The Tiny Pod

*BONUS EPISODE* S06E27 About Plagiarism

This week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Plagiarism, in honour of Dr Jason Arday. Plagiarism originally meant kidnapper, child stealer, it was used to describe someone who kidnapped children or slaves, or sold free people into slavery. The word evolved to mean literary theft when the Roman poet Martial described Fidentinus as a kidnapper of his words, his brainchildren. There is no original ground zero thought, we are all walking compilations of the experiences, art, literature, films, environment and people that surround us. The opposite of plagiarism is not originality, it is honesty. Plagiarism is copying the exact style and formation of another without attribution, it is in the concealment and dishonesty. We are all part of a collective and when we share freely we build on what has come before to create something new, we see further "standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton wrote. Weekly episodes of the Tiny Pod can be found at: 🔗 https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPod See you there, Miranda x

*BONUS EPISODE* S06E25 About Enough

This week I share with you an episode from The Tiny Pod on Patreon, about Enough. Full episodes of my weekly podcast can be found every Monday at: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPod Abundance without a sense of enough becomes blind consumption. Enough is not a quantity, it is a choice. Examining what external standards we have internalised helps us reclaim our values and live by what matters to us personally, rather than constantly pursuing what others want. Feeling enough is rooted in self-worth; no amount of anything can buy a feeling we don't already have, and when we truly feel enough, everything we have becomes more than enough, a bonus, overflowing and free to be shared. Feeling enough lets us love others fully without conditions, give freely without ledgers and live now, not later, when. I hope you enjoy this bonus episode and look forward to interacting more deeply over on Patreon. Love, Miranda x

* Bonus Episode * S06E17 About Law

This episode is shared from The Tiny Pod on Patreon. Weekly episodes of The Tiny Pod can be found at https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPod This week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Law, in honour of the courageous Filton 25, particularly those sentenced wrongfully as "terrorists." Throughout history, social justice moved faster than law, and laws were only changed because ordinary people united, and courageously spoke truth to power. Abolitionists were executed for speaking out against slavery, the suffragettes were imprisoned, tortured, force fed and suffered life long injuries, the SS arrested and tortured families sheltering Jewish families, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, all because they broke laws because they believed in a higher law, and in humanity more than legislation. Witnessing more than 3400 ordinary people in Britain being arrested and detained for holding up bits of cardboard reveals that law and justice are not the same thing, and power has not learnt from history. Law and justice are not the same thing. The Law asks what can be enforced, humanity asks what is the most loving thing to do. History is often where injustice is revealed most glaringly. Law can grant a divorce, but it cannot heal a broken heart, and the disparity between legal resolution and emotional resolution is often enormous. When we are internally guided by values, morals, truth and honesty, the need for external laws falls away. Moral law and government law are often directly opposed, but it is in bridging this gap, and in examining our own values, that we can build a world on fairness, and equality, instead of one dominated by power, technicalities, distorted truths and ledgers. See you next week, Miranda x

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*SPECIAL EPISODE* About The Police & Institutional Racism

This article was written last year, and rejected by establishment media so I have chosen to share it here in light of Kemi Badenoch’s dangerous article in The Times. She fails to reference all the reports and reviews : Scarman Report, Lammy Review, IPCC review, IOPC and internal reviews, Baroness Casey Report, Dr Shereen Daniel’s Race Action Plan.. she does however mention the Macpherson inquiry in an attempt to weaken it and reverse the progress it made. She calls for an “independent review” while failing to reference all the reviews and reports that have consistently revealed institutional racism in the police and the Police’s culture of self- protectionism. The met police alone receive an annual budget of over £4.6billion and yet everyone interviewed for this article has experiences of ineffective policing. In fact I am yet to hear one story of successful policing. Ever. The statistics show the same: - only 6.6% of domestic abuse cases ever result in charges - 2.9% of burglaries ever have any action - 0.69% of car thefts are ever even looked into - 0.6% of personal theft ever leads to tangible action So what do the police actually do? Who do they protect and serve? Baroness Casey observed they are “long on activity, but short on action.” I see no action at all.

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*BONUS EPISODE* S06E15 About Misogyny

This week on The Tiny Pod on Patreon is all about Misogyny, in honour of the courageous girls in Fordingbridge, the courageous women who survived the violence of the IDF when their flotilla was seized on route to Gaza, and all survivors of male violence. People hear the word Misogyny and immediately get defensive. People think of it in its most extreme form as hatred for all women. But unexamined, internalised misogyny is much broader than that, and it is subtle too. It shows up often unconsciously as distrust of women, contempt, control, fear and dismissal. Women can internalise misogyny too, policing other women, competing with other women, being hyper critical of women's appearance, behaviour, mothering, judging female sexuality more harshly than men’s, and choosing male approval over female solidarity. It is how oppressive systems thrive, when the people being oppressed police themselves and each other. Healing misogyny begins with awareness, because we cannot heal what we refuse to see, and curiosity, opening to exploring what assumptions, beliefs and feelings we have internalised but never examined. Healing for men often looks like allowing grief, grieving the tenderness they never had, childhood wounds, hurt from the mother figure, and examining ideas about masculinity they have inherited. Fear and hatred of women cuts men off from intimacy, connection and the most fulfilling freedom of being truly alive. The truth is we are all equal, regardless of gender, geography, wealth, status, biology or race. Anything that contradicts that truth is false. Fear is a construct of the ego. Love is the truth, and love heals all wounds. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you are interested in listening to more episodes, my weekly podcast can be found on Patreon, link below. 🔗 https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheTinyPod

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*BONUS EPISODE* S06E09 About Ceasefire

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Ceasefire. From the Latin word Cessare, meaning to stop, to yield, to give over, a ceasefire is an exhale, a nervous system rest and reset, and it is only when our nervous systems are parasympathetic, at rest, that we are able to see with clarity and a clear head, and negotiate real peace. Ceasefires create space for peace by stopping further harm, pausing active attacks, and giving clarity a moment to settle. It is a step towards armistice and peace, a pause, not permanent resolution but in that pause peace can be found. As without, so within. When we let the word Ceasefire land on hearts, we feel relief, we soften, we put down our weapons of self-criticism, pressure, perfectionism and allow calm to settle. Ceasefire with ourselves is permission to stop fighting with our self, with others, and with the world. It is in allowing ourselves to be as we are, and others to be as they are, and let life keep lifing that we find peace and stop exhausting ourselves fighting against life as it is. The practice of peace is to notice when we have picked the weapons back up, and choose again and again to put them down. It is a continual, committed practice that takes active surrender to life as it is, and commitment to no longer fighting reality. A ceasefire is a conscious interruption of harm, in a system that has become used to conflict, and creates space for something new to emerge. It is not final, but often the first honest step towards lasting peace. When we regulate our nervous systems we naturally, and consciously move away from anything and anyone that does not bring peace. And each time we choose peace, we choose to put the weapons down, we are really choosing ourselves, choosing each other, choosing love and choosing life. True ceasefire is positive, encouraging, hopeful and an invitation into deeper, lasting peace, joy and love. The full episode and weekly podcast can be found on Patreon every Monday. Link below. https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPod

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S05E07 About Faith

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Faith. Faith isn't just a feeling, it is a state of being fully sure. Faith is inner fortitude. “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Everything we now see was once unseen: houses, buildings, clothes, cars were all once just faith that they were possible. Faith is not 'I’ll believe it when I see it,' Faith is "I will see it when I believe it. I will see it because I believe it> Faith is not a strategy, it is a frequency, a walk of life, a choice. Faith is not subject to or dependent on external circumstances, faith remains constant. Faith is a choice that strengthens in endurance and comforts in the storms. Faith is connection. I have loved creating podcasts here on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It took a leap of faith to begin the Tiny Pod, and what started as a Tiny Pod, a mustard seed of faith, has grown into a tree. This will be my last episode here on Spotify And Apple Podcasts. This sanctuary is moving to Patreon. I am really excited about this next chapter. Patreon feels safe, secure and intentional, a community where people invest, choose and connect. I value my podcasts and am taking a leap of faith that Patreon will sustain The Tiny Pod. To those who want to, I will see you on the other side on Patreon. To everyone else, I wish you peace, love and faith on your journey. Miranda x

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S05E06 About Terror

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Terror. Historically, terror is a tool used by governments for control, distraction away from their atrocities, to instil fear to paralyse any resistance. Terror only survives when we are disconnected - from ourselves, from truth and from each other. The solution is in your nervous system. When we are rooted in ourselves, we cannot be shaken by terror. See you next week, M x

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S05E05 About Grief

This week on the Tiny Pod is all About Grief. Grief is found in the everyday, it begins in birth with that first loss of connection from the safety of the womb and compounds throughout childhood with every lost micro connection, trauma, neglect, and moments of rejection and humiliation just for being ourself. We learn early to carry it silently, to adapt, to cope using all the coping mechanisms we can find- denial, avoidance, fantasy, illusion, repression. We get so familiar carrying grief it becomes “normal” and “familiar” in our nervous system. But unfelt grief is heavy, exhausting and impacts us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. When we allow ourselves to feel our grief, to acknowledge our losses and witness our past hurts, we free ourselves from being run by the past. We step into presence, and power. There is so much collective grief in the world now it can feel debilitating if we are still carrying our own unprocessed personal grief. As we heal, we create space and capacity to connect, to love, to act and to experience joy fully, deeply, now. See you next week week, Miranda x

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S05E04 About Courage

In honour of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and every single human who has courage to stand up to injustice, this week on The Tiny Pod is all About Courage. The word courage comes from the Latin word ‘cod’ meaning heart. Courage comes from the heart. Our heart is the source of our power, it is the strongest electromagnetic field, it generates our energy. Broken hearts, hard hearts, act from fear. Cowards hide their faces behind masks, their malice behind power and authority. They are hiding from themselves, from their accountability, from their heart. A regulated person stands, shows their face, and has nothing to hide. Historically it has always taken courage for the world to change - the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the civil rights movement were all acts of great courage. Courage is whole hearted, and it asks us to heal our own hearts, to open our hearts and to live wholeheartedly. In a world of terror and violence, there is a temptation to close, to harden. The revolution is to soften, to remain open, to feel and to love. Those who love power forget the power of love. Love overcomes, love wins. Amor Omnia Vincit, M xx

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S05E03 About Immigrant

.. And Illegal Alien, and inalienable rights and alienation. This week on the Tiny Pod is all about neutral, natural words immigrant and alien becoming charged when media-political narratives were created as a distraction for power to hide behind. Dehumanising language removes dignity and protection. Labelling a human being an “illegal alien,” criminalises the person, and strips them of their humanity. Power uses law to enact violence under the cover of impunity. Immigration is ancient, biblical, natural. We are all immigrants, moving from town to town, from emotional state to emotional state. From life to life. We are all One Human Race. One Humanity. One Love, Miranda x

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S05E02 About Liberal

This week is all About Liberal. The word liberal comes from the Latin word Liber, meaning free. Liberal first found its way into politics in 17th Century England around the time of the “Glorious Revolution.” John Locke, often called the founding father of liberalism, wrote about life, liberty, happiness and self-ownership of property. Thomas Jefferson later took his philosophies and adapted them for the Declaration of Independence- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and modern democracy in France is founded on liberty, equality and fraternity. It is therefore ironic when people use the term liberal to insult, denigrate or mock another, while using the democratic privileges that liberalism affords them - free speech, platforms, and individual rights. Woke is not about moral performance, it is moral courage, awareness of social injustice, and staying awake to oppression and corruption. When people attack liberals, left and woke, they are trying to poison the values inherent in the words - fairness, equality, individual rights and freedom. Only politicians who maintain power and control through domination need to vilify conscience with courage and love that refuses to stay silent in the face of injustice, oppression and harm. May all beings be free 🙏 See you next week, Miranda x

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S05E01 About Clarifying

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🌟 Welcome to Season 5! As we look back at the year past, and look forward to the year ahead, we have the clarity to see where we are, and to clarify who we are. Clarifying is a process, it involves heat, pressure, time and patience. We often want to skip the process to get to the result, we imagine results will fulfil us- wealth, love, achievements. But it is the process of clarification that builds strength, resilience, and the capacity to hold all we are moving towards. To clarify is to strip back, to remove impurities and allow the fog to be cleared so that all that remains is true. Clarifying is simple, quiet, and purifying. It does not promise ease, but it promises honesty, and honesty lived consistently is peace. See you next week, Miranda x

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S04E19 About Capacity

This week is all About Capacity. As the year draws to a close, we reflect on all that has past, and what is to come in the New Year. We make New Years Resolutions, and believe in new possibility. Capacity is the inner structure that allows beliefs to take form: love, money, purpose and change, without collapsing. Beliefs are the initiator, capacity sustains quietly, through steadiness, regulation and trust. Belief, and resolutions invite us forward, capacity expands, is patient in discomfort, and steady in change. Capacity is built in repetitive, moment-to-moment regulation in face of external challenges, emotional vulnerability, and humility. Capacity enlarges us so that when the life we are building arrives, it lands. See you next week, Miranda x

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S04E18 About Perfection

This week is all About Perfection. The original meaning of perfection was all about wholeness, completion, and the word implied nothing essential was missing. Our modern world, shaped by religious and capitalist ideas has replaced this completeness with flawlessness. Perfection is the enemy of the good. Needing every thing to be perfect is a signal the nervous system is deregulated, and essentially the body feels unsafe. Seeking perfection is an unconscious form of control, and creates discomfort, anxiety and stress in the body, and the rooms we inhabit. Perfection is unattainable, elusive and therefore unsatisfying to pursue. When we chase perfection, we miss out on presence. This Christmas, I encourage you all to relax into the now, to enjoy the truth of being human in all its imperfect, beautiful unpredictability and to focus instead on authentic connection, presence and one another. Joy cannot exist with perfection, so at this time of year when we want everything to be perfect, instead choose joy. Choose each other. Choose love. Let peace reign in your homes and in your hearts. Happy Christmas to you and yours 🌟❤️ Much love, Miranda x

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S04E17 About Quantify

This week is all about how we try to quantify our life to find meaning, comfort and a sense of control. Our modern world celebrates quantity - how much money, power, achievements, titles, friends we have. We measure the success of relationships in the length of time couples are together. It is in the quality, not quantity, that true value is found. See you next week, M x

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S04E16 About Transaction

Transaction originally meant to drive something through, bringing something to fulfilment. It was complete in and of itself. Over time, transaction became about exchange, commerce, giving and receiving, and it is this modern understanding that has become contaminated by fear, greed and ego. Transaction from scarcity is a trauma response. When you are in survival, transaction is about trying to win. Overflow transaction is about living in a state where you can’t lose. When you are whole, you give from fullness without need for return because you are already complete. Giving is a natural extension and expression of your fullness, and sovereignty. You can give love, energy, resources and time without any expectation, and this is where true freedom, trust, and alignment live. It is from our own fullness that we are able to build and nurture true, authentic connection with others fearlessly. See you next week, Miranda x

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S04E15 About Dominance

Today on The Tiny Pod is all About Dominance. Dominance is a survival mechanism, it is primal- whoever had resources, territory and control survived. Dominance is built on the nervous system of the traumatised. Our modern world today continues to reward dominance: those who perform, control, force and strive garner attention, wealth, power and influence. Dominators have to win at all costs because their identity collapse without the win. True Power doesn’t need a victory to know its worth. Dominance is loud, it shouts, true power simply is. Dominance is outward: force, performance, ego, spectacle. True power is quiet certainty, alignment, conviction, presence, grace and humility. Cultivating true power and breaking free of domination systems requires nervous system regulation, emotional maturity, and alignment. It is a shift from “I must dominate to be worthy,” to knowing you are inherently worthy and therefore do not need to dominate, prove or fight for control. See you next week, Miranda x

S04E14 About Money

This week is all About Money. Money is used by the wealthy to disempower, to distract us away from our self and to create shame that exhausts us to enslave us to a broken system that thrives on the oppression of others. Capitalism needs us to spend, to serve and to remain in a constant state of lack so that we forget who we truly are. Alignment is our natural state, and nothing pulls us out of alignment faster than centralising money and the pursuit of wealth. Sustainable wealth is built through alignment in our bodies, regulation in our nervous system, consciousness in our mental chatter, neural programming and openness in our hearts. When we value love, generosity flows. When we value money, we hoard, defend and protect our money at the expense of our integrity. True wealth is found internally, through aligning our body, heart, mind and soul. Abundance flows when we live in alignment, when we value relationship with others over competition, and when we give freely, rather than frantically consuming, and fearfully hoarding. Money cannot buy peace, safety, security or dignity. Consciousness is the way to true, lasting wealth, because when we know who we are and we value ourselves, we cannot be bought for all the money in the world. See you next week, M x

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S04E13 About Kindness

This week’s pod, in honour of World Kindness Day on Thursday 13th November, is all About Kindness. True kindness is not actions, gestures, donations. It is the intention behind them. It flows from your heart, it is your inherent nature. When we are in survival, competition, proving our worth, seeking favour, we cannot be truly kind because we are seeking a return “in kind,” recognition, social favour. When we are seeking praise, we are giving conditionally, and kindness becomes performative and transactional. True kindness is both who we are in our essence, at our heart, and a learned, life long practice of generosity and empathy. True kindness needs nothing, seeks nothing, asks nothing, and is freely given. Kindness heals, kindness creates trust and safety both in our own selves and in the community around us. Kindness is who we are, not what we do. See you next week, M x

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