This conversation was so engaging and so REAL. I wish people focused and talked to her more about her second album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, as I think there is a lot to unpack and learn from there as well. Alanis is such a gift to the world and such a talented songwriter.
Mayim fangirling is my favorite. You Live, you learn. Oh hell yeah, crying and singing at the top of my lungs. Alanis has given us anthems that are not constricted by time. At least not yet. They are still timely.
"How 'bout me not blaming you for everything How 'bout me enjoying the moment for once How 'bout how good it feels to finally forgive you How 'bout grieving it all one at a time Thank you thank you silence" "Thank you thank you silence"
My girl, Alanis Morissette! Her music carried me through so many emotionally charged times, good and bad. Mayim, while you were speaking about lyrics, I got chills. I've been like that my whole life and didn't realize that other people have that reaction to music. One song in particular, a few lines from the song "Uninvited": "You - you're not allowed, you're uninvited, an unfortunate slight." I would loudly sing those words, like I was saying it to the person who took away my innocence. It feels empowering. Thanks, Mayim, Jonathan and Alanis.
A fellow Ottawa native, I have always appreciated Alanis, loved, as a younger adult, the power of Jagged Little Pill and continued messages she has conveyed about art, health, fame and the person you want to be in life. LOVE.
The thing I love most about Alanis, aside from her incredible talent, is that she is a fellow HSP. I remember very vividly when I was in therapy in California, and my counselor lent me a copy of Elaine Aron's great book, and I felt like it explained sooooo many things to me about myself that I had spent so many years struggling with.
I felt this episode from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. "Jagged Little Pill" is one of my favourite albums of all time. "You Learn", "One Hand In My Pocket" - were part of my life's soundtrack as a teen. Alanis is embodied magic. Thanks for having her on!
As a present for finishing middle school, my parents bought me my first CD player along with Jagged Little Pill. I played that CD so much that it nearly broke. What a powerhouse of a record. Also, this interview seemed too short. I checked the time, and there are 20 minutes of just Mayim and Jonathan talking at the end! I wish there had been more Alanis.
A lot of the time, when a celebrity is promoting something (in this case, the meditation album), they have interviews stacked one after another and are scheduled for 15 minute increments, one after another for an entire day, so they can reach as many demographics/people as possible within their limited amount of free time. I assumed that Alanis was probably doing that and that is why the interview seemed to end abruptly.
less than 5 minutes in, "the necessity of going inward, restoration, stillness and gentle inquiry in whatever way you feel comfortable and inspired" -- and that, in a nutshell is the amazing inspiration Alanis has been for me over the past 25+ childhood, teen and adulthood years. i could go on and on but i think you all *get it*.
I love Alanis. She is awesome and fellow Canadian. Love her music. She actually started on the show you can’t do that on television when she was younger. Love her song Ironic.
I'm a 32 year old man and I love Alanis Morissette to the point that I have a full tattoo sleeve dedicated to her. I am obsessed and I check out anything that she does and that's why I came here! She is GOD
I chilled as you sang those lines from that song, Mayim. I am 76 and had never heard of the song, Suit of Lights. I did learn years ago that the composers of "funeral songs" use chords that will make you cry, to assist with the grieving process. So maybe that is what happened here. The human body is amazing with the way it can respond to certain vibrations. In the book "Fork in the Road", (about tuning forks), some of this is explained. 🥰
It’s funny how differently we all bond with a song and it’s lyrics. The year before “You Learn” came out we had a house fire. The part where she says “Wear it out the way a 3 year old would do” followed by “melt it down your gonna have to eventually anyway” The fire trucks are coming up around the bend” it was crazy cause my brother was three years old and started the fire while we were asleep Thankfully we all survived but lost everything else. It was the catalyst of so much change and growth for my family. What was such a deep tragedy turned into something we truly “Learned” from. This song has such significant meaning to me. ❤🔥🚒
not me having a breakthrough while Mayim is taking about disordered eating and anger..... I love this episode so so much I cannot even put it into words. My favorite artist of all time on my favorite podcast of all time! just phenomenal.
ALANISSSSSSSS! I really can’t decide if I’ve learned more from her songs or her words… whatever.. her voice, her soul… I’ve never learned more from any human 🤍✨
I've been her fan for about 4 or 5 years (yet not from the very beginning) and I must admit she never failed to amaze me with her wisdom and insightful thinking. Perhaps such people (or celebs) are quite rare, but I believe we can learn a lot from them and that they are fun to be with.
I'm totally joining Mayim in fan-girling over Alanis Morisette. Jagged Little Pill came out when I was 15 and it truly was the first time I heard a woman singing an angry song in an angry voice and it was amazing 🤩. I love all of Alanis's work and consider her influential to the woman I am today. So happy to see her and Mayim discussing mental health!
I went thru my divorce in 1996-1997…my daughters remind me, “mom had Jagged Little Pill on repeat; dad listened to Seal’s Don’t Cry.” You, Alanis, “spoke” loudly to me!
Thank you for this conversation Mayim. I always thought that being able to articulate your psyche’s inner perspective really puts you on the right track to healing. I have learned that from Alanis. Her lightness in the use of elaborate vocabulary always mesmerizes me. It also helps me excel in my own way of communicating with other people. Hope you’re reading this, Alanis. Sending love from Poland.
I love Alanis, so real and pure. God gave her so much natural talent, and one of the things that make her a beautiful person is her still being humble. I think she could carry on a conversation with anyone. :) Great show and great interview, Mayim.
Tuesday is my Therapy day in more ways than one. I go see my therapist and I watch you. Another wonderful episode. Sending gratitude to both of you for making these. Alanis twas sensation. 💙🌈💙.
I’m 55 and last night I got to the physiological trauma place of ‘I can’t be nice to myself’..felt my throat closing, gagging while Knowing that I Have to meditate and journal. I’ve been crying and really dysregulated bc the self-hatred is So intense. God I hope that I can follow through for Myself. If I had a Professor and an ‘A’ to work for I’d do anything!! I’ve even lived at a Zen monastery! Doing these things for myself….I’m frozen. Plllleeaasseee Harriet, give a damn about YourMyself! 😢💕
@@marlosunnyfruit4431 Thank you so much for writing. I’m still crying vs sitting on the cushion. Are you in India now? Sending love and healing your way, special person. Hope to hear from you again. 💕
I recently re- watched the movie Dogma, which is a memorable comedy that's also a theological revealing masterwork. And the part of God is played by 'surprise ' Alanis Morissette. She is the image of the Creator for me now. Great interview!
Not only did Alanis Morisette speak to my soul when I needed it the most, I was always told that I looked like her and to know now that she is an enneagram 4w5, same as me, I am totally shook. Amazing podcast, thank you Mayim.
I really enjoyed the convo at the end about deep rest. I didn’t realize this was a thing lots of people experience, I always called it “resetting my nervous system” - would often happen if I went to nap for 20 mins, wouldn’t fall asleep deeply but I would wake up feeling totally restored. I thought it was just being an HSP thing!
For me, podcasts are powerful because I get to learn so much more about celebrities, mental health experts and artists. I realize they decide how to answer questions, but your ability, Mayim, to draw out answers from which we can learn is amazing. I believe your honesty about your personal struggles and the other ways in which you lead into questions allows the guests to feel comfortable. These conversations have the feel of "we're all just sitting around and having a small group discussion" even though you have over a million subscribers. Many are careful I'm sure not to say the wrong thing, but it's always fun. I wish you and Jonathan could've talked to Alanis longer.
I started Martial Arts when I was 6. Coincidentally the same age I got my 1st CD being Jagged Little Pill! By 15 I had to "retire" Martial Arts due to back injury from a car accident. I basically went insane from 15-20 until I fpund yoga. Saved my life! I didnt think I would be able to find all of the benefits of martial arts again. Everyone needs to find something that removes stimuli, stops thinkings, and improves breathing. Walking, meditation, running, stretching, anything.
Somehow I knew that behind the “All I Really Want” author there’re a great human being with a very well furnished head. So thankful for these other two exceptional souls behind this podcast for bringing and ”de-construct” Alanis so, so well. And Mayim..how I adore you singing!!! Quoting same Alanis lyrics: “It’s all I really want, some patience A way to to calm me down And I I want is deliverance A place to find a common ground” That’s what this podcast is to me..between lot other things.💜
I have never heard someone speak about the lyrics of music the way you do. That is exactly how I feel. I could talk to you for hours about what the words do. I actually really needed to hear that in this time of my life. Thank you.
It is really great seeing two beautiful women talk for an hour. Thank you, Mayim, for having Alanis on today, you two are such a delight. These podcasts are the best part of my week!
Exactly what Mayim said. From 1993 and after, I felt that Alanis was saying what I wanted to hear and said, every álbum was kinda companion for me in my girl-becoming-a woman years
She looks beautiful and just glows and exudes happiness and positivity. Her smile is contagious and makes me smile. Love her music and singing style. What a smart and talented person. It was refreshing to see two women artists and intellectuals from different genres having a deep conversation which was at times over my head but still riveting. Enjoyed that.
This is my favourite episode yet. I was raised on Alanis. When I hear her music I feel it in my body, in the way that I can only compare to the way I feel rage. In my bones, in my history, in my very existence. I LOVE HER ART! And I loved this discussion, thank you❤️
I love Alanis Morrisette! What a lovely dialogue between the three of you. And I have to say Mayim, your rendition of those lyrics was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I love how you explained how your brain intakes music differently than other forms of input. Another excellent episode on the books!
I’m so excited to listen today..without going into great detail, “You outta know” taught me that it was okay, as a girl for me to feel anger, love, attraction, hurt…huge huge fan. Thank goodness for my Tuesday MB ritual, it really gets me through. ❤
My experience with Alanis’ art and existence is so similar to Mayim’s. I connect to Alanis in a way that I haven’t been able to connect to anyone and I’ve only talked to her for 30 sec once!
I’ve been smiling like an idiot for the whole length of this episode. I love you. Thank you for this awesome conversation about self exploration, growth, expansion and intentional stillness 🎉 this was a joy!!!!
10:43 not everything is "projected"! what is with being touched (by your music, songs, you as person)? what is with understanding somone (you, alanis)? what is with it is helping, listening? what if god is inside us ourselves and not outside in a meditation? yesterday and today i am so thankful to alanis morissette, the person, the self, the being, what she all has shared, given, lived, done, is! i appreciate you so much, without an end!
Loved hearing Alanis talk about the enneagram at 37:40 - 4w5s unite! I've loved every song she's ever released and always felt so connected to her lyrics - I think us both being 4w5s has something to do with this.
I feel the same about music. The lyrics and the way it flows just mean so much that alot of ppl (like my soon to be ex husband) never understand why some songs will hit me so emotionally. Jagged little pill came just after high school and all the feelings that come with that album take me right back to that time. At this point I would love to meditate and be at a state of calm. Life gets do chaotic sometimes it feels just so hard to take a breath
Singing along to Cocteau Twins is another level of meditation!! I really appreciate you all mentioning the flooding of emotions that can happen during mediation so that more people are prepared for that jarring surprise.
My HSP Rolemodel. I always have and always will love Alanis and her music. And I love you both. "Thank you" in particular for adressing the rage. My emotions often are way too intense to function outside of my own personal space. Just knowing that I'm not alone with this "Hulkish" energy which is so intimidating even for myself sometimes is liberating. 💚
I learned that the invent of electricity (lights, phones, TVs) has hurt our ability to rest. When there wasn’t electricity, people would sleep on average 8-11 hours due to lack of sunlight for those hours
I fully believe that this one of the most beautiful humans in the whole world. And yes I am a highly sensitive person and also empathetic. I find this very awesome she's helping others find themselves with meditation 💕💕
I got to thank Alanis for introducing me to you mialik, I'm a gay boy 1987, moved a lot growing up, but Alanis has been my favorite singer since before I can remember. First thing I told everyone. Pentecostal Midwestern, Virginia Beach for middle school... And 9/11 then back to the midwest. Basically all that has carried over with technology I'm gratious and thankful for you both! ❤
"just kept showing up and keeping those pictures alive until they manifest," what a fascinating sense, it's essentially what I've been doing too but thankful for her having put it into words! I love Alanis Morissette, this was one of my favorite interviews including two of my favorite people, and I like you Jonathan too!! :)
I used to have jagged little pill on CASSETTE when I had my first car in the 90's. Loved that album. Felt such a rebel rockin out to that. Great interview
She was on the scene before 1995. Those of us in Ottawa will remember a fun program from CJOH TV - Bushnell communications. That program called - You Can’t Do that onTV that she was in.
I wish these podcasts could be much longer! Especially with someone like Alanis. I feel like you all just scratched the surface of what could be an even deeper and more interesting conversation. You all clearly speak the same language and it's so interesting to watch! X
WOW! There’s so much things amazing in this episode. Both in Alanis part and in MB & JC “solo” part (how much in tune with Jonathan here, btw) that make almost two different episodes in one! As the eternal apprentices of life we’re & as the unfinished “work in progress” (quoting Mayim) we’re till our last breath, armed with great dose of humility & openminded, I sit, listen, learn but mostly ENJOY this 💎gem of podcast! A note: I did once all Enneagram Institute +100 questions. A Type #2 greeting you all!
When listening to those parts of the song "You learn" I feel exactly the same things. For me, is a feeling like my soul is in jail, struggling to find something that got lost across the Universe and in this part is like it explodes and I finally free. It happens in many of her songs, specially during the "bridge" parts. Alanis is someone really special to me, I wish she could know how important and inspiring she is to me and to so many people who is trying to find some relief. Great to see too amazing women like you and her talking about life. Thanks for that!
Love you, Mayim. Amazing example of intelligence, humility, HUMOR and class. Acting career is great and you've done a wonderful job, but it's your humanity, education and imperfections that make you the successful, rare 💎 gem that you are. We need more women like YOU. Big Hugs from Vermont, Heidi Lessard
Alanis has been such a monumental part of my life growing up in my teens. She's such an incredibly wise woman in lyrics/life. Thanks for taking time speaking with her ❤
I'm looking forward to sitting down to watch this one. Alanis is an iconic leader in the mental health sphere. She gained my deepest admiration and respect when I learned she survived post partum depression, undiagnosed and untreated for over a year I believe. I barely survived 3 months of that. She is amazing.
You all being able to share and be open, brave and honest is so helpful. I am better able to deal and think through, feel, express.... "all the things". Just so grateful to see this and watcher's appreciate it!
I don't remember where I learned it but chaotic music and action can be calming, kind of like shaking a jar of sugar to align/settle the crystals and make room for more (airspace) I love that Alanis found the freedom to write. I hate when people define others by the only thing they've seen (boxes, labels and typecasting)
While I dig Alanis and grew up with her, I'm REALLY trying to get Mayim's attention because I'm hoping she could help me for some neurological issues. I don't know if there is some magical way to have a better chance of being able to get recognized so here I am. 🤷♀️ 🤗💚
Jagged little pill was my favorite album when I was 8. I didn't even understand most of what she was talking about but I just loved it. This talk is amazing.
How Mayim described the effect of Alanis' music on her is how I feel about Florence and the Machine. Lyrics of hers will just HIT me, and tend to find me at just the right time in my life.
In true brilliance, an poetic, Alanis fashion, I love how she flipped the saying, and called her new cd, the storm before the calm! She is ineffably brilliant, and if I ever go back to teaching English, I'm going to make her lyrics mandatory, for us, to read, because she is one of the best poets and contemporary, of my time! I love you with all my heart, Alanis🌟🎁🥰🕊️! Your music has been the soundtrack to my 20s, both a glorious and miserable time, but you were the soundtrack to everything I was feeling and living! U've also helped me get through my suffering, with Grace, & u inspired me, to better & more creatively articulate, my range of sentiments & emotions, in my writing of poetry, so Thank You, which is also my anthem song! I am also incredibly humbled by your intelligence & vast knowledge, on any given topic, but you've also inspired me, on my lifelong journey, to deeper spirituality & communion, with the God of all good, not the demigod of this world! I am so excited about this CD & can't wait to hear it & read the liner notes which is my first go to! Thank you so much for unabashedly sharing your raw honesty & conveying your deepest & most personal life experiences that we, as fans, & fellow human kind also appreciate, as we are doing more suffering, than not, in this lunatic asylum, we call earth, the prison planet! Much love & blessings,2 u, & your beautiful family, dear Alanis! 💖🙏🎁🌟🥰🕊️✨💫🌟 ps. Just learning that your name came from the story of Atlantis & a Merman, a Demi god, also named Alanis
This conversation was so engaging and so REAL. I wish people focused and talked to her more about her second album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, as I think there is a lot to unpack and learn from there as well. Alanis is such a gift to the world and such a talented songwriter.
Yes yes YES!!!!
Her second album is my favorite
@@ladyofthehedge mine too!
100% on the nail! Alanis is truly a gift to the world❤️
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Mayim fangirling is my favorite. You Live, you learn. Oh hell yeah, crying and singing at the top of my lungs. Alanis has given us anthems that are not constricted by time. At least not yet. They are still timely.
🤘🎸🔥🔥🔥
I love when you have people like Alanis on and they share how deep they really are!
"How 'bout me not blaming you for everything
How 'bout me enjoying the moment for once
How 'bout how good it feels to finally forgive you
How 'bout grieving it all one at a time
Thank you thank you silence" "Thank you thank you silence"
My favorite Alanis Morissette song :)
Meditative silence is key for highly sensitive and empathic people. Empaths are not simply a sci-fi character on "Star Trek." We exist, truly.
I am not Alanis Morissette, so my language won't be identical. However, conceptually, we are deeply similar.
My girl, Alanis Morissette! Her music carried me through so many emotionally charged times, good and bad. Mayim, while you were speaking about lyrics, I got chills. I've been like that my whole life and didn't realize that other people have that reaction to music. One song in particular, a few lines from the song "Uninvited": "You - you're not allowed, you're uninvited, an unfortunate slight." I would loudly sing those words, like I was saying it to the person who took away my innocence. It feels empowering. Thanks, Mayim, Jonathan and Alanis.
😻😻😻
A fellow Ottawa native, I have always appreciated Alanis, loved, as a younger adult, the power of Jagged Little Pill and continued messages she has conveyed about art, health, fame and the person you want to be in life. LOVE.
The thing I love most about Alanis, aside from her incredible talent, is that she is a fellow HSP. I remember very vividly when I was in therapy in California, and my counselor lent me a copy of Elaine Aron's great book, and I felt like it explained sooooo many things to me about myself that I had spent so many years struggling with.
Same girl same.
what book?
The book is The Highly Sensitive Pearson !!! life Changing💌
Alanis is absolutely amazing...a monthly podcast with Alanis and Mayim would be 🔥!
That would be Ah-Mazing!! 🔥
We concur!!! 🔥🔥🔥
@@MayimBialik thanks so much
yes, please!!!!!!!
I think the partnership between Mayim and Alanis is very wise. It certainly helps my personal healing.
Two of my 90s favorites together 😍
I felt this episode from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. "Jagged Little Pill" is one of my favourite albums of all time. "You Learn", "One Hand In My Pocket" - were part of my life's soundtrack as a teen. Alanis is embodied magic. Thanks for having her on!
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As a present for finishing middle school, my parents bought me my first CD player along with Jagged Little Pill. I played that CD so much that it nearly broke. What a powerhouse of a record.
Also, this interview seemed too short. I checked the time, and there are 20 minutes of just Mayim and Jonathan talking at the end! I wish there had been more Alanis.
A lot of the time, when a celebrity is promoting something (in this case, the meditation album), they have interviews stacked one after another and are scheduled for 15 minute increments, one after another for an entire day, so they can reach as many demographics/people as possible within their limited amount of free time. I assumed that Alanis was probably doing that and that is why the interview seemed to end abruptly.
And I hope that one day they can do a full interview!
@@deannad9105 ahh, that makes sense!
less than 5 minutes in, "the necessity of going inward, restoration, stillness and gentle inquiry in whatever way you feel comfortable and inspired" -- and that, in a nutshell is the amazing inspiration Alanis has been for me over the past 25+ childhood, teen and adulthood years. i could go on and on but i think you all *get it*.
I love Alanis. She is awesome and fellow Canadian. Love her music. She actually started on the show you can’t do that on television when she was younger. Love her song Ironic.
Yes I remember that show….I’m so old
Yes!!
It was fabulous
I'm a 32 year old man and I love Alanis Morissette to the point that I have a full tattoo sleeve dedicated to her. I am obsessed and I check out anything that she does and that's why I came here! She is GOD
She actually played God in Dogma! Lol 😂
Thank you for bringing up that meditation is not always for everyone.
I loved Alanis as a child (i'm 38 now) and I am obsessed with her meditation album. it was exactly what i needed!!!!!
It is better to be enlightened later in life than not at all..❤
I chilled as you sang those lines from that song, Mayim. I am 76 and had never heard of the song, Suit of Lights. I did learn years ago that the composers of "funeral songs" use chords that will make you cry, to assist with the grieving process. So maybe that is what happened here. The human body is amazing with the way it can respond to certain vibrations. In the book "Fork in the Road", (about tuning forks), some of this is explained. 🥰
It’s funny how differently we all bond with a song and it’s lyrics.
The year before “You Learn” came out we had a house fire. The part where she says “Wear it out the way a 3 year old would do” followed by “melt it down your gonna have to eventually anyway”
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend” it was crazy cause my brother was three years old and started the fire while we were asleep Thankfully we all survived but lost everything else. It was the catalyst of so much change and growth for my family. What was such a deep tragedy turned into something we truly “Learned” from. This song has such significant meaning to me. ❤🔥🚒
not me having a breakthrough while Mayim is taking about disordered eating and anger..... I love this episode so so much I cannot even put it into words. My favorite artist of all time on my favorite podcast of all time! just phenomenal.
ALANISSSSSSSS! I really can’t decide if I’ve learned more from her songs or her words… whatever.. her voice, her soul… I’ve never learned more from any human 🤍✨
That song, “You Learn” Sounds like you might have a past life experience of a burning structure. Goosebumps!❗️
I've been her fan for about 4 or 5 years (yet not from the very beginning) and I must admit she never failed to amaze me with her wisdom and insightful thinking. Perhaps such people (or celebs) are quite rare, but I believe we can learn a lot from them and that they are fun to be with.
I'm totally joining Mayim in fan-girling over Alanis Morisette. Jagged Little Pill came out when I was 15 and it truly was the first time I heard a woman singing an angry song in an angry voice and it was amazing 🤩. I love all of Alanis's work and consider her influential to the woman I am today. So happy to see her and Mayim discussing mental health!
Same!
I went thru my divorce in 1996-1997…my daughters remind me, “mom had Jagged Little Pill on repeat; dad listened to Seal’s Don’t Cry.” You, Alanis, “spoke” loudly to me!
Thank you for this conversation Mayim. I always thought that being able to articulate your psyche’s inner perspective really puts you on the right track to healing. I have learned that from Alanis. Her lightness in the use of elaborate vocabulary always mesmerizes me. It also helps me excel in my own way of communicating with other people. Hope you’re reading this, Alanis. Sending love from Poland.
I feel the same about You Learn, Mayan! … “just because I can’t meet someone’s needs, doesn’t make them needy”
I love Alanis, so real and pure. God gave her so much natural talent, and one of the things that make her a beautiful person is her still being humble. I think she could carry on a conversation with anyone. :) Great show and great interview, Mayim.
I blew out my right eye capillaries screaming at her concert Saturday (10/7) it was weird most people were sitting…AT A CONCERT!!! I love Alanis.
I sit at concerts..I’m 41 I’m ready to sit 😮😂😂😂😂😂
Alanis is a great writer! She is saying so much with only a few words. I respect her artistry!
Tuesday is my Therapy day in more ways than one. I go see my therapist and I watch you. Another wonderful episode. Sending gratitude to both of you for making these. Alanis twas sensation. 💙🌈💙.
Loved this
I’m 55 and last night I got to the physiological trauma place of ‘I can’t be nice to myself’..felt my throat closing, gagging while Knowing that I Have to meditate and journal. I’ve been crying and really dysregulated bc the self-hatred is So intense. God I hope that I can follow through for Myself.
If I had a Professor and an ‘A’ to work for I’d do anything!! I’ve even lived at a Zen monastery!
Doing these things for myself….I’m frozen.
Plllleeaasseee Harriet, give a damn about YourMyself! 😢💕
Feel with you. Same with me, yesterday was hard for me, too. Was in an Hinduistic Ashram here and in India, did it all. 😘
@@marlosunnyfruit4431 Thank you so much for writing. I’m still crying vs sitting on the cushion. Are you in India now? Sending love and healing your way, special person. Hope to hear from you again. 💕
I typically don’t comment on how people look but Alanis is positive positively glowing!
I recently re- watched the movie Dogma, which is a memorable comedy that's also a theological revealing masterwork. And the part of God is played by 'surprise ' Alanis Morissette. She is the image of the Creator for me now. Great interview!
Alanis is a great infj and speaks from the heart. If you want to know how infjs minds work this is a great video
Not only did Alanis Morisette speak to my soul when I needed it the most, I was always told that I looked like her and to know now that she is an enneagram 4w5, same as me, I am totally shook. Amazing podcast, thank you Mayim.
I really enjoyed the convo at the end about deep rest. I didn’t realize this was a thing lots of people experience, I always called it “resetting my nervous system” - would often happen if I went to nap for 20 mins, wouldn’t fall asleep deeply but I would wake up feeling totally restored. I thought it was just being an HSP thing!
For me, podcasts are powerful because I get to learn so much more about celebrities, mental health experts and artists. I realize they decide how to answer questions, but your ability, Mayim, to draw out answers from which we can learn is amazing. I believe your honesty about your personal struggles and the other ways in which you lead into questions allows the guests to feel comfortable. These conversations have the feel of "we're all just sitting around and having a small group discussion" even though you have over a million subscribers. Many are careful I'm sure not to say the wrong thing, but it's always fun. I wish you and Jonathan could've talked to Alanis longer.
I started Martial Arts when I was 6. Coincidentally the same age I got my 1st CD being Jagged Little Pill! By 15 I had to "retire" Martial Arts due to back injury from a car accident. I basically went insane from 15-20 until I fpund yoga. Saved my life! I didnt think I would be able to find all of the benefits of martial arts again.
Everyone needs to find something that removes stimuli, stops thinkings, and improves breathing. Walking, meditation, running, stretching, anything.
Absolutely agree! Thanks so much for sharing, Paul, and for watching!!
Somehow I knew that behind the “All I Really Want” author there’re a great human being with a very well furnished head. So thankful for these other two exceptional souls behind this podcast for bringing and ”de-construct” Alanis so, so well. And Mayim..how I adore you singing!!!
Quoting same Alanis lyrics:
“It’s all I really want, some patience
A way to to calm me down
And I I want is deliverance
A place to find a common ground”
That’s what this podcast is to me..between lot other things.💜
100000%
I have never heard someone speak about the lyrics of music the way you do. That is exactly how I feel. I could talk to you for hours about what the words do. I actually really needed to hear that in this time of my life. Thank you.
It is really great seeing two beautiful women talk for an hour. Thank you, Mayim, for having Alanis on today, you two are such a delight. These podcasts are the best part of my week!
Exactly what Mayim said. From 1993 and after, I felt that Alanis was saying what I wanted to hear and said, every álbum was kinda companion for me in my girl-becoming-a woman years
She looks beautiful and just glows and exudes happiness and positivity. Her smile is contagious and makes me smile. Love her music and singing style. What a smart and talented person. It was refreshing to see two women artists and intellectuals from different genres having a deep conversation which was at times over my head but still riveting. Enjoyed that.
This is my favourite episode yet. I was raised on Alanis. When I hear her music I feel it in my body, in the way that I can only compare to the way I feel rage. In my bones, in my history, in my very existence. I LOVE HER ART! And I loved this discussion, thank you❤️
You Can't do that on Television was the BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!
Definitely
Two of my favorite artists / personalities in a room... enjoyed this immensely... both of you, never ever change... so much admiration!!! 😍
I love Alanis Morrisette! What a lovely dialogue between the three of you.
And I have to say Mayim, your rendition of those lyrics was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I love how you explained how your brain intakes music differently than other forms of input.
Another excellent episode on the books!
The way Jonathan looks at Mayim when she sings!!🥹
I’m so excited to listen today..without going into great detail, “You outta know” taught me that it was okay, as a girl for me to feel anger, love, attraction, hurt…huge huge fan. Thank goodness for my Tuesday MB ritual, it really gets me through. ❤
My experience with Alanis’ art and existence is so similar to Mayim’s. I connect to Alanis in a way that I haven’t been able to connect to anyone and I’ve only talked to her for 30 sec once!
I’ve been smiling like an idiot for the whole length of this episode. I love you. Thank you for this awesome conversation about self exploration, growth, expansion and intentional stillness 🎉 this was a joy!!!!
10:43 not everything is "projected"! what is with being touched (by your music, songs, you as person)? what is with understanding somone (you, alanis)? what is with it is helping, listening? what if god is inside us ourselves and not outside in a meditation? yesterday and today i am so thankful to alanis morissette, the person, the self, the being, what she all has shared, given, lived, done, is! i appreciate you so much, without an end!
Loved hearing Alanis talk about the enneagram at 37:40 - 4w5s unite! I've loved every song she's ever released and always felt so connected to her lyrics - I think us both being 4w5s has something to do with this.
Isn’t she the raddest?!?! Thanks so much for watching, Gary!!
Same!! Felt so empowering to hear they’re 4w5s like me!
Yes. Im a 4/5 musician also. Studied the Enneagram for 30 years. Its accurate and empowering.
I feel the same about music. The lyrics and the way it flows just mean so much that alot of ppl (like my soon to be ex husband) never understand why some songs will hit me so emotionally. Jagged little pill came just after high school and all the feelings that come with that album take me right back to that time. At this point I would love to meditate and be at a state of calm. Life gets do chaotic sometimes it feels just so hard to take a breath
Music is fantastic
The power of 🎶🎵!!!
Singing along to Cocteau Twins is another level of meditation!! I really appreciate you all mentioning the flooding of emotions that can happen during mediation so that more people are prepared for that jarring surprise.
I've so been wishing for these two women to get together and chat...love them both!
Alaniss was, is and will always be so honest and great!!!
My HSP Rolemodel. I always have and always will love Alanis and her music. And I love you both.
"Thank you" in particular for adressing the rage. My emotions often are way too intense to function outside of my own personal space.
Just knowing that I'm not alone with this "Hulkish" energy which is so intimidating even for myself sometimes is liberating. 💚
Thank you alanis.your energy is unbelievable... Fill it. Omri
another amazing conversation out here healing the world. Alanis is amazing, what's her secret for aging in reverse while still gaining wisdom?
I learned that the invent of electricity (lights, phones, TVs) has hurt our ability to rest. When there wasn’t electricity, people would sleep on average 8-11 hours due to lack of sunlight for those hours
An important fact to remember! 🧠🔥
I fully believe that this one of the most beautiful humans in the whole world. And yes I am a highly sensitive person and also empathetic. I find this very awesome she's helping others find themselves with meditation 💕💕
I love Alanis on the great north
Wish the conversation lasted longer! It seemed cut short
"Observing and processing things... bouncing between the micro and macro" Yes!
I got to thank Alanis for introducing me to you mialik, I'm a gay boy 1987, moved a lot growing up, but Alanis has been my favorite singer since before I can remember. First thing I told everyone. Pentecostal Midwestern, Virginia Beach for middle school... And 9/11 then back to the midwest. Basically all that has carried over with technology I'm gratious and thankful for you both! ❤
44:34 full body goosebumps when you sang that. I feel a release akin to freedom when I hear those parts.
"just kept showing up and keeping those pictures alive until they manifest," what a fascinating sense, it's essentially what I've been doing too but thankful for her having put it into words! I love Alanis Morissette, this was one of my favorite interviews including two of my favorite people, and I like you Jonathan too!! :)
I used to have jagged little pill on CASSETTE when I had my first car in the 90's. Loved that album. Felt such a rebel rockin out to that. Great interview
She is my adolescence! I could totally hug her!!
She was on the scene before 1995. Those of us in Ottawa will remember a fun program from CJOH TV - Bushnell communications. That program called - You Can’t Do that onTV that she was in.
I wish these podcasts could be much longer! Especially with someone like Alanis. I feel like you all just scratched the surface of what could be an even deeper and more interesting conversation. You all clearly speak the same language and it's so interesting to watch! X
Gosh I could listen to these two women talk all day ❤️
Um this is awesome. My favorite part was when Jonathan is actively listening to Mayim about her relationship to music. 😭🥰
I LOVE Alanis Morisette's music!!
WOW! There’s so much things amazing in this episode. Both in Alanis part and in MB & JC “solo” part (how much in tune with Jonathan here, btw) that make almost two different episodes in one! As the eternal apprentices of life we’re & as the unfinished “work in progress” (quoting Mayim) we’re till our last breath, armed with great dose of humility & openminded, I sit, listen, learn but mostly ENJOY this 💎gem of podcast!
A note: I did once all Enneagram Institute +100 questions. A Type #2 greeting you all!
When listening to those parts of the song "You learn" I feel exactly the same things. For me, is a feeling like my soul is in jail, struggling to find something that got lost across the Universe and in this part is like it explodes and I finally free. It happens in many of her songs, specially during the "bridge" parts. Alanis is someone really special to me, I wish she could know how important and inspiring she is to me and to so many people who is trying to find some relief. Great to see too amazing women like you and her talking about life. Thanks for that!
Two extremely intelligent women (and man) with DEPTH, wow. Great trio.
Love you, Mayim. Amazing example of intelligence, humility, HUMOR and class. Acting career is great and you've done a wonderful job, but it's your humanity, education and imperfections that make you the successful, rare 💎 gem that you are. We need more women like YOU. Big Hugs from Vermont, Heidi Lessard
I really appreciate the acknowledgment of someone who has a lot of trauma being flooded by trying to meditate. Flooded!
Alanis has been such a monumental part of my life growing up in my teens. She's such an incredibly wise woman in lyrics/life.
Thanks for taking time speaking with her ❤
Everyone is on their own path. Each soul has a contract and there are reasons for everything. Every single life has a purpose ☮️❣️✨
I'm looking forward to sitting down to watch this one. Alanis is an iconic leader in the mental health sphere.
She gained my deepest admiration and respect when I learned she survived post partum depression, undiagnosed and untreated for over a year I believe. I barely survived 3 months of that. She is amazing.
Amazing in every arena she touches. Thanks so much for sharing a bit of your own journey, bjulia33, and for watching!
Two of my, “Top 10 women on the planet,” having an intelligent conversation.
High praise!!! Thanks so much for watching, Kelli! 🧠🫶
This music is medicine. I will make it back to the podcast, promise. 🧡 Thank you for this.
So happy you found us, Shoshonna! 🧠🫶
I'm geeking out like the teen girl I was when I fell in love with Alanis!! Excited!
You all being able to share and be open, brave and honest is so helpful. I am better able to deal and think through, feel, express.... "all the things". Just so grateful to see this and watcher's appreciate it!
So very glad this episode is resonating with you, Elizabeth! Thanks so much for watching!!
Alanis Morissette is SO well spoken and I totally "get" what she is talking about.
That song "Learn" does that to me everytime too! Specially the fire trucks part omg!!!
I agree Mayim! She was ahead of her time with mindfulness. Her podcasts are also fantastic resources. Thank you for everything, Alanis. ❤
I loved her on You Can't Do that on Television in the Nickelodeon era. I love her music. But her being a lovely soul is the best part of it.
I love Alantis’ support of Marianne Williamson - writing 😊her song. ❤🎉😊
I don't remember where I learned it but chaotic music and action can be calming, kind of like shaking a jar of sugar to align/settle the crystals and make room for more (airspace)
I love that Alanis found the freedom to write. I hate when people define others by the only thing they've seen (boxes, labels and typecasting)
Mayim, you're interviewing is so skillful. Authentic, considerate, present. This convo fills me with inspiration.
I agree. I think most people pass out before rest. I did that alot when first meditating. I love the in-between.
I didnt think i would love Mayim or Alanis more. Until i seen them in an interview together.
While I dig Alanis and grew up with her, I'm REALLY trying to get Mayim's attention because I'm hoping she could help me for some neurological issues.
I don't know if there is some magical way to have a better chance of being able to get recognized so here I am. 🤷♀️
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Jagged little pill was my favorite album when I was 8. I didn't even understand most of what she was talking about but I just loved it. This talk is amazing.
How Mayim described the effect of Alanis' music on her is how I feel about Florence and the Machine. Lyrics of hers will just HIT me, and tend to find me at just the right time in my life.
In true brilliance, an poetic, Alanis fashion, I love how she flipped the saying, and called her new cd, the storm before the calm! She is ineffably brilliant, and if I ever go back to teaching English, I'm going to make her lyrics mandatory, for us, to read, because she is one of the best poets and contemporary, of my time! I love you with all my heart, Alanis🌟🎁🥰🕊️! Your music has been the soundtrack to my 20s, both a glorious and miserable time, but you were the soundtrack to everything I was feeling and living! U've also helped me get through my suffering, with Grace, & u inspired me, to better & more creatively articulate, my range of sentiments & emotions, in my writing of poetry, so Thank You, which is also my anthem song! I am also incredibly humbled by your intelligence & vast knowledge, on any given topic, but you've also inspired me, on my lifelong journey, to deeper spirituality & communion, with the God of all good, not the demigod of this world! I am so excited about this CD & can't wait to hear it & read the liner notes which is my first go to! Thank you so much for unabashedly sharing your raw honesty & conveying your deepest & most personal life experiences that we, as fans, & fellow human kind also appreciate, as we are doing more suffering, than not, in this lunatic asylum, we call earth, the prison planet! Much love & blessings,2 u, & your beautiful family, dear Alanis! 💖🙏🎁🌟🥰🕊️✨💫🌟 ps. Just learning that your name came from the story of Atlantis & a Merman, a Demi god, also named Alanis