The Gathering Room Podcast
Episodes
Good Guess Mountain and Why It Is Messing Up Your Life
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ever think if you just try harder or achieve more, you’ll FINALLY feel whole and happy? Martha warns us that this is a misconception shoved at us by...
Magic Stories from the Cutting Room Floor
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Martha reveals several freaky-deaky stories that she couldn’t quite squeeze into her new book, The Way of Integrity! She talks...
Getting off the Roller Coaster
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just before the release of her latest book, The Way of Integrity, Martha describes feeling pulled in many directions and drifting away from her true s...
Managing Problem Relationships
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha identifies as a codependent: someone who helps others even when helping is to her own detriment. Since many of Martha’s listeners have simila...
Signs of New Life
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation took place right after the Spring Equinox, a time when day and night are equal in length. Martha points out that this is a time of t...
The Safe Side of Fear
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview with Inspire Nation podcast host Michael Sandler, Martha explained that living with integrity WILL bring fear into your life. You’ll...
Using Your Creativity for Good Instead of Evil
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After hearing Brene Brown declare that “unused creativity is not benign,” Martha and her family decided to hold a Creativity Day … but when Mart...
Making a Fresh Start
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We cannot force fresh starts. They come when they want to come, and they always begin inside of us. Martha describes the feeling of being “fed up”...
The Problem with Overgiving
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although many of our cultural stories focus on generosity, selflessness, and giving MORE, Martha uses this episode to stress the importance of reservi...
Holding Boundaries
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you cultivate vulnerability while maintaining healthy boundaries with others? Striking this balance is especially complicated if we keep oursel...
Staying Inspired
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No matter where you are in the world, when you hit February you’re likely to hit the doldrums. Martha offers some ideas for keeping our inspiration ...
Finding Relief
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have been socialized to believe that instant gratification is both possible and desirable. It’s neither, of course, and in this conversation Mart...
Living the Mystery
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As world events continue to dish up unrest and upheaval, many people feel more easily triggered than usual. Since there’s so much potential for misu...
Beyond the Barricades
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Martha says we don’t need revolution, we need a dissolution where personal suffering is washed away ...
A Little New Year's Magic
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The season of resolutions, vision boards, and intention-setting lists is upon us! Martha shares a few stories about the magic of creating mindful list...
2020 As Your Teacher
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes when you think you’re losing your mind, you’re actually regaining your sanity. Martha talks about a colleague who’s coping with the st...
The Season of Letting Go
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The winter holiday season of 2020 has felt uncomfortably different for many of us, and Martha is eager to help reframe our year-end celebrations. Celt...
Making Friends with Money
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Money is the single most emotional thing that human beings deal with on a regular basis. As we enter COVID December and much of the world is stressing...
I’ve Fallen Off My Spiritual Practice, and I Can’t Get Up!
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha’s spiritual practices have helped her get through both physical and emotional pain and paved a path to bliss. But now that it’s getting col...
Shape Your World, Don’t Be Shaped By It
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every one of us influences the world, but most of us don’t realize this. We focus instead on how much the world has influenced us. Martha points out...
What Other People Think of You
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve ALWAYS been sensitive to what others think of us, but now we are exposed online to more criticism, bullying, and mockery than we experience in...
Stay Calm, Everything Will Be Okay
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few days before the contentious 2020 election, Martha delves into how American power systems were born and how they are continuing to evolve. She po...
Coping When Life Hits the Accelerator
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that at just 5 weeks old, babies hit a major developmental milestone? The new kiddo in Martha’s household has just reached this age and...
Escaping into the Earthquake
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Into each life, earthquakes must come. Sometimes they come in the form of a traumatic experience, sometimes a choice, sometimes a global pandemic … ...
Instant Abundance
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha believes that material reality is an illusion. That we aren’t physical beings who generate consciousness; we are all part of a consciousness ...
The Magic of Self Forgiveness
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe you’ve had a baby. Or a crisis. Or a time in your life when you just couldn’t keep up with all of your normal responsibilities. Since we liv...
Stop Waiting, Start Living
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have been waiting for the world to right itself. But when we focus on waiting, life can become unbearable. When we live in limbo, it create...
Rest for Success
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you noticed that even the busiest, most active people in your life are slowing down? Everyone seems to have an increased need for rest, downtime,...
Miracles and How to Work Them
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having just watched the film “Superhuman,” Martha is eager to talk about miracles! She’s had plenty in her own life—including learning to bend...
When Life Beats You Down
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a BIG difference between “hitting a rough patch” and feeling the Universe relentlessly pound you into the ground. In this episode, Marth...
The Source of Courage
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we approach situations loaded with racism, sexism, or other prejudice without becoming angry? Many of us are conditioned to believe that our a...
Sacred Every Day
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha’s dogs, her son, and the COVID virus are teaching her a better way of being in the world. Instead of living life like it’s an endless to-do...
The Secret to Feeling Better
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard the Buddhist adage that attachment is the root of suffering, but Martha believes it’s actually attachment to desire that’s maki...
What Are You Becoming?
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been raised to believe that trying, striving, and constantly creating is the only way to live … but the pandemic has forced us all into a de...
How to Hang in There When You Feel Like Giving Up
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha confesses that she—like many of us—is feeling the weight of the racial tensions across America, the worries swirling around the pandemic, t...
Claiming Sanctuary
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply emotional episode, Martha explains that while every human culture has created a sacred space where people can claim sanctuary, many of ...
Inviting Magic
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we find the balance between healthy skepticism and openness to magic? How can we tell coincidence from manifestations of our own inner power? M...
The Lost Art of Listening
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martha dives into this episode by confessing that she thought she had a decent handle on what was going on in the world, but the global uprising again...
We Are All One, Let’s Act Like It
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love, understanding, mutual respect. After watching the video of police officers killing George Floyd, Martha is struck by the disconnect between the ...
Spring Cleaning Your Life 2020
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"After a huge shock to your life, you may find yourself saying that you’re “back at square one.” Martha insists that, instead, you are “on to ...
The Gathering Pod Trailer
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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