Living From Happiness

Katy Butler is an award-winning journalist, public speaker, and bestselling author. She’s a thought leader about end-of-life care in the national movement for medical reform. Her first book was Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death and was named...

It seems ridiculous to celebrate anything these days. And yet, we know from all the neuroscience research that celebrating is quite important for our brains. Which means it’s important for our lives. Melanie's inspiration for this episode was a big-little thing that...

Melanie shares ideas, thoughts, and how-tos for easing up on ourselves. The conflict between way too much to do and the desperate desire for rest that so many of us are struggling with makes for a toxic soup of stress and anxiety. She dives into a chapter from the...

The Happiness in Dark Times series this week focuses on some of the ideas from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Curiosity, creativity, joy, lightness, ease, and strength (as in internal fortitude) are all covered in this episode. Melanie includes thoughts from...

Continuing her solo Happiness In Dark Times series, Melanie presents a deep, thoughtful show based on writing by the visionary thought leader Charles Eisenstein. Here's a little bit of part of this episode: "A ceremony, then, is a special kind of ritual. It is a...

Did you know that mindfulness, mindful awareness, and/or contemplative practices don't have to be formal, stick-in-the-mud things? In fact, the more we can bring mindfulness into our everyday lives, the happier, more content, satisfied, and peaceful we are. Listen in...

This is a quiet and intimate show, the first in a series of quiet, contemplative shows with Melanie. She shares some of her own writing, along with insights from thought leaders such as neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson; Vaclav Havel, the great Czechoslovakian...

Wowzer. This is a fasten-your-seatbelt show. Vince Kadlubek, the visionary co-founder of the internationally renowned interactive, experiential performance art space Meow Wolf, joins Melanie. He's stepped away from Meow Wolf's day-to-day operations into the role of...

Linda Durham -- provocateur, a major force in the Santa Fe art gallery scene, world traveler, seeker, and author -- continues her in-depth conversation with Melanie in this episode. Creative thinking, a positive mindset, trust and faith, and the other side of fear are...