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Create Harmony
At Create Harmony, we are elevating the pursuit of peacemaking and the voices of fellow peacemakers. Through conversations, stories, and simple practices, we explore the rhythms that nurture peace within us, between us, and in the communities we call home.
If you're longing for stillness and gratitude, you'll find encouragement here. If you're drawn to creativity, beauty, and a little fun, you'll feel right at home. Each week, we celebrate everyday joys, notice the goodness woven into ordinary moments, and make space for peace to settle gently into our hearts.
We live in step with the rhythms of nature, paying attention to the seasons and the ways they shape us, too. From Winter Wellbeing to GrateFall, our seasonal series offer fresh inspiration and gentle encouragement throughout the year.
Episodes
182 episodes
How Travel Restores Curiosity And Peace
Travel can feel like the ultimate break from real life, but we’ve found it can also be a spiritual practice that brings us back to ourselves. I’m joined by Brent Levy, pastor of The Local Church in Chapel Hill, to talk about travel as a hobby a...
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Small Joys, Great Stories: Hobbies That Restore the Soul
This week, we consider reading as a form of rest and restoration. We sit down with Emily Jolley, a lifelong reader and enthusiastic book recommender, to talk about reading as a hobby that supports real rest and a calmer inner life.
Finding Peace in the Garden
Your garden might be the most underrated tool you have for stress relief. We’re joined by Brittany Robinson Whitenhill, founder of Our Backyard, to talk about gardening not as a perfection project, but as a practice of slowing down, observing, ...
What If Your Hobby Is A Peace Practice
You can feel it in your body when your phone stops being a tool and starts being your default coping mechanism. We sit down with Melissa Ward, the creator behind Preppy Goods, to talk about what it looks like to reclaim your attention and rebui...
Nature Can Reset Your Nervous System If You Let It
Your body knows when it has been indoors too long, and your mind usually pays the price. We sit down with Shawn, a forest therapy guide and the founder of The Art of Moxie. We dig into what a guided forest therapy experience feels li...
Peace Practices from the Front Lines
Your nervous system can’t heal on leftovers of attention. In this thoughtful conversation, firefighter Hayne Griffin shares what it means to care for your well-being while carrying the demands of a high-stress profession. Together, we exp...
What If Rest Were A Practice
A good meal can be more than dinner. It can be a doorway into curiosity, a weekly reset button, and sometimes the safest place to tell the truth. We sit down with Denise Baker, a gifted home chef with a deep love of global cuisine, to talk abou...
Your Body Knows When It’s Time To Pivot
Your life can look “right” on paper and still feel wrong in your body. Sally Burlington sits down with author Tara Mae Temple to unpack the moment when career success, productivity, begins to collide with intuition, stress signals, and a deep n...
How You Shop Can Change A Life
Shopping sounds simple until you remember how personal it is. What you put on your body can amplify insecurity or it can help you feel steady, confident, and seen. This week, we talk with Christie Johnson, the founder of Purpose Boutique, a ret...
Coffee Creates Connection
A coffee shop can be more than a caffeine stop. We sit with Cody and Johnny, the founders of Unhinged Coffee, to hear how two people with demanding corporate careers made a fast, fearless pivot into the Raleigh coffee scene and built something ...
What If Care Lived Where Community Gathers
We sit down with Amanda Rigby to trace how The Well Mental and Spiritual Care grows from a late-night COVID-season burden into a real, local pathway toward healing and wholeness. We break down what The Well actually offers, how to choose betwee...
Yoga is Union With Karley Kimbro
Your body might be smarter than your overthinking. We’re joined by Karley Kimbro, a yoga teacher and sound healer, for a conversation that starts with movement and ends with a bigger question: what does it look like to live in alignment with yo...
How it Started, How it's Going
We welcome Megan as our new teammate and share the real story of how Create Harmony grows from solo work into a true partnership built on intention, creativity, and connection. We talk about slowing down the noise, building confidence to share ...
What is a Mental Wellness Boutique?
Today, we welcome our first guest on the podcast. We feature Amy Cook of Petal and Pink Mental Wellness Boutique. She shares all sorts of good info about what the store has to offer as well as details about how it came to be. ...
What If Your Goals Need A Reset
Joy isn’t something we have to chase down or earn. It’s already here, tucked into the ordinary: a butterfly outside the window, the first sip of coffee, a gentle breeze on a dog walk, the smell of dinner on the stove, the relief of a soft bed a...
You Do Not Have To Bloom All At Once
Spring can spark a strange kind of urgency. The light comes back, your energy rises, and suddenly it feels like you should overhaul your life overnight. I’m slowing that impulse down and offering a softer truth: you don’t have to bloom all at o...
Spring Reset
We’re sharing a real-time update from our home life and using it to talk about what we care about most: peaceful living, joyful rhythms, and daily habits that help us step away from stress, even when we only have a small window of capacity....
What You Are You Tending?
Create Harmony invites you to step away from the noise for a few minutes and ask a deceptively simple spring question: what are you growing this season, and are you growing what you actually want to harvest later? When life is packed and your n...
Somatic Spring
Spring doesn’t hit the body like a light switch, and that might be exactly the point. We’re slowing down to explore “somatic spring” a simple, meaningful way to notice how seasonal change shows up inside us as small shifts in breath, energy, an...
Tiny Joys Of Spring
Spring doesn’t always arrive gently. One day it feels like summer, the next you’re bundling back up, and somehow that messy weather swing tells the truth about our lives too. Nature invites you to slow down and notice the tiny joys that sit rig...
Creating Your Own Good Soil
Most of life isn’t a highlight reel, and that’s exactly why it’s worth paying attention. We’re leaning into a springtime metaphor that changes how we move through our days: creating your own good soil. For us, that means building life-giving ri...
Get A Box Full of Peace
What if calm wasn’t a finish line, but a rhythm you could practice with your senses, your space, and a few unhurried minutes at a time? We open the door to a gentler routine by walking through our collaboration with Petal & Pink: seasonal m...
Practicing Peace
What if peace isn’t something you find, but something you practice until it feels like home? We open the door to calm by looking at the small, repeatable rhythms that shape our days and, over time, retrain our minds and bodies from hurry to ste...
Winter Warmth Rituals
Winter doesn’t have to feel like a months-long grind. We guide you through warmth rituals—small, repeatable actions that bring heat to the body and ease to the mind—so your days feel softer, steadier, and more intentional. Instead of adding ano...
How To Adjust Your View For Winter Well-Being
Winter doesn’t have to feel gray or heavy. We share simple, warm ways to adjust your view—around the house and inside your head—so the season becomes a source of comfort, not something to endure. Inspired by the idea that we obsess over a vacat...