My Life is the Medicine

By: Chuck Hancock
  • Summary

  • In the age of abundant experts and gurus, we take the subversive stance that you are actually the only expert you need for your own life. By looking closer at your own life experiences - both the ones that felt good and the array of challenges you had, you can harvest all the wisdom and medicine you need to guide your unique life and offer your unique gifts and wisdom to the world. We have conversations with ordinary people to look closer at how everyday experiences of living life have shaped us and taught us profound lessons. Often we don't think much of our choices and experiences, but in reality, they all have a profound meaning. Instead of just moving from one thing to the next, we can slow down and pause to integrate the initiations that life has already provided, to become even more whole, balanced, and able to bring the medicine of our life, the medicine we've already been given, into the world.
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Episodes
  • It's All About Relationship
    Jun 9 2023

    In this solo episode, Chuck explores a phrase one of his mentors used to use, “It’s All About Relationship.” Avoiding the common themes about the qualities of relationships and advice about how to do relationships or labels of healthy or unhealthy relationships, Chuck hopes to expand our perspective on what a relationship is and what it contains and can reveal to us. With an invitation to look at all the different relationships we have with people, systems, nature, ourselves, our history and experiences, parts of us, and our thoughts and emotions in general or specific (ie - how we relate to sadness, joy, anger or specific thoughts that we accept and others we may reject) and more. Rather than looking at how to shape a relationship or even worse, a person into being how we want it to be, what if we actually look at ourselves and how we relate to everything and everyone inside and outside of us? Are your relationships all similar or do you have a lot of different experiences in relationship? Where do your relational patterns come from? We also start to look at the differences in short-term vs long-term relationships and how they reveal different things. This is the first exploration into relationship itself on this podcast and due to the vast nature of the topic, it is incomplete and will likely be explored further in the future. But there is still plenty here to start to expand your perspective on all that your relationships are holding for you.

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    Hosted by Chuck Hancock, an ordinary human who has lived life in many roles like software engineer, psychotherapist, group facilitator, school teacher, orphan, adoptee, father, brother, mentor, coach, ceremonialist and more. Chuck is a weaver of wisdom from modern-day psychology to ancient wisdom of indigenous and European philosophy, creating alchemy from everyday American life. You can learn more and work with Chuck via www.reconnectingtoournature.com for nature-based coaching or www.innerlifeadventures.com for licensed psychotherapy or email directly grow@innerlifeadventures.com.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Jeffrey Howard - Former Therapist, Father, Partner, Soul Guide, Mentor, Coach - Part 2
    May 26 2023

    In this second part of the conversation, Jeffrey and Chuck talk as two men, friends, fellow guides and experienced therapists about continuing our own work - staying on the edge constantly in our personal and relational growth. Along the way we also explore men’s work, humility, relating with nature, staying in the paradox of knowing from experience and not knowing all at the same time. It’s a lively, wild and deep conversation you won’t want to miss! Definitely listen to part 1 first if you haven't already.

    Bio: Jeffrey is a Soul Guide, Mentor, and Coach in Boulder, Colorado who works with men, women, & men's groups in an emotion-focused, body-centered way to help them have the lives they most want to embody. His work centers on relationship—both with self and other— as well as the power of shifting our mindsets around how we participate in our lives to invite more of who and what we want to be in our worlds. He leads men’s groups that focus on sex, intimacy, wound, and sovereignty, and he also co-hosts The Better Bozo: A Podcast for Men. You can connect with Jeffrey here: https://www.threeleavescounseling.com

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    Hosted by Chuck Hancock, an ordinary human who has lived life in many roles like software engineer, psychotherapist, group facilitator, school teacher, orphan, adoptee, father, brother, mentor, coach, ceremonialist and more. Chuck is a weaver of wisdom from modern-day psychology to ancient wisdom of indigenous and European philosophy, creating alchemy from everyday American life. You can learn more and work with Chuck via www.reconnectingtoournature.com for nature-based coaching or www.innerlifeadventures.com for licensed psychotherapy or email directly grow@innerlifeadventures.com.

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    43 mins
  • Jeffrey Howard - Former Therapist, Father, Partner, Soul Guide, Mentor, Coach - Part 1
    May 19 2023

    Jeffrey and Chuck talk as two men, friends, fellow guides and experienced therapists about continuing our own work - staying on the edge constantly in our personal and relational growth. Along the way we also explore men’s work, humility, relating with nature, staying in the paradox of knowing from experience and not knowing all at the same time. It’s a lively, wild and deep conversation you won’t want to miss!

    Jeffrey is a Soul Guide, Mentor, and Coach in Boulder, Colorado who works with men, women, & men's groups in an emotion-focused, body-centered way to help them have the lives they most want to embody. His work centers on relationship—both with self and other— as well as the power of shifting our mindsets around how we participate in our lives to invite more of who and what we want to be in our worlds. He leads men’s groups that focus on sex, intimacy, wound, and sovereignty, and he also co-hosts The Better Bozo: A Podcast for Men. You can connect with Jeffrey here: https://www.threeleavescounseling.com

    Support the show

    Hosted by Chuck Hancock, an ordinary human who has lived life in many roles like software engineer, psychotherapist, group facilitator, school teacher, orphan, adoptee, father, brother, mentor, coach, ceremonialist and more. Chuck is a weaver of wisdom from modern-day psychology to ancient wisdom of indigenous and European philosophy, creating alchemy from everyday American life. You can learn more and work with Chuck via www.reconnectingtoournature.com for nature-based coaching or www.innerlifeadventures.com for licensed psychotherapy or email directly grow@innerlifeadventures.com.

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    42 mins

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