Featuring “417hz” and 528hz “4Yorgos” frequencies by staticisnoise, used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: What are you running from… and what are you chasing? A practical, unforgettable metaphor for radical acceptance.

Description: Miki reads "Writing in Pen and Peace Without the Eraser," exploring what happens when we stop erasing our mistakes and start letting them exist in permanent ink. This episode covers radical acceptance, impermanence as a source of comfort rather than dread, and the courage it takes to admit you're avoidant, imperfect, and human.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open — running from vs. chasing
• [0:32] Frame: why this is one of the season's most practical episodes
• [1:18] Full reading: "Writing in Pen and Peace Without the Eraser"
• [16:55] Unpacking: the pencil-and-eraser metaphor
• [18:30] Impermanence used against despair rather than to produce it
• [19:30] "I am the ocean" — self-trust in the body
• [20:20] The courage of naming "Sticky Miki" out loud
• [21:05] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "These feelings cannot and will not destroy me. They are merely temporary visitors. I am the ocean, vast and deep enough to contain them all."

Metta Question: This week, where could you write in pen instead of reaching for the eraser?

Links & CTA:

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring 528hz “4Yorgos” frequency by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩ , used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: What happens when, instead of running from fear, you pour it a cup of tea?

Description: One of the most personal and widely resonant essays in the whole catalogue, "I Sat With Fear For a Cup of Tea" becomes a full meditation on turning toward instead of away. Miki unpacks mindfulness, compassion, and Right View, and closes with a short embodiment moment inviting you to sit with your own fear, right along with her.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:05] Cold open — inviting fear to tea
• [0:30] Frame: why this essay embodies the Metta Momentum voice
• [1:10] Full reading: "I Sat With Fear For a Cup of Tea"
• [13:50] Unpacking: turning toward instead of away
• [14:40] Fear softening into concern, then into love in disguise
• [15:35] The girl in the mirror — trusting your own reflection
• [16:05] Right View: fear as messenger, not danger
• [16:50] Embodiment moment: naming and sitting with a current fear
• [19:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Momentum Quote: "Behind every fear of loss lies the miracle that I have something precious enough to lose."

Metta Question: What would it look like to set a second cup, this week, for whatever you've been avoiding?

Links & CTA:

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Featuring 639hz “Pink Full Moon” frequency by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩ , used with permission and my endless gratitude

Teaser: A dream about a stranger, a packed box, and a white envelope… and the practice of learning to receive.

Description: In this episode, Miki reads "Lucid Dream — The Envelope," written during a season of real financial and emotional chaos. Together, we unpack what it means to practice receiving rather than giving, why support so often arrives ordinary instead of dramatic, and the two-way street between worthiness and asking for help.

Episode Highlights:

* [0:40] Cold open — the refusal to hold your hand out

* [1:00] Frame: the chaos behind the dream

* [1:37] Full reading: "Lucid Dream — The Envelope"

* [9:42] Unpacking: the envelope as permission, not money

* [11:12] Receiving as a practice, not just giving*

[12:15] The gray-haired man and quiet, ordinary support

* [13:30] Dependent origination — nothing arises independently, including help

* [14:08] The closing line: creating space to receive

* [15:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Metta Question: Where in your life is an envelope waiting — and what would it take for you to reach for it?

Momentum Quote: "The envelope cannot appear unless I create space and make room for it to show up first. It is a two-way street. I must reach out my hand."

Links & CTA:

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here

Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here

Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium

Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Cough Drop Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

featuring 741hz "Throat" Frequency by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩ , used with permission and my endless gratitude.

Teaser: A dream about a bus with no destination… and what it means to trust the road before you know where it leads.

Description: Miki reads "The Bus Dream" — an unpublished short story about a dream that arrived mid-transition, mid-uncertainty, and taught her something she couldn't have learned any other way. This episode unpacks self-trust, Right View, and impermanence through the lens of a bus ride that ends a thousand miles from home, and asks: what does it actually feel like, in the body, to trust something you can't yet see the end of?

Episode Highlights:

• [0:00] Cold open — trusting a road you can't see the end of
• [0:35] Frame: the real-life transition behind the dream
• [1:45] Full reading: "The Bus Dream"
• [5:05] Unpacking: self-trust and the absence of the catastrophe story
• [07:20] Right View and the bus driver's flat, factual "last stop"
• [08:15] Impermanence in the passing landscape
• [09:30] The stranger at the back of the bus, and being recognized mid-transition
• [10:30] Right Effort without Right Control — getting on without steering
• [11:50] Optional pause: naming your own "whole map" demand
• [14:00] Closing reflection & CTA

Metta Question: Where in your life are you waiting to see the whole route before you'll get on the bus?

Momentum Quote: "I knew I got on that bus for a reason. And I knew that it was going to take me where I was meant to be. Eventually."

Links & CTA:

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here
• Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here
• Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

• Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium
• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Work With Miki

featuring 963hz "Divine Awareness" frequency by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩ , used with permission and my endless gratitude.

Teaser: Before we get into the stories… a behind-the-curtain look at how a diary becomes a business, and why that's not something to apologize for.

Description: Season 5 opens not with an essay, but with the truth behind them: how years of writing turned into a podcast, a course, and a community. In this personal, unpolished episode, Miki talks candidly about the tension of monetizing your own healing, the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood, her background in opera and musical theatre, and why these essays were always dharma talks… she just didn't know it yet. Consider this your invitation behind the curtain before the season truly begins.

Episode Highlights:

• [0:06] Cold open — building a business out of a diary
• [2:20] Why these essays exist, and who they were really written for
• [4:00] Naming the discomfort: is this exploitative? Right Livelihood as a lens
• [6:55] The actual mechanics — how an essay becomes a podcast, a course, a Patreon post
• [9:05] Why hearing a story differs from reading it — opera, voice, embodiment
• [11:45] The nine Metta Momentum values previewed
• [14:40] Closing frame & CTA

Metta Question: What would it mean for your own work — creative, professional, spiritual — to be built on Right Livelihood rather than just right output?

Momentum Quote: "I didn't set out to build a business out of my diary. There was just a woman, sitting on her bed, writing things down because if she didn't, she thought she might come apart at the seams a little."

Links & CTA:

• Join the Metta Momentum Sangha - Free to Enter Here
• Permission to Be™ (an 8-week transformational journey) - Begin Your Journey Here
• Softening into Momentum Cohort - Inquire to Join a Small Group of Likeminded Souls Here

• Follow Miki’s Writing: Substack or Medium
• Get Miki’s Book, “Permission to Be: a memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, and Learning How to Come Home to Yourself Here

• Support Metta Momentum’s Growing Mission of Loving-Kindness and Gentle Momentum Over Force, by Becoming a Patreon Here

Enjoyed this Podcast? Please like, comment, follow, and SHARE with a friend who might need the permission to meet themselves with a little bit more compassion than they had yesterday. Namaste, Beautiful Souls. 💟

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

Permission to Gather, 
a Live Softening into Momentum Event! Thursday, June 25th
Click Here to Register:

https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/lexgknkxib

🎧 featuring “174hz The Moon’s Kiss” frequency by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩

Theme: Becoming Who You Are | Frequency: 174 Hz (Grounding Integration)

Buddhist Teaching: The Eightfold Path as a lifestyle — not a checklist, but a way of being

Key Insight: This isn't about fixing. It's about returning. Growth is not a destination. Growth is a direction.

Meditation: Vision Casting Ceremony — future self visualization and identity declaration

Reflection Questions: What is your "I am" declaration? What does life look like beyond "not drinking"? Who are you becoming?

PERMISSION TO GATHER — Free Live Event

Thursday, June 25th | 6:00 PM MST / 8:00 PM EST

An intimate conversation with Miki about the Permission to Be course, what to expect, who it's for, and a special group cohort option to walk the path together in Sangha

Free to attend — register for the Zoom link: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/lexgknkxib

Thank you for listening to Season 4 of Softening into Momentum. We will take a short break and be back for Season 5.

Want to support the podcast? Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum

With deep metta, always,Miki Byrne | Metta Momentum

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

📖 Permission to Be: A Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Coming Home to YourselfGet Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

Intimate Audiobook Experience: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/classroom/d2c2ab08?md=f98e9c5e93f2482cb0b2c12ac81e434e

Permission to Gather,

a Live Softening into Momentum Event!

Thursday, June 25th


Click Here to Register

🎧 featuring “963hz Divine Awareness” by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩

Theme: Choosing Yourself | Frequency: 963 Hz (Connection to Higher Self)

Buddhist Teaching: Non-Attachment + Compassion (boundaries as love, not rejection)

Key Insight: Self-trust is not something you find. It's something you build—boundary by boundary.

Meditation: The Rooted Self — becoming a grounded tree that sways without uprooting

Reflection Questions: Where are you saying yes when you mean no? What boundary would most protect your peace? What message are you sending yourself by not setting it?

Coming Soon: The Permission to Be course — 8-week self-paced journey

Join the Waitlist and Get Updates Here: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/permission-course-wait-list

Find Extended Meditation Replays on Patreon & More —

👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum

Next week: Episode 8 — Purpose, Love & Integration (Season Finale)

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

📖 Permission to Be: A Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Coming Home to Yourself

Get Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

Intimate Audiobook Experience: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/classroom/d2c2ab08?md=f98e9c5e93f2482cb0b2c12ac81e434e

Coming Soon: The Permission to Be course — 8-week self-paced journey

Join the Waitlist and Get Updates Here

🎧 featuring “852hz Soundscape” by ⁨@staticisnoise⁩

Theme: Environment Design | Frequency: 852 Hz (Returning to Inner Order)

Buddhist Teaching: Sammā Ājīva — Right Livelihood (expanded to environment design)

Key Insight: You don't rise to the level of your intentions. You fall to the level of your environment.

Meditation: The Life You're Building — visualizing a regulated, supportive daily life

Reflection Questions: What in your environment supports your growth? What disrupts it? What one change would make the biggest difference?

Join the Metta Momentum Sangha and Download the App — 👉 https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/about

Join the Live Metta Moment Mailing List for Live Weekly Practices —

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Next week: Episode 7 — Boundaries & Self-Trust…

About the Host

Miki Byrne is an artist, writer, and life coach/creativity strategist with a BA in Theatre/Operative Vocal Performance and a minor in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans. Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, she explores themes of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation. After choosing sobriety in 2023, Miki embarked on a journey of deep healing and personal growth, uncovering new creative depths along the way. Today, she shares her insights through writing, music, and coaching.

📖 Permission to Be: A Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Coming Home to Yourself

Get Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

Intimate Audiobook Experience: https://www.skool.com/the-metta-momentum-sangha-8608/classroom/d2c2ab08?md=f98e9c5e93f2482cb0b2c12ac81e434e