Vision Casting: Meeting Your Future Self

Featuring soundbath frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸This is the episode where Coach Miki's worlds come together. She opens the vault on Emotional Embodiment, a tonglen-style Live Metta Moment from October 2025, and shares the bigger vision behind her work: three streams flowing into one river. Those streams are trauma-informed coaching, wisdom drawn from music therapy, and Buddhist meditation. Drawing on her years as a classical singer, her sobriety, and her training as a coach, she explores why healing doesn't happen in the head alone. Then she guides you through a short trunkated practice: finding your anchor, humming breath, a metta body scan, naming your emotional weather, and a round of tonglen for yourself.Care note: this practice invites you to turn toward difficult emotions. Go at your own pace, keep your eyes open if you like, and stop at any time. This practice supports professional care; it doesn't replace it.In this episode:The fusion: trauma-informed coaching, music-informed breathwork, and Buddhist practiceWhy the voice is the only instrument that lives inside the bodyThe window of tolerance, and why growth needs a regulated nervous systemThe iso principle and entrainment: how music meets us, then moves usTonglen (sending and taking) from the lojong tradition, reimagined through a trauma-informed lensTitration, pendulation, and finding your safe anchorBodily maps of emotion: why feelings are whole-body eventsA thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset community, as well as co-coach, Alexus Rae Gouviea (@alexus_rae_) Guided practice: Breathing With What Hurts (Trunkated)Introducing the 7-Day Holiday Grounding ChallengeMantra: I can touch what hurts without becoming it.Journal:What emotion asked to be felt, and how did it shift when it was met with kindness?One small act of care I can offer myself in the next 24 hours is…🪷 The 7-Day Holiday Grounding Challenge: November 20th–26th, inside the Metta Momentum Sangha Fifteen minutes a day to come back to yourself. That's a new guided meditation each day (video + downloadable audio + one reflection question), with Day 7 landing on American Thanksgiving. Coach Miki practices right alongside you.Step 1: Join the Sangha (free): https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutPremium members & Level 3+: included in your Classroom access. Find the challenge folder here.Everyone else: join all seven days for a one-time $3 contribution (access to the folder is granted once you've joined the Sangha)Come as you are. One day, and one breath, at a time. 💜Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring soundbath frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸What if getting stuck didn't have to be a failure — what if it could be gentle? This week, Coach Miki opens the vault on How to Get Unstuck, a practice first written for the Don't Touch My Mindset community during a lesson on habits, which has since become a staple inside the Metta Momentum Sangha as The Softening of Stuckness.She introduces the Metta Discernment Cycle, and why self-compassion and self-trust grow at the very same time: one foot is compassion, the other is trust, and you don't walk out of the mud on one leg. From the Buddha's image of the deer and the safe path through the marsh, to Thich Nhat Hanh's No Mud, No Lotus, this is an episode about finding firm ground — kindly.Then she guides you through the full practice: clearing the pathway through the body, meeting your stuck place as a landscape, asking whether it's calling you to rest or to rise, and taking your very first step toward your Future Self.In this episode:* Force, collapse, and why neither gets us out of the mud* The Metta Discernment Cycle: Pause, Soften, Discern, Step, Return* Is this stuckness asking me to rest — or to rise?* How self-compassion and self-trust grow together* The Dvedhāvitakka Sutta (MN 19): two kinds of thought, and the safe path through the marsh* No Mud, No Lotus — Thich Nhat Hanh* A thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset community* Guided practice: The Softening of StucknessMantra: I am not stuck. I am becoming.Reflect: Is the place where I feel stuck asking me to rest — or to rise? What is one small, kind step I can take toward it?Join the Metta Momentum Sangha — free for now. The first 100 members receive lifetime access to our weekly Live Metta Moments and a safe place to gather inside trusted community: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutShow Notes Links:* Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/about* Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself: https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W* Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/13781233/join* Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring soundbath frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸Nearly a year ago, Coach Miki led a meditation on liminal space that didn't quite land. This week she opens the vault on it — and rebuilds it — after a year that became her own bardo: a stretch of dissolving, waiting, and quiet becoming that she's only now beginning to understand. This is an episode about the invisible era between who you've been and who you're becoming.Then she guides you through the reimagined practice: rising above the twilight, resting inside the chrysalis, and letting your wings begin to open.In this episode:Liminal space and the threshold (limen)The grey line: why the Earth is always, somewhere, in twilightBardo — the Tibetan "in-between," and the bardo of this lifeŚūnyatā: emptiness as spaciousness, not absenceImaginal discs and what really happens inside a chrysalisWhy this practice didn't land the first time — and what a year in the bardo taught herA thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset communityGuided practice: The Invisible Era — the grey line, the chrysalis, and the wingsMantra: I am not lost in the in-between. I am being remade in the unseen.Reflect:Where in your life are you standing in a doorway — not who you were, not yet who you're becoming?What might be possible if the in-between felt nourishing instead of frightening?Practice this week: Notice the micro-bardos: the pause before you answer, the moment you open a door. And if you can, take a short walk at dusk and let the in-between light remind you how beautiful transition can be.Join us live — free — inside the Metta Momentum Sangha: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutShow Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring soundbath frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸In December 2025, at the last Live Metta Moment before the holiday break, Coach Miki looked at a Zoom room of seven or eight people and realized she'd finally stepped into her power. This week, she opens the vault on that night: a future visualization she now calls a vision casting ceremony.Then she guides you through the practice itself… arriving five years into your future, inhabiting it, and meeting your future self face to face.In this episode:The last Live Metta Moment of 2025 — and a small but mighty SanghaA thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset community"What you appreciate, appreciates" — Lynne TwistGoals vs. embodiment: who you're becoming, not just what you're achievingThe Nibbedhika Sutta: intention as the root of karmaWhy this is a vision casting ceremony — reflective and activeGuided practice: Meeting Your Future Self, with closing metta blessingsReflect: How have I embodied my growth — and how will I keep embodying it in the season ahead?Cast your vision with us live, free, inside the Metta Momentum Sangha: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutNext week: Owning the Space Between: a meditation on liminality, bardo, and sacred becoming.Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring soundbath frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸This week, Coach Miki opens the vault on a practice that started as an experiment… and stuck. She shares how a "warm cocoon of safety light," suggested by someone very special, became the heart of this meditation; how being a deep empath and a former opera and musical theatre performer shaped her love of visualization; and pulls back the curtain on how she builds every guided practice: arrival, body scan, then visualization. Then she guides you through the practice itself: finding your Still Point, building your Aura of Safety, and weaving your Nest of Peace.In this episode:"Throwing spaghetti at the wall" — the experiment behind this practiceEmpaths, deep feeling, and where all that feeling goesFrom the stage to the cushion: visualization as a creative muscleWhy pacing matters in guided meditationHow Coach Miki structures every practice — and why the body scan is for awakening, not sleepingGuided practice: The Still Point, The Aura of Safety & The Nest of PeaceReflect: When doubt arises this week — where is your Still Point? What color is your light?Share what came up for you, and join our free weekly live practice inside the Metta Momentum Sangha: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutNext week: a future visualization, where all things are possible and you meet your ideal future self, face to face.Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring sound bath frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC! 💟🌸We open the vault for real. On August 6, 2025, Coach Miki held her very first Live Metta Moment: Permission to Be Imperfect: A Guided Meditation on Compassionate Discipline. In this episode, she walks down memory lane; the "Midweek Metta" that came first, what she learned about chasing high-ticket offers when her true value was presence, writing practices inside the Don't Touch My Mindset community, and why this practice was really a letter to herself. Then she guides you through the original visualization journey.In this episode:What a Live Metta Moment is (and why it's an altar for your nervous system)The Midweek Metta, sales-guru advice, and choosing presence over pocketbooksA thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset communityCompassionate discipline: when structure and softness coexistGuided visualization: the forest trail, the backpack of "shoulds," and meeting your metta self🌸 Reflect: What if I am already enough, even in this unfinished form?💜 Practice with us, free: Join the Metta Momentum Sangha on Skool, where we gather live every week. The original recording of this first Live Metta Moment lives in the Live Metta Moment Vault (Premium Sangha): https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutShow Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring sound bath frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽 Thank you STATiC, 174hz was Seph’s favorite. 💟🌸Season Six of Softening into Momentum opens the vault. This season, Coach Miki revisits the very first guided practices she wrote in the early days of building Metta Momentum — the story behind each one, the coaching inside it, and a taste of the practice itself.But the premiere is something special. In honor of what would have been her beloved cat Purrsephone's 16th birthday, Coach Miki shares five lessons Seph taught her about co-regulation — the way one calm nervous system helps settle another — and guides a preview of The Harbor & The Shared Tide, a practice in safety before growth.Content note: this episode discusses the loss of a pet and pet grief.In this episode:Welcome to Season 6: From the VaultA thank-you to Jay Chase (@thejaychase) and the Don't Touch My Mindset communityWhat co-regulation is, and why we never outgrow itFive lessons from Seph: presence over fixing, safety before connection, regulation as offering, rhythm over words, and never walking aloneThe Upaḍḍha Sutta: admirable friendship is the whole of the holy lifeGuided preview: The Harbor & The Shared Tide — meeting your co-regulation buddyJoin us live — free: Thursday, October 1 at 4:30pm PT / 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET, inside the Metta Momentum Sangha: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/aboutReflect: Who helps my nervous system soften? Who might I be a harbor for?Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “963hz Divine Awareness” and “174hz The Moon’s Kiss” frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitude 🙏👽Teaser: What if you were never actually an alien? What if you were just a human who hadn't found your people yet? Welcome to The Season 5 Finale.Description: Season 5 closes with a love letter to the recovery community; told through the metaphor of an alien finally finding her constellation. Miki reads the “Recovery Constellation” essay and ties the season's arc together: from not knowing where the bus was headed, to finally finding the people who make the not-knowing bearable.Episode Highlights:[0:00] Cold open — finding your people[0:30] Frame: closing the season's arc, from Episode 2 to here[2:10] Full reading: Recovery Constellation / Alien Essay[16:05 Unpacking: the alien metaphor and disorientation of difference[18:20] Refusing binary labels — the Middle Way and the gray area[19:35] "Sobriety is the presence of everything" — the season's thesis line[21:00] Full-circle callback to Episode 2's bus[22:00] Extended finale CTA, Thank you & OuttroMomentum Quote: "Sobriety isn't just the absence of something… it's the presence of everything."Metta Question: Where have you already found your people, and where are you still searching?Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “639hz Pink Full Moon” and “528hz 4Yorgos” frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitudeTeaser: What if loving someone well means getting out of the way of their healing?Description: Miki reads "Some Thoughts on Let Them," exploring attachment, codependency, and the difficult, freeing practice of releasing people we love from our need to fix them; in romance, in family, in friendship, and in recovery.Episode Highlights:[0:07] Cold open — releasing to love well[0:35] Frame: this isn't only about romantic relationships[1:30] Full reading: "Some Thoughts on Let Them"[15:40] Unpacking: the "ampersand" identity and standing alone[16:40] Borrowed clarity — the therapist's words as a bridge to self-trust[17:40] The vulnerable fear of being healed past[19:00] The courage of "let them talk, and cry, and resent, and hate"[20:00] Closing reflection & CTAMomentum Quote: "Let Them Heal. Let Them Be. And suddenly, the elephant has taken the weight of its foot off my chest."Metta Question: Who are you still trying to fix, heal, or manage… that might actually need you to simply let them?Show Notes Links:Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring “852hz Soundbath” and “528hz 4Yorgos” frequencies by  ⁨@staticisnoise⁩  , used with permission and my endless gratitudeTeaser: A new phone, an old phone named Cinderella, and the quiet, unglamorous proof that you've actually changed.Description: Miki reads "No More Drunk Texts," a recovery story that measures transformation not in sobriety chips, but in an eight-year-old phone finally being retired. This episode explores self-forgiveness, identity, and the physical, embodied residue of a life lived differently.Episode Highlights:[0:06] Cold open — how do you know you've changed?[0:55] Frame: why this story reaches beyond the recovery community[1:35] Full reading: "No More Drunk Texts"[17:20] Unpacking: Cinderella as a witness to the old self[18:30] Thanking rather than shaming the past self[19:15] Measuring change in ordinary time, not just milestones[20:10] The body's own recovery — "my hands are clean, too"[21:05] Closing reflection & CTAMomentum Quote: "This new phone will never help me send a drunk text. It will never have to."Metta Question: What's the object in your life that's quietly witnessed your own transformation? And if it could speak… what would it say?Links & CTA: Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter HerePermission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey HereGet Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself HereSupport Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon HereBuy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuseEnjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟About the HostMiki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.