The Calming Ground Podcast

This podcast offers a space for busy people to go to for inspiration, wisdom, to learn from one another's struggles and transformations, as well as to receive actionable steps to relax, gain confidence, and move forward with the life they long to experience.

The Calming Ground Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Elizabeth Mintun, with 155 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Elizabeth Mintun hosts The Calming Ground Podcast, a health show with 155 episodes published.

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  156 - Behind the Curtain: How Nature Became My Nervous System Framework

  Aug 19, 202610 min

  We rush toward finished frameworks and polished programs without ever seeing what shaped them. This episode pulls back the curtain on how nature became the language for nervous system work, long before it had a name. In this solo episode, host Elizabeth Mintun shares the personal roots of the nature archetype framework behind her upcoming program. Drawing on her own childhood spent largely outdoors, and her ongoing work as a psychotherapist, qigong teacher, and mindful life coach, Elizabeth unpacks why frameworks for nervous system work need to live in the body, rather than being something simply of the mind, and why nature's own symbols and archetypes became the doorway for that embodied understanding. Key takeaways: Nervous system change happens through the body, not just intellectual understanding. Movement and felt experience matter as much as concept Nature's symbols and archetypes offer an embodied language for internal states like groundedness, flow, and release, in a way diagrams and definitions can't Nature can offer us powerful resources to help us navigate times of change Resources Free live workshop: "Who Am I Now? Finding Your Footing When Your Life Changes Shape" on August 26th: https://thecalmingground.com/free-workshop Questions or reflections from this episode?  Email Elizabeth at elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com Want to go deeper in your own practice?  Learn more about 1:1 coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here Find Elizabeth on Facebook & IG @thecalmingground Subscribe to The Calming Ground Podcast so you never miss an episode. If you loved this conversation, please share it with a friend.

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  155 - Honoring Thresholds: A Nervous System Approach to Endings and Transitions

  Aug 12, 202611 min

  We rush past thresholds constantly - the small daily ones and the big life-chapter ones. This episode is about what it costs to leave transitions unmarked, and what changes when we honor our transitions. In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores why we so often rush past thresholds, both the small daily ones and the bigger life-chapter ones, and what it costs the nervous system when we do. Drawing on polyvagal-informed work and her own training as a psychotherapist and mindful life coach, Elizabeth unpacks why unmarked transitions get stored in the body as unfinished business - and shares a personal story from a two-year clinical training program that changed how she understands endings.  Key takeaways: Thresholds aren't just the big, obvious moments; they're daily, and mostly go unmarked Unmarked transitions can leave the nervous system in low-grade activation, still "waiting" for closure   Ritual and reflection turn a blur of time into distinct, metabolized chapters Resources Free live workshop: “ Who Am I Now? Finding Your Footing When Life Changes Shape” on August 26th, 1pm EST: https://thecalmingground.com/free-workshop Free Guided Meditation: https://thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation Questions or reflections from this episode? Email Elizabeth at elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com Want to go deeper in your own practice? Learn more about 1:1 coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here   Find Elizabeth on Facebook & IG @thecalmingground Subscribe to The Calming Ground Podcast so you never miss an episode. If you loved this conversation, please share it with a friend.

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  154 - Nature-Based Rituals for Transition: A Story about Marking What's Ending

  Aug 5, 202611 min

  What do you do when a place that’s held twenty years of your life history is about to be sold? You bury a shell in the sand and say good bye imperfectly, with sand still stuck between your fingers.  In this episode, your host Elizabeth Mintun (licensed psychotherapist, certified qigong teacher, and mindfulness coach), shares the story of saying goodbye to her uncle’s property on Oak Island, a place woven through more than two decades of family life, births, and losses. The episode moves between a literal ending - a beloved property about to be sold - and the constant endings in life we rarely notice. Elizabeth reflects on a “Sacred Pause” retreat she co-led with Ami Peacock just days before this trip and weaves it into a larger question: what does it mean to consciously practice letting go?   Key takeaways: Creating a simple ritual (finding an object, naming what you’re releasing, marking the moment) can help an ending feel complete, even if imperfectly so.  The body already practices letting go constantly. Every exhale is a small release, happening thousands of times a day.  Bringing conscious attention to small, everyday endings (a season, a day, a breath) builds the same muscle needed for the larger ones.  Resources Free live workshop: “ Who Am I Now? Finding Your Footing When Life Changes Shape” on August 26th, 1pm EST: https://thecalmingground.com/free-workshop Free Guided Meditation: https://thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation Questions or reflections from this episode? Email Elizabeth at elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com Want to go deeper in your own practice? Learn more about 1:1 coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here   Find Elizabeth on Facebook & IG @thecalmingground Subscribe to The Calming Ground Podcast so you never miss an episode. If you loved this conversation, please share it with a friend

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  153 - The Privilege of Making Mistakes: Self-Forgiveness and Letting Go of the Shoulds

  Jul 29, 202613 min

  She held two things dear: the privilege of making mistakes, and the right to be a “damn fool”. This episode is a re-air of a conversation between host Elizabeth Mintun and her mother, Margy, who died in January of 2025. They set out to talk about compassionate accountability; how to live aligned with our values without turning that alignment into one more way to fall short. What Margy offers is something roomier. She describes the constriction of inherited shoulds, the moment she saw that her own parameters had shrunk her possibility of living fully, and the slow work of learning her mistakes could be pardoned. It's a short conversation, and a plainspoken one. It may be helpful for anyone carrying a should that was handed to them and would like to feel more grace and love towards themselves.  Key takeaways: Shoulds are inherited, usually from people trying sincerely to give us direction - and it's adult work to ask of each one whether we actually embrace it. Rigid parameters of right and wrong don't tend to protect a life; they often shrink it. Mistakes aren't the failure of growth, they're the mechanism of it. Self-forgiveness and forgiving others are the same capacity, practiced in two directions. Resources Free Guided Meditation: https://thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation Questions or reflections from this episode? Email Elizabeth at elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com Want to go deeper in your own practice? Learn more about 1:1 coaching with Elizabeth Mintun here   Find Elizabeth on Facebook & IG @thecalmingground Subscribe to The Calming Ground Podcast so you never miss an episode. If you loved this conversation, please share it with a friend

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  152 - Creativity, Rest, and the Power of Not Knowing with Dr. Chanti Tacoronte Pérez

  Jul 22, 202649 min

  What if not knowing is a doorway? In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun sits down with Dr. Chanti Tacoronte Pérez, a creative guide, teacher, and depth-oriented artist whose work weaves together rest, image-making, myth, and embodied practice. She is the creator of The Ritual of Rest and the Bird Song Oracle Deck . Dr. Chanti describes her work as a living collage; emergent, non-linear, and responsive to the moment. Together, she and Elizabeth explore how liminality, slowness, and ambiguity open space for deeper presence and transformation: why the doodling that once made her fail math class was actually an embodied way of learning, and what depth psychology calls the "transcendent function" that blossoms when we stay inside tension instead of rushing to resolve it. This conversation is for anyone who has mistaken their slowness for stupidity, who longs to create but fears not being good at it, or who wonders when the excitement of not knowing disappeared. Key Takeaways Not knowing can be a creative doorway. Some of the most transformative moments arise precisely because no one planned them. Rest, dream states, and creativity meet in the liminal space. Drawing or writing upon waking can "translate" what we experience there. Handwriting is an embodied learning practice. Research by Audrey van der Meer shows it produces widespread brain connectivity that typing does not. Low-stakes experiments calm the demand for sharpness and let other parts of ourselves come free. Examples are drawing with crayons,  drawing with the non-dominant hand, and closing your eyes while the pencil moves.  Resources  Study: "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity" by Audrey van der Meer:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full?xcod=organichQwK21wXxRhQwK21wXxRhQwK21wXxRhQwK21wXxR Dr. Chanti's Upcoming Offerings Archetypes of Artistry — Summer Art Course: https://www.yantrawisdom.com/workshops/2026archetypes Myths of Rest, Sleep and Dream — In person, Santa Fe: https://www.yantrawisdom.com/workshops/fallmyth Making Monster — Fall Virtual Creative Container: https://www.yantrawisdom.com/workshops/monster Find Dr. Chanti Website: https://www.artesvida.com Instagram: @art.es.vida Connect with Elizabeth Curious about 1:1 coaching? Learn more: https://www.thecalmingground.com/inner-compass Email: elizabethmintun@thecalmingground.com Facebook & Instagram: @thecalmingground If this conversation opened something in you, subscribe and share it with someone!

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