True North with Abby & Ryan
Abby (gratitude warrior & life coach) & Ryan (energy worker & author) had a 2½-year long conversation about wholeness and healing, spread across 84 magnificent hour-long episodes.Of all the things we ruminated on, the things that bubbled to the surface the most frequently were living in your truth, staying in your business, and finding it within yourself to allow everything else to be what it is.Also Abby talks to cats and Ryan thinks dirt has a soul.
Episodes
84 episodes
Episode 0
***We are aware the audio quality of this episode is terrible. It is what it is.***This is the episode that started it all. We met up for coffee for one of our usual amazing conversations, and decided to put my phone on the table to rec...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:56:15
The Great Conjunction
Abby & Ryan debrief the entire 83-episode run of the True North Podcast, and then send each other off with gratitude, love, and a splash of nostalgic sadness. Seriously. Thank you all. Thank you for being on this journey ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:15:07
We Interview Ryan's Brother!
Ryan is a second-born middle child. Anyone who puts stock in birth order dynamics just learned a lot about Ryan from those two pieces of information.In this episode, we interview his older brother Brandon, who has lived in Japan for the...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:29:11
Abby & Ryan Are Woo Woo AF
**SORRY FOR RYAN'S WEIRD SOUND QUALITY**Ryan is hung-up on people perceiving him as credible, and is therefore hesitant to openly admit to how woo-woo he is. His concern is that there are people out there who blindly trust in things wit...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:10:17
Trust and Soap Boxes
What is trust, really? In the first 20 minutes, we settle on this loose definition:Trust is about safety. You know what needs to be put in place for you to feel safe.If you feel the need to put them in place yoursel...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:18:46
Is Accidental Growth A Thing?
Do you ever notice that you seem to have done personal growth that you have no recollection of actually doing on purpose? Abby says no. Hah. It's more probable your values shifted and you just care less now about things you cared a lot about be...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:09:29
Self Awareness, Self Understanding, Self Acceptance.
Reference points! We all have a core set of experiences that we use to contextualize all of our new and incoming experiences. In this episode we unpack why this happens and what we can do about it. “The best predictor of a ch...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:07:29
Abby & Ryan Aren't Hetero
Last week Ryan said in passing that he's bi. This week, we unpack that.When Ryan says he's bi, what he's saying is that someone's gender neither helps nor hinders his ability to be physically attracted to them. It's not that he discover...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:08:58
Abby & Ryan Talk About God
Before people can talk about God, they need to define what they mean by the word "God."According to the Tao Te Ching, as soon as you define God, you're no longer defining all of what God is.So, all we can do is question and riff...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:14:28
Difficult Emotions, Soul vs. Personality, Generational Trauma
We live in a culture of "positive" and "negative" emotions, which really comes down to emotions that we're uncomfortable feeling/seeing, and ones we're comfortable with. In this episode, we unpack this framework.There are ce...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:06:39
Abby & Ryan Get True Northy
Abby brings the questions and we ruminate on True Northy stuff."Forgive and forget" needs to be replaced by "Forgive and set boundaries." It's less catchy but man does it work better."An eye for an eye" (e.g. death penalty for m...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:07:35
Abby & Ryan Advise Their Past Selves
The game is simple. Ryan rolls 5 dice, and both of them reveal what they would say if they could talk to the people they were at the age shown on the dice.Also Ryan can't #math.AGES:2:48 - Age 1713:00 - Age 2324:29 -...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:02:09
Can People Change?
There's no such thing as "Capital-T Trauma." Emotional trauma is simply any experience that drives us to deny parts of ourselves for the sake of staying safe.Alexithymia (not feeling our feelings) can be attributed to trauma: we h...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:13:52
Abby Refines Her True North
**ANNOUNCEMENT: We are doing a virtual event!!** "The Art of Dropping Your Defenses: Reframing Your Relationship With Your Armor" Saturday, October 2, from 1:11 to 4pm CST $35. Register at
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:04:52
Boundaries vs. Censorship
**ANNOUNCEMENT: We are doing a virtual event!!** "The Art of Dropping Your Defenses: Reframing Your Relationship With Your Armor" Saturday, October 2, from 1:11 to 4pm CST $35. Register at
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:10:20
Self Acceptance, Systemic Misogyny, Sharing Our Stories
**ANNOUNCEMENT: We are doing a virtual event!!**"The Art of Dropping Your Defenses: Reframing Your Relationship With Your Armor"Saturday, October 2, from 1:11 to 4pm CST$35. Register at
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:06:21
GUILT (and a little bit of Patriarchy)
**ANNOUNCEMENT: We are doing a virtual event!!**"The Art of Dropping Your Defenses: Reframing Your Relationship With Your Armor"Saturday, October 2, from 1:11 to 4pm CST$35. Register at
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:03:49
Emotional Maturity
**MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Abby is on TikTok @indigoabby****SECOND MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: We are doing a virtual event!!**"The Art of Dropping Your Defenses: Reframing Your Relationship With Your Armor"Saturday, Octobe...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:13:07
Victim Consciousness, Locating Yourself, HRV
QUESTION: Can you operate in victim consciousness AND be in your True North simultaneously?Drama Triangle —> Empowerment TriangleVictim / Persecutor / Rescuer —> Creator / Challenger / CoachYour "True North Self"...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:08:21
Abby & Ryan Return!! Rest, Growth, Authenticity
We're switching it up to 10-episode seasons with 2-week breaks between, for the foreseeable future.QUESTION: How are you a different person now than you were at the end of last season?Abby - Learned the importance of rest
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:07:14
Abby Interprets Ryan's Dream
Dream analysis is a powerful tool to investigate your interiors. And the best part is, your beliefs about the nature of dreams (random meaningless neuron firings, astral projection, everything in between) have no bearing on how useful this prac...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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1:10:29
Visiting the Past & Future, Single-Tasking, and Why Moving Backwards Isn't a Thing
Visiting the past and future in healthy ways:Visit, but don't live thereBe mindful of what you bring back to the presentWhat to bring back from the Past: Gratitude.What NOT to bring back from the Past: ...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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1:01:57
Navigating Rough Patches in Relationships
Ryan has recently gotten feedback in two of his close relationships, and we debrief how he's responded, both internally and externally.RSP (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria) can come into play whenever we receive negative feedback. Perhaps...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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1:01:35