“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 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?
Episode 119: The Mountain and the Magnifying Glass Will Help
There are moments in our lives where we to be reconnected to the big picture, and there are moments where we need to look at our feet in order to take the next right step. How do we discern which one we need?
Episode 118: Sacred Rage Will Help
"What distinguishes rage that is harmful versus rage that is sacred?" Buffy moves listeners into the possibility of rage as a holy, transformative, and powerful entity.
Episode 117: Stop and Drop In Will Help
Buffy offers ways to bring ourselves back to wholeness and connection through stories of bandaids, physical pain, and how the method of "stop and drop" will help.
Episode 116: Friendship Cycles Will Help
Buffy responds to a listener's question about friendship: when to repair, when to leave, and how to build your own discernment and nuance for the in-between.
Episode 115: Your Tools Will Help
Listeners receive our favorite 7-year-old wisdom's and a deeper understanding of why having our own personal measuring stick for success and happiness can invite more wonderment and magic into our lives.
Episode 113: Mattie Cake Will Help
This episode starts with yellow cake from a box and winds through sourdough bread, marriage and death, in service to the beauty of being able to hold and welcome it all.
Episode 112: Restoration Will Help
Buffy provides practical and grounded ways to encourage deep restoration in your life. The tools range from the physical to the mental to the emotional, and each supports more rest.
Episode 111: Moving Rocks Will Help
What does it mean to create beauty in the world? Buffy talks about how often, placing our attention directly in front of us - and being in service - can be some of the most beautiful and important work we can do.
Episode 110: That Which Whispers Yes Will Help
This episode is about internal knowing; what happens when it is lacking, and how to more powerfully and purposefully cultivate it.
Episode 109: Last Day Will Help
Buffy's daughter Coretta uses the term "Last Day" to refer to any day other than today; a day yesterday, last month, last year. This episode is an homage to Buffy's version of Last Day - what Buffy would do on her own final day of life - and includes considerations of mortality.
Episode 108: Finish Will Help
Today's episode is meant to bring consciousness to things you've started but haven't finished. Buffy tells stories of wills and books, plus a personal list of loose ends that might jog your brain about some tasks you could finish that might just feel really good.
Episode 107: Reframe Will Help
In which situations does judgement serve? Are there gifts we can find in being judged? Buffy gives practical tips on how to stay anchored in your own truth.