I’m Wearing Pajamas
By Megan Howe
I’m Wearing PajamasFeb 07, 2024
19. What do you do? + Yoga Nidra Practice
In this episode, join me as I share a personal story that led me to reflect on the importance of "how I be" versus "what I do."
Through vulnerability and authenticity, we explore the power of being present and cultivating inner calm in the midst of life's challenges.
As a special gift to our listeners, I'm excited to offer a free Yoga Nidra meditation session included in this episode. Yoga Nidra, also known as yogic sleep, is a powerful practice that guides you into a state of deep relaxation and inner awareness. It's the perfect opportunity to ease into calm and experience a sense of peace and tranquility.
Plus, if you're ready to dive deeper into your meditation journey, be sure to check out my new meditation program, "Ease Into Calm," available on our website. Designed to help you cultivate lasting peace and harmony in your life, this program offers guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and tools to support your journey towards inner calm.
So, create a cozy space and join me as we embark on this journey together. Let's ease into calm and discover the beauty of being present in each moment.
Tune in now and let's begin our journey towards inner peace.
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18. Embrace “Can”: Illuminate Your Path to Personal Power
Join us in our latest podcast episode, "Embrace 'Can,'" where we explore the transformative shift from "can't" to "can." In this brief and empowering session, we delve into the narrative we tell ourselves, recognizing how it shapes our beliefs and actions.
This podcast emphasizes the power of lighting the path toward a positive narrative, where trust becomes the key to newfound freedom and empowerment. This was a channeled messaged that I received on December 5, 2023.
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17. The Ultimate Carousel - Living on Autopilot
My brain felt like 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 🚂; stuck in constant create-mode, even waking me earlier than my body was ready.
I eventually stepped away from the screens, caught my breath, soaked in some sun, attended a few yoga classes, and made my way down into my body again.
I know so many of you feel like you’re stuck on an ever-revolving carousel, so I want to remind you that you aren’t alone AND you have the power to ground yourself right where you are. So, that’s what we’re going to do.
On Episode 17 of I’m Wearing Pajamas, I want to talk about how to step off the carousel and how to reconnect to yourself. I also want to teach you how to ground yourself right where you are because doing so can give you access to clarity, peace, and, most importantly, that sense of ease that you are craving.
16. Momentum & Lessons from Therapy
About a month later, I noticed I was constantly feverish and my joints began to swell to the point where I couldn’t wear shoes.
About two months after that walk, I brought myself to the ER and learned I had contracted Lyme Disease that fateful day in the woods.
A tick - a sesame seed sized creature - bit me on the ass and slowly his poison began to ravage my body.
I could no longer move the way I did before.
I instantly lost accessibility and mobility.
And, I was left with a choice.
Roll over and let the illness take me or do whatever I fucking could to slowly start moving again.
I had a choice to stay stuck or to grow.
That experience fundamentally changed me.
On Episode 16, we're talking about growth. Let's talk about what gets in the way of growth, how we can get in the way of our growth, and we'll end with some ideas about how to create momentum when you're feeling stuck.
15. Two Words
On Episode 15, I'm just giving you a gentle two word reminder. You have to listen to get the reminder, so go press play!
14. Are You Willing to Believe in Yourself? The Importance of Examining Your B.S. (Belief System)
Confidence doesn’t always come naturally to me because I haven’t always believed in myself. I know, I know… It can be shocking to learn that me, the performer, the dancer, the teacher, the host of a podcast isn’t naturally confident in everything she does. Honestly, there are many moments where I have to practice being confident. I have to actively practice listening to empowering beliefs because, for a long time, I listened to mostly limiting ones. See, the beliefs we hold can get in our way and sometimes we may not even realize it… I know I didn’t, for a long time.
So, on Episode 14 of I’m Wearing Pajamas I want to talk beliefs.
I want to discuss what beliefs are, how they can work for us and against us, the difference types of beliefs, and we’ll wrap up this episode with a powerful exercise that will support you in creating lasting change in your life.
Whether you’ve been here for a while or its your very first time, I’m so glad you’re here! Thank you so so much for pressing play.
Get cozy and enjoy your time with us. As always, you can wear whatever you want, but I’m wearing pajamas!
Episode Mentions:
Christine Fierce: host of Done Not Perfect, the podcast. Megan was recently featured on Episode 9: Changes... the power you hold.
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Karissa Kouchis and Tony Robbins: Unleash the Power Within
13. How Can Parents Do Better? A Mental Health Chat with My Kids
Episode Thirteen // I became a parent when I was twenty years old. I had no idea what the fuck I was doing, I had zero mental awareness, and, honestly, I was very much still a child myself. I’ve grown up a lot since those first few days of parenthood 13 years ago and, while I haven’t always been the best example for mental health, I like to think I’m better now than I was before… and that’s good enough for me.
On Episode 13 of IWP my kids, Sebastien, Kami, & Evie, joined me in the closet for a discussion about mental health. Now, we aren’t experts, but my kids had some really important things to say about this week's subject, so you’re gonna want to listen up. Especially, if you’re someone who isn’t quite sure about how to talk to about mental health. We all have mental health and it’s good for all of us when we can share openly.
This week, let my kids guide you.
As always, you can wear whatever you want, but we’re wearing pajamas.
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Episode Mentions:
We mention a game on the episode and we call it the wrong name. The game is actually called Mixed Emojis.
12. Land in the Dreamworld with special guest Dr. Maggie Schein
EPISODE 12 // Have you ever dreamt something, only to eventually watch your dream play out in the real world? Have you ever seen someone in a dream, only to meet them later in real life? Have you ever experienced lucid dreaming? An experience of being aware in a dream and using that awareness to sometimes manipulate the dream itself. Have you ever woken from a dream that was so intense and real that it took you some time to shake it off? Or maybe it impacted you in such a deep way that you were forever changed?
On Episode 12, I want to fall down the rabbit hole and land in the dreamworld.
Dreams fascinate me and I don’t really know much about them, other than I mostly enjoy having them, so I thought I’d invite my friend and fellow dream enthusiast, Dr. Maggie Schein, to the podcast to talk with us about dreams.
You can wear whatever you want, but we’re wearing pajamas.
Guest Info:
Dr. Maggie Schein
https://www.maggieschein.com/
Dr. Maggie Schein is an educator, ethicist (moral psychology), and author of both fiction and non-fiction.
She has just completed her tenure as the first writer in residence at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, a position supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In that role, she completed a book about cruelty and humanity that is hopefully both useful and provocative (Cruelty: A Book About Us). During her tenure at Prindle, she also consulted with educators and practitioners on moral development curricula, assessment in ethics and humanities, corporate management strategies, and will maintain a consulting role with the Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard (where she was the Research Director for the Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Lab, 2012-2019).
She is a member of the advisory programming board for the Pat Conroy Literary Center, was a Coordinating Principle Investigator for the National Ethics Project (NEP) and Chair of Education Special Interests for The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) . She is most interested in conversations that bridge philosophy, psychology, literature/story-telling, and naturalistic virtue ethics.
She tries to give alligators their space, has reverence for turtles, loves feathers and possums, is fascinated by snakes, and believes that humans, collectively and individually, are intriguing and inscrutable. She lives with her Husband and artist of all sorts, Jonathan Hannah, along with their menagerie of rescued pit bulls, cats, and the occasional drop in owl.
Podcast Mentions:
Stardust App - a period tracker which follows the lunar cycle calendar.
Bailey Guilloud - Sleep Consultant to entrepreneurs, high achieving creatives, and insomniacs who want to sleep but can't. https://www.baileyguilloud.com/
Insight Timer App - Come practice yoga with me! You can also access meditation, courses, and more from teachers across the globe. Insight Timer is a donation-based app, which allows users to come together to learn, practice, and be. Download this app immediately!!!
11. Go Love Yourself: Stop Holding Back - My GISH Experience
10. How to Feel: The Skill Most of Us Were Never Taught
You may have heard the popular phrase ‘in order to heal, we must feel’ and, while I love that phrase - it doesn’t really give us much direction. It gives us the what, but not the HOW.
My aim in this episode is to teach you an effective method for HOW to feel.
And, you know I like easy, so I'm gonna give you a system that will provide direction into understanding your emotions and feelings on a brand new level. Put on your favorite pajamas and let’s get to learning.
Episode Mention: Empathy pioneer and researcher, Karla McLaren - karlamclaren.com/
9. Demystifying Entreprenuership
EPISODE 9 // One of my first ever jobs was rewinding VHS tapes at the appliance and video rental store where my dad worked for most of my childhood. Outside of my rewind work, I grew up creating, crafting, and selling artwork alongside my mom and grandmother, both artists, at any craft show we could get in. By 15, I was an independent contractor, teaching jazz and lyrical classes for a local dance studio.
I was an entrepreneur before I ever knew the word.
I’m an artist, I grew up in small business, and I’ve been in independent contracting work for 18 years, so even after years of professing that I would never own a business, it will be no surprise to learn that I own and operate a few businesses today.
On Episode 9 of I’m Wearing Pajamas, we’re Demystifying Entrepreneurship and we are again visited by my very best friend, my fiancé, Cesar Clavijo (USMC Veteran, former professional musician, martial arts instructor, and founder of Stillness Academy).
We want to share what’s helped us walk the entrepreneurial path, practical tools for reaching farther in your field, and ideas on how to pull in the reigns when you inevitably begin to wear yourself too thin.
Entrepreneurship is defined as “developing, organizing, and managing a new business”, so for the purposes of this episode, even if you don’t own an actual business business - let’s view your life as the business you’re running!
Because you’re either running your life or its running you. As always, pajamas are highly recommended, but not required.
8. Into the Unknown - Let's Talk Taking Big Leaps with Special Guest Cesar Clavijo
Cesar Clavijo, a native of Long Island, New York, is a Holistic Health Professional and Martial Artist. A Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he served in Iraq and returned to a career as a musician, making the transition to Stillness in 2009.
As you can see, he is constantly taking big leaps and stepping into the unknown, so I knew he would be the perfect first guest to have on the show. Get cozy and we hope you enjoy your time with us!
How you can find Cesar -
Website: stillness.academy
Email: info@stillness.academy
Instagram: @stillnessacademy
7. 4 Steps
EPISODE SEVEN // I'm late, but I'm here! This week, we're diving deep and talking mental health, mental illness, mental wellness, and my personal healing journey. This episode is based on an article I wrote back in 2016. At age 13, I attempted suicide for the first time, but I wasn't diagnosed with depression until 15. By the time I turned 17, I nearly succeeded in ending my life. I share my story to educate, to inspire, and to provide hope. You can do life alone guys, but you don't have to... Press play and learn the 4 Steps to help us shift from mental illness to mental wellness. As always, take care of yourself.
Episode Content: TW Suicide is discussed, as well as Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mental Wellness, and paths to healing.
Link to original article: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/05/4-steps-to-help-us-shift-from-mental-illness-to-mental-wellness/
6. You Can Say No
EPISODE 6 // Hi! My name is Megan and I suck at saying no. So - on Episode 6, the word NO is on the table for discussion because I hear many of you, also, suck at saying no.
Let’s talk about why we say yes when we want to say no (and vice versa), why saying no can be good for you, how to know when no is the answer and when it isn’t, and lastly, we’ll wrap up with clear ways to say no.
Pajamas are highly encouraged, but not required.
5. The Dishes Never End, They Must Be Done: Everything is a System
EPISODE FIVE // On Episode 5, we’re talking systems, what they are, how they can work for us or against us, and I want to explore the idea of thinking in systems to support us in living more holistically. You may want to take notes on this one! Grab your journal, put on your pajamas and let’s talk systems because, in a way, everything is a system. Mentioned in Episode: Author, Donella Meadows and her book "Thinking in Systems".
4. On Loss and Legacy
The day I lost my dad, something in me burned away and died too... and, it was in those ashes and through that loss that I discovered legacy.
On a global scale - we’re talking about loss because, as humans, it’s something we will all experience. And, I think it’s important to have healthy, productive, and effective conversations about things that are bound to fucking happen.
Press play to hear all about discovering legacy in loss, learn how to support someone through loss, what are key steps to take in processing loss, and how I am still moving through grief.
Put on your comfy clothes, grab a snack, definitely get some tissues, and let’s talk about what happens when it’s an end, but it isn’t your end.
Episode Content: Loss. Death. Grief. Trauma. Moving on after loss.
3. Discomfort & How to Process Coming Undone
Join us this week to learn more about discomfort and leave with healthy tools that will support you in experiencing discomfort powerfully. Learn to use discomfort as a superpower.
Episode Content: at 02:07 you will hear an emergency responder say "911, What's your emergency?". Trauma. Discomfort. Diabetes - This episode introduces Type I Diabetes which is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Buddhism.
Links Shared in Episode:
Coursera.org
neshnikolic.com
2. Undone: Show Them Who You Are
Episode content may seem deep and, at times, heavy. We strongly encourage all listeners to check our show notes for detailed descriptions and, as always, please take care of yourself.
1. Touch Ya Self
Episode content may seem deep and, at times, heavy. We strongly encourage all listeners to check our show notes for detailed descriptions and, as always, please take care of yourself.