Tiny Shifts

By Foothills Unitarian

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If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, disconnected, or disheartened, the Tiny Shifts Podcast is a welcoming haven for you. We don’t just provide words of encouragement; we offer tangible ”tiny shifts” that anyone can incorporate into their lives to drive significant change.

Episode Date
Breathing Meditation
Jan 04, 2024
5 Minute Meditation for Self-Compassion
Dec 21, 2023
Our Few Worthy Things: 15-minute journaling meditation to discern what matters most
Dec 14, 2023
Guided Meditation for Stress
Dec 07, 2023
Is America a Christian Nation?
Nov 29, 2023
How to REBEL Against Fascism
Nov 23, 2023
AntiFascist Church
Nov 16, 2023
Is this fascism? And if so, what do we do?
Nov 09, 2023
The First Time Without You: A Conversation About Grief, Memory, and Being Human
Oct 26, 2023
The First Time You Say It
Oct 19, 2023
How to fail at the right things
Oct 05, 2023
Why are first times so terrible?
Sep 28, 2023
Decentered or Erased?
Sep 21, 2023
Better Walls and the Paradox of Tolerance
Sep 13, 2023
A Guided Meditation for Staying Present with Discomfort
Sep 06, 2023
Cosmos and the Goddess
Sep 01, 2023
Holy Spirit Activate
Aug 16, 2023
Awe, Suffering, and the Mysterious God
Aug 09, 2023
God and Other Big Questions: Q&A Episode!
Aug 02, 2023
God As Verb: Introduction to Process Theology
Jul 26, 2023
God is Trans
Jul 19, 2023
Why God?
Jul 19, 2023
Why our current conversation on Mental Health falls apart with Dr. Janina E. Fariñas
Jul 06, 2023
Belonging Across Difference
Jun 29, 2023
Where does belonging start?
Jun 14, 2023
Our Beliefs About Belonging
Jun 07, 2023
Creative Flow Is For Everyone
May 31, 2023
State of LGBT+ Rights: What’s happening and why you should pay close attention
May 25, 2023
Spring meditation for hope
May 18, 2023
Cringy Confessions and Guilty Pleasures
May 11, 2023
Catching Vision
May 03, 2023
Finding Your Way Through When Everything Hurts
Apr 26, 2023
How to Rebuild Hope: Where to begin in challenging times
Apr 20, 2023
How can we see no stranger?
Apr 12, 2023
Replace Yourself
Apr 05, 2023
You’re on the team
Mar 28, 2023
The Lifesaving Power of Mutual Aid
Mar 22, 2023
Bonus Episode: Gender Question Box
Mar 10, 2023
How to combat misinformation about trans and nonbinary people
Mar 08, 2023
Gender (Un)Stuck: Finding liberation from gender roles (+ an intro to gender creative parenting)
Mar 03, 2023
How do we become better men?
Feb 22, 2023
Kissing God, Transforming Gender with special guest queer theorist Kathryn Bond Stockton
Feb 15, 2023
The Strangeness of Gender
Feb 10, 2023
Right On Time: How to manage regret
Feb 01, 2023
The Invention of Time
Jan 25, 2023
What is the Beloved Community?
Jan 18, 2023
The Hopefulness of History
Jan 11, 2023
Letting go with intention
Jan 04, 2023
How The Unitarian Universalists Invented Christmas
Dec 25, 2022
Be A Rebel
Dec 21, 2022
Why Your Curses Are Actually Gifts But Not In A Toxic Way
Dec 14, 2022
Memory as a Tool for Hope
Dec 07, 2022
Center: Taize Vespers
Nov 30, 2022
After Club Q: Queer reflections on living in America
Nov 23, 2022
How to love the holidays
Nov 22, 2022
Why you should put mischief on the agenda
Nov 16, 2022
How do we deal with death and grief?
Nov 09, 2022
More Than Enough (in the little things)
Nov 03, 2022
Beyond Peace
Oct 26, 2022
Most Beginnings, Arn’t..and thank goodness.
Oct 18, 2022
Letting go of plans and failing sabbatical
Oct 13, 2022
Making space for the future that is not yet written
Oct 05, 2022
Thresh(holding): Tools for Navigating Transitions
Sep 28, 2022
Living with Change: The Doorway Effect
Sep 22, 2022
Shall we gather by the river (and church construction update!)
Sep 14, 2022
Connecting With Your True Self
Aug 31, 2022
5 Minute Breathing Meditation
Aug 24, 2022
What does it mean to be a Unitarian Universalist?
Aug 17, 2022
When Open-Minded People Get their Circuits Jammed
Aug 10, 2022
What are the limits of diversity?
Aug 03, 2022
The Spirit of Psychedelics
Jul 27, 2022
Losing (and Finding) Your Religion
Jul 19, 2022
Guided Metta Meditation with Rev. Elaine
Jul 07, 2022
The Deal on Those Days
Jun 30, 2022
Reproductive Freedom, Sex Education & Liberal Religion
Jun 22, 2022
A Meaning-Full Life
Jun 15, 2022
We Are Not Fixed Beings
Jun 08, 2022
Embodied Practices for Resilience with Rev. Kelly Dignan
Jun 01, 2022
Living Like Weasels
May 25, 2022
The In-Between Times: Navigating Transition with Rev. Gretchen
May 18, 2022
What We Give Our Children
May 11, 2022
Why Church?
May 04, 2022
Be Like Fungi: Earth Seeds and Be More Gay
Apr 27, 2022
Nothing Queerer Than a Resurrection
Apr 20, 2022
How to move through ambiguous loss
Apr 13, 2022
When optimism is too heavy a burden, try hope
Apr 07, 2022
Maybe life is trying to save you
Mar 30, 2022
Tangled Surprises
Mar 23, 2022
Stop Trying: Wu Wei and Embracing the Art of Flow
Mar 15, 2022
What the heck does living your best life mean?
Mar 09, 2022
Why we should give indigenous land back
Mar 02, 2022
Making Friends
Feb 23, 2022
How to Fight Fair When the Loving Gets Hard
Feb 16, 2022
Encanto, The Four Tendencies and Healthy Relationships with Rev. Christopher Watkins Lamb
Feb 09, 2022
How to Apologize
Feb 02, 2022
Feeling lonely? You are not alone.
Jan 26, 2022
MLK Redux: A Conversation with Dr. Dan McKanan
Jan 19, 2022
Fix You: Every relationship challenge is an inside job
Jan 12, 2022
Step Zero: What do you do before you begin?
Jan 03, 2022
Deeper Episode 19: Making Room for Mystery
Dec 28, 2021
Deeper Episode 18: Waiting So the World Can Change
Dec 22, 2021
Deeper Episode 17: There is not enough time, thank god!
Dec 15, 2021
Deeper Episode 16: Preppers
Dec 08, 2021
Deeper Episode 15: It Didn‘t Start With You
Dec 01, 2021
Deeper Episode Fourteen: Outgrow Your Ghosts
Nov 24, 2021
Deeper Episode Thirteen: Exorcising Shame
Nov 17, 2021
Deeper Episode Twelve: Living with Ghosts
Nov 10, 2021
Deeper Episode Eleven: At the Altar of Memory
Nov 02, 2021
Deeper Episode Ten: Cha Ching! Let‘s talk money.
Oct 26, 2021
Deeper Episode Nine: Essential In Us
Oct 22, 2021
Deeper Episode Eight: ”What is Essential?”
Oct 19, 2021
Deeper Episode Seven: ”I to We” with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Oct 15, 2021
Deeper Episode Six: Transforming grief into growth with two trained birth doulas
Oct 05, 2021
Deeper Episode Five: Loving our enemies and finding hope with Rev. David Williams
Sep 28, 2021
Deeper Episode Four: The Evolution of Water Communion with Rev. Kelly Dignan
Sep 21, 2021
Deeper Episode Three: Navigating Life‘s Rapids with Rev. Joseph Moore
Sep 14, 2021
Deeper Episode Two with Special Guest Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
Sep 07, 2021
Deeper Episode One with Special Guest Rev. Karen Hutt
Sep 02, 2021
Reflective Practice with Rev. Elaine
Aug 23, 2021
Q&A with the Foothills Ministers (Part Two)
Aug 23, 2021
Q&A with the Foothills Ministers (Part One)
Aug 23, 2021
Rapid Fire Q&A with Unitarian Universalist Ministers
Aug 23, 2021
Reflection on Living the Questions with Rev. Sean
Aug 23, 2021
Singing One Another's Songs with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Aug 16, 2021
Universalist History with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Aug 16, 2021
Unitarian History with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Aug 16, 2021
"Whose Are You?" with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Aug 16, 2021
Homily: Our Partners in Finishing the World with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Aug 16, 2021
Covenant and The Promise of Partnership with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Aug 09, 2021
Widening Circles Meditation with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Aug 09, 2021
Five Jagged Rocks
Aug 02, 2021
Prayer with Rev. Sean
Jul 26, 2021
Beloved Community with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jul 26, 2021
Life's Mobius Strip with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jul 26, 2021
Conspiring Meditation with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jul 19, 2021
Real Talk on Courageous Love with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Jul 19, 2021
Listening to Our Lives with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Jul 19, 2021
Daily Examen Meditation with Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink
Jul 13, 2021
"Everyday Theology" by Rev. Sara Smalley, read by Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink
Jul 13, 2021
The Spiritual Life with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron
Jul 13, 2021
The Transient and the Permanent with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jun 28, 2021
A History of Foothills
Jun 28, 2021
The Covenants We Inherit with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jun 28, 2021
Real Life in Re-Entry with Rev. Gretchen Haley
Jun 22, 2021
Visualization & Meditation with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | June 20, 2021
Jun 22, 2021
Meditation For The Struggling with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | June 13, 2021
Jun 15, 2021
The Awkwardness of Re-Membering with Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink
Jun 15, 2021
Story and Prayer for the Awkward | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | June 6, 2021
Jun 08, 2021
“The Wisdom of the Awkward Turtle” | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | June 6, 2021
Jun 08, 2021
Homily: Planting Playfulness | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | May 23, 2021
May 24, 2021
Sermon: Duende | Rev. Mariela Pérez-Simons | May 16, 2021
May 17, 2021
Homily Part 2: The Choice to “Dress Up” | Rev. Gretchen Haley | May 9, 2021
May 11, 2021
Playing and Pastoring in Drag | May 9, 2021
May 11, 2021
Homily Part 1: The Power of "Dress Up" | Rev. Gretchen Haley | May 9, 2021
May 11, 2021
Life Lessons with Poet Megan Benedict | May 2, 2021
May 04, 2021
Life Lessons from Volleyball | May 2, 2021
May 04, 2021
Playfulness Meditation | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 25, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
Homily: Gamify | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | April 25, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
Trees/Truths Meditation & Reading | Revs. Sean & Christopher | April 18, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
Strong Tree Meditation | Foothills Family Ministry | April 18, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
Homily Part Two: How We Talk About the Future | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 18, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
Homily Part One: Tree/Truth | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 18, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
Homily: Kindred Voices: Holding Each Other Up | Melanie DeMore | April 11, 2021
Apr 12, 2021
Homily Part 2: From Grief to Morning | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 4, 2021
Apr 06, 2021
Homily Part 1: From Trembling to Telling | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 4, 2021
Apr 06, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Imagines Part Two | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | March 28, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Imagines Part One | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | March 28, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
"The Simurgh" Story | March 28, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Repairs | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | March 21, 2021
Mar 22, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Celebrates | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | March 14, 2021
Mar 15, 2021
Anniversary Meditation | Rev. Gretchen Haley | March 14, 2021
Mar 15, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Adapts | Rev. Gretchen Haley | March 14, 2021
Mar 15, 2021
Prayer and Meditation | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | March 7, 2020
Mar 08, 2021
Reading: There Is No Easier Way by Elizabeth Nguyen | March 7, 2021
Mar 08, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Saves Us All | Rev. Gretchen Haley | March 7, 2021
Mar 08, 2021
The Popsicle | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | February 28, 2021
Mar 01, 2021
Homily: Tough Love Holds Boundaries | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | February 28, 2021
Mar 01, 2021
Meditation on Staying Present | Rev. Elaine | February 21, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
Homily: Love That Stays | Rev. Gretchen | February 21, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
A Story of Persistent Love | Rev. Sean | February 21, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
Alchemy of Love | Rev. Sean Neil Barron | February 14, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
Homily Part 2: Tough Love Sees Us, and Sees Us Through | Rev. Gretchen Haley | February 14, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
Homily Part 1: Tough Love | Rev. Gretchen Haley | February 14, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
Meditation on Waiting | Rev. Gretchen Haley | February 7, 2021
Feb 08, 2021
Homily: Something Far More Deeply Interfused | Rev. Bill Sinkford | February 7, 2021
Feb 08, 2021
Homily Part 2: Complex Lives, Simple Rules | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | January 31, 2021
Feb 01, 2021
Homily Part 1: Just Breathe | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | January 31, 2021
Feb 01, 2021
Meditation & Writing Exercise: Our Few Worthy Things | Rev. Gretchen Haley | January 24, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
Homily: Lower the Bar | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | January 24, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
Rip Van Winkle and Martin Luther King, Jr. | January 17, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
The story of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter for all ages | January 17, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Homily Part 2: Heart Broken Open | Rev. Gretchen Haley | January 17, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Homily Part 1: Letting Your Heart Break | Rev. Gretchen Haley | January 17, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Centering and Prayer | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | January 10, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Homily Part 3: The Tiny Revolutions of Your Life | Rev. Gretchen Haley | January 10, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Homily Part 2: Tiny Acts of Riots and Revolutions | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | January 10, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Homily Part 1: The Tiny Ways Revolutions Begin | Rev. Gretchen Haley | January 10, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Homily: Why You Should Lose the Suffering Olympics | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | January 3, 2021
Jan 04, 2021
Meditation | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | January 3, 2021
Jan 04, 2021
Homily: The Battle for Christmas | Rev. Sean Neil-Barron | December 20, 2020
Dec 21, 2020