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Do you ever struggle to do things you know you have to do, even though you don’t really feel like it?

We’ve all been there—including Martha—and she’s talking about it in this episode of The Gathering Room: Keep Swimming. 

Humans are [...]

Did you know that everything around you is conscious and responding to you in various ways?

It may sound woo-woo, but Martha says there’s a tremendous amount of legitimate scientific research to support this idea!

When we’re willing to acknowledge that [...]

Did you know that the right hemisphere of your brain is doing supercomputer-level processing all the time, whether you’re aware of it or not? 

Wild, right? Martha calls the right hemisphere “the magician” because it can come up with the [...]

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 [...]