Join Lauren's upcoming Emotional Clarity Workshop on April 3rd, 2024 HEREIn the bustling world of 2024, where the pace of life seems only to quicken, many find themselves trapped in a cycle of stress, routine, and unfulfilled desires. Our late

#243 Embracing Stillness: Navigating the Winter Solstice and Finding Connection Within

Dec 21st, 2023 11m 18s

Join us on the Lighten Up podcast as I explore Episode 240, where we delve into the fascinating interplay between holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah and the profound stillness of the winter solstice, the year's darkest day. In this insightful

#242 Clearing Mental Clutter: Finding Space for a Lighter Life

Nov 21st, 2023 17m 57s

In this episode, host Lauren Polly shares her personal experience with managing a busy mind, especially during restless nights, and offers practical insights and techniques for clearing mental clutter. Learning points:Recognizing Mental Overc

#241 The Multidimensionality of Success: Exploring Your True Calling

Sep 19th, 2023 14m 53s

Join Lauren Polly, the host of the Lighten Up podcast, in episode 241, where she delves deep into a topic that resonates with many of us: "Just because you're good at something, doesn't mean it's good for you." In today's episode, Lauren sheds

#240 Meeting People Where They Are (Without Losing Yourself)

Jul 27th, 2023 16m 11s

Communications are a building block for your life experience as it colors your feelings, sense of worth, authenticity and so much more.But communication hiccups happen all the time.Words get twisted, the message doesn’t land, people take offe

#239 Transitions & Shifting Beliefs: Having Ease as You Grow

May 9th, 2023 16m 6s

We are evolutionary beings; multi-faceted creatures with tons of curiosity and drive to engage all parts of ourselves throughout our life journeys.But most of us don’t engage all parts of ourselves at once –We shine in one skill set in this j

#238 Sharing Is Not Caring: Intimacy SOS

Feb 28th, 2023 16m 3s

How often does a shared experience leave you feeling more disconnected or confused?When we try to share experiences, we tend to match the other person thinking it will build a sense of intimacy with them. But…Expectations don’t get met and we

#237 Being Different at Work & In Life

Oct 11th, 2022 15m 59s

Neuro diversity is a hot topic – media coverage and depiction of those with autism, ADHA, dyslexia, etc are leading to more self-identification (aka no formal diagnosis). Those that have always seen and interacted with the world differently ar

#236 Compassion Fatigue SOS: Re-Enliven Your Gift of Caregiving

Aug 16th, 2022 38m 32s

What is compassion fatigue? Emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, often described as the negative cost of caring.It’s a thing, people! And is occurring more and more aft

#236 Guiding the Light

Aug 24th, 2021 15m 6s

How do you find, follow and feed that which brings light to your life?We’ve all heard of guiding lights before. Those otherworldly a-ha’s that act as a lighthouse, guiding our ships forward amid stormy or dark seas.Most of us are on the l

#235 Surrender: SOS for Perfectionists

Jul 28th, 2021 15m 29s

We all have situations that we wish would go differently.While we know we we aren't victims of our circumstances; that we always have choice. And that our actions contribute to what is showing up...We still get blind-sided when things don't

#234 Empathy in HOT Situations: How to not lose your cool

Jun 29th, 2021 18m 14s

When situations heat up are you able to keep your cool? When an empath is in health, she can see what others see. And she can use that vision to connect, inspire and create. An empath who is not in health feels what others feel as if it’s

#233 Difficult Conversations

May 11th, 2021 16m 4s

How can you approach difficult conversations without hurting the relationship – or you! – in the process?Difficult conversations are just that - difficult.Whether you're speaking to:your boss about unfair treatment,your spouse about un-met

#232 Strange Times: How to Deal & Thrive No Matter What

Apr 27th, 2021 12m 47s

Strange times occur for all of us. Times where we can’t put our finger on “what’s up.”Our anxiety rises, we lose interest, tempers flare, communication breaks down... In short, we just don't feel or act like ourselves. It’s bee

#231 Finding Your Way (with a Touch of Luck!)

Apr 13th, 2021 15m 20s

What if you aren’t lucky but aware?We all have those times in our lives with things just fall into place. We attribute so much of this to luck, happenstance, synchronicity… but what if it went deeper than that?Your ability to navigate life t

#230 Softening in Hard Times: Tricks to Make Change Easier

Mar 30th, 2021 14m 38s

Feel like you’ve been working hard to change the trouble spots in your life?Too many times, when life gets hard we respond by becoming hard ourselves. Either in defense/deflection, to push ourselves through or to numb out...After a while our

#229 How to Create Your Dreams as Reality

Mar 16th, 2021 14m 55s

“It doesn’t do to dwell on dreams” says DumbledoreAt first when I heard this quote I thought it was the same old warning us dreamers get...That isn't possible.Get your head out of the clouds.You should just be grateful for what you have...

#228 Protection SOS: Living Open & Strong

Mar 2nd, 2021 14m 20s

Do you feel like you have to protect yourself from life?So many of us think that we are too sensitive to live open.Judgments, hot emotions, intense energies, unkind words – all of it can feel like knives cutting you.We feel raw and exposed s

#227 Holding Your Own: Dealing with BIG Energies

Feb 16th, 2021 15m 5s

How often do you lose your sense of peace when confronted with big energies?People can be intense. Whether you are dealing with drama-queens, anger-monsters or your run-of-the-mill judge-y folks…Holding your own – not losing yourself in thei

#226 A Proactive Anxiety Tool: Opalescent White Light

Jan 19th, 2021 14m 53s

What if a simple exercise in the morning was all it took to keep anxiety away all day?Yes, our reality is anxiety provoking -Whether it is the:constant environmental stimulation,living up to expectations at work,relationship drama,or tapp

#225 Acknowledgement Exercise

Dec 8th, 2020 14m 31s

What if the key to knowing you could move forward was to acknowledge how far you’ve already come?If everything is changeable then why am I still dealing with this?I hear this all too often from folks (and experience it myself from time to tim

#224 Your Day Your Way

Nov 17th, 2020 15m 22s

What if one bad day was one too many?So often we chalk bad days up to a given in our world. As if living every day in the energies we enjoy is too much to ask.Most often this isn't a conscious choice – it’s us getting swept up by our environ

#223 Progress: One Step at a Time

Nov 10th, 2020 15m 5s

What if you’re life was progressing even if you feel like it isn’t?Progress – in life, business and everywhere else – is not what it seems. It’s thought that we catch a wave and ride it to the finish line in one fell swoop.We meet THE person,

#222 The Bright Side: Lessons from Pollyanna

Nov 3rd, 2020 16m 3s

Do you play the glad game or the judgment game?Pollyanna gets a lot of flak. Most call her naïve, annoying or checked-out. Why? Because she sees possibilities where others see problems. She chooses to spend her time being grateful, not lost i

#221 Quieting Your Mind

Oct 27th, 2020 14m 39s

The world is loud. But what if your mind didn’t have to be?I know it sounds like a stretch – especially given the state of things lately! – but what if you could enjoy a sense of peace even if no one around you was? A-ha moment: most of our