Brave Being the Podcast: Recent Episodes
Bridget Tedeschi
In this special episode of Brave Being, Bridget is joined by her young friend Elliot to discuss the pressing issues of our time: homework, dessert, the racket of lego prices, and dogs.
Topics Include:
- The tyranny of worksheets
- Benefits of Lego sets
- Reading for ages 6-12
- The value of animal/child relationships
- And other topics…
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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The challenges of everyday life can create unpleasant feelings for us. Things don’t go our way, people are difficult, or sometimes we just feel off. Paradoxically, the more we resist these unpleasant feelings, the more stressed our nervous system becomes.
In today’s episode, Bridget discusses how acceptance can be used to work with feelings of unpleasantness. She discusses why acceptance is central in mindfulness and meditation, and how acceptance can help us be better parents.
Topics Include:
- Conscious discipline
- How resistance creates stress
- The power of mindfulness to create space for acceptance
- Why judgment of others leads to self-judgment
- How acceptance transforms relationships
- And other topics…
Resources Mentioned:
Conscious Discipline w/ Becky Baily: https://consciousdiscipline.com/
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The ability to regulate one’s behavior is arguably the ultimate life skill. When we model this for our children, we set them up for a lifetime of success.
But dysregulation manifests differently for children and adults, making it challenging for us to respond appropriately. When our child is in the middle of a meltdown and nothing is working, we often feel helpless and resort to counterproductive measures.
In today’s episode, Bridget discusses dysregulation and why it is the root of all challenging behaviors. She explains how understanding dysregulation can solve many of our parenting challenges, how to spot and deal with dysregulation in ourselves and our kids, and what to avoid when doing so.
Topics Include:
- Helping kids build regulatory skills
- How dysregulation differs in children and adults
- Behaviors that exacerbate and perpetuate dysregulation
- Training the brain's response to challenges
- Modeling regulatory behavior for our kids
- And other topics…
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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Every parent wants to communicate with their child from a place of love. Yet, despite the deep love we have for our kiddos, we often find ourselves communicating from a place of fear.
In today's episode, Bridget discusses why intentionality is the key to communicating from the heart. She discusses how reactivity pulls us away from the heart, and how a commitment to intentional communication can help us cut through our reactive responses.
Topics Include:
- Why our reactive responses often backfire
- Holding space for communication breakdowns
- Navigating deviant behavior
- How fear prevents intentionality
- Creating a word for your year
- And other topics...
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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Our obsession with being productive keeps us so busy that we often forget to stop and smell the roses.
Even when we do take a few moments of downtime, our minds are quick to rush along to the next thing we have to get done.
In today’s episode, Bridget discusses how this mindset affects our kids and hinders our capacity for connection. She discusses what we can learn from observing how our kids approach their activities and what we can do to make space for downtime and connection.
Topics Include:- How staying busy can stunt our growth
- Trusting what needs to get done will get done
- Why spontaneity is essential for play
- Taking the preciousness of childhood for granted
- Creating connection with those you love
- And other topics
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When our kids are the target of unwanted attention, often our first impulse is to step in as their protector.
Unfortunately, our efforts typically aren't effective. And as kids grow older these types of interactions only become more complicated.
In today’s episode, Bridget explores how we can equip kids with the tools they need to navigate tough situations. She discusses why the desire to protect our kids often backfires, and how we can empower them to stand up for themselves and set clear boundaries.
Topics Include:
- When to let kids sort it out, and when to intervene
- Helping our kids problem-solve, rather than trying to solve their problems
- Avoiding “you should”, and what to say instead
- The empowering effect of standing up for yourself
- Three strategies for dealing with “that kid”
- And other topics…
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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@bridgettedeschi
We’ve all been there. Heels dug in, both sides are convinced "I’m right," and no one's budging an inch. How do we avoid these power struggles while maintaining our authority?
In this episode, Bridget breaks down why we end up in power struggles and how to avoid them.
Topics Include:- Why perception is the root of power struggles
- Letting go of being right
- Viewing behavior as communication
- How to honor the feelings of others while maintaining strong boundaries
- What to do when kids become aggressive
- And other topics...
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Today we discuss the importance of play and how children use play to process important events.
We discuss the TV show Bluey, why Bridget is a fan, and how we can use play to instill autonomy in our kiddos.
Topics Include:
- The importance of physical and imaginary play
- How play helps children integrate life skills
- Allowing our children to lead during playtime
- Creating dedicated time for play
- And other topics
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Uncertainty is one of the most uncomfortable feelings for humans to manage. In our rapidly changing post-COVID world, there's no shortage of uncertainty–especially as a parent.
Getting clear on our core values and defining a vision for our family can help us navigate uncertainty with purpose and confidence. In this episode, Bridget discusses how to bring awareness to our core values and how we can instill these values in our children.
Topics Include:
- Why lack of clarity leads to stress and burnout
- How clear values act as an anchor during uncertain times
- The power of clarity to calm our nervous system
- Teaching children specific values by labeling behaviors
- Creating a vision together as a family
- And other topics…
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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Schools are back in session, but the gap in organized education brought about by COVID has left many parents feeling like their children are falling behind.
In this episode, Bridget discusses how we can empower our kiddos to overcome any social-emotional deficits they may be experiencing in the classroom.
Topics Include:
- Taking responsibility for your child’s social-emotional education
- Identifying age-appropriate social behaviors
- Focusing on what you can control in the classroom
- Modeling the regulation of strong feelings at home.
- And other topics…
Resources Mentioned:
Eric Erickson, developmental psychologist
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When you encounter a challenge as a parent, it’s all too easy to jump on google or grab that parenting book in search of a solution.
The sheer number of resources can be overwhelming. And if you’ve played this game for any length of time, you know the results are often disappointing.
What if we learned to look inward for solutions first?
We all have unique backgrounds and values as parents. What works for others may not work for us, and what works for some kids may not work for our kids.
In this episode, Bridget explores how we can tune into our inner wisdom as a parent, bringing our unique background and values to the table when dealing with parenting challenges.
Topics Include:
- How trusting your inner wisdom models independence for your kids
- Instilling our deepest values in our kiddos
- Taking the time to discover your child’s unique needs
- Being willing to fail and try new things
- Building confidence as a parent
- And other topics...
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Parenting is tough.
We enter parenthood with dreams of being the best parent ever. But it doesn’t take long for us to discover how hard it is to balance our busy lives with the challenges of modern parenting.
Things become even more complicated when we have a child with difficult behaviors and big emotions.
This next season of Brave Being is designed to help you navigate the challenges of modern parenting. We’ll be sharing insights and strategies to help you become a proud, confident parent.
We all want our kids to be happy and successful. Together, we can raise happy, resilient kiddos capable of taking on life’s challenges.
In this episode we explore:
- The fear that our child may not grow out of problem behaviors
- Why connection is the solution to your parenting challenges
- How to create connection through authenticity and vulnerability
- Feeling our feelings and working with uncomfortably
- Trusting our intuition to guide our parenting decisions
- And other topics…
Want to connect with Bridget? Find her online at:
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We made it to episode 100!! A deep offering of gratitude to each and every one of you who have been on this journey with us, and a warm welcome to new listeners who are just now finding the show. In this episode, Bridget offers a reflection on our first 100 episodes. She shares what she sees as the highlights of the podcast thus far, and her intentions for the show moving forward.
Topics Include:
How this podcast was born out of motherhood. Transformation as the dance of life. The uncomfortable nature of change. Identifying, managing, and processing emotions. Getting stuck in our stories. The lost episode. The collective disruption caused by the pandemic. Finding the courage to have brave conversations. Discussing challenging topics with our kiddos. And much more.
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Are you struggling to set clear boundaries around screen time with your kiddos? In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses strategies for managing screen time for our kiddos and for ourselves as we move into the summer months.
Topics Include:Establishing that screen time is a privilege, not a right. Setting clear boundaries and time limits around screen use. Why we as caregivers need to model healthy screen time habits for our kiddos. The dangers of using screens as a soothing tactic. Avoiding screens before bed, and much more.
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Bridget discusses the common trap many of us fall into when dealing with defiant children–the impulse to withhold connection. Bridget explores why withholding connection, or threatening to withhold connection, can unconsciously communicate to our kiddos that they are not worthy of love, and how we can handle difficult moments differently.
Topics Include:Creating an environment of safety and security, choosing love over rejection, why threats don't work long-term, committing to connection even when it's hard, working through challenges in our adult relationship, and other topics...
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Bridget connects with listeners on the lessons of parenthood, and the ways in which our children are our greatest teachers.
Topics Include:
- What kiddos teach us about time and patience
- Self-compassion. Knowing what you are doing is enough
- Integrating your desires with the responsibilities of childhood
- Spontaneity and fun as a parent
- Maintaining our childs sense of wonder
- And other topics...
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Bridget continues her series on anger, heartbreak, and grief, guided by Glennon Doyle's book Untamed, and discusses how grief can provide us with a doorway into deep transformation.
Topics Include:
- Grief as a doorway to transformation
- Avoidance
- Processing grief
- Connecting with our inner child
- Surrender
- And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
Book – Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Website – https://togetherrising.org/
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Bridget follows up with listeners on last week's episode about anger, heartbreak, and grief. In this episode, Bridget discusses heartbreak, motherhood, and how heartbreak can guide us to find purpose and meaning in our lives.
Topics Include:
- The relationship between heartbreak and purpose
- Purpose and belonging in motherhood
- Answering the door when heartbreak knocks
- How heartbreak can reveal our deepest callings in life
- And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
Book – Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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Bridget discusses with listeners what we stand to lose when we neglect difficult emotions, and how facing our challenges head-on can help us tune into our authentic selves.
Topics Include:
- The cheetah at the zoo
- Answering the door when difficult emotions arise
- Finding ourselves through difficult emotions
- Anger, and what it may be signaling to us
- Boundaries
- And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
Book – Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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Bridget continues her previous discussion on the Boulder, Colorado shooting, how we might make sense of such events, and what we can do to reduce incidents of violence as a community.
Topics Include:
- Responding to tragedy and grief
- Making sense of mass shootings
- Remembering we were all once innocent children
- Teaching empathy and mindfulness in schools
- Creating space for men to express their feelings
- And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
YouTube Video: How we can Reduce Bullying, School Shootings, and Violence
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Bridget discusses the topic of modeling, how children learn by observing what we do rather than what we say, and what this means for how we express ourselves to our kiddos.
Topics Include:
- Children learn through observation, not description
- Managing confrontation in front of our kiddos
- Modeling the behaviors and values we tell our kids are important
- Why our children often express the things we as parent suppress
- Children that express aggression
- Realistic expectations as a parent or caregiver
- And other topics...
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Bridget discusses the Colorado grocery store shooting that took place this week, and how we can have brave conversations with our kiddos about this tragedy and other acts of violence.
Topics Include:
- The normalization of violence in our culture
- Resisting the urge to shelter our children from reality
- Brave conversations with kiddos about violence
- Naming what has occurred, being mindful of the feelings that arise, and holding space for questions and reflections
- Fighting our numbness to tragedy
- And other topics...
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.facebook.com/bravebeing
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Bridget discusses the topic of mirroring and how young children look to their parents and primary caregivers as examples of how to behave in the world.
Topics Include:
- Developmental changes for one-year-olds
- Mirror neurons
- Promoting development and learning through modeling
- Building neuropathways
- Why "do as I say, not as I do" can't work with kiddos
- Mirroring with siblings
- Developing coping skills
- And other topics...
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In today's episode, Bridget discusses the pent-up energy many of us are feeling right now, our kiddos included, and how we might manage expectations of our children and ourselves during this time.
Topics Include:
- Managing pent-up energy from winter and the pandemic
- Suspending our problem-solving brains
- The impulse to intervene more than maybe we should
- Letting your kids sort things out
- Finding empathy for ourselves during these challenging times
- And other topics...
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In today's episode, Bridget discusses our need to feel right, why differences in relationships are as important as shared interests, and how having a healthy relationship with these differences can foster more resilient children.
Topics Include:
- Our attachment to being right
- The fantasy of being completely on the same page with someone else
- Better together because of our difference, not in spite of them
- Choosing a partner that pushes our growth
- How being exposed to different values fosters resilience in children
- And other topics
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In today's episode, Bridget addresses the growing tensions in today's society, how being stuck in a survival state causes us to lose sight of our common humanity, and what we can do to navigate these feelings.
Topics Include:
- The survival state
- The intensifying of dichotomies in society
- Being a role model for our children and the world
- Letting go of being right
- The power of kindness
- Leaning into love, even in moments of anger
- And other topics...
Resource Mentioned:
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
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Bridget connects with listeners on the topic of unconditional love, the tragedy of love's trivialization in popular culture, and why unconditional self-love is the key to contentment.
Topics Include:
- Pop culture's trivialization of love
- Love vs unconditional love
- Being loved, unconditionally–our deepest human desire
- Defining unconditional love
- How we shape our child's inner dialogue
- Self-love, and ego
- Material satisfaction vs inner contentment
- And other topics...
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Resources Mentioned:
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/unconditional-self-love-looks-like/
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Bridget opens up to listeners about her recent experience of tragedy, the pain of being seen when we are hurt, and how tragedy provides us with a precious opportunity for growth...
Topics Include:
- How tragedy forces us to confront the reality of our lives...
- The fear of being seen when you are hurting...
- Borrowing another's belief in you when you need it...
- Being mindful of our resilience as we move through tragedy...
- Trusting that out of darkness comes light...
- And other topics...
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Bridget discusses the scientific benefits of mindfulness-based practices, the importance of keeping your practice simple, and resources that can help you on your mindfulness journey...
Topics Include:
- Doing more by doing less...
- The scientific benefits of mindfulness-based practices...
- Starting simple–finding a practice that can be done anywhere...
- Creating space for subconscious processing...
- Reducing reactivity...
- Resources to help you on your mindfulness journey...
- And other topics...
A quote for you :) "Quiet the mind and the soul will speak"
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.headspace.com/
https://www.calm.com/
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In today's episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses how we can model healthy attachment to self for our kids, a foundational skill they will draw from for the rest of their lives.
Topics Include:
- A foundation for life–teaching kids to cope with big emotions
- Modeling healthy attachment as a parent
- Understanding our feeling states
- The relationship between feeling states and physical sensations
- Three parts of attachment to self
- Parent/child communication
- How your parenting will impact future generations
- And other topics…
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the transition back to our day to day routines from holiday festivities and the emotions that come along with it.
Topics Include:
- The hangover of intense emotions
- Getting back into normal rhythms and routines
- The dynamic nature of emotions
- How our constant need for more leads to burnout
- The relationship between joy and sorrow
- Returning to the simple pleasures
- And other topics...
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Bridget addresses the parental burnout many of us are feeling right now, and gives listeners tips and ideas for how to avoid it.
Topics Include:
- The psychological condition of parental burnout
- The power of choice. Being selective to avoid burnout
- Let your kids be bored! Really. It’s okay :)
- How creating simple daily rhythms can help us (and our families!) avoid burnout
- The importance of staying connected while social distancing
- And other topics...
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Happy New Year Brave Beings!! In this episode, Bridget discusses the practice of goal setting in the new year, how you can avoid setting goals that you likely won't follow through with, and how you can set intentions that align with your deeper desires.
Topics Include:
- New year intentions
- Why most of us fail to execute on our new year's goals
- Intellectual versus intuitive goals and intentions
- Setting goals that align with our deeper desires
- Setting the intention to be more intentional
- And other topics...
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Bridget recaps the topics we've discussed on the podcast this year, intentions moving into 2021, and shares her birthday wish with her audience.
Topics Include:
- Adventures in motherhood
- Why being a mother is the most important job in the world
- Reflections on 2020, and the emotions we've felt
- Understanding and navigating our own emotions
- Awareness as our greatest resource
- Gratitude
- And other topics.
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Bridget shares with listeners how we can use family traditions to foster connection and nurture family values.
Topics Include:
- The power of family traditions and rituals
- Creating space for connection
- How traditions provide an opportunity to instill family values
- Creating your own family traditions
- And other topics
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Bridget follows up with listeners on last week's episode, extending the balancing perceptions exercise to other life events and challenges. Bridget shares how we can use this exercise to find joy in our lives anytime, anywhere.
Topics Include:
- Recognizing that joy is always available to us
- Accepting that life is a full experience, and that all the emotional states come with
- Resilience
- Our obsession with extreme states, and the danger inherent in them
- Dealing with the loss of a loved one
- Doing the work to identify the benefits of challenging experiences
- And other topics
“We can have resolution with anything, anytime–if we are willing to do the work to get it.”
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Happy Gratitude Week! In this episode, Bridget reflects on the challenges we've faced in 2020 and guides listeners through an exercise to bring mindfulness to the benefits this year may have provided us with.
Topics Include:
- Remembering what is truly important
- Reflecting on the challenges of this year
- Finding a diamond in the rough
- Struggle and pain as the gateway to true joy
- The balancing perceptions exercise
- Post-traumatic growth
- And other topics
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Bridget shares with listeners how we can calm an overwhelmed or anxious mind by mindfully reconnecting with our bodies, and shares a technique for doing so.
Topics include:
- Coming back to our physical beings in chaotic times
- Tuning into bodily sensations
- How thoughts manifest into bodily sensations
- Disrupting repetitive thought patterns
- Working with bodily sensations
- And other topics
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Bridget continues her discussion on the mental and emotional health of children, the failure of our society to adequately equip children with the skills to regulate their emotions, and things we can do to change this.
Topics Include:
- Reframing mental health as emotional health
- Why 0 to 3 is an important age group for longterm emotional well-being
- Emotional development strategies for the 0 to 3 age group
- How trauma changes the composition of our brains
- Addressing the current emotional health crises in children and young adults
- Remember, your children are extraordinarily resilient and can quickly learn new skills
- And other topics
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In this episode of Brave Being the podcast, Bridget shares with listeners how we can use mindfulness to manage our post-election emotions.
Topics include:
- The relationship between future-focused thoughts and intense emotions
- Remember, whatever you are feeling right now is only temporary
- Detaching our internal process and well-being from external circumstances
- Staying present and centered amidst tumultuous times
- Practicing mindfulness
- Why focusing on the future will orient you to fear and extreme states
- The present moment as our place of resource
- And other topics
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It’s mental health awareness month! In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the connection between our mental and physical well-being, and shares with listeners how we might reframe mental health as emotional health.
Topics include:
- Dispelling myths around mental health challenges
- Fighting stigma
- Reframing mental health as emotional health
- The connections between physical and emotional health
- Emotional well-being as a lifelong, active process
- Indicators that your emotional health may need attention
- When to seek therapy
- Meaningful relationships, vulnerability, and other pillars of emotional health
- And other topics.
Resources:
Places to get a therapist: www.betterhelp.com
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
www.pyschologytoday.com
www.MentalHealth.gov
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Bridget is joined by life coach and podcaster Nicole Baker to discuss how to fortify your mindset and confront imposter syndrome.
Topics of conversation include:
- Placing visual affirmations in your immediate environment to punctuate habitual thinking
- Thoughts are driven by where you focus your attention. What are you focusing on?
- Breaking down the trigger, behavior, reward loops that feed our habitual behaviors
- Utilizing physicality to hack your mindstates
- The power questions have in shaping our thoughts
- And other topics
Resources Mentioned:
Instagram @lifecoachbaker
Life Coach Baker Podcast
Life Coach Baker Website
Guide to Creating Your Perfect Morning Routine
Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget shares with her listeners strategies for managing difficult feelings when you are having a sad day. Topics included: Bridget’s history of depression and how she’s learned to manage it through psychotherapy, recognizing the difference between having sad days and slipping into depression, healthy and unhealthy coping strategies for managing difficult feelings, the importance of keeping healthy coping strategies simple and accessible, coping tools such as writing and exercise, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the tendency to lose our authentic self as we transition into adulthood and begin to embody the expectations of the world. Featuring an introduction from a very special guest, Parker G., Bridget shares with listeners an exercise they can use to connect with their inner child and to explore their authentic self. Topics include: modeling your true self as a parent, honoring the whole self including parts we may feel averse to, how to find clarity as we investigate our authenticity, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget shares how her experience with play therapy informs how she thinks about human behavior and interactions. Topics include: play as something we are always engaging in irrespective of age, framing our understanding of how we interact with the world as play, three different lenses to look at play through and their associated energy states, the transformative model and how it relates to play, play being the tool by which we integrate our emotions and overcome challenges, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the psychology concept modeling and how it relates to our common desire to create change in the world. As human beings, our primary form of learning comes through enacting the behaviors that have been modeled to us, specifically those that communicate who we are and how we ought to be in the world. Bridget explains why she believes the most effective way to transform our world is to model in a congruent and authentic way.
Topics include: examining how we show up in the world, being a role-model in our relationships and our community, how to hold big emotions triggered by injustice and tragedy, the need to address our internal states in preparation to take on our external environments, learning to live in alignment with our authentic selves, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being the Podcast, Bridget takes a deep dive into the topic of validating feelings. Topics include: validating feelings as a parenting strategy, how learning to validate the feelings of others teaches us how to show up as our authentic selves, moving away from our conditioned fix, rescue, or problem-solve response to negative emotions, why negative emotions are integral to understanding ourselves, simplifying negative emotions down to mad, sad, and scared in framing the question “how might I feel if this was happening to me?”, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget connects with listeners to discuss the parenting challenges many of us are experiencing as a result of the pandemic. Topics of conversation include: setting boundaries and teaching our kiddos that it is okay to be disappointed, understanding that our mindful presence is all that children yearn for, being realistic about the roles that we can and cannot fulfill in our kids’ lives, the importance of showing vulnerability, how we can use this situation to model resilience and balance for our children, and other topics.
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In this episode of Brave Being the Podcast, Bridget discusses how we can show up authentically and settle into the new, new normal that life is presenting us with. Topics of conversation include: how being vulnerable gives people around us permission to do the same, the connection between childhood and mindfulness, the unique parenting challenges many of us are experiencing right now, how we might reframe our experience of the pandemic, confronting and being present with our emotions and experiences rather than running to thoughts of the past or future, and other topics. This week, we have a challenge for you. When somebody asks you how you are doing, be brave and share genuinely. Let us know how it goes, and we will see you next week!
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We are back! Welcome to another episode of Brave Being the Podcast. Thank you for joining us! In this episode, Bridget reestablishes her intentions for the podcast and gets clear on her offering for the Brave Being audience. Topics covered include: the birth of Bridget’s daughter, moving towards our authentic self and becoming a brave being, Bridget’s first therapy session with a child and what she learned from the experience, being willing to be vulnerable with the things that cause us pain, the principles and intentions behind the podcast and what listeners can expect each week, and other topics.
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We are relaunching the Podcast August 24th. Listen to this special announcement of what is to come and why we have made this decision to take some reprieve for a bit. I look forward to reconnecting with all of August 24th with a new podcast, new format, and new content. Until then please subscribe, so you don't miss an episode. Track back to some of your favorites and give them another listen or join us on our Facebook page @ www.facebook.com/bridgettedeschi
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Pain and suffering has been compounded over centuries to result in a magnitude of sadness that is now being unleashed. It is hard to know what the "right" thing to say is as our society faces the unleashing of this sadness. In this episode I do my best to take accountability for my role in other's suffering. I also discuss my understanding (or sometimes lack there of) of others pain, and suggest to you ways to take similar action so we can change the landscape of our world, the way we treat others, and culminate a new history for humanity.
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Many of us are paralyzed by our fears. If we can find ways to explore them, get curious about them, then we actually can practice more peace of mind. We are in troubling times, that is fostering a lot of fear. In this episode I describe ways to follow your fear, get curious about your fear, and break free of limitation that fears may propose in your mind.
This time in our lives is requiring us to be incredibly flexible. We are having to live life in a completely different way. Which means we have to adapt and change, even when we don't want to. I personally hate having to be flexible, because being inflexible I perceive "I can control" or defy "uncertainty". None of this is actually true. In fact, as a human I am more capable of change than in other creature on the planet. So how do when lean into flexibility and allow ourselves to be fully free in the current landscape? Find out on this new episode.
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I just recently became a parent and I, like many others, am constantly struck by how all the "unconditional love" cliches and "greatest adventure yet" talk is so true. It really got me thinking that without this brand new form of inspiration in my life, where would I actually be? Perhaps more scared than I already am, or more depressed because of the new reality?
Regardless, she brings so much light to the darkness. Kids have always done this in my life. I wanted to do a podcast on how they are our true heroes of this time. Rolling with the punches, amusing us with how they see the world, and even offer us some internal wisdom from time to time. They are truly powerful beings that we do not always recognize their strength.
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Who could use an emotional break? Right? We have all been riding the waves of this crazy time and even those who pride ourselves in the ability to process feelings fall off the wagon sometimes. We are human so this is bound to happen. We get overwhelmed, we reach our limits, and sometimes we just want to give up. Sometimes life is just hard, and it is important for us to know that it ok to avoid, distract and just flat out take a break from our feelings some times.
I share with you my personal experience this week, of not wanting to podcast and the meltdown that followed. And how reality struck that I too, the emotional powerhouse I am, needed to engage in some healthy distraction.
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As we all search for a new normal, our emotions have potential to be hijacked. We have spent a significant amount of time feeling uncomfortable, scared, overwhelmed, and on and on, and now more than ever we are craving to feel "happy." Marketing and advertising companies know this. In the coming weeks, they will be using billions of dollars to try to get us to believe that we are "fine." In other words, gaslighting will be alive and well. It would be tragic if we as a society opt to ignore these past two months and how it has effected us, changed us.
In this episode I feature Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting an article by Julio Gambuto. The article can be found here https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0 In this article Juilio does an magnificent job of warning us of what is to come. I share his ideas in this episode and offer ideas on why having our feelings of this time hijacked does not lead us to a better world.
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Life has been anything but normal lately. At some point we need to decide what our "new normal" is going to look like. As with most change our beings are irritating by having to do such thing and we often gravitate to the life we new before, not the life we have now. We can be empowered around defining this new life if we know how. In this episode I talk about 4 key ways to improve your transition into the new normal. Ways to feel empowered and accepting about what life looks like in the wake of the pandemic. I share my own experiences with defining this in motherhood, business and so on. Enjoy.
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In these challenging times we are looking for anything to break away from the fear and sadness. In this climate of panic, overwhelm and uncertainty it often difficult for us to access joy. Did you know that this is common even when we are not faced with a pandemic? It's true! Joy is one of the hardest emotions to master in our modern world. In this episode I break down the challenges of joy not only in this time, but all the time. I also give you the one key factor in increasing your ability to feel, pure, sustainable JOY.
We all want it, want to spread and most certainly could use it at a time like this. This is an extremely powerful episode that provides you with strategies to access your true, authentic, joy.
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We are all having a collective experience right now. It may not be exactly the same for each of us, but is important that we are sharing in a what can be called a "collective trauma." Trauma deeply agitates our nervous system, which requires us to spend more time tending to our emotional state to stay regulated. Simultaneously the marketing for "transformation" "motivation" and to have some mega life change during quarantine is all over the place. This propaganda is dangerous. It can leave us feeling like we need to "do" instead of "be" during this difficult time. In this podcast, I discuss a trauma psychologist's perspective on this shared experience and offering suggestion to better cope with our emotions are we continue to ride the waves.
Article featured: https://www.upworthy.com/coronavirus-productivity-motivation-myths-dangers
I think we are all sick about talking about the VIRUS. Yet, we are all fixated in the hysteria. Our focus on the hysterics is a great distraction from being called to the bigger moment, the lesson, or the new perspective. Oprah says, "crisis arrives because it has something to teach us." Yet, this teaching moment does not protect us from discomfort. In fact, it often increases it. The lesson may not always be what we want to learn, but allows us to become more resilient to our life experiences and that is the true gift. So this week let's open our eyes to what is around us, what we are experiencing, and what the true lesson is.
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We are forced to be inside, this is so restrictive but yet offers us a unique opportunity to really explore our internal landscape. This episode promotes this gift of time to do internal investigation and to find connection when we are having to disconnect in many ways. Enjoy.
Book List to Build Self-Awareness
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal TransformationBook by Daniel J. SiegelWhen Things Fall Apart Book by Pema ChodromLoving What Is Book By Byron KatieThe Power of Your Subconscious Ming Book By Joseph Murphy You Are a Badass Book by Jen SicernoThe Gifts of Imperfection Book By Berne BrownThe Power of Now Book by ECkhart Tolle
Looking for your questions on processing emotions. What are you struggling with? What emotions feel strong right now and how are coping? How do we process ??? What happens if.. ?? I want to answer your questions on the next podcast. Connect with me here hello@bridgettedeschi.com or through our website www.bridgettedechi.com
It is easy to panic with the current climate. We have a unique opportunity to raise our consciousness in this difficult time. Raising our consciousness allows us to find more purpose in our daily life, even when our routines, jobs, financial stability have been pulled out from under us. In this video I talked about finding moments of purpose to manage your levels of panic in an unpredictable time.
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We continue our building of emotional process by offering more strategies and tools to move distressing emotions. In this episode we focus on the body as the main resources in processing or regulating. We identify why this tool is the best and how to implement it anytime, anywhere.
You will be processing emotions like an expert immediately.
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We are facing a pandemic in our world right now. As much as we are trying to protect our physical health, our mental and emotional health is also at risk. Taking action like isolation or quarantining can have a major impact on our mental state. In addition to the consequence of our daily life being disrupted. I take our podcast online, identifying ways you can keep our mind and your emotions healthy.
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We talk so much about processing our emotions on the podcast. One of the biggest questions I get is exactly how do you do that. Since having a new baby, I have been spending a lot of time processing emotions and regulating through this "mega" life adjustment. So, the timing seemed perfect to really jumping into what this processing emotions thing is all about.
Join me in this content full, two part episode where I help you reframe your emotional experiences, develop new coping tools to deal with emotions, and break down how to simplify your emotional experience on the whole. Don't forget the great resources mentioned in the podcast to help you on your journey.
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We talk a lot about our relationship to self and how we can become more flexible in the way we understand ourselves and others. We enact lots of strategies so we do not have to feel our discomforts with others. Projection is one of them. Our child are amazing examples of this. In this episode I explain what Projecting behavior is, how it creates blocks in our true self and ways we can work with it to gain more insight and becoming Brave Beings.
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I have been in quite the transformation these last 4 weeks. I wanted to be able to share with you my process. We talk so much about transformation and rarely do we get to see it in action. In this episode I reflect on my recent transition into motherhood. It has been packed with lots of joy and discomfort. Offering me great insight into the balance that life can offer us as we enter into our new roles. I also draw parallels between the therapeutic process and childbirth. This is as candid, vulnerable as it gets. Enjoy.
Resources for new moms:
Birthing from Within -Pam England and Rob Horowitz
Guide to Childbirth -Ina May
Mindful Birthing -Nancy Bardacke
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We close out our month on relationship, with another dose of Relationship to Self. In our exploration it is clear that our relationship to self is the most important one to develop. Without this foundation our other relationships will be challenged. In this episode I the importance of the investment in yourself. I provide clear ways to engage in this process. I also suggest getting support is ideal in beginning to open up this window in your Brave Being.
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Parenting is hard work, we all know this. But did you know that children can provide us with some of the most profound insight about ourselves. In this episode we take a closer look at this unique relationship and the profound insights we can gather from the good and challenging of this relationship.
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Romantic relationships are often the most complex element of our lives. We all want to experience love, partnership and intimacy. It is our human nature to desire these things. Yet, experiencing this partnership often has its challenges. In this episode I break down why why these relationships cause so much pain and pleasure. I also provide some tools to navigate finding, maintaining, and nurturing a partnership that can be fulfilling and abundant.
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Did you know the MOST important relationship you will EVER have is the one you develop with yourself? I get it, what does that even mean? Turns out how we relate to ourselves will 100% dictate all other relationships in our lives. So it is pretty crucial that we do some inquiry to find out who we are in there.
In this episode I talk about how to engage with a relationship to self through 3 Key Components. I also share with you what relationship with self really truly means, how it can benefit and bits about my own discoveries in developing my relationship to self.
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Goals, easy to make hard to keep. In this episode I introduce a strategic approach to making goals. Some of us work better with more directive approaches to outlining our desires and dreams. So if goals aren't for you, that's ok. Stick with Intentions and you will get to where you want to go. Goals are for those of us who are more linear thinking and results focused. This process can be used by anyone and I even include a workbook to walk you through the whole thing. Enjoy!
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The hardest part of getting started, is getting started. So often we want to just get to the finish line and we forget that there is a process that supersedes the result. The process itself is what often deters us from going for our dreams, taking risks, and following our heart.
In this episode I talk about how to manage your mind to not quit before you start, what you will need to see your intentions all the way through and specific support that can radically change the outcome of your journey. You are going to want to start something after you listening to this episode.
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Passion and purpose could not be more important to living a full, vibrant life. We absolutely need a reason to wake up everyday, get out of bed and make some magic happen. This is where you "Why" comes into play. Your "why" is what will lead you through difficult times, hardships and challenging emotions. It is so crucial to our existence. Learn how to find your "why" in this episode.
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The new year always bring a wide array of expectations, commitments, and perhaps resolutions. We are bombarded with the external expectations to set out to do something "Great" or "make this the best year yet." The reality is most of us get to February and have jumped ship on whatever that something was. The reason this is because having pressure around expectations and commitments doesn't work.
In this episode I teach how to create INTENTIONS. An approach that is much more personal, profound, and realistic. Intentions won't leave you tired or disappointed, rather than have the power to really build us up, support us and carry us through the entire year. Grab this special worksheet to accompany your process.
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We wrote a book! Yep that is right. We wanted you to be able to have all the teaching, all the insights, and the process accessible to your finger tips. Brave Being: Using Hard Feelings to Unlock Your True Self, is a book designed specifically with you in mind. It offers the opportunity to enhance the application of the work we do on the podcast into your own life. We offer detailed explanations, scientific data, useful exercises anD some wit here and there just to keep the ball rolling.
Join us as we break down all the feature of this book and how it can help you become a BRAVE BEING.
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Everyday we are offered the opportunity to connect, engage and participate in relationship. In these engagements is where we find opportunity to change our behavior, create new patterns and relate to the world differently. As society evolved these moments are becoming fewer and fewer. Our automated society limits the amount of connections we truly can have. So how to protect this vital component of our life? And how do we offer "moments" to those whom most need it?
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Welcome to the holiday season. You either love it or you hate it. Regardless where you fall this time of year tends to come with a lot of expectations. Those in which we put on ourselves or those in which put on each other. This time of year can lead to stress, disappointments and let downs. Resulting in us either have to find a external source of joy, unhealthy coping strategies or isolation.
It is important we be gentle with each other and also ourselves. In this episode learn about how to reduce expectations and avoid the falsified joy. What is "false joy" learn all about it in this episode.
Full disclosure, since the last episode I had a lost my #$%& moment and I gain some additional insight that I thought was crucial to share with you. No matter how much regulation, study, or awareness building we do, we are still human. Therefore we still have moment when our emotions get the best of us. It is in these moments we can REFLECT and learn incredible things about ourselves.
I share my moment with you in the episode and walk you through all the facets, complexities, and insights that occurred. I share this with you to be example of what being human is. What navigating emotional process, transformation, and what a true brave being is. My vulnerability is what makes me stronger.
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Come on, we all "lose it" every once in awhile. Whether it be at work, at home or in the privacy of your own experience, it happens. And even if there haven't been other spectators to your frustration, we often find ourselves feeling ashamed, sad, exhausted and wishing we would have handled it differently. So if this is a fact of life how do we deal with?
In this episode I talk about the 2 Phases of "Losing it" and provide you with clear guidance of how to cope before and after. This episode is sure to reduce your fears, worries and shame around losing your cool.
Pain and discomfort are clearly not a desirable experience. Yet so often the reason we find them to be so challenging is because we make it far more complicated in our mind, than if we were just to experience it. Pain and Discomfort are factors of life, and yet we try so hard to avoid and distract. This avoidance and distraction often leads to more pain and discomfort.
In this episode, I use the metaphor of Child Birth as a way to relay the importance and possibility that pain and discomfort provide. This lens is immensely useful if you have had a child birth experience, are approaching one, or even have just thought about what it might be like to give birth... probably painful! I diffuse your misconceptions about pain and make strong suggestions for how to increase your tolerance, move towards discomfort and reap the many benefits of this process. Turns out our pain and discomfort often results in transformative moments.
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Every think that maybe you are just not totally wired to change? You may be on to something here. There are a lot of factors that go into our ability to have massive transformation in our lives. We often think we want something to be different, yet haven't really fully explored if that is even a possibility for us.
In this episode I talk about our capacity to transform. What factors play into this? How our brain tends to respond? And what we need to enact the transformation that we say we desire? I believe that the ability to transform anything in our life is available to us all. We just need to get smarter than ourselves in discovering what opposition might be up against us in making those changes. This episode is the first step.
Have you ever taken a good look at the people who are in your life? Are they supportive? or critical? Surrounding ourselves with individuals who are supportive of our feelings, experiences, dreams and desires is crucial to our human experience. We need to have the "right" people on our bus if we want to achieve our goals and follow our dream.
When the wrong people take up space in our life it becomes toxic. There voice becomes our voice and being able to focus on what is most important to us is very hard. In this episode I help you determine if you have the right people on your bus and if not how to get them. If you get people in the right seats in your life, you will be unstoppable.
References: "Good to Great" by Jim Collins
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The greatest risks reap the biggest reward. They also come with a whole lot of fear. This fear often keeps us from wanting to take greater risks in our lives. What if you could take risk and feel like it wasn't even about the reward? Rather, it was about the experience of getting to overcome challenge, deepen your relationship to yourself and to grow. Then perhaps a risk wouldn't be so bad. Risks are crucial to your evolution and yet are so hard to confront. This episode invites you to take risk by giving you reasons why it actually benefits your to do so. So what risk are you going to take?
Many of desire to have more money or more simply put, financial security. Yet, we ignore some of the primary principles required to get us that financial freedom. Like, have you ever thought that maybe how you relate to money is a direct reflection of how you relate to yourself? For better or for worse money is complicated relationship in our world. One that many of us could improve upon. Even more so, how we relate to ourselves also could use some work. In this episode I connect these concepts. Showing you on increasing your internal worth may just up the $$$ in your bank account.
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Part of the Brave Being culture is stepping into our personal empowerment and being able to communicate our feelings in relationship. This skill could be considered assertiveness. Our ability to be assertiveness is necessary in reflecting our emotional experience, internal world and experiences in relationship. Often we take a passive approach because we fear how other will respond or react. In doing this we miss out on a fundamental opportunity to not only practice assertiveness but also CONNECTEDNESS.
In this episode I talk about how to be more assertive (not to be confused with aggressive) and how to truly reflect our emotional experience in relationship to feel seen, heard, and understood. Being more assertiveness drive our personal empowerment, deepens our connection to self and ultimately can enhance our interpersonal relationships.
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Did you know that most of what we communicate is NONVERBAL. That's right! Our energy plays a huge part in how we communicate, connect, and engage with others. The crazy thing though is that we often get hooked on words and language and forget to assess what a persons behavior is actually trying to communicate to us.
In this episode I talk about the importance of non verbal communication and give you exact tools to be able to deepen your own understanding of what is being communicated to you besides just language. This can be so powerful in increasing our sustainability, emotional connection, and relationships.
We talk a lot about having a connection to your emotional experience, but where exactly do we find our emotional experience? And what's the point of it all? Well, the more we deepen our connection to our heart the more we gain access to our True Self. Our true self is our essence, our emotional center, our place to access dreams, desires, purpose. It is crucial on our life's path to connect to our heart.
Often it is our mind that gets in the way of deepening our connection to our heart center. Our mind most certainly is responsible for not allowing us to connect to our emotions. This episode allows us to identify these two centers and how they operate in our lives. Neither one is better than the other, they both have a purpose. This episode we clarify how to get these two forces to work together. In working together we are able to have the most optimal life experience possible. ENJOY!
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We all want more time. Ask anyone what they have been up to and they probably will reply with something like... "busy!" See getting more time doesn't mean we need more hours in the day, it means we need to manage our MIND. Our mind is what consumes most of our time and most of our energy. We are often thinking about anything but what is occurring in real time. When we step out of our reality we are sacrificing time and energy.
Our adult brain really struggles with mind management. To have a relationship with our emotions mind mastery is absolutely necessary. I hear it all the time from my adults clients that they don't have time to "feel" because they are so "busy." When in fact there mind is carried away with things that are not even relevant to there life at that moment. It all can be rather simple too. Find out how in this episode on the mind, time and how to get more of it.
Have you ever thought about the first assigned role you had in your life? The one that was given to you after birth.... you were either a daughter or a son. Often in our adulthood we forget about this first assignment and the crucial foundational components it created in our lives. In this episode I share my own reflections on being a daughter, what it's taught me, and how it is impacting my journey into a new role, motherhood.
This episode invites you to also reflect on the teachings of your childhood and the roles that we often abandon as we step into being parents, busy jobs, or active communities. Our first roles in life provide so much insight on how we got to where we are today and even more insight on defining our identity for the future.
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Many of us are living in a scarcity mindset. Meaning we are more focused on what we DON'T have vs. what we do have. This mentality results in us being stuck, not being able to pursue our dreams and breeds more scarcity. In this episode I talk about the difference in these two mind states. I also give you ways to get out of scarcity and into abundance. Abundance is the key to being able to achieve your goals, follow your dreams and have the most fulfilling life.
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Power and Control are concepts that play a vibrant role in our lives. From relationships to work environments to our society as a whole, these ideologies are predominant. However they come at the expense of distracting us from our ability to build greater self-awareness and therefore a stronger relationship to our true self. In this episode I talk about the role power and control play in our daily life. Provide you will clear guidance on how they have function and dysfunction at the same time and also invite you to begin to get curious of how these things play out in your own life.
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What isn't serving you in your life? Have you ever stop and done a thorough evaluation of all the things occupying space within your consciousness? We typically don't because it creates discomfort and fear when we have to let something go. In this episode I discuss reasons to clear out the clutter and ways to manage the discomfort and fear that may accompany this process. When we actually our filling our lives with things that feel supportive to our being, we actually live much healthier, purposeful, lives. So what are you waiting for? It's time to clear out the useless garbage to open yourself up to the land of possibility.
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We have discussed the necessity to allow a full range emotional experience frequently. I wanted to circle back to the roots of emotional process and provide you with more in depth understanding of not just what emotions we have but also how we actually process them. In this two part episode we look at the three basic emotions, mad, sad and scared. I give you an in depth understanding of all signs that may suggest that you are working on one or all three of these feelings. I also give you several compelling reasons as to why we must all adopt a relationship to all our feelings. It is so IMPORTANT! In part two we break down how to actually process them and what it looks like when you have successfully done so.
Shame is like a plague in our minds. In comes in and completely distracts us from our ability to see through experience. Sabotage, doubt, uncertainty all come to surface when shame is present. There is no way for us to avoid it, it is a necessary component of our human experience. In this episode i talk about my own struggles with shame, sharing personal stories of pregnancy, wanting to become a mother and the difficulties and pressures I experienced in this process. There are ways to cope and become stronger in our shame and it starts with us sharing our experience. So here is mine.
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We have all heard the term "boundaries" and been told how with this person or that person we just need to have "better boundaries." Easier said than done! In this episode I share my step by step guide to create healthy boundaries in your life. One of the biggest misconceptions is that we expect others to know what our boundaries are and then get really upset when they aren't being followed. Learn how to determine what your boundaries are, where you need to put them in place and how to fully execute them even in moments of distress.
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So we know how we create it, now how do we get out of it? In this episode I talk about ways to combat the chaos. Through finding more awareness, we can get ourselves out of the dysfunction that chaos can bring and into a deeper connection to ourselves an others. Eliminating chaos is the sure way to maintain our direction, connection, and open up the possibilities of our journey.
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Drama, power & control, fantasy thinking, lack of personal worth, these are all symptoms of chaos. Chaos has become the norm in how we relate to one another and ourselves. It often creates significant distraction, pain, and suffering from our life's path and journey. In this podcast I explore ways we create chaos in our lives. Uncovering the reality that we all have been caught in the chaos game. Many of us fight it on a daily basis. It is understanding it that we can them begin to combat it.
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There are a lot of ideas about what "Self-Care" is in our culture. There is also a lot of expectations around how this practice to SHOULD look in our lives. In this episode, I share with you the real definition of self-care and invite you to explore how you can access a relationship with the practice every moment of every day through simple strategies. I challenge the ideas that make self-care unattainable for us and celebrate the ability to find a RESTORATIVE way to live our lives every day.
Grief is meant to be shared. Yet, many of us find ourselves holding it in, isolating, or trying to ignore that emotions that are connected to the loss. In this episode I share my own struggles with grief and loss as an example of the importance of sharing your story, exploring the emotional context and finding the sensational components that help to move the energy. This is not a "fix it" approach, this is a "feel it" approach. Too many of us are paralyzed by the losses in our lives it is time to open our hearts and share these monumental sad moments that have forever changed who we are.
Featured in this Episode:
Maya Angelou in her Book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I will no longer be among those living in this valley of strange humors. I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else. I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country of no return. Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake.I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting? ' with ' it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
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Our ability to have trust in our process, decisions and journey in life is crucial to being able to withstand challenges over the course of our lifetime. In this Episode I have you join me on a driving journey (yea I am podcasting from the car, enjoy the road noise!) as I talk about the ability to develop Self-Trust. Self-Trust truly embodies all the things that we desire in life. The ability to feel secure, confident, empowered and go after our biggest dreams. It is the secret sauce to eliminating doubt and uncertainty for go. I tell you how to gain more self-trust and be set free from the chaos and doubt that circulates our humanness leading to failed goals, unwanted emotions, and lost dreams.
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You have done your values cards and now are ready to put them into action. Understanding these key components in yourself are crucial to making major magic happen in your life. It allows us to understand ourselves and others so much more clearly. It also allows us to see what we may not value in our lives and how we can shift our thinking to value those things. In doing this we create more abundance, ease, flow and less chaos, overwhelm and negative feelings of self. This powerful work in understanding who you are and what you are meant to be and do.
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Understanding your personal values are crucial to your identity. They are truly what defines who we are, what we like and dislike and how cohesive we can be in certain relationships. With all these factors it is clear that knowing your values can have a huge impact on your passion and purpose. Values also often provide a lot of clarity to understanding our human interactions, relationships, and why at times we may get triggered by them. In understanding ourselves we ignite a fire to begin to understand others. Values are crucial to our humanness and being a brave being. Join me to discover your personal values.
Resources in this episode:
http://www.motivationalinterviewing.org/sites/default/files/valuescardsort_0.pdf
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We all experience moments in our life that come out of nowhere. This unpredictability often results in chaos, lack of clarity, and lots of challenges. In this episode I unravel the functions of the brain to provide a scientific perspective as to why unpredictability is so challenging for us. Then I talk about the necessity of it in our lives and how certain perceptions shifts can allow us to experience it with more grace and ease. I also give you so step by step ideas to be able to combat the chaos and lean into the gratitude when this arises.
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In this episode I talk about the importance of "meaning" in your life and how to create more of it. Meaning is a necessary for our growth and development. Without it we often lack passion or purpose, which can lead to chaos, discomfort, unwanted emotions and inability to take action. Through a simple exploration you can find more meaning in your life starting today. It is so much easier than you may think.
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In this episode we talk about what transformation is and when to do you have transformed an area of your life. You will be surprised, it often doesn't look how you think it is. Alicia Lord, joins me again to break down the last stage of the process. This is where the magic happens. Where we get to witness our growth, our evolution and our personal power. We also revisit all the stages to refresh you in how you can take your own challenges are work them through our transformative steps. For more information visit us at www.thebridgecenterforplaytherapy.com or www.bridgettedeschi.com
In this episode we define what building awareness as the 3rd stage in the Transformative Model. This stage is often the most crucial and helps us become very curious about who we are in the world. This stage is where we develop our understanding of patterns and behaviors that we have. As we become aware when are then provided the opportunity to move towards transforming those patterns and invite new patterns. Alicia Lord, joins me for this in depth experience in developing awareness
In this episode I talk about the correlations of discomfort and challenge. I begin introducing you to the Transformative Process. We explore discomfort an opportunity to take action around your perceived challenge. I break down these two states and give you the foundation of what is really is going on behind your discomfort and pain.
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In this episode you are introduced to what it means to be a "Brave Being." Host Bridget Tedeschi explores the core concepts that help us promote living our fullest, bravest life. Through authenticity, exploring difficult emotions, being gentle, and knowing that you hold the answers to your life's greatest questions, you too will dive deep into becoming a Brave Being.