in Schools—and how a single invitation from a teacher led to a credited mindfulness course inside public high schools, long before mindfulness in schools was widely understood.
This conversation is honest, practical, and full of hope—especially for parents, educators, and anyone feeling stretched beyond capacity who knows it’s time for new tools.
In This Episode, We Explore
- Caverly’s path from first retreat to eight years of Zen training
- Leaving the monastery and bringing practice into everyday life
- How Peace in Schools began—and why teens are so receptive to these tools
- What’s shifted in schools pre- and post-COVID (more openness and more barriers)
- The idea of “okayness” and starting practice from love, not self-improvement
- Working with autopilot through “yes” and “thank you”
- Caverly’s book The Heart of Who We Are and her upcoming community practice collective
Resources + Links
- Peace in Schools (education partnerships + training institute): peaceinschools.org
- Caverly Morgan (retreats, workshops, online offerings): caverlymorgan.org
- Book: The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together
- Upcoming: Practice collective moving through the book in community (starting around February—see Caverly’s website for details)
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