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If you’ve been feeling tense, reactive, more tired than usual, or quietly braced even when nothing obvious is wrong, this conversation is for you.
In this episode, we explore the idea that what so many people are...
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Episode 127: Nothing is wrong with you - but something is changing
This episode is an honest, grounding conversation about the quiet transition many women find themselves in during midlife. Not a breakdown. Not a crisis. And not something that needs fixing. It’s a shift—often...
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Episode 126: One Step At A Time - What The Monks Are Teaching The World
In a world that feels increasingly loud, fractured, and unsteady, something quiet is moving across this country. Buddhist monks are walking—step by step, mile by mile—not to protest, persuade, or demand, but to embody...
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Episode 125: Lions, Tigers and Teens Oh My!
Parenting in the tween and teen years asks something new of us. As emotions intensify, autonomy grows, and hormones shift—for our children and often for us—it becomes easy to confuse emotional intelligence with...
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Episode 124: Awaken Hearts in a Frozen World
We live in a world that has taught us how to think, achieve, produce, and perform—but not how to feel and stay present with what we feel.
In this episode, we explore why emotional intelligence (EQ) has become one of...
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Episode 123: Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” Meets the Awakenings Seasonal Cycle
What if Mel Robbins’ “Let Them Theory” isn’t just a mindset shift, but an entire season inside the emotional and personal growth journey?
In this episode, Laura and Adam explore how Let Them fits directly into the...
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Episode 122: When Life Feels Too Full
In this powerful listener Q&A episode, we talk about the quiet breaking point so many people are reaching right now — the overwhelm that doesn’t come from one big crisis, but from the accumulation of carrying too...
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Episode 121: Because Being a Human Is a Lot - Here’s Why We’re Building the Awakenings App
In this candid and heartfelt episode of Magic Seeds, Laura and Adam open up about a chaotic, messy, and very human week — the kind of week that reminds us how unpredictable life can be and why emotional support...
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Episode 120 : From Survival to Renewal - A Journey of Healing Through Connection and Compassion
In this deeply moving episode of Magic Seeds, Dr. Adam Gries and Health & Spiritual Coach Laura Gries welcome back a return guest whose journey embodies what it means to rise again after life’s most devastating...
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Episode 119: Emotional Hygiene - The Ritual We Forgot (But Desperately Need)
In this episode of Magic Seeds, we explore a deeply overlooked practice that holds the key to mental, emotional, and even physical health: emotional hygiene.
Just as we brush our teeth to prevent decay, we must...
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Episode 118: The Seasons of Healing - How Nature’s Rhythm Guides Growth, Balance, and Renewal
In this inspiring and deeply reflective episode of The Honor You Method, host Melissa Coloton welcomes Laura R. Karch Gries and Dr. Adam Gries, owners of Awakenings Health and Awakenings Online, for a transformative...
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Episode 117: The Sixth Love Language: Building a Foundation of Mature Love
In this powerful final episode of our Sixth Love Language series, Laura from Awakenings Online explores the art of building a foundation of mature love—a kind of love that goes beyond infatuation and emotional highs,...
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