Nature connects me with my inner-child, my spirituality, quiets my busy mind and I feel peace. I’m Melanie Larson & I’m living here on the beautiful Central Coast and my desire is to bring you a little of my wisdom, my vulnerability and my honesty. As a mental health nurse for many years I learned that we all have a story, and we are all trying to be better people. Join me on this journey through this crazy ass life as I share my life with you.
I think its healthy to make connections with people. Go to a local coffee shop, meet new people! Connect from your soul!!
What are your triggers? Are you aware of them? Breathe and ask yourself why???? Triggers are lessons 🤗
I talk about the importance of surrender, the need to control people and situations! Compassion for yourself and others. Empathy is what will save us! Empathy for ourselves and others💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
I have always taken things so personal. Everyone has their own stories and they have Nothing to do with you!! My bible@thefouragreements by Don Miquel Ruiz. Walk away and say, or yell “ This has nothing to do with me”
I talk about owning and being aware of your Anxiety! Anxiety has had such a bad wrap and it’s time to be aware and honest!!!
I talk about inner child work, it’s difficult but its needed. We are all capable of being better by exploring that beautiful child within
Lets talk about those fucking triggers, they are yours and yours alone. Learn you!!! It is hard work but we, you can fucking do it! Don’t be afraid to explore you! 💓
I open up about my own attachment style. I challenge you to explore that part of you! I encourage you to take a quiz on your attachment style. @ attachmentproject.com Awareness is the key to change. Own your truth💜 we all have a light, let’s be honest and embrace who we are!
I talk about my un-forgiveness towards someone in my life and my desire to choose forgiveness 💜 Practice using your forgiveness muscle # David Enright. Lets be honest about our feelings, lets talk about it! Our past is past, make a choice to go forward and that is what I talk about today.
I talk about a situation that happened this weekend. I talk about sharing different beliefs and doing it with love, if you are feeling aggressive and want to change someone’s beliefs Shut it down!!!
Lets talk Judgement, its human nature but we van stop! Why? Because we are the captain of our ship💓
I talk about my 1 star review and that I was crushed and why. Its ok to not like but explain with a kind review or dont fucking listen 💓
I talk about my self afflicted funk Im in. We all need a toolkit of self care! Where do we go to recover when needed. Explore, don’t ignore!!
Why we take things so personally. We can practice ways to stop and grow our own self esteem 💞
It is so easy to remember the bad, lets take a trip and remember some good stuff. We must visit are past and Yes! That inner child is important but we need to take a moment and find the good fun stuff too
I continue to talk about my sadness ( new for me) and feeling precious, seeing thos you love ad precious 💞 Always learning to be better
I talk about the importance of finding your calm. I talk alittle about my own child hood trauma. In all my episodes I try very hard to be vulnerable. I know everyone relates! We need to open up to the possibility that we can make a difference 💞
I fucking love this!!!! Shout out to Oprahs new book with Neuroscientist Bruce Perry. We must stop asking whats wrong with you? It will change your view of people I also talk about my body shaming, which I have never talked about. I will change, I will be aware, I will start to heal myself 🤗
Intimacy is a connection with anyone! It’s not just sexual, its a beautiful soul connection with another person! I choose to be more intimate 🤗
Most the people in your life are good people! If they are.not, thats a whole different podcast. But most are good people ! Through conflict, disagreement, anger, fear, all that shit. Remember, most of the is good, a good person. Lets be open and honest about those we care about! They are good people 💞
I talk about the importance of knowing your energy! Put a voice to your feelings and understand your own truth 💞
Im going to share my therapy journey with you! Session 1. Stop saying they did the best they could!!! They did the best they could for them, not for you.
I talk about what The Adult Chair model is, my experience with The Adult Chair. My new Zoom gatherings regarding The Adult Chair and my recent therapy session which we will explore more next week 💞
Own your own shit!! Ask yourself “what is my problem “ and work it through then let it go
Practice being humble and kind! Speak your truth! Find that person you can tell anything to. The name if the book I referred is “You were not born to suffer” by Blake Bauer. Ill let ya know what my son says about it
I talk about shadow work, embracing who we are and how to understand and embrace are own shadow! Its powerful to do get to know yourself 💞
Find your own self-care. I give some ways I find self care. Learning your calm and going back to it when needed. It is all about self care. Your a kinder person and your kinder to others when you take care of your precious self🤗
Take The Love Language quiz: www.The5lovelanguage. I discuss the meaning of the love languages and my 5 love languages results ❤️
I talk about my personal experience with getting curious about feelings of not being heard. We must get curious about ourselves and ask ourselves why we are feeling hurt, shame, anger etc. These are your feelings! Explore, don’t ignore 💞
I talk about my shadow that hangs around. Lets explore, not ignore. Lets be honest and talk about those shadows that after all, are apart of us!!!
Co-dependency vs Empathy. Idenify co-dependency in yourself and practice empathy. I have been co-dependent most my life and I can tell you, we can recover and be our Authentic Self
I need to see my mama as an angel! I talk about my years if not trusting, not forgiving, holding a grudge. See those you love that have passed as angels! This is how I forgive
See the light in everyone you meet. Breath, go for a walk, take a bath. Take care if Your energy and own your shit! Let it go🤗
I talk about being vulnerable, what keeps us from being authentic, from being vulnerable. How to practice vulnerability, how to embrace you true self.
I talk about the 5 different human design personalitites and then I reveal what my type is. FUN! jovianarchive.com, find out your human design.
Lets talk about Anger! I talk about taking responsiblity for your own anger. Forgiveness, forgiving yourself and those that hurt you. Inner-child work and finding help when needed. Lets learn about ourselves, lets be curious.
Make a After death song list, tell a story. Life is to short to have hard feelings 💕”No Hard Feelings” by The Avett Brothers
Lets have a conversation. We need to feel safe, safe to have those tuff conversations with people we love and care about. Sometimes taking a break, a breath and then a conversation 👩❤️👨
My anxiety continues. How meeting a friend in Nature changes everything. Lets except others, lets choose happiness and love without judgement
Today I talk about my worst enemy, myself. My shadow, trigger, dark side, what ever you call it, mine came out this week. Calling my girlfriend for wisdom. Learning to except that on-going ugly side of ourselves and showing compassion. I read from a book by John Bradshaw called "Home Coming" reclaiming and championing your inner-child. The six steps in the process of healing your wounded inner-child. I give some helpful practice's that I use to help me connect with my inner-child. Connecting to our inner-child can hlep us understand and be aware of that beautiful person we truly are. Explore, don't ignore!
Today I talk about Meditations, Ive struggled for years and I talk about how I practice. I think we all can find a few minutes a day to go within. Its a practice!
Laughter is healthy. It is this best medicine!! I give a few of my own ideas on how to exercise our instintive laughter .We all could use laughter in our lives. Lets learn to laugh more!!
Listen to that inner dialogue, are you kind to yourself or unkind? Change your thoughts about YOU! Lets be ad kind to ourselves as we are to the people we love. We have the power to change that inner dialogue and love who WE are!!! 💕
On this episode I talk about kindness, my understanding of kindness as a child. What is Kndness? I give a little bit of my wisdom on how to cultivate kindness within and therefore to others. Tune back in friday to talk about inner kindness, how to show kindness to yourself. After all its all a Inside Job
Ask why? Why am I triggered by someone else, why do I react, why did that happen to me? We can practice identifying our triggers and working through them.
I talk about my many years of taking things personal and the ways I detach in a healthy way🤗
Today I talk about 6 practices that we can do to help us tell the difference between intuition and insecurity. I talk about my stuggles with telling the difference between the two. Lets practice finding that inner-voice that we are all born with. "The intuitve mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" Albert Eistein"
Amazing podcast “The Adult Chair “ with Michelle Chalfant. I talk about the importance of working on your inner child. Lets do it!
I talk about ways to be Happy, happiness is a choice! Lets start are week by learning how to be happy. I give 12 suggestions to starting your happiness journey
I talk about the importance of Gratitude in our lives. I give alittle wisdom on how to practice Gratitude (my practice) that I hope helps you. A short little story about an issue I had with a neighbor and how feeling gratitude helped me to see how important it is for Gratitide
Lets talk love! Growing up without feeling loved. The confusion between love and abuse. I share some of my daily practice's that help with me with self love. Self Love is the key to un-conditional love
I talk about feelings, good and bad. I discuss my recent encounter and being yelled at. I am Rainbows and Butterflies but I am also that same confused, in my head, grudge holding bitch! I want to Love it all
I talk about having fun when you are alone. Going for walks, out to eat, window shopping, meditation. I give you tips on how to have fun when you are by yourself. Have fun this weekend. wooohooooo
I talk about energy, the good and the bad. What to let in, and what to walk away from. I talk about my practice, what I do to start my day. Enjoy and let the enery flow
Today I talk about the importance of being kind . Kindness will save us from this shit we are all going through. I give examples of my own loved ones and the kindness I see. Be Kind, be kind be kind🙏 i share my feelings about seeing the glass half full.
I continue my series on the ABCs of self care. Today is D and we will talk about Dreans. I tell a few ofdreams I've had and the beautiful out-comes. My dream about my mom and my beautiful vision after I talk about the dream I had about Noche, my horse . My need to see a dream specialist. I talk about some of the ways I manifest dreams. Enjoy as I share my beautiful stories with you.
Today I talk about the shame I grew up with ,and some of my most shameful moments. I also speak about my morning practice and ways I deal with shame now when it arises. Listen to my stories about life and overcoming trauma. The answer to overcoming shame is empathy, empathy from others ,and empathy for ourselves
This is my on-going series on the ABCs of self care. My self care that I hope helps others❤️I talk about the importance of being curious about yourself. Staying curious forces us to move forward 🙏
I talk about at my thoughts about Childhood trauma and the anger that sometimes we feel. I talk about ways that I handle my own anger and pain. Exploring the why? in everything
Today is all about Balance. I talk about my own balance, acceptance and flexability.. Learning to change your mindset to achieve balance no matter what you are doing. I give a few examples of my own personal mindset changes that I have made that brought me balance.
Every Monday I will introduce a new letter. My new fun series will be all about self care from A to Z. Im calling it the ABCs of self care! Today is the letter A and I talk about Acceptance . I share my practice on accepting self. I talk about the years I spent seeking self acceptance, and what I feel is the answer.
Wearing masks, lookking into peoples eyes and seeing an expression, a smile. The eyes are truly the windows into the soul
I reference the book from yesterdays podcast "The Circle of Fire" and talk about what Humanity means to me. Lets share Love to the world
I share my feelinngs about Gratitude and the people in my life I feel such gratitude for. We have the capability to change bad habits we learned from childhood
Im reading the 4th chapter of " The Circle of Fire" by Don Miquel Ruiz called Gratitude