STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern🎶
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Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! 🌈👇
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
💛 Transform Fear: Meeting Yourself with Compassion
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Transform Fear: Meeting Yourself with Compassion
When fear shows up uninvited, most of us try to outthink it, outrun it, or push it down. This meditation offers something different: a quiet experiment in kindness.
Through gentle breathwork, grounding, and vivid imagery, you’ll learn to meet fear not as a foe to defeat but as energy asking to be seen. We begin by letting gravity hold us—softening the jaw, loosening the shoulders, and lengthening each exhale until the body starts to trust the moment.
From there, we invite fear to sit beside us with a simple message: you can be here. That acknowledgment begins to unwind the cycle of resistance and shame that keeps anxiety stuck. As you breathe light into the places where fear lives, imagine a warm glow—golden, silver, or soft yellow—spreading through your body, softening edges and releasing tension.
Anchoring affirmations—
💛 I have everything I need within me.
💛 My calm is stronger than my fear.
💛 I meet myself with compassion.
—help you translate the experience into a reliable inner resource.
By the end, you’ll feel the difference between managing fear and transforming your relationship with it: less bracing, more belonging; less reaction, more choice.
✨ Press play, breathe with us, and notice what changes.
🌟✨📚 **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** 📚✨🌟
Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! 🌈👇
🔗 Purchase Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/2UlsmYC
🌟 **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
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📸 **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
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🎵 **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg
Hey there. Today's meditation is for those moments when fear feels close. It's about not fighting it, but to transform it through compassion. You don't need to analyze what's causing the fear or look for external reassurance. This is about remembering that the calm, steady part of you has always been here, waiting to meet you beneath the noise. Even a few moments of presence can begin to shift your energy, reminding your body and mind that safety, softness, and trust are already within reach. Take a slow deep breath in through your nose and let it go through your mouth. Again, breathing in and releasing. Let your shoulders soften, unclench your jaw. Feel your feet on the ground or your body supported wherever you are. And just allow gravity to hold you. How beautiful it feels to be held. On your next exhale, release just a little more. Imagine that fear is an energy, not an enemy. Fear shows up when something within you wants to be seen. Instead of pushing it away, invite it in to sit beside you. You might say quietly to yourself, It's okay. You can be here, you exist. Notice what happens when you offer fear your presence instead of resistance. Does it change shape? Does it lessen its grip? Or maybe it simply softens knowing it's been acknowledged. And now breathe light into the space where that fear lives. Picture a warm, gentle glow, golden or silver or yellow, whatever feels comforting, expanding with each inhale. With each exhale, imagine releasing the tension that surrounded it. You are transforming fear not by overpowering it, not by meeting it with resistance or power or force, but by allowing compassion to dissolve its edges. There's no fight here. Allow this energy to spread through your chest, your arms and your whole body. A reminder that you are safe to feel, safe to soften, and you are safe to trust yourself. As you continue to breathe, take a moment to silently repeat I have everything I need within me. My calm is stronger than my fear. I meet myself with compassion. Breathe those words in and let them land. I have everything I need within me. My calm is so much stronger than my fear. From constriction and resistance to openness and awareness, from reaction to conscious compassion, from fear to love. Each time you meet your fear with compassion, you strengthen the truth that you are capable, you are grounded, and you are whole. Take one more deep breath in and release. May you move through your day with peace, gentleness, and trust in your own light. Namaste, my friend.
