Rest and Awaken Podcast

Join us for conversations between Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie, discussing all things related to rest, awakening and liberation.

Rest and Awaken Ep. 30: Embracing Rest

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about different ways they are playing for rest, strategies for staying present for world events while protecting your energy and they say goodbye to the podcast for now.

07-31
43:48

Rest and Awaken Ep. 29: Autism, fear and playfulness

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about fear, safety inside of one's self, factors that contribute to playfulness and autism.

07-16
45:49

Rest & Awaken Pod Episode 28 : Befriending our armor

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about deepening friendships with more vulnerability and noticing the ways we armor up due to fear and/or shame.

06-21
46:50

R&A Pod Ep. 27: Friendship and Modernity

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie explore friendship in adulthood and the concept of hospicing modernity (capitalism, imperialism, colonialism) and exploring different ways of being and doing things.

06-06
45:28

Rest and Awaken Ep. 26: Authenticity and Community Care

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about how they are trying to bring more of their authentic selves (racial, neurodiverse, queer) into spaces and the importance of support from community to lean into the hard parts of life and conversations.

05-23
42:17

Rest and Awaken Ep. 25: Exploring Power

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about power in different spaces, protests happening on college campuses, and imagining liberation. Celebrating one year of these podcast conversations.

05-16
45:07

Rest and Awaken Ep. 24 (Special): Embracing Difference Rather Than Othering

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen record a podcast in the community and invite others into the conversation as they celebrate one year of conversations. Explore humans tendency to be scared by difference and how we can learn to notice and maybe even embrace difference without othering. Also discussed white comfort, introverts vs extroverts, and letting ourselves imagine a world of collective liberation.

04-24
01:01:01

Rest and Awaken Ep. 23: Living Our Truth

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about how easy or hard it is to live into one's truth, making room for good things, and inviting love into hard conversations.

04-09
45:10

Rest & Awaken Ep. 22: Facing Fear

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about how being hijacked by fear can get in the way of connection or finding common ground towards liberation. They explore some of the polarization currently and the ways fear is leading to us vs them mentality. Some highlights: -what is zionism? -what is antisemitism? -rooting for Palestinian safety and liberation while not excluding the need for everyone to feel safe -how fear shapes so much of our life and gets in the way of liberation -the power of psychedelics -how touched Nathalie was by a story that Bryan Stevenson (black civil rights attorney) shared

03-27
51:06

Rest & Awaken Ep. 21: Pivoting When Not Satisfied

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about discerning when you feel satisfied in a culture that focuses on not good enough. Also explore when you are not satisfied how do you pivot versus being caught in the binary of all or nothing.

03-14
38:43

Rest and Awaken: Ep. 20 : Less policing, more expansion

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about the every day ways we police ourselves and each other which can escalate to violence and death. Finding ways to make room for differences rather than fearing difference is a practice.

03-05
38:00

Rest and Awaken: Ep. 19: Race and Reflections

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen reflect on how race is showing up in their lives and the gift of having cross racial dialogues about race, racism, whiteness and the caste system.

02-16
38:48

Rest and Awaken: Ep. 18: Befriending grief and winter

Dr Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about befriending the season of winter energy and seasons of grief and transformation.

02-04
44:01

Rest and Awaken: Ep. 17: Fear, resistance and liberation

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about how resistance as a form of liberation shows up in their life, the fears that come with that and the importance of being connected to others and not getting in the way of others liberation journey.

01-18
41:38

Rest and Awaken Podcast Ep 16: Parenting and Living From Ease

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about embodying liberation in all aspects of their life. Talk about parenting, partnering, and setting intentions for 2024 that have ease in mind.

12-27
41:46

Rest and Awaken Podcast Ep. 15 December musings

Dr. Nathalie and Dr. Colleen talk about the energy of December; full of rest, traditions and liberation.

12-12
39:02

Rest and Awaken: Episode 14 Calling people in and forward

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about effective ways to call people in and forward vs calling out during a polarizing time.

12-01
52:18

Rest and Awaken Ep. 13: Talking about Israel-Gaza-Palestine

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie address a polarizing topic with the perspective of collective liberation, having a nuanced conversation, not erasing anyone's history and not promoting antisemitism or islamophobia.

10-27
47:50

Rest and Awaken: Episode 12 Leaning into the hard

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about what it means to lean into the hard in terms of feeling a range of feelings, processing grief, having honest conversations and embodying liberation in our lives.

10-11
44:06

Rest and Awaken Podcast Ep. 11: Life as an odyssey

Dr. Colleen and Dr. Nathalie talk about life as an odyssey and moments of transformation. Check us out on most major podcast platforms

10-06
44:07

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