FINDING ME: Your Roadmap to Happiness: Recent Episodes
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You want to feel peace, joy and happiness but it’s clear, continually pushing through the hard stuff is not working for you. FINDING ME is a live coaching podcast guiding you through the inner workings of your emotional guidance system so you can more clearly understand who you are, what you want and how to find your personal satisfaction around health, wealth, love and self-worth. Get ready to load up on humorous stories, heart-felt conversations and rock-solid coaching tips.
Emotional Freedom is what we seek, but unless we are able/willing to give up emotional chaos, it will illude us, and we may never feel at peace and harmonic with the flow of life. This makes life hard.
In this episode, Teresa Ford helps you identify the habits that must be abandoned in place of the thought patterns that can shift you from a state of negative emotion, such as anger, betrayal, disappointment, irritation, sadness, and grief, into a state of peace of ease.
If you pick up a nugget of insight or two, please be sure to share them in the comments. If you have questions or want to share your thoughts privately, you can email Teresa at teresafordcoaching@gmail.com.
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The Power of three is everywhere in our lives. It starts with God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost. Also, Christ rose on the 3rd day. Why 3? The number 3 biblically represents divine wholeness, completeness, and perfection.
We spend most of our lives trying to connect the Body, Mind, and Spirit to feel whole. Our personal patterns of becoming the highest versions of ourselves involve Growth, Expansion, and the Journey that eventually becomes the story and legacy we leave behind.
It is also the number indicating time – past, present, future, birth, life, and death.
The format for writing stories always has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Three is a number that helps us complete our thoughts.
If you look at the patterns of 3 in your life, you may discover the lessons you were being called to learn so you could live more fully in Harmony, Wisdom, and Understanding. You might enjoy a little life review session looking for patterns in 3s that either held a disintegrating pattern for you or an enlightened pattern that helped you up out of dark places.
This is a light-hearted episode for your musing and contemplation of how patterns of 3 may be found in your life. If you want more information on how to transcend your challenges and rise to the full potential that is in you, click on the link below and apply for the AMPLIFY MENTORSHIP, where we help you AMPLIFY your greatest gifts so you can share them with the world
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When you think your life is ending and it feels like death, it's time to reset your nervous system so you can breathe! Breath is life itself, but when life gets hard, we forget that breath is what brings us back to life again. The emotions that can seem big and scary and too overwhelming to survive can be reduced when you shift your mind, take a step back so you can breathe, and see that there is a path forward. Listen in as Coach Teresa Ford helps you find the fastest way to reframe a very difficult experience and even overcome fear, anxiety, and despair using breath.
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I've described the process of how cyclical patterns are formed through your thoughts and how to undo the negative patterns that slow you down. When you can identify the less true meaning you have added to a thought, you can assign a new and truer meaning to it and get a better result. I personally had a breakthrough using this method, and you can too. If you need help, reach out using the link below, and we'll talk about how to rework the thoughts you have that no longer serve you.
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When you ask for something you want, whether it's in prayer or meditation, you will receive an answer. Connecting the dots is the most important part of asking and receiving because it builds your faith and trust in the fact that you are loved, watched over, and guided. Teresa shares relevant personal stories as she discusses 22 ways in which you can receive signs of answers to your prayers. When you recognize these signs specifically, it'll be an awareness that you feel inside that it was definitely an answer to prayer.
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Coach Teresa Ford describes many of the ways you can tell when you are receiving spiritual guidance so you will also know the signs you are receiving that your questions are being answered from the Spirit world.
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One of the hardest things for us to allow is to watch our loved ones go down a path that we just know is not good for them. But, it's not our job to take away the experiences that will teach them what they need to know so they can choose better for themselves in the future. It's not our job to keep others from stepping in emotional holes. LaRae explains how she felt about a family member and the choices he was making but then it was what God said to her that put her completely at ease. Her intuition was right but it was more important to find peace in this instance!
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On the worldly plane, we think of success as something we do. But spiritual success is who we become. It’s not easy troubleshooting life without God, but when you include God, you can feel fully supported and guided. What used to be hard is no longer the same struggle and clarity, and momentum takes the place of confusion and emotional dysregulation. Spiritual success is also always the goal of those looking for love in all the wrong places and eases the need to fill life with non-essentials just do not fill the empty places inside. Doing the spiritual work can feel difficult at first but it ends up being the most natural thing you have ever done. Listen in as Teresa explains why Spiritual Success is her Theme for the year 2023.
LaRae shares her word for 2023 to keep her focused and on track. Your spiritual journey is revealed here and how it contrasts the worldly journey of healing and finding herself again. Now, with the unveiling of this focus word for the year, she has discovered a whole new meaning for FINDING ME and how her search for truth and light is shifting her mind, heart, and soul to do better in the world and let go of the things that no longer serve her. Get ready to be amazed! One word can be SO powerful and change the trajectory of emotional healing!
LaRae choose a doozy this week! Her P word, as we finish out our FIRED UP series, is PRIDE. Pride can make us or break us! Listen in while we talk about how to use pride in the most useful way to boost our esteem, not our egos.
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Teresa and LaRae discuss what it means to be unashamed. Where did shame come from in the first place and how do we shift so we can not only be unashamed but bold so we can become who we were born to be? We dove in and dissected our true calling to be unashamed.
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LaRae came up with her D word for our FIRED UP series. Our discussion concludes with the meaningful ways we can practice daily (growth) to become a more authentic and healthy version of ourselves.
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When you are feeling lost or disconnected, earthing will be your new best friend to get grounded and centered in a very noisy world. But even more than that, LaRae has an Epiphone or a revelation about earthing. Not only is it healthy for you to receive the natural detoxification process the earth offers but you’re earthing whether you like it or not!!! Listen as LaRae makes an astonishing realization about how our lives mimic the restorative and regenerative narrative of nature!!
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Today, LaRae chose the word revelation to discuss. We cover all the ways revelation can come to us including the most recent interesting, serious and hilarious ways God tries to get our attention. However you receive revelation, you’ll love listing to this episode as LaRae reveals her special location and method for receiving personal revelation.
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Individuality has a lot to do with understanding your worth and knowing what you stand for. It’s the example we set for our families because of who we are becoming that helps them know a better way to live, love, and learn from life. And, when you know who you are, and align with the values you hold as your standard because that’s the example you set for others who are watching. Individuality is different for everyone. In this episode, LaRae shares her take on what it means to her.
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Doubt is a dream killer! Doubt is diminished when we choose to put faith first. Faith becomes our strength, and our weaknesses become strengths. Listen in as LaRae shares how faith has impacted her life and how she learned to lean on faith during difficult times when it was tempting to let doubt do the talking instead.
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Shifting from a precarious emotional state to a healthy and stable state will be the greatest work you will ever do! LaRae discussed with Teresa why it's not easy to do this inner work but also why seeking support is essential when facing challenging circumstances. Receiving emotional support can be the catalyst for breaking cycles of personal sabotage so you can grow and progress. Teresa shares some handy back-pocket tools to support LaRae as she navigates future struggles.
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There's no need to be anyone other than yourself. No kidding! BUT...you might be surprised at how much better you feel when you're more like yourself than ever before; your higher self, that is! It's like a weight is lifted off your shoulders, and you begin to feel the ease and flow of being unapologetically yourself. LaRae discusses how good it feels to be expressive and aligned with her values, traits, personal preferences, and emotional wisdom.
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It takes courage to forgive, but you'll never be sorry you did. Forgiveness can bring healing, peace, and reconciliation, which plays to the benefit of your overall future health. By making spiritually and emotionally healthy choices, your body and mind will gain strength and resiliency, giving you the best chance of a long, mentally, spiritually, and physically happy life.
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There's something about the word "rest" that makes it feel like a four-letter word. Maybe because we have ascribed to the mantra, "we can do hard things." Or perhaps it's because we fight against affording ourselves the luxury of taking a break, even for just a few minutes. Listen in as LaRae discusses her decision to take two and a half years off to rest and reset. She explains its subsequent wisdom and benefits after experiencing the profound change it made in her life.
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How do you harness the power of a controlling "bada$$" personality and channel it into a powerful resource that benefits everyone? LaRae discusses the shadow type of how being hard on herself has been difficult for everyone around her but also shares how she has flipped that dark side of a positive trait to benefit others through authenticity and love for the improvement of her family.
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Remember that fear is merely a by-product of what we think about based on past experiences and our conditioning. LaRae takes the first step to determine where the fear in her mind originated. You can start addressing your worries when you understand what may trigger them. This is an excellent episode on how to think about your fears differently rather than reacting to them negatively.
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Finding ways to enjoy the process will help you stay motivated because it can be challenging. It will be much simpler to stay motivated and accomplish your goals if you keep certain things in mind. We ought to be motivated by the right things. Managing your motivations is probably easier if you know who you are.
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We become aware of the benefits of being ourselves through self-acceptance. You will notice your higher self interacting on a peaceful level when you are comfortable with the situations around you and accept things as they are. You have the power to make your own decisions and choose your direction, and as a result, you can make a difference in the world. Listen in as LaRae shares the benefits of where she is now and what she believes is helping her most.
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Our ultimate life goal is to have fun without having regrets. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so what are you doing to live in every moment? Living with Faith comes from letting go of "fear" and putting "What ifs" out of your mind. Listen in as LaRae gets out of her head and into living on purpose!
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Do we need to shout or whisper? Shouting can be more effective when trying to get someone’s attention from afar, but it can also be aggressive. Whispering can be more intimate but challenging to hear. Listen in as LaRae shares how she communicates with her family and how it has changed the way they hear one another more clearly.
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Sometimes we match our emotional energy to the situation at hand or to someone else's fear-driven energy which can be exhausting. Often when this is done, we are not necessarily happy with the results or how we handled the situation. Listen in as our guest, Juliana, discusses how she wants develop her emotional perspective in order to better help her aging mother moving forward and also, her goal to become a caring and confident daughter in the process.
You may have noticed all of the different ways your body has manifested "stuck" energy by showing symptoms of dis-ease or dys-function. When that happens, it's time to listen. We discuss our various methods for seeking healing and how we've manifested better health through our personal efforts to find the root cause of our bodily discomfort.
Your best intentions are often real desires to slow down and stop trying to control your environment. They are a true effort to understand what is going on, your part in it and how to improve the way you feel moving forward. Listen in as LaRae shares her real intentions about her family and how it worked out in her favor.
LaRae shares her progress and how she has grown in confidence and self-support at our 2 year podcast anniversary.
The Enneagram can be your best source of self-identity since it explains your operating system to you. Understanding why you respond to life the way you do can bring awareness to promote your self-confidence and support. The point of using the Enneagram is to navigate life better through self-acceptance and awareness.
You can take a free Enneagram test here to identify your personal operating system to become your best self.
Conflict is never fun but when we have the right tools it can be short-lived. Learning how not to be tempted to dissintegrate into your lower self is a skill that will increase the positive impact you have on important relationships.
Learning how to operate from your true strength of intuitive living can reduce the amount of stress, anxiety, comparisons, and frustrations that we experience on a daily basis. Having the guts to do it, is the hardest part. LaRae shares her gutsy move and why she shut out the noise and started listening to her intuition instead.
Without intention and focus, we can be all over the place and forget what we started and why. When you find YOUR word, you are drawn in and laser focus on the true goal that will make your year better with every passing month!
We have a guest in the hot seat today! Blogger Rachelle @blended_groove has volunteered to put her worst fears about screwing up her kids out there to receive some coaching on how to leave a legacy she can be proud of. She's not the only one who wants to parent with ease. Lean in and learn along with Rachelle as she discovers how to turn her anxiety about parenting into relief after hearing one very simple idea.
Once we get into the "funnel" of self-discovery and settle in on the organic topic that is delivered to us, there are tears.
These tears are a means of actualizing ourselves. What is needed most to relieve stress, anxiety, depression, and dark thoughts of suicide is self-love. Or in this case, as you will hear, a desire to forgive oneself.
This is the hardest part of practicing self-love but crucial for true happiness. Listen in as LaRae begins to resolve in her own heart and mind that she is the one who needs forgiveness the most.
Once we get into the "funnel" of self-discovery and settle in on the organic topic that is delivered to us, there are tears.
These tears are a means of actualizing ourselves. What is needed most to relieve stress, anxiety, depression, and dark thoughts of suicide is self-love. Or in this case, as you will hear, a desire to forgive oneself.
This is the hardest part of practicing self-love but crucial for true happiness. Listen in as LaRae begins to resolve in her own heart and mind that she is the one who needs forgiveness the most.
We're catching up with LaRae after she experienced an incredibly stressful 3-week stint dealing with the death of her father, the marriage of her son as he enters a co-dependent relationship, and the treatment of her Lymes Disease hoping to end the effects of her chronic illness. As always, we come to some clear conclusions and insight to find her way back to happiness.
It's a lot easier to say what you DON'T want than it is to say what you do want. Listen in as we tell a few stories illustrating how to change your language to match your desires. Things just get easier!
LaRae and I discuss the importance of the journey of who you are becoming rather the destination that seems to evade us. The process you must experience will be what ultimately magnifies your essential nature and promotes your true potential.
If you find your life is not going as planned, it's important that you stop and take stock of why not. Listen in as Teresa and LaRae use their own personal journeys for better health to discover how to best use your own intuition; using YESes and Nos - to open a path full of solutions, peace, and happiness.
Learning to let go of thoughts that no longer serve you - because they come from fear, not love - you will be able to discern when you begin thinking conditional thought and how to return to a state of unconditional love for yourself, even under trying circumstances.
We are born to experience the contrast of life and often time we find the learning curve rather steep and highly stressful. If you don't love it, maybe it's time to ease the tension in your mind and reduce common but uncomfortable anxiety, so you can love it, and learn from it all the while, having more fun (aka enjoying the process) becoming who you were meant to be!
Who are you when you are just being you? When you leave your conditioning behind and strip your thought patterns down to focus on your true loveability you might become uncomfortable without including thoughts about your not-enoughness as part of your daily thought routine.
LaRae and Teresa share their insights and experiences about doing the work of peeling back the layers of false thoughts in order to make the most impact on your future happiness.
When you invest in yourself you add interest to your bottom line. When was the last time you invested in yourself? You become interesting when you spend time increasing your value and self-worth. Did you catch all of the MONEY terms?
The way you do one thing is the way you do everything. Listen in on our personal experiences and stories to help you draw in the money you deserve and the fun you want to have.
It's exhilarating to discover how strong you are. You are not just here to grow through trial and error. No, you have been put here to ENJOY the growth and realize you have what it takes to overcome trials and challenges, not because you struggle hard but because you can relax and enjoy the process of finding your way home to you.
Not struggling with emotional chaos can be uncomfortable because it feels "normal". It's exhausting to be in a constant state of emotional turmoil. Learn how to stop struggling and be in tune with what will make you feel better!
It's not that other people are bothering you but rather that you are giving your attention to it and losing focus on the only thing you have control over which is YOU. Listen in as LaRae shares her antidotes to distractions that pull her away from living in integrity with her best self.
We spend a lot of time trying to say the right thing or do the right thing so others will be happy. Truthfully, you are not responsible for anyone's happiness but your own. LaRae shares her newly-created personal mission statement to show you how effective it can be to have a stabilizing tool in your back pocket when emotional upsets occur during stressful and uncertain times.
Becoming emotionally honest is learning to line up with who you were meant to be so you become the same person out in the open as you are behind the scenes. You no longer feel the need to hide the parts of your stress and emotional inconsistencies you might not be fond of. In this episode we help you find your emotional footing so you can be authentically present and connected.
We often pick up emotional baggage that is not ours to carry but we want to "help" others feel better. You may notice your body is not as light as it once was and you may notice your burdens are heavier which, not by chance, are directly correlated. Listen in as Teresa and LaRae share antidotes to lighten up your stressful burdens.
When you start gaining traction going in the direction you want to go, it's because you have clear-cut boundaries that afford you absolute clarity without the fear of crashing and burning. Listen for the clear distinction of a well-set boundary that will keep you on track!
The inner voice we rely on to guide us won't shout but negative emotions will definitely get our attention. Listen as LaRae teaches us through her own experience how she let anxiety reduce her stress about taking on the "perfect" job.
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If everything is always working for you good, your growth, your personal progression, then lining up with what you want will put you in a place to receive more of what you want.
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Since it's so easy to talk in the negative sense we spend a lot of time talking about what we "don't" want. But if you ask yourself questions that lead you to positive statements, you will discover your life becoming a reflection of your heart's true desires.
There's a monster inside of our minds called Controlzilla. She believes there is a chance of losing her significance and so she will find ways to put you in the middle of discord and frustration...which, generally speaking, never feels good.
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There are underdevelop parts of us that when we were small were too immature to process our emotions appropriately and when our brain makes a reference back to that time in our lives, our inner child can really make himself/herself know, and not in a good way! We can do things now in our adult lives that ruin relationships if we don't get hold of that inner child and put them down for a nap when they get cranky!
The unhealthy version of ourselves tells us we don't deserve to be here. We find ways to apologize for leaving any trace of our existence. But our healthy selves know we belong here, to our people and our communities and we can learn to be unapologetic for the impact we make when we allow ourselves to grow into our right to be large and in charge.
The energy of your self-worth and money are the same. It's within your personal power to make as much emotional money in your relationships as you want but it starts with making emotional money with yourself first and make sure your investments of time and energy count!
Your priorities are your health and self-care. When you care more about how you feel and place importance on getting ahead of the stress by starting in a better emotional state, you have better outcomes. Become a happier, less stressed version of yourself and watch the ripple effect in all of your relationships.
Self-Doubt can really mess with your intentions to live happily and have more fun to achieve the success you have been expecting. But, when you decipher between your authentic self and how much is related to your early conditioning, you will be able to reach for your true nature even under stressful conditions.
We may get lost in the chaos and clutter of our lives but when enough is enough and we can't take the stress any longer, we can turn to our greatest resource to pull us up out of the ashes, dust us off and lead a life that feels more like who we were born to be. Listen to discover from first-hand experience as "Hope", our guest in the hotseat, describes the true strength she has derived from a lifetime of trials.
When you are stressed, it's because you are having thoughts resist what you say you want. But when you learn how to turn your brain into a contributor rather than a resister, you feel so good about yourself.
Your brain will find the problems and throw you into fight or flight mode because it's hardwired to keep you safe. The problem is that you can also train it to find more than safety issues in your life and after a while, when finding problems becomes a habit, you have to know what to do in order to start listening to that part of you that is your true guide and only wants what's best for you.
When you look back at how you were "trained" to receive approval, you can grasp a greater understanding about who you are today and how you interact with others.
You choose "your people" and they choose you. So, if we attract who we are, is that a good thing or not? Is your circle of influence helping or hindering. Tune in and found out.
When it's difficult to talk about who you are without feeling negative emotions, that is a learned way of thinking. To un-learn it, it is helpful to understand where we learned it, the flawed premise to which we attached our worthiness and how to become worthy again.
You want to feel peace, joy and happiness but it’s clear, pushing through the hard stuff is not working for you. FINDING ME is a live coaching podcast guiding you through the inner workings of your emotional guidance system so you can more clearly understand who you are, what you want and how to find your personal satisfaction around health, wealth, love relationships and self-worth. Get ready to load up on humorous stories, heart-felt conversations and rock-solid coaching tips.
You want to feel peace, joy and happiness but it’s clear, pushing through the hard stuff is not working for you. FINDING ME is a live coaching podcast guiding you through the inner workings of your emotional guidance system so you can more clearly understand who you are, what you want and how to find your personal satisfaction around health, wealth, love relationships and self-worth. Get ready to load up on humorous stories, heart-felt conversations and rock-solid coaching tips.
What you perceived as a child as part of who you think you are now is just coming from a place of experience from when you were not emotionally mature enough to process an advanced emotion. Unwinding the origins of your perceptions will help you understand how emotions are creating your reality.
When you find yourself in an unfamiliar place of feeling disconnected with yourself, your relationships or life in general, it's time to rediscover how to find yourself identity again.