Podcast
The Gentle Hours with Lisa Marie
The Gentle Hours is a soft place to land at the beginning and end of your day.
Hosted by spoken-word poet and healing voice Lisa Marie of Seasoned Dialogue, this podcast offers short, mindful reflections designed to help you rise with intention and rest with peace.
Each week, you’ll be met with a morning word of grounding truth, encouragement, and soul seasoning to center your heart before the world gets loud.
And for members, you’ll also be invited into bedtime stories, tender, calming narratives meant to quiet your mind, soothe your spirit, and carry you gently into sleep.
With Lisa Marie’s warm, motherly voice and signature blend of poetry, reflection, and real talk, The Gentle Hours becomes your daily ritual of breath, belonging, and becoming.
Welcome to The Gentle Hours.
- Mental Health chart
- #198
- Episodes
- 41
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 12 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
41 episodes, newest first
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15 min
Breathe Before You Speak
Show notes
In this week’s Gentle Reminders, we’re having a conversation about learning to pause before we react and giving ourselves the opportunity to process our emotions before allowing them to influence our words and decisions.
Sometimes, what we’re responding to goes far beyond the situation in front of us. Past disappointments, unresolved feelings, and everyday frustrations can affect how we communicate with others. In this gentle reminder, we’ll explore the importance of emotional awareness, patience, and understanding that we can acknowledge our feelings without allowing them to determine our behavior.
My hope is that this conversation encourages you to become more intentional with your responses, extend yourself grace as you grow, and remember that you don’t have to respond as quickly as you feel.
Take a deep breath, my baby. Let’s talk. 🤎
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15 min
Gentle Hours: Some people won't understand your experience
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15 min
Grieving friendships, relationships, and YOU
Show notes
Grief isn't always about losing someone to death. Sometimes we grieve friendships that have ended, relationships that have changed, expectations that were never fulfilled, and even previous versions of ourselves that we can no longer return to.
In this episode of Gentle Hours, we're having a thoughtful conversation about the different ways grief can show up in our lives, especially when we're trying to accept changes that we understand intellectually but are still struggling to process emotionally.
We'll explore why we miss people we know we needed to separate from, how to navigate the disappointment of unmet expectations, and what it means to grieve who we once were while learning to appreciate who we're becoming.
Through gentle breathing exercises, reflection, and conversation, I hope this episode helps you better understand what you're feeling and encourages you to give yourself patience as you navigate these experiences.
You can accept that something has ended and still acknowledge how much it meant to you. Both deserve room to exist.
Thank you for spending these Gentle Hours with me, my baby. I hope this conversation meets you wherever you are in your process.
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12 min
Gentle Hours - The Closet
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10 min
Be Careful What You Share
Show notes
In this episode of Gentle Hours, we’re talking about discernment, privacy, and learning to sit with what you know before you feel the need to share it. Every realization doesn’t require an immediate conversation, and sometimes protecting what you’re processing gives you the clarity to understand it without the influence of other people’s fears, projections, or expectations.
This Gentle Hours reminds you to slow down, pay attention, and be more intentional about what, when, and with whom you share.
Take a breath, settle in, and spend these next few minutes with me.
— Lisa Marie
Seasoned Dialogue -
13 min
Let the child Go….
Show notes
Sometimes we grow into adulthood, take on responsibilities, build lives, care for other people and keep moving forward, while a younger version of us is still responding to situations from a place of fear, abandonment, rejection, or the need to feel safe.
In this episode of Gentle Hours, we are giving that inner child permission to finally rest.
This is a gentle conversation about recognizing the places where old experiences may still be influencing present decisions, understanding that you have choices now that you may not have had then, and allowing the adult version of you to finally stand up and say, “I’ll take it from here.”
We begin with a few moments of breathing before settling into a reflection on boundaries, relationships, fear, familiar patterns, and what it means to stop asking the younger version of yourself to keep protecting the person you have grown into.
You can love who you were, honor how she survived, and still let her know that she no longer has to stand guard.
She can rest now.
You’re here.
Welcome to Gentle Hours. 🤎
— Lisa Marie | Seasoned Dialogue
You can also watch this episode in YouTube
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15 min
I choose to let go of those who have shown me they've never held on to me
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11 min
No one will pull me down
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14 min
Peace Is NOT a Performance
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12 min
Truth
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11 min
How to recognize what belongs with you
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14 min
Rest is NOT laziness
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9 min
5 Reminders
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12 min
Love Them From Afar
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6 min
Reciprocity
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11 min
Capacity
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11 min
Let It Be Enough
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15 min
You are allowed to outgrow yourself
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12 min
Sometimes, I was the problem
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15 min
I embody peace
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