Fishing Without Bait 207: Catching up with Mindflow
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Fishing Without Bait 207: Catching up with Mindflow

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Jason Marcieski of Mindflow Meditation to talk about his journey here with his rare muscular disorder, going back to meditation in his life, the realization of living in “the swirl”, Apeiron meditation, and some of the philosophies that helped him in his life.

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Fishing Without Bait 206: Joanna Lowe on Stepping Up
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Fishing Without Bait 206: Joanna Lowe on Stepping Up

Jim Ellermeyer chats with the returning singer/actress Joanna Lowe as she discusses expanding herself and the opportunities to attempt to get your art out and get comfortable with the concept and testing it out, journaling and giving yourself permission, building a foundation for motivation, her path for self validation, and more!

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Fishing Without Bait 205: Joanna Lowe on Not Wasting
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Fishing Without Bait 205: Joanna Lowe on Not Wasting

Jim Ellermeyer chats with the returning singer/actress Joanna Lowe as she discusses her progress in life, staying away from screens, not allowing jobs to steel her time and happiness, setting the bar for success and being terrified in doing the art she loves. 

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Fishing Without Bait 204: Life with Lydia
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Fishing Without Bait 204: Life with Lydia

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Lydia from the United Kingdom to talk about Borderline Personality Disorder, what happens with the diagnosis, mental healthcare in her country, an unsupportive family, making a cup of tea, and Jim explains further BPD. 

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Fishing Without Bait 202: Kintsugi (Part 2)
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Fishing Without Bait 202: Kintsugi (Part 2)

Jim Ellermeyer is discussing the concept of Kintsugi - the art of precious scars.  Look further at loneliness and those around us and the experiences that shape our lives, misfit toys, learning from our scars, and more.

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Fishing Without Bait 201: Kintsugi (Part 1)
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Fishing Without Bait 201: Kintsugi (Part 1)

Jim Ellermeyer is discussing the concept of Kintsugi - the art of precious scars.  We look at the day to day and putting our first foot forward in repairing ourselves, identifying what NOT to do, cleansing our minds, and loneliness. 

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Fishing Without Bait 200: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 5)
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Fishing Without Bait 200: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 5)

Jim Ellermeyer is back this week discussing 12 Step Recovery and how it can be used for Behavioral Change. We are discussing the Maintenance Steps starting with step 10 - continue to take personal inventory and admit when you are wrong.  Step 11 is continuing to be sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Step 12 is to have a spiritual awakening and being present and connected in life. 

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Fishing Without Bait 199: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 4)
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Fishing Without Bait 199: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 4)

Jim Ellermeyer is back this week discussing 12 Step Recovery and how it can be used for Behavioral Change.  We start with step 6: being entirely prepared to have God remove your defects of character and Step 7: Letting them go.  We look at changing things today, and the humbling experience of changing how they live life, Step 8: making a list of those we’ve harmed, Step 9: making amends in the best way possible. 

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Fishing Without Bait 198: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 3)
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Fishing Without Bait 198: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 3)

Jim Ellermeyer is back this week discussing 12 Step Recovery and how it can be used for Behavioral Change.  We discuss Step 4, making a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves.  We talk about making our making our list to resentment, fears, and sex.  Step 5 is admitting to God, ourselves, and another the nature of our wrongs. 

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Fishing Without Bait 197: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 2)
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Fishing Without Bait 197: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 2)

Jim Ellermeyer is back this week discussing 12 Step Recovery and how it can be used for Behavioral Change.   We continue our discussion on Step 2 and the concept of a higher power, what faith is, using our “I choose” words, the 3rd step of in the decision to turning our life and decisions over to God as we understand him, the concepts in discussion with “Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary”.

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Fishing Without Bait 196: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 1)
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Fishing Without Bait 196: 12 Step Recovery and Behavioral Change (Part 1)

Jim Ellermeyer is back this week discussing 12 Step Recovery and how it can be used for Behavioral Change.   We discuss the first step: admitting that our lives are unmanageable. We look at what identifies an unmanageable live, looking at the definition of insanity and working smarter, not harder in your life, and identifying the ability to ignore what you cannot change in the world, but what you can change in yourself.  We talk about step 2 and believing in a power greater than yourself, the ability to recognize our internal power was not working, 

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Fishing Without Bait 195: Mindful Music
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Fishing Without Bait 195: Mindful Music

This week we look back at the musical performances from the show! Featured in this episode: Sheena Carroll "The Well"; Sheena Carroll "Mercy"; Janelle Burdell "The Story of Udu"; Nick Eiben "Fragile"

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Fishing Without Bait 191: Ending the Cycle with Emily
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Fishing Without Bait 191: Ending the Cycle with Emily

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Emily wrap their conversation talking more about her cycle of cleaning up and jail, getting sober along with her father, snapping her out of the cycle, the things she had done because of drugs, the sense of relief one day realizing she was done, participating in her meetings, finally being able to listen to her authentic self.

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Fishing Without Bait 190: Willpower and Surrender with Emily
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Fishing Without Bait 190: Willpower and Surrender with Emily

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Emily for the next few episodes to discuss her path to recovery. We look at her self esteem and identity growing up, getting into drinking and doing drugs at a young age, reacting to his brother’s death, and losing herself.

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