Ep. 84 - What’s It Like to Be on a Silent Retreat?
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Barb opens up about her recent experience of attending a 30-day silent retreat. She shares her profound insights, takeaways, and the biggest challenges she faced. If you’ve ever been interested in silent retreats, this episode is for you! Follow us @MichelleMaros and @Peaceful_Barb and share your experiences with us @BarbKnowsBestPod or at www.michellemaros.com/podcast.
Episode Notes:
- When choosing a retreat: listen to your heart and allow it to guide your decision. *We do not recommend attempting a 30-day silent retreat for your first retreat.
- The retreat was based on love and kindness. Allow your heart to feel loving and kind.
- If the world presents us with something uncomfortable, if you sit long enough, you can become comfortable and then attach to it.
References Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:
The First Free Women – Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Hello friends. Welcome back to Barb knows best the |
| 0:18.8 | podcast. I am so excited to be sitting here about to have a fabulous conversation with my mom, as you all know, |
| 0:30.0 | Miss Barbara, and I just, I'm so excited you know I it's been a little while since we |
| 0:39.3 | recorded I've been sick as you might be able to hear in my voice. So apologies in advance if you can |
| 0:45.2 | hear a freak in the voice. So it feels like we haven't had a real BKB chat in a long time mom it's true. Hi Michelle. Hi everyone and your voice sounds about as deep as mine always sounds so it sounds all good. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah sounds good you know fall it's this time a year when things are going around. |
| 1:08.3 | Things are going around and you sound great and I am really excited for this episode. |
| 1:12.1 | Well I was going to say, I know in last week's episode, |
| 1:16.9 | we teased and committed to this conversation today. you have been working away diligently and being to use your words, |
| 1:30.3 | absorbed in all of the insights that you want to give on this topic and you are kind of bursting at the seams energetically over there to share all of this. |
| 1:41.0 | So I'm so excited that this is the conversation we're having |
| 1:44.7 | after a little bit of not chatting. Well I think what's so fabulous about |
| 1:49.7 | about life and about all of the things that we talk about and the work that we do and just |
| 1:54.8 | being together doing this amazing work is that we can literally go you know go |
| 2:01.1 | deep dive into ourselves at any moment and come back refresh and I feel like that's what's happened I went on a month long |
| 2:08.0 | silent meditation retreat and in getting ready for this podcast recording in this beautiful conversation that we're going to have, |
| 2:16.0 | it brought everything right back and I was right there absorbed. I used that word absorbed because I was right |
| 2:20.8 | there absorbed again back into the connectedness, back into the |
| 2:25.2 | mindfulness, back into the purposes of why I go on retreat and the purposes of why we |
| 2:30.1 | live our lives. So I am thrilled beyond thrilled to share some of my my deepest |
| 2:37.8 | darkest findings and all of the things that I love so much about retreats but |
| 2:41.6 | this one in particular because I'd never been on a month long silent retreats. |
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