Send us a textILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 3Lori discusses a framework for achieving a fulfilling adult life, emphasizing that vision = goals + body cues + community. She explains how setting clear, achievable goals, such as reducing overwhelmed days or minimizing food waste, can help manage expectations and improve daily life. Body cues, like emotional responses serve as real-time metrics. Community involvement is crucial for collective care and sharing responsibilities, such as grocer...
Send us a textIn this episode of the Improviding Life Podcast, Lori explores the concept of redefining "adulting" to align with personal values and desires. She encourages listeners to envision their ideal day, using a tool called "A to C" to delve deeper into their thoughts. Lori emphasizes the shift from a rigid vision board to a mood board, focusing on desired emotions and feelings rather than specific, curated images. She also announces her upcoming initiative, "Nurture November," aimed a...
Send us a textILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 1Lori Crawford explores the concept of "adulting" on the Improviding Life Podcast, emphasizing the need to redefine and personalize it. She critiques traditional views of adulting as miserable, isolating, and unsupportive, rooted in outdated and harmful structures like capitalism and patriarchy. Crawford shares her own experiences, highlighting the generational impact on her view of adulthood and the challenges of student loan debt. She encoura...
Send us a textWe are diving deeper into our How Human Design Helps Me Human series with a very special to me episode where I finally proclaim that Fuck Around & Find Out is the 3/5 profile anthemIf you have a 3/5 profile, have a 3 or a 5 in your profile, or are a human who knows other humans, this episode offers permission, possibilities, and playful ways to approach self reflection, knowledge sharing, and recoding your own story and energy with words that resonate with youWant to w...
Send us a textOur How Human Design Helps Me Human series continues with a solo episode exploring how I approach self-regulating through my undefined and open Human Design energy centers.As a Mental Projector I have 2 of the 9 centers defined, which means a LOT of openness in my chart.This episode clarifies the difference between having an undefined and an open center, and speaks to my experience with my 4 undefined and 3 open centers including how I look to those centers to clues to how I can...
Send us a textRachel Star is an Astrologer, Human Design practitioner, Cosmic Queen, and an overall ICON in the world of self-embodimentAnd she’s this weeks guest!We explore aspects of Astrology and Human Design natal charts that help us identify and life through our valuesAnd how living life as ourselves not only makes life more livable, but makes us ICONIC!You can join Rachel’s upcoming course on Human Design authority (decision making) types here!Connect with Rachel on Instagram and TikTok
Send us a textGrab your HD charts and note what centers you have defined (hint: they’ll be colored in!)These are your super powers you’re meant to share with the worldAnd they also may be where you’ve been told your energy is big or too much by those around youI’m sorry if that was your experience, it certainly was mineAnd now that I know better, that my defined Head and Ajna are what make me me, I am absolutely re-sentimenting these energies for my own wellbeing and so you get the best of me...
Send us a textThe Improviding Life Podcast welcomes Karyn Paige as our first guest for our How Human Design Helps Me Human series! We discuss our own entry ways into Human Design, how HD can support our anti-oppression and liberation practices, and how to be critical lovers by holding ourselves and one another accountable as we pursue being in right relationship despite the presence and heaviness of systemic oppression.More About Karyn: Karyn Paige is a certified Informed Practitioner of Huma...
Send us a textIt’s Human Design season on The Improviding Life Podcast!Join me for the upcoming How Human Design Helps Me Human Series where I will be sharing my personal experience with the Human Design energy system and inviting other HD practitioners and change makers onto the pod to share their own experiences, ways of serving, and change making magic through the lens of Human DesignTo get your own Human Design chart, you can enter your birth time, date, and location hereNext week we have...
Send us a textEp 47 - Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel BagsikIn today’s episode we are joined by Isabel Bagsik, Creativity Wellness Guide and very nourishing human to share space with!The TLDR:Your Creative Calling is Medicine-Why so many visionaries and change makers who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or as the child of immigrants feel like there aren't enough hours in the day for rest and self care, let alone creativity and play-How toxic capitalist ideals need yo...
Send us a textBefore you entertain thoughts about how you can do and be more next year or fart fart finish the year strong - what if you could identify who and how you are right now? Does this feel reflective of who you know you really are? Is this sustainable and is this way of being in line with the values you’re committed to living through? Identifying where the end of the year not enoughness has and continues to come from let’s you know where to be returning the urgency that does not...
Send us a textGust episodes are back as we begin season 4 of the Improviding Life Podcast with a bake, I mean bang!Decision Coach Kirsten Parker joins us as we play with the word "friendly" through the lens of Tool of Improviding #4 - ID the ShipTake a listen if you want to explore what makes a one of a kind friendship so meaningful, how the daily decisions we underthink may actually fill our cup the best, and how life can be more livable when you know what values are a priority in your curre...
Send us a textY’all it’s time to Fake Less and Live MoreSometimes you have to wash your hands of the shit everyone else puts on your plateFaking it til you make it has an expiration date, and that is whenever you wake up, sit at the edge of your bed, and wonder whether anything beyond the ho hum will ever exist againYes, this current season of life may be extra defeatingAND all seasons shift, and there are so many incrementally possible near futuresWhere you’re faking being fine lessAnd you’r...
Send us a textThe real problem with morning routines is that they all seem to force your into “overfunction” mode faster than your eyelids get a chance to open.From your feet hitting the floor before you even turn your alarm off, to thinking a blaring siren phone chime is the only optionThis episode is explores so much of what made meNot a Wake Up PersonUntil I realized that I, yes me, could in fact Wake Up WillinglyTune in to hear a few of my insider tips AND be the first to joinWake Up Will...
Send us a textWelcome to the Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Love - this week we’re exploring how life can be more livable when we reflect on how our habits are helping or hurting our day to day life.The brief brief:Ask yourself these questions to know if a habit is helping or hurting:Do you even realize it’s a habitWhat feelings surface when you realize it’s a habitDid this habit begin with youIf you were living your best life, would this habit be part of your day to day lifeDo you feel c...
Send us a textThis episode is a love letter to a dear friend who dazzles the world with her beautiful heart and hilarious way of human’ing. Once you listen, send to the ‘Diana’ in your life and share the love 💝
Send us a textFeeling let down absolutely happens, AND sometimes I get swept up in the doom cloud for longer than feels good or kind to myselfI had a recent food travesty day (learn more about my ridiculously necessary concept of food based let downs in this episode) and much to my delight the following day was one of soaring sky high with unexpected food majestiesIn this episode I’m sharing the 3 shifts that surprisingly made life more livable when I expected to be a miserable bish for at le...
Send us a textIn the spirit of being humble and selfless, we’ve actually just gotten really good at not being ourselves, and maybe even “eww, bye b!tch”ing ourselves 😅In this episode we explore what being full of ourselves could actually mean and look like and how doing so makes human’ing a more happening experienceQuestions like “How much of “you” feels like you?” and “Are there seasons and cycles in life that feel more you?” guide this wondering.If you’re asking yourself “where do I even be...