Team Picks – Treats for Yourself and Your Furry Friends
Our insidewink team shares some products we love from treats for your dog to music for your ears to was to make you feel beautiful.
Tips for Hitting the Road with Your Furry Friends
Part 1 of Kathlene McGovern’s 2 part series on the best and safest ways to travel with your furry friends!
A Friend is a Mirror to Our Soul
Our wonderful Cheryl Farrell uses iconic characters from the TV series CHEERS to personify actual friends of hers and shows how each friend reflects something about Cheryl herself.
Befriending Yourself
We all know how to be a good friend to others, but how do we create a warm and loving relationship with ourselves? Dove Rose has great ideas and answers.
What I Learned From the Friends Next Door
Kate Fuglei learned a lot from the six McGoogan sisters that lived next door to her growing up, especially the importance of friendship.
Letter from the Editors to our Friends
With the theme of friendship, Jean and Alison set out to write something really special…instead what they discover is shared in this monthly letter.
Vulnerability: The Key to Meaningful & Enduring Friendships
As Amy Margolis finds out after the birth of her daughter, being real, open and vulnerable is the true foundation of meaningful relationships… something we all need right now!
Self Care Takes Priority: How to be Your Own Best Friend
Our self-care is important. In Cheryl Farrell article we learn to say no thank you, to be true to ourselves and to be our own best friends.
Friend Family
In our small Studio City living room, we have two Thanksgiving tables set up. It is crowded. It is fun. It is loud. You have to suck in your stomach to squeeze around a corner to get to the kitchen for more sweet potatoes. And it is full of …
I have a friend…
I have a friend… … who gives me gardenias as a surprise … who makes me laugh till I cry … who always reaches for the check first … who calls me because she knows I have a doctor appointment … who I tell everything to because she never judges … who doesn’t gossip … who...
Podcast Episode 63: Julie Kramer
Julie was introduced to core shamanism in 2000, which enabled her to begin cultivating direct relationships with compassionate helping spirits using the practice of shamanic journeying. Julie is passionate about training committed practitioners as a way to contribute to the restoration of spiritual healing to its rightful place alongside Western and Eastern Medicine; Energy Medicine; psychiatry and psychotherapy; and hands-on healing. What distinguishes Julie’s orientation is her emphasis on spiritual healing as a catalyst for personal and collective evolution.
Podcast Episode 62: Leon Logothetis
Leon Logothetis is a renowned keynote speaker, an acclaimed author and a TV personality who ignites positive change by unleashing the boundless power of kindness. He talks with Jean and Alison about his incredible movie – The Kindness Within: A Journey To Freedom that chronicles his soul-stirring adventure to find the meaning of life.
Podcast Episode 61: Bill Burke
Bill Burke founded The Optimism Institute in 2022 after an extensive media and sports career as an executive, writer, and producer. Bill served as CEO of The Weather Channel Companies after several years at Time Warner/Turner Broadcasting System. Additionally, for fifteen years he was the co-owner and chairman of the Portland Sea Dogs, the double-A Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. As a writer, Bill co-authored Ted Turner’s top-10 New York Times Best-Selling autobiography Call Me Ted and later co-wrote/produced/directed “Live Another Day,” an award winning feature-length documentary on the bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
Bill hosts the podcast Blue Sky and hopes that the podcast and the The Optimism Institute inspire people to accept an optimistic, hopeful vision of the world and its future.
Podcast Episode 60: Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch has written 40 books on contemporary spirituality and its practical application in everyday life, including nine books in the Conversations with God series, seven of which made the New York Times bestseller list. Book One remained on that list for 134 weeks. His titles have been translated into 37 languages and have been read by millions of people around the world.
Podcast Episode 59: Deanna deBara
Deanna deBara is a freelance writer (focusing on Health) and the host of the Season of Stuck podcast. The podcast is an exploration of “stuckness” through expert interviews, inspiring stories, and personal insights. Deanna explores how and why we get stuck, what it feels like, the lessons we can learn from it, and ultimately how to shake off the stuff and move forward in an authentic and empowered way. If you’ve ever thought, “why do I feel stuck and what should I do if I feel stuck in life”?, this is the podcast for you!
Podcast Episode 58: Rachel Corpus
Host of the Angel Talk podcast, Rachel is a bit of a chameleon, so as soon as she connects with you, either in person or remotely, she immediately begins channeling information that is for your highest good.Though Rachel is an ordained minister who attended seminary, Rachel does not identify as religious. She is well-versed in the Bible and loves Jesus and God with her whole heart. Yet, she identifies as spiritual but not religious. Rachel is a “collaborative medium” so you can expect that all- literally- all of your loved ones on the other side, including animals, and your non-human helpers (Angels) will be present!
Podcast Episode 57: Paul and Liz Raci
Paul and Liz Raci speak with Jean and Alison about Paul’s role in the uplifting movie Sing Sing and the affect Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) has on the lives on incarcerated adults. Paul is an American character actor working in stage, film and television. In 2021, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Sound of Metal. Paul is currently in the movie Sing Sing. Both Paul and his wife Liz are spiritual practitioners and all around amazing people.
Podcast Episode 56: Dr. Amy Robbins
Jean & Alison speak with Dr.Amy Robbins again. Dr. Amy Robbins is a clinical psychologist, spiritual intuitive, and Director of Mental Health at BIÂN. As a leading expert on conscious living, Dr. Amy Robbins uses death as the lens to awaken us to life. She hosts – Life, Death and The Space Between – a podcast focused on expanding consciousness and opening listeners to the miraculous universe we live in. Through interviews with fascinating professionals, leading experts, and researchers in the fields of brain science, mediumship, psychology, near death experiences, consciousness, grief, transitions to death, and alternative forms of healing, she explores life and death from the psychological, spiritual and scientific perspectives.
Podcast Episode 55: Jean Trebek & Alison Martin interviewed on This Is My Silver Lining
insidewink co-hosts, Jean Trebek & Alison Martin, were thrilled to be interviewed by Ingrid Busson-Hall and Kathleen Merrigan on the “This Is My Silver Lining” Podcast. So, get to know our hosts – Jean and Alison – a little better as they talk about their friendship, their experiences and their passion to Share The Good. Also, please check out “This is My Silver Lining” Podcast https://thisismysilverlining.com/
Podcast Episode 54: Alexa Fischer
Alexa Fischer, creator of the goal-setting, wish-granting jewelry company Wishbeads, and author of the book Wishwork is an entrepreneur, retreat leader, online course creator, speaker, and dreamer. After working with everyone from CEOs to non-profit organizations, Alexa finds (most often) that people’s greatest untapped resource is their own light. Her teaching centers on how to access that light practically and daily, so you can create real change from within.