• Oracle Card Ritual: Shadow Work on the Full Moon to Balance Overwhelm and Anxiety
    Jul 14 2025

    Do you ever sit down to meditate... only to feel more overwhelmed or disconnected?

    If anxiety has made your usual grounding practices feel ineffective, this reflective Thunder Moon episode brings a fresh perspective. Meryl guides you through a nature-inspired Oracle card ritual that invites emotional clarity and self-compassion — perfect for listeners who are feeling mentally scattered or in need of deeper connection.

    In this short, powerful episode, you’ll discover:

    1. A unique meditation ritual using Oracle cards to support emotional resilience

    2. How the archetype of The Lover can reveal hidden blocks in your relationships with others and yourself

    3. A calming, breath-led practice to recenter your nervous system and reconnect to your body

    Listen now to return to your center — and reimagine your relationship with anxiety.

    Referenced in this episode:

    The Witch's Shadow Work Oracle

    by Clare Gogerty, illustrated by Tijana Lukovic

    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-witchs-shadow-work-oracle-clare-gogerty/1144968776?ean=9781786788405

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    5 mins
  • Thunder Full Moon Meditation: Transform Anxious Energy Into Emotional Clarity
    Jul 10 2025

    What if your next moment of clarity is already rumbling inside you—just waiting for stillness?

    This episode invites you to step into the quiet magic of July’s Thunder Full Moon, a time of year when nature is alive with messages of growth, change, and emotional expansion. If anxiety has been whispering or roaring lately, this moonlit meditation is here to help you realign.

    You’ll reconnect with your breath, body, and the natural world using the rhythmic wisdom of thunder, lightning, and stillness as your guide.

    In this moonlit episode, you’ll discover:

    - How tuning into natural cycles can calm anxious energy and sharpen inner clarity

    - A meditative practice to ground yourself in presence using the senses

    - A simple question to ask yourself that creates space for emotional breakthroughs

    Settle in and press play to hear what your heart - and the moon - are whispering to you tonight.

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    8 mins
  • 15 min Guided Thunderstorm Nature Meditation: From Chaos to Calm
    Jul 7 2025

    Just The Meditation

    A 15-minute guided Thunderstorm nature meditation moving you from total chaos to total calm.

    This episode explores how seemingly small stressors create deep emotional fractals—repeating patterns of response that pull us further into anxiety. Drawing insight from both parenting chaos and nature’s geometry, Meryl guides us to use meditation not just as an escape, but as pattern recognition and real-time course correction.

    You’ll discover:

    1. How to use simple breath awareness to interrupt overwhelming mental loops

    2. What nature’s fractals can teach us about emotional resilience and healing

    3. A subtle mindset shift to bring more compassion and calm to chaotic seasons

    Tune in now to transform anxiety into insight—and calm your nervous system from the inside out.

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    11 mins
  • From Total Chaos to Inner Calm: What Nature Meditation Taught Me About Anxiety
    Jul 3 2025

    Is your anxiety trying to teach you something, but you’re too overwhelmed to hear it?

    This episode explores how seemingly small stressors create deep emotional fractals—repeating patterns of response that pull us further into anxiety. Drawing insight from both parenting chaos and nature’s geometry, Meryl guides us to use meditation not just as an escape, but as pattern recognition and real-time course correction.

    You’ll discover:

    1. How to use simple breath awareness to interrupt overwhelming mental loops

    2. What nature’s fractals can teach us about emotional resilience and healing

    3. A subtle mindset shift to bring more compassion and calm to chaotic seasons

    Tune in now to transform anxiety into insight—and calm your nervous system from the inside out.

    **In this episode, I reference images of fractals. You can view these fractals here: https://fractalfoundation.org/fractivities/WhatIsaFractal-1pager.pdf

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    17 mins
  • 3 Journal Prompts to Calm Your Anxiety Through Nature-Inspired Meditation
    Jun 30 2025

    What if your anxiety is trying to lead you somewhere meaningful?

    In this final episode of the Wayfinding Meditation Series, we turn inward with three nature-rooted journal prompts designed to bring clarity, calm, and inner steadiness during uncertain times. Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or just in need of stillness, these reflections are here to guide you.

    You'll walk away with:

    - A simple process to tune into your internal compass using meditation and journaling

    - Insight into how nature-based rituals can soothe anxiety and support emotional clarity

    - Practices to help you pause, reflect, and realign without forcing answers

    Take 10 mindful minutes today and let Nature and Meditation help you move through Anxiety with more grace—press play now.

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    3 mins
  • How Ritual, Nature and Meditation Help Transform Overwhelm Into Resilience During a Time of Global Anxiety
    Jun 26 2025

    Are you using meditation to manage anxiety, but still feel disconnected or overwhelmed?

    This conversation with artist and ritualist Day Schildkret explores how meditation alone may not be enough to meet the intensity of our mental health needs — especially during major life transitions. Learn how ritual, connection to nature, and intentional rest can support emotional resilience in ways meditation can’t always reach.

    You’ll discover:

    - Why ritual is often the missing link in a meditation practice that's failing to soothe anxiety.

    - How to create nature-inspired rituals that help you slow down and reconnect with your inner self.

    - The real reason we struggle with transitions and how to build meaningful containers for healing.

    Listen now to uncover a grounded, nature-connected approach to managing anxiety with more clarity, compassion, and resilience.

    Day Schildkret, the artist and author behind the international Morning Altars movement, believes that what we need is ritual. Rituals are our most trusted guide during times of change. They give us a sense of stability in the face of uncertainty and remind us that there's always something we can do, say, or make to conjure awe, courage and gratitude. Rituals offer us a tangible and time tested way to acknowledge that as life changes, we too must change.

    Learn more about Day here: https://www.morningaltars.com/

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    24 mins
  • 15 min Guided Meditation | Summer Solstice Finding Stillness in the Forest
    Jun 23 2025

    Just the meditation

    The Summer Solstice is a stillpoint - a moment that begs you to pause, to feel your feet on the earth, and restablish where you are going.

    When anxiety floods your mind and the pressure to “keep going” feels overwhelming, stillness might feel like the last thing you need—but it’s exactly what this nature-inspired meditation practice offers. In this reflective and grounding episode, Meryl guides you through a mossy metaphor that gently invites you to stop, listen, and reconnect with your body’s inner wisdom.

    Take a breath, settle onto a soft patch of moss (real or metaphorical), and listen now to reconnect with your calm center.

    The nature soundscape you hear in today's episode invites us to journey from ocean, to jungle, to forest. You will hear:

    Chimes and bowl recordings of Opal Hopkins

    Ocean Surf: Maui

    Jungle Frogs: Borneo Indonesia (Kalimantan) - Iban Territory

    Jungle bird at night (common pootoo): Amazon Basin Ecuador - Cofan Territory

    Wind and creek: Pacific Northwest

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    9 mins
  • Summer Solstice: A Still Point for Meditation, Nature, and Anxiety Relief
    Jun 19 2025

    Are you constantly searching for clarity in the middle of emotional chaos?

    When anxiety floods your mind and the pressure to “keep going” feels overwhelming, stillness might feel like the last thing you need—but it’s exactly what this nature-inspired meditation practice offers. In this reflective and grounding episode, Meryl guides you through a mossy metaphor that gently invites you to stop, listen, and reconnect with your body’s inner wisdom.

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    Why pausing—rather than pushing—can be the most resilient choice when you feel lost

    How nature offers powerful parallels for managing anxiety and reconnecting with self

    A simple but profound meditation technique to ground yourself when overwhelmed

    Take a breath, find your moss, and listen now to reconnect with your calm center.

    Sign up for my newsletter at https://merylarnett.substack.com/ to receive free mini meditations and soundscapes each week, along with creative musings and more.

    New episodes every Monday (just the meditation) and Thursday (a full meditation class).

    Learn more or contact me at https://www.merylarnett.com/.

    Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

    https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

    https://www.instagram.com/itsbriannanielsen

    This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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    15 mins