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Five Lemons Laughing

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 173

Five Lemons Laughing is a weekly spiritual podcast hosted by five women who explore A Course in Miracles, personal growth, relationships, forgiveness, fear, ego, surrender, identity, and other spiritual teachings. The hosts make complex ideas easier to understand by connecting them to real experiences, honest questions, different perspectives, and everyday life. Episodes combine practical discussion, personal stories, spiritual insight, and humor for listeners who want to better understand ACIM and apply spiritual principles in a more grounded, relatable way.

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Whose Voices Are You Listening To?

Season 4 · Episode 174

Monday, April 27, 2026 • Duration 46:32

The voice in your head running stories about what people think might not be yours — it might be an echo of how your parents spoke about others. In this episode, we explore inherited patterns, forgiveness, and the freedom that comes from recognizing whose voice is actually speaking.

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🍋 Have you ever wondered why you're so afraid of what people think?

The voice in your head running stories about gossip, judgment, and what people think might not be coming from them at all. It might be an echo.

In this episode, the Lemonettes explore how the way your parents and caregivers spoke about other people quietly became the inner dialogue running your life — and how recognizing those inherited patterns is the gateway to releasing them.

We talk about the connection between parental judgment and the constant fear that people are talking about you. We share personal stories of inherited comparison, bias, and criticism. And we get honest about the benefits we get from staying afraid — the victim identity, the excuse to stay small — and why releasing those actually heals the whole system.

You'll hear about steps toward freedom: awareness, questioning, forgiveness, vulnerability, and turning it over to something larger than yourself. We explore Jennifer Hadley's forgiveness work, The Four Agreements, and A Course in Miracles principles on how what we think becomes what we attract.

Most importantly: you don't have to work it from both sides of the coin. Heal your own patterns, and watch the external shift naturally.

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Love Serves All, But First It Tests You

Season 4 · Episode 173

Friday, April 17, 2026 • Duration 37:22

After 90 days, Drusilla and Melissa share how their year-long intentions to "love" and "surrender" are being tested—and why difficulty is exactly what spiritual commitment looks like. A raw conversation on internal conflict, nervous system work, and learning through purpose instead of pain.

When you declare "love" as your intention, you don't get protection from challenge—you get invited into it. And when you commit to "surrender," you discover that letting go doesn't feel like relief. It feels like standing in the fire.

In this check-in episode, Drusilla and Melissa return to share the three months since setting their year-long intentions. They talk about how those commitments are showing up in marriage, career, friendships, and their own nervous systems. Drusilla walks us through the forgiveness letters, the internal conflict work, and the moment she realized that all conflict is internal. Melissa shares her surrender experiment—losing her home and car, but finding the most comfortable beds she's ever slept in, the best food she's ever eaten, and a stability she never had when she thought she had everything.

They discuss why your mindset matters more than your circumstances. Why the body is the hardest place to surrender. How nervous system regulation unlocks the spiritual work. And why getting to the other side of difficulty is where you actually develop faith.

This is a conversation for anyone who's declared an intention and then wondered why it immediately started pushing back. It's for anyone learning that love and surrender are not gentle concepts—they're invitations to show up differently in the face of everything that scares you.

Resources:

A Course in Miracles Lesson 78

The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer

Jennifer Hadley's teachings on learning through purpose

January You vs April You: Who Are You Becoming?

Season 4 · Episode 172

Monday, April 13, 2026 • Duration 36:45

Amanda, Morgan, and Penny revisit their intentions for the year and reflect on what surrender, acceptance, and willingness really look like in everyday life.

What happens when the beautiful intentions of January meet the reality of life by spring?

In this deeply honest and uplifting conversation, Amanda, Morgan, and Penny check in on their words for the year—surrender and acceptance—and reflect on how life has challenged, reshaped, and deepened those intentions.

From grief and uncertainty to inner child healing and learning to trust divine unfolding, this episode offers a compassionate reminder that growth is not about perfection.

It's about willingness.

In this episode:

First-quarter life check-in
Revisiting your intention for the year
Surrendering control
Accepting difficult emotions
Releasing future-fixing
Learning to trust the unfolding
Spiritual support and mentorship
Inner healing and self-compassion

Reflection prompt:

What did January-you believe?

What does April-you know now?

Rage Without Collapse: Standing with Women in the Shadows

Season 4 · Episode 171

Monday, April 6, 2026 • Duration 41:25

A note on what you're about to hear: We know the apparent contradiction. A Course in Miracles teaches us that love holds no grievances, that anger is never justified. And yet here we are—five spiritual women, grounded in ACIM, sitting with our rage. This episode doesn't resolve that tension. It lives in it. Because some truths require us to hold paradox: we can be devoted to forgiveness AND outraged by systemic harm. We can believe in the illusory nature of the world AND show up as witnesses to suffering. We can stay rooted in love AND refuse to spiritually bypass what's happening to women right now.

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In this episode, we move from thought to action—and sit with the tension between spiritual faith and the "real-world" exposure of violence against women. When the Epstein files drop, when Gisèle Pélicot's trial reshapes how we think about consent, when young men grow up in a culture that celebrates dominance—how do we, as spiritual women, show up?

We're talking about the difference between spiritual bypassing and genuine presence. Between feeling powerless and realizing you have choices in your own sphere. Between rage that's justified and rage that consumes.

Key Takeaways:

🍋 You have power in your choices—your money, your attention, your voice, your vote.

🍋 Standing up doesn't require changing the whole system. It requires changing what you participate in.

🍋 Collective healing starts with "let it begin with me."

🍋 Rage and love can coexist. Anger and grace are not opposites.

🍋 What you focus on multiplies. Choose wisely.

Resources Mentioned: Gisèle Pélicot's trial, The Manosphere documentary, The Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, R. Kelly case, A Course in Miracles, 12-Step recovery

Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): lovelightmorgan.com / Penny (Performance Coaching):

What Would Love Do? Showing Up as a Spiritual Student in a World on Fire

Season 4 · Episode 170

Monday, March 30, 2026 • Duration 44:37

"I need do nothing" — it's one of A Course in Miracles' most quoted teachings. But what does it actually mean when the world feels like it's cracking open? All five Lemonettes gather for an honest, grounded conversation about what spiritual students are really called to do right now. Meditate? March? Both? From vibrating love to voting with your pocketbook, this episode goes deep on inner work as world work. Every thought is a prayer. Where is yours pointing?

Are we supposed to light a candle and scroll past the chaos? Or is love actually calling us to something more?

In Episode 170, all five Lemonettes — Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan, and Penny — come together for a timely and spiritually grounded conversation about what it means to show up as a spiritual student right now. The episode weaves together teachings from A Course in Miracles, Conversations with God, and David Hawkins to explore one of the Course's most abstract teachings: "I need do nothing."

The conversation moves through personal shares on where each host feels Source nudging her — from Penny attending national marches and working her neighborhood, to Morgan feeling a quiet excitement as old systems come to light, to Melissa stepping off the political treadmill from abroad and cleaning up her side of the street, to Amanda learning, slowly and uncomfortably, to get comfortable with peace.

Key threads: the holographic universe principle, the idea that every thought is a prayer, the epidemic of loneliness the ego feeds, and the reminder that one person vibrating love counterbalances 750,000 in fear.

Let there be peace on earth — and let it begin with you.

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When Honesty Breaks Connection: Emotional Dumping vs. Emotional Honesty

Season 4 · Episode 169

Monday, March 23, 2026 • Duration 43:19

Have you ever been completely honest — and somehow made things worse? In this episode, Amanda, Melissa, Penny, and Drusilla unpack the difference between emotional honesty and emotional dumping, and why "telling the truth" can sometimes break the very connection you're trying to protect. Drusilla shares a raw, real story about a life insurance dispute that turned into a full emotional dump — and what she learned on the other side. Real talk. Real growth. Real life. 🍋

Most of us were taught two options when it comes to our feelings: hold it all in, or let it all out. But neither of those actually creates connection — and sometimes, what feels like honesty is really unprocessed emotion spilling out all over the people we love most.

In this episode of Five Lemons Laughing, Amanda, Melissa, Penny, and Drusilla explore one of the most important distinctions in relationships: emotional honesty vs. emotional dumping. Emotional honesty is sharing your experience calmly and clearly, staying connected to yourself in the delivery. Emotional dumping is when the feeling is so big, it just floods out — and as Penny says, it's like you "show up and throw up."

Drusilla brings the receipts with a deeply honest story from her own marriage: a life insurance open enrollment conversation that turned into a full emotional dump, a betrayal trigger, and a vacation that started with some serious tension. She and the Lemonettes unpack what was actually underneath it all — old wounds, fear, the ego's insistence that boundaries are necessary — and how she and her husband recovered, faster and with less residue than ever before.

Melissa reflects on letting go of defensive living and having real conversations without being attached to outcomes. Amanda shares how practicing the smaller uncomfortable conversations has built her foundation for the bigger ones. And Penny closes with her post-its:
📝 No matter what, everything's gonna be okay.
📝 There's no getting life wrong.
📝 Harvest the learning.
📝 Don't live defensively.

This episode is a follow-up to Ep. 168 on Boundaries, Consequences & Punishment — and it's real life, messy, and exactly what it's supposed to be.

When Setting a Boundary Feels Like Being Mean — Untangling Boundaries, Consequences & Punishment

Season 4 · Episode 168

Monday, March 16, 2026 • Duration 43:22

Boundaries, consequences, punishment — they're not the same thing, and mixing them up costs us. The Lemonettes untangle all three through real stories, ACIM, and a question: What would love do?

Have you ever set a boundary and immediately felt guilty? Or let someone face their own consequences and wondered if you were being too harsh? That confusion is exactly where this episode lives.

In Part 2 of their boundaries conversation, the Lemonettes get honest about the difference between protecting yourself and punishing someone else — and how easy it is to blur those lines without realizing it.

Amanda walks through a live example with her 1,000-pound horse. Melissa reflects on how years of people-pleasing eventually turned into punishment. Drusilla shares what it's like to be in a relationship where trust has grown so deep that the very concept of "boundaries" has started to dissolve. And Morgan draws on A Course in Miracles and Conversations with God to offer a reframe that might change how you see every difficult relationship moment: is this boundary coming from fear, or from knowing who you are?

The episode closes with a question that's both simple and impossible: What would love do here?

This is a real conversation — messy, nuanced, and honest. No easy answers. Just five women figuring it out together.

Resources mentioned: A Course in Miracles, Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch), All the Way to the River (Elizabeth Gilbert), Jesus and the Essenes (Dolores Cannon)

Why Nobody Feels Heard (And the One Thing That Changes Everything)

Season 4 · Episode 167

Monday, March 9, 2026 • Duration 47:16

We all want it. To be seen. To be heard. To have someone look at us and say, "I get it. I see you. And I'm not here to fix you."

In this episode, Amanda, Melissa, Morgan, and Penny dive into one of the most fundamental human longings — and what happens when it goes unmet. Sparked by a real-life neighborhood conflict that ended in a lawsuit, the conversation opens into something much bigger: the punishment loops we run in our closest relationships, the power of one person to shift an entire room, and why true healing is always an inside job.

You'll hear about the ho'oponopono prayer in action, a moving story from Elizabeth Gilbert, a deep look at The Queen's Code, and one of the most honest conversations about marriage, resentment, and what it actually means to let someone off the hook.

Resources: lessonsonlove.org | The Queen's Code by Allison Armstrong | A Course in Miracles | Ho'oponopono Prayer

Your transformation is our greatest joy. Keep coming back — we love you. 🍋

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Love is the Answer: Returning to Love in Relationships, Conflict & Everyday Life with Adam Guzman-Poole

Season 4 · Episode 166

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 • Duration 47:52

This episode, the Lemonettes go deep on love with special guest Adam Guzman-Poole — holistic counselor, coach, and author of Lessons on Love: Sacred Stories on Relationships, Balance, and Becoming Your Authentic Self.

We explore what it means to return to love — not just in romance, but in how we treat ourselves, our communities, and even our most difficult people. Adam shares the Indigenous medicine wheel as a framework for whole-self care, the Tonglen practice for transforming conflict through compassion, and a moving story from his book called "Lean On Me" — about a drunk stranger on a plane and the miracle that unfolded when Adam chose love over frustration.

Resources: lessonsonlove.org | Tonglen (Pema Chödrön) | Viktor Frankl | Stephen Covey | Thich Nhat Hanh

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Trusting the Pace of Your Path: You're Not Behind

Season 4 · Episode 165

Monday, February 23, 2026 • Duration 41:52

Ever feel like you should be further along by now?

In this heartfelt and hilarious episode, the Lemonettes explore that nagging inner voice that says you're behind — in your healing, your relationships, or your spiritual growth.

Through personal stories (including a postponed live event, a loaner car meltdown, and an Ulta checkout saga), we unpack:

• The difference between preference and attachment

• Why expectations create suffering

• How we judge our spiritual reactions

• The "second arrow" of self-blame

• The power of surrender and acceptance

• Why laughter might be your most underrated spiritual tool

Plus, we end with a 1-minute laughter challenge you can try today.

Your transformation is our greatest joy. And here's your reminder:

You are not behind.

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