Navigating Normal Podcast

08/02/2024

I will be deleting the podcast by the end of the year. It turns out I still did everything wrong.

04/02/2024

The 51st episode of the is now live. Please take a moment if you could be so kind. 🫶

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/14815826

02/28/2024

Friendly reminder. 💙

02/13/2024

My faithful Navigators,

I know that I have been silent. Every new season of starts with a tinge of bitterness that I regret as the year unfolds. The Christmas blues tend to haunt me well into January. I just want you to know that at this time I find myself truly living. I have leaned wholeheartedly into my baking and pray to leave my job by the end of the summer. I have lined up vendor events almost every weekend and sometimes during the week, and my family is doing well.

My renewal is coming up for my Zoom and podcasting platform, and money is a bit tight right now. Know that I have not forgotten about you. I will be back, and I have some other announcements to unfold later down the line. Until I can get things back up and moving please consider joining our discord or contacting me directly. I'd love to know how you're doing!

And don't forget, do something that scares you.

Yours always,
Stitch.💙🧭

12/20/2023

Things have been tough this December. I need a new car or atleast new tires. Savings is just about drained. Each kid has their own set of difficulties. Learning how to runa business. Somehow I have to hold everything together. Driving down the highway on my way to work I hit my usual pothole, only this time it hit me back. Ended up at a tire center a brisk walk away from Target. I have an hour before my partner can pick me up and literally no one else to call. I'd really like to be in a corner crying right now. And then there he was. For those of you that haven't been on the podcast, I have a weighted Stitch stuffy that sits on my lap for interviews. He brings me some comfort during those tough talks. As I walk through Target debating sitting in the dressing room and having a good cry, there he is sitting calmly out of place staring at me, the exact same Stitch, letting me know it's going to be okay. We're going to get through this just like we've gotten through everything else. After all, it was just a bump in the road..

11/21/2023

On the 50th episode of the Navigating Normal Podcast we have our beautiful friend Samantha join in a discussion about family, love, and what we want our normal to look like. This conversation is infectious and equates change. You don't want to miss it!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/14015004

On the 50th episode of the Navigating Normal Podcast we have our beautiful friend Samantha join in a discussion about family, love, and what we want our normal to look like.  This conversation is infectious and equates change.  You don't...

11/17/2023

A friendly reminder that your trauma does not define your future. You do.

Do something that scares you. 🧭✨️

11/07/2023

Episode 49 of the Navigating Normal Podcast just went live with our new friend TJ Butler. Join me in learning about her own hardships and how her new short story collection Dating Silky Maxwell came to fruition.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/13928552

TJ Butler is a little bit of everything and has the stories to prove it.  Butler’s sharp short-story collection focuses on women's agency and the ways they make choices (or not).  In today's episode we hear a little bit about her own jou...

10/29/2023

My app timer sure did call me out for watching reading new book
It was worth the screen time! 🙌

10/17/2023

E48 of the Navigating Normal Podcast went live today. In it I had a conversation with Terry Baranski who taught me about Internal Family Systems. Please join me in learning about IFS!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/13797480

Terry Baranski is a trauma-centric Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner that is helping spread the method of Internal Family Systems and help with trauma recovery using this exciting and powerful newer method of therapy and treatment.  ...

10/03/2023

Episode 47 of the Navigating Normal Podcast just went live with our good friend Samantha! Join us as she recounts her experience travelling to Peru and meeting Mother Ayahuasca!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/13709737

Join us as we reconnect with out good friend Samantha the Brave from the podcast Cosmic Triggers as she recants her trip into Peru to meet Mother Ayahuasca and gives us a little insight into the logistics of such a journey.Samantha can be found on...

09/19/2023

Episode 46 of the Navigating Normal Podcast just went live with our new friend Dr. Don St John. Please join us as we discuss his new book and the challenges that he has faced throughout his live as he has collected extensive knowledge on healing after trauma.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1572061/13623129

Don St John, Ph. D., is a somatic-relational psychotherapist, workshop leader and author of the award winning book, Healing the Wounds of Childhood. He teachers Continuum Movement and Hellerwork Structural Integration.  His newest book is now...