"Have you ever felt excited about a new chapter in your life, yet strangely sad about leaving the old one behind?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on change and new beginnings.

It has been a deeply personal episode for me talking about a recent change I’ve been going through with my family and how it brings the excitement of new beginnings as well as accompanying feelings of grief and loss.

If you’re going through a major life change or if you feel like you’re hearing the approaching footsteps of change coming and you don’t want to let go of your current circumstances and patterns, I feel like you.

As I always do, I’m not giving any advice or answers because we don’t any of them from someone else. You have your answers within. Let’s just stir the water and see what you’ll find for yourself.

Join me in exploring the philosophy of new beginnings and grief✨

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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)

Resources:

- Mentioned IG reel by JB Copeland: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5lS4xaOmEO/?igsh=MWVwZGVrdGYzeDF1MQ%3D%3D

Can there be an intellectual intimacy? What is intimacy we feel when we have a lovely conversation with a friend? Can intimacy be a knowledge of ourselves and the world around us?

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on intimacy. Let’s discover different and deeper layers of it.

I’m following the echoes of a recent conversation I had with a friend of mine about Virginia Woolf’s book “To the Lighthouse”.

I’m looking at the reflections of this idea “Can intimacy be a path towards knowledge?”

Can we create intimacy with our loved ones, a stranger on the street, or even our own cities?

Join me in exploring the philosophy of intimacy ✨

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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)

References:

- “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

“Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay’s knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored? Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain? or the heart? Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay’s knee.”

Ever feel like your habits are a broken record? Well, then let’s stick to them.

In this episode of Inner Dialogues with Ecem, let's flip the script on consistency.

I went on a journey from my university dorm days, where my consistent routines — from yoga to daily oatmeal breakfast — unintentionally sparked a health and mindfulness community among my roommates.

I have explored the concept of consistency as a vortex, attracting others with its unwavering focus.

As I reflect on those days, I realize the power of consistency more.

Let’s think together ‘Are we shining a steady light or flickering inconsistently?’

Join me in exploring the philosophy of consistency✨

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Intro & Outro Music Credit: Joseph McDade - Olympus (https://josephmcdade.com/music/olympus)