Beth of Fresh Air

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 33

Get De-Nickeled (with Dagmar Stansova)

Live Friday, June 19th at 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I'm joined by returning guest Dagmar Stansova to talk about the process of detoxing what may be the most heinous of all the toxic metals:

Nickel.

Who knew??

For most people, nickel only comes up in conversations about skin reactions, jewelry allergies, or metal sensitivities.

Yet the medical literature is filled with research on nickel toxicity and…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 32

De-Cult Inner Work

Live June 12th, 2 PM CDT

More than 25 years ago, I left what I now openly call a cult.

If you've followed my work for any length of time, you've probably heard me mention my years in India and the spiritual organization I devoted myself to in my twenties.

In 1999, when victims began coming forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the group's leader, I left immediately.

At the time, I was fighting for my life with Stage 4 lymphoma. The choic…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 31

Re-Tell

Live June 5th, 2 PM CDT

Story is food for humans.

We spend a lot of time thinking about what nourishes us physically, emotionally, and mentally, yet many people are starving for story.

Not only for information, instructions, and guidance. But authentically told story that carries something real and can be the food for something else real to grow.

There are all kinds of stories in the world. Stories that shape cultures. Stories that influence behavior.…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 30

Sublimate (with Micah Ellars)

Live Friday, May 29th at 2 PM CDT

Sublimate 💫

To sublimate is to refine raw material into a higher expression.

To take the friction, experiences, talents, and struggles of life and allow them to become substance for consciousness.

This isn’t about superiority over others.

It’s about becoming less mechanically run by programs and more connected to the essential inner being that supports real freedom.

There is a spiritual worth…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 29: Synergize (with Micah Ellars)

Friday, May 22nd at 2:00 PM CDT

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Synergy is what happens when something new is created through coming together.

In groups, it has a recognizable structure:

• A common aim and shared intention

• Real opportunities for contribution

• Individual purpose remaining intact, and something new is born

James Hillman called this new thing a daimon — a third being or soul that emer…

Beth of Fresh Air — Converge with Dawn Lester

May 15th, 2 PM CDT

This episode comes straight out of a real-life meeting at Confluence.

Something became unmistakably clear to me there — what it looks like when a community forms organically. Not managed. Not engineered. Not pushed into existence.

But something that actually converges.

Confluence itself is a living example of this. You can feel the difference when you’re in it. People aren’t being organized… they’re finding each other.

And th…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 27: Return

May 1st, 2–4 PM CDT

Fresh back from Confluence in Texas, this episode is about returning — coming back with something real.

I’ll share some highlights and adventures from the experience, and what transformation happens when we step out of our usual environments. Patterns loosen, new clarity appears while you’re away, but many people wonder how to hold onto it when they’re back in regular life. In addition, I have a wonderful returning guest…

With Spec…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 26: Drop It

Live — Friday, April 17 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, we move to the next phase:

Drop it.

Once you’ve spotted a pattern, tracked it, and recognized its structure… there’s only one thing left to do.

Not fix it.
Not manage it.
Not analyze it further.

But to drop it.

To let it move through you instead of holding it in place.

Life is full of things we cling to — both the “good” and the “bad.”

When something feels good, we try to hold …

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 25: Interrupt

Catch the patterns in real time. Break mechanical continuity.
Live — Friday, April 10 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I’m getting into one of the most powerful aspects of deprogramming:

The pattern interrupt.

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been spending time with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff—and for someone who rarely finds great resonance in other systems, I’ve found a surprising amount of common ground.

One of his key…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode: Name It

Live — Friday, April 3 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I’m exploring something deceptively simple — and incredibly powerful:

Naming.

To name something is not just to describe it.

It is to bring it into form.

It’s one of the first capacities we develop as humans — learning language, learning to differentiate, learning to point to reality and say, this is that.

And from there, everything changes.

Naming is an Alchemist power.

But it al…