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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week is all About Peace, in honour of Remembrance Day.
Our government, political and financial structures were built on war, violence, inequality, oppression to control society, and enrich the few in power.
War is big business, the government increases its annual spend on defence year on year.
And even peace is commodified, the very companies that supplied the weapons of mass destruction now fighting to win contracts for reconstruction of what they destroyed.
War becomes a toxic loop of power, money, destruction and construction.
Even the wellness industry tries to gate keep peace, and sell it back to us.
Peace, true peace, is here with us now. It is found in the courage to hold truth, to know injustice and to honestly see the world as it is. Peace is found in rest, and it is found in surrender. War is control through external force, and peace is self control built internally.
Peace is found in presence, now, it is not waiting for us . We do not need permission from anyone to have peace, we just need to let ourselves remember.
As we remember those who have fallen, and the cost of peace, may we remember the peace we owe to ourselves.
See you next week
M x
This week I talk About Love.
The word ‘love’ is misused to describe all manner of actions, behaviours, feelings and desires that are not love at all.
We use ‘love’ to manipulate, control, survive. When we fear, whether we fear losing someone or something, fear being alone, or fear being known, we cannot love, truly.
Courage is from the heart, and from the heart, love casts out fear.
For further reading on the quotes I referenced today:
1 John 4
1 Corinthians 13
See you next week,
LOVE
Miranda x
Truth can be divisive, polarising . We risk losing belonging to a family, a community or a collective built on pretence and performance when we speak truth. This threat of rejection can keep us stuck in dishonesty, and silent out of fear.
Truth is uncomfortable for those who have not built the capacity to hold it. Truth is the enemy of oppressors and systems that thrive on our ignorance, complacency and fear.
Truth is a muscle we grow into. As we open to truth, and allow the discomfort of truth to move through us, we grow into our capacity to know ourselves, form true relationships and be an active part of true, meaningful community.
Anything lost when we speak truth and live by truth was false, fleeting and illusory. Truth cannot be lost, it is a firm foundation upon which we can grow, and it is an anchor on which we can depend, and deepen into trust.
See you next week,
Miranda x
Community, in its true sense of shared values, shared care, unity and responsibility towards one another feeds our soul.
Community can also be superficial, performative, transactional, a comfort we use when it benefits us. We talk of how wonderful our community is, as long as it costs us nothing and serves all our superficial needs.
True community asks of us participation. True community is giving when no one is watching, supporting causes that do not personally benefit us, and standing united against systems that oppress and harm others, especially when we are not directly affected ourselves.
True community is connection, love and unity.
Come- unity. Through true community we join together, we stand together and we create an interdependence that is at the heart of healthy relating. We are stronger together, united we rise.
See you next week,
Miranda x
Silence can be a shield, a protection from negativity and a tool to preserve time and energy where our words go unheard.
But silence can also be participation in abuse, oppression and harm. When we see or know of injustice, and we choose to remain silent, we are choosing complicity in that injustice.
United we have the power to change and challenge systems that cause harm, individuals that abuse, and damaging institutions reliant on our compliance and silence.
United we stand 🙏
See you next week,
Miranda x
This week I talk about white privilege.
We often shy away from topics that are uncomfortable. We deny our own contribution to the parts of society that we deem ugly, immoral, or challenging. But unless we are willing and able to look at ourselves, and to transform ourselves, we will never be able to transform society, or systems like oppression, racism, and othering.
White privilege is subtle, often unconscious, pervasive, insidious. It has existed throughout history and still exists today in all areas of life and society.
May we all be able to look at how we contribute to racism, oppression and may we be willing to see the inhumane inequality of our society.
May we all unite and stand together, may we rise together and live freely, peacefully, equally.
We are all one. United we rise, divided we fall.
See you next week,
Miranda x
On Monday 29th September 2025 at 2:30pm in a quiet residential street in North West London, near the local primary school, a 34 year old man was violently attacked by a police officer.
Constable Merrick 2497NW, on SOLO patrol, pursued , mounted and smashed in the head this young man, using his handcuffs as a lethal weapon. He sat on the victim, he pressed his face into the ground and placed his forearm on his neck, all while the man was bleeding heavily from the severe head wound, in non resistance.
The Met Police have responded by dismissing all complaints.
The local community - mothers on the school run, strong men, passers by, did nothing. They judged and shamed the victim, assuming because he is black he must be guilty. They walked through the crime scene, more interested in blood on the sole of their shoes, than the soul of a man bleeding on the pavement.
I have become a pariah on the school run, they shame me too for association.
To address this inhumanity, desensitisation, this “othering” at the heart of racism, we have to be willing to look at the truth, to look at history objectively, and to look at ourselves. Where have we internalised racism? Where to we contribute to racism in our own lives and community?
We are all one. United we rise, United we can enact change. We can get justice. We can get Constable Merrick 2497NW charged and removed from the police force if we unite.
I urge anyone and everyone with social media, a platform, legal knowledge, political power, media contacts to like, share, repost, comment the footage on TikTok, YouTube, and on Instagram.
Let’s choose love ❤️
See you next week
Miranda
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Many of us are on a quest, in pursuit of various forms of external validation or external comforts. Quests are the “when’s” - when I get a promotion, when I move home, when I get married- yet when we arrive, instead of satisfaction, contentment and peace we are consumed with another when.
The quieter, subtler quest inward is the one that leads us to true peace. The quest to know ourselves and be known, truly, vulnerably and authentically. To discover our own values and live them, no longer consumed by performing for others approvals and external accolades.
As Jung so beautifully put it, “He who looks outside dreams; he who looks inside, awakes.”
See you next week,
Miranda x
Whether we live by faith or we follow science, it all leads to the same conclusion- there is negative and positive energies at play. This is the nature of existence.
We are hard wired to see, remember and look for negativity. This is the survival programming, the negativity bias that we can rewire with consistent positive actions, choices, thoughts and behaviours.
Heart coherence can only be found in positivity, and it is this heart coherence that has the power to shape our reality, create our dreams, improve our cognitive function, lower stress and raise our immunity.
Moment to moment, choice by choice we rewire our brains and recondition our bodies, hearts, minds and souls to thrive.
See you next week,
Miranda
This week’s pod is about Spiritual bypassing, a term coined by John Welwood in the 1980s that he used to define as when we use spiritual ideas, practices, or language to avoid facing painful emotions, unresolved wounds, or real-life responsibilities.
We want to be healed and therefore rush to perform healing, integration and alignment at the expense of true healing. It is a performance, a shiny coat of oneness, surrender, light and love we cover our grief, anger, shame, or trauma with instead of actually working through them.
Spiritual bypassing is a survival mechanism, it is avoidance of our shadow, unhealed, human parts and it gets in the way of true healing, authenticity, vulnerability, connection with ourself and others and true freedom. It is disempowering and exhausting.
When we allow ourselves to truly feel and heal, we find safety in ourselves and therefore safety with others and the world around us.
See you next week,
Miranda x
This weeks podcast is about cycles, and how change is all that is constant. As we head out of summer and towards autumn, I reflect on the cycles of life, and the invitation changing seasons give us to explore change and impermanence.
Change is life.
See you next week,
Miranda
SEASON 4 IS HERE!!
This week I talk about quality of life. Society conditions us to believe quality of life is bought, outside of ourselves, in organic food and products, or the size of our house, the education of our children, or the clothes we wear.
Quality of life starts within. We cannot truly be healthy, vital, and free when we are still running on survival programming and our nervous systems are deregulated and in a state of fight and flight. Our nervous systems inform almost every system in the body.
The invitation is to practice feeling as good as if you are on holiday right here and now. Feel your shoulders soften, breathe deeply, let the corners of your mouth lift into a gentle smile.. that is a nervous system shift. That is the state we can appreciate and strengthen the quality of our life.
See you next week,
Miranda