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Episode 8: Week One · Day Four

December 27, 2025
Allowing the Mind to Be Where It IsWeek One · Day Four brings the practice of Allowing with Grace into the realm of the mind where many of our quiet struggles with control, certainty, and self-judgment take place.
In this Kitchen Talk episode, we explore how the mind often rushes to interpret, fix, or resolve experience before it’s ready, especially during seasons of descent. 
Rather than forcing clarity or silencing uncertainty, listeners are invited to practice good sportsmanship with their own thinking: allowing thoughts to arise without immediately treating them as commands, conclusions, or verdicts.
Set within the Yule season of personal catabasis, this reflection reframes mental steadiness as patience rather than certainty, and wisdom as the ability to stay present without knowing.
A simple, practical reorientation is offered to support clarity without pressure and reparenting at the root.Listeners are warmly invited to continue walking this thirteen-week season in shared reflection and lived experience at CrowsCupboard.com.
The practice continues

Episode 7: Week One · Day Three

December 26, 2025Allowing the Body to Set the PaceWeek One · Day Three brings the practice of Allowing with Grace into the body where many of our survival habits live longest and loudest.
In this Kitchen Talk episode, we explore how pushing, bracing, and overriding physical signals often masquerade as responsibility or strength, even as they quietly erode steadiness and trust.
 Rather than forcing rest or demanding productivity, listeners are invited to practice a different form of sportsmanship: learning how to listen to the body without shaming it or negotiating self-worth.Set within the Yule season of personal catabasis, this reflection reframes success as pacing rather than performance, and strength as responsiveness rather than endurance.
A simple embodied practice is offered to support nervous system steadiness and reparenting at the root.
Listeners are warmly invited to continue walking this thirteen-week season of descent, reflection, and lived wisdom in community at CrowsCupboard.com.
The practice continues.

Episode 6: Week One · Day Two

December 25, 2025
Allowing with Grace When the Day Doesn’t Match the Expectation.
This Kitchen Talk episode continues Week One of the Yule season, exploring Allowing with Grace through the lens of expectation, especially on days that carry meaning, memory, or pressure to feel a certain way.
Holidays often arrive layered with images of how things are supposed to look or feel. When reality doesn’t match those expectations, many of us turn disappointment inward, confusing mismatch with personal failure.
In this episode, we talk honestly about what it means to practice good sportsmanship with life when the day doesn’t deliver what we imagined. 
Rather than fixing, reframing, or forcing meaning, listeners are invited to stay present with the day they’re actually living without self-judgment or performance.
This reflection offers a gentle reorientation of success: not feeling the “right” thing, but staying in relationship with ourselves when expectation and reality diverge.
Listeners are invited to continue walking this thirteen-week season of personal catabasis in shared reflection and lived experience at CrowsCupboard.com.
The practice continues.

Episode 5: Week One · Day One

Week One · Day One
Good Sportsmanship: Learning How to Succeed at Being Human
This episode marks Week One, Day One of a thirteen-week journey rooted in Allowing with Grace the foundation of all meaningful reparenting work.
In this opening reflection, we explore good sportsmanship beyond the playing field and into real life: how we receive lessons when we’re tired, humbled, frustrated, or facing outcomes we didn’t choose. 
While many of us learned sportsmanship in childhood, few of us were taught what it looks like in adulthood when success no longer means winning, but finding steadiness, coherence, and a sense of home inside ourselves.
This episode reflects on why we care about sportsmanship at all: because every human is seeking success in mind, body, and soul. 
As the body seeks homeostasis, the mind seeks meaning and when life stops making sense, we often confuse learning with failure. Through lived experience, contemplation, and gentle practice, this episode reframes learning as a lifelong skill that requires cultivation, humility, and grace.
Set within the winter season as a personal catabasis, this episode introduces the idea of conscious descent: cleaving away what no longer serves and continuing our education in what actually matters as life changes.
Listeners are offered a contemplative question and a simple, embodied practice to begin the week and are invited to walk this 13-week season alongside others through shared reflection and lived experience.
This episode opens the path.
The practice begins here.
For community conversation, reflections, and opportunities to share your lived experience on the podcast, visit CrowsCupboard.com.

Episode 4: Week One - Allowing with Grace

This episode opens a thirteen-week season of personal catabasis, a lived journey of reparenting from the roots rather than managing life from the branches.
Allowing with  Grace begins the cycle because nothing else can take hold until we learn how to meet reality without force. 
In this overview episode, we explore what it means to allow experience honestly and kindly, without resignation or self-judgment, and why this capacity is the foundation of all reparenting work.
Throughout this week, short daily reflections will apply this virtue to everyday moments where we often rush, override, or react  offering gentle, practical shifts that help us become a safer place to live inside.
This season is not about fixing or performing change, but about walking differently  one moment at a time  through mind, body, and soul.
Listeners are invited to walk the season alongside this unfolding at CrowsCupboard.com, sharing reflections, questions, and voices as part of an intentional digital community.
This episode opens the path.
The practice begins here.

Episode 3: Walking the Descent Together

This episode opens an annual season of personal catabasis, observed each year from December 20 through March 22  a time for reparenting from the roots rather than managing life from the branches.
While this ritual returns every year, this season is different.
 It is being walked more intimately, more honestly, and in real time.
 Instead of offering instruction or answers, this episode invites listeners into a shared journey of witnessing what unfolds as the descent begins.
In the episodes that follow, the season will be explored as it lives  through reflection, noticing, and the slow work of tending what asks for care beneath the surface.
 This is not a program to complete, but a rhythm to inhabit.
Listeners are warmly invited to walk alongside, to reflect, respond, and share their voices as the season unfolds at CrowsCupboard.com.
 Everybody has something to discover, and something worth saying.
This episode opens the door.
The walk continues.

Episode 2: Yule 2025

Yule: What Begins at the Root
Yule marks the longest night and the quiet turning toward light.
In this episode, I share a personal reflection from within a 318 day journey of reparenting myself from the roots rather than managing life from the branches.
 This is a contemplation of the season of sitting honestly with what feels long, of learning to trust timing again, and of tending the inner fire without trying to rush the dark.
Through the lens of Yule and the guidance of the cosmic mother, this reading invites listeners into their own gentle catabasis: not to fix or resolve, but to stay present with what is becoming beneath the surface.
This episode is part of an intentional digital community - a shared garden where balance, harmony, and reciprocity are practiced together. Listeners are invited to reflect, respond, and join the conversation at CrowsCupboard.com.
The night is long.
The turning has begun.

Episode 1: Mother’s Night

Mother’s Night: Returning to the RootsMother’s Night comes before the turning of the year.
In this opening episode, I share a reflection shaped by a 317-day journey of reparenting myself as an intimate act of self-love a descent to the roots rather than another attempt to manage life from the branches.
This is a seasonal reading about endurance, lineage, and the quiet work that allows life to continue. 
It honors the Mothers  human and cosmic  who teach us how to tend what sustains us when spectacle fades and urgency no longer serves.
There is no instruction here, and nothing to fix.Only an invitation to pause, to remember whose endurance made your life possible, and to consider what in your own life is ready for care at the root.
Listeners are warmly invited to share reflections, questions, and voices at CrowsCupboard.com, and to join future episodes as guests.
 Everyone has something to say.
This episode begins the season.
Yule follows.