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Breathing Out Stars

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

Joy is an act of resilience! Leslie Coff sources bits and pieces from different spiritual practices to try to inspire during this challenging time. Sometimes you just gotta listen to someone else trying to get through the day.

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United States

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Joy is an act of resilience! Leslie Coff sources bits and pieces from different spiritual practices to try to inspire during this challenging time. Sometimes you just gotta listen to someone else trying to get through the day.

Language:

English

Contact:

4042105991


Episodes
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The open spaces & the river

5/24/2023
Some people are good at tennis. I am not. I do have a special, innate skill in fire-building.

Duration:00:06:16

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The medicine mix

5/23/2023
Back when I had a radio show called The Medicine Mix, I invited a rabbi, a pastor and a surgeon onto the show…so we could discuss prayer and healing. After the show was over, we were still talking about it in the elevator down to our cars.

Duration:00:10:32

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The Underworld

8/15/2022
Sure I knew what to expect. I’d been there before. The lesson for me: fate will surprise you.

Duration:00:10:05

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Peacocks & Resistance

7/3/2022
it is said that prayer is the highest form of rebellion -- you are daring to ask for a different world.

Duration:00:07:37

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Molotov cocktails --and cocktails.

3/10/2022
A podcast is an art form – filled with heart and dreams and intellect and color and sound editing. And reality. Things are pretty real right now. It's not a time I feel like being funny. This is a time to feel things.

Duration:00:09:24

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Playing Whack-A-Mole in a Straight Jacket

2/9/2022
It’s not enough to just get COVID. Let’s add fifty more limitations on top of that — or just feel like you have. It’s just Whack-A-Mole.

Duration:00:10:54

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When Life Gives You COVID, Make Lemon Cake

2/4/2022
We may or may not have multiple cases of COVID in the house -- you decide for yourself how we are doing.

Duration:00:16:20

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The skipper

1/21/2022
With five percent visibility on the lake, they were trapped in a sudden storm. Honestly it had come out of nowhere. But the skipper….she prayed…

Duration:00:15:51

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Hope, The Fig...and a little bit of Faith

1/15/2022
...."Faith is not even real, you might say"...but I am here to offer that Faith is like your abs or your quads or your biceps. For it to work, you have to exercise it...

Duration:00:10:30

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Notes from the Ark: Doves, Cypress & Olive Trees

1/9/2022
We are back in the ark and send out doves to check on the world. The dove brings back myrtle & olive -- to remind us to see with our hearts -- and that magic can come from nothing.

Duration:00:17:02

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The Tin Man & The Heart

12/28/2021
When the Tin Man faints -- for real -- and he dares to feel.

Duration:00:09:56

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Blue Grace

12/11/2021
There is a special kind of grace that we all need right now. A beautiful magic under stars and snow — when someone climbs out of their foxhole with their arms up in the air — singing.

Duration:00:10:36

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The Shipwreck

3/20/2021
After a hiatus we are back! Something to do with a pandemic pup -- and a new direction. With a nod to Forrest Gump -- the only way forward is forward!

Duration:00:12:09

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The Emergency Lantern

1/13/2021
I need an emergency lantern to see my way through dark times -- and batteries to help me conserve my energy for these times -- which aren't as light as I wish they could be.

Duration:00:08:41

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The Hanukkah of Fire & Light

12/9/2020
A modern Hanukkah story for listening -- when the world was different -- and there was light -- so much light.

Duration:00:11:22

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Sangria & Fireflies

12/7/2020
As we have moved into the days of darkness and I am dreaming a childhood dream – of flying. And I have made Sangria. It's not really the day-drinking -- it's the dream of day-drinking. Second star to the left and straight on 'til morning...

Duration:00:07:15

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In Pieces

11/16/2020
These days I am just in pieces. That's it. But even pieces have to find a way to fit together.

Duration:00:13:40

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The Storm

11/1/2020
We all have our individual traumas that have prepared us for what is ahead. But you know, they have prepared us well. The only way forward...is forward.

Duration:00:12:12

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Anything Man

10/27/2020
That time that we think we need a superhero to fix everything -- but the superhero you are waiting for is you...

Duration:00:12:57

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Fire & Bones

10/12/2020
This week I built a structure with bolts and washers and nuts – and shiny metal. I removed the protect plastic – from the pieces – and from myself. I built a structure to contain the fire. I am the structure to contain the fire.

Duration:00:13:16