Learn More About “Permission to Be,” a Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Learning to Come Home to Yourself: https://mettamomentum.net/permission-to-be

In this episode, we arrive at the heart of the season’s work: the transformation of the inner critic into a wise, compassionate protector.

Through the Buddhist teaching of Right Effort (Sammā Vāyāma), we explore how true change doesn’t come from force or self-attack, but from partnership, care, and sustainable inner leadership. When protection becomes kind, self-trust begins to take root.

In this episode, we explore:

• How the inner critic evolves into an inner guardian
• The difference between harsh control and compassionate protection
• Self-leadership in sobriety, creativity, and visibility
• Creating safety as the foundation for growth

Guided Practice — Guardian Transformation Visualization
A deep, integrative visualization to help you:

• Meet your inner critic with compassion
• Understand what it’s been trying to protect
• Invite it into a new role as a supportive inner guardian
• Practice partnership instead of self-violence

This episode is an invitation to stop fighting yourself and start walking forward with the part of you that truly wants you safe, whole, and free.

🎧 Best listened to slowly, in a quiet space.

🎵 Sound Bath Integration
Infused with 528 Hz (Heart Chakra)—supporting integration, self-trust, and inner harmony—created in collaboration with STATiC.

About the Host
Miki Byrne is a certified Life Coach in Positive Psychology, blending Buddhist-inspired practices, meditation, storytelling, and recovery-informed insight to help listeners soften into sustainable momentum—without self-violence.

Explore More & Connect
📖 Permission to Be: A Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Coming Home to Yourself
Learn more: https://mettamomentum.net/permission-to-be
Get Your Copy Here; https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

🕯️ Live Metta Moments (free guided meditations weekly)
https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment

💜 Patreon Community & Meditation Library
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704

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

Learn More About “Permission to Be,” a Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Learning to Come Home to Yourself: https://mettamomentum.net/permission-to-be

In this episode, we gently explore the inner voices that show up as criticism, urgency, or control, and ask a different question: What is this voice actually trying to protect?

Through the Buddhist lens of Wise Understanding (Prajna), we look at how fear often fuels self-judgment, and how beneath that fear is usually an unmet need asking for safety, care, or reassurance.

In this episode:

* Identifying the unmet need beneath inner criticism

* Fear as the root of control

* The difference between protection and limitation

* Burnout, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment

* Creative paralysis and fear of visibility

Guided Practice: Needs-Based Reflection


A gentle reflection to help you:

* Translate critical inner statements into underlying needs

* Respond from your wise self rather than react from fear

* Practice internal boundaries as self-care

This episode invites you to soften; not by silencing the noise, but by listening more deeply. Compassion becomes clarity, and self-trust begins to rebuild.

🎧 Best listened to slowly, with a journal nearby.

🎵 Sound Bath Integration


This episode is infused with 417 Hz (Sacral Chakra) supporting emotional flexibility and change, part of a carefully designed sound arc across the season, created in collaboration with STATiC.

About the Host:


Miki Byrne is a certified Life Coach in Positive Psychology, blending Buddhist-inspired practices, meditation, storytelling, and recovery-informed insight to help listeners rewrite inner narratives and soften into sustainable momentum.

Explore More & Connect


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


Learn more: https://mettamomentum.net/permission-to-be
Pre-order: https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

🕯️ Live Metta Moments (free guided meditations weekly)
https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment

💜 Patreon Community & Meditation Library
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MettaMomentum
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1399704

📲 Follow Miki
Socials: @mikimettamuse


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum

🌿 Softening Into Momentum — Season 2 (Mini-Season)

From Inner Critic to Inner Guardian

A 6-Episode Journey in Befriending the Mind

Learn More About “Permission to Be,” a Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Learning to Come Home to Yourself: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/permission-to-be

Pre-Order The Book Here:

https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

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.

Sign up for the Live Metta Moments with Coach Miki: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/live-metta-moment

Connect & Join the Community

💜 Patreon Community — Guided meditations, mini-workshops, and more 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

🌿 Softening Into Momentum — Season 2 (Mini-Season)

From Inner Critic to Inner Guardian

A 6-Episode Journey in Befriending the Mind

Learn More About “Permission to Be,” a Memoir about Sobriety, Self-Trust, & Learning to Come Home to Yourself: https://mailchi.mp/mettamomentum/permission-to-be

Pre-Order The Book Here:

https://a.co/d/dkHaF3W

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 MikiSocials: @mikimettamuse
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikimettamuse
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MettaMomentum

🌿 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