🌿 Softening Into Momentum Season 2 (Mini-Season)

From Inner Critic to Inner Guardian

A 6-Episode Journey in Befriending the Mind

What if the voice that judges you isn’t your enemy, but rather is a protector that learned to survive in a world that didn’t always feel safe?

In this six-episode mini-season of Softening Into Momentum, life coach, meditation guide, and writer Miki Byrne invites listeners into a compassionate, grounded exploration of the inner critic; not to silence it, but to understand it.

Rooted in Buddhist psychology, metta (loving-kindness), and modern inner-parts coaching, From Inner Critic to Inner Guardian reframes self-judgment as a learned survival strategy. Through gentle inquiry, embodied practices, and personal reflection, listeners are guided to move from fighting their inner voice to befriending it; allowing the critic to soften and transform into a steady inner guardian.

This mini-season is especially resonant for those in recovery, healing perfectionism, navigating high-functioning anxiety, or learning to live without numbing. It offers a trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware approach to inner work that emphasizes safety, curiosity, and presence over fixing or force.

🎵 A Sacred Sound Bath Journey

Each episode is subtly infused with a supportive sound-healing frequency by STATiC, creating an embodied container for transformation:

• Episodes 1–2: 396 Hz (Root Chakra) — Safety, grounding, and fear release
• Episodes 3–4: 417 Hz (Sacral Chakra) — Emotional flexibility and change
• Episodes 5–6: 528 Hz (Heart Chakra) — Integration, self-trust, and inner harmony

This intentional frequency arc supports listeners’ nervous systems as they move from awareness to relationship, and ultimately, to trust.

What You’ll Explore

• Why the inner critic forms, and what it’s protecting
• How fighting your thoughts often makes them louder
• The link between sobriety, healing, and intensified inner voices
• How to listen without obeying
• Transforming self-judgment into self-leadership
• Building an inner relationship rooted in compassion rather than control

This is not a series about becoming better, calmer, or more “fixed.” It’s about becoming more present, more honest, and more kind with what already lives inside you.

About the Host

Miki Byrne is a certified Life Coach in Positive Psychology who specializes in rewriting inner narratives through Buddhist-inspired practices, compassionate accountability, and embodied self-trust. Her work blends meditation, storytelling, and recovery-informed insight to help listeners soften into sustainable momentum — without self-violence.

🌿 Remember: Momentum doesn’t require perfection. It only requires presence.

Click here to sign up for Live Metta Moments: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment

Connect & Join the Community

💜 Patreon Community — Guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum

🕉️ Full Guided Meditation Library
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704

📲 Follow Miki
Socials: @mikimettamuse
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum

How to Join the Live Metta Moments:

• Click here to sign up for Live Metta Moments: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment
• Drop in anytime. No commitment required

In this intimate in-between-seasons bonus episode, Miki Byrne offers a gentle reintroduction to the heart of Softening Into Momentum and extends an open invitation to practice together in real time. Designed as a pause rather than a push, this episode welcomes both longtime listeners and newcomers alike. Miki reflects on the intention behind Metta Momentum, and shares how loving-kindness practice can help regulate the nervous system, soften self-judgment, and create steadiness in a fast, demanding world.

Listeners are introduced to Live Metta Moments, Miki’s weekly, free, 30-minute guided meditation sessions on Zoom. These live practices are beginner-friendly, pressure-free, and rooted in the same themes explored throughout Season One: grounding, resilience, compassion, integrity, legacy, and future vision. This episode highlights the power of practicing in Community (Sangha in action), and reminds listeners that they never have to do this work alone.

The episode features STATiC’s 210 Hz “Strawberry Moon” sound bath, offering gentle grounding, emotional regulation, and a calming energetic backdrop for this reflective invitation.

✨ Special Announcement:Season Two of Softening Into Momentum officially returns January 7th, and Live Metta Moments continue weekly in the new year.

🌿 Episode Notes

Live Metta Moments

• Free 30-minute guided meditations on Zoom
• Open to all experience levels
• Cameras optional, microphones muted
• Come seated, lying down, stretching, or simply listening

Weekly Schedule (Beginning January 6th 2026):

• Tuesdays: 6:30 AM CST / 7:30 AM EST / 5:30 AM MST
• Wednesdays: 7:30 PM CST

Themes Include:

• Grounding & nervous system regulation
• Resilience in difficult seasons
• Compassion & self-kindness
• Integrity, legacy, and future vision

Patreon Community ($5/month):

• Full replays of every Live Metta Moment
• Post-session study guides with reflection prompts
• Growing library of past meditations organized by theme
• Practice anytime, on your own schedule

How to Join:

• Click here to sign up for Live Metta Moments: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment
• Drop in anytime. No commitment required.

✨ Closing Reminder

You don’t need to be calm.You don’t need to be experienced.You don’t need to be “good” at meditation.

You only need to show up.

Thank you for being part of Softening Into Momentum. Thank you for choosing presence, gentleness, and care in a busy world. Season Two is coming soon… and until then, you are always welcome exactly as you are.

Connect & Join the Community

• 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum⁠
• 🕉️ Access The Full Guided Meditation Library Here: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704⁠
• 📲 Follow Miki:
• • Socials:⁠ @mikimettamuse⁠
  • YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse⁠
  • Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum⁠

Get Miki’s Brand New Mini-Coaching Workshop on Gratitude HERE:

https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/gratitude

In the season finale of Softening Into Momentum, Miki brings the journey full circle by exploring the powerful combination of fierce compassion and gentle strength. This episode highlights the integration of all the practices from Season One, while emphasizing the importance of staying both tender and strong as we move forward.

Reflection Questions:

1. How have I changed over these twelve weeks?
2. Which practice do I most need to return to?
3. Where do I need to be more fierce? More tender?
4. How will I carry this momentum forward?

Throughout this episode, you'll also experience STATiC's 174 Hz "The Moon's Kiss" sound bath in the background, offering stress relief and healing benefits to accompany the exploration of compassionate action. As Miki wraps up this season, she invites you to continue practicing, learning, and softening into your own strength. Season Two of Softening Into Momentum will return in 2026.

Thank You for Listening:
Thank you for being part of Softening Into Momentum, Season One. We are deeply grateful for your support, and we can’t wait to continue this journey together in 2026. In the meantime, join the Patreon community where we’ll keep practicing the integration of tenderness and strength.

Support the Future of Metta Momentum:
If this podcast has touched you, consider supporting the future of Metta Momentum through Buy Me a Coffee. Your support helps keep the practices and teachings flowing, and we deeply appreciate your contribution. Support here: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Connect & Join the Community

• 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum⁠
• 🕉️ Access The Full Guided Meditation Library Here: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704⁠
• 📲 Follow Miki:
• • Socials:⁠ @mikimettamuse⁠
  • YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse⁠
  • Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum⁠

Get Miki’s Brand New Mini-Coaching Workshop on Gratitude HERE: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/gratitude

In this warm, expansive episode, Miki Byrne invites listeners into a radical reimagining of gratitude as a revolutionary act in a culture built on scarcity. Exploring the Buddhist concept of Mudita (sympathetic joy), Miki gently unravels the myth of never enough and guides listeners toward a grounded experience of already enough: in this moment, without achieving, proving, or becoming anything more. Through personal reflection, cultural insight, and a deeply nourishing three-part gratitude meditation (past, present, unfolding), Miki offers a spacious path back to contentment, connection, and abundance.

The episode features STATiC’s 528 Hz “4 Yorgos” sound bath, a heart-centered frequency used to support emotional healing, gratitude expansion, and nervous system softening.

🌿 Episode Notes

Theme: Gratitude & Enoughness: reclaiming abundance in a scarcity-driven world
Focus: Mudita, comparison, capitalist inadequacy, inner abundance, gratitude meditation
Soundscape: 528 Hz “4 Yorgos” Sound Bath by STATiC• Supports heart opening• Promotes emotional harmony• Helps cultivate genuine gratitude and internal peace

💭 Reflection Questions

1. Where in my life am I waiting to feel “enough”?
2. What am I taking for granted that is actually a gift?
3. How does comparison disconnect me from gratitude?
4. What becomes possible when I believe I already have enough?

✨ Closing Invitation

Miki reminds listeners that gratitude is not pretending things are perfect. It’s choosing to anchor in abundance, even amid uncertainty. This episode supports a return to presence, a softening of comparison, and a gentle reclamation of enoughness.

Share this episode with someone who needs to hear that they are already enough. Join the Patreon community for daily gratitude practices, gentle meditations, and deeper reflections on living from a place of abundance.

Connect & Join the Community

• 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum⁠
• 🕉️ Access The Full Guided Meditation Library Here: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704⁠
• 📲 Follow Miki:
• • Socials:⁠ @mikimettamuse⁠
  • YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse⁠
  • Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum⁠

Get Miki’s Brand New Mini-Coaching Workshop on Gratitude HERE: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/gratitude

In this tender and transformative episode, Miki Byrne guides listeners through the deeply human, and deeply misunderstood practice of forgiveness. Moving beyond cultural clichés and spiritual bypassing, Miki explores forgiveness as an act of liberation rather than reconciliation, and as a pathway to freeing ourselves from past hurts, resentment, and self-punishment. Drawing from Buddhist wisdom, her own sobriety journey, and the emotional complexity of the holiday season, Miki offers a compassionate reframing of what forgiveness truly means. Through personal storytelling and a powerful guided meditation, she invites listeners to release the stones they’ve been carrying in their pockets: self-blame, old wounds, unmet expectations, and choose the freedom available on the other side.

This episode features STATiC’s 741 Hz “Throat” frequency sound bath, supporting emotional release, nervous system regulation, and the healing of blocked expression.

🌿 Episode Notes

Theme: Forgiveness as Freedom: releasing resentment to reclaim internal peace
Focus: Self-forgiveness, family wounds, holiday triggers, emotional liberation, Buddhist understanding
Soundscape: 741 Hz “Throat” Frequency Sound Bath by STATiC (for stress relief & clearing emotional blockages)

• Forgiveness is not condoning harm, pretending it didn’t hurt, or requiring reconciliation.
• True forgiveness is releasing our attachment to resentment: for our sake, not theirs.
• Self-forgiveness frees us from shame loops that keep us trapped in old identities.
• Forgiving others is choosing peace over the need for them to “fix it” or understand.
• Forgiveness is a repeated practice, not a single moment of enlightenment.

💭 Reflection Questions

1. What am I still carrying that I am ready to release?
2. What would change if I forgave myself for being imperfectly human?
3. Who do I need to forgive? Not for their sake, but for mine?
4. What becomes possible when I am no longer defined by old wounds?

✨ Giving Tuesday – Support the Future of Metta Momentum

If this episode touched your heart, Miki invites you to support the future of Softening Into Momentum and her healing work through her Buy Me a Coffee page. Your contribution helps fund future meditations, podcast episodes, sound baths, and the community spaces she’s building.
Support here: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse

Thank you for listening, for your presence, and for supporting a future built on compassion, healing, and loving-kindness.

Connect & Join the Community

• 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum⁠
• 🕉️ Access The Full Guided Meditation Library Here: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704⁠
• 📲 Follow Miki:
• • Socials:⁠ @mikimettamuse⁠
  • YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse⁠
  • Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum⁠

In this grounding and reflective episode, Miki Byrne guides listeners into one of Buddhism’s most essential teachings: the Middle Way : the sustainable path between extremes. Through personal stories from her sobriety journey, modern examples of burnout culture, and wisdom from Thich Nhat Hanh, Miki explores how balance becomes a radical act in a world that demands all-or-nothing living.

Listeners are invited to step out of binary thinking and into the tender middle: where discipline meets joy, effort meets ease, and caring for others coexists with boundaries. A guided mindful walking meditation helps embody this practice, whether done with real footsteps or through visualization.

Featuring STATiC’s 174 Hz “The Moon’s Kiss” sound bath, this episode offers stress relief, nervous-system grounding, and a gentle invitation to return to center again and again.

🌿 Episode Notes

Theme: The Middle Way: sustainable living between extremes
Focus: Balance, sobriety, nervous system regulation, mindful walking, non-dual thinking
Soundscape: 174 Hz “The Moon’s Kiss” Sound Bath by STATiC (for stress relief & grounding)

• Madhyamaka (The Middle Way) invites us to step off the pendulum swing of extremes.
• Balance is not compromise... it is wisdom in motion.
• Work/rest, discipline/joy, caring/boundaries are not binaries but rhythms.
• Sobriety can hold both structure and freedom without rigidity or chaos.
• Walking meditation embodies the delicate practice of losing and finding balance.

💭 Reflection Questions

1. Where am I currently living in extremes?
2. What binaries am I forcing myself to choose between?
3. What would sustainable balance look like in this area of my life?
4. How can I honor both/and instead of demanding either/or?

✨ Closing Thought

The Middle Way isn’t a place you arrive. It's a continuous practice of coming back to center with tenderness. This episode invites listeners to soften into balance, to walk the sustainable path, and to find the miracle of the ordinary moment.

Connect & Join the Community

• 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum
• 🕉️ Access The Full Guided Meditation Library Here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704
• Buy Me a Coffee! Support Metta Momentum: https://buymeacoffee.com/mikimettamuse
• 📲 Follow Miki:
• • Socials: @mikimettamuse
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse
  • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum

In this powerful and timely episode, Miki Byrne guides listeners into one of the most misunderstood emotional territories: anger. Through a lens of Buddhist wisdom, nervous-system awareness, and sober clarity, Miki explores how righteous anger can become a catalyst for healing, justice, and sustainable action, rather than a source of burnout or despair.

With the world feeling increasingly heavy and politically charged, Miki speaks candidly about her own relationship to anger, injustice, and exhaustion. She offers a compassionate framework for learning to hold our anger without being consumed by it, transforming reactive rage into grounded, strategic, and purposeful energy.

Featuring STATiC’s 852 Hz stress-relief sound bath, this episode becomes both a space of refuge and a call to sustainable resistance.

🔥 Episode Notes

Theme: Compassionate Anger: transforming fury into focused, sustainable action
Focus: Activist burnout, nervous system grounding, political overwhelm, strategic action
Soundscape: 852 Hz Healing Frequency for Clarity & Stress Relief by STATiC

• 💭 Reflection Questions

• 1. Where am I exhausting myself trying to control things outside my power?

  2. What’s one strategic, values-aligned action I can take this week?

  3. How can I care deeply without carrying everything?

  4. What do I need: emotionally, physically, spiritually, to sustain myself for the long haul?

  ✊ Closing Thought

  “Your sustainable presence is the revolution.”
  This episode invites listeners to be soft and fierce, grounded and engaged, compassionate and unapologetically committed to justice... all at once.

  
  

  Connect & Join the Community

  • 💜 Patreon Community: Access guided meditations, mini-workshops, and exclusive coaching content at https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum

  • Come Meditate With Metta Momentum! Join The Holiday Grounding Challenge Here: https://tinyurl.com/4zbjjk9m
    

  • 📲 Follow Miki:

  • • Instagram: @mikimettamuse

    • TikTok: @mikimettamuse

    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse

    • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum

Thank you all for listening to Softening Into Momentum!

As the holiday season approaches, Miki Byrne offers a heartfelt invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect. In this special bonus episode, she shares her personal reflections on navigating Thanksgiving and the holidays while walking a sober or sober-curious path, and how nervous system regulation and mindfulness can transform even the most emotionally charged moments into opportunities for grace.

Miki introduces an exclusive live experience:
🌿 Come Meditate with Metta Momentum — A 7-Day Holiday Grounding Challenge🗓️ November 21st–28th💜 Only $2 to join

Each 15-minute guided meditation session is designed to help you regulate, re-center, and remember: you are safe to be here, just as you are. Together, we’ll cultivate calm, connection, and compassion through seven days of loving-kindness practice.

✨ Reserve your spot today: https://tinyurl.com/4zbjjk9m
Participants will also receive a special Black Friday offer exclusively for challenge attendees....

🎧 Featuring gentle ambient music and STATiC’s 210Hz , this bonus episode is a grounding moment of peace before the holiday rush.

Thank you for listening, for supporting this podcast, and for walking this journey of softening, sobriety, and self-compassion together.
Your presence matters. Your healing matters.
💜 Come meditate with Miki, and begin the season grounded in Metta.

Come Meditate with Metta Momentum! Join the Holiday Challenge: https://tinyurl.com/4zbjjk9m