
“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 139: Field Agents Will Help
Buffy helps listeners deepen their understanding of the phrase “it takes a village”; that we might look for and cultivate the "field agents" in our life that support our families, our goals, and our personal unfolding.
Episode 138: Buffy Gets a Birth Chart Reading
In this special episode, Alex gives Buffy an astrological natal chart reading. They talk about the intricacies and complexities of Buffy's life and being, and about her hard-won identity as a communicator, writer, and orator.
Episode 137: Benjamin Will Help
Buffy celebrates her brother Benjamin, who died twenty years ago this week. Buffy honors the lessons of not only his death but his life.
Episode 136: Energy Reserves Will Help
Your energy and your time are some of the most valuable resources you have, and in this episode Buffy speaks to the ways energy currency relates to introversion vs. extroversion.
Episode 135: Marking Time Will Help
Buffy reflects on four years of Things That Will Help and the power of standing still, looking back, and marking moments in time as a way to measure our transformation.
Episode 134: Radical Responsibility Will Help
Buffy calls us to take radical responsibility for our lives, even when it is inconvenient; even when it is difficult; even when it is easier to shirk it. Wanting it is not always enough - so what can we do to bridge the gap between wanting it and having it?
Episode 133: The Solar Eclipse Will Help
This is a powerful time for healing, transformation, and reflection on the ways we want to show up in the world. Buffy and Alex discuss practical ways to work with the volatile energy of this current astrological weather.
Episode 132: The Lunar Eclipse Will Help
Buffy welcomes TTWH editor and producer Alex Ammons - who also moonlights as a professional astrologer. Alex and Buffy talks about the two-week period of the eclipse season - which, on this episode air date, we are in the thick of.
Episode 131: Less Equipment Will Help
This episode is dedicated to the power you contain and the practices that help cultivate your ability to stand vertical, with... less. What if the answers you seek don't lie in trendy workout equipment and the never-ending cycle of "self-help"? We go in to find out.
Episode 130: Cell Support Will Help
Today's episode explores how we can cultivate joy, health, and happiness without turning our faces away from the pain of the world, which sometimes asks for our attention and other times demands it.
Episode 129: Tricia Get a Buggy Will Help
Buffy's story about Tricia's buggy (southern for "shopping cart") illustrates the wisdom of our desires, and how sometimes pausing can give us the space to hear them truly and clearly.
Episode 127: New Towns Will Help
Entering a new place - physically, mentally, or emotionally - with a spirit of wonder and curiosity can create a completely different experience than defaulting to old patterns of fear, pain, and anxiety. Listen for practical ways to build new patterns, pathways, and discoveries for yourself.
Episode 126: Ganesh Will Help
This is a human conversation and an invitation into a deeper experience of yourself through the keeper of the threshold, Ganesh, and the wisdom he offers us.
Episode 125: The Root Will Help
Calling all worriers! What if you could see how you spend your time in a visual form, like a pie chart? How big of a slice would be spent worrying?
Episode 124: Seasonal Support Will Help
Autumn is a treasured time of year at TTWH, and in this episode Buffy gives some practical tips that will help you breathe life and intention the autumnal transition.
Episode 123: Andrew Will Help
This episode is dedicated to Andrew Clark, a dear friend of Buffy's who died last week. Buffy honors his life by collecting and transmitting some of the deepest lessons and wisdoms Andrew imparted over the course of his life.
Episode 122: Maybe Will Help
Can "maybe" be a gift, rather than a liability? This is an episode about relinquishing control and deepening trust in the face of endless maybes.
Episode 121: This Deer Will Help
This is an episode about being a spacious, compassionate presence for the ones we love. Our kind attention - without judgement, advice, or solution-oriented actions - can be the most precious healing balm.
Episode 120: The Fucking Chicken Will Help
Buffy starts with a story about a hilarious toddler misunderstanding and moves towards the topic of visualization. How can we do it, and how can it move our lives in the direction we believe is true and beautiful?