On the Path with Kissiah Young
Welcome to my podcast!
In this space we explore life and all of its many layers through the lens and practice of accessing inner truth and clarity. We talk about navigating life's most difficult and curious experiences, from loss and death to being in aloneness and relationships. This is a space of vulnerability and healing, of repair and reconciliation. We grow here. Within.
Episodes
29 episodes
Don't Listen! Follow Your Path Instead
There are so many things that we unknowingly outsource, such as answers to questions where the answers rest within. Validation is so desired that we nearly abandon our own path for that of another, or someone else's thoughts and opinions about ...
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Episode 27
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9:20
Part Six of The Nine Contemplations on Death: Our Bodies Are Fragile and Vulnerable
How often we take for granted our bodies and the ways they carry us. We do not necessarily focus on gratitude that they continue to withstand. I believe we need to. It's important. As strong as our bodies, is as fragile as our bodies, and the r...
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Episode 26
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13:43
Part Five of the Nine Contemplations on Death: The Ways Are Many
I am thinking about the Los Angeles fires and the many people whose lives have been completely undone, and am reminded of this nine-part series on the inevitability of death, and the nature of impermanence in general. There are man...
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Episode 25
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16:45
Part Four of The Nine Contemplations: Our Lifespan Isn't Fixed
Where are you in this moment now? Have you given thought to how much of a gift it is? So often we wake and move through life as if the moments thereof are guaranteed. We seem to operate on a kind of autopilot that takes for granted the reality ...
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Episode 24
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17:50
Part Three of The Nine Contemplations: Death Will Come
Death is inevitable and will arrive when it arrives. It needs neither invitation nor permission to enter when it knocks. Death has access to our lives whether we desire it or not, are prepared or not, and it requires nothing of us in order to r...
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Episode 23
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15:12
Part Two of The Nine Contemplations: The Human Lifespan Is Ever Decreasing
In her poem, The Summer Day, poet, Mary Oliver, asks "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Have you ever asked yourself a similar question, and not with the intent to be "productive," but rather f...
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Episode 22
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13:28
Part One on The Nine Contemplations: Death Is Inevitable.
Have you ever sat and gave thought to the truth that you are going to die? Have I? Death is inevitable, so what are we doing with the reality of that? This episode explores the first of nine contemplations on death that we are gifted from schol...
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Episode 21
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12:54
Are You Prepared to Die?
So often we live as though death is out there somewhere, reserved for other people. We neither see nor seize the moment to befriend the reality that we will one day die. Imagine sitting with it and giving ourselves the attention we need on the ...
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Episode 20
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6:54
What Is Your Relationship To Authenticity?
I am one of those authentic people in life. Anyone who truly knows me can attest to this. I believe in being true to ourselves, which often means having the ability to enter into hard or uncomfortable matters. I find authenticity to be the path...
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Episode 19
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7:33
Taking a Moment to Reflect and Give Thanks
What are you thankful for in this moment? Who resides at the tender place of your heart that perhaps this time of year brings to the surface? How is your heart right now? I find myself thinking about the patients I've recently lost, and my fath...
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Episode 18
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15:43
Grief During the Holiday Season
As much as this time of year brings many joy and happiness, it is also a time of deep grief, loneliness, and sadness for so many. We just never know what a person is going through. So, as we go about our days in celebration this time of year, l...
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Episode 17
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13:05
Do You Want to Be Cremated or Buried When You Die?
Do you ever think about dying? Have you planned for when that inevitable time comes? As someone with a hospice and palliative care background, I know how difficult it is for many to even begin consider the possibility of dying. Taboo, still, th...
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Episode 15
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11:12
What Are You Creating in Your Life? What Reality Are You Cultivating?
We are at a time of great dismay for many. Our thoughts and feelings may be overwhelming, and so much so, that we find ourselves being pulled deeper and deeper into the dark of the injustices, disbelief, and great many disappointments. The real...
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Episode 16
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14:20
The Truest Apology Is Change
It isn't always easy to receive feedback, yet it is the key ingredient needed to change. What do we do when we receive feedback, and if we truly feel sorry, are we willing to change? If so, are we taking that willingness and actually practi...
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Episode 14
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11:38
When We Shut Down We Abandon Ourselves
When the rubber meets the road, who do you become? Are you someone who practices openly and fully expressing what is true for you, or are you someone who tends to shut down?I've been thinking about communication and how shutting down is...
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Episode 13
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10:18
Let's Talk About Feedback and What We Practice When it Comes to It
Feedback is essential to our growth and expansion. It's a key ingredient in change, yet it's one of the hardest things for people to practice being with. We are often concerned with not wanting to upset someone or fear their response, so rather...
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Episode 12
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10:41
The Road Is Good: Mothers, Daughters, and Grief
As actor, Uzo Aduba releases her memoir, The Road Is Good, I am brought to reflect upon the grief that rests within me, a grief rooted in what does not exist between my mother and me: a connection.What do we daughters do with this kind ...
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Episode 11
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13:04
What Is Your Relationship to Repair?
Communication, and the many ways of its importance, has been in the air for me these days. I see how easily we miss opportunities when we choose not to communicate. We lose, and others lose because of us. How is there to be true repair when we ...
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Episode 10
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11:33
What Is Your Relationship To Time?
I am often in thought or conversation about time and how it's the one thing we do not get back. It's something I contemplate regularly in my practice to stay alert. I appreciate time, and yet so often it isn't given the presence of its due. We ...
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Episode 8
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10:35
Reflecting on the Impact of Power, Privilege, and Poor Communication
Communication is important and yet so lacking. The consequences can be weighty, particularly when we aren't being seen clearly by those in positions of power and privilege. I've been dealing with this at work and it's rather unfortunate. <...
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Episode 9
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18:00
How Do You Get Back On The Path?
We're not always gonna be on the path. That's impossible. The nature of being human has a connection to imperfection. So we seek instead to be as aligned as we are able by way of being alert, awake to ourselves and our lives. When we find ourse...
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Episode 7
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6:58
This Is An Invitation To Pause and Be Present With Yourself.
Take a moment to pause the happenings and drop into yourself. It's far too easy to get swept up and away by the tasks and to-dos of life, that we give little to know thought to ourselves. It isn't sustainable. It just isn't. We may not yet see ...
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Episode 6
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13:39
Give Your Grief Some Love
Grief is such a little word of magnanimous power and presence. In the same way that it can bring us to collapse, it can crack our hearts so wide open that we see the beauty and gift of each moment. Grief is beautiful. It's devastating and heart...
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Episode 5
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10:35
Are You Experiencing an Inner-ruption?
Yes, you read that correctly. This episode is about the experience of having an inner-ruption. It's that dis-ease or angst or unsettled feeling or stress or insert the very thing that is disrupting your inner. It's often that feeling w...
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Episode 4
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10:04
Keeping Steady Is a Practice in Inner Faith
In 2017, I quit my job and career in hospice care and moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I did this without any real planning, plan, or financial abundance. I felt moved, called, and so I left.What you should know, is that the leav...
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Episode 3
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17:10