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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

Mindful Mondays, with Waylon Lewis.

I had a lot of loss last year and a lot of grief, and I think some depression and some giving up. And in my recent, first Ayahuasca ceremony, after those hours of crying and crying and love and crying and crying, I was left with a question that wasn’t hopeful—but it was real.

And that question was, why love again?

Why would I open my heart up again when I’ve lost so much?

When we love, we risk losing. Don’t we learn from abuse, not to go back for more? Why shouldn’t we learn from love lost?

And then this quote came to mind:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
~ C.S. Lewis

Then, suddenly, I found a way forward: after a year of sadness and not being ready, a new puppy, His name is Winfield. Winnie, for short.

A story or two about meeting Winfield, and how all that came about:

Or, listen to the podcast:

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Mark your calendars: Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He’ll be going live each Monday and starting out with mindful topics each week, big & small.

Big news about my podcast, new YouTube channel.

Our podcast and video series are trying to start up again, with Molly’s help! Help support them by viewing, listening, sharing. I’m once again doing a convo/video/podcast at least once a week. Hope you give it a listen.

I’m leaving behind Elephant’s 35,000 subscribers (Google never let us monetize) and many millions of views—and I hope you’ll subscribe to my new channel here: I’ll upload at least one video a week about everyday mindfulness and eco and meditation and relationships and food and equality and politics from a non-hateful perspective, and all that good stuff.

⁠So, anyways, starting a new account. Subscribe! Support! Share! All the things. May it be of benefit! Be one of my first and comment if you do so.

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For more mindful chats, go to elephantjournal.com/talkshow and follow us on Instagram at @walkthetalkshow.