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Welcome to a virtual gathering that will kindle your curiosity and soothe your soul! Join Martha Beck for the podcast edition of her weekly Instagram Live, and listen in as she touches on a spirituality or personal growth topic that’s on her mind.
You’ll also hear the lively conversation that follows as Martha opens the floor to questions from the live viewers. With topics ranging from courage to creativity, purpose to intuition, these discussions will engage and support you on your journey to self-knowledge.
Ready to connect with a community of like-minded seekers? Welcome to The Gathering Room Podcast.
Some people have a bullseye picture of their purpose in life and are headed straight toward it. However, this is extremely rare.
Why?
Martha says it’s because we live in a culture dominated by left-hemisphere thinking, which pulls us toward anxiety [...]
Do you ever feel like your life is a crazy quilt?
Martha says that creating your life is the ultimate creative project, and that’s what she’s talking about in this episode of The Gathering Room.
Each of us is given all [...]
Martha says one reason we humans are a strange species is because we love to make jigsaw puzzles—beautiful pictures that we cut up into tiny pieces and disassemble, and then put back together. And we don’t like them to [...]
You’ve heard of the fight and flight reflexes, but what about flop and fake?
Flop and fake (also known as fawn) are two of the other responses in the polyvagal system, a theory about how our nervous systems adapt to [...]
We’re not trained to think of a spiritually led life as being hilarious or silly or goofy. But as Martha reminds us, laughter is the beginning of prayer.
In this episode of The Gathering Pod: Letting the Force Steer Your [...]
“Be prepared to stop.”
This is serious life advice, Martha says, because no matter what we’re doing (or how much we want to continue doing it), at some point we’re going to get interrupted by life.
Whenever we have to stop [...]
