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Five Lemons Laughing

Five Lemons Laughing

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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.2023 Self-Help Spirituality Success
Episodes
  • Whose Voices Are You Listening To?
    Apr 27 2026

    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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    47 mins
  • Love Serves All, But First It Tests You
    Apr 17 2026

    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

    The Having

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    37 mins
  • January You vs April You: Who Are You Becoming?
    Apr 13 2026

    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?

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    37 mins
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