How we look for that space around situations, the possibility that it could be different is a very important way of turning away from whatever we're hung up with into the possibility of change.

Welcome to the One You Feed. Through our time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.

We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

America is entering a period of extreme chaos, and I think it is time to start asking what should America begin again.

The United States is more divided than ever, which has led a group of activists in California to make a radical proposal to leave.

I'm Shutezka, and this is the last resort, a new podcast about CalXZ. Listen to the last resort on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or whatever you get your podcasts.

Hey, I'm Maria Fernanda Vies, and I want to invite you to check out my podcast, When You're Invisible.

I'm a first gen daughter of Mexican immigrants who started off on food stamps and got to the Ivy Leagues. Because of my experiences and my families, I've become a lover of people and stories that don't get told. And that's what this podcast is for.

How would you define being invisible?

Being looked over, people see you silhouette of a person, and not the actual person.

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Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Grace Sheerson, president of the Shogaku Zen Institute and a clinical psychologist.

Grace received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, and founded two practice centers and a retreat center under the Central Valley Zen Foundation.

Today Grace and Eric discuss her book, Naked in the Zendo, Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are.

Hi Grace, welcome to the show.

Well, thank you. Thank you for having me.

It is a real pleasure to have you on. We're going to be discussing your book, which is called Naked in the Zendo, Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild Ass Zen, and Enlightenment, wherever you are.

But before we do that, we're going to start like we always do with a parable.

In the parable, there's a grandmother who's talking to their granddaughter, and she says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always a battle.

One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love, and the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

And the granddaughter stops, and she thinks about it for a second, and she looks up at her grandmother, and she says, well, grandmother, which one wins?

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