The wintering will continue, and season four of Meandering Conversations are put on hold. For how long, no one knows. There might be the sporadic pod episode in this feed though, perhaps me reading a few blog posts, the occasional solitary refl

20. Own your reactions

Jan 21st, 2023 4m 45s

First published on my blog on August 18, 2020. Read the post here →I am no longer willing to let myself be used as the scapegoat. I am no longer willing to step up when others claim that my words, my deeds, my actions, are what angers them, w

19. Maybe violence isn't all that bad

Jan 17th, 2023 5m 49s

First published on my blog on March 31, 2022. Read the post here →Maybe violence isn’t all that bad?!The first time I entertained that statement/question I shocked myself.A long time ago (August of 2013) I wrote a piece entitled Violence is

18. It all impacts you

Jan 14th, 2023 4m 19s

First published on my blog on January 23, 2021. Read the post here →The bottom line: Use discernment when choosing the company you keep, in all manners possible. Be it friends, books, newsfeeds or food, drink and exercise. And. So. On. It a

17. It came from me

Jan 10th, 2023 2m 42s

First published on my blog on November 25, 2021. Read the post here →Riffing about an insight from the aftermath of my first divorce, where I had gotten the insight that whatever it was, it would not be accepted by my X, on the grounds of it

16. A dip in the sea

Jan 7th, 2023 5m 38s

First published on my blog on January 4, 2019. Read the post here →Headed for town, but before I took off on my bike, I packed a towel. Just in case. After recording a pod and having lunch with and at Caspian’s I decided: Yes. Today is the da

15. I'm an upholder. you?

Jan 3rd, 2023 6m 59s

First published on my blog on September 24, 2017. Read the post here →Listening to Jonathan Fields in conversation with his longtime friend Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project if you’ve read that book? I have. Enjoyed it. This con

14. Bliss

Dec 31st, 2022 6m 17s

First published on my blog on October 1, 2018. Read the post here →Presence.Closeness.Finding me.In your eyes.Seeing and being seen.In my yes. My no.Lucidity is kindness, as always.To breath; rebirthing, opening up, energies in flux. L

13. Betrayal occurs

Dec 27th, 2022 4m 37s

First published on my blog on June 12, 2020. Read the post here →Betrayal occurs when those who have power see the trouble and look away. Betrayal occurs when people break promises, hedge on vows of help, protection, speaking for, standing wit

12. A most memorable Christmas Eve

Dec 24th, 2022 8m 55s

First published on Creative Gallery in 2021. Read the post here →Christmas?, I asked, only to hear my mom respond over the phone, without hesitation, No.Ok, I replied, and that was that. Me and the kids, Benjamin at 16 and Alex at 21, at hom

11. Certainty is a closing of the mind

Dec 20th, 2022 3m 22s

First published on my blog on March 16, 2019. Read the post here →Listens to Jonathan Fields on Good Life Project, interviewing Milton Glaser. Interesting and thought-provoking, as these podcasts usually are. However, one thing stood out enorm

10. Calm to be had

Dec 17th, 2022 4m 31s

First published on my blog on March 27, 2020. Read the post here →Last week as I stepped into the cold water of the ocean off the coast of Malmö in the south of Sweden, I had my phone with me. I’ve a habit to do that, now and again, as I recor

09. Ready to get out of your own costume

Dec 13th, 2022 4m 13s

First published on my blog on July 21, 2021. Read the post here → Intimacy.Into-me-see.What armor do I have on me, preventing you from seeing-into-me?(What armor do I have, preventing me from seeing-into-myself?Oh, that’s perhaps the more

08. Defense mechanisms

Dec 10th, 2022 4m 53s

First published on my blog on October 7, 2018. Read the post here →Defense mechanisms.How powerful they are.They run automatically in situations where something (what? The soul? My psyche? That which is beyond human, the greater force behin

07. Judgment vs Discernment

Dec 6th, 2022 7m 36s

First published on my blog on May 7, 2018. Read the post here →With curiosity and a wish for more, Tess picked up on the distinction between judgment and discernment in the post on Intuitive living, and I can only agree: it is a distinction wh

06. Open.

Dec 3rd, 2022 2m 26s

First published on my blog on May 24, 2020. Read the post here →Open.To receive. To give.Both actions require openness.Otherwise nothing can come in; nothing can get out.If I am not open to receiving, I am not open to giving either.Being

05. Procrastination

Nov 29th, 2022 6m 30s

First published on my blog on September 14, 2020. Read the post here: https://tankespjarn.com/procrastination/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tankespjarn/Twitter: https://twitter.com/HERO_RespondiWebsite: https://tankespjarn.com/

04. Present to what?

Nov 26th, 2022 5m 40s

First published on my blog on January 25, 2021. Read the post here → The bottom line: I get to experience that which I am present to, and not experience that which I am not present to, as I cannot be present to everything all at once.I’m sitt

03. I'm not enough

Nov 22nd, 2022 4m 6s

First published on my blog on January 10, 2017. Read the post here →The feeling that I’m not enough. That no matter how hard I try, how hard I work, I will never be able to do enough, never able to do all that which I feel I should be doing. T

02. Slowing down to the speed of life

Nov 19th, 2022 6m 21s

First published on my blog on August 19, 2020. Read the post here →I turn off Spotify.The pipes leading to the heaters gargle a bit, and a car drives by on the residential road outside. And there’s another one, farther away, on one of the lar

01. Convince me

Nov 15th, 2022 3m 31s

First published on my blog on August 28, 2021. Read the post here: https://tankespjarn.com/convince-me/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tankespjarn/Twitter: https://twitter.com/HERO_RespondiWebsite: https://tankespjarn.com/

81. Tankespjärn in community | with Luke, Mandell and Kate

Nov 8th, 2022 2h 6m

“The main aspect is always ‘Oh, these are people I would like to spend 10, 20 hours with!’ And I think that needs to be there because of the way the setup is.” ~ HelenaIt has to be.Otherwise I’d never make it to the end of season three, which

80. Responding to the dance of someone else | with Bella, Özlem & Caspian

Nov 1st, 2022 1h 46m

Season three is approaching the end, and we are concluding with two group-conversations (as we’ve never managed to get a date that works for all the participants of one season). Here you will meet me, Bella and Özlem, as well as Caspian, my fri

79. I am the container | with Bella

Oct 25th, 2022 1h 43m

Fifth and final conversation of the third season.Wrapping it up by having two group conversations (trying to get seven people to settle on one date with commitments and other engagements as well as time zones to juggle is a bit like trying to

78. Light and dark, always dancing | with Özlem Tan

Oct 18th, 2022 1h 25m

In a conversation around inner light as well as darkness, it’s so easy to substitute light and dark for good/bad, or positive/negative. And I have. For the longest time. But I am reclaiming my darkness, waking my inner bitch up; wanting, needin