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Five Lemons Laughing
Hosted by Morgan Lemly Turner · EN
Five women on a spiritual journey together. Join Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan and Penny, as they share their personal experiences of applying spiritual principles & practices in their daily lives... The lemons discuss their breakthroughs, breakdowns, insights, and challenges, always with lots of laughter & compassion. As authentic as it gets, these are the lemons making lemonade.
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Your Word of the Year Is Chasing You |
4d ago00:49:05Tap to summarizeBack in January, you chose a word. Maybe you wrote it on a sticky note. Maybe you said it out loud to someone you love. An intention. A promise to yourself about who you meant to become this year. We're halfway through now. Do you still remember what it was? And underneath that question is a quieter one: do you remember what it was pointing you toward? This week the Lemonettes check in on their words of the year, surrender, acceptance, love, empty, and find themselves circling an old Zen story about a finger pointing at the moon. The finger shows you where to look. But the finger is not the moon. And most of us, if we're honest, end up studying the finger. Judging it. Trying to follow it perfectly. Never lifting our eyes to the thing it was pointing at all along. So what happens when the practice meant to free you becomes one more item on the list? When "I should meditate, I should journal, I should be further along by now" becomes the very thing standing between you and the peace you were reaching for? We don't tie this one up neatly. But we go somewhere honest about the difference between practicing your life and actually living it. In this episode: A Zen parable about a finger, a moon, and everything we miss Why your word of the year keeps chasing you, even when you forget it The moment you stop practicing and realize you're already in the game Emptiness, zero point, and the awareness underneath every spiritual tool Carrying all of it into a busy 9-to-5 life, no monastery required Mentioned in this episode: The Zen parable of the finger pointing to the moon A Course in Miracles The Bhagavad Gita Ho'oponopono and the zero point Awareness Watching Awareness by Michael Langford Insight Timer WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com If this conversation found you at the right time, subscribe and stay close. New episodes every week. And remember, your transformation is our greatest joy. 💛
Transcribe →The Extraordinary Hidden in the Ordinary
2w ago00:40:49Tap to summarize🍋 You're halfway through the dishes, or driving a road you've driven a thousand times, and your mind is already three steps ahead. Planning. Solving. Waiting for the part of life that finally feels good. And while you're waiting, an ordinary morning slips right by, unnoticed. This week the Lemonettes get into a question that sounds simple until you actually try to live it: what if the extraordinary life you keep chasing was never the point, and the extraordinary presence you bring to an ordinary one is? It starts light. A sunset on a dog walk. Wind moving through the trees. A hard phone call taken while shuffling through pain. Then it gets honest, when one of the Lemonettes admits she can't relax in her own home. Too big, too many stairs, too much weight. A husband who wants one thing, a wife who wants another, and two years of feeling stuck in the middle. What follows is a real, unscripted look at what being present actually asks of us, and whether you can long for change and love exactly where you are at the very same time. You'll hear what it sounds like when "we don't have a choice" quietly turns into "this is what we're choosing." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 A few things we get into: 🔹 Extraordinary experience vs. extraordinary presence, and why the difference changes everything 🔹 Why "I'll be happy when…" keeps the good life one step out of reach 🔹 What a real estate agent discovers when her hardest client is her own husband 🔹 How being present and still longing for change can live in the same body 🔹 Whether the extraordinary is available even to people with no way out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 Something to carry with you: Think back to yesterday. Who were you with? Was there a moment that didn't seem like much at the time, but looking back, you're so glad you didn't let it pass you by? Let that one linger. That's where this episode lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 If this resonates: 🔹 Subscribe so you don't miss what's next 🔹 Share this with someone who's been holding out for "someday" 🔹 Drop a comment: where did you find the extraordinary hiding in your ordinary this week? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES We're all coaches and spiritual counselors, and if you're moving through something tender, you don't have to do it alone. 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 Five Lemons Laughing is a weekly conversation about spirituality, personal growth, and finding the funny in being gloriously human. Pull up a chair. You belong here. 💛
Transcribe →When Strategy Becomes Fear: Letting Go of the Need to Control Everything
3w ago00:32:57Tap to summarizeEver notice how much time you spend planning the thing... instead of just doing it? The Lemonettes are all back together this week, and they're pulling apart something sneaky — the moment "strategy" quietly turns into fear wearing a to-do list. Amanda has a camper story that still doesn't make sense on paper. Melissa's rental car kept getting cancelled in Italy — and she's convinced that was the point. Morgan spent weeks in a full-blown job-search panic over nothing. Penny can't seem to book a plane ticket she's already decided to buy. There's a reason for all of it. And once you see it, you can't unsee it in your own life. Stay to the end for the one question they're asking listeners to sit with this week — it might change how you plan your next anything.
Transcribe →What Are You Actually Practicing? (Despite Your Best Intentions)
4w agoTap to summarizeYou have a morning routine. A meditation practice. Maybe a course in miracles lesson you read before bed. But that's not what's actually running your life. One of us skipped her routine for a single morning and by 3pm was googling trucks for five hours straight. Another spent a "wonderful" birthday replaying every word she said the night before — and couldn't figure out why until she named it out loud. A third called it a relapse. None of them saw it coming. That's the point. In this episode: The moment a five-day-old truck accident turns into something the family starts calling a "Swedish death cleanse" Why "I'm so glad you're not dead" is not the grateful thought it sounds like The single ACIM lesson one host calls her favorite — and what it has to do with never having to defend yourself again What happens when you ask "what did I practice yesterday" instead of "what do I believe" Awareness is curative. But only if you're willing to look at what you're actually doing on repeat — not what you meant to do. This week: notice what you're practicing. You might not love what you find. Resources mentioned: A Course in Miracles — Lesson 153, "In my defenselessness, my safety lies" Connect with us: Subscribe for new episodes weekly Leave a comment — tell us what you're practicing this week Leave a review, it helps more people find the show Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram
Transcribe →Are We Secretly Happy They're Failing?
Jul 600:40:51Tap to summarizeYou saw the headline. Someone got caught, someone got fired, someone finally "got what was coming to them"... and for one second, before you could stop yourself, it felt good. This episode goes looking for the reason why. Amanda, Penny, and Morgan follow that thread from a reflecting pool in Washington D.C. all the way to their own reactions to the current political administration, and land on a question none of them fully want answered: if your peace depends on someone else being wrong, how much peace do you actually have? 🍋 🍋 🍋 What We're Wrestling With 🔹 Why does someone else's failure feel like your win? 🔹 What happens when "karma's gonna get them" becomes your whole spiritual practice? 🔹 Is there a difference between having an opinion and needing someone else to be wrong? 🔹 What would it actually cost you to root for someone you disagree with? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Resources Mentioned 🔹 A Course in Miracles (ACIM) 🔹 Abraham Hicks and the Law of Attraction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 A Note on This Episode This conversation touches on real, current reactions to the Trump administration and national headlines — held here not as a political stance, but as a mirror for where each of us gets to choose peace over being right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Loved this episode? 🔹 Subscribe so you don't miss what we get into next. 🔹 Drop a comment, and let us know if you can relate! 🔹 Leave a review. It helps new listeners find us. 🔹 Follow along on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @FiveLemonsLaughing 🍋 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 🍋 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com
Transcribe →The Cage You Built Yourself
Jun 2900:31:29Tap to summarizeYou've wanted more freedom in your relationships. More space to breathe. Less reactivity. Less noise in your head when someone does the thing they always do. You've done the work. You know the tools. And yet — the cage door closes anyway. What nobody told you is that your freedom and their freedom are the same thing. Morgan, Penny, and Drusilla sit with a question most of us are not ready to answer honestly: What if the freedom we're fighting for is actually the very thing we're blocking — by refusing to give it away? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 What happens in your body the moment someone disagrees with your values 🔹 The difference between the problem and the meaning you make of it — and why only one of those is real 🔹 How judging someone else's behavior quietly locks you both up 🔹 What it actually looks like to stay openhearted when everything in you wants to close 🔹 Why assumptions — not conflict — are the real thief of your freedom 🔹 The one practice that might be the hardest thing you do this week ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz — https://bookshop.org/a/94543/9781878424310 🔹 Abraham Hicks — abraham-hicks.com 🔹 Jennifer Hadley / Love Ministry — powerofloveministry.net 🔹 A Course in Miracles — https://bookshop.org/a/94543/9781883360269 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THIS WEEK'S PRACTICE Meet everyone without judgment. Not for a week. Try an hour. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda Snyder — Spiritual Counseling | amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla Talley-Williams — Spiritual Counseling | djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa Dugan — Business & Marketing Coaching | melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan Turner — Spiritual Counseling | morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny Herman-Polayes — Performance Coaching | coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STAY CONNECTED Subscribe | Leave a comment | Leave a review Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @FiveLemonsLaughing
Transcribe →The Art of Receiving: Learning to Receive What's Already Here
Jun 1700:43:02Tap to summarizeYou already know how to give. You've been doing it your whole life — giving your time, your energy, your attention, your patience. You're good at it. You've made an art form of it. But somewhere along the way, did you forget how to let life give back? This is the question that stopped all five Lemonettes in their tracks. Because here's what nobody tells you: the opposite of receiving isn't giving. It's resistance. It's control. It's busyness. It's being so locked into getting things done that the gifts showing up all around you — right now, in this moment — go completely unnoticed. 🔹 The sunset you didn't pause for. 🔹 The compliment you deflected. 🔹 The check you argued over. 🔹 The spiritual lesson you listened to at 2x speed. Sound familiar? In Part 3 of The Art of Receiving, the Lemonettes go deep on what it actually costs us to stay in doing mode — and what becomes possible the moment we slow down enough to notice what's already here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 IN THIS EPISODE 🔹 Amanda's "receiving revolution" — and why it might be one of the most radical ideas we haven't tried yet 🔹 What Eckhart Tolle says about the inner body — and why it changes everything about presence 🔹 Drusilla's return from Japan and what blissful receiving actually feels like in practice 🔹 The "river under the river" — a Jungian framework for the gifts that live beneath the noise 🔹 Why slowing down isn't optional if you want to receive anything at all 🔹 Simple, real entry points: accepting a compliment, letting someone pick up the check, the art of noticing on a dog walk 🔹 Morgan on gardening, yard work, and why the body knows what the mind keeps missing 🔹 Penny at 2x speed on her spiritual journey — and what it made her finally see ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 RESOURCES MENTIONED 🔹 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle 🔹 A Course in Miracles (ACIM) — including the principle that giving and receiving are one in truth 🔹 The Having — the book on receiving God's gifts (discussed by Morgan, Amanda, and Melissa) 🔹 Positive Intelligence (PQ) coaching — Penny Herman-Polayes 🔹 Tai Chi and Qigong — as practices for inner body awareness and presence ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 CONNECT WITH US Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Leave a comment — tell us: what gift have you been walking past? Leave a review — it helps more women find this conversation. Find us on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook: @FiveLemonsLaughing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💛 WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda Snyder — Spiritual Counseling amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla Talley-Williams — Spiritual Counseling djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa Dugan — Business & Marketing Coaching melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan Turner — Spiritual Counseling lmorgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny Herman-Polayes — Performance Coaching coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your transformation is our greatest joy.
Transcribe →The Art of Receiving: Why Healthy Love Feels So Wrong
Jun 800:40:24Tap to summarizeYou already found someone consistent. They text back. They show up. They communicate clearly. And somehow… you got bored. Or suspicious. Or weirdly distant. That's not a character flaw. That's a nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do. In Part 2 of our Receiving Revolution series, the Lemonettes get honest about one of the most quietly painful patterns in our relational lives: we say we want love, but what we actually seek is what feels familiar — and for most of us, familiar meant chaos, inconsistency, or having to perform to be chosen. So when real love shows up — steady, safe, undramatic — it doesn't feel like love. It feels like something is missing. What we get into in this episode: 🔹 What happens in your body when someone actually loves you well 🔹 Why "peace feels boring" is a perception problem, not a love problem 🔹 How self-love and the capacity to receive love move together — and why you can't separate them 🔹 What it looks like to love someone without withholding — and why that changes everything 🔹 A real-time demonstration of receiving under pressure (Penny's neighbor, the board meeting, and the ACIM lesson that made the whole room go quiet) 🔹 Why defenselessness and safety aren't opposites — they're the same thing One question is woven through this whole conversation, and it might just follow you into your week: What can I receive from the universe right now? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RESOURCES MENTIONED 🔹 A Course in Miracles — Lesson: "In my defenselessness my safety lies" 🔹 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle 🔹 Plato's Allegory of the Cave ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda — Spiritual Counseling | amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla — Spiritual Counseling | djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa — Business & Marketing Coaching | melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan — Spiritual Counseling | morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny — Performance Coaching | coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH US Subscribe, leave a review, and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram @fivelemons laughing.
Transcribe →The Art of Receiving: Why It's So Hard to Receive
Jun 100:41:47Tap to summarizeYou say yes to everyone else. You show up, you give, you hold it together. But the moment someone tries to take care of you — something tightens. You deflect. You minimize. You say "I'm fine" before the offer is even finished. Most of us were never taught how to receive. We were taught to give, to earn, to achieve, to push through. And somewhere along the way, receiving started to feel like weakness. Like debt. Like danger. So we stopped letting it in. In this episode, Amanda, Melissa, and Penny get honest about why receiving is so much harder than giving — and what it's actually costing us when we keep it out. They don't have a tidy answer. But they have an honest one. In this episode: Why so many women were conditioned to give but never taught to receive The physical experience of bracing against love and support What your relationship with compliments reveals about your self-worth Why receiving and self-worth are more connected than most of us realize The difference between a transaction and true receiving — and how one quietly blocks abundance Why letting yourself be supported might be the most revolutionary thing you do this week This week's practice: Notice where life is already trying to support you. And instead of deflecting — just let yourself receive it. All you have to say is thank you. Work with the Lemonettes: 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com Connect with us: Subscribe so you never miss an episode Leave a review — it helps more women find this community Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram
Transcribe →Spiritual Bypass Isn't Healing: Amanda's Journey from $1,000 Loss to Genuine Forgiveness
May 2500:39:27Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we're sitting in the uncomfortable space where spiritual practice meets real life — and it's not what you'll see on Instagram. One of our beloved Lemonettes got scammed out of $1,000 this week. What happened next? She went to bed. She felt silly. She stayed there for days. And then — here's the part that matters — she asked for prayers. Not for herself to "rise above it," but genuinely, for the people who scammed her. For her husband. For her own nervous system. This is what it looks like when you're applying your spiritual work in real time: ━━━ THis EPISODE COVERS 🔹 The anatomy of a horse scam (and how it nearly drained $3-7K) 🔹 Why intelligent, aware women still fall for fraud (and why that matters) 🔹 The difference between spiritual bypass and real emotional processing 🔹 What genuine forgiveness actually takes (hint: it's not always instant) 🔹 How Amanda moved from shock → anger → bed rest → actual prayer in just days 🔹 The nervous system work underneath spiritual practice 🔹 Why taking responsibility (even 10%) is what moves you forward 🔹 Penny's own scam attempt (and what almost worked) 🔹 Real practical steps to protect yourself going forward ━━━ WHAT MAKES THIS RELATABLE Amanda didn't instantly transcend this. She felt all of it — the shock, the shame spiral, the anger she needed to release in the car with her husband. She laid in bed watching TV instead of meditating perfectly. And that's exactly right. That's what life actually looks like when you're doing the work. 🍋 KEY TAKEAWAY: Spiritual practice isn't about never getting hurt, never feeling angry, or moving past pain in real time. It's about not hiding when hard things happen. It's about asking for support. Taking responsibility for your part. Allowing your body the time it needs to process. And letting genuine compassion emerge on its own timeline, not on yours. ━━━ RESOURCES MENTIONED 🔹 A Course in Miracles (ACIM) — the forgiveness framework that anchored this conversation 🔹 Al-Anon's 4th Step (searching and fearless moral inventory) 🔹 Practical fraud prevention: Report Facebook scam profiles directly; use PayPal business (not Friends & Family); never Zelle money you can't afford to lose; always verify through official channels ━━━━━━ If you've ever been scammed, nearly scammed, or felt the shame of falling for something that seemed so obvious in hindsight — you're not alone. And you're not stupid. This happens to intelligent, aware, spiritually-grounded women all the time. The difference is what you do next. Consider Penny's assignment: Write down the shame-filled moments you've never told anyone about. If you have a trusted community (like we're building for you), start sharing them. Watch what happens when shame loses its grip. 🔹 Leave a comment with your own scam story (or near-miss). We're reading every one. 🔹 Work with the Lemonettes if you're ready to go deeper on forgiveness, nervous system healing, or stepping into your own integrity: 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com 🍋 More will be revealed on the spiritual community piece — stay tuned. ━━━ #SpiritualPractice #ForgivenessThatWorks #RealLifeSpirituality #ACIMTeachings #NervousSystemHealing #ScamAwareness #ShameLessSharing #SpiritualBypass #CommunityHeals #AuthentcAuthenticSpirituality
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