Things That Will Help
Episodes
189 episodes
Clear. Open. Receive. Integrate.
Sometimes the things standing between us and what we want aren’t outside of us, but blockages we carry within us. Those blocks can show up in all kinds of places: money, love and relationships, asking for help. In this episode, Buffy explores h...
Beauty Marks Will Help
In this episode, Buffy reprises Beauty Marks, her current take on the small ways beauty is showing up in her life. These beauty marks invite us to stay open and curious, looking for all the ways grace can show up in the everyday (but o...
Everything Is A Bird
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Energy Hygiene Will Help
What is energy hygiene and why does it matter? In this episode, Buffy shares how we can care for the our energy (AKA our Life Force), which is a valuable currency that can be depleted and replenished. This episode follows last week’s “New Guard...
New Guardrails Will Help
In this episode, Buffy explores imagination as a doorway into a life that hasn't already been mapped out for you.Most of us imagine our future using a blueprint we inherited: beliefs handed down through our families, our culture, and the...
Try Softer Will Help
After attending Love Letter from the Afterlife at Red Rocks—a tribute to the late poet Andrea Gibson featuring their final performance alongside the Colorado Symphony—Buffy returns to one simple phrase from Andrea's work: try softe...
Murmuration Will Help
A murmuration is when a flock of thousands (or sometimes, hundreds of thousands) of birds move together across the sky like a wave, or a cloud of smoke. Buffy explores the surprising mechanics behind these breathtaking displays, where no single...
Notes From the Field Will Help
In this episode, Buffy shares fresh observations and lessons from the workshop of her own life. She reflects on pleasure as a practice, the power of curating our attention, the value of invisible things, and the importance of shifting perspecti...
Cruising Altitude Will Help
Buffy begins this episode with a friend’s story about navigating a challenging work situation. Using the metaphor of an airplane, her friend described the inner shift that allowed her to rise above the turbulence rather than remain caught withi...
Matriarchy Will Help
In the wake of Mother’s Day, Buffy reflects on mothers: what we are mothering, how we are mothered, and the creative shapes being a mother can take. She shares about experiencing her first Mother’s Day without her mom and weaves in stories of p...
Celebrating Six Years of TTWH
Buffy and TTWH producer/editor Alex meet on the 6th birthday of Things That Will Help to reflect on six years of the podcast. They talk about the creative evolution of the podcast and their own practices, pleasure as a tool of the resistance, t...
Holy Labor Will Help
Labor doesn't have to deplete or harden us. In this episode, Buffy explores the space between arriving and striving, and invites us into the magic and beauty of the process as we aim towards a specific destination - into the magic of holy labor...
Color Will Help
When something taps Buffy on the shoulder more than once, she’s learned to listen. Lately, it’s been color. In this episode, she explores color beyond aesthetic. Color is something our bodies subtly register and respond to every day, and she re...
Moving the Bench Will Help
After a difficult week, Buffy shares a story of moving a bench a few feet so it could catch the sunlight, and what this simple shift can mean in our own lives. In a time when you are likely carrying both collective grief and personal grief, how...
Mantrika Will Help
In this episode, Buffy expands on the concept of mantra (a chant, a syllable, a steadying truth) into mantrika, which translates to “little mothers," or the worlds and phrases that we birth into existence daily. What are the words we r...
Room For the Spark Will Help
Buffy had a plan for how she would give birth: what she would wear, where she would be, how it would unfold. It was a lovely plan which did not pan out at all. This is an episode about holding our plans and ideas with a loose grip so we don't m...
Choice Will Help
Buffy begins this episode with the story of Holocaust survivor Edith Eva Eger, and the choices Eger made in the face of unimaginable trauma. While trauma and circumstance may be outside of our choice, this conversation explores the agency we ha...
Divine Order Will Help
In today’s episode of Things That Will Help, Buffy tells a story shaped by chance, luck, and the quiet intelligence of the universe. She share's the story of a dear friend about the unseen forces that moved across time and space, weavi...
Data Collection Will Help
Buffy begins with a story about an ordinary moment of tuning into a true crime podcast opened up a wider inquiry: What am I consuming, and why? How does what you are taking in—media, food, relationships, stories, habits—sha...
Small Things Will Help
In this episode, Buffy invites listeners into the power of the small. Consider this: how you complete the small tasks in your life can be a mirror for how you move through the big, life-shaping moments. What happens if you approach the small th...
Holding Will Help
In this episode, Buffy explores themes of holding. What are you holding—right now, in your hands, in your heart, in your attention? She considers the ways we hold things—grief, secrets, memories, hope—and how everything we hold benefits from br...
Rosemary Will Help
In this episode, Buffy talks about the plant rosemary as a guide and teacher. Rosemary, AKA the compass weed, the old man, is the plant of remembrance. Buffy shares what she is learning about this ancient and practical plant: its effects on the...
This Goodbye Will Help
In this episode, Buffy talks about her mom’s final days in hospice care and what has unfolded since. She shares about Vivian’s last moments, and the quiet peace that accompanied the sadness. She explores what it means to live inside the loss of...
Cliffs, Community, and Courage Will Help
In this episode Buffy shares three stories of bravery and presence: her daughter braving her first cliff jump with a hundred witnesses; her son choosing courage over conformity; and her mother, in the final stages of life, reflecting on the lig...
This Beauty Will Help
In this deeply personal and tender episode, Buffy opens her heart and shares the journey of her mom Vivian’s breast cancer—from her diagnosis a decade ago, to the present moment of making the decision to call hospice. Buffy reflects on a conver...