What You're Craving with Molly Carmel
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What You're Craving with Molly Carmel
Welcome to The Daily Ascent. I'm Molly Carmel — and this is the podcast I always wished existed: a bite-sized, on-the-ground spiritual note that can shift your thinking and your outlook on life. Because sometimes, that's all it takes — a small shift in what we choose to believe — to make the day a l...
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Ep. 141 | Why Meditation Makes You Better at Everything Else in Your Life
In today's episode — your official public service announcement for meditation, you're welcome — I'm making a case for the practice that makes everythi...
Ep. 140 | Why We Are More the Same Than We Are Different
In today's episode, I'm sharing something that happened at a retreat I hosted recently — watching three women who know each other well slowly put down...
Ep. 139 | Why You Don't Need a Reason to Say No
In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend said to me at my house recently that opened up a whole new way of thinking about boundaries — the m...
Ep. 138 | Why Half-Surrendering Is Keeping You Stuck
In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend said to me recently that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He called it a one-handed surr...
Ep. 137 | How to Stop Letting Your Past Trip You Up
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I saw on a sign in a cute little cafe that I genuinely could not stop thinking about — don't stumble over so...
Ep. 136 | Why Not Telling People What You Need Is Actually Keeping You From Being Loved
In today's episode, I'm sharing a conversation I had with someone two weeks into one of the bravest decisions of her life — and the reframe that chang...
Ep. 135 | How to Stop Rushing the Things Worth Building
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I caught myself doing recently when a friend of mine started doing some consulting work for me - I wanted tw...
Ep. 134 | Why Diet Culture Stole Your Patience - And How to Get It Back
In today's episode, I'm talking about something that came up in my SOS group this week that I think doesn't get named nearly enough - one of the great...
Ep. 133 | Why We Use External Things to Feel Like Enough (And What to Do About It)
In today's episode, I'm sharing something that happened at a car dealership recently that revealed something about myself I genuinely didn't see comin...
Ep. 132 | Why Feeling Worse After Deep Work Probably Means It's Working
In today's episode, I'm sharing something that happened after a group sound healing I hosted at my house last week. One of the participants called me...
Ep. 131 | Why Taking Action Is the Fastest Way to Change How You Feel About Yourself
In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend of mine came up with that I found so spiritually alive I couldn't stop thinking about it — a shame...
Ep. 130 | How to Do a Shame Fast - And Why Your Thoughts Might Need One
In today's episode, I'm sharing something a friend of mine came up with that I found so spiritually alive I couldn't stop thinking about it — a shame...
Ep. 129 | How to Stop Worrying About Problems That Haven't Happened Yet
In today's episode, I'm sharing one of the most useful questions I know that I learned about two weeks into my recovery when I was catastrophizing abo...
Ep. 128 | Why Loving Yourself Means Showing Up Even When You Don't Feel Like It
In today's episode, I'm talking about something I'm genuinely proud of — and something that took me a very long time to build. Consistency. The small,...
Ep. 127 | Why Not Asking for What You Need Is Costing You More Than You Think
In today's episode, I'm talking about something a client said to me recently that stopped me cold — she wanted to ask her roommate to move food that w...
Ep. 126| How to Stop Self-Sabotage When the Voice Sounds Like You
Someone in a spiritual circle I'm part of said something recently I have not been able to stop thinking about — wouldn't it be amazing if our fear voi...
Ep. 125 | If You Want a Village You Have to Be a Villager
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I've learned about community the hard way and the beautiful way — that if you want a village, you have to be...
Ep. 124 | How to Find Gratitude in the Ordinary Moments (Before the World Wakes Up)
In today's episode, I'm talking about a woodpecker I had never seen before — and what it reminded me about the ordinary moments I walk through every d...
Ep. 123 | Are You Treating Yourself Like You're Fragile? (You're Not)
In today's episode, I'm talking about something a workout instructor said to me that I couldn't shake — and a pattern I catch myself in that I think a...
Ep. 122 | Why Sometimes You Need Something to Hold You Still
In today's episode, I'm telling you about Danny's first girls' night back — and what happened when my 75 pound lab mix couldn't find his ground.
Ep. 121 | Why the Opposite of Addiction Is Connection (And What It Takes to Choose It)
In today's episode, I'm talking about the loneliness you can feel in a crowded room — and why I think it might be the most dangerous kind.
A cl...
Ep. 120 | Why It's Okay to Let Yourself Be Happy Right Now
In today's episode, I'm talking about a friend who asked her prayer circle to support her in her joy — and what that brave, honest request revealed ab...
Ep. 119 | Why the Danger Zone Isn't the Hard Part (It's the Exhale After)
In today's episode, I'm sharing something I learned in my SOS group that I had never heard named before — post-collapse syndrome.
My first spon...
Ep. 118 | You Don't Need a Reason to Feel What You Feel
In today's episode, I'm talking about a client who couldn't let herself be out of sorts until she could explain why — and what that pattern is costing...
Ep. 117 | How to Read the Signs the Universe Is Sending You (What Driftwood Taught Me)
In today's episode, I'm telling you about something a friend said at dinner that I had to write down.
She called it driftwood — the idea that w...
Ep. 116 | Why Lucky People Aren't Just Born That Way (The Science of Believing You're Lucky)
In today's episode, I'm telling you about Grandma Bev — who just turned 100, sharp as a tack, the woman who opened her doors to my mom and me when we...
Ep. 115 | How to Find Wonder in Everyday Life (What My Dog Taught Me)
In today's episode, I'm telling you about Danny's first walk after two weeks of bed rest — and what it felt like to watch him encounter a fire hydrant...
Ep. 114 | Why You Can't Rush Your Way Back After a Hard Season
In today's episode, I'm telling you about something my mother said to me about Danny — my 75 pound lab mix who just had surgery and is currently on th...
Ep. 113 | Why You Can't Make Brave Decisions Based on What Might Happen
In today's episode, I'm telling you about an amend I almost didn't make — because I was certain I already knew how it would end.
My spiritual t...
Ep. 112 | How to Love Someone as They Are (Not as You Wish They Were)
In today's episode, I'm telling you about a wedding vow that stopped me in my tracks — and a question my spiritual guide has had to ask me more than o...
Ep. 111 | What If Your Hardest Healing Work Is Actually a Privilege?
In today's episode, I'm telling you about a friend of mine who had a real breakthrough — and spent the whole time describing it like a prison sentence...
Ep. 110 | How to Rewrite the Story Your Body Has Been Carrying
In today's episode, I'm talking about one of the greatest gifts of being human: the ability to rewrite our stories.
I've done it over and over...
Ep. 109 | What the Flu Taught Me About Letting Go of My Plans
In today's episode, I'm telling you about the time I got the flu, cancelled my whole week — including patients, which was not easy — and thought I had...
Ep. 108 | How to Change Your Perspective When Everything Feels Wrong
In today's episode, I'm telling you about the time my kitchen turned purple — and how the worst thing about my house in Charlotte turned out to be the...
Ep. 107 | What Are You Fixing So You Don't Have to Feel?
In today's episode, I'm sharing the phone call where my friend and I were deep in fear about the state of the world — and then she pivoted to asking a...
Ep. 106 | Why You Should Never Stop Trying New Things in Your Healing
In today's episode, I'm getting honest about why the EMDR intensive hit so deeply... I have no idea.
What I do know is this: you never know whi...
Ep. 105 | Why the Messy Middle Isn't the End of Your Story
In today's episode, I'm talking about the phone call I had with a friend of mine who told me she was "grieving the end of her career."
And why...
Ep. 104 | Why You're So Exhausted After Doing Hard Things
In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened after I completed a month-long EMDR intensive — and why the days that followed were some of the most imp...
Ep. 103 | How to Make a Decision When You Don't Know What's Right
In today's episode, I'm talking about the thing Harrison Ford's character says on Shrinking that made me pause the TV: "You don't know whether your ch...
Ep. 102 | What If the Next Loving Choice Is Enough?
In today's episode, I'm sharing what happened when a client in deep grief told me she wanted to double down on a strict food plan — and why I suggeste...