Things That Will Help
Things That Will Help is a podcast that explores what it’s like to be human, and how to find tools to feel clear, grounded, and happier. Each week, an episode full of rich story-telling and embodied practices that bring the themes Buffy discusses to real life. These stories ahead do not negate the hard or the darkness, but rather point to the lighthouses along the way.
Episodes
164 episodes
Circle of Willis Will Help
In this episode, Buffy introduces the Circle of Willis — a vital loop of arteries that keeps blood flowing to our brains, even when part of the path is blocked. She uses this miraculous piece of human design as a powerful metaphor: when life bl...
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Season 13
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Episode 162
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24:56
The What Will Help
This episode is about the rules we inherit—spoken and unspoken, cultural and familial—and how to discern whether they’re truly in service to our lives. So many of our thoughts, standards, and habits are built on default settings we didn’t consc...
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Season 12
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Episode 161
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24:12
Hollow Bone Will Help
What is occupying your time and energy? Do these things actively contribute to your life? And if not - how do you begin to shift course when the investment runs deep?Using the lens of the sunk cost fallacy, Buffy reflects on how challeng...
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Season 12
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Episode 160
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23:10
Ceremony Will Help
At any given moment, we may be experiencing a major beginning or a major ending; in this episode, Buffy explores why marking these moments matter, and how to do that. She reflects on how ritual can help us digest loss, honor change, and find ou...
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Season 12
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Episode 159
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25:45
Specificity Will Help
In this episode, Buffy explores the quiet power of specificity, and considers how precise, thoughtful feedback can leave a lasting mark. From Mr. Rogers’ letter-writing habits to Oprah's fourth grade teacher, Buffy shares stories that illustrat...
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Season 12
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Episode 158
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18:30
This Invitation Will Help
Buffy opens this week’s episode by talking about the part vs. the whole; how, in times of great change, we usually don’t get to understand why something is happening to us. Meaning, and wisdom, arrive slowly and often in small moments....
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Season 12
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Episode 157
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19:05
Laboratory Living Will Help
In this episode, Buffy explores the difference between a goal-oriented, legacy mindset vs. navigating your life like a laboratory. What if your life isn't something to perfect, but something to experiment with? What if it's not about leaving a ...
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Season 12
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Episode 156
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19:38
Brody Will Help (Part Two)
In part two of this special conversation, Buffy and Tina continue their discussion on love, loss, and Brody’s lasting impact. Tina shares how writing became a lifeline throughout Brody’s illness and grief, offering a glimpse into the book that ...
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Season 12
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Episode 155
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38:18
Brody Will Help (Part One)
Three years ago, Buffy’s dear friend Tina Porter faced the unimaginable—losing her son, Brody, to an aggressive brain tumor. In this special episode, Buffy and Tina come together for a heartfelt closet session to reflect on love, loss, and the ...
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Season 12
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Episode 154
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24:24
Less Like Will Help
In this episode, Buffy explores the juxtaposition between belonging and dissonance. She talks about the way communities can lighten the load and encourage bravery and belonging - as well as the pitfalls of what happens when we only surround our...
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Season 12
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Episode 153
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21:31
Legacy of Listening Will Help
How does deep listening shape the way we experience life? How does it help us notice what we might otherwise overlook? Buffy reflects on the shift from doing into being, and how fulfillment can meet us when we let ourselves be present with our ...
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29:15
Cut and Create Will Help
In this episode, Buffy shares the things she’s choosing to cut from her life, and what she’s making room for instead. This conversation is an invitation for you to reflect: What could you cut? What could you create? How can you shap...
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Season 12
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Episode 152
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24:07
Leftovers Will Help
This episode is a hodgepodge of beauty and hope. In this historically monumental time, Buffy highlights importance of taking deep care and paying attention to what is good and beautiful. Your attention is a precious and finite resource. This ep...
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Season 12
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Episode 151
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20:42
Eagles, Finishing, & Drop Down Menus Will Help
Where are you putting your creative energy and life force? What projects do you have in the works that need support, or that want to be moved forward? Buffy tells stories of auspicious bird-of-prey sightings, friendship, and drop-down menus to ...
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Season 12
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Episode 150
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17:18
Sparks Will Help
This week's episode is about the signs, sparks, and detours that sometimes subtly, sometimes suddenly, change the course of your life. Buffy tells stories of worry stones, guidance, and synchronicities, and encourages us to follow the cosmic br...
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Season 12
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Episode 149
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20:44
New Dreams Will Help
This episode explores the ever-unfolding process of becoming. What are our interests, passions, and focus, and how do they transform over the course of our lives? How do we transform? Buffy invites listeners to explore how their dreams...
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Season 12
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Episode 148
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23:52
Supporting Anxiety Will Help
This week's episode is a practical plan to support in your anxiety. There are different practices to help you access your body, soothe your mind, and tend to your heart. Bookmark this episode as a friend to come back to when you need tangible a...
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Season 12
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Episode 147
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22:38
Taking the Top Off Will Help
This episode is dedicated to the process of growth and the ways that affects who walks alongside us in our own journeys. We are ever-evolving beings, and if you are listening to this podcast, it is likely you consider the nature of your persona...
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Season 12
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Episode 146
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22:00
Dawn Chorus Will Help
In foundation-shaking times, where do we turn? Buffy speaks to the moment of reckoning and unrest with the important reminder to do the work of living, and to live with as much presence as possible. She turns listeners towards the lighthouses t...
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Season 11
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Episode 145
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16:38
Letters Will Help
The process of writing a letter, in an authentic way, changes you. It marks something, and it is exchange of energy, whether it is delivered to the person it was meant for, or not. Buffy offers the wisdom letters can hold when we write them to ...
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Season 10
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Episode 144
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26:25
Joy Capital Will Help
It is easy for challenging moments in our lives to capture our attention and energy; it is perhaps much more difficult to pay attention to what's beautiful, true, and brings us joy. In this episode, Buffy encourages more presence and attention ...
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Season 10
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Episode 143
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20:05
These Piles Will Help
What is mine now? What is mine for later? What is not mine at all? Buffy offers definitions for these piles that offer clarity, save time, and protect emotional energy. 🌱
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Season 10
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Episode 142
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23:05
Bravery, Not Perfection, Will Help
As a treat for listeners this week, Buffy brings on her husband Matt to deliver a speech he recently gave to a group of thousands about fear, bravery, perfection, and the ways they are all braided together. Matt tells stories of his first time ...
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Season 10
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Episode 141
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21:28
Returning to Rhythms Will Help
You are probably managing an impossible soup of lightning-quick news cycles, a daily-changing world, a complex inner life, all while remembering the tasks that make your life run. Are you feeling disconnected or overwhelmed in it?...
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Season 10
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Episode 140
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22:36
Field Agents Will Help
This episode begins with a goat named Clover and woodland fairy role-play. You know the phrase, "it takes a village?" Buffy helps listeners deepen their understanding and opportunity around this idea; that we might look for and cultivate the "f...
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Season 10
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Episode 139
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21:01