
“Buffy is a true north guide through the never-ending rocky channels.”
-Sarah P.
Launched in April 2020, the Things That Will Help podcast has become an anchor for Buffy and her community of listeners. How do we stay open in this world? How do we grow through our pain? Buffy offers practical guidance on life’s universal themes and questions grounded in textured storytelling. She teaches about the beauty and the breadth of human experience, even in all of its pain and cracking.
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Playlists
Each episode is accompanied by a Spotify playlist, curated by Matthew Cooper, which span genres, moods, and characteristics. See the full archive of playlists here.
Episode 98: Making the Problem Beautiful Will Help
What happens when we see perceived obstacles as doorways to growth? Buffy gives examples of the ways "unexpected weather" can lead us to places - beautiful places - we did not expect to go.
Episode 97: Articulation Will Help
Do your fears have legs? Do you dress them up and bring them into the spotlight? In this episode, Buffy offers the idea of "feeding the good wolf" - and how that is a gift not only to ourselves, but to the world.
Episode 96: Beauty Marks Will Help
Buffy is back with more beauty marks: AKA, beautiful simple things that make life a little brighter (couldn't we all use a little more of that?).
Episode 95: Creative Cycles Will Help
Today's episode is devoted to those who desire to live a creative life. Buffy shares her own layered process within the creative cycle and invites you to step into your own fulfilling creative life.
Episode 94: Ceremony Will Help
Buffy begins this week's episode by sharing a tender story about her family to illustrate the theme of ceremony, and why it matters. What can repetition, intention, and ritual add to your life?
Episode 93: Tapas Will Help
This week's episode is a smattering of practices - think of it as a table of tapas - that help you facilitate conscious conversation, look for the magic, and not rush to the next thing before you've digested new information.
Episode 91: Collections Will Help
In this episode, Buffy teases apart the idea of prana, why it might matter in your day-to-day, prana leaks, and practical ways to build it in and for yourself.
Episode 90: Malas Will Help
Malas are cloaks, veils; things that keeps us hidden from ourselves and others. The malas illustrates ways we can reduce our own suffering, and in this episode Buffy breaks them down practically for listeners.
Episode 89: Longing Will Help
Buffy posits that because we have access to so much information, it's not often we encounter the feeling of longing. She tells stories of sweet treats, hot fries, baby whales, and the lily-pad nature of longing. What form does your longing take?
Episode 88: A Seat Will Help
This episode is for listeners who tend to do more when they're in process, integration, or crisis. Buffy asks: what happens when we stop moving? What will be revealed when we find stillness?
Episode 87: Relish Will Help
Buffy encourages listeners to examine what's big and beautiful now, right now. Tune in for stories of one final message, ear infections, and an impossibly slow stair walker. The task this week is to pull yourself into the potency of the present and relish what's in front of you.
Episode 86: Reggie Hubbard Will Help
Buffy welcomes special guest, yoga teacher, and activist Reggie Hubbard to the podcast this week. They talk about the ways activism and yoga intersect, Reggie's exciting tenure on Capitol Hill, and where Reggie continues to find inspiration amongst challenge and difficulty
Episode 85: Rejection Will Help
Buffy talks about her recent rejection practice, what we don't get to know about the times we've been rejected, and why the mainstream is overrated.
Episode 84: Chakras Will Help
The chakras are a tool that help us visualize and understand our body as a map. In this episode, Buffy breaks down these color-coded energetic centers as a way for you to reflect the ways life sticks on and moves through you.
Episode 83: Elders Will Help
This episode is an inquiry into the aging process - our own process, and the ways we tend to our loved one's aging. Buffy tells stories of sin-holding hats, the importance of asking questions, and more, all in service to the question: how do you see and uphold aging, both personally and culturally?
Episode 82: Movement From the Center
This episode is about the experience and practice from moving from a calm, centered space deep within you, even when the world outside is crumbling.
Episode 81: Fresh Somethings Will Help
We at TTWH love a ritual. But what happens when our routines block us from seeing things in a fresh and new way? When our discipline becomes stagnant?
Episode 80: Things That Don’t Help
Has anybody ever said something to you, while you were in a time of need, that profoundly did not help? This episode is simply a practical "how-to" guide of what not to say to a loved one when they are sharing a hurt or tender part of themselves with you.
Episode 79: Impact Will Help
Let's talk about impact.Buffy answers a listener question about an irritating habit that's followed them along a string of partners. In response, Buffy talks about impact: how it's different than intention, requires communication, and why we must teach people how to love us well.