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#17 The Gift of This Moment: Savoring Life's Spoonfuls

• Sari Stone • Season 1 • Episode 17

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Have you ever caught yourself eating without tasting, talking without listening, or simply moving through life on autopilot? What if we could see how many spoonfuls of life we had left?

This episode delves into the art of presence, especially during life's transitions. Life doesn't give us a countdown; it simply asks us to be here now. 

 Where your attention flows, your awareness follows, and where your awareness goes, your life grows. When we bring our attention home to the present moment, we notice everything—our breath, the sunlight, the gratitude tucked inside even overwhelming days. As we approach the illuminating energy of the full moon, I invite you to reflect on what's being revealed in your life. What are you ready to leave behind? Letting go isn't abandonment. It is alignment. Who in your life deserves to be truly seen and heard? Join me next week as we explore the art of letting go with awareness rather than avoidance, and discover how transitions, when honored properly, bring us closer to our authentic selves.

Message me on Instagram or through my Facebook group "Just Count Me In" if you'd like to explore coaching through your own transitions. What spoonful of life are you savoring today? #Mindful parenting #Miindful living 

Thank you for joining me!

Speaker 1:

Well, welcome, welcome back. Welcome to Transform your Life. Just Count Me In, where we explore miracles in the mundane and the wisdom in everyday moments. I'm your host, sari Stone, and today's episode is a heartfelt reflection on savoring life, especially in times of transition. Life, especially in times of transition. So, whether you're someone on a path of personal growth, a parent, a caregiver, this episode is going to invite you to slow down, become more present and cherish every sweet spoonful of this life. I hope you enjoy it.

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So this morning I was having my breakfast, which I love, and I was sitting here looking at the trees and we had a great rainstorm and I don't know what possessed me to do this. But I stopped looking at the bowl I was putting the spoon into and I was just staring at the trees and eating out of the bowl and I realized I didn't realize how much of my breakfast I had left. I didn't realize how much I had eaten. All I really had was what was on my spoon and in my mouth. So I kind of played a little game and I did not look at the bowl until it seemed like I was out of breakfast. What that kind of trained me to do other than inspire this podcast episode was. Take a look at how present I am and how much I'm actually savoring what's on my spoon and what's in my mouth, or how much I'm looking at how much is left and thinking about how much I've eaten and I thought, man, what if we could see how much ice cream we had left Like, how many spoonfuls of life, how much joy, how much time with our children? Would we savor each moment a little more fully?

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Today, I'm going to invite you to consider how we move through our lives, especially as parents and guides to children. We often rush, plan, worry and miss what's right in front of us. Last week, we talked about time and energy management and how do we spend our energy, and how do we spend our energy and how do we spend our time, in an attempt to focus us on what is more rewarding for us, what brings us energy, what keeps us aligned with the energy that's here for us in the flow of our lives. Life doesn't really ever give us a countdown, it's just asking us to be here now. This episode was actually inspired by a friend of mine who's transitioning out of this life far too young, and yet, in his awareness of the end, he's teaching us the power of presence. He lived his life, fully, influenced so many people just because he had the guts to stand up and be different and be who he was, whether it was popular or not, and he absolutely lived his truth. And now too soon in my opinion it's ending. So even in his awareness of the end, he is teaching us the power of presence. Even though he's in extreme discomfort, he is savoring his life, not because it's perfect the way it is, but because it's his life.

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So in my coaching work with teens, especially high school seniors preparing to graduate, I see a similar kind of awareness. They're on the edge of something new and while they look ahead, there's power in helping them be rooted in what is, so that they don't lose the magic of where their feet are planted right now in the onslaught of what are your plans for next year, and I can't wait to be done with high school, and these feelings are all valid. But on the other hand, there some of them realized that they were missing the present. They were missing the opportunity and the opportunities for them to find joy and find some kind of purpose in where they actually are right now. So we've coached a lot about that. There's a lot of power in staying rooted with where we are because technically, this is all we have, not to get too woo-woo, but it's all of time like infinite time and this moment right, and that's really where our power lies. So, as partners and parents and caregivers, even as a single person it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking someday things are going to slow down or get easier. What if someday is now? What if this phone conversation, what if this summer vacation, what if this bedtime story, this car ride, what if this messy dinner table is like one of those sweet, unrepeatable moments?

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Our children and the people around us learn to savor life by watching us. They learn emotional resilience through our example and they deepen their awareness when we show them how. So how are we actually showing up? Where your attention goes, your awareness follows, and where your awareness goes is where your life grows. So if your attention is scattered, your awareness runs a little bit thin. But when you bring your attention home, you start to notice everything your breath, the way the sunlight comes in through the window, the gratitude that could be tucked inside even a messy, overwhelming day, and in noticing that life becomes rich, we are rich.

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So ask yourself am I present in this moment? How much am I savoring the people I love? How much am I savoring the people I love? How aware am I, am I aware at all, about how I actually feel, not just reacting, but being so? Here are some affirmations for you. I choose to savor this moment with love and presence. I'm aware I am here and I am grateful. Show me why I'm here today. I trust that being here now is the greatest offering that I can make. Each moment is a spoonful of sweetness and I receive it fully. So, as we enter the full moon, which is Monday, I would invite you to reflect a little bit deeply on what's illuminated in your life.

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Full moons bring things to the surface. They shine light on everything Clarity, emotions. They show you what's working and what's not working. Sometimes comfortable, sometimes they're celebrations, sometimes they're extremely uncomfortable. But it's also an opportunity to let go of what doesn't serve us and to truly see what's being asked for our attention. So full moons are very illuminating, no pun intended. As you savor this week's moment, I want you to ask yourself what am I ready to let go of? Where can I be more present? What truth, am I ready to honor? Who in my life am I not seeing and hearing? And in next week's episode we're going to explore the art of letting go how to let go with awareness as far as avoidance, how to let go with ease instead of drama, and how to guide ourselves and our children, if we have them, through emotional transitions, small and big, and how letting go can actually help us grow closer to who we really are. So until then, may you savor the spoonful honor what's rising and trust what's ready to fall away. And thank you, john, for inspiring this episode.

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So I feel like we barely scratched the surface in this episode about transitions this week and if you want to take a deeper dive, one of the people I would recommend you read is Bridges, william Bridges' Transitions. He actually wrote a book about it and I studied that book when I was getting trained as a cognitive coach and then his wife died and he rewrote a different. He completely revamped the edition because he went through a huge transition and he pointed out in his studies that we've had tribal and cultural ceremonies that celebrated coming of age the quinceanera, the sweet 16, bar and bat mitzvahs, people's first communions. I mean there was all kinds of tribal and cultural celebrations, and we've lost some of that in the transition between blending, but this whole melting pot thing, and we've lost some of those. And I think that, no matter what your age, you've missed out on some of the experience if you haven't taken the time to mark your transitions forced upon you, such as, let's say, dying, for example.

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You can ask yourself a couple of questions, because what we like to do is think about what we're going to add to our lives right away, but we skip a very important step and Americans are famous for just rushing through the transitions. We don't pay enough attention to the endings. And let's say, if I moved here and I moved here a little bit over a year ago if all I thought here was the beginning right in my face, if I didn't have an ending for the part of my life that took place in Colorado and that doesn't mean saying goodbye to people, but it definitely means like a real ending, like closure to living there I would be spending this last year just comparing everything to what it was like in Colorado instead of being totally present with this, and to that extent I would be ruining my experience. So if we don't fully experience an ending, we're not going to have a healthy beginning. So the two questions are what's it time to let go of in my life and we are going to be diving into that next week and the second question is what's standing backstage like on the wings just waiting to make its entrance?

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So if you want to take a deeper dive, please message me. Contact me on my instagram, sarah stone 2025 or just count me in my Facebook group. Message me through Facebook. I would love to do a coaching cycle with you. If you're in the middle of transitions or just want to set up a couple sessions, share any thoughts that you have. Again, thank you for your time today. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you like this episode, please let me know. Stop by social media, on Instagram or my Facebook page. Just count me in and please leave a comment. If there's anybody that you think could benefit from this episode, please forward it to them, and I look forward to seeing you next time. We're all in this together, thank you.